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

Yet in the third place, Though we are then chosen in Christ from Eternity, yet take heed of that absurd Error, which holds, Our sins are pardoned, and our persons justified from Eternity. To say, That while a man is unconverted, wallowing and tumbling in his lusts, that his sins are pardoned, and that he is as well loved of God before his conversion, as after, is to contradict the whole course of Scripture; for though we be elected, and thus predestinated from Eternity, yet the Effects of this are not bestowed upon us, till in time, and in such a manner as God pleaseth. Praedestinatio est amor Ordinativus, not collativus, as the Schools say. It's immanent in God, not transient in us: Therefore you see our Saviour supposeth such to be believers, who shall be made partakers of his death; He doth not promiscuously pray for all men, he doth not commend to Gods love every man or woman, but the believer only: So that we are to distinguish between the purpose of God, and the gracious effects thereof, otherwise we may as well say, we are glorified from Eternity.

Yet in the third place, Though we are then chosen in Christ from Eternity, yet take heed of that absurd Errour, which holds, Our sins are pardoned, and our persons justified from Eternity. To say, That while a man is unconverted, wallowing and tumbling in his lusts, that his sinnes are pardoned, and that he is as well loved of God before his conversion, as after, is to contradict the whole course of Scripture; for though we be elected, and thus predestinated from Eternity, yet the Effects of this are not bestowed upon us, till in time, and in such a manner as God pleaseth. Praedestinatio est amor Ordinativus, not collativus, as the Schools say. It's immanent in God, not transient in us: Therefore you see our Saviour supposeth such to be believers, who shall be made partakers of his death; He doth not promiscuously pray for all men, he doth not commend to Gods love every man or woman, but the believer onely: So that we are to distinguish between the purpose of God, and the gracious effects thereof, otherwise we may as well say, we are glorified from Eternity.

Fourthly, Hence, in that Christ doth thus determinately pray for every individual believer; It's a plain Argument that he is God, as well as man: For how could those things be as present to him, which yet were many years to come, if he was not God,