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R.
4,
gods
EIe&'ion,
be
brought to
this perfection
;
as
if
he fhould have fpoken more
largely.
Who
hath chofen us,as
who
fhould have
that
fupernaturall being and
life
of
Love, yea, that we
fhould
grow to
fuch
a Elate
in
it,
that
we
fhould be pure and
holy, without
the
leaft
!pot,
and
that
in his
glorious
pretence,
whom
we
fhall
then
fee
as
he is.
Threethings
then here
offer
themfelves
toobfervation.
a.
That
God
hath
of
Grace, chofen
us
to
that
fupernaturall
life
of
love, which
is
to
be
perfeEted
in
the heavens,
a. That
he
hath not onely
ofgrace
chofen
us
to
this
life, but
to
the
perfeétion
of it.
3.
That
he
hath
of
grace
taken
us
to
have this
perfeEtionof
life
to
his
own gloriouspretence.
To
handle
them
briefly
in
order.
r.
Firfl for
the former,
S. Peter faith, the
faithfußw
i,i
chofe»
of
God,
to
thefancitfication
of
the#irit,
that
is
in effeEt,
to be
made partakers
of
a
Divine nature
;
and when we
are faid
chofen
tofalvatio»
or
glory
This
is
chiefly perfehtion
of
Love, which doth
make
the
foule
glorious, even
as
whiteneffe maketh
the
wall
white
:
thus
God hath
loved us,
that
we
fhould
not onely have
fuch
a
life of'
God
given
us in
the
firft
t.4dam,
as
was due
to ournature,
and created
together with it, but
fuch
a
life
as
is
both
for
kinde and degree above all
that nature created
did
know, the
root whereof
is
that
fecond
cildam, chrifl
lefur.
Look
as all
of
us
who
have this naturali life and
being,
which now
as
men
and
women
all
of
us
have,we were loved
of
God,
fo
far,
as
to
receiveit
in
Adam, and be
brought to
it
through him,
and
:look as all
that
fluff be
born to the
end
of
the world,
and
be
in
time, men and
women,were
loved
of
God,
and
chofen
as
it were,
that they
fhould in
their times have
the
nature
ofman
fo here
we who
now have this life
of
God
live, and
all
that
ever (hall
have
the holy
life
which the Spirit
ofGodworketh
in
the
hearts
of
be-
leevers
;
we and they were from eternity
chofen,'thatin
time we
fhould
have it derived and
propagated through
Chrift.
Now
this
is
to be
mark-
ed,
that
being chofen
to
have
this holy love,
the
Divine nature, we are
chofento faith alto
;
for look
as all
who
are loved
to the receiving
of
this naturall and bodily being and life, are
together
chofen
to
this, that
they
!hall
be
born
of
Adam,
and have
a
naturali nativity
from
him
:
fo
all
who are chofen
to
have
the
being
of
holineffe
and
love,
are
together
ta-
ken
ro
this,
that
they
(hall
have
a
fupernaturall nativity from
Chrift
;
that
is,
they
!hall
be
broughtto
beleeve:
He
that
beleeveth
is
born
efGod,
rlohn5.t.
Let
us
then
firft
recount
his wonderful)
love
to
us,
whom
his
Spirit
hath
in
any meafure
fanEtified,
and
made
us
to partake
in
that
Divine
nature which commeth from
Chrift
;
we deeme it his favour and wor-
thily,that
he
hath made
us
Men and
Women,
not
Toads, or
Creatures
of
fuch vile being
:
but how
much more are
we
bound
to
him
that
he
bath made
us
Chriftian
men ,and
not left
us
to
fuch
a ftare in
which
men
!hall
come
to
worfe
paffe
then ifthey
had never been.
Becaufe
God doth
notraife
all
who
are
dead, nor give
all
fight
who
are blinde, therefore
we
think them
to
have found great favour
whom
God