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CHAP. VI.

Of the last and full execution and accomplishment of Gods eternal counsel, aswell towards the elect as the reprobate.

Of the last and full execution and accomplishment of Gods eternall counsell, aswel towards the elect as the reprobate.

Forasmuch as God is justice it self, it is necessary ⟨p. 43⟩that he should save the just, ¹and condemn the unjust. Now they amongst men are only just, who being by faith joined to Christ 1, grafted 2. rooted in him 3, & made one body with him 4, are justified and sanctified in him, and by him: whereof it followeth, that the glory to the which they are destinate 5, to the glory of God 6. appertaineth to them as by a certain right or title. On the other part, they which remain in Adams pollution, and death, are justly hated of GOD: and so condemned by him, not excepting so much as them which die before they sin, as Adam did 7. But both these manners of executing Gods judgements, aswell ⟨p. 44⟩in these, as in the other which are elected, are in three sorts: ²whereof we have already declared the first. For the elect in that same moment that they have received the gift of faith have after a certain sort passed from death to life 8, whereof they have a sure pledge 9. But this their life is hid in Christ, till this corporal death make them to step a degree further, and that the soul being loosed out of the bands of the body, enter into the joy of the Lord. Finally, in the day appointed to judge the quick and the dead 11, when that which is corruptible and mortal, shall be clad with incorruptibleness and immortality and GOD shall be all, in all things, then they shall see