438- CH AP .5. f1>JExpo'Won vas Ví ,;51,r Apply we them to theApoflles purpofe ; this ground they afford vs. Gods Ordotance toueh!TJ our federation, fruf rates in no man the care of holineffe ; puts rather, in Paulrapprehenfion, the holy vie of all meanes, tending to accomplafh Gods appointment. Therefore, in Pants mRem.1:.1. Logicke,_the argument is binding, from the mmercies of hod, incleüing, calling, Milttying vs freely, to en- force , the relyling of our flues as an holy facrifice to God. Secondly, his doEirine isi that the°Ordinance rea_ cheth as well to the meanes, as to the end: See 2 Theft: a, 13, Ephef. t. 10. They mificonceiue, that thinke the Decree abfolute, without rcfpef1 to the meanes : It is nRom,8a9. to the end ,andn the tre.rnes;to the end, by the manes. i Pet. 1. a. Eph. 0 2Theß; 213. P Eph. 1.4- Heb. 7.7.6. r Luk.ts, 3 s. Mat. 12. r Ioh. y.59. Theaeis no fuch Decree of God, as mifcreant Arh'cifls talke of; to faluation, how euer we liue. The Decree is, to fame, ° by fan5Eification of the Spirit. And for the ruent, neuer law the Sun men more holy, than the moil afrured of their ordaining to life. Who more fire of his flare in that Decree, than our blared Sauiour, Pin we are all choj n ? Who more q holy, harrmele ffe, feparate from fmnners ? The Apoflles, by confent of all; r knew their eleelion : Tooke any of them occafion thereby, to turn a this grace of God into wantonneiíe ? Nay,fee how all their writings breathe out holinelfe : And we (hall be impious to imagine,they did not exemplifie in their Pra- E3ife,what they delruered intheirPrefcripts. What danger then I wonder fo great, of publifhing the Do(trine of Gods- eternal! Predeflination, that it fhonld feetne good oncly in the Chaire, naught in the Pulpit? Forfooth, -the people may abufe it to licenti- oufn eire. Firfl, I wonder Gods Spirit Lad not the wifdorneto forefee that inconuenience. And what is thereafon bee handles it fo largely, propounds it fo clearly, with a charge to the People, rto Parch the Scriptures ; to Mi- nifiers,
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