Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit…

He had chosen them unto their Office, and Endowed them with extraordinary Gifts for the Discharge thereof, but ⟨p. 123⟩one of them being not chosen unto Salvation before the Foundation of the World, being not ordained unto Eternal Life, but on the other side being the Son of Perdition, or one certainly appointed unto destruction, or before of old ordained unto that Condemnation, he continued void of all sanctifying Graces, so as unto any acceptation with God he was in no better condition than the Devil himself, whose Work he was to do. Yet was he by virtue of this choice unto the Office of Apostleship for a season Endowed with the same Spiritual Gifts that the other was. And this Distinction our Saviour himself doth plainly lay down. For whereas he says, John 6. 70. I have chosen you Twelve, that is with a temporary choice unto Office; John 13. 18. he saith, I speak not of you all, I know whom I have chosen, so excepting Judas from that number, as is afterwards expressly declared. For the Election which here he intends, is that which is accompanied with an infallible ordination unto abiding fruit-bearing, Chap. 15. 16. that is, Eternal Election wherein Judas had no Interest.

He had chosen them unto their Office, and Endowed them with extraordinary Gifts for the Discharge thereof, but ⟨p. 123⟩one of them being not chosen unto Salvation before the Foundation of the World, being not ordained unto Eternal Life, but on the other side being the Son of Perdition, or one certainly appointed unto destruction, or before of old ordained unto that Condemnation, he continued void of all sanctifying Graces, so as unto any acceptation with God he was in no better condition than the Devil himself, whose Work he was to do. Yet was he by vertue of this choice unto the Office of Apostleship for a season Endowed with the same Spiritual Gifts that the other was. And this Distinction our Saviour himself doth plainly lay down. For whereas he says, John 6. 70. I have chosen you Twelve, that is with a temporary choice unto Office;