to the E P H E S I A N S. on And fo you have the firll thing, the difference between perfed Holinefs and ~ d. · Som. Vl. A option. . . . h . 1 . r d h fi · ~ But then the mam QL]elhon remamet , why IS Ho ;ncJS ma et e rmt of putting us intO Cbrill or choor.ng us; and why IS AdoptiOn or Glory made the lruit of J'redellinating ~s, (for fo you fee the words carry it?) . . . You llull fee a clear Reafon for thts,Hohnefs mu!1 needsbe the fnut, or cc:infe~ quent of our being chv{efl 111 Chnjl;lor It IS Eifenual to a Bemg mChnfi. It were an abfurdity to fa) that God dtd ordam a Man to be In Chn!1, and not o:dam hmi . to be Holy. Becaufc if God ordams !urn to be 111 Chnfi, he ordamsl11m to be o Member of Chrifi and the fpoufe ot Chnfi. Now the Head and Members mu!1 be homogcneal, a~d Husband and Spoufe mull be of the f.1mc. kind and Image. When Adrzmwas to have aWife, ll1e mufi be of the fame Species, fhe muft have ihe famelmage upon her. None of the Bealls was fitto be a Witc for Adam, God brought them all unto him; but among them all:here was 11ot jou11d rl meet hrlp forhtm, Gm. 2. 20. becau1e they had not the f.1me Image that he had, And whoever has his Bemg from A dam, mun IIkewife have Rcafon from IHm, as~ neccffary concomitant of fuch a bcmg. So If God choofeth a Man mChnit, he mufl neceffarily be Holy. And this is the reafon why Hohnefs ts annexed to our being chofen in him, the ordaining us to be holy, betng a natural and abfolutely efTemial confequent of our bemg EleCted m lwn. But then, why is Glory the huit of Predellination? . Now I have given you the reafon of the firll, the fecond Will eafily follow; God mtght have made us perfeCtly holy in Cluifi,_ and not have added Glory to it. Rom. 6. 22. To" haveyourfrwt ultto Hul111e(s ( faysthe Apoflle.) If there had been Holinefs, there had been fruit enough ; but here is more,) [ a!Jdthe md evrrlajlmg L1je.] So likewife, here is Glory added to Holinefs. as a further fruit and priviledgc, Therefore as God by Eledwn puttcth us m to Chnfi, fo he hath--·· a further bufinefs about us; he Predefiinated us to Glory and to the Adoption of Sons in him. It is a new Grace, and therefore it is expreffed to be the fruit of a new and fecond Ad, even Predellination. Pltts ejl11ost(1e Filiostjt~am ejfe Sa11E!os, ('tis Zmzchy's fjJeech.) It is a further thi11g to 6e So11s thmtoh Holy, to have l!eavm, a11dbe rtcttved to the Glory of God, thm1 to 6e partaker ofthe Holilufs of God. Predellination therefore is here faid to come over us after ele• t-'tion a fecond time; God addeth thereby Glory toGrace (as the PfalmiH fpeaks) as a frefh new and fecond Gift; for Gifts both, and each are by the PfalmiH faid to be, He wtllgive GrrlcermdGiory. Grace or f!olinefs by EleCtion, Glory by Predefiination. And here,cre we go any furrher,let us paufe a little, and view the harmony that is between thefe things here in the 4· 5'. verfes, with what the Apoflle had faid before and ull1ered this in by; he began in the 3· v. B!ejfed6e the God and Fa- .Jher of our Lord.'Je(zu Chrifl. ~pen I opened thofe words,[ gave _ this meaning of them, That Godisfirfl and ongmally the Godaud Fr~ther of Chrifl, and fci be– comesourGoda1ldottr Father, according to that in Job. 20. 17. I Ajce11d to my God aud )'Ortr God, to my Father alldjour Father, When l fhe\ved you how he is the GodaHdtheFather of Jejiu Chrijl himfelf, I gave thts differ_;nce, 'riJat he wns theGodof Chnfl as man, becaufe he chofe the Humane Nature unto that Dignity, nay he chofe the fecood Pcrfon to be the Mediator,r Pet. r. 20. and fd was the God ofChri(l by Elerlio~t; but fuppofingthat ma/J to have been once chofen and united to the Son ofGod,and he becomes his Father by the relaiiori of havmg begotten Ius Son; and that relation becomes natural between his Father and him.But he is riotthus to us. a Father by a n~tural relation, as to Chnll but wbolly by Adopuon(whteh ofChnfi mull_ not be fatd, and fo by Predellin:ition only, Who hath 'Prrdef/matedus to the Adoptio11 of Som with difference from Chrlfi. AdoptiOn 111 us depends wholly and meerly upori Predellination and no natural relation. Again,as he is our our Godfo confidered he choofeth us te 6e holy before him, ac• cordmg to that exprefs faymg,Beye ho!yfor I the Lord)'OIJY Godmn ho(y. As heL,.,, 9 ,,, becomethour Father 111 Chnll,he predellinateth us to Adoptio" of S01u. Hete are two relatiOns God beareth unto us in Chrifi he u our God,and he u our Fdther,fo v 5· and here are two ads of God towards us from Everlafiing that ptoceed from· thefe, namely Elti?ioll ordaining us to be holy in conformity to him as our God; L and
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