AM 312. ph. 5. :`Snorcendum cft fecreti ba- ji profandita- tern nobis in bac vita patere Taon porco Chain ofPrinciples. That of all mankinde the Grace of (;hrif page-th by none. And in his Trea. tile de Vocatione Gentium he beginneth the thirteenth chapter of his firft book with this Paying, Quòd fi aliquos Saban- ti gratia prceterierit &'c. IfPaving grace have gaffed by any, it is tobe referred to the unfearchable judgements of God, and thole ways of his which are pa1t finding out by us in this life. This pre- rnifed, let us take a tranfient viewof the chief particulars in the defcri® ption. §. 2. it is Firil an eternal decree, coeternal with that of elation ; for thevery choofing offouie to falvation implieth a pafsing byof fuch as were not chofen. Let the Reader compare that paffage in Ephef. i . 4. Hebath cbo® fen us before the foundation of the world , with that parenthefis Rev. 17.8. whofe names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. Secondly a decree whichGod pur- pofed in himfelf. We reade inone place of
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