not this alſo imply, that tome good aſſurance of Salvation may be ob- tained in this World £ r Ihe Decrees of Salyation are executed in him, faycth not only by his Do&trin and Example, as ſome have affirmed,
but by his cauſe of Salvation :
upon, wherein Mercy an.l Jufr! CC are aiimirably glorified together, and the hig! beſt enzgagoment imatinable laid upon men to love ſerve, an ! honor their Creator, nifeſted in his appoiſiting ofit in ſaving them by Felys
| « aj to it, he rechncitin The former we have by 7
men: ro S211 ration, S Chri iſt wy 3 God,
and reforing is Image in
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the OPEe1 Farion of his Spirit 3 {6 that we have no ground for that fond opinion, That if men walk honeſtly 2nd Th ightly, Tlicy may beſaved
in any REliZION» *Rom.i4. 15 * \Who died for ns, that whe
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F ( "* 2 OI, $o [Some 7 efer theſe words to the he foregoing chapter, ih vie! rC the Apoſtle had __ the Saints ary and Retlurrection, ['R wh & their ſleeping and waking as they are here calld. And [1 their r for ever with th. / wag is here called their lrvine togerber mith wo im. Tn left it migHt be thought that none ſhov 11d be with Chrift until thev owalked at - way furrection, he therefore leaks of 1j- 1g ch Chri i} even when we {lk ep, He had ſpoke of ſleep in ang- thor ſerife, vor , me ant ay ecl urity, but here meant of Death, as its \ hap, &. 3.4. 'A 1d a Z 15 ſet oppoſite to the former lleep, y- $2 6 « £0 thc wing r, Whit HY Sa Reſurrection from Death. And = or that tle SO} doth not ſleep with the ody, bur lives
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WW £13 with hum only 10 our Souls, when We wake » hot in yoly andSoul, And both thel: we have from Ci lyved Here: 1 had ben ſhut againſt our
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way of Salvation, hut not of perſons to be ſaved,or of perſons only ma- te: ry As to th © amber how many, but not formally, or individually who they arc that ſhall be ſaved ; wh ereas the Apoſtle writes of ſome A ſe mamte's ar. 557 me book of life, Phil, 4. 3. and that from the foun-
atton of i old, Rev. 17. $, ani choſen before the foundation " the 1.1, Foh, 1, 4. otherwiſe every man's Salvation would devend more anon the uncertainty of Man's will, than the Eternal and amurable Will of God ; «hereas whatever God works in man's Salva- $1021, 15 accoriling tothe Connie] of his Will, Eph. 1. 11. And God's © ountelis corrain, immut2hl?, and eternal, extending not only to actz- e185 and mew, but parlors, Rom. 3, 23z 39. neither © 1s this appoint-
10) £7007ded upon the tore fhoht of Man's Faith; for it Faith Counſe! and fore- I muſt thank And hence there is and ail the Counſels of God in « but this i3 no place for Controverſie, he appoints alſo to means, and the 1 1wans, the *© 15 no attain! ment of the end, Eph. 1, 4, 1 Pet,
it be foro he! calld Deſtruction, Verſe 2. he here calleth Wrath, be- ute Goil's Wrath pod! aceth ir, and is manifeſted in it, And thoſe rhat beta ed, arc deliverc 4 from If, and the ſupream reaſon 1s, be- cane thev were ak appointed to it, but to Salvation, and none ' that
t he Veſlels of
vation, it implies man's endeavours for it, though he be appointed of poſitively not only of himſelf, but theſe be-
and by him. And there 1s no Sulvation in any other, Ads 4,12, And te
Blood as the meritorious, and his pirit as the efficient whether the Infinite Wildom of God could have found out another way I ſhall not enquire, but this it hath pitched
And as the freenel(s of God's Grace is ma- lo the exceeding Riches | And whereas two things are ne-
And by mutual exhortation and comfort the whole nay be edified 5 Chriſtians then are to be blamed that only ſeck to eaihe themſelves,an much more they who pull down, and divide, and deftroy, inflea of building up. w And what the Apoſtle EX] orted them to, they were already } in the practice of ; for which he here again commentds them zz he had done upon ſeveral accounts before, not to flatter but to encor rage them to proceed, and to ſet before other Churches their Exam
tor imitation,
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which labour among you w, LORD x, and admoniſh you y : 13 An d to eſteem them very highly 1n love > for the
works ſake a. And be at peace among your ſelves 7.
w The Apoſtle ſpake before of their private duties as © hr tia NS, f0 one another, now of their dutics to their Paſtors and Teach ? by what he had ſaid they might think the Miniſtry needleſs, lt vow this Church was fetled under Ofthcers which is called an Cr: Church, And though the Apoſtle himfelt was driven from them perſecution, yet they were not without Minifters and Teachers, they owed a zreat Duty to them, to which he doth lovingly exhorr
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them. And he deſcribes them not by the name of- their office, 25 Pa» ſtors, Elders, or Minifters, but by the work of to The word 1nporrs diligent labour cauling wearineſs, as 1 Tim. 5. 17. That labour in ti: word and dottrine, which ſhews both tlc nature Tf rhe \\ uk of the Miniſtry, it is laborious ; and the duty ot Miniſters therein,not to fe