C tt A P.t. An Expolition vponthe fecond V a R.U. The inference and relation is defperate : forlorne and without hope of Saluation are the men that make it. If I be predeflinate, I fall be faued, hew prophanely fo euer I hue ; contemning- Word,Sacratnents, Prayer, all Religi- on. Know, Predelhnasion is of perfons,meanes, end ; of h perfan, to Saluation by Sanc`-fification of the Spirit and faith of truth: puts in the parfons care and abilitie, to vfe the meanes leading to faluation : And fo puts them, that ineuitably they follow in euery one predeflinated ; fo combines them, that but by thofe meanes none is or can be faued. As Tau/ to his fellow Sailers from the mouth of the Angell. 2{,ot a haire ofyour headsJha /l perifh : And yet, except thefe abide in the Ship, yee cannot be/afe, t1$s 27.31. To Gods people I fay as Peter. i Same yourfelues from this vntowardgeneration. He that made thee without thee, will he faue thee without thee ? The Regenerate finne nat unto death ; yet k keepe thetnfelues that the eui/l one touch them not. t Such vfe of meanes cuidenceth our election, 2 `P eta .1o. thereby we make itfure to our felues. 2 Is via ad falutem; the way to faluation,Ephef.2.ro. 2 Thef. 2.13. Abfolute tye there is none vpon God obliging him to the courfe eftabliflied : yet voluntarilia bath his wife - dome limited his power, in the executions thereof, accor- ding to the good pleafiire of his will. On vs,l am fure,the bond lies, to worke out our faluation with flare and trem- bling, Phil, 2.1 2. Ofhirgoodneffe. Truth is, But gods gsodnep and felfe- propenfton to the eternal/ good of his chofen,nothing had place of motitie, to induce the Lord to purple our Saluation. The queflions are ancient, whither Gods Predeflination .bath any caufe : And whither there may be affigued any me- rits ofPredeflination. Thus is the vfuall explicatioñ;fome- thing there was that had reafon ofa caufe finall,thel praife of hirgloriosu grace: Nothing in vs,out of God;which had ate reafon of a mod ue,or merit, to induce the Lord to e- lea or predeflinate. 1 In flare Naturali we were all equall,/acab:and efau, Peter
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