"1+; obtain ſalvation q by our | ord Jetus Chriſt 7. Some Exp {itors make theſe wor: ds an Argument to al! the Du: iP t 15 Ex : that the kno! pied of our « Fra FE lege 5 appointed re) Salvetion, doth not in the Ele&t Encourage to fin or lloth, as ſome ut engage to all holineſs ; but 1 had rather reſtrain the words, arkl :hat either to the hop? of Salvation mentioned immediately before, 17! then the tenle to Þe this, we may well hope for Salvation ſeeing 3 Io harh appointed us to 1t, or to 115 whole Diſcourſe about the com- ins of Chritt, and ſo they n "ay give the reaſon why the dead in Chrift Th uſt riſe, an 4 muſt with the Liv ing, Saints meet the Lord in the air, and be for ever with him: yea, and why they need not fear the De- frrittion that will come upon others at that clay, and why they ſhoulc bc watchtul tor 115 COMing, becauic faith the Apoſtle, God hath not dn inted us to Wrath, doe t9 obtain Salvatlon, Cs having ſpoken © q two ſorts of Perſons, the Children of the Day, and Chil Iren ofthe ht, and the tfuiden deftruction of the one, and Salvation of the 0- hs at the coming of Chrift; ke here aſcends to the firſt Original of * which is Gs arpoimems 7t, which is an Act of God's Sovereign will, determining me ns final Eſtates, which ſeems to be more than meer przſcience, or foreknowledge, an Att of God's mind,as appears by Km, 5. 29. 1 Per. | 1. 2, Or More than appointing of the means and way of $alv ation, but not of perſons to be ſaved,or of perſons only ma- amber how many, but not formally, or individually whereas the Apoſtle writes of ſome Phil, 4.7. and that from the foun- 4 4h of ih. old, we 8, ant choſe before the foundation of the Wwri.l, Fph, t. otherwiſe every man's Sajvation would Ygoenend myre f!1C UN certainty of Man's will, than the Eternal and God ; whereas whatever Gold works in man's Salva- | & tothe C onnle] or his Will, Eph. 1. 11. And God's © ounſel is certain, immutanl?, and eternal, extending not only to actz- e275 and e273, but} parlons, Kom. 8. 25, 39. neither 1s this appoint- d@c1 1} wh the foreitht of Man's Faith : for it Faith be the pate 01 C oF, this-pift proceeds from God's C 'ounſe] and fore- ate ny £ Men may fav fomefrmay be fave, I muſt thank | am lay mak | muſt thank my ſelf, And nence there is tor Nv nan to be faveds and ail the Counſels of God in Co iti bemade truffrate 3 but this ij3 no place for Controverſie, © 0d appoints to Salvation, he appoints alſo to means, and neans, the! 'C 1S no attainment of the end, Eph, 1, 4. 1 Pet, AF poftle here makes Salvation ftand oppoſite to Wrath. calld Deſtruction, < Je 3. he here calleth Wrath, be- h produceri it, and is manifeſted init. And thoſe red from-it, and the ſupream reaſon 1s, be- - they were not appointed to it, Hut to Salvation, and none that Pointed to the one, Are appoi inte to the other, 't he Veſſels of 11ard of Mc rcy are: et in an ond Ite diſtin&tion, Rom. 9. 22, 23, and 1b in the Text to Tluftrace the Mercy of God the more in them that are {ave _ Ani whereas the A} \oftle calls it the obr. uning of Sal- vation, it implies man's endeavours bot it, though he be appointed of God to it, and {peaking poſitively not only of himſelf, but theſe be- lievins Retomicn alſo, he hath oppointed us t9 0bt41n Salvation, doth not this alſo imply, tha it lome good afſurance- of Salvation may be ob- tained in this \w orld ?£ r '1 he Decrees of Salyation are executed in him, and by him. And th-re 2s no Salvation in any other, Ads 4,12. And he ſaveth not only by his Doetrin and Example, as ſome have athrmed, but by his Blood as the meritorious, and his Spirit as the efficient cauſe of Salvation ; whether the Infinite Wiſdom of God could have foun1 cut another way I ſhall not enquire, Þut this it _ —— upon, wherein Mercy an: Juſtic ce are aimirably glorified together, and the higheſt engagoment | table laid upon men to Sag, ſerve, and honour their Creator, Anc 1 25 the freenels of God's Grace is ma- nifeſted in his appointing men to Salvation, ſo the CXCeeUINEg Riches of it in ſaving them by jeſus Chriſt, And whereas two things are ne- _ to it, the reconciling vs vth God, and reſtoring his Image in The former we have by Uh McTitor his Blood, and the latter by the operation of his Spirit ; { that we haye no ground for that fond opinion, That if men walk honeſtly 20d unrichtly, They may be ſaved 17 any Relig ION»
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