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The
Uncertainty
ofthe
dependanceof GodsGrace.
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men
fo
prediofed;
which
is
the
ufuall Gloffe,
that
men
of
this perfwafion
put
59
upon
AEis
i
3.48.
Thus
farre then we have carried on
the
fence
affixed
to
thefe words
,
if
it
4. r
7.
may
fo
be called, which
is
evidently centradi&ious
in
it
felfe,
and
in
no one
particular fuited
to
the
minde
of
the Holy Ghoft.
He
proceeds,
To
giveyou
yet,faith
our
Apo
file,
a
farther
and
more
particular
Account,
how
God
in the
fecret
of
his Counfell,
hath
belaid thingsin
Order
&c.
This
expreffion (God bath belaid things in
order
to
the Salvation
of
there
that
love
him
,)
is
the
whole
of
the
Affurance
here given by the
Apoftie,
to the
Af-
fertion formerly layd downe for the Confolation
of
Believers and
this, ac-
cording
to the
Analogie
and
Proportion
of
our Authors Faith, amounts only
thus
firre:
you
that
Love God,
if
you
continue
fo
to
doe
,
you
will fall
under
his
Predefl'ination;
and
if
you abide under
that,
he
will
call
you,
fo,
as
that you
mayfarther
obey
him,
or
you may
not:
if
you doe
Obey
him,
and
believe
upon
his
Call
(having
lov`d him
before)
he
will
7usií
fy
you
not
with
that
Juftifi-
cation which
is
finally
of
which you may come fhort
;Ink
with initiall
Juftifi-
cation, which
ifyou continue
in, and walke up
unto,
solvite
euras
when you
are dead
in
your
graves: This
is
called
Gods
belaying
of
things
in
his
feeret
Coon
/èll,
whereby the
totali
Accomplifhment
of
the
firft
ingagement
is
cut
offfrom
the Root
of
Gods Purpofes, and
Branches
of
his effe
&uall
Grace in
the
purfuit
thereof,
and
grafted
upon
the
wild olive
of
the
Will
of
man,
that
never did, nor never
will beans
any wholfoine fruit
of
it
felfe
to
Eternity.
What
is
afterward added,
of
the
Si.2yalification
of
thofe whom God
Predes'fi-
hates,
being
an
intrufion
of
another
falle
Hypothef
s ,
for the Confirmation
of
an
Affertion
of
the
fame
alloy,
is
not
of
my
prefent confideration;But he
adds=
ye
are
to
underhand,
that
whom
he
hath Predeflinated,
he
bath al'ó Called,
hath
purpofed or Decreed
to
Call,
to
the
Knowledge
of
his Sonne,
or
his Gofpell,
as
be-
fore
&c.
Anf.
How he
hath Predeftinatedthem,
is
not
expreffed;
but
being
fo
Pre-
deflinated, God purpofes
to
Call
them;
that
is
them ,
and
only
them ;
for it
is
an uniforme proceeding
of
God towards
all, whom he
attempts
to
bring tó
himfelfe, which
is
here
defcribed;
That
is,
when
men Love
him,
and are ap-
proved
of
him, and are
there
-upon
Preordinated
tö
Conformity
with Chrier,
then he
Decrees
to
call them, or,
as
the
Calling
here mentioned
is
defcribed,
that
ye may
not
miftake,
as
though
any internal]
effeêtuall
work
of
Grace
were hereby
intended, but
only an
outward morali
perfwation, by
a
Revela-
tion
of
the
Obje& they fhould imbrace)
he gives
a
more
plaine
and
effeCtuall
Difcovery
of
Chrift
to
them, then
to
any
others. Doubtleffe
'tis
evident
to
e
very one,
that
(betides the great
Confufion,
whereunto the proceedings
of
God
in
bringing
finners
to
himfelfe,
or belaying their coining with
fouie
kind
entertainments, are
caft
into,) the
whole work
of
Salvation
is
refolved
into the Wills
of
Men, and
indeed
of
an Fffecluall,
operative, Unchangeable.
Purpofe
ofGod,
nothing
is
left on
his
part,
but
a
morali
Approbation
of
what
is
well
done, and
a propofing
of
other
Bearable things
unto
men
;
upòn
the
Account
of
former worthy
carriages. And this
is
no fmall
part
of
the
in-.
tendment
of
our Author
in
this
undertaking.
That
God
decrees
to
call
them,and
only
them,who
love
hirn,and upon
that
Detir.n -7:
accompt
are
approoved
of
him; when
all
Faith and Love are
the
Fruites;of
maéu
rsó;
that
Calling
of
his,
is.
fach
a
figment,
as
i
!hall
not
need
to
cart away
Wordeç
Ethet.s.
1,2,
in the Confutation
of
it
3;
Yet,
leaft
any fhould have
'too
high
thoughts
of
this
Grace
of
Vocation,
he
§.18:
tels
them, by
the
way,
that
it
doth
not neceffárily
puppofe a
faving
Anfwergiven
to
it
by
theCalled no
whit
more
then theCall
ing mentioned
Swat.
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