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Thep 2.2
i)14.
Opened.
94.
the
Arguments he
fets
up
again1t
the
Truth,
as
(hall
hereafter befarther
ma-
nifefted.
$.55.
I
draw now
to
a
dole
of
thofe places,
which
(among
many
other
omitted)
tender
then-delves
unto the
proofe
of
the
{table,
unchangeable Purpofe of
God,
concerning
the
fafe-
garding and prefervation
of
Believers in his Love,
and
unto
Salvation.
I
(hàll
mention one or
two
more, and
clofe this
fecond
Scriptural]
Demonftration
of
the
Truth
in
hand.
The
firft is
that
eminent
place
ofEphef
t.
3,4,
5.
Bleffed be
the
God
andFather
of
our Lord
jefur
Chrifl,
who
bath
bleffed us
with
all
fpirituall
bief
sings
in
heavenly places
in
Chrift,
accor-
ding
as he
hath
chofen
we
in him,
before
the
foundation
of
the
World,
that
we
fhouldbe
holy,
andwithout
blame
before
him
in
Love
3
having
Predeftinated
tta
unto the adoption
of
Children
by
jefita Chrift
to
himfelfe
,
according
to
the
good
pleafure
of
his
will: verfe
3.
theApoftle
fummarily
blefl`eth
God for all
the
fpirituall
mercies, which in Jefus
Chrift he
ble{feth his Saints
withall
s
of
all
which v.4. he difcovereth
the
fountaine and fpring,
which
is his
free choofing
of
them before
thefoundation
of
theworlds
That
anEternal]
A&
of
the Will
of
God
is
hereby defigned,
is
beyond difoute: and
it
is
that
foundation
of
God;
on
which
the
whole
of
the
buildingmentioned and
pourtraid
in
the
following
verfe
is
laid.
All
the
Grace and Favour
of
God towards
his
Saints,
in
their
Juftification,Adoption, and GIory, all the fruits
of
the
Spirit,
which
they en-
joy
in
Faith and
San&ification, flow
from this onefountaine: and thefe
theA-
poftle
defcribes
at
large
in
the
verfes following.
The
ayme
of
God
in
this
e-
ternall and
Unchangeable
A&
of
his
Will
(he
tells
us)
is
,
that
we
thould
be
unblameable before him
in Love.
Certainly curled
Apoftats, backtliders in
Heart,
in whom
his foule takes no
pleafure,
are very farre frombeing unblame-
able before
God in Love.
Thofe
that
are within
the
compaffe
of
this Purpofe
of
God,
Muff
be preferved
unto that
State and
Condition,
which
God
aimes
to
bring them
unto,
by
all
the fruit and
iffues
of that
Purpofe
of
his, which
was
pointed at before.
A
Scripture
of
the
like importance
unto that before
named ,
is
2 Theff.'
2.
13,14.
God
bathfrom the
beginning
chofen
you
to
Salva-
lion,
through
Saniiftcation
of
the
Spirit, and
beliefe
of
the Truth ,whereunto he
callsyou
by
ourGo(pel,to the
obtaining
of
the
Glory
of
the
Lord jefus
s
The
fame
fountaine
of
all
fpirituall and eternaIl mercy, with
that
mentioned
in
the
o-
ther
place,
is
here alfo expreffed, and
that
is
Gods choofing
of
us by an ever-
failing
A&,
or
Defigning
us
to
the
end intended, by
a
Free, Eternal], Unchan-
geable Purpofe
of
his
Will.
Secondly,
The
end aimed
át
by
the Lord
in
that Purpofe,
is
here
more
clearely let downe,
in
a
twofold
Expre{fion.
1.
Of
Salvation
v:13.
He
hath
chofen us to
Salvation: that's the thing
which
he aimed
to
accomplifh
for
them,
and
the End
he
intended
to
bring them
to,
in his choofing
of
them, and
21Y
V: 1.1.
-The
Glory
o
f
the Lord
jefus:
or the obtaining
a
portion
in
that Gic-
ry,which Chrift purchafed and procured
for
them, with their
being with
hiwt
to
behold
his
Glory.
And
3'Y
You
have the
meanes
,
whereby.
God
will
cer-
tainly bring
about,
and
accomplith this
his
degne
and Purpofe, whereof
there are three
molt eminent
A
&s
expreffed.
i.
Vocation,
or their
calling
by
the
Gofpe! v:
t4.
2.
Sanctification
v
:13.
(through
the Sanctification
of
the
spi-
rit.)
And
3.
juflifi
cation
,
which
they
receive
by
beliefe
of
the Truth.
Thus
much then
is
wrapt up
in
this
Texts God having
in his
Unchangeable Purpofe
fore
-
appointed
his
to
Salvation
and Glory, certainly
to
be obtained through
the
effe&uall
working
of
the Spirit,
& free juffification
in
the
Blood
of Chill,
it
cannot be,
but
that
they
{hall
be preferved
unto
the enjoyment
of
what
they are
fo defigned
unto.
56.
To
fumme
up what
bath
been fpoken
from
thefe Purpofes
of
God,
to
the