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Of EleBion. lover as the onginalhath it) Tier{. 7.---For in IJis faying, The Lorddid~ 11ot {~1 bi4 low upo11 you for your Number; there is the moll pregnant Suppoii· C:.I!•P: i ; . rion and vehem('nt Affirmation that he hadfcr his love upon them, upon tome~ orher refpect and ground: And that N:gattve [liot] .relates but to rhc removal ofwhor was nor the caufe of thar love. 2. Thegroundor motive ro rh~r act is fer our not barely Negatively (as was faid) 11ot for yam· Num6er; (And by rhe f•m" reafon, nor tor any orherqualificarions in then , as of R<ghteoitfiufs or rhe like, which he afrer al{o dorh as cxpreily name and exclude, 'De11t. 9· 5,6'. NotforthyR<ghteoujiufs, or thettpnghtnrjs ofti!J Hum, &c. For whac then? The Politive Ground is, But 6rcaufe he loved yort, which indeed is but what he fuppofeth, and had affirmed fulliciently afore in Verf. 7· and yet comes in again with an indignation, purdy ro ihew·rhat this was rhe only grouudor reafim it fel t'of that Act of his having fet his love upon them,[ B },;. C .AVS E HE L 0 V E V &c. J and 'tis ushered in , and amplified witfr a But, as in oppolition unto , and with an exclufion of all other things in the Elect rhemfel ves, that might have any fuppolition of being motives to him' there11nto: So then, there being but that fuppofed Inlinuarion in the 7th Verj~; The Lord d1d (et hu love upon yott, unto rhefe fir!l words of rhe 8th, But 6t• caufe he lov-4 you; that IS, put the .All and ThiJ as thegrotmdtogether, and the lifue and R.efult is, as if he had faid, The Lordloved ) 'OU 6tcattfe he loved )'OU , and for no reafon e!fe as in you, but for this alone in hirn[(lf, and in. his Heart taken up towards you; and fo loved you meerly 6ecauj'e he loved you: That's his reafon; which were the words of this third Afferrion ar firfr. And though it be fpokcn of the Election of them in time unto that good Land, as in the Type, yet as ihadowing forth his Election to Glory, as tbe fub!lance of both. 3· For God tobeaGod ofGraa to you, is to rt['olve to love yott, rmd that forever; To be U11changa6!e in his love, and never ro bave his Heart ta• ken offyou. There are two words in the Text, (for upon the Text I would found each ·and every of thefe Heads and all along, ) , , That he is fuch a God of Grace to us, as in Calling, he Calltth 11< into hu Eternal Glory. no lefs, at the very fir!l entrance: He doth not fay, he hath called us into Grace only, or tmto hu Fr!Vour , but into Glory and Eter– ttal Glory; that is, by calling he e!lates us into the whole and full right there– of for ever, The meaning whereef, what is it? Bur that he calls us out of fuch a Grace and Love, r.s he did, and doth refo!ve to be a God of Grace to us for everla!ling; and therefore calls m pafl rec,1fli11g, even intoEtrmal Glory. Rem."' •9· A God of all Gracr indeed! The Second word Is uncL:r-ground , and not rendred by our irtterpreters ; For having fa id this firfr, that he is .AGod 'of all Gr.1ct who hath called us into Eternal Glory, then proceeding on, .iv1a,, He, fa ys he, the fame God, wiOPerfell;ou &c.(which«•7a, there.placed)(repears and draws in that former claufe into "felf, and carries it on to the re!l) And fo is, as if he had faid He, This [1me God of Grace, whom I have thus fet out , and who bath called you, He will prefervc you by fetling , ~c. and fo bring you infallibly unto that Glory. So then the mind of iris , that fir[I and laf/, and all along, he is a God of Grace ill all: He was a God of all Grace ro you in loving you afore c,,!!i'W' and out of thor Grace it was he called you, and he continues t he fame-fter caUitJg, to rc!lore and fettle you, (emper idem, always the fame, from Eternity ro Eternity I am God, I ch.mge not , (of which more afterwards up~n J ,lmes 1.) He fpcaks it of his love to his people, Thertfort ye art notco11{11mtd; and rhe ground of this cJntinu1ncc and !ledfaflncf's of hts love, tS metr!y becaufe he is a God of Grace ro them ; Whom he loved, he loved uuto the End, 1oh" 13. 1. Grace ceuferh him firl1 to fall in love , and that lixcth his Heart; His Heart is faid to cler~ve ;, love, 'Dmt, 7• 7· (the word the f•me that is ufed of Shechem ro Dinah, Gm. l4• 3•) 13ut hear Free. grace it fc!f fpeak in its own free and proper Language and Native Tongue, I will be Graciour to whom I will 6e Graciou1; ( Twas fpokcn to God by Mo. frs

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