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11.
§:11,1z.
Stedfaflnefl'e
of
God's
love
confirmed by
Inflances.
54
3.
Thirdly,
That
no Purpofe
of
God
is
conditional[, though
the
things
themfelves,
concerning
which
his
Purpofes are,
are
often times conditionalls
one
of
another.
q.
Fourthly,
That
conditionall Purpofes concerning
Perfeverance,
are
either
Impoffible,
implying
contradi
&ions,
or
Lrsdicrons,even
to
an
unfitnes for
a Stage.
But
of
thefe and
fuch
like,
as
they
occafionally
fall
in, in
the
infuing
Difcourfe.
4,
t
i.
This
foundation being laid,I come
to
what
was
secondly
propofed,namely,
to
manifeft
by
an
Inclusion
o
f
particular
In
ftances,the
ingagement
of
thefe
Ab-
folute and
Immutable
Purpofes
of
God,
as
to
the Prefervation
of
the
Saints in
his
Favour
to
the End: andwhatfoever
is
by
Mr
Goodwin
excepted,
as
to the
former
Do&rine
of
the
Decrees
and
Purpofes
of
God
,
in
that part of
his
Treatife
,which
falls
under our
confideration,
!hall in
the
vindication
of
the
refpedive
places
ofScripture
to
be
infifted
on, be
difcuffed.
The
Firít
particular
Inflance
,that
I
!hall
propofe,
is,
that
Eminent place
of
the
Apoftle,Hom.8.28. where you have
the
Truth
in
hand
meted
out
un-
to
us,
full
meafure, fhaken
together,andrunning
over
It
doth not
hang by
the
fide
of
his
difcourfe
,
nor
is
left
to
be gathered, and concluded from other
Principles,and Affertions couched therein;
but
is
the
maine
of
the
Apolloli-
call
drift,and
Defigne;
it
being propofed by him,
to
makegood,upon unque-
ftionable Grounds,
the
Affurance
he
gives Believers, That
all things
worktoge-
ther
for
Good
to
them
that
love God, to them
that
are Called accordingto his
Par-
pofe:
the
reafon
whereof
he
farther
addes in
the
following words,
For whom
he didfore
-know,
he
alfo
did
Predeflinate
to be
conformable
to
the Image
of
his
Sonne,
that
he
might
be
the
firfl
borne among many
Brethren:
moreover whom
he
did
Prede
flinate, them
he
alfo called,
and
whom
he
called, them
he
alfo
jus`lified,'
&whom
he
juftifsed,them
he
alfoGlorifsed.What
the
Good
aimed
at,is,for
which
all things !hall
worke together,
And
wherein
it doth
confift,
he
manifefts in
the
Conclufion
of
the Argument produced
to
prove
his firft Afhertion v.
3
g.
36,37,38,
39.
Who
,fhall
feparáte
rue
from the Love
of
God
in
Chriflc(
hall
tribula-
tion
&c. The
Good
of
Believers,
of
them
that
love God,
confifts in
the injoy-
ment ofChrift,
and
his
Love: faith
then the
Apoftle,
God will
fo
certainly
or-
der all
things,
that
they
(hall
be preferved
in
that
injoyment
of
it, whereun-
to
in this
life
they are already
admitted,
and borne out
through
all
oppofiti-
ons,to
that
perfe&
fruition thereof,
which they
ay
me at and this
is
fo
unquel
nionable, that
the very things,
which feeme
to
lye
in
the
way
of
fuch
an
At-
tainment and event,
!hall worktogether,
through
the
Wifdome, and
Love
of
God
to
that end.To
make good
this
Confolation,the
ApeJlle
layes
downe
two
Grounds or Principles,fromwhence
the
Truth
ofit
doth
undeniably follow:
the
one,taken from
the
Defer.
iption
of
the
Perfons,concerning whom he makes
it
and
the other,from the
Af
s
o
f
Gods
Grace,
and their
refpe&ive
concatena-
tion
in
reference
to
thofe Perlons.
4.
12.
The
Perfons, he tellsyou, are thofe, who are
called according
to
the
Purpofe
of
God:
That
their
calling
"here
mentioned
, is
the
Efrain
ll
call
of
God,
which
is
anfwered, by Faith and Obedience, becaufe
it
confifts in
the be
!towing
of
them on the Perfons
fo
called, taking
away
the
Heart
of
/one and
giving a
Heartoffefh,is not only
manifeft from
that
place, which
afterwards
receives in
the
Golden
Chaire
of
Divine
Graces betweene
"Predefiination
and
yuilifscation, whereby
the
one
bath
infallible
influencies
into
the other;
but
allo
from
that
precious defcription which
is
given
ofthe
fame
Perfons,
viz.
that
they Love.
Gad,
which certainely
is
an Iflue
and fruit ofÉffeetuall Calling,
as
(hall
afterwards be
further
Argued.
For
to that
Iflue
aie
things drivenin
this Controverfy,
that
proofs
thereof
are become
needful1.
The