that which is proper to it felf": Yet by reason of the Unity of the Perfon, that which is proper to one Nature, is fometimes in Scripture attributed to the Perfon denominated by the other Nature °. VIII. To all those for whom Chrift hath purchafed Redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the fame P, making Interceffion for them, and revealing unto them, in and by the Word, the Myfteries of Salvation"; effectual Heb. 9, 14. [See letter fcripture the second. ] 1 Peter 3. 18. For Chrift alfo hath once fuffered for fins, the just for the unjuft, (that he might bring us to God,) being put to death in the flesh, but quickned by the Spirit. ly other fheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they fhall hear my voice; and there fhall be one fold, and one fhepherd. 9 1 John 2. 1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that Alts 20. 28. Take heed there- ye fin not.. And if any man fin, fore unto your felves, and to all we have an advocate with the Fathe flock, over the which the holy ther, Jefus Chrift the righteous : Ghoft hath made you overfeers, v. 2. And he is the propitiation for to feed the church of God, which our fins: and not for ours only, he hath purchased with his own but alfo for the fins of the whole blood. John 3. 13. And no man world. Romans 8. 34. Who is he hath afcended up to heaven, but that condemneth? It is Chrift that he that came down from heaven, died, yea rather that is rifen again, even the Son of man, which is in who is even at the right hand of heaven. 1 John 3. 16. Hereby per- God, who alfo maketh interceffion ceive we the love of God, becaufe for us. he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. John 15. 13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. v. 15. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the fervant knoweth not what his Lord doth but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you. Eph.1.7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the foregiveness of fins, according to the riches of his grace; v. 8. Wherein he hath abounded toward us, in all wisdom and pruv. 9. Having made known E VIII, John 6. 37. All that the Father giveth me, fhall come to me; and him that cometh to me, will in no wife, caft out. v. 39. And this is the Fathers will which ath fent me, that of all which he ath given me, I fhould lofe nohing, but fhould raife it up again the laft day. John 10. 15. As the Father knoweth me, even fo know I the Father: and I lay down my life forthe fheep. v. 16. And dence. .1 unt ly perfwading them by his Spirit, to believe and obey; and governing their Hearts, by his Word and Spirit; overcoming all their Enemies by his almighty Power and Wisdom; in fuch manner and ways as are molt confonant to his wonderful and unfearchable Difpenfation'. G CHA P. IX. Of Free-will. OD hath indued the Will of Man with that natural Liberty, that is neither forced, not unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purpofed in himself. John 17.6. I have manifefted thy name unto the men which thou gaveft me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gaveft them me; and they have kept thy word. f John 14. 16. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Hebrews 12. 2. Looking unto Jefus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the cross, defpifing the shame, and is fet down at the by any of those things, which Chrift hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed. v. 19. Through mighty fign and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; fo that from Je falem, and round about untollly ricum, have fully preached the gospel of Christ. John 17. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. · * Pfalm 110. I. The Lord, faid unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. I Cor. 15.25. Forhe muft reign, till he hath put all ene mies under his feet. v. 26. The right hand of the throne of God. laft enemy that shall be deftroyed, 2 Cor. 4. 13. We having the fame is death. Mal. 4. 2. But unto you fpirit of faith according as it is that fear my name, fhall the fun written, I believed, and therefore of righteoufnefs arife, with healing have I fpoken: we also believe, and in his wings; and ye thall go forth, therefore fpeak. Romans 8. 9. But and grow up as calves of the fall. ye are not in the flesh, but in the v.3. And ye fhall tread down the fpirit, if fo be, that the Spirit of wicked; for they fhall be afhes un God dwell in you. Now if any man der the foles of your feet, in the have not the Spirit of Chrift, he day that I fhall do this, faith the is none of his. v. 14. For as ma- Lord of hofts. Col. z. 15. And ny as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the fons of God. Rom. 15. 18. For I will not dare to fpeak of having fpoiled principalities and powers, he made a fhew of them openly, triumphing over them in t by any abfolute Neceffity of Nature determined to do Good or Evil a. .1 II. Man in his State of Innocency, had Freedom and Power, to will and to do that which is Good, and Well-pleafing to God; but yet mutably, fo that he might fall from it c. III. Man, by his Fall into a State of Sin, hath wholly loft all Ability of Will to any spiritual Good accompanying Salvation : fo as, a natural Man, being altogether averfe from that Good, and dead in Sin, is not able by his own Strength, to' evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eateft thereof, thou shalt furely die. Gen. 3. 6. And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife; fhe took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave alfo unto her hufband with her, and he did eat. 1. Mat. 17. 12. But I fay unto yon, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him what foever they lifted: likewife shall also the Son of man fuffer of them. James 1. