Quest. 8. What mean those texts, if they confute not this unthankful opinion? Phil. 2. 13. [It is God that worketh in you to Will and to do of his good pleasure] Eph. 2. 7, 8, 9, 10. God hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus: For by Grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God; Not of works lest any man should boast; For we are his workmanship Created to Good works in Christ Jesus] The like is in Tit. 3. 5, 6. 7. Joh. 15. 16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain] 1 Joh. 4. 10. Herein is ⟨p. 106⟩Love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us—] 1 Cor. 4. 7. For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast that thou that thou didst not receive] Joh. 6. 44. No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him] 1 Cor. 2. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can be know them, because they are spiritually discerned.] Joh. 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit] that is, plainly, the fleshly birth produceth but flesh and not spirit; if any man will have the spirit (and so be saved) it must be by a spiritual begetting and birth by the Holy Ghost, Act. 16. 14. The Lord opened Lydia's heart that she attended to the things that were spoken of Paul, &c.] Was the Conversion of Paul a murdering persecutor his own work rather then the Lords, when the means and manner were such as we read of? Act. 22. 14. [The God of our Fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldst know his will, and see that just one, and hear the voice of his mouth, &c.] He was chosen to the Means and to faith, and not only in faith to salvation. When Christ called his Disciples to come and follow him, was there no prevailing inward power that made them leave all and follow him? And was it not the power of the Holy Ghost that Converted three thousand Jews at a Sermon, of them that by wicked hands had Crucified and slain the Lord Jesus? Act. 2. 23, 41. When the Preaching and Miracles of Christ Converted so few;
Quest. 8. What mean those texts, if they consute not this unthankful opinion? Phil. 2. 13. [It is God that worketh in you to Will and to do of his good pleasure] Eph. 2. 7, 8, 9, 10. God hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might sh•w the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus: For by Grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God; Not of works lest any man should boast; For we are his workmanship Created to Good works in Christ Jesus] The like is in Tit. 3. 5, 6. 7. Joh. 15. 16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain] 1 Joh. 4. 10. Herein is ⟨p. 106⟩Love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us—] 1 Cor. 4. 7. For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast that thou that thou didst not receive] Joh. 6. 44. No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him] 1 Cor. 2. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can be know them, because they are spiritually discerned.] Joh. 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit] that is, plainly, the fleshly birth produceth but flesh and not spirit; if any man will have the spirit (and so be saved) it must be by a spiritual begetting and birth by the Holy Ghost, Act. 16. 14. The Lord opened Lydia's heart that she attended to the things that were spoken of Paul, &c.] Was the Conversion of Paul a murdering persecuter his own work rather then the Lords, when the means and manner were such as we read of?
