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The
Papilla
make
life
from
grace
remote,
queadradiceo,
not
preximi
&
immediate.
Doíï.
Epheflans,Chap. r.
VE
R.
S',
Fourthly, the
life
towhich we
are predeftinated ,
is
here included in
this
word Adoption
;
iriscalled
a
gift,
an
inheritance
;
it
is
here
Paid
to
be attained
through
Chrift,
Rom.
s.
v.
vlt.
As
finne
reigneth
to
death,
fo
doth the
righteoufneffe
of
Chrift to life;
But grace
by Chri(ts
righteoufneffe reigneth
unto
life
,
the
immediate
caufe
ergo
of
life,
is
Gods
grace;
for the immediate
caufe
of
death
is
finne
;
and
God
is
faid
to
have
made
Chrift
every
thing to
us,
that
our
whole
rejoycing
night
be
in
God,
!hewing
us
grace
through him
:
not that
we
might
b
,able
to
rejoyce in ourfelves,as now re-inabled to deferve from
juftice
through
him:
this then
is
to be held
as a
principle
of
great moment, that
the
life
to
which we
are chofen and predeftinated,
is
a
life
immediately
flowing
from the grace
of
God
:
For this
doth
!hew
that
the
juflifying
righteoufneffe
which God doth prepare for us,
muff be fuch
that
God
may upon it reckon
us
juf
from
his
meere grace, to
the
receiving
of
life
from
his
grace.
But here
is
no place
to
enter the
dodtrine
of
juftification
and
merit,the which
we
(hall
have fit occafion
to
unfold
hereafter.
Now
followeth the manner, [within
himfelfe;
]
that is,according
to
the
good
pleafure
of
his
will
:
The
firlt phrafe I rather reade thus,
be-
caufe
in
that
we are
Paid
to
be ordained to adoption through
Chrift,
it
doth intimatethat we
are
ordained
to
be children to him, and
becaufe
he
would rather have
Paid, Who
hathprede
inated«Fs to
be
Sonnes
through
6hrift,
to
himfelfe, then
to
adoption
through
c
brig tohimfelfe: but
it
skil-
leth not how we
take
it,
feeing
the latter words doth
fufficiently
ground
the
inftruCtion
to
be
gathered.
Obferve, that God out
of
his
meere
good
will
doth determine both
theend,and
all
the
meanes
by
*hick
he will
bring
us
to the endflf God
doechoofe
and predeftinate
us
to
life, becaufe
that
he
doth
forefee
that
we will
fo ufe his
grace
as
to
perfevere in beliefe by
meanes
of
it,
then mutt he call
us
rather then others,
becaufe he
doth
forefee
that
we
will
ufe his
grace offered well, and concur with
it in
manner forena-
med.
For
fo farce
as
forefeene confiderations move me to take any
to
the
end
of
life,
fo farre
they move
to
intend and execute
the
meanes
which
muff
bring to
life. Butthe Papilfs themfelves in this are
found,,
who hold,
that
therefore
God
doth freely ordaine us
to the end,
and
that he
doth
therefore
freely call' and juftifie
us;
hitherto they
grant
grace, even
in
the
execution
of
Gods predeftination,
and it may
be
pro-
ved
by Scriptures
:
For in calling,
two
things may be
marked.
r.
The
fending
his word.
2.
The
working with
it
by
his fpirit
:
now
he
doth both
thefe out
of
his free pleafure
For the word
he cloth
fend it
to
thofe whom he doth
fee
will
leffe
profit
by
it
then
others;
if
the
things
done
in
thee,
had
hem
done
in
Tyrus
and
Sidon,
they
wouldat
leaf?
have
humbled themfelves
in Ninive-
like
repentance; and EZ,ech.3.
1.
find
thee notto apeople
ofa
ftrange
tongue,
they
would
heart
thee, but
theft
will
heart
thee,
Now
he
reacheth inwardly
no
leffe
freely.
Luke
I
0.2.
Father,t
confefe thou revealefichefe
things
to
babes,& hidefl them
flow
wife
ener, even according
to
thy
goodpleafure.
Therefore
Paul faith,2
Tim.z.9.
He
bath
caged
w
with
á:holy
calling,according
to
kin
parpofe
andgrace:Now
if