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Dog..
Ephefians;Chap,i.
V
E
Now
followeth the ground
of
all thefe benefits
intime
;havingbeam
predeftinate
:
Which
is
defcribed from
the
purpofe going before,
ha-
ving been
predeftinate, according
to
his purpofe
:
which
purpofe
is
argued
from the author
ofit,
who
is
notnamed, but defcribed
:
In
the
defcrip-
tion three things are
to
be
noted;
Firft,
his a
&ion
or working;
who
worketh
:
Secondly, the obje&
;
all things
:
Thirdly,
the manner; after
the counfellof
his
will.
To
fpeake
a
word
of
Prede/lination
according
to purpofe, which
is
here
made
the ground of
all
the former,
and
fo
to
come to
this defcrip-
tion,
in
which we
muff
dwell with more diligent
confederation for
the
unfolding
of
it.
For
Predefiinetion fee
above.But it may be
asked
what
is
this purpofe,
according
to
which we are
Paid
here
to
be
ptedefiinate.
We
reade
of
fome purpofed
and
ordained
to the
obtaining
of
l
ife,4tits 13.1.1Thef.5.
Now
Gods
purpofe and ordinance touching the end,
doth
feeme to
follow upon
Gods
ele&ion
:
forwhen
we have
a
will to doe any thing,
there followeth
upon
this,
in
the
minde,
a
fetled purpofe
to
effe&
it ;
fo
when God bath loved fome
to
life,
there commeth to
be
as
it
were
in
God
a
fetled purpofe
of
bringing fome to life,
which
once fetled,
all
things come to be
predeftinated,
for
performance
of
it
:
and
Rom,
p,
this may
be grounded, when
he faith, that
the
purpere
of
G
od,
which
is
accordingto
eletiien, might
be
fore
:
Wherefore
I
deeme foreknowledge
by
which God
now about to choofe, knoweth
whom
he will
choofe;
eletìion by which
he fetteth
his
love to life
on
fome before otherfome;
purpofe fetled
of
bringing fome to
life
before otherfome
;
thefe belong
all
to the
fame benefir,
utZ
Ele&ion
:
Foreknowledge
as
that
which
goeth before; for God
doth not blindly choofe
he
knoweth
not
whom:
purpofe following it,
as a
fhadow
Both
the
body,
and
therefore
where
the one
is
named, the
other
by
difcourfe are
ro
be underftood
:
He hath
purpofed
us
to
attaine
life
through Chrifl,
he hath chofen
us
to
attaine
life,
as Ram.
8.
There
whom he
did
foreknow him[rife
to choofe
and
purpofe
tontelife,tbofewhom
he
predeflinated:
And thus you
fee
why
it is
Paid
pre
-
deflinate, according
to
purpofe. But note here
by what method
the
Apoftle
doth gather
themfelves to have beenepredeflinated,
even
à
pofterieri;
from this
that
they were now called,
juflified,
that they
had
received
an inheritance
by faith,
he
gathereth that they had
beene pre
-
deftinate.
Obferve then.
What
is
the way to
finde our
felves
to
have beene predeftinate before
all
worlds,even to
finde
that
we are
called,jultified,fan&ified
:
We
mutt
goe
up
by
thefe
fiayres,or
we cannot come to
the height
of
Gods
coon.
fell. Looke
as
by the counterpane
of
a
Leafe or
W
ill,we knowwhat
is
in
the originali
Will,
which
it
may be
is
kept
a
hundred
miles
from
us:
fo
by thefe things written
in
our hearts
in
Gods time, we
may
know
and
reade
what things it pleafed him from everlafting
to
purpofe towards
us:
But
in
this
point
we have before beene large.
To
come
to
the
defcription
of
the author
of
this
purpofe,accordingto
which we were
predeftinate:
the
partsto
be marked
in it
have
bin
men
-
tioned;