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Ephefians,Chap.
r.
VE
R.
4.
of
his
Juftice, before
his
being or corruption
is
confidered, that
is
abfurd.
But
this Doétrine
of
choofing and reprobating before
mans
fall
doth
fo,
Ergo.
s
That
which maketh
God
to create mankinde out
of
neceffity,
not
out
of
liberty, that
is
abfurd
:
But
choofing
Come,
and reproba-
ting
others to
ends
forenamed, maketh him
create
out
of
ne-
ceffity.
6 He
who
cannot doe worfe then annihilate
his
creature, cannot
re
jeét
it
to the glory
of
Juftice.
God
cannot doe worfe ; for
he
gives
it
but being,
Ergo, can
doe no worfe, then take away
that
hegiveth
it,
Ergo.
7
Such who are chofen
to
falvation
through
faith and fanétification,
fuch are
in fin
:
But we
are
chofen,
Ergo.
8
Such
who
were
all alike
loved
in
Creation, among('
fuch was
no
election
nor rejeétion:
But we are all alike
loved,
received
like
fa-
vours,
had all lifealike offered us.
9
That
which
maketh
the
fall
of
man neceffary, fo
as
man wasnot
freeto fall,
is
not ro be granted
:
Gods
decree
to
have mercy
glo-
rified in
fome,
andjuftice
in
other fome, doth
impofe necèf(ity
of
falling, Ergo.
Thefe
be
the
chiefe reafons which I have
obferved for the
vouching
our election
to
beboth after the decree
of
creating
us,
and
permitting
us
to
fall
into fin:
Now
then let
its
let
in
equall
parallel
the
arguments
which
fhew
that
Gods eleéting
of
us
cannot be after
the
confederation
of
ourcreation and fall.
a
That
which
it
a
mean
by
which
God
bringetb lime
to
falvation,
unto
theglory
of
Grace,
and
others
toglorsi
his
ja/fice
irtdefrvedpa-
nifhments,thattoafterChef
ends decreed. Bat
the
permi/ionofthefall
W
of
d
by
Godas a
mean, &c.
The
firft
part
is
plain,forthe
ends
midi
be in
nature,before
the
means
to the
end
;
The
fecond
part may be thus cleared
:
We
fee
fome
by
ocçafeon
of
the
fall
faved,
to
the glory
of
mercy, which
without
the
fall
they could not have
been
:
Had
vldam
flood, it
is
manifeft that
juftice
fhould
immediately
and
properly
had
the glory
in all our
f
alvati-
ons
:
for
we
(
hould havelived
according
to Covenant;
Doe
theft things,
and live
in
them.
Again, that
fin, in
whole
punifhment juftice
doth glory her
fell,
the
permitting it
could not
but be
a
meane
;
but the
punifhment
of
t
4dams
fin
lieth unremoved on
all
unpenitent
and unbeleeving
per
-
fons
; for we are
by
nature the children
of
wrath,
and Gods wrath
abideth
on
him
who beleeveth
not;
abideth, I
fay, intitating
that the
wrath
is
not
fir(t inflie ed upon
unbeleefe
,
but
further continued ;
whereas, could we by faith come to
God,
he would
be reconciled.
That which
fome
objeét,that the
fin
of
,Adam,
not
as it
was contraéted
by him, condemneth any, but
as
it
is
continued
by
our unbeleefe
;
this
is
nothing to the matter. For
firfi
it
is
falfe
that many
remain
not
in