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CAP.Vi4-3334,35
Hofz.t9,io,
vindicated,
alí+o.Iohn
10.27,2
8,z9.
154
(that
is,
the
Election
of
7ewec
and
Gentiles)
to
my
felfe
for
ever
in
Righteou(-
nefJe,
is,
I
will
effay
to
get
their
affe
&ions,
by (hewing
my
felfe
Righteous
in
the Promifeofbringing
the
Jewes
out
of
captivity.
That
this Pronijîe
is
not
made
to
the
body
of
the
fewer,
returning out
of
Captivity
,
was before
de-
nionftrated;
The
Righteoufn
ff
e
here mentioned,
is
that,
which
God
will,
and
Both exercife
in
this very
Act
of
Betrothing,
and
not
any
other
ad ofit,
which
he
will
make
ufe
of
to that
purpofe.
God
engageth
to
betroth them
to him-
felfe in
Righteoufnefse,
tiling
and
exercifing his
Ilighteoufnefle
in
that
very
Aid
of
his Love,
and Grace
to
them:
and
this
is
now
given in ,an
alluring
them
to
love
him
by
appearing Righteous,
in
bringing
them out
ofGaptivity.
4.33
The
like
interpretation
is
given
of
the other
expreflions following, (judge-
ment:)
It
is
(faith
he)
by
pumping and judging their
enemies
and
deffroyiug
them
that
led them into captivity,
and
held
them
in
bondage
and
fubjedion
and
(
Loving-
kindneflè)ic
his
giving
them come, wine,
oyle, peace
and
plenty , and
k(Mercy)
in
pardoning
of
daily
fins,
and infirmities, and
(
Faithfulnefi'e
)
is
,
he
noweth
notwhat.
This
is
madethe
fumme
of
all;
God
by doing them good,
with
outward
mercies,
and
pardoning
Come
fins
and
infirmities;
will
morally
try
to
get
their
affe&ions
to
himfelfe.
Virgola
P, Eoris.
i.
It
is
not an
Expretlï-
.on
of
Gods
attempting to get
their
Love,
but
of
the
efka6lifhing
and
confirm-
ing
of
his
own.
2.
That
God
fhould morally try
and
elay,
to
doe
,
and
effect,
or bring about
any
thing,
which yet he
doth
nor,
will
not, or
cannot
com-
paffe
and
effect,
is
not
to
be afcribed
to
him,
without
cafting
the
greatef}
re-
proach
oflmpotency,
Ignorance, GhangeablenefJé,upon
him imaginable.
3.
God
prornifing
to
Betrothus
to
himfelfe,
fixing
his
love on
us ,
that
we
fh
ll
know
him,
fo fixing
our hearts
on
him;
to
fay,
that
this
holdeth out only the
ufe
of
forne
outward
nieanes
unto
us,
enervateth the whole
Covenant
of
his
Grace,
wrapt
up
in
thefeExpreflions;
fo
that
all thingsçonfidered,
it
is
not
a
little
firange
to
me,
that
any
lober learned
man
,
thould ever be
tempted
fo to
wreft,
andcorrupt,by
wref}ed
and forced
Gfofi'es,the plaine words
of
Scrip-
ture:
wherein whatever
is
pretended,
he
cannot have the
leaf}
countenance
of
any
Expofitorof note,
thatwent
before
him:
Although'we are not
to
be
pref-
fed
with
the
name
of
Tarnovius a
Lutheran,a profeffed Adverunryin this caufe;
yet let
his
Expofition
of
that
place
under confiderationbeconfulted
with,and
it
will plainely
appeare, that
it abideth not
in
any compliance with that,
which
is
here by
our Author
impofed on
us.
4.
34-
The
Prornifes we
have under confideration, looking immediately and di-
redly
only
to
one
part
of
that Dodririe,
whole defence we have undertaken,
(to
wit)
the
Conflaney
andVrîehangeableneffe
of
the
Grace
of
fnflifacation,
or
God's
abiding with
his
Saints,
as
to
his
free acceptance
of
them and love
unto
them unto the end,
I
fhall
not
infifI on
many
more particulars.
4.35
The to,
lohn
27,28,29.
clofeth
this
Difcourfe
My
fbeepe
heart
my
voice,
and
I
know
them,
and
Igive
unto
them
Eternall Life, and
they
flail
never
perifb,
nei-
ther
fhall
any
man pluckthem
out
of
my
hand ;
my
Father,
which gave
me
them,
is greater then all, and
no
man
is able to pluck them
out
of
my
Fathers hand.
In
the verfe foregoing,our
Savi
our
renders
a
reafon why
the
Pharifees
not
-
withflanding
all hisPreaching
to them,
and
the
Miracles he
wrought
among
them, yet believed
not,
when
fundry others,
to
whom
the
fame difpenfation
of
outward
rneaneswas afforded,
did heare
his
voice
and
did
yeild obedience
thereunto; and
this he
telleth
us was,
becaufe they
were not
of
his
fheepe:
fuels
as
were given him
of
his
Father, and
for whom
as
the
good
Shepheardhe
lay'd
downe
his
life,v.
s
4,5
5.upon
the
clofe
of
this
difcourfe,he
delcribeth
the
pre
-
lent Condition
of
his
Sheepe,&
their Prefervation
in
that Condition
from
the
power
of
himfelfe,and
his
Father engagedthere
unto. He layeth their
abiding
with