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V
ER.
6.
Ephejans,Chap.I.
fight
of
this moft rich glory.Rom.g.
Thisgrace
of
has
which
bath butte
al
waits
towards us.
Obferve
fourthly,
Wherewith
he
bath
made
to
accepted.]
That
is,with
which grace eleéting and predeftinating
us,
that
it
might be
glorified
of
us,
he
bath now
in his
time done
us
favour,
or
made
us
accepted
in
his
Chrift.
Obferve then, what grace
it is
which
in
time
doth
worke
all
good things for
us ;
even
the
fame grace which before all time did pur-
Dci?.
pole them
ro
us
:
Gods
loving
us
to
life,
doth
not beginne when now we
are
brought
home
by
converfion
to
beleeve on
him,but
when we
were
his
enemies,he
did
fi
love
u',that
he
gave
his
Some¡alto
death
fir
us,1oh.3.
Rom.5.And
when
he
calleth
us
in
time,he doth
it
out
ofthat
grace
which
was given
to
us in
Chrift
our
head,before
all
worlds
:
For
this
caufe
the
Scripture
doth
not fay,that God beginnetli to love
us
to
life
when we
beleeve,
but
that
he
giveth
us
life
eternall, executing
that
to which
he
had loved
us
;
neither doth the Scripture
fay
,that
in
Chrift
now
Pent
to worke our redemption, love
in
God
is
firft conceived
:
but that
it
is
manifefted, when
that
Paving
graceappeared,
Tit.
3.
when the
philan-
thropie, or
love
of
mankinde appeared,
Tit.
3
5.
So
God doth
call
us
according
to
grace given
us
before worlds, but now made manifeft,
s
Tim.
1.
trim.
t.
yea,
life
and
immortality
are
faid
to
be
brought to
Iight,asthings
which had beene overfbadowed bythe Gofpell.
Now
looke
as
if
the
Sunne having her
lightlong
eclipfed,fhould after breake
out,
it
were no new
light,
but
an
iTipavfa,
or
new getting
up
of
the
old
light, which for
a
time
was eclipfed
:
So it
is
with this
funne
of
Gods
eternall grace,
the
interpoftion
of
finne,
through thevertue
of
juflice,
did
for
a
time
keep
from
us
all
the
gracious
influence
of
it,till
at
length
in
Chrift,removing that which hindred,it breaketh
out,piercing our hearts
with the beames
of
it,
and
working
in us
many
reall
effels,
which
it
could not put forth
till
juftice were fatisfied
:
Even
as
God
knew how
to
love
Chrilt
his
Sonne to that glorious
life
,
to which
he
had chofen, and
yet execute the curled death on him,
as
our furety
:
fo he could
love
us
with
his
'eternall
love
,
unto
that
life,to which
he had chofen
us,
and yet
executeon
us
thecurfed death,when
we had offended.
This
firfl
ferveth
to
excite
in us
godly joy,
in us
I
fay,who
fee
this
ilea,
light
rifen
over us, this love
fhining
upon
us in
Chrift,
which
was
fometime
fo
overcall by
time
and
death, that
no
glimpfe
of
it
might be
difcerned.
If
this
bodily
funne
had
his
light but
twoor
three
daies
e-
clipfed
,
O how
Tweet
and
amiable
would
it feeme
to
us,
when getting
the victory,
it fhould thine
in
manner accuflomed
e
But (hall
it
not
af-
fect,
that the
grace
of God
quite hid from
us,while we were the
chil-
dren
of
wrath,
lay
in
all kinde
of
darkeneffe,
that
this grace fo hidden
fhould like
a
fpring funne returne to us,and refrefh
us
e
Againe, we
fee
them confuted, who
will not yeelde
that God
lo-
yj,=,
veth
any firmer
unto life,till he
doth
fee his
faith and repentance:But
the
love which
deflinatethto
bring
one
to
life,
may
Rand
with
wrath,
exe-
cuting death
;
and
why
doth
hee
worke
in fanners
repentance, faith,
fan
-
¿ìification, which
are
the
meanes tending unto
life,
if
lace
may not
purfe