_Of EleCiion. CHAP. V. The Jecond Topicft or Pie!td of Argument! ~nto o~r Faitb from God hi> Calling us, The God of all Grace bath Called us : Or, that in our firfl: Calling , God batb, fhewn himfelf A God of AH Grace , and therefore will carry ur through all Temptation! unto Per. feUion. I PE T E R V. 1 o. WHO bath CallerlVs. . 271 ~ Chap.>· ~ TWO things are in this Head to be fpoke to : ' I. That in that one Work of Calling God·lhews himfelf to be aCod .j aYGrace towards thofe whom he calls. II. The Arguments and Inferences from thence. for our fupport, that God will carry us thorow, t!!c. which is the Point I fhall purfue. . This here you will find, not only di(\intl: from what bath been handled in the foregone part of this Difcourfe about CaYi11g, but to add a great encreafe to the Confirmation of our Faith herein by new and great Conliderations. T. That in tbat onf wo•·k of CaUittg, God bath jhew11 him/elf to /;ea God of aY Grace, &c. . In handling this, my purpofe is not limply tofet out the greatnefs ofGod'~ Grace fhewn in Regeneration, and how it fo exceeds , in many refpeds, all other Works elfe which God aftet cloth for us, even Glory it felf: I have done this in another place. I will retrieve norhing I then handled about that Sub– jetf. But what I ilia!! now treat of, will be a going over the eminent Particu– lars of God's Grace, and demonfiraring that God bath !hewn himfclf a God of all Grace in each of them, in and at his Calling of lis; apd then J lhall bring ihem all, and each of them, down iato the fecond Branch, and draw Inferen– ces from thence for the Point I am purfuing. r. I begin with pardo11il1g Gract, God 1hewed himlelf then to be .a Go~ of all Grace in pardoning thu; he lhewcd a plenitude, a fulnefs of Grace, yea an AY of Grace, in the for~ivenefs <Jf thee. Thou hadfi run on the fcore of lir~ning, from the firfi thought in tlrige Infanq, and every though£ from the firfi dawning of R.eafon, had been evil continually; and thy fins lay all on. heaps, piled up as high as Heaven, and fiacked down as low as Bell; and ,this. for many years continuance. Suppofe that for twenty or thirty years thoii hadfi done no good, but all thy wa.ys were abominable; and lo, then at thy Calling by one ad at once, God forgave thee all thy .Trefp,{f, s, Col."'· 1 ?· A11d )'ot• 6eiug dead ill j'Oztr jirts, and the 1mcircumcijion of yo~trjlejh, bath he quickned together wrth him, l·avilrgforgivmyo~t aY tre(paffis. And inlhat lump perhaps all fortsof !innings, in refpe[t of Concupifcence at leaf\, or the. imperfe<'.l: puttings forth of them were lound in thee, for fo Paul fpeaks of himfdf', as at his Convcrfion l1_e found it, Rom. 7· And thus he was the God ot all Grace in pardoning thu, .f.. Aifo
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