70 8phefans,Chap.i. VE R,1, boutyou,but conditionally,puttingalto thecondition fo inyour power, that you mighthave kept your felfe from comming into the numberof thofe, who arein his anger hardned,ifyou would, hut you would not. The manner,erge, laiddowne,preventeth filch a thought, in as much as this might bededuced from it;That word which doth lignifie fuch ane- lection and adoption, asdoe not depend, noronce refpect anymerit in the creature,thatword is finne, though the Iew, righteous incompari- fon ofthe Gentiles, be rejected, and the fnfull Gentiles received:The end ¡hewingwhy God wouldnot looke at any thing in fuchwhomhee elected and called,vqThat his decree andword about fomewhom he had eleeted,might abide furely,taking effcct, while the liability and ef- ficacyofit depended on him freelycalling, not on us;for did Godsde- cree, or word touching falvation, depend on men, it would prove more unftable thenadecreeinChancery;as we fee in virminius his decrees, I will favethem all,ifthey will obey me;I fee they will not,but theywill finne:Wcll,I muff let them,but Iwil condemne them all;I,but my mer- cy here muffmoderate luffice,thisdecree muff not be peremptory :I will fendChriff to redcemeall,that Imay fave allagaine:I decreeto faveall,if theywill beleeve,but I feetheywill not; I will fave fuchas I feenow be- leevewith perfeverance, &reject others : that order was fit inelating, which doth makeGods decree moilfirm e,ofmoft effect tohis elated; buttochoofe them without any refpectto their works, was fitto this end; Ergo,he did choofein this order,not looking at any thing in them, but at his gracious pleafure;and inthefe examples, as in types,are laid downall the high points ofelation,viz.that Goddoth choofeus before we are,that God doth not look at any thing in us,for which tochoofeus; for though it is true theywere in their caufes, yea,in fome degree out of them,yettheyare broughtin as nowchofen,when they were notmanife. ftly in thenature ofthings,but creaturesto be born afterwards;& though they both had in Adamoffended,yet thisis excluded in theirtypical! con - federation, & theyare herebrought inas having done nothing. Likeas Melchifedeck had Father,Mother,length ofdaies;but as he is atype, none ofthefe things come to be confidered in him.What Paid Arminiuchere! Hemaketh the 1o.r 1.12.13.ver. to contain thefe two things,the Type, and the explicationoftheType; the Type, fet forth with fundry cu. cumffances, whichare not fo muchto be heeded as the thingstypified, exprefly fet down in theewords; That the purFofe ofGod , according to his choyceoffame, or in which bechooftbfome to life,reieilingcthers,mi bt befirme,whrleit dependethnot onworks ofthe Law,butonfaith,obeying him that calls'th. From which explicationhe gathereth two fyllogifines,pro- ving things tohis thought,which goe before. 1. That purpofe which is according toelectionoffome,with rejection ofother fome,that purpofe mayRand fure,though manybe rejected. But Gods word and purpofeis according to election, or is fuch as difcerneth and choofeth fome from other fome to falvation: ergo , the word ofGod is not madeofnoneeffect, thoughmany of the lewesbe rejected. a That
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