1 Chain of Principles. Aph.5. an Apoftle : Neither is the latter in- fallibly meant of that reprobation, which is contradifinft to the laid ele- ìion, but of fomewhat elfe. Yea al- though it be true and may firongly be inferred from other texts, that Paid knewhis own eleetion to life eternal, the reprobation fpoken of in the end of the verle is not to be taken in the moi rigid fenfe but in a milder. . That our Apoftle ( according to his cuflome in fundry epifiles) was in the endof this chapter fallenupon the life of terms agonil}ical borrowed from the Olympick and other Grecian games in that age; as appeareth in the 0 °1'9'`, foregoing verles. Ijnowye not that they ho run in a race 4ic. Every man thatfßri- veth for the mafiery &c. .Ifo run, not ass uncertainly. Sofight I, not ac one that beat- eth the air. And that in the lafi verle he hath no leis then four allu1ions to thefe exercifes. One in Ú ,,/g. to cuffing wherein the combatants were wont with their blows to make oneanother livid
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