Of Eie{}ion. 'jl-"'"fr[. The firfl: Ml of Election is "d ftnem: Thus Arfs q. 48. As many a; were ~ordained to Eternal LJfe, Believed. . 2. To the meons to that end, as m 2 The if. 2. 'l· 1hrough Sa1JrfJftcation of the Spirit, a11d belief of the truth, Whereinto Chri{\s deach and R.edemp· tion is alfo to be taken in. Now how the firfl: of thefe is to be referred unto Man, confidered before th.e Fall, as the Object of it; and the latter unto Man as fain, as the Object ot it: As likewife how there are two Ads towards thofe. The [ Reft J whom vul– garly we call Reprobates, that anfwerunto thefe Two of Election, I have in a former Treatife handled. The one is • bare, not ordaining them unto that ultimate Glory, which is the E11d, Viz. Gods being aU ill aUto them, as I Cor, I 5. 28. The other a with– holding from them thefe effectual Means , after , or upon forefight of their Fall, Such means, as through which he ordained his Eledto come unto that Glory, denied to thofe other; which Ad it is the word Re probation dothpro– perly denote. In the firfr they ara confidered as unfaln ( I exprefs it fo indeterminately unto them" hether as Created or Creabiles , or that were to be Created) and fo that ultimate Glory, becng fupcrnatural to the Creature by the Law of Cre: ation, that Glory was Gods own propriety , which he might difpofe of as his own at free pleafure. In the other Ad of denial of the etfedual Means they were confcdered as fain into fin, and therein ju1\ly denied thofe effect uai means by which the other are re1\ored out of that E!lare. Now my bufrnefs in this firfr Branch , ,is an Exaltation of Election Grace, in refped of thefe its two Ads of Grace iliewn in Election, through the help ofa comparative difparity of the rwo Ads of Electing Grace, with thofe cor– iefpondently oppofite Ads of Reprobation , in their afpeds unto elther State. I. Compare we that Ad of Abfolute Ordaining them unto that ultimate Glory,as viewed without the conltderation of the fain Efiate, with that other of limply not ordaining the [re!\] to that Glory. Tis true, concerning either of thefe, that there is in botha Pure Abfolute Ad of Dominion excrcifed, even in his not-Ordaining thofe unto that Glory, as the End, as much as Electing thefe other unto that Glory. For that Glory is wholly fupernatural, and purely Gods own, And I may here apply that fpeech of'Domi11iczu Ban11ies, Eft mmJifeflatio maxim~ ti6ertatt4, qttam ha– bet divin• volu11tM circa dJjpmfationem bonorttmjiJpertJatJJralit~m,qu£ maxi– mrl eft perferfio 'Divma. In the be1lowin~ therefore of this fupreame!\ GlorJ:, the greate1l liberty of the Drvcne Wrllts lcen. And as hberty and Freedom IS mo!t confpicuous in it, fo anfwerably, a Love fu.percminenr. lnfomuch, as let us fuppofe God fhould by another Decree be1\ow never fo many •nd fo great Good things on thefe, and yet not this fuperlative good of fuper. Crea· tion Glory; the bare derryal or omiilion of this were an Ad of hatred, in ref– to a meer comparifon of that Love in that ordinuion of others to that Glory. ~ I conceive, that the infiances of Jacob's Election, and the denial to Ejatt of this ultimate bleiTing, do moll properly and pertinently hold forth the diffe– rence of thefc rwo bare A{\s ofElection to Glory, and the Negation of ir, as to what God doth towards men, confidered as sfore the Fall, even as Pha· raoh's in1\ance in rhe fame , Rom.g. was alledged of Men cenfidered as fain and hardened; and therefore the Apo!\le faith, upon occafion of this example, Whom he wiU he h.1rdms; whereas in the Ellate of the Example of Jaco6 and E{att, he here ufcth th isglof! of his own upon it; Bei11g yet 11ot born, 11or h11vit~g do11e good 11or evtl l that rs, as they were purely a0d ab!lraaly confi· dered from any jiu orgtrilt any way contracted, as alfo before they were ~orn: Our. birth being that which brings us into an aduol and vifible Refidency in this World. And unto this he applies that in Verj. 1 l· Jacob have ]loved, mtdEfau bave I hr1ttd, rhus in the Type alledged, fignifying Men unfaln.Now God ordained E(:m (in the Type) to many good th ings, and great bleilings, •sin Ifaacs bleiTin?: of him, Gm. 27. l9• 40. J!.thold, thy dwelling fba/J be the fatuefl of the Earth, mtdof the dew oF Heavm from above, &c. But that
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