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C
A
P.
1.
4:
45.
'The
Doórine
of
Pèrfeverance
how
by
M'
G.
propofed.
28
both eternall,and temporali towards them, that they
come
under
this varie-
ty
of
Names,and Defcriptions. Firft,
in refpe&
of
his
Eternall
Defignation
of
them
to
Life
and Salvation, they are
raid
to
be
written
among
the
living,
or
Revel. 3.
12.
unto
life
in
f
erufalem:
their
names are
in the Lambs
book
o
feife, from
the
fronn-
8.
dation
of
the
World,
and they are recorded
in
the
purpofe
of
God from
all
e-
Luke ao.
20
ternity.
Secondly
in refpe&
of
their Deliverance, and
a
&wall
Redemption
from
the bondage
of
death & Satan, which for ever prevaile upon the grea-
tell
number
of
the
Sonnes
of
Men, fhadowed
out
by
their
deliverance from
Revd.s.9.
the
Babilonifh
Captivity,
(pointed at
in
this place) they are
Paid
to
be,
a Rem
-
Eph
5.
25
nant,
an Efcaping,
fuch
as are
Left,
and
Remaine
in
ferufalem
:
From the peri-
zech.3.2.
thing Lump
of
Man
-kind, God doth by
Chrift, fnatch
a Remnant
(whom he
John
i7.
9.
will preferve)'ike a
Brandout
of
the
fire.
Thirdly
, in refpe&
of
their injoy-
Rom.8.38
ment
of
Gods
Ordinances and
Word
, and
his
Prefence with
them,therein,
Pfal.
48.
r
r,
they arecalled,
the
Daughter
of
Sion,
and
the
Dwelling places thereof.
There
72,
13, 14.
did
God
make known
his
Mind and
Will;
and Walked with
his
People
in
íóa,2,3.
&c
thofe
Beauties
ofHolinefe;
Thefe are they
to
whom thefe
promifes are made:
Jerem.5o.
5.
Zec1.8.2.
the
Elect, Redeemed
and
Called
of
God: or
thofe who being
Elected
,
and
Redee-
John.r2.
17.
meet,
fhall in
their
feverall Generations be
Called,
according
to his Purpofe,
who
Pfal.rró.3.
Ira
49.14.
worketh
all
things,
according
to
the
Councell of, his own
will.
4. 45.
For the
Matter
of
thefe promifes
,
they
may be
reduced
to
thefe
three
Heads
,
Firft
of
yuflification. verf.
2.
Secondly
,
of
Sanctification v. 3,
&
4.
Thirdly,
of
Perfeverance
verf.
5,
&
6.
Firft,
of
juflification , Chrift
is
Made
to
them,
or Given
unto
them, for
Beauty
and
Glory:
which
how it's done,
the
Holy Ghoft tells
us
Ifaiah
6i
so.
I
will
greatly
rejoyce
in
the
Lord ,
my
foule
(hall
be
jayfull in
my
God,
for
he
hath
cloathed
me
with the Garment
of
falvation,
he
hath
covered
me
with the
Robes
ofRighteoufneffe, faith
the Church :
he
puts
upon Poore deformed Creatures,
the
Glorious
Robe
of
his
own Righteouf-
neffe,
to
make
us-Comely in his
Prefence,and
the
Prefence
of
his
Father-
Zac.
z
Cor
1
20. 1
3.3,4. Through
Him, his
being given
unto
us, made unto us
of
God
Righteouf
7
nefe,
becoming,
the
Lord
our
Righteoufnefe,
doe
we find free acceptation,
as
I(a.45.24,25.
Jer.23.6.
Beautiful!
and Glorious
in
the
eyes
of
God.
But this
is
not
all:
He
doth
not
Rom.5.r.
only
Adorne us
without,
but
alto
9Yaf us
within :
the
Apoflle
acquaints
us,
co
that that
was his
define
E
he
. 2
26.
and therefore ou have Second-
ly)
g>
P
f
5
5,
y
c
the
promife
of
SanEtification
added,
verfes
3, 4.
v.3.
you
have
the thing
it
felfe,
they 'hall
be
called
holy,
Made fo,
called
fo
by
him,
who
calleth things
that
are not
as
though
they were,
and by
that
Call, gives them
to be that
which
2
Cor.4.6.
he
calls
them;he
faid,let
there
be
light,and
there
was
light. And then
the mane
Euk.
r:.r9, ner how it becomes
to
be
fo.
V.
4.
firft Petting
out the
Efficient
caufe:
the
fruit
Joh.3.5
of
Yudgment
and
Burning,
that
is
òf
Holinefe,
and Light:&(Secondly) the way
Rom.8.2.
of
his
roducin
this great
efFe&
walling
away
flth,
and
purging
away blood:
10h.I6.9,io,
P
g
r
r.
Spirituali filth
and blood,
is
the
defilement
of
finne,
the Scripture
to
Pet
out
Pfal.
38.5.7
it
abhomination, comparing
it to
the
things
of
the
greater}
Abhorrency to
Prov.,
13.5,
6.
our nature,
even
as
that
is
to
the nature
of
God. And
this
is
the
fecond
pro-
mife,
that in,
and by, the
Branch
ofthe
Lord,
is
here made
to them,
who
are
Ifa.64.6.
written
unto
lie
in
7eru alern.
But
now leaft any fhould
fuppofe
that both
Ezek.r6.4.5.
f
J
Ì,
o
Ply
&
24.6.
thefe are for
a
feafon
only,
that
they are
Dying
priviledges,
Perifhing
mercies,
Hof8.8.
jewel's
that
may
be
loft,
fo
that,
though the
perlons
to
whom thofe promifes
Zech.
I3.
r
.
Rom.3.13.
are
made, are once made
Glorious
and
Comely,
being
in Chrift freely
accepted,
2
Pet.2.22.
yet they may
again
become odious
in
the
fight
ofGod,
and be
utterly
reje-
&ed,
that
being once
Wafbed,Purged,Cleanfed,
theyfhould
yet
returne
to
wal-
low
in
their mire, and
fo
become
wholly
defiled
and abhominable: In
the
Third
place,
He
gives
a
promife
of
Perfeverance,
in
the two laft
vertes,
and
that
expreffed
with
Allufion
to
the
Prote&ion afforded unto the people
ofthe
/ewes