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Of Eletlion. ~ with him, That if he would lhed his blood, and fave them, God would do this EooK IV. for his Sheep : And is as if he had in plain words faid, Lord here's one Brancr, ~ and Promife of t hy Covenant made with Chri!l for us, which Chrift fealed and ratified with his blood; and thou haft performed the other part; thou haft brought Chrift himfelf back from death, and raifed him as our Shepherd to the height of glory ; and thou haft alfo performed already , as to thefe his Sheep; I pray for one main, and the firft part of thy Covenant with them too : Thou haft called tl)em, 0 Lord; perform the reft by virtue of the fame Covenant, and the Blood thereof, and ceafe not uritil thou haft perfected them in every 11ood work to do thy will, working in them what is pleafing in thy fight; and for which Chrift bath lhed his blood, as well as ~e bath done for his own, being raifed up and perfected, and as effectually for tlus Branch, and part of. it, that yet remains to be accomplilhed : So that the Apo!lle urgeth this, That God wot~ld perfttl them, ~c. as a Prom1fe of the Covenant of Grace made with Chrift, ratified with his blood. And to this purpofe further obferve, That it is that Covenant here he means; that is, The ettrnat Covenant, ( fo in the words) made with Chri!l: from Eternity: And thofe Promifes, and that Cove– nant which were made and given to Chri!l:, and in Chri!l: to us, afore the world was; as TitU! 1. 2. In hope of eUrnat Lift, which God, that cannot lye, pro. mifed !Pefore the world 6egan. And 2 Tim. 1. 4· and in that fenfe here ftylecJ, The 6/oodof the everlafting Covtnant, as well as a Covenant to everl<lj/111g : And accordingly this, which is a part of that Covenant, of God's ptrfectmg us, wasfrom everlafting promifed with the refi, and is a Promife to everlaft– ing; and bath this Seal annexed tO it, which God promiftd, who cartnot Iye, or fail in the performance of it: And thus underfland the rrue and genuine end and reafon of the Apoftle• bringing in, in this place, the mention of the eter– nal Covenallt; nor can any other be fuppofed a more prevalent Argument un– to God, as thus fiated and interpreted. 1 J. !u CHAP. . '

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