A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect…

2. The other positive gift is Glorification, which we read of, Rom. 8.30. Whom he called, them also he justified; and whom he justified, them also he glorified: this the Apostle Peter mentioneth, 1 Pet. 5.10. The God of all grace hath called us into his eternal glory it Christ Jesus: And in truth, he hath begun the work from the time that he first began to sanctify us, 2 Tim. 1.9. He hath saved us, and called us: from the very first time that God worketh upon the soul graciously, there is a glorious work in that soul; and others may see it, though himself sometimes seeth nothing that he hath received. Thus we see the second ⟨p. 27⟩branch of the Doctrine opened, How the Lord doth receive Abraham and his seed unto himself, preparing them by a spirit of Bondage, and of Burning, and then taking possession of them savingly by the inhabitation of the blessed Spirit; the same Spirit begetting Faith, we are alive in Jesus Christ, and so come to be Adopted, and Justified in him: the same Faith which receiveth Adoption and Justification, doth begin to stir a little, and to breath forth into gracious desires, and some holy mourning, and beginneth now to put forth such works as the holy Ghost carrieth the soul an end in; working all our works in us, and for us.

2. The other positive gift is Glorification, which we read of, Rom. 8.30. Whom he called, them also he justified; and whom he justified, them also he glorified: this the Apostle Peter mentioneth, 1 Pet. 5.10. The God of all grace hath called us into his eternal glory it Christ Jesus: And in truth, he hath begun the work from the time that he first began to sanctifie us, 2 Tim. 1.9. He hath saved us, and called us: from the very first time that God worketh upon the soul graciously, there is a glorious work in that soul; and others may see it, though himself sometimes seeth nothing that he hath received. Thus we see the second