Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

SECT. II. Of our Election in Christ before all Worlds.

Now let us look on Christ in his Relation to us before all Worlds. God being thus alone himself from everlasting, and besides himself there being nothing at all, the first thing he did (besides what ye have heard) or the first thing he possibly and conceivably could do, it was this; a determination with himself, to manifest his Glory: Or, a purpose in himself to communicate his glory out of his aloneness everlasting unto somewhat else: I say unto somewhat else, for what is communication but an efflux, an emanation, an issuing from, or a motion betwixt two Terms? I have now brought you to the acts, or actions of God in reference to his Creatures; follow me a little, and I shall anon bring you to Christ in relation to your selves.

NOw let us look on Christ in his Relation to us before all Worlds. God being thus alone himself from everlasting, and besides himself there being nothing at all, the first thing he did (besides what ye have heard) or the first thing he possibly and conceivably could do, it was this; a determination with himself, to manifest his Glory: Or, a purpose in himself to communicate his glory out of his aloneness everlasting unto somewhat else: I say unto somewhat else, for what is communication but an efflux, an emanation, an issuing from, or a motion betwixt two Terms? I have now brought you to the acts, or actions of God in reference to his Creatures; follow me a little, and I shall anon bring you to Christ in relation to your selves.

These acts or actions of God were and are. 1. The Decree. 2. The Execution of the Decree of God. I must open these Terms.