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R.5.
Ro
n.
9.cleared
if
God
doe call
us
to
falvation
without, any
fore-feene
in
us, it
cannot
be but that
he didordaine
us
to falvationwithout fore-
feeing
any
thing which might move him unto
it
this
is
taught,
Rom.9.that
the
pur-
pofe
of
God
is
according
to
elation,
that
is, free, depending on him
only
who
calleth
us
to'glory,
not on any
thing
in us
called.
The
rea-
fon
why God
Iheweth mercy, or hardeneth,
that
is,
denieth
mercy,
is
his
meere will
;
That
as
the
Potter
bath nothing
but
his
pleaCure
mo-
ving him
to appointor
make
of
the
fame
lumpe
veil-ifs
to
fo
divers
ends;
no
mots
bath God
:
And
here
it (hall
not
be amiffè
to
cleare
that
Scripture
from tome mifconftruétions
which
have beene made,
ob-
fcuring
the true meaning
of
it
to
fome underftandings.
<,
Some make
(
the
purpofe
of
God)
verfe
r
r.
to note
out fuch
a
pur-
«pofe
by which God
determineth to choofe out to
life, fuch
whom
he
doth
fore-fee, will
feeke
it
by
confiant faith
in his promifes, reje-
« éting
others from
life ,
who
feeke
falvation
by their
owne righte-
« oufneffe
in
the
workes
of
the Law
:
This
conftruEtion floweth
« from a
former errour,
viz,
that
the Apoftle
in
this
paffage
of
Scrip-
ture,
from the fixt
ver
fe
downeward, do;h
fpeake
of
the
Jewes taken
and
related,
not
as
perfons, by carnali generation defcended from
«
Abraham,
but
as
perfons
who
feeke
falvation
by
cleaving
to the pro-
cc
mile; or otherwife
by workes, according
to the tenour
of
the Law:
"Thislikewife
doth
prefuppofe
that thofe Jewes,whofe
oblation
Paul
preventeth
verfe
6.doe.by the word
of
God
conceive
the
word
of
the
covenant legall,in this manner;
W
hat
theneif
we
be rejeaed from
fai-
t,
vation,who
feeke
it
by workes
ofthe Law,then
the
word
of
Gods
co-
venant
is
come
to nought: Which dbjeótion,
they
fhould feeme
to
«
make
by
occafion
of
the former
Dottrine
of
juftifìcation
;
but
in
all
of
thofe, and
in
all
inferred on
them,
t
irminim
is
deceived ;
For
it is
«
not the
doEtrine
of
juftification fo
much,
as
the doétrine
of
Predefli-
«nation,which
in
the eightChapter went
before,which
maketh
theApo-
«(He enter this dilcourfe
:
for
he having taught in
the former part
of
the
Epifile,
Ram.
q. that thofe who traced the
fceps
of
ilbra-
«hams
faith, were his children
;
and
in
the Chapter next before, that
«fuch whom God
did fore
-know
and acknowledge
for
his
people,
they
were
predeftinated
and called
to
faith in
Chrift,
every one
might
be
ready
to
gather that the Jewes, for the body
of
them,
were not
ac-
«knowledged
of
him
as
his
people, becaufe they
did
fet
themfelves
«ffiffely againft the faith
of Chrift,
and
therefore
they
were
not
the
«Ifrael ofGod, the
chofen
feed
of
Abraham,
the people whom
God
.<
did know
before
;
and
this
is
that which
he
leaveth
to
be
gathered
in
that lamentable preface
,
Rom.
9.
from the
Eric
to the
fixt
verfe,
t,
viz,
that agreat part
of
the Jewes,
carnally defcended
of
,A
braham,
«are
rejeéted now from being
the
people
and
Ifrael
of
God,
the
feede
«with
which
God
had prornrfedhis prefence and bleffing
:
Compare
«
Rom,
S.
29.
with
Rom.9.6,7.
Rom. I I
.
$.he
fpeaketh
not
of
a
rejeEtion
from righteoufneffe and life, befalling fuch
as
followed falvationby
« workes,for thus were
the
greateft part alwayes
reje&ed,when yet they
G
3
«
could
Rom.9.Vu.
ac.
cleared
from
falte coaltru-
aaons.