"election. Election worketh vocation, or God's holy calling. Which vocation, through hearing,

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bringeth knowledge and faith of Christ. Faith "through promise obtaineth justification. Justifica"tion, through hope, waiteth for glorification.

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Election is before time. Vocation and faith "come in time. Justification and Glorification are "without end.

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"Election, depending on God's free grace and will, excludeth all man's will, blind fortune, chance, and all peradventures.

"Vocation, standing upon God's election, ex"cludeth all man's wisdom, cunning, learning, in"tention, power, and presumption.

"Faith in Christ, proceeding by the gift of the "Holy Ghost, and freely justifying man by God's

promise, excludeth all other merits of men, all "condition of deserving, and all works of the law, "both God's law and man's law, with all other "outward means whatsoever.

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"This order and connexion of causes is diligently "to be observed, because of the Papists, who have miserably confounded and inverted this doctrine; "teaching, that Almighty God, so far forth as he "foreseeth man's merits before to come, so doth he

"dispense his election. As though we had our

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election, by our holiness that followeth after; and

"not rather have our holiness by God's election going before!

"If the question be asked, Why was Abraham chosen, and not Nachor? why was Jacob chosen, “and not Esau? why was Moses elected, and Pha

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"raoh hardened? why David accepted, and Saul rejected it cannot be answered otherwise but thus-Because it was so the good will of God. "In like manner, touching vocation, and also "faith. If it be asked, why this vocation and gift "of faith was given to Cornelius the Gentile, and "not to Tertullus the Jew? why the beggars by "the highways were called, and the bidden guests દ excluded? we can go to no other cause, but to "God's purpose and election; and say, with Christ "our Saviour, Even so, Father, for so it seemed "good in thy sight.

"And so for justification likewise. If the ques"tion be asked, why the Publican was justified, "and not the Pharisee? why Mary the sinner, and not Simon the inviter? why harlots and publicans

go before the scribes and pharisees in the king"dom? why the son of the free woman was re"ceived, and the bond woman's son, being his "elder, was rejected? why Israel, which so long

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sought for righteousness, found it not; and the "Gentiles, which sought not for it, found it? we "have no other cause hereof to render, but to

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say, with St. Paul, Because they sought for it by "works of the law, and not by faith; which faith "cometh not by man's will, but only by the election. "and free gift of God.

"Wheresoever election goeth before, there faith "in Christ must needs follow after. And again, "Whosoever believeth in Christ Jesus, through the

"vocation of God, he must needs be a partaker of "God's election.

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Whereupon resulteth now the third note, or "consideration: which is, to consider, whether a "man, in this life, may be certain of his election?

"Although our election and vocation simply in"deed be known to God only in himself, à priori; "yet notwithstanding, it may be known to every particular faithful man d posteriori; that is, by ໄ means; which means is, faith in Christ Jesus "crucified. And therefore it is truly said, De

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.. ELECTIONE JUDICANDUM EST A POSTERIORI: "that is to say, We must judge of election by that "which cometh after: that is, by our faith and be"lief in Christ, which certifieth us of this election "of God. For albeit that election be first certain "in the knowledge of God; yet in our knowledge, "faith only, that we have in Christ, is the thing "that giveth to us our certificate and comfort of "this election.-Election first known to God, and "last opened to man*."

Now I appeal to the judgement of any one at all acquainted with the Calvinistic controversy and the general principles of human action, whether it be within any supposable bounds of credibility, that the circulation and perusal of a book containing sentiments like these should be actively promoted by persons unfavourable to what are called Calvinistic doctrines. But the most direct measures

*Fox's Acts and Monuments, III. 292, 293.

were adopted by Queen Elizabeth and by the Bishops and Clergy in Convocation to promote the reading of it among all classes of people throughout the nation.

Strype, in his Annals, informs us, that "this History of the Church was of such value and "esteem for the use of it to Christian readers, and "the service of our religion reformed, that it was, "in the days of Queen Elizabeth, njoined to be set r up in some convenient place, in all the Parish Churches, together with the Bible, and Bishop "Jewell's Defence of the Apology of the Church "of England: to be read, at all suitable times, by "the people, before or after service."

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In such high estimation was this book held among the Bishops and Clergy, that the Convocation assembled in St. Paul's Cathedral in the year 1571, under Archbishop Parker, enjoined, in their canons;

That every Archbishop and Bishop should have in his house the Bible, of the largest edition, then recently printed in London, and the complete History entitled Monuments of the Martyrs, (meaning Fox's Martyrology,) and some other religious books; and that those books should be placed, either in the hall, or in the principal dining-room, for the use of their servants and strangers.

That every Dean should take care that the books now mentioned should be purchased and placed in his cathedral church, in such a situation, that they might be conveniently heard and read by the vicars

and minor canons and other ministers of the Church, and by strangers and travellers.

That every Dean, Prebend and Canon residentiary should purchase those books for his servants, and place them in some convenient situation, either in his hall or in his dining-room.

That every Archdeacon should have in his house, both the other books, and particularly this Martyrology*.

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I have somewhere heard or read of a sophist who endeavoured to persuade a company of several sons, that there was no such thing as motion. None of the party made any reply, but one of them presently rose from his seat, and walked about the room during the remainder of the speech; thus more than answering the fallacies of the speaker,

* Quivis archiepiscopus, et episcopus, habebit domi suæ Sacra Biblia, in amplissimo volumine, uti nuperrime Londini excusa sunt; et plenam illam historiam, quæ inscribitur MONUMENTA MARTYRUM: et alios quosdam libros ad religionem appositos. Locentur autem isti libri, vel in aula, vel in grandi cœnaculo; ut et ipsorum famulis, et advenis, usui esse possint.

EOSDEM ILLOS LIBROS, quos proxime diximus, decanus quisque curabit emi, et locari in ecclesia sua cathedrali, ejusmodi in loco, ut a vicariis, et minoribus canonicis, et ministris ecclesiæ, et ab advenis, et peregrinis, commode audiri et legi possint.

EOSDEM LIBROS ILLOS decanus, et primarius quisque residentiarius, quos appellant ecclesiæ dignitates, ement suo quisque famulitio; eosque, opportuno aliquo in loco, vel in aula, vel in coenaculo, locabunt.

Quivis archidiaconus habebit, domi suæ, et alios libros, et nominatim eos, qui inscribuntur, MONUMENTA MARTYRUM,