718 / 772
Rom. 9. t
T.
§
.SeU.3
.
Itacod.
33%.33.
69
2
O6iec ions
taken
from
tef
#ponies
of
Scripture,anfvered.
fble
Church,
and made partaker
of
the word
and
facra-
ments.
Now
he
is
faid
to
blot
men
out
ofthe
booke
of
life,
in this lait reípe
&,
whenas
he
manifef
+ly
declareth
and ma-
keth it
knowne,
both
to
the partie
himfelfe and others that
he
is
no true member
of
the
Church, nor
within
the coue-
nant
of
grace,and confequently
not
in
the
flare
of
faluation.
For
as
for thofe
that
are enrolled
in his decree
andbooke
of
eleerion,and
alfo in
the catalogue
ofhis
Saints
in
the Church
inuifible,they
can
neuer be racedout
;
for his
purpofe
remai-
neth
in
his
eternal! counfell
;
and
thefoundation
of
God conti-
nueth Pure,
and hath
this twofold
feale,
Gods
knowledge
whereby
he
acknowledgeth
that
they
are his
;
and
their
re,
generationwrought
by
his
holy fpirit.Moreouer,ifany
thing
could
blot
out them who
are thus
inrolled,it
muff
be the
fil-
thineffe and
polluted
fpots
of
their
finnes
and
vnworthines:
but
our
finnes
and vnworthineffe cannot moue the
Lord to
race
vs
out
of
this
booke;
for
then
the
forefight and
know-
ledge
ofthem
in his eternal! counfel
would
much more haue
hindred
him
from chufing and
inrolling
vs
in
the
booke
of
his
ele6tion,feeing
euery
one
knoweth
that
a
leffe caufe
will
hinder
the
choice
of
any,then mooue them to
reie6t
the per
-
fon
chofen.Nay rather
becaufe
'
Lord bath
chofen
vs,
they-
fore he will giue
vs
his
holy fpirit, whereby
he will preferue
vs
from falling
into
f
nne
with
full
content
of
will, and
from
giuing
our
felues
thereunto with
malitious greedinelfe.
And
as
he
hath
freely chofen
vs
to
eternal! faluation
without
any
refpec`r
of
our worthineffe,fo
alto hee will
freely execute
this
decree
by
giuing
vs
'all
the
good
meanes whereby wee may
be faued.
But
let
vs
fit
this general!
anfwere
to
the
particular
places
which
are obie&ied
:
firfi,
thofe
words
of
the Lord, Exod.
3
2.3
3
.are
a
threatning not
denounced againfi
the true mem-
bers
of
the
Church,who
are enrolled
in
the
booke oflife,but
thofe
who
are
the members
ofthe
vifible
Church
onely; and
in profeilion alone,and
not
in
praaife
;
in
íhew,and not
in
truth;in
their,owne
or
others opinion,and
not
in Gods eliï-
mati_on,
of
the;;ords
family,
and
in
the number
of
his fer-
uants.
Secoilctlie,it
is
not to
be
ynderfiood
of
all
that
com-
mit