Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

2. Believers, consider the sureness of the happiness of Heaven; as surely as you are believers, so surely shall you obtain this happiness; you cannot be sure of any thing in the world, but you may be sure of the glory of heaven, and though there be not the certitudo subjecti: and many of you be not assured of it, but are full of doubts and fears that you shall fall short; yet there is certitudo objecti, the thing is sure to you.

Rejoice then believers, rejoice! your names are written in the book of life, our of which they shall never be blotted, labour to answer your doubts, and to get your hearts wrought up to a full assurance of this happiness, by such arguments as these, which will evidently prove, that if you be true believers, you shall not, you cannot miss of Heaven.

I. God hath chosen you to glory, he hath elected you to salvation before the world was, Act. 13. 48. As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. Hence it follows, that all believers were ordained to eternal life; and I Thes. 2. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of ⟨p. 280⟩the spirit, and belief of the truth. All true believers are elected persons, and Gods decree of election cannot be frustrated, because God is unchangeable; because God changeth not, therefore you are not consumed; because God changeth not, therefore you shall be saved.

I. God hath chosen you to glory, he hath elected you to salvation before the world was,