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\7ER.
4.
pheftanr,Chap.
4.
(
.'
9
I. What
this
Calling
i4.
2.
What
this
Hope
is.
3.
How
itis faid
one
Hope.
For the
firft.
Calling
is
an
action
of
God,
according
to
his
eternal'
!whatCalbng
purpofe, put
forth
in
the preaching
ofthc
Gofpell
,
which doth
tran-
t''
fate
us
from our miferable eftate, to the
glory of God.
r.
That
it
is
of God, you
have
it
every
where.2.Tim.
r. 9.
Who
bath
faved
us
and
called
us With
an
holy
calling,
&c.
z Theft:
z. 14.
Whereunto
God
bath
called
you
by
our Gofpell
,
to obtaine
the glory of
our
Lord
lefts Chrift.
Rom.8. 29,
Whom he
predeflinated, them
he
called.
2.
That
it
is
an action
according to purpofe,
it
is
plaine, becaufe
a
wife artificerdoth not work
this
or
that, which
he Both
not
firft
cafe
and
devife
inwardly within himfelfe.
Rom.
8.
29.
2
Tim.
r. 9.
3.
Put forth
in
the Gofpell: for the
Calling outward
and inward
are nor
two Callings,
but one,
as
when
I fay,
a
man
is
partly outward
and vifible,
as his
body,
partly inward and
invifible,
I
make
not two
men, but one;
and this
you have,
2
Theft
2. 14.
Who
bath
called
you
ly
our Gofpell:
The
latter part
of
the
defcription you have every
where.
v1
eh
26. 18.
Paulwas
fent
of
God to the
people,
to open
their
eyes,and
to
turne
them
from
darkue
ffe
relight
,
and
from
the
power
of
Satan
unto
god.
Cots.
13.
Who
hathdelivered
us
from
the
power
of
darkneffe,
and
bath tranflated
us into the Kingdome
of
the
Senne
of
his
love.
The
point
from
which,
is our miferable
eftate, the point to
which,
our
glory.
objrdlio. But
fome may fay,
if
thefe
two
are not
two
Callings,
then
al
wayes the inward
goeth with the outward.
I anfwer
,
it
doth
,
as
al-
wayes with
the
outward reaching
of
the Sacrament
,
there goeth the
inward exhibiting
and offering
the thing.
Then
you will aske;
Why
doe not
all
come when
called
Why
doth not
all
ground bring
forth
fruir
when
rained
one
The
grounds
are nor
alike;
that
is
not all; Divinity giveth
a
higher caufe,
God
fends it into one
place,
inblefsing,
into
another,
in
his
surfs:
So
God doth not
direét
his
inward
Calling
with the
fame
intention
to
all.Thus
you have heard
what
is
meant here by
Calling.
For the fecond, Hope fignifteth
the
thing
hoped
for,
layd up
in
hea-
2.
ven;
Col.
r. 5.
For
the
hope-fake
which
is
laid
np
for
you
in heaven.
r
Pet.
Hope thing
for
I.
3.
We
are begotten againe
to a
lively
hope;
as
we fay of a child
,
he
is
hoped
for.
his
fathers
joy;
it
doth not
fignify here
the
affeétion
of
rejoycing,
but
the
thing
joyedin.
For
the third, How
can the
glory hoped forbe
one, when there are
3-
{
many degrees anddiverfity
e
tnfiv.
It
is
one in kind and
fubftance,
Degrees
of
for
though for circumftance
of
greater or
letter
it is
different; it
is
the
cir-
fubR
not
but
cumftance,notthe
fubftance
in
which
is
diverfity.
for
circum-
Now
then this
mull:
make
us
live
as
one here,
that
we
(hall
be
one
flame.
in
this
glory:
The
fimilitude of condition doth
ferve
greatly
to
unite
Fle
affeétion,and
therefore we fay;
Birds
of
a
feather fly
together.
So
it
is
here,
if
this
were powerfully before
us,
that
we are fuch
as
mutt corne
to
live
for
ever
in
the
felfe. fame
condition
of
glory
,
it
would make
Outward
and
inward Calling
gbe together.
Oka.
4f
us