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Gods
elation
notgrounded
en
our
works
and
waives.
Roma
z.
5.6.
Our
veott
hi-
vepis
net
the
condition
of
God,
couc-
xant.
Ierem.31.3 r.
Ito
At.
4.
t
34
(y.
secr1.3.
Our
redempti-
notcaufcd
by
our
vt
or-
ThiReff
è,
ke_le;
f.).7.8,
t
50
That
our
vnivorthincs
fkuld
not
make
vs
doubt
of
Gods
lore.
peare
in
the
feuerall
caufcs
thereof.
As
ñrfl
hee
bath
elected
vs
ofhis
owne
free loue
and
good
will,
and
not
for any
of
our
deferts;
and
therefore
it
is
called
the
ele6lion
not
ofver..
tue and
works,
but
ofgrace.
Rom.
r
r.5.
Nay it
is
flatly
op-.
pofedto
workes in the
verte
following.
And
if
(faith
the
Apollle)itbeofgrace
it
is no
more ofworks,orelfe
were
iraceno,
more
grace
:
but
if
it
be
ofworks
it
is no more
grace,
or
elfe
item
rorke
no
more werke.
So
that
our election
is
not grounded
vp-
on
our worthineffe,
but
on
Gods
grace and
good
will
:
and
therefore it.cannot be ouerthrowne
by our
vnworthineffe,fo,
we
wholly
relic
vpon
Gods
free
mercie in Chrifl.
Secondly, the couenant
betwcene
God
and vs,wherein
he
profeffeth himfelfe our
God,
and:
taketh
vs
for
his
people
and heires
of
his protnifes,
is
not
the couenant
of
\vorkcs,
but
the couenant ofgrace
:
-in
which
hee'
ofereth
freelie in
Chrifl,his
grace and
merde
to
all
who will
receiuc
it, by
the
hand
of
a
liuelie
faith. And this the Lord
himfelfe expref-
feth Icrew.3
z.3..Bcheld
the dates
come
faith
the Lord,
that
I
Will
make
a
ne'
couenant
With
the
houfe
of lfrael (that
is,
my'
Church.)
3
2..
Not
accordrt`
to
thecouenant
n
hich
l
in tde
with
their
fathers
(that
is,
the couenant ofixorkes)
the
rthich my
couenant
they
brake. c.but this
fl
all
bee my
couenant
that
I
will
sas:
he
with
the
bout
of
lfraci,
After
tho
e-daies,
faith
the Lord;
I
mill
put
my
law in
their
inward
parts,
and
write
it
in their hearts,
and
^rill
be
they,--
Goei,and they
be
my people.
So
the Apoftle
Paul
faith
-,that
the
promife made
to
Abraham
and
his feede,
was
not
giuen through
the
laW,
but throe
-h,the
righteoufneffe
of
faith,Rom.4:z.3..and
that it
Was
therefore
by
frith
that
it
might
come
by
grace:
and
the
promife m
Qht
be
fore
to
ail the
feede.
For
lithe
couenant
were
of
workes and
not
offaith,
of-deferts.
and
not ofgrace,wee
fhould continually
difanull and
make
it ofno
effc6
}..
Thirdlie,
as
we
are
ele&led
before
all
times,
fo
were
we
in
time redeemed freely,and
without
refnec1
of
our owne wor
thineffe,.ofthemeere
mercy
and loue
of
God
; although-our
Sauiour
Chrifl
paled:
the
full
price
of
our redemption
veto,
God.:his
father for
vs:
and
this appcareth,Ephef.z:7;Ry
rho
r
*haw
redenrp
ian
through
his
blood,
,etuen
the
fox/wimp
of
Pinnes,.
r