- ' VERS.I8. AnExpofltion, ~itbNotes CHAP.I.- this circnmfiance giveth us the pureO: apprehenfions of the freenefs of Gods Love, when you fee that 'cwasGodJ' ow.» Will that deter– mined mercy to you, and made: che difference between you and o- "Na'\]an,. in thets; nay, in fome refpeCls, it puts a difference between youand his cori{tu$ ChriO:; * ~p.i,rE-1~ ?rd.lf~ u-' ~K,1E-IvEI, ri.li.MJ) )l)'VI17eu U"4Jl11£,«., patiens~ The good"'ill of the Father flayeth rhee, t~~nd ja~eth others; he wtlled Chrifl:s Death, and your Salvation; in the fame Ver[e, Chri.fts Bru[fes, and oHr S flWation are calledCHE P H E R s , Gods Pleafure;lfa.;3.-Io.It pletfjd theFatber to bruife him; and then, My pleajure, that is, in the Salvation of the EleCt, foal/ profjer i11 huhands. 2. It informeth us the Reafon, why-in the work of Regenera– tion God ath:ch with ·fuch liberty, God aCteth according to his · pleafure; The holy One of Ifrae/ muft not be limited and confined to our thoughts; !ohn 3· 8. The V?ind b/oweth Where it lifleth. All is not done afcer one Tenour, but according ~o theWill of the free Spirit; as ingiving means, you QJnO: leave God to his Will; there aremight] Work.! in Chor~t:z:.in andBeth[aida, when there are none in Tyre and Sydon : /frae/ had Statutes and Ordinances, ---when all the worl.d had nothing but the glimmering candle oftheit own rutfon. So for the Work,_of the Spirit with the means, fome have only the m~ans,others the work of the Spirit with the means; John 14. 22. How u it that thou Wilt revCJ~l th] fetj unto U4, and .not unto the World ? They have choyce . Revelations : The Spoufe was brought into the Clo(et, Cant. J + when the Virgins, . common ChrfUians, fray only in- the palace of the great King: Do but obferve two place's, A as 9· 7· 'cis faid ofPaul's Companions, that they heardavo1ce, and yet ACfn.1.9. ~tis [aid, t f.ey that Were With himheard not the voyce; ·Solomon G!affius reconcileth thefe tWO places thus, They heard a found, but they did not htar it-di– frinCl:ly as Chrifl:s voyce : Some only hear the outward found, the voyce of man, but not of the fpirit in the word ; there is agreat deal of difference in the fam~Auditories. So alfo for the meafnre ofgr.tce, to fome more is given, to fome lefs; though all have a vital influence, yet all have not the fame meafure of arbitrary influ– ences; Phi!. z. I~· He giveth both toWill alid to do, x.r~Jl T~V fAIJ'oK,i«.v, according to hisgood pleafure: So for the m11.nner 'cis very diverfeand varicms; Godbeginneth with fame in love, with othersbJ tfrrsrJ,piH&kjng themoHt of thefire: Some a~e g~ined . . . . by"
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