[2167] Eph. i. 11

[2167] Eph. i. 11

[2168] Eph. i. 11; Rom. xi. 33; Heb. vi. 17; Rom. ix. 15, 18.

[2169] James i. 13, 17; 1 John i. 5; [Am. ed. Eccl. vii. 29].

[2170] Acts ii. 23; Matt. xvii. 12; Acts iv. 27, 28; John xix. 11; Prov. xvi. 33.

[2171] Rev. xx. 12; Rom. ii. 15; Acts xx. 27; Psa. ii. 7.

[2172] Dan. iv. 34, 35; Psa. cxxxv. 6; Matt. x. 29-31.

[2173] Heb. ii. 9; Matt. xxii. 4; Isa. xlv. 22; 1 Tim. ii. 4, 5, 6; Rev. xxii. 17; Isa. lv. 1; John iii. 16; Rom. viii. 25; 1 John ii. 24, 10.

[2174] Acts xv. 18; 1 Sam. xxiii 11, 12; Matt. xi. 21, 23.

[2175] Rom. ix. 11, 13, 16, 18.

[2176] 1 Thess. v. 9; v. 3; Mark xvi. 16.

[2177] Luke xviii. 15, 16; Acts ii. 38, 39.

[2178] John iii. 8.

[2179] Luke xviii. 15, 16; Acts ii. 38, 39; John iii. 3, 5; 1 John v. 12; Rom. viii. 9.

[2180] John iii. 8.

[2181] 1 John v. 12; Acts iv. 12.

[2182] Rom. viii. 38, 39.

[2183] John iii. 16; x. 28, 29; Phil. i. 6.

[2184] Phil. i. 6; 2 Pet. i. 10; John x. 28, 29; 1 John iii. 9; 1 Pet. i. 5, 9; [Am. ed. Job xvii. 9].

[2185] 2 Tim. ii. 19; Jer. xxxi. 3; 1 Pet. i. 5.

[2186] 1 John ii. 1.

[2187] Heb. vii. 25; x. 10, 14.

[2188] John xiv. 16, 17; 1 John iii. 9.

[2189] Jer. xxxii. 40; Heb. viii. 10; x. 16, 17.

[2190] Job xvii. 9; John xvii. 21, 22; 1 John ii. 19; 2 Thess. iii. 3; Zeph. iii. 17; Mal. iii. 6; Numb. xxii. 19;Rom. v. 9; 2 Cor. i. 21, 22; John iv. 14; Psa. xii. 5; John xvii. 12; 1 Cor. i. 8, 9.

[2191] 2 Tim. ii. 18, 19: Jer. xxxi. 3.

[2192] Heb. x. 10, 14; xiii. 20, 21; ix. 12-15; Rom. viii. 33-39; John xvii. 11, 24; Luke xxii. 32; Heb. vii. 25.

[2193] John xiv. 16, 17; 1 John ii. 27; iii. 9.

[2194] Jer. xxxii. 40; [Am. ed. Heb. viii. 10-12].

[2195] John x. 28; 2 Thess. iii. 3; 1 John ii. 19; [Am. ed. 1 Thess. v. 23, 24].

[2196] 2 Sam. xii. 9, 13, 14.

[2197] 2 Tim. i. 10.

[2198] Luke xxiv. 49; Acts ii. 4.

[2199] Acts xvii. 30, 31; Matt. xi. 11.

[2200] Eph. iv. 30; Rev. ii. 4.

[2201] Note.--To this section the following note is attached in the official edition: 'This doctrine, although it is certainly supported by incontestable proof from the Word of God, as well as by the reason and nature of the union between Christ and his people, yet, like all other truths, has been and may be perverted. The idea of eternal justification and consequent perseverance is unscriptural: the way perseverance is insisted on by some preachers in connection with the preceding parts of their sermons is certainly dangerous. Example: First preach a superficial experience, then make a great many more allowances for weakness and wickedness, stumbling, straying, etc., than God's Word admits, then press perseverance, and you have the formalist or hypocrite confirmed. 'On the other hand, press the doctrines of final apostasy, if the creature does not so and so, making the perseverance of the creature depend chiefly upon his doings: you raise in the mind of the unregenerate professor the fear of hell, as a high excitement to duty; confirm him in his legality; prepare his mind, indirectly at least, to give glory to himself for his perseverance; settle him down in a self-confident and deplorable situation. What God's Word hath joined together, let not his ministers put asunder; but first let them give a clear, definite description of the new birth, and then let them press the doctrine of heart and practical holiness as the sure consequence ("For by their fruit ye shall know them"), and daily evidences (not the cause) of that gracious state which will insure their final perseverance. 'Then this true and comfortable doctrine will not be perverted, neither will it have a tendency to licentiousness in him "whom the love of Christ constraineth," or the real Christian: no, he serves and desires to serve God with more zeal, and from pure evangelical principles, still laying the foundation in his own mind, and cherishing the principle of ascribing all the glory to God for his conversion, his perseverance, and his final and complete redemption.'

[2202] Matt. xxvi. 70, 72, 74.

[2203] Psa. li. title and verse 14; [Am. ed. 2 Sam. xii. 9, 13].

[2204] Isa. lxiv. 5, 7, 9; 2 Sam. xi. 27.

[2205] Eph. iv. 30.

[2206] Psa. li. 8, 10, 12; Rev. ii. 4; Cant. v. 2, 3, 4, 6.

[2207] Isa. xxxvi. 17; Mark vi. 52; xvi. 14; [Am. ed. Psa. xcv. 8].

[2208] Psa. xxxii. 3, 4; li. 8.

[2209] 2 Sam. xii. 14.

[2210] Psa. lxxxix. 31, 32; 1 Cor. xi. 32.