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GOD'S
ELECTION
OF
MEN
IN
JESUS
CHRIST.
DEEM.
II.
scripture
expressly teaches
us,
that
he
performed
them
as
the
appointment of
his
Father.
In
the
next
place,
let
us
take
a
brief
survey
of
the
ar-
ticles of this covenant
on
God
the
Father's
side.
What-
soever powers,
or honours,
or employments he bestowed
on
his Son,
we have
reason
to suppose,
it
was
in
pursu-
ance
of
this original
covenant
of
grace
and salvation.
First
then,
we
may
justly
conclude,
that
God
engaged
to
employ
him in
the work
of
creation,
as a
foundation
of
his
future
,kingdom
among
men
;
by him
God made
angels, and they shall be his
ministering spirits,
for
the
men
who
shall be heirs.
of
his
salvation
;
by
him
God
created
mankind, and
he shall be
Lord
of
them
all
;
by
him
the
blessed
God
made
his own
people,
and
he
shall
save them.
He spread abroad
the
heavens,
and
he
laid
the
foundations
of
this
earth
;
even all
the provinces
of
his
future
vast dominion, with
all
their inhabitants,
are
of
his own
making
:
for
"
without
him was
nothing made
that
was
made
;"
John
i. 3.
and
Col.
i.
16.
Again,
we
may
suppose
it
was
agreed
by the
Father,
that
he
should be the king
of Israel,
which
was
the visi-
ble church of God,
as a type
of
his
kingdom,
and the go-
vernment of
his
invisible church
;
that
he
should
fix
his
dwelling in a cloud
of
glory,
"
in his holy bill
of
Sion
;"
Ps.
ii.
6,
7.
and
should govern the
Jewish nation
by
judges,
or priests, or
kings, as his
deputies,
till he him
-
self should appear
in
the
flesh.
God
the
Father undertook
also to
furnish
him
with
every
thing necessary
for
his
appearance and
his
ministry
bere upon earth,
to
"
prepare
a
body
for him ;"
Heb.
x.
5.
"
to
gi.7e
him
the Spirit
without measure
;"
John
iii.
34.
Is.
xi.
2. to
bear
him
up through all
his
su:fer-
ings,
to
accept
his sacrifice
and
atonement
for
sin,
to
raise
him
up
from the dead, to
exalt
him
not
only
to
the
former
glory
which
he had
with him,
before the world
was,
which
he
asks for
as a
matter
of
agreement
;
John
xvii. 4,
5.
but
to
honour
him
at
his
right -hand
with su-
perior
powers.
He
gave him
the
assurance of
a
people
to
obey
him,
or
a
seed
to serve
him;
he
promised
the
gentile nations
for
his
inheritance, and
to
make
him
the
Lord of
all
things
in
heaven
and earth,
that
he
might
go-
vern
all for the good
of
his
church. He
gave him also