p8 Of Eletlion. ·~this lhall be eminently fpoken by him, he will have all gathered abom him ! BooK IV. Tberefor.e of that day it is faid, in 1 TheJJ 1. 10. Hejhalt come to be glor,fied ~ i11 hu Samts, a11d to be admired ill all tbrm that 6eluve, in that day. The glory of the day u hu, and our glory at that day is His, being glorified i11 U!. 'Twtll not be our own glory! as it is ours; that will be counted of by us, as the glory of that day; It wtll be Huglory, M in us , and that will lie in this that he bath brought unto that glory all which believel for indeed all our glor; niakcs up aCrown of Glory to him; upon which very ground it is, that Holy Paut, that was zealoufly mflamed for the glory of Chrifl is emboldned fo ve– hemently to pray for their prefervation,whom he wrote thus onto m the next I rth Verfe.[Whereforr]wepray alw,rys that ourGod would COHHI you worthy of thi& CaU;ng, mJdwou!dfttl{<llthe work cj Faith, that is, to keep.and preferve you unnll then,) that the Name of our Lord Jefm may /Jt glmfied iu ) 'OU mzd you i11 him: So that the Apoflle, by what his own interefl was m the pe~feverance of hts converted ones, lhews how mfimtely more Chrifls interelt wa. in their glory there farther declared to be the mdand pnceof our C•lling and ut-. timate and furtheft product, and aim of the Grace of God, and of our Lord Jefus, which are there brought in as the great Effect; of all this: So he con– cludes it, .Accordi1Jg to the Glory of our God, and thr Lord Jefus Chrifl, tven M here, the God of all Grace which bath called "" i111o his Glory by Jelul Chrifl. · You fee clearly from that Scripture,that as our Glory is defigned but for the greatningof his, foalfoourcontinuinginGrace, to the end that he may be then glorified in us, (having been fo kept by him) is made a great additional unto his honor: Therefore our prefervntion in Grace, and being carried fafe through Temptations, is of an abfolute concernment to that hi& being glonjied thrn m m, as without which he lhould be fruftrated, and lofe of h11 defigned Glory, and as by which on the contrary he will be fo infinitely exalted. . I obfcrve alfo, as to this fame iffue and purpofe, that elfewhere our being kept and preferved in Grace, runs in our Deeds for the rearm of years of our Lives, after Calling: And the Period thereof to run in the !\ile of keeping U4 to that day. And to THAT 'DA,T is !till expreft upon that occaiion, either by the day of the Lord 1eftM, or the Comi11g of the Lord Jefm, and thefe words of pre{ervi11g m, and unto that dtl)', are !\ill joyned, as having fame fpecial inference and aim, and influence upon each other. You may ob– ferve it in all thofe places where thofe famous Promifcs to coufirm tu, preftrve 114, keep U4, are recorded; and how neither of there two were left out in any one of thofe places: As for In{\ance, 1Co•·· I· 8. Who jbatJ al(o confirm you utzto the e11d, that you may be 6lmmle(J i11.the dtry of our Lord Jefus Chnfl. The like, Phi!. r. 6. Being confident of thto very thi11g, that he which bath begunagoodworki11you, wiUperformituntil!theday of Jrjiu Chrifl. And The[. 5. ~ l• And the very God ofpeace fanEI.~fie yott wholly: .A1Jd 1pray God your whole Spirit,and Soot atldBody beprrfrrved6/ametejs tmto the coming •f ottr Lord Jejm Chrijl. And amongft other reafons, why the Period of our being kept, is faid to be that latter day rather than the day of death (of which I have elfewhere fpoken;) And why that taller day alfo ( when thefe two are mentioned ) is !\ill {liled the 'Day of Cllrzfl, and the comi11g of Chri#, the reafon. thereof IS ma– nife!\ly this, becnufe the keeping us unto that day,doth in foemmcnt a manner, and above all things , fo infinitely tend, and make for the Glory of our Lord Jefus Chrift at that day, even this, that we have been carried through aft, and prej'erved. The difcovery and laying open of this will make a 'DA'I' 0 V1 indeed , as we ufe to fpeak, a dt~y cf Chri#, Hi• day, a day o[ Glo– ry unto him, who upon this confideration of having caUedtu, aiJdpreJerved us, will above all other be glorified in all our Glory, and we i11 hmJ: How ftronglythcn muft we all conceive Chrift to be obliged to perform thiS for us, upon the account in hand, that we are called i11to Glory by .7efus Chr:t? If in the fecond Chapter of the fame r The{[. Verf rg, 20. Paul, a poor Mtntfler, ( whofc care and follicitude you may read to have been lo great in the forgone parts
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