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8phefans,Chap.i.
V
E
R,1,
boutyou,but conditionally,putting
alto
the
condition fo
in
your power,
that you might
have kept
your
felfe
from comming into the number
of
thofe, who
are
in
his
anger
hardned,if
you would, hut you would not.
The
manner,erge, laid
downe,preventeth
filch
a
thought,
in as
much
as
this
might be
deduced from
it;That
word which doth
lignifie fuch
ane-
lection and
adoption,
as
doe not depend,
nor
once refpect
any
merit
in
the creature,thatword
is
finne, though
the Iew,
righteous
in
compari-
fon
of
the
Gentiles, be rejected,
and
the
fnfull
Gentiles received:The
end ¡hewing
why God
would
not looke
at any thing
in
fuch
whom
hee
elected and
called,vq
That
his decree and
word about fomewhom
he
had
eleeted,might
abide furely,taking
effcct,
while the liability and
ef-
ficacy
ofit
depended on him freelycalling, not on us;for
did
Gods
de-
cree,
or word
touching falvation, depend on men,
it
would prove more
unftable then
adecreeinChancery;as
we
fee in
virminius
his
decrees,
I
will fave
them
all,if
they
will
obey me;I
fee
they
will
not,but they
will
finne:Wcll,I
muff
let
them,but I
wil
condemne them
all;I,but
my mer-
cy here muffmoderate luffice,thisdecree
muff
not be peremptory
:I
will
fend
Chriff to
redcemeall,that
I
may
fave all
againe:I decree
to
fave
all,if
they
will
beleeve,but
I
fee
theywill
not;
I
will
fave
fuch
as
I
fee
now
be-
leeve
with perfeverance, &reject others
:
that
order was
fit in
elating,
which doth
make
Gods
decree
moil
firm
e,
ofmoft
effect
to
his
elated;
but
to
choofe them without any refpectto their works,
was
fit
to
this
end; Ergo,he did
choofe
in
this order,not looking at any thing
in
them,
but
at his
gracious pleafure;and
in
thefe examples,
as
in
types,are
laid
down
all
the high points
ofelation,viz.that
Goddoth
choofe
us
before
we are,that
God doth not
look at any thing
in
us,for which tochoofe
us;
for though
it is
true
they
were
in
their
caufes,
yea,in fome degree out of
them,yetthey
are
broughtin
as
nowchofen,when they were
not
manife.
ftly
in
the
nature
of
things,but
creatures
to
be born afterwards;& though
they both
had
in Adam
offended,yet this
is
excluded
in
their
typical! con
-
federation,
&
they
are here
brought
in
as
having done
nothing.
Like
as
Melchi
fedeck
had
Father,Mother,length
of
daies
;but
as
he is
a
type,
none
ofthefe
things
come to
be confidered
in
him.
What
Paid
Arminiuc
here!
Hemaketh the
1o.r
1.12.13.ver. to
contain thefe
two things,the Type,
and
the
explication
of
the
Type;
the
Type,
fet
forth with
fundry
cu.
cumffances,
which
are
not
fo
muchto
be
heeded
as
the things
typified,
exprefly fet
down
in
thee
words;
That
the
purFofe
of
God
,
according
to
his choyce
of
fame,
or
in which
be
choof
tb
fome
to
life,reieiling
cthers,mi
bt
be
firme,whrleit
dependeth
not
on
works
ofthe Law,but
on
faith,obeying
him
that
calls'th.
From which explication
he
gathereth two fyllogifines,pro-
ving
things
to
his
thought,which
goe before.
1.
That
purpofe which
is
according toelection
of
fome,with rejection
of
other fome,that purpofe may
Rand
fure,though many
be rejected.
But Gods
word
and
purpofe
is
according to election,
or
is
fuch
as
difcerneth and choofeth fome from
other
fome to
falvation:
ergo
,
the word
of
God
is
not
made
ofnone
effect,
though
many
of
the lewes
be rejected.
a
That