210 / 772
§ Sec7.3.
Satans temp-
tation
groun-
dedzupon
the
vncbangeable-
neffeofGods
de
cree,
fäl
e
and
impious,
The
eaa
of
Gods
eletlion
twofold.
E(att i,
y,6.
Y$2 Settanr temptations
concerning Gods ele
tion
anfrered.'
(nay much
more)contained
in
Cods
decree,
as
the
corpo_
tall
meanes
ofpreferuing
life
:
for
it
hath been
heard
of
that
fomehaue hued
in
the middeft
of
dangers,
and
in the
ab-
fence
ofmeate,
for
along
time
;
but it
was
neuer heard
that
any haue attai
-ned,
vnto euerlafling
life
without faith,repen-
tance, and
fandtification
:
for euen the thiefe
vpon
the
croffe
beleeued
in
Chritf,
and fhewed the
fruites
of
his
faith
in
ac-
knowledging
his
owne
f-,nne,
reproouing
his
fellow,in con
-
feffìng
our Sauiour
Chrii
euen
then when
his
Apof}les
de-
nied and forfooke
him,in calling
vpon
his name and
defining
by
his meanes
euerlafiing life.
But
as
this temptation
is
foolifh,
fo alfo
it
is
falle
;
for
-whereas
hee faith
that though
wee line in
our
finnes
without
repentance,yet
wee may bee
eke-Jed
and therefore
(hall bee
faced;
and
though
wee
take
newer
fo
great
paines in
Gods
feruice, and
molt
carefullie
indeauour to
fpend
ourrIiites
in
holineffe
and righteoufneffe,yet
wee may
be reprobates
and
therefore (hall
bee
condemned
;
this
is
vtterly vntrue
:
for,
whomfoeuerÿ Lord
bath.
ordained
to euerlafling life, thofe
alfe he
hath
ordained to
vfe
the
meanes
whereby they
may
bee faued,and confequentlie whofoeuer
carefullie
vfe
thefe
meanes_
may be
affured
oftheir
faluation,whofoeuer
negle6
and
defpife thefe
meanes
they
manifefflie declare
that they
are
not
in
the number
ofthe
ele
t,
fo
long
as
they continue
in
their neglect
and
contempt
:
for
the
end and
the meanes
tending
to the
end,are infeparablie ioyned
in
Gods decree;
fo
that
they who
vfe
the one (hall .obtaine the
other,
they
who
neglea
and
contemne the
meanes (hall neuer :attaine
unto the end.
Now
the
end
ofGods
eleÌion
is
twofold.The- chicle and
princ
ipall
is
his
owne gloric,as appearethEphef.
i
.5.6.
Who
h;tthpredefiinate
vs
to
bee
adopted
through
Iefiss
Chrift
vnto
himfelfe,according
to
thegood
pleafureof
his
Will;
to
the
praire
of
theglorie
o
fhisgrace. And this end the
Lord
will
not
fuller
to
be
fruflra.te
:
for his
glorie
(hall
Thine
in
all his
eleCi,
and
therefore
we
allo
are
molt
carefullie
to labour that
Wee
may,
further
this
end;.
for
the more
that
the
praife
of
Gods
mercy
loth
Aline
in
vs,the
better
affurance we haue
of
our
eleilion
And...