DJ Eleelion. ~ apprehenfions within himfelf, and falling upon hisown Heart, he /hould in– BooK IV. tend here [VS] that are.truly_called in the fame fenfe of difcrimination, from ~others abornvcly called, 10 which he had at fir!t uttered it in ]ndM his cafe when he fnid , he was ntlm6red amo11gjl V S. ' But you will ( it may be) be more fully perfwadcd unto it, if you cafi but your thoughts back and recal that obfervatioo which I ca!t in at the entrance of the expo!ition of this text, which I then faid conduced much to the il!ufira– tion of Peters fcopc and Heart herein, how that certainly it had been Chrifts Admonitiam 11nto Pnerupon the fordight of his tall---Satan bath dejired to wirmow thee, bttt I h,weprayed thy Fflith fait not, whertfore whtu thu11 .art co1Jvtrted,f/rmgthm thy Brethren: That charge (I fay ) left upon him by Chrifi, gave fire and vent to his fpirit to infert this confolatory conclufion arid adminiftred the materials to him, yea, and many of the very word~ which he forms his fpeech in; And acoordingly having fir!t given them war· ning, as Cbri!t had done him in the verjes jufi afore, that. Satan did (tek to devot<r and drink up at one draught (which was JudM his perfeCl: cafe ) any of the Brotherhood in like manner; He then prefently comes in with But the G.dof a_IJ grace, by Jejw GhrJjl, jha/J j/rmgthen, jlabtijh, &c. And you may rev1ewwhat a fet and formed up parallel in many particulars there is found between the one and the other, as !then !hewed, Ptter here going about to ltrengthen his Brethren, and that in writing now in the fame or like words, when he 11 refiored and converted: So as I doubt not to affirm, that Pttrr had a remembrance of, and an eye thereunto in this of his. And upon all this we will find good reafon, that he having that Command ,of Chrifi in relation to his fall aiore,in perfeel: attention at the penning of this, yea, and as provoking him thereunto, that he lbould have withal in fre lb re– membrance , after !m j:JII and recovery , that narration of his owa, ./Jfls ' . (for JudM his being cut t•ffand h.mfelf refiored was one of the greatefi oc– currences that ever befell him, and mu(\ needs !tick with him the lT',.,IJ:,) and that pa!T•gc efpecially, he wM num6red amo11gjl VS , wherein a• once are fu mmed up and bdpoken his own reftoring ( according to Chrifis " ord,) and the prefervation of the re(\ , the whole Church to be oominued on[V SJ to Chn!t for ever ; together with JudM his everla!ting exclu!ion from them; and in allthefe the difcrimination that the God of Grace d1d !hew thereby, does e– minently appear: For why ?both this of his own,as well as the mher ofChrifis, relate to and concern one and the fame thing: So as indeed he could not remem· ber the one, but he mu!t needs call to mind the other: And thereupon in the Idea and impreilion ofthem all, he could not but fet down tl1efe words of my text, which do correfpond with the matter ~nd fcope of either. . And lool<,as in my text, and in the Vtrfts afore, immediately lead1ng to them, he makes ufe of the very words Chriil gave his command in, and unto the fame purpofe that Chrifi intended them : So in like manner it muil be fup– pofed, that he makes ufe of and intends this word [VS] in the fame difcrimi– nating fenfe (which Free-grace pu<i between VS and others) which h_<m felf had ufed it in , in that firil leading in!lance given between JudM and h1mfelf, and the re!t of the Church chore, and here in like manner applies it to difcri– ininate the whole Church of truly called ones, that then was, and is to come, from all others that !ball profefs, as JudM did ( wl10fe in!tance was prim11m i11 iflogmere) without an holy calling: And all this he did to the end to mag· nifie the God of all Grace , and the Grace that is in that God the more, which alone puts that difference , and illu!trates his Grace by this Difference: T• wbvm6e glor.J' a11d 7Jomi1Jiot; for tver.
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