Louking unto 1tfus. ·Book.II. Father, q. d. Come? u that the voice ofmJ everlafling Father? H b 1 1 why /oe I come, in the volume of the hook it is written ef me to t ' 0 ' ' do th] wilt 0 God; this is my minde ; yea, and this /halt be my · minde for ever ; when I am incarnate thu fhall be my meat to do the will of him that fent me to finijh hi-s work. : glorious Fa1 !J , ther, th) will is my will; I [efk.,not mine own will ( t~.-s if 1 had 0 n 4 ·H · , 11 will diftinEl from thine) but the will of my father: Now there- John>· 3°~ f ore I accept thu honour. Be it to me, or be it with me even as thou p!eafeft . This callofthe Father, and anfweroftheSon · is fully confi rmed by that faying of Chtill, I w.u fet HP from e- Prqv; 8 . ~3; ver!a.fting . · But concerning the particYlar palfage> of thefe treaties betwixt God arid Chrifl: to fave (ouls, I fhall fhew, r. The project.1..Tl.:te counfd. 3. The foreknowledge. 4· The purpofe. 5. TheDacree. 6. The Covenant, we {ball finde all. thefe in our firft period, in that eternity before all times untill the creation: · SECT. IV. Tke Projeef. · THe Projed: to fave ~oul~ ~s diverfly laid down by ~ilfenting brethren. Some g1ve tt mthus, 1. That there fhould be· a Mediatour and Redeemer unto mankind , confidered as fallen in the fl:ate of !inne. 2. That all fuch fhould be received into favour as £hall repent , and beleeve, and perfevere unto the end. 3. That fufficient and necelfary means of•grace fhould be offered and adminiftred unto all men without exception. 4· That cercaine ungular perfons fhould be faved,whomGod forefaw would repent, and beleeve, and perfevere. This way is jufl:ly oppofed by others, who deny Gods acts in intention to be in the fame order as we fee them in production :In ordtr of material exiil:ing it is granted that Chrift is revealed, promifed, and exhibited after fin, and that we repent, beleeve, perfevere before we are faved . but in order ofGods intention Chriil: is before fin, and f!lvatio~ before repentance, faith, perfeverance. The Apofile reckoned the order in which ~hings exift thus, 1. The world. z. You, the K z. - tkil;
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