11 etiûuo Safe??. nefs rif s upon the Heart in an drained Call, the f cret my/Ivry of Prxdeffination hid from Ages, break forth out of the abjffe of Eternity. Here the Great Counfel of Eternal Love, which lay in Gods Bofom, thews forth it felf to the Be- liever through the Lattice of his Graces. Hence he may conclude on good grounds, That his Graces fhall never fail, fo long as the Founda- tion of God ffandeth fure in Election. Conti- nual fupplies of Grace from the Fountain will keep his Lamp from going out. Its obferva- ble, that when God expreflles his frefh Mer- cies to his People, he doth it thus ; I will yet chufe Ifrael,Ifa. 14.1. Election is from all Eter- nity,but it buds and bloffoms in time in frefh fupplies of Grace ; as if he chofe them again : When the Saints are drooping, and as it wera dying away;Ele ±ion will give anothervifrt,and make them live a fecond time. So unfpeakable are the comforts of this Point, that, as I have read, one under the tweet fenfe of Eledíng Love,, was for fome days taken off from all the joys of Nature ; and in an holy extafie cri- ed out, Laudetur Dominus, Laudetur Dominus, as if he had been in Heaven already, bearing a part in the Church Triumphant. Again, The Believer looks not to his Graces only, but to the indwelling Spirit. Faith, and Love, and Obedience cannot fail in his Heart, whilft the Spirit of Grace is there ; and there it will always be, becaufe it is an abidingVnäi- on,.. perpetually cheating every grace, and a well of water fringing up into everlafting life, Con-, tinua 413
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