e4Chain ofPrinciples. 2,89 If fuch ads when done by men feem Exerc, r. not irrational, why fhould any think it ítrange for the onely-wife God to let the crown of ele6ion upon the head of certain perfons , while as yet they have no being,faveonely in the womb of his decree ? §. 69 Theother objection is taken . from fuch places ofScripture as deny God to be an accepter of perlons, which they fay he mull needs be if confideringmankinde in an equal con- ditionhe chofe forme to life,andpaffed by others. In order to the folution hereof, I Ihall firft Viîtingui/hbetween Accepta- tion and Acception of perfons. We finde thembothmentioned by SC Te- ter as it were withone breath, in that ihort layingofhis, (0fa truth Iperceive s =r. 3, that Godú no ref eEter of perfons : But in 35 As every nation he that feared) him and îorketh righteoufnefs ú acceptedwith hint) the one as attributable to him the other as not. Were it not for his acceptation of P p per.,
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