Of Eleflion. C H A P. VI. God's caUing tu unto hi! Eternal Glory, if an invefiing ur with 11 right to Heaven. dnd therefore, though yet we do not afluaUy enjoy it, yet we may be a,/fured, that he wiU preferve ur fafe and fecure , until be has brought uJ to the po/feffion of that Glory. Our being caOed unto an Eternal Glory, imports, That a JPiritual Life which is eternal, if begun in OHr Souls; and that by being CaUed we are put into an eternal right ofGiory. The Reafon of it, becaufe he iJ The God of aU Grace who caDs UJ unto thif Glory. What hi! Glory implier: That it if a certain Engagement on God's part, that be will carry us through aU Temptationt and Dif!icultier unto it. I PET. V. 1o. Who hatb called tu VNTO HIS ETERNAL GLORT. T HE Scope of thefe words in the tenth Vrrfr, being to infure usi That God will carry thofe whom he bath Called, through all Sufferings and Temptations fafe unto etemal Life , my profe!fed Delign bath been to draw Arguments for this out of every word of the former part of this Ver{e, But tht Godof a!J Grace·, f!!c. I having difpatch'd what Arguments God's h.Jving callrdus, do contribute; I now come unto thefe other words, Into hu eternal Glory, There are three words, which do ferve as three Heads, to reduce thefe Arguments unto, 1, He bath called us into Glory. 2. Eternal Glory, 3· His Glory. r. He bath called us into Glory; that is, though not into the polfeffion, yet unto as full a right thereunto, which upen Calling we are infiated in, as e~ ver we tball have in Heaven. He faith not barely, He hath called us into Grace, or into the fiate ofGrace; thoughthatiselfewherefaidioexprefsterms, Rom. 5· 7· We havt accej! by faith into thugrace wherein we fland : which is all one as if he had faid, into the fiate of Grace, as we may rightly from thence fiile it: And for our Apofi!e fo to have herefpoken, would feem the more futable to have followed upori that Title he had given to God the Founder of all, in the words after, The God of all Grace. Yea, and for him to have fofpoken, might alone have ferved fufficiemly to fecure us: Becaufe this alone for us to be put into the dominion of that efiate of Grace, affords abundant Fortifications and Securities unto us againfi the powerof Sin, or whatever elfe, according as the Apofile in ~om. 6. '4• fpeaks; J'm jhatt not havt donmi1011 over you, for yt art not undtr tht Oo taw, ~ Chap. 6. ~
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