Of Eleelion. And this for this lnlerence from the imputation of Chrills rightcoufncfs at ~, firfi that therefore God will contmue to pardon and jo(bfie for ever. Chap. )· 2~ The (econd thing that may be ft,ppofcd (if any thing) to obflrua and~ interrupt the effiux and courle of God's Grace begun in any of us, in carr) ing us thorow all Temptations, IS the power ot fin \>ithin • Mans own 1-Jeorr lelt that getting head again, God's Heart llwuld be diverted from us. ' • But if God did fanllifie us at firfl , as a God of r~/J Graa, in the manner that hath been fpecified; this affords a new Head or Ground of Confirmation ofour Faith, thatnotwitbflanding the hazards with which our remaining Corrupti– on might feem to threaten us, that) et God will alfuredly preferve Grace in us, maugre all Temptations. , I- G_od fanCl:ified thee at the firfl,by inlaying in thy Soul the Seeds of all and every Grace and gracious Otfpofition that ever was to bc,or fhall be: This we {hewed in the fore part,and therefore .;,1l<, this Go~,(# a God of all Graa, is engaged to all and ever-\' fuch Grace m particular, wrought and inlaid in thee by ·htm tnen, to preferve tt and th~rn unto a perfeel: confummatton. All Temptati– ons whatever, that have any thtng of danger m them,and that do or can befall thee, are the oppofites umo fome or other of thofe Graces wrought in thee at the fir(\. For the Law of Sm, and the Law of the M.nd, that is, Grace in us, and Sin in us, are adequately, and commeofuratcly op[loftte, and contrary in every Soul in whtch Grace ts wrought. Hence therefore every particular Temptation and Lufl.in us, mull: be tonfidered as that which oppofeth fame particular Graa or other; as .7ames menrioneth Envy as oppofite unto its contrary Grace, .1amrs, 4· S, 6. (of which anon: ) Now then, when any Temptation falls out, or any particular Lufl arifeth, d,7l• (He) that w.u the Godof nil Grace in Calling, and who is therefore the God of that Particular Grace in his working it at the firfr, is engaged , and will in aparticular fpe-. cial manner, as occalion flill fhall arife, look unto the Preferving of that indi– .vidual Grace, and maintain it, and uphold it againfl that Temptation, fa far a1 that it !hall never become extinQ: by it , but in the end and ilfue, fooner or later b!! brought forth to ViCtory.- And indeed, the whole inrerefi or univerfal flock ofall Grace lies every way at the Stake, upon this ilfue of God's maintaining each and every Grace in the tlay of •its Dilhefs, .againfl the Temptations that would dc11roy it, as will ap– pear by puHing thefe lour Particulars together. '• 0nGrace'sPart: For if anyparticulnrGracefhould be made extinCl: by any parricular Temptation and Lull:, then the whole of all the refr of that Charter of Graces would alfo fail, and be dilfolved , as it was in .ddam by the 'prevallitlg of one ifemptation. Graces, they are all of a knot, break one, -ondal!Jfall afunder; they wete given all together at once 'at the firfl, and ·they •would, 11nd mufl depart all together at once, if any one doth fail. :Hence fecondly, On God's part, he having as a God of all Grace, .been the Author and Founder of all thofe Graces , and they his work; hence his •Heart:works in him, and doth toncern it fclf whenfoever any particular Grace comes to be in d~nger, and according unto what proportion in his Wifdom he fees meet, -be cloth relieve it, and that upon the account, or in the firength -of his being aGodof att G~act, as hath been faid. Yea, and the whole of his Grace, comes ffill into the Field forthe fuccour a.nd reliefof any one Grace, fo as if all the G.ace that is in God thus ioterefled, will be able to maintain and preferve that otze, yea every Grace, the leaf\; it !hall have, in its due feafon, all in God to raife the Seige of.ar.y, and every fort and kind of pmicular lfempootions whatfoevcr, fet down about it: I {<zy ill hu due time , as Prter lloth -Provifo it, Ver[. 6. of his )th Chtip, So as though a Temptation may ·'prevail for an ad:, or many acts, yet i< fhall never, uninterruptedly ji11al!y or wholly: For eyen that very Grace, when it is mofl p~t tothe war(\, is yet in•fomedegree»weweddtiY by d,tj', as our whole Man <S fud to be. What ·would·yon rhiok, if all thc .pawer of fuch an Empire as that of the Turks, yea, the flrength of the whole Empire, fhould upon all cccafions, ~ome into the Field, for t he relief of any, or every fmall Ci ty that is belieged, whic[t bklengs unto its Dominions or ProteCtion: Now fo it ishere,
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