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ephlians,Chap.14
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The
fecond fyllogifine concludeth
a
thing
that
never came into
the
Apoftles minde,and cannot
be accommodated to
thefe types ,
unleffe
types
in
that
wherein they are types may be
contrary to the thing
typi-
fied
by
them;as
I have (hewed above.Befide, who
will yeelde
him that
Gods
calling,is here
put for faith obeying God calling,
when
the
fight
of
faith and every
thing
elfe
was
before excluded
in
this
eke/ion
of
la-
cob
5
and
therefore the, decree electing
him
excludeth
and
oppofeth
it
fife
in
workes to this faith, afwell
as
any
otherthing.Now
then we
fee
that
this
decreeeleiling
and
adopting,
is
fo
from Gods
will, that
no-
thing
in man is
confidered
in
ir,as
a
meane or caufe,
but onely
his
meere
pleafure:for
electing which,I,entred the explici:ion
of
this place:
to
this
only the context following
will
agree, which
feeing
I
am
thus far
en-
tred,I
will
Phew
fo
fhortly
as
I can.
What
Jhai
we
fay then
?(faith
the
Apoftle)is
there
iniufiicewith
God
?Goci
forbid. For
he
faith
to
flofes.
This
is
plaine,
that
date
doifrinenext
before
delivered, giveth occafion
to
this
obje5aion.
Let
any judge then whe-
ther
cArminites his fenfe
is
made probably
a
ground
of
this
imagination;
we
fee
this
doth nalprally
arife
from our
conftruCtion; for
if
God
from
his
meere
pleafe
doth choofe one,
and call him
to
adoption and the
heavenly
inheritance,rejeíting another every way equall
to
him ; then
God
feemeth unjuft, for upon
his
meere pleafure,
to
dealefo unequally
with equals ,
upon meerepleafure, feemeth very hard
;
doe
but
lay
that
of
"'minim,'
by it,
and there neede no
other
confutation.
If
God
decree
to
reject
his
grace
offered
in
Chrift
,
itiffely cleaving
to
their owne
righteoufneffe,
and
if
out
of
his
meere pleafure, none deferving ir,
he
decree
to
fave
fuch
as (hall
by faith lay hold
on his
mercy
offered
in
Chrift,
then
he feemeth unjuft.
I anfwer
;
here
is
no
Phew
of
injuftice
to the reafon
of
man
;
for that which he fuppofeth
to
be
the ground
of
their
fufpe6ling injuftice;
namely,
that God
fhould
of
his
meere
pleafure
decree
that
beleevers on
Chrift, not
followers
of
the Law,
fhould be
faved, contrary to
his
former decree
in
the covenant
with
vldam
; for
had this beene the ground
oftheirimputation
,theApoftle
fhould have
anfwered, that God
did
not
of
meere pleafure decree
otherwife about
attaining
life,
then
at firft
he had; but
he came
to
this covenant
of
the
Gofpell,by
reafon
that
we had
broken the former,
and
through
weake
flefh,
made
it
impoffible
to
us
:
But he maintaineth
the
will
of
God
from
meere plea
Cure,
(hewing
mercy to
Jacob
to
have
been
juft
in
him
;
it
fol-
low
eth.
Hee who hath power to fhew
faving
mercy
where
himfelfe
plea
-
feth,
heis
not
unjuft
in
(hewing
to
fome
,
without
any confidera-
tion on their parts,and denying to
other fome.
But
God hath power to
chew
mercy,eleding, adopting,
calling
to the
heavenly inheritance,to
whom
hewill.
T
his
is
the
expreffe
teftimony
of
Mofes
,
which tendeth to prove
God
free
from
injuftice
in
his
grace
to
Jacob,
and
in
denying itto
Efaa:
For if
he
may
Phew
it
to
fuch
as
he pleafe,he may
refufe
it others bythe
fame liberty;He
doth
amplifie this
bya
confeétary deduced.
That