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

¹Now the Arguments to confirm us in this Truth they are these following.

1. 1Reasons.

First, Because the Scripture when it speaketh of this great and wonderful work of Election, it doth still resolve all into the Counsel of his will, not into any thing fore seen in a man, Ephes. 8. Roman. 8. Roman. 9. and in many other places it is still said, He hath chosen us according to his Will, according to his purpose; Now if so be it were for any thing foreseen in us, it would be rather according to the Counsel of our will, and according to our purpose: There cannot any rational Answer be given unto this Argument, for according to the Adversaries, God doth not Elect or choose any, until he foresee what every man will do, and if he do well and persevere in this, then he is predestinated, but this doth at once dash out all the Prepositions Prae, and turn them into Post, it is not prae-destination but post-destination, not [Greek or Hebrew] but [Greek or Hebrew]; And this administers a second Argument.

First, Because the Scripture when it speaketh of this great and wonderfull work of Election, it doth still resolve all into the Counsell of his will, not into any thing fore seen in a man, Ephes. 8. Roman. 8. Roman. 9. and in many other places it is still said, He hath chosen us according to his Will, according to his purpose; Now if so be it were for any thing foreseen in us, it would be rather according to the Counsell of our will, and according to our purpose: There cannot any rationall Answer be given unto this Argument, for according to the Adversaries, God doth not Elect or choose any, untill he foresee what every man will do, and if he do well and persevere in this, then he is predestinated, but this doth at once dash out all the Prepositions Prae, and turn them into Post, it is not prae-destination but post-destination, not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; And this administers a second Argument.