CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Lastly, Our abiding in this world must be of Gods appointment, because all the providential passages and works of God, are subservient to his predestination. ¹So that our predestination might have been frustrated, if God did not appoint all our lives ⟨p. 452⟩in this world, so Paul and Manasseh, and Austin with many others might have died before they were converted, or else when converted, but plunged into foul sins with David and Peter, then they might die in them, and not recover out of them, but Gods predestination will prevent this, because our birth, our living and dying are to the godly effects of their predestination.

Lastly, Our abiding in this world must be of Gods appointment, because all the providential passages and works of God, are subservient to his predestination. ¹So that our predestination might have been frustrated, if God did not appoint all our lives ⟨p. 452⟩in this world, so Paul and Manasses, and Austin with many others might have died before they were converted, or else when converted, but plunged into foul sins with David and Peter, then they might die in them, and not recover out of them, but Gods predestination will prevent this, because our birth, our living and dying are to the godly effects of their predestination.

1. 1Argum. 6.

But let us come to the practical Use of this, because it's very fruitful, and as for the second Observation, That the world aboundeth in wickedness, and so is ready to infect and damn every one therein, that may be amplified in the following verse. And