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gods
Eleffaon,
VER¢,
fome fuch generall
as
this,/
will
choo
fe
when;
I
will choafe.We
deny the
of
fumption, with the
reafon
of
it. Let them
tell
me when
God
railed La-
zaraH,
orchofe
La7,arts,
whom hewould
-raife
from the
dead;
fuch
a
blind man
whom
he would
reftoreto fight
;
fuch
a
piece
of
earth which
he would make
into
thebody
ofAdam
;
what
generall
rules he
did
theft
by
;
rules
which prefuppofethat things or
perfons thusand thus qualifi-
ed,fhould be thus and thus
ufed
e
The
reafon
is
denyed.
For
to meafure
God by
our fcantling,
is
foolifh, and
to
imagine
as it
were created
gene-
rall verities
in his
underftanding,
like as
it
is in
our
felves,
is
fitter for
doting Anthropomorphits, then
grave Divines. Betide
that,
man
doth
many things to
fome particular perlons,
for
which
he
hath no generall
rule, but that he
may doe
as
he will, where there
is
no reafon
whichdoth
obliege him and fway
him to the contrary.
The
fecond propofition
of
this feaventh reafon
is
denied;for
as
I
Chew-
ed
before,
any perfon
is
eligible
to
life,
though
he were never
fo unfit,
prefently and
im
medìately for the
ftate he
is
in, to receive life,
if
fo
be
that God
can
by
juft meanes
prepare
and
make
fit
to
life.
That
foreknowledge
Paul &Peter fpeake
of,cannot be the foreknowing
of
Faith
and
fanetification
in
certaine
perfons;for then what
need
is
there
thatthofe who
are
foreknowne
fliould
be predeftinated
to
be called,
ju-
stified, and fanetified
a
and
if
Peters
foreknowledge were
a
forefight
of
faith and holineffe,
what
need we
to
be chofen to
holineffe
a
For that
placeinTimothy,l
f
ye flye the
lafis
of
youth,ye
fhakbe
veffels ofgold
6fihuer.
Betides,
there
is
no neceflity
to conifer that
whole
paffage
of
ele&ion,
though
it
be
fo ufually
taken; the
faith
of
fome
hath
been fubverted
but the groundworke, or
foundation
of
faving
faith and Grace abideth
lure;
and
God doth
know them
in
whom
it is, and
they
may know
themfelves
by
their
care
to depart
from iniquity. Bnt why doth
not
God worke
this well
-
grounded grace
in
all
It
is fit-
there
fhould
fome,
not all, be precious and golden
veffels,
having
that
precious faith,
to
wit, which
cannot be fubverted, and thofe
precious graces
of
the
fan
-
áifying
Spirit. How may
one
know
that
he
is
one
of
thefe,
and
not
a
veffell
of
Alchimie, or bafer matter
e
Whofoever doth
purge himfelfe,
he
(hall
be
a
veffell
of
gold
;
he
(hall have
in
him
that
foundation
of
God, that
is,
that
lure
grounded
faith and grace
which
(hall
not be
fub-
verted
:
But
this by the way.
Now
to
proceede.
Now
we come
to the
fecond doctrine,
viz.
That
God
hath chofen
us
who beleeve,not onely to
have this
life
of
grace,I meane,of
love
and
holineffe,
but
to have them
in
perfection
:
Thus the text
faith,
He
bath
chofen
us,
that
we
fbould
come
to
fuch
a
(late
in
this
life
of
love,
wherein
we
Mall
be
perfell
andpure
without
any
¡jot in
it.Here
we have life,but
all
is
in
part;
We
know
in
part, we
love
in
parr,we
are
holy
in
part, this
ftate
is
a
(late
of
child
-hood or
imperfe
&ion
:
But
in
the other
life,
that
which
is
in
part
(hall
be done away :`We
(hall
know
as
we
are
known,
we
(hall
love
with
all our
hearts
and
ftrength,we
(hall
be perfectly
holy, without
defe&
or fpot,
becaufe
God
bath
chofen
us,
not onely to life, but
to
a
(fate
of perfection
in
this
life
fpirituall. Looke
as
God
hath
F
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tour.
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8.
Anfwered.
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