3. In what manner are these things designed? I answer, in an Infallible way, such as never fails: Hence Election is called [Greek or Hebrew], an infallible Predestination, or Predestination of Grace and Glory to the Elect. Thus the Apostle: Whom he did predestinate, them he called; whom he called, them he justified; whom he justified, them he glorified, Rom. 8. 30. The first link of Predestination and the last of Glorification are surely joined by the middle links of Vocation and Justification. The Remonstrants to decline the force of this golden place, tell us, that the Apostle here speaks only of Believers, such as love God, Ver. 29. and of a predestination and vocation to the Cross, and of a justification and glorification after it patiently endured. But what is this interpretation but mere a perverting of Scripture? The Apostle speaks of Believers, such as love God; but did they believe and love antecedently to God's Election or consequently, and as the fruit thereof? If antecedently, What is the Calling according to purpose? What purpose is this but the ⟨p. 38⟩purpose according to Election, Rom. 9. 11? the purpose according to which God saves and calls us, 2 Tim. 1. 9? What Calling is this, but that efficacious one which makes a man hear and learn of the Father, so as to come to Christ by Faith and Love, Joh. 6. 45? Wherefore Faith and Love stream out of the fountain of Vocation, and Vocation comes down out of the bosom of God's Purpose. To say, that the called according to purpose, are those which are ready to obey all the Will of God, is against the usage of Scripture, to turn God's Call into man's Obedience, and God's Purpose (which is the measure of his own acting) into his Command (which is the measure of man's.) Again, if antecedently, what becomes of the [Greek or Hebrew], Ver. 29? How could God foreknow, that is, fore-love them who loved him before? If they loved first, the [Greek or Hebrew] must out, it is not Pre-dilection, but Post-dilection. It remains then that they did believe and love consequently to God's Election, and by a divine influence from thence. But to go on; What is the Predestination here, but to a Conformity to the Image of Christ? And are Sufferings all the Image of Christ? Are ⟨p. 39⟩and Glory no part thereof? What Divine will not blush to say so? And how then is not Predestination to these?
3. In what manner are these things designed? I answer, in an Infallible way, such as never fails: Hence Election is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an infallible Predestination, or Predestination of Grace and Glory to the Elect. Thus the Apostle: Whom he did predestinate, them he called; whom he called, them he justified; whom he justified, them he glorified, Rom. 8. 30. The first link of Predestination and the last of Glorification are surely joined by the middle links of Vocation and Justification. The Remonstrants to decline the force of this golden place, tell us, that the Apostle here speaks only of Believers, such as love God, Ver. 29. and of a predestination and vocation to the Cross, and of a justification and glorification after it patiently endured. But what is this interpretation but mere a perverting of Scripture? The Apostle speaks of Believers, such as love God; but did they believe and love antecedently to God's Election or consequently, and as the fruit thereof? If antecedently, What is the Calling according to purpose? What purpose is this but the ⟨p. 38⟩purpose according to Election, Rom. 9. 11? the purpose according to which God saves and calls us, 2 Tim. 1. 9? What Calling is this, but that efficacious one which makes a man hear and learn of the Father, so as to come to Christ by Faith and Love, Joh. 6. 45? Wherefore Faith and Love stream out of the fountain of Vocation, and Vocation comes down out of the bosom of God's Purpose. To say, that the called according to purpose, are those which are ready to obey all the Will of God, is against the usage of Scripture, to turn God's Call into man's Obedience, and God's Purpose (which is the measure of his own acting) into his Command (which is the measure of man's.) Again, if antecedently, what becomes of the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Ver. 29? How could God foreknow, that is, fore-love them who loved him before? If they loved first, the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 must out, it is not Pre-dilection, but Post-dilection. It remains then that they did believe and love consequently to God's Election, and by a divine influence from thence. But to go on; What is the Predestination here, but to a Conformity to the Image of Christ? And are Sufferings all the Image of Christ? Are ⟨p. 39⟩
