§. XI.
PROPOSITION IX.
Concerning Perseverance, and the Possibility of Falling from Grace.
Although this Gift and inward Grace of God be sufficient to work out Salvation, yet in those in whom it is resisted it both may and doth become their Condemnation. Moreover they in whose Hearts it hath wrought in Part to purify and sanctify them in order to their further Perfection, may, by Disobedience, fall from it, turn it to Wantonness, Jude 4. make Shipwreck of Faith, 1 Tim. i. 19. and after having tasted the heavenly Gift, and been made Partakers of the Holy Ghost, again fall away, Heb. vi. 4, 5, 6. yet such an Increase and Stability in the Truth may in this Life be attained, from which there can be no total Apostasy.