11Erl.P7MOr: though it be with griefe chat we wane, what others enjoy in goodneffe, fo we grieuc not at their enioying, but for our owne want. But let enuie rot their bones on whom it faflens, griefe I meane and fpight at other mens gracious efiate : for what doth it impeach our owne ? how doth it not rather further it ? adding lufire to the body myflicall, whereof we profeffe our felues members. Their cenfure is by the Apofile, that they in walks in the way of Cain : hee might haue laid of the diuell, with whom they may ex- peél to haue portion in punithment, fith they referrable in what`, is moft diabolicall ; moff abhorrent from gracious diig,oftion. úrmc.7ásar>átreas. Vouchfafe you his calling: the matter of his Petition: 4,4e; dignetur. deigne, vouchfafe, of fauour grant you the calling. What is the Calling. e.4nfv. Sometimes vnder that tearme comes the terminate ad quem of Calling ; the thing whereto we are called ; fo fome conceiue it here meant : his caning, that is the glorie whereto he bath called you : that, in `Pauls tearme,is then price of the high calling of rod in C'hri l lefüs. z Sometimes it denotes the A6t of Calling; as R o m. 8.3 o. 2 Tim. 1.9. If we follow the firffi fenfe, this Paul Cranes, that the Lord would of fauourvouchfafe them fruition of heauenly happineflè, (haring with Saints in their inheritance. Mull' that be begged of God, as a boone, to Saints, be- leeuers, halfe- Martyrs as were Theralonians ? And when its giuen,is it but deigned,v ouchfafed them of fauour from God ? Certainly, it was `aids opinion, There is no reali worthinef e in our perfons or aflions, or qualities inherent, whereby we may elaime eternal/ glorie. t Then why beg we it? 2 Why as a boone and fauour vouchfafed? Why rather is it not exa6ted as due, ex Regula lus`litia ? True- ly Paid the Apofile, E'ternalllife ù 0 xcipi ;tia, a free gift of God; there being no obligation accruing from worth of our workes, that thould binde him to render it : By pro- mifing he hath made himfelfe our debter; and Chrifl barb merited to vs our Crowne. But Phil.3.14. Rom.633.
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