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THE Second Conference.
HEre Mr. Ives first read out of a Pa∣per a kind of Explication of the Terms; wherein he dealt like him∣self, disingenuously, and ignorantly: The for∣mer, in that he would understand the Term Grace of the Favour of God, which none of us do; and his former Arguments shew, he took it not so himself, but for the Grace of God in us, the effect of the Grace or Favour of God: The latter, in the explication of the word impossible, as opposed to such as either have, may, might, or can fall away: For im∣possible is opposed to possible; and he ought to have distinguished between that which is simply impossible, and that which is so in a certain respect, according to my Answer when I was Respondent; and have told us, That he held it simply or absolutely possible for true Believers to lose their Grace totally and finally.
And in the prosecution of the Debate, I first offered to retort his own Arguments,