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GOD'S
ELECTION
OF
MEN
IN JESUS
CHRIST.
[SEAM.
IL.
the
original.
In
this
book
of
life were
written the names
of
those persons
who
should
not
yield to
antichristian
idolatry, and should
be
preserved
from
the general cor-
ruption that
came
upon
the christian world.
Upon
the
whole
it
appears
from the language
of
scripture,
that
those
who
are
sanctified and saved
by
divine grace,
were
before chosen
òf
God,
to be
made
holy and happy.
-
I
proceed
now
to
the second general
head
of
my
dis-
course,
viz.
That
God
from
the beginning
appointed
his
Son
Jesus
Christ
to
be the medium
of
exercising
all
this
grace, and
gave his
chosen people
to
the
care
of
his Son,
to
make
them
partakers of
this salvation. This
seems
to
be
the meaning
of
my
text.
Are
we
blessed with
all
spiritual
blessings
?
It
is
as
the
members
of
one body, in
Jesus
Christ,
as
our
common,
head. Are
we
chosen
?
It
is
still in
Christ
the
Son
of
God.
"
In
all
things
he
must
have the pre
-
eminence
:
He
is
the head
of
the body, the
church
;"
Col.
i.
18.
He
was first
chosen
by
the
Father
to be the glorious
head
of
a
holy and
happy number
of
mankind, and
we
are
chosen
in him
that
we
might
become
his holy
and
happy
members.
He
is
called
"
the elect of God, in whom
his
soul delighteth
;"
Is.
xlii.
1.
"
The
mighty one on
whom
God
has
laid our
help, who was
exalted and
chosen
out
of
the
people
;"
Ps.
lxxxix.
19.
You
may
observe
he
is
represented
here to
be
chosen, as
a man
from among the people
of Israel
to be
their Lord and
Saviour; but
that
he
might
be
equal
to this work,
and
mighty
to
save, he was
"
one with
God,
all the
fulness
of
the godhead dwelt
in him
bodily
;"
Col.
ii.
9.
He
is
"
the
Word
who was
with
God,
and
who was
God
?"
John
i.
1.
And
in
due time
this
Word
was
made
flesh
and
dwelt among
us
?"
verse
14.
Are
we
chosen
that
we
might
be saved
?
It
is
in
and
through
Christ,
who
was
chosen to
be
our
Saviour.
Are
we
predestinated
to
the adoption
of
children
?
It
is still
in
Christ,
who
is
the original
Son,
the
" bright-
ness
of
his
Father's
glory,
the express image
of
his
per-
son,
and
who was
appointed
to
be
heir
of
all things
;"
Heb.
i.
2, 3.
"
And
we
are appointed
to be conform-
able
to
his image,
to
be heirs
of God,
and
joint
heirs with
Christ,
and possessors
of
the
inheritance;"
Rom.
viii.
17,
29,