Of EleClion. been faid, that whot he h~d received was but in .port, he flill preiTingfor more, ~ upon that ground that Chnfl hod opprehended hrm tor more: I fay, befidcs Chap.9. this,he 10 the 13th Verje doth farther exprefs the whole of Ius aim to be __~ If by mzy mea11s I mayattaz1z to the Rejurrdfio11 ofthe 'Dtad. Now the flare of the Refurretlion of the dead fuppofeth and includes the whole of our Salvation , apd_fuppofeth us kept and preferved all along in Grace until that time; and our bemg amved fafe alhore 10 the other World, as that parr which tb.e fiate and perfection of all the Refurrection from the dead ultimately brings us Into. And thiS comprehends the whole flake and portion of a Chriflian which is therefore termed the markandpriceof the high c a/Jitzg asthnt which was aimed at, and fet upon, by Chrift at our Calling, to bring u; unto, when he firft apprehended us. 5·. And this ~as accordingly the great intention of Jefus Chrift himfelf, at the nme of Calling, and that whrch by that all he engaged himfelf to per– form, even to grve forth the wl1ole of Grace necelfary to our Salvation until the Rt{urrel1ion of the dead: Which well agrees with his own expreiTton,Joh. 6. 39· 1wiO raife hzm tip at the 141 day. And it is as if he had faid, I menti· on this of raijh1g .him, for then l lhall have d1fcharged my Engage· ment. And as it is Fi11i< opera11tiJ, fo alfo OperiJ of the whole of Calling it ftlf: And in relation unto both it is,that it is fiiled the PRICE of our high Ca!ling, That Epithete is gi'ven to our Calling, becaufe it hath this whole and great Portion and Inheritance annexed to it as aBirth-right, as you fay a11 high-6orn Prince; fo here. •·· You may further come to pnderfiand the importance and intendmcnt of this aCt of Ch rift's apprehending us at Calling, by comparing it with two other ads of his of like importance, which do preceed, and were done by Chrift for us afore our Calling,and which in their kind were done for the whole of our Salvation. I. The firft Act was, That at and by his death Chrift purehafed all, and the -whole of Grace and Glory, That evm the God of a/J f?race, f§c. had deligned untous: That is-clear by Scripture; Hf6.,o. '4• Forbyo11eOjferi11ghehath terfel1edfor ever them that are fanl1ified,Aias! tor us poor Creatures: We, for '-along time after we are fanltified, are imperell, lacking all and every thing in comparifon; How thm are we perfel1(d? Becauf« that ]efus Chrifi, by 1:hat one Offering, perfectly purchafed all that ever /hall go to make up our perfection. It is finilhed in tltat fenfe. He fo abundantly thereby procured all, '"he needed to offer hrmfelf but once : And 1f there could be any thing fuppofed to perfect a Saint, .which Chrift had not purchafed, his Offering had been imperfect. 11. A fecond Act.preccding this of his apprehending us, was, That when he firft11fcended int9 Heaven, he as an Head, received every whir, and the •whole of all that lhould be given.us by the Spirit from God , even for all the Saints that were as then unborn : All, even all at once, that /hall be given forth unto us but by parcels unto all Eternity, Atls z. B· Therefore, 6eing ~y the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the p.rom1je of ~he Hot, Ghojl, he hath }bed fort!J this which ye now fee and htar. Ill. And by what was the intendment of thofe preceding acts,you eafily may underftand what the intendment of Chrzf/ apprehmdi1zg tlf then was, when he beging actually to apply tous thu~vhich he, 1. 'Died for; 2, Received Uf>– on his Afcenfion. At our·Calling ( whrch rs the firft begmrnng of the appltcan· on ofour Salvation) it is, that Chrift doth begin al1uatty to apprehend Uf, 'which he had never done afore nor is faid to have done afore Calling. And thi• is his Thirdgreat Solemn A'ot, fubfequent to, and executive of the other, and carrieo with it the whole·of the fame intendment in its kind , that· the O· ther two did in their kind, ·which lies in this, that he then takes hold of a Soul
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