3.. a Of Eleelion. ~ Soul which he purchafed_t_b-is_[_A:_U_]_a_n_d_r_t_ce_i_v_e_d_a_Jt_f._o_r_,_a_d:_u_al-ly_t_o_g_i-ve~it BooK IV. forth to that Soul, He begins but as from that time; and what Chri!t doth ~ fir!t work in Calling, is not all, or the whole for which he apprehended him; no, Chri!t dorh but now begin with him', but will not have done with him fo foon; but continues the work unto all Eternity: So as ·Paul thus ·thought and counted with himfelf; Chri!\'s having received the whole of my Portion into his Hands, as a Feoffee in Tru!t , it lay by him, no part di(pofed of, un– til! the time came that I was called.: Then it was, that he took fait hold of me , to the end to be!tow what was mine upon me. And1nowkoowing this, that he bath my Portt~n m Ius bands, and _that at my ~alling he took upon him the Executorlhtp about me , I prefs htm to have tlus whole out of his hands. And becaufe this is the true and real imendmcnt of God's Calling us, he therefore tearmeth it theprice of the bigh Catli11g. There is oo ad:ion of Gods fo high towards us , as that, for it is the_final Illue of all. And it being there added alfo [ I11 Chrifl Jefm] this !hews that Chrifi Jefus being engaged by having Called us, that HE doth perform it accordingly, which the Text tails in with, He having called11167 Chnfl Jtf"'• by the fame Chri!l: he preferves and !l:ablilheth us. IV. A fourth Ad:, which from the time of our Calling, and his theil ap– prehending us, as alfo from the other two , is, That he in!l:antly thereupon, at and upon Calling us, and ever after, puts us into fafe Cuftody; he claps a Guard upon us. As all Power is committed to him in Heaven and Earth, lo he placeth tt about a Man,extends it and tends it lorth as need requi~es,The Phrafe that we tranllate, Jude '· Prefervedm (hrifl Jefiu, and called, .,.,.,,i4J••h is four feveral times in the Book of the .AE1s, ufed, and tranllatedput in hold, or fafe cu!\ody; as .AE1s 4· 3· They latd hands on Peter and John , and put them rn hold: that is, Secured them with watch and ward, Yea, , Peter 1. 5, The Saint_s are defcribed to be kept 6y the powtr of God unto Salvation; the word ufed ts, kept as w:th a Gart(on : Look 2 Cor. 11. 32. The Govtrnor u!Jder Aretas the Ki,g, kept the City wrth a Gar:fon: It is the very fame word that Ptter here ufeth, Let the Soul go whether it will, though it feem to be at a lofs, yet it always hath a guard about it, to go with it wh<therfoever it goes. All the power of God, yea the Spirit, who ts its Governour under God andC:hrifi,is fem by them to dwell in "their hearts,as aGuardian over them. When Chri!l: fays, John '4• t2. Jwijt not letJVt you comfort/e(s, I w:/1come to;•otl.' ThewordintheGrttk, andfo in the Margents, isOrphans. And when he fays, He would not leave them {ttch, his meaning is, I will commit you to a good, comfortable , and fafe Guardian: For to fuch, Parents dying, ere faid to leav~ their Children. And that Guardian he had told them, Verf 16. was his Spirit: And I willpray the l'athtr,a11d he fhaltgive)•ouatJother Com– forter, that he may a/;ide with you for ever, tven the Spirit of Truth, e!lc. w!>o comes with Commifiion, never at any time to leave you. Which Vtrf. 17,he repeats with additions to confirm it; He dwetltthwith you, and{ball 6e m you. In aTr<atire V, A Fifth Ad: is, That from the time ofa mans Calling, Chri!l: begins ad:u– utkd,;'~,-" ally to intercede tor him from that time forward;he takes you into his Pray7:~::v,.,,/' er.r, as well as into his Cares. I fay from thy Cpnverfion, as I have elfewhere "''d ,,-,.., obferved. Our Calling is in a more eminent manner.attributed to his death, '"Eartb. ( though his Intercefiinn procures it alfo, as it did for thefe, whom he pray~d for on the Crofs, Fathtr for:pve thttn, who were, according to that Prayer, Converted, three thouj(md of thtm; Ad:s 2,) yet our prefervation in Grace, is more eminently afcribed to his Lift in Glory After his death; and therein, unto this, which is the end, and eminent fruit ofthat his life, bu Intercejfion, as appears, by comparing thofe two Scriptures, Rom. )· 10, For tfwhm we were memzu, we were reco11c1led to God by the death of hu Son: mtlch more, lmng rtconciltd, we foal! be Javed by hu life, AndHe6. 7• 2), Wherefor~ he u able al[o ID fave them to the tlfttrmojl, that cDmf tmlo God /;_y him, [uing he
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