The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Concerning Sanctification of life, and the fruits thereof, the place is very evident, Ephes. 2. 10. We are created in Christ to good works, which God hath before prepared, that we should walk in them, Ephes. 1. 4. He hath chosen us to be unblameable and undefiled before him in love. And John 15. 16. I have chosen you, &c. that you might bring forth fruit.

Concerning Sanctification of life, and the fruits therof, the place is very euident, Ephes. 2. 10. Wee are created in Christ to good workes, which God hath before prepared, that we should walke in them, Ephes. 1. 4. He hath chosen vs to bee vnblameable and vndefiled before him in loue. And Iohn 15. 16. I haue chosen you, &c. that you might bring forth fruit.

Here is the comfort of the Saints of God, who labour to walk as new Creatures, that they have the same as a most certain Badge and Mark of their Election. Whereto the exhortation of ^dPeter tendeth, willing us to make our Election sure by our good works. This use the Apostle teacheth, Rom. 9. 24. &c. when having established the Doctrine it self, to the end we should not seek the testimony of it in the secret counsel of God, but by the calling which is set forth and made manifest in the Church, he layeth before us the example of the Jews and Gentiles, not of every one, but of so many as by faith apprehended the outward calling, and thereby made it effectual to themselves: That he might make known the riches of his glory upon the Vessels of his Mercy, which he hath before prepared unto Glory, even us (saith he) whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. And who those Called ones be of the Jews and Gentiles, he telleth us, Verse 30. As many as have attained to the righteousness of Faith. So in the tenth Chapter, by an excellent gradation he teacheth how and which way we climb up to the consideration of this wonderful hidden mystery, showing that true invocation and calling upon Gods Name (or a sound and sincere profession of the truth, whereof he had spoken,