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Ephean.r,Chap.
r.
V
E
R.
4.
God
did choofe to this,
that
he
would reliure their
fight, though
they
were
born blinde,
and raife
them
to
life,
though they were dead:
But
what
love bath he fhewed
us,
in
choofing
us
whom
he
would
make
light,
when now we
were
darkneffe
;
make to
live
when now we
had
been dead
in
fins
and trefpaffes
e
for
this
we haveto thank
his
gracious
pfeafure
;
For
as his
will
is
the chicle caufe
why
one
is
poore,
another
rich,one
in
excellent ftate,another
in
vile
condition,
fo here
;
why
one
is
left
in
that
mifcrable eftate into which
fin
hath brought
us,
others
deli-
vered from
it.
Secondly, we
fee
here
how they
take this
Doârine,
who
think
it
maketh men licentious, and
giveththem
leave
to
live
as
they
lift
;
for
all
that
are
chofen
of
God
arechofen
of
him to this,
that they
fhoukl be
holy in love:and
therefore
fuch as
refolve
to
goe on
in
unrighteoufneffe,
they
may
feare left
the
fentence
be thundered out againft them
De
-'
part
from
me yet workers
of
iniquity,
I
never knew
you.
Nay
there
is
no more
efleâuall
argument perfwading Chriflians
to
fanâification,
then this
ofour
eleâion;
Nara as
the
Fins
of
God
put
on
meekneift,
Color 3.
Iwe
beate
that
we are chofen
to
any place
or
condition
on
earth,which
is
beneficiall,this,
that
we
are
chofen toit,maketh
us
ready,
and
flirreth
us up
to get
poffeffed
of
it.
Thirdly,
we
fee
here
that God
Both
not
choofe becaefe
of
faith
and
holineffe, and perfeverance,
fore-feen ; feting he
choofeth
us
to
thefe
things,thefe things
follow
by
force
of
hiseleâion,and
therefore cannot
be
the
caufe
of
thatwhich
is
before them
:
for every
caufe muff needs
be
before
that
it caufeth.
Now
here
is
fit place
to
confider
of
that quellion
;
Whether God
in
firelight of
beleeli
and
pert
verance in
faith and
holine
f
f'e,doe
choofe
err
to
fal-
vatlon ?
I
will
difcuffe
the queftion
after
the formermanner,
in which
I
will
propofe divers Articles..
Fiat,
then the Arguments affirming, which I have obferved are
thefe.
r
Theywho
are
chofen
in
Chrift,
are chofen on Faith fore
-feen: But
all
the.
Eleâ
are chofen
in
Chrift,
Ergo.
a
Such
whom God doth adopt
and fave, fuch he
decreed to adopt
and
fave
:
He adopteth and favethbeleevers,&c.
3
On what
condition God offereth
life, upon
that
condition
fore
-.
feen, he
choofeth to
life. But
he
offcreth lifeupon
beleeving.
4
If
God choofenot all, on condition
they
will beleeve
;
then
fome
are
bound to
beleeve
a
lie
;
for they
are
bound to
beleeve
that God
will
fave
them
:
But we are
notbound to beleeve
a
lie,&c.
S
If
God choofe fome
to
falvation before faith and perfeverance
forcfeen,
then
he
loveth fometo falvation, whom
his
wrath fol-
loweth
ro
death
at
the
fameprefent
:
But
Gods anger to death,and
love
co
falvation, cannot take place at once, Ergo.
6
IfGod
cannot choofe any
in
particular, before fome generallcon-
ception, that
fuch and fuch
who
beleeve,
(hall
be chofen, then
he
choofeth not buton
faith forefeen
:
But
God cannot,
&c.
For,
we
prove