Of 12/e[lion. 0 F E LE C T I 0 N. BOqK V. Eleaion, in the ordinary Courfe of it, runs in a Line of Succe.!Jion from Believing Parents to their Poflerity. 1he Covenant of Grace is entailed on the Children of Believers. God moft ujua!Jy ma~s fucb hi! Choice. What Judgment we are thereupon to have ofthem. CHAP. I. The Children of Godly Parents caUed the Inheritance of the Lord becaufe be is the owner of them, as his EMJ and Chofen, among whom his PoJfe(jiom and hi! pecu/i. ar People lie. The Derivation of the Covenant of Grace from their Fathers unto them, provedby the Co– venant made to Abraham, as it was a Family Cove– nant. 1he difference between his Priviledge herein, and ours under the Gofpel. (), Children art an Heritage of tht Lord; and tht Fmit of tht Womb is a Reward, fays the Pfalmifl, P(al. 127. 3· He fpeaks of what ChtldrnJ are unto godly and holy Parents; for unto fuch only is ony Blefling given by Ood as a Reward; namely, of their Hol incfs and R.ighteou(nefs; (therefore Mercts bonorum open1m, A rtward of their good works, fays the Chaldec Paraphrafl) and the Pfalmtfl . Ddd fX· r-...A../) Chap. 1. ~ •
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