Of Eletlion. ~--- ed in a meer vacuity and pure emptinefs, both as to Being or Glory: And BooK Ill. look as his Decree to create.gave his Eled:, and others, a Being to come irt ~ due time, fo his Decree of Eled:ion cfiated on them that Glory to come, and both immediately brought forth by thcfe his Decrees, out of that meer Lump. ot Poifibilities forementioned. Let the more learned Reader excufe my foot~ ten repeating things (to the fa(lle effed: ,) it is for the weaker, 'their fakes , that they may both under!tand and fixedly retain the Notion of ir. The proof of this, T hat God might have chofen others out of meer .Poifi– bilities, whom he hath not, nor never would, nnd fo that they remain in their pure poifibility to Eternity , may adequately be drawn from God's offer unto Mojes, 'Deut. 9· '4· Le: me alo11e that I ma~ dtf/roy them, and blot out their name from u11d<r Heaven: A1JdI wifl mtJh of thu a Nation greater andmigbtier than the': And to be in their room a Surrogated People to him, as they by Eled:ion had been ; for elfe he had not made up a fupply: Yet this People God never did make, nor will make, but could have done. The like out of the Bapti/l'sSpeech, Luke 3· 8, Ifaytoyou, Godisabk, out of theft Stone•, to raift Children unto Abraham. CHAP.
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