Of EleCiion; andheirJ of God, he being the Inheritance it felf. And certainly Gocr hath ab- ~ folute power over the Gilt of his.own fel f, where he will to bef\0\v j 1imfelf Cbap. 6. thus immediately, when he gives his whole felf up unto the Creature. l'f he ......-~ may, (as himfelf faith, ) do what he will with bi< own, fpeaking of other things and gifts, that are not himfelf, t hen furely it is hisabfolute .Soveraigdty, ~nd Grace to give and beflow himfelf. IV. That our being c~lled inio this tranfcendent Glory of'his, is a certain ; and not failing lnjlagement on God's part, and fecurity un·to of his carryinl'; us thorough unt() t)ie po!feffion of it: This I have flill made the burden of every J;'articular; and fo'of this. Fl.fd~f ~ll, )_OU [et your Catlittg, as the Apoflle faith, He bath calledyou into.hu Eternal Glory: That is , there is a right accrew's by cal!in% , lunto this J.lltimatc glory; which is therefore termed tht hope of" our callittg : Not the hope that is in . 0 ur Hearts only, wherewith we hope ; but the thing ho– ped for , fo often in the Scriptures : And the reafon ofthis is, that if God lays at the ftake all his own Glory , to do the matter of ours , will he oot carry you through? Let that wafhy , vanifbing glory , promifed /!dam (or his works, be laid at the flake unto Free-will, to play its priz~ for it, to win and run for it, and let that glory be fo far undervalued, as to beexpofed to the un· certainty of Free-will, in its own guiding itfelf , with the mutable Principles in it (elf: But let not this glory,this ultimate glory,that God bath to beflow,be pawn'd and engag'd unto an uncertainty:Ifall inGod immediately,& his glory, be the thing promifed, then all in God fhall be the pawn to bring us to it: Pf;iJip. 4• t 9· /lccordi"g tohid riches in Glory, he fhalt (upply alt rottr needJ : He pawns the whole riches of his own glory to do it : 'Tis a round , and a full Argument of the Apoflte, If hehave dtlivered h;, Son ttp unto death; how fball hotot with him give us alt thingJ, in like manner with him ? And if God makes God himfelf over, by the Covenant of grace to Us, then take all with him : And he gives all that is nece!fary to the obtaining of it: 'fis a great inheritance, as well as a free ; and , as Chrift faith , a goodly Inheri– tance ; and furely 'twill maintain the fuir: You know how, upon another occa– fion, God u calted their God: Speaking of /16raham, and interpreting the tenour of the Covenant of grace which in that ploce is fpoken as to this fenfe : The fenfe of it is, That his being their God in that manner, as under the Co– venant of grace he is, was fo big a word , as he fhould have been afl1amed if the glory he promifed them, had not been anfwer~ble : But I ~ow alledge it for this, that God would be afhamed to have it fatd, that he IS a God of all grace to any, and that he out ofthat grace iliould have called us into that glory, and yet to fail by the way in bringing us to it. T his is not a making a glory over from God, but a making over of God himfelf , the glorious God: and therefore all in God, if nee.t fhould be, would beflir it felf, to make the gift of himfelf good, and as fure to thee, as to himfelf. AfecoQd confideration, ft is a lift hid in God, with Chri(i, Coloff 3· (;, Bid, for the fecurity of it, as Treafures ufe to be : And it is not faid to be hid in Heaven, as a place, thats no fuch fecurity, as to be hid in God himiclf: For the Angels were in that place, and had an injoyment of God, by vertue of the Covenant of Works ; but our Life is hid in God with Chrzfl : Thou .thinkefi Chrifl fure enough , in that he is hid in God : your Life is as fure as Chrifls , with whom it is hid in God. A third confideration of fecurity to us, is, that 'tis that ultimate glory, after the Day of Judgment, \vhen God fhall be all in all, which yet the Saints ore now called into, as to the full right of it; yet fo fli!J , as if they be called into the right of that !late now, which takes place after the D ay of Judgment is pall and over; then certainly nothing con fall out between, which fhall hinder : For ifany thing in this World fhould fall out to hinder, it mull be told, and fo come.in againfl theeat the Day of Judgment: But if thou ,be called into~h full nght of that glory, wh1ch fuppofeth that Judgment firfl pa(l, and fu is this glory here , I befare fhewed , then nothing can be fuppofed, that all pre• •
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