. Chain 9t. Principles. 2 8s3 builder and maker of it as God is i(li- Exerc. Y. led. But the Decree whereby wewere Hebr.it.,o. deigned thereunto, to have been 7e9' Ku- juco?,'c, before the foundation of the world. That is, from everlafling ; as may be further gathered from other phrafes in the writings of our Apofile this by name, Who bath Paved us, and called us with an holy calling , not according to our Z Tin^, r, 9.. works. but according to his own purpofe andgrace, which wasgivenus in aryl 7e- jus, before the world began. This both Erafmus and Calvin interpret of prede- ftination.Comparewe it with another fpeech of the fame Apoílle to Titus, in hope of eternal life, which God that can- Tit.I.2,. not lie promifd before the world began.. Themeaningwhereof will no longer be obfcure, if itbe confidered that the firíL.bornof elelion was Chrift him- felf ( who applied to himf, eif that which God laid ofold by theProphet Jfaiah ; Behold my fervant whom I have Matrh. z Z, s. chofn, my beloved inwhom my foul is well- pleated.) That certain perfons were 0 o 3 . from
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