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°four
efiguallcalling.
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ofScripture
and
examples.
For
the
firfl,
the
Lord
profeffeth,
Efa,65,i. that
he
offered himfelfe rothofe
that
asked
not
after
'Efa.65,i.
hirn,and
tbnrr
found
of
them
that
fouçht
h-m not,
6--c.
The Apo-
file
Ephef,z.i.
affirmeth
that
euen
thefe «'ho
are the
Church
and people
ofGod,werebefore
their
calling and conuer
ion
not
ficke
only,
but
even
dead
in
their/înnes,tn
which they
wal-
ked according
to
the
coarrfe
o
f
the world;
that
they were
by
nature
the children
of
;rash
as
*ell
4
others,
as
it
is
verf.3..and
that
they were
without
Chrisi,aliants
from
the
common-
lbealth
of
11:.
rael,flrangers
from
the
cotenant
o
fpromif
,
and had
no ho9e,etnd
were
without
God
inthelhorld,
as
it
isverf,i2.Soi.Cor,6.ti.
Eph.t.i.3.t,
he
faith, that thole
who were now
fanólified
and iuflified,
were in time pall
fornicators,idolaters, adulterers, wantons,
buggerers
&c..
The
Apoffie
`Teter
likewife
Nvriting
to the
t,Cor.6.1
,
Church
ofChrill,
faith
both
of
himfelfe
and them alto,
that
they
had fpent
the_tiite pall before their conuerfation,
after
the
loll of
the
Centiler,
waling
in
wantonnes,
lui,
drunk,çnnes,
gluttònie,
andin
abominable
ido
latries,z.Pet.4.
;.
And the
Pro-
1.Pet.4.3,
phet
Efay
faith,that
wee
all
were
wandring
fheepe,vntill the
Lord
gathered
vs
into
his
fheepfold.
So
that
it
was
fo
farre
Efi.
53.6.
.
of, that
we
fhouid
de
erue
any grace
or
mercie
at
Gods hand
.
that
in
his iuflice he
might
rather
haue confumed
vs as
his
e-
nemies, than called
vs
to
be his
Church
andpeople.
.
This
alto
is
plaine
in
the
examples
fpecified in
the
booke
of.
God
:
for, what
excellencie
or worthines
was
in Abraham
who before
his calling was an idolater.?
or
in Rahab
who had
fpent
her
time
in
lull and
filthines
?
or
in
Mana
/Jes
who
was
a cruel]
idolater,a
murtherer,
a
forcerer?
or
in
Matthew
who
was
a
publicane? or in `Paul
who
was
a
bloodie perfecutor?
or
in
the thiefe,
who
had fpent
his
life
in all outrage
and
wie-
kednes? what
excellencie
or defart
was in
any
of
vs,
who
haue
not
fo.
much
as
a
thought,
or
inclination to
any
good
thing,or
any
power to performe
it
?
and therefore wee
muff
conclude
with
the Apoflle,
that
we
are
caged with
an
holy
cal.
lrng,not according
to
our
;®ryes,
but
according
to-his ox'ne
pur-
pofe
of
ace:
c,2.Tim.i.9.
z.Tim.r9.
The
fecond'part
of
etfeauall
calling,
is
that
reciproca114,Se
(donation
whereby
G.od.
the:
father
giueth
Chrifl
-Iefus
his
onely