Free-7 413 The f condBooke ofDininitie, CHA r 7, Againe,lohn 6. our Sattiour defining firf},whatit is to g to{m 6.35. come to him, g Idee that commeth temeatballnot hunger, and hee that beleeueth inmee , /halt not thirft, immediately yet/37. addeth , h Whatfoeuer the Father girseth mee, (meaning all thofe whomGod in his euerlaitingCounfell hath ap- pointed to bee Chrit'ts) /hall come vnto mee, or beleeue in tnee. The oppofition that is made,G41.3.22. The Scrip- turebath /hut vp allthings (that is, all men, and whatfoe- uer is of and in man) vnderfinne,that thepromife by Faith in lefts Chrifl might begiesen to thefe that beleeuc,proueth, that Faith,which is the remedie, mutt needs be as gene - rail as thedifeafe that fpreads oucr all. So the fimilitude, which our Sauiour dothinforce,lohn 3.14. At MOSES lift vp the Serpent in the Wsldernefe , fo mull the Sonneof man bee lift vp, that emery one 'which beleeueth inhixn,¡honld not peri/h, but haue euerla.fting life. The brazen Serpent was a figure of Chrif} , and as none were holpen by the Serpent, but thofe that looked upon it : No more Both anyvertue come from Chri(}, but to thofe that beleeue in him. i Ga1.3.7. Lafily , i Thep that are of Faith, theyare theformes of k Rom.4.16. ABRAHAM, for k to all his feede, the prop ife isfirme by 3 Rom.4.1r. Faith, and his tick is, 1 The Father of thefaithful!. But Rom.4.i6. the Scripture maketh him , m the father of vs all, and n Rom.9.8. that all n the children of thePromife, that is, the whole number of GodsEle& (for of that primatie caufe ofour faluation, Gods holy Ele&ion , Paul there difputeth) are reckoned in his feede : fòr fence the caufe by wee are o 6en.ls.rß. Paid the feed of Abraham, is affigned to bee for the in- Gial.3.16. teref}we haue in that bleffed feede in whom Abraham and all his pofteritie are partakers of the heauenly Inhe- ritance.Toexclude Infants from being abrahams feed, were as much as to barre them from haying part in ChriR : v hereupon it followeth,and fo the Apoftle loth conclude, Ga1.3.8,13,14. that in the fame manner as hee obtayned the bleffing (whichwas by Faith) fo doe all
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