294 E L E C T. ally no Approbation either. fromGOD or Min. Thanks be to GOD, the Eleft in Chrifl are not left to the Exercife of a Will, naturally perverted, to begin Life ; nor to the Force of a Power, altogether debilita- ted and depraved, to preferve it. The Life they live in the Flefrr, is by the Faith of the Son of GOD; and that Faith is the exprefsOperation ofStrength divine. Nor do they only live, but they are alfo kept, through the fame Faith, by the Power of GOD unto Salvation. It confequently follows, that none of them Shall perifh, but all, without. a Rifque or Contingency, (hall be finally and eternally faved. God bath chofen them FROM the Beginning, 'and that not for a Day, or a Year, or a Time, but to a' Salvation, which can afford EVERLASTING Con- folation andgood Hope through Grace. * " GOD fimply And unchangeably wills," and all the divine Attributes are concerned in the Accomplifhment of what He wills: His Wifdom, which cannot err ; his Knowledge, which cannot be deceived ; his Truth, which cannot fail ; his Love, which nothing can alienate ; his yufi-ice, which cannot condemn any, for whom Cbrifl died.; his Power, which none can refift ; and his Unchangeablenefs, which can never vary : from all which it appears, that we do not fpeak at all improperly, when we fay, that the Sal- 'vation of his People is necefTary and certain." -!- " But what becomes ofall other People ?"Theymay well alle that Q iefl=ion, who are among that other People ; forfuch are deeply interefted in the Inquiry. The Believer however has nothing to do with it. Whoever may be among them, he isnot : And he will bring, for Evi- dences, his Life and Converfation. Now, Since the other People cannot venture upon this Sort of Proof; there is a'Ihort Anfwer to the Demand in the holy Scriptures. The WICKED [carnal, proud, felf-righteous, who indeed are but unrighteous, Profeffors ; as well as ether Sinners] /hall be turned into Hell, and ALL the Peo- z Them ii. 13, i6. t See that able Treatife on Predefiination, tranffated from the atiu of Yercm Zanchius, by the Rev. Mr. T'oplady. p. 6z. pk
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=