3 0 2 the Birth -f riviledge and Covenant.. holine Ch 3 g concerning the Gofpel.. 2, Who the Fathers are, for whole fake they are beloved. 3.What this Eledion is, and then we (hall loon fee who are beloved for the Fathers fake. For the firff ft is not the fpiritual feed that were as concerning the Gofpe! enemies, that is the higheff of contradió1iocas; but,as Diodate fayes, the ?eves who at prefent time were alienate from God by re%fon of rebellion a- gain /I the Gofpel, which only can unitefouls to him. Enemies againlit the Golpe!, are enemies againfl: God, which cannot be underltood of fpiritual 1frael. The Fathers for whole fake they are beloved, are the ancient Fathers,from whom after the flesh they did pra- ceed,tfpecially A6rabam,lfaac and jacob,The word is dt2 Zea- zie.9s, propter patres, for the fathers ; Then elec`fion muff needs be (as Parxus upon the words,Diodate and Ravanellus in verbum Ele- tlio obferve) underffood of an external grace of the Covenant, whereby God chofe this Nation to himfeif, according to that of Alofes, Deut. 7. 6. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God ;the Lord thy God bath chafen thee to be a fjiecial people unto himfelf above all people that are upon the face of the earth; un- lell'e we are elect in Abraham to falvation, and not in Chriff.. And Abraham, Ifaac and ?acob are our Mediatours of recon:iliation; and when the Apoffle faith, We are accepted in the belovod, Eploef. r . 6. it is to be underffood ofacceptation in Abraham; and we are to conclude our prayers,not in and through Chriff, but Abraham, Ifaac and ?acob; we are not for their fakes beloved to falvation. Per elettie- g Para;tu indeed makes the grace of eternal Ele&ion to be fecon- nem intelligit clarify here underífood, which God (faith he) depofited in that Na- Apoftoloes primò tion,for adopting them into Covenant; he makes it evident (faith he) externam fcede- that he hath many of that Nation, and ever (hall have that are Eletl rh- gratiam,qud unto falvation. But this is not the Eleaion here mentioned but 1 Dews bane ben - té fibidelegerat; only an adjunct of it ; and now of it felt it will follow that thefe deindeaipfara a beloved for Abraham, Ifaac and ?acob are, the children of their terno Mettle - flefh, h Becaufe (faith 73 God loved the Fathers, the love ex- nil gratram, tends it felt to the children; for if among men friendfhip with parents quam an hay qual dej be divolved to children, why Jhould it not be fo with God likewife ? I pofuerat Deus. :darn adoptando cos in fcedus teftatum feat fe ex ea gente plurimos habere, 0' fever babiturum effe eleffos ad faluter,a. h usa Deus patres dilexit, etscarn ad filies dilec'lionem fuam cxtendit; f cum inter homines amicitia parentum merito tranfeunt ad liberos, quid ni Deve idem faceret? defire iE
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