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. Deut. 30. 19. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have fet before III. d Rom. 5. 6. For when we you life and death, bleffing and were yet without ftrength, in due curfing: therefore choofe life, that time Christ died for the ungodly. both thou and thy feed may live. Rom. 8. 7. Because the carnal mind II. Eccl. 7. 29. Lo, this only is enmity against God: for it is have I found, that God hath made not fubject to the law of God, neiman upright; but they have fought ther indeed can be. John 15. 5. out many Inventions. Gen. 1. 26. I am the vine, ye are the branches: And God faid, Let us make man He that abideth in me, and I in in our image, after our likeness; him, the fame bringeth forth much and let them have dominion over fruit for without me ye can do the fifh of the fea, and over the nothing. fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth`one: upon the earth. b Gen. 2. 16. And the Lord God commanded the man faying, Of every tree in the garden thou mayeft freely eat. v. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and e Rom. 3. 10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not v. 12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one. f Eph. 2. 1. And you hath he quickned, who were dead in trefpaffes and fins. v. 5. Even when we to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto g. IV. When God converts a Sinner, and tranflates him into the State of Grace, he freeth him from his natural Bondage under Sinh; and by his Grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is fpiritually good i; yet fo, as that by reafon of his remaining Corruption, he doth not perfealy, were dead in fins, hath quickned rit of God: for they are foolishus together with Chrift, (by grace nefs unto him: neither can he know ye are faved.) Col. 2. 13. And them, because they are fpiritually you being dead in your fins, and the uncircumcifion of your flesh, hath he quickned together with him, having forgiven you all tref paffes. difcerned. Tit. 3. 3. For we our IV. h Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darknefs, and hath tranflated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. John 8. 34. Jefus anfwered them, Verily, verily, I fay unto you, whofoever committeth fin, is the fervant of & John 6. 44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath fent me, draw him: and I will raife him up at the laft day. v. 65. And he faid, Therefore faid I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. Eph. 2. 2. Wherein in time paft, ye walked according to the courfe of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. v. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our fin, 7. 36. If the Son therefore flesh, fulfilling the defires of the fhall make you free, ye fhall be flesh, and of the mind; and were free indeed. by nature the children of wrath, even as others. v. 4. But God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, v. 5. Even when we were dead in fins, hath quickned us together with Chrift, (by grace ye are faved.) 1 Cor. 2. 14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spi i Phil. 2. 13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Rom.6.18. Being then made free from fin, ye became the fervants of righteouf nefs. v. 22. But now being made free from fin, and become fervants to God, ye have your fruit unto holinefs, and the end everlafting life. Gal. fectly, nor only will that which is good, but doth alfo will that which is evil k. V. The Will of Man is made perfectly and immutably free to do Good alone, in the State of Glory only!! A CHA P. X. Of Effectual Calling. LL those whom God hath predeftinated unto Life; and thofe only, he is pleafed in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lufteth which are written in heaven, and against the fpirit, and the spirit a- to God the judge of all, and to the gainst the flesh, and these are con- fpirits of just men made perfect. trary the one to the other; fo that 1 John 3. 2. Beloved, now are we ye cannot do the things that ye the fons of God, and it doth not would. Rom. 7. 15. For that which yet appear what we shall be but I do, I allow not: for what I would, we know, that when he shall apthat do I not; but what I hate, that pear, we shall be like him; for we dol. v. 18. For I know, that in me, fhall fee him as he is. Fude 24. (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no Now unto him that is able to keep good thing: for to will is prefent you from falling, and to prefent with me, but how to perform that you faultlefs before the presence of which is good, I find not. v. 19. his glory, with exceeding joy. For the good that I would, I do not: I. a Rom. 8.30. Moreover,whom but the evil which I would not, that he did predeftinate, them he also Ido. v. 21. I find then a law, that called: and whom he called, them when I would do good, evil is pre- he alfo juftified; and whom he ju fent with me. v. 23. But I fee ano- ftified, them he also glorified. Rom. ther law in my members warring 11.7. What then? Ifrael hath not against the law of my mind, and obtained that which he feeketh for; bringing me into captivity to the but the election hath obtained it, law of fin, which is in my members. and the reft were blinded. Eph. 1. V. Eph.4.13. Till we all come in 1o. That in the difpenfation of the the unity of the faith, and of the fulness of times, he might gather knowledge of the Son of God, un- together in one all things in Chrift, to a perfect man, unto the meafure both which are in heaven, and of the ftature of the fulness ofChrift. which are on earth, even in him. Heb. 12. 23. To the general affem- v. 11. In whom alfo we have obbly and church of the firft-born, tained an inheritance, being pre |