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

3. Because Election on faith fore-seen, stands not with the freedom of Gods Will within himself,¹ but God tells us plainly, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. ^*I know some would not have this Text understood of Election from Eternity, but of Justification, Adoption, Salvation, and yet they grant the truth of it to be alike, whether in reference to Election or Justification: the words, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, are one and the same with those words spoken by God to Moses, ³I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious; Now to be gracious, as is confessed, properly imports a propenseness of mind and will to do some signal good without any motive or engagement thereunto from without, especially from the person or persons to whom this good is done, or intended; which is a plain Argument, that I will have mercy, is not of that kind of mercy, the exercise whereof is drawn out, or procured by any thing whatsoever in those to whom it is showed, but because it pleaseth it self, or him in whom it resideth so to do; and in this respect mercy differs very little, or nothing at all from grace: the Apostle exchanging Moses his words, was but his Interpreter.

3. Because Election on faith fore-seen, stands not with the freedom of Gods Will within himself,¹ but God tells us plainly, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. ^*I know some would not have this Text understood of Election from Eternity, but of Justification, Adoption, Salvation, and yet they grant the truth of it to be alike, whether in reference to Election or Justification: the words, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, are one and the same with those words spoken by God to Moses, ³I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious; Now to be gracious, as is confessed, properly imports a propenseness of mind and will to do some signal good without any motive or engagement thereunto from without, especially from the person or persons to whom this good is done, or intended; which is a plain Argument, that I will have mercy, is not of that kind of mercy, the exercise whereof is drawn out, or procured by any thing whatsoever in those to whom it is shewed, but because it pleaseth it self, or him in whom it resideth so to do; and in this respect mercy differs very litle, or nothing at all from grace: the Apostle exchanging Moses his words, was but his Interpreter.