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That
our
vnrvortbinesPrll
not
male
vs
doubt
of
Godloue.
rç
jinnes,accordrng to
his
rich
grace.
8.
Whereby he
hash
been
abun-
dant
towards
vs
in
all
wiledome
and vnderf
banding.
So
that
our
redemption
was
notfree
vnto
our Sauiour Chrif}, for
it
coil
him the ineilimable
price
ofhis
moti
precious
bloud
;
but it
was
free
unto vs,without
any refpeót
ofour
works and
wor-
thineffe.
For
we
were like defperate
debters,deeply
ingaged
vnto
God,
and not
able
to
pay
the
leaf+
farthing;
and
there-
fore
were cal/
into
the
prifon ofeuerlaf}ing
death,there to
detained til we
had difcharged the whole
debt:whichbeing
impoffible
vnto
vs,it
pleafed our Sauiour
Chrrifl
ofhis
meere
pitie and
free
good
«ill
tobeco±ne our
furetie,
and
to make
full
fatisfa&iion
to
his
father,
euen
to
the
leaf}
mite,
that
fo
we
might
be
rcleafed
and let free.We
were
al
ofvs
miferable
captiues, held
in
the thraldome
of
finne, Satan
and
death,
unable
to:deferue
in any
meafùre
to be let at libertie
;
for we
were the
children
ofwrath,who
were
not
lick
only,but
euen
dead
in
our
finnes,as
it
is
Eph.2.i.5.But
our Sauior
Chrift
of
Ephef. z.1.3.
his
vndeferued loue did
pay
the
price
ofour
redemption,and
fet
vs
out
ofour
captiuitie,
quickning
and railing
vs
vp
from
finne
to
newneffe
oflife;as
the
Apoffle
fetteth
it
downe Eph.
2.3, And
you were
by
nature
the
children
of
wrath as
wellas
o- Epheí
t.3.4:
thers.
q..
But
Godwhich is
rich
in mercie,
through
his
great
lame
'herewith
he
lowed
vs,
5,
Essen
when
we
were
dead
by
fnzzer,hath
quickened
vs
together in
Chri.f,
by whofe
grace
yee
are
famed,
6.And bath
railed
vs
vp
together
in
heasuenly
places in
Chr
f
le-
faas:
7.
That
he
might
(hem
in
ages to
come
the
exceeding
riches
of
his
_grace,
through
his
kiindnefe
towards
vs
in Chriff
lefiu. So
that
there
is
no worthineffe
in
our
felues
which the Lord re-
fpe6led,for we were
all
alike
the children
of
wrath,and
dead
in
our finnes;but onelie
of
his free
mercie and
great loue, he
bath
redeemed
vs
by
Chrifl.
Fourthly,
as
the Lord
hath
freelic
redeemed
vs,
fo
alto
hee
4
Se!
.4.
hath
freely
called
vs
to the knowledge
of
the myflerie
of
our
oxrvverthi-
redemptionwrought by
Iefus
Chrifl,and
chofen
vs
amongfl
nes
a
wife of
all nations to be
his
Church and
peculiar
people,and
that
of
our
caJlixg
his
meere grace and
free
good will,
without
any
refpe6
of
our
worthines,as appeareth
2.Tim.i.9.who
hath
famed
vs,ai
d
z.Tim.i.9.
called
vs
with
an
holy
calling,not according to
ear
li2orkes,but
ac-
L 4
cording