The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

Wherefore I conclude that this Text doth not treat of Predestination and Calling to Sufferings, notwithstanding which many fall short of Justification and Glorification; but of Predestination and Calling to Grace and Glory, such as doth infallibly bring them to Justification and Glorification. God's Electing mercy towards his chosen ones is sure and unfailable; before they had any being, free Grace embraced them in an Eternal Decree, and laid them in its bosom, and when they left the Common Nullity, and in the first moment of their Being, lay in the blood of their natural enmity and iniquity, free Grace would not pass them by, but there must be [Greek or Hebrew], (as the Sept. hath it, Ezek. 16. 8.) a time for love to let out and dissolve it self in gracious operations; to cast its skirt over them, wash them in the blood of the Covenant, anoint them with the holy Spirit, and put a Chain of Graces about their necks. And after all this, when their Faith wavers like a Wave of the Sea, his Faithfulness is as a Mountain of Brass; when their Love cools and slacks, his Love is ever the same, and inflames theirs afresh; when their Holiness is full of Creature-weakness ⟨p. 42⟩and imperfection, there are with him [Greek or Hebrew], holy Mercies and Compassions which never fail; when they sin and go on frowardly in the way of their hearts, yet he will see their way and heal them, as the Expression is, Isai. 57. 18. How many millions of times, after their Conversion, might he have seen their way and damned them? but because of his unchangeable Love he will see their way and heal them. His Covenant is as the Waters of Noah, Isai. 54. 9. When they sin again and again, yet his pardoning Mercy and healing Grace will never suffer them to lie under water, nor the deluge of sin to overwhelm them for ever. In a word; his Electing Love never leaves off till it hath lodged them safe in Heaven. Thus the Foundation of God standeth sure, and the Election infallibly obtaineth Grace and Glory.

Wherefore I conclude that this Text doth not treat of Predestination and Calling to Sufferings, notwithstanding which many fall short of Justification and Glorification; but of Predestination and Calling to Grace and Glory, such as doth infallibly bring them to Justification and Glorification. God's Electing mercy towards his chosen ones is sure and unfailable; before they had any being, free Grace embraced them in an Eternal Decree, and laid them in its bosom, and when they left the Common Nullity, and in the first moment of their Being, lay in the blood of their natural enmity and iniquity, free Grace would not pass them by, but there must be , (as the Sept. hath it,