334 ifChain of Principles. Aph. 5. more plainly yet in verfe the feventh and eighth of the fame chapter , The Election bath obtained , and the ref were blinded; According as it is written, God bath given them the pit of dumber, eyes that they fhould not fee, and ears that they Mould not hear unto this day. But to re- turn to our ninth chapter. Who can advifedly reade that palfage in his dif-, courfe about Jacob and Efau That the purpofe of God according to Election might fan!, and confult the circumftances of of it ( viz, the childrens notyet being born, nor having done good or evil; as alto a choice no way founded upon him that willeth, or upon him that runneth, but up- on God alone who fheweth mercy) and not refle& upon that election by me defcribed in the firfI Exercitation un- der this Aphorifme §. 2. ? Add hereun. to thole Apoftolical diftributions of men into thofe on whom the Lord will have mercy , and thofe whom he will har- den in verfe the eighteenth, that is in other terms, Elea andReprobate. Al,. fo
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