The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

2. There is no difference in this, in that for the present both §2are children of wrath, both aliens from the promise of grace, no promise of any gracious privilege either for pardon of sin, or eternal glory belongs unto them, only Gods purpose will in time make an actual difference between them. Neither is this to make any contradictory will in God, for both these may well stand together, viz. Gods will, for the future to give pardon and glory, and yet to will neither of them to be for the present. All this is done with the same act of Gods will. If therefore hatred be taken as opposite to that love of Election, which God had from all Eternity, so an elect man, though unregenerate, is never hated; but if it be taken largely for that displicency or wrath of God, which is contrary to the grace of Justification exhibited in time, so he may be said to be hated before his conversion: neither is it any wonder, if this be called hatred, seeing in the Scripture, less loving, is called hating sometimes, as the Learned observe. Neither doth this make any change in God, it only denoteth a change in the creature, as hereafter is to be showed. So that the gross mistake, as if Election were all love, actually and expressly, and the confounding of the love of God, as an immanent act in him, with the effects of this love, hath made several persons split upon rocks of errors. But how love and anger are in God, is more exactly to be examined, when we speak of the meritorious cause of Justification, which is Christs merits: for indeed this Argument from Election, will as well put in for a Justification before any consideration of Christ, as well as of Faith, if every thing be duly weighed, as in that part (God willing) is to he showed, where also the distinctions about Gods love are to be considered of. Some making a general love, and a special love; others a first love and a second, or one flowing from the first; others a love of benevolence or beneficence, and of complacency: But of these in their proper place.

2. There is no difference in this, in that for the present both §2are children of wrath, both aliens from the promise of grace, no promise of any gracious priviledge either for pardon of sin, or eternal glory belongs unto them, only Gods purpose will in time make an actual difference between them. Neither is this to make any contradictory will in God, for both these may well stand together, viz. Gods will, for the future to give pardon and glory, and yet to will neither of them to be for the present. All this is done with the same act of Gods will. If therefore hatred be taken as opposite to that love of Election, which God had from all Eternity, so an elect man, though unregenerate, is never hated; but if it be taken largely for that displicency or wrath of God, which is contrary to the grace of Justification exhibited in time, so he may be said to be hated before his conversion: neither is it any wonder, if this be called hatred, seeing in the Scripture, less loving, is called hating sometimes, as the Learned observe. Neither doth this make any change in God, it only denoteth a change in the creature, as hereafter is to be shewed. So that the gross mistake, as if Eletion were all love, actually and expresly, and the confounding of the love of God, as an immanent act in him, with the effects of this love, hath made several persons split upon rocks of errors. But how love and anger are in God, is more exactly to be examined, when we speak of the meritorious cause of Justification, which is Christs merits: for indeed this Argument from Election, will as well put in for a Justification before any consideration of Christ, as well as of Faith, if every thing be duely weighed, as in that part (God willing) is to he shewed, where also the distinctions about Gods love are to be considered of. Some making a general love, and a special love; others a first love and a second, or one flowing from the first; others a love of benevolence or beneficence, and of complacency: But of these in their proper place.