294 *voice w pefsible. .....--------__, Serm.i s. Neither is this prayer peculiar for Peter, excluding the retf ; for though he mentioneth Peter, yet he fpeake.h to all, and of them all Simon, i!,1710%79 Simson,Satan bath defired joss, that he may Lift you as wheat ; and when z,ut s. he fhould be recovered f.om his fall , he thoutd arengrhen his Bre- thren ; whereby it is manife1 , that Chrit) had refpeef unto the perfe- verance of the refi , as well as to Peters: And t h` like interceffiion Chriff makes for all that thould believe,as appeareth from the 17th. of ?ohm, which was not a prayer onely fuicable w the condition and cafes, and exigencies of the Apotfles at that time, but a pattern. of his inter- ', Coitiiet illud ceding now in He wen. So much *Arminiusgran.rs,,john 17.t5. 1 pray Caput 17. fib. that thou wouldeft keep them from evil ; therefore from Apoffacy the grea- perpetuum can- tea evil. Not that they fhould be free from perfecution, but from be- ecum ér ing overcome by perfecution, that it may not feparate them from him : intercefsio.nis, a Y P y p quasCbrafius bin frit. qiroPti ; the Article (hews the evil to be fpecially Sin and Sa- ltatri offert an tan, verfe -o. Neither pray 1 for thefe alone : but for them alfo which Cxlis qi .quam(hall believe orme through their word ; And he prayeth for their glorifi- adhuClriterr cation, verfe 24. Father,l will that they alfo whom then haft given me,be adbuc in terra exiftens illam with me,where I am. (Chriff then, as to his Divine nature, was in Flea- precatioaem re ven,a proof that he was God) That they, may behold my glory which thou ectaverat,tamen haft given me. ad ftatum illius fublimem in Cælis pertinet proprie, er defcribi valair, ut perpetuo no-his effet in terris Maio. 4rmix, & at. de Sacerd. Cbra fti. pag. 17 3. From the Thirdly, The inability of all things that may fat themfelves to make a inability of all breach and feparation between God and thegracious foul , doth demonftrate things to fora an infeparable connexion between grace and glory. Famous is that place to rate betvvixt this purpofe, in Rom. 8. 35, 37, 38. Where the que lion is propoun- ChreS ded by the Apatite, whether any thing (hall feparate betwixt God and SeIierer. Y Y g his people,and hinder their falvation ? and the Apoftle faith No,where obferve thefe particulars. Firf }, The Interrogation ; Who (hall feparare ? that is, none ihall. iraterrotatio tie - For thus an Interrogation is a f}rong Negation. p. gantis. Secondly, Here is a particular application of this , to individual p. Mat.i.3.33 perfons ; not onely Believers, or Elea in general. Who (hall fepa- Heb.1.3 rate [us ?] Thirdly,A particular enumeration of chofe evils that might threaten this feparacion ,tribulation,perfecution, &c. And whereas fume affect their own wills may be the caufe of their Apoffacy,and that not menti- oned in the Texr.It is no: laid their own wills (ball not feparare them.I anfwer,it is included, when is is Paid, no other creature,except they will exempt mens will from the creation. Fourth-
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