Ps cv. 4, 5. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation: That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

Ps. cxxxii. 13. The Lord hath chosen Zion, he hath desired it for his habitation.-Ver. 15. I will abundantly bless her provision, &c. Ps. lxxviii. 68.

cxxxv. 4. The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

Isa. xiv. 1. The Lord will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. Ch. xlix. 7. Zech. i. 17.-ii. 12.

xli. 8, 9. Thou Israel art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen. I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

xliii. 20. I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

xliv. 2-4. Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee, Fear not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou Jeshurun whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. And they shall spring up, &c.

xlv. 4. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have called thee by thy name [Cyrus]: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

xlviii. 10. I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.-Ver. 17. I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

lxv. 9. Mine elect shall inherit my mountain, and my servants shall dwell here.-Ver. 22. Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Ezek. xx. 5. Thus saith the Lord God, I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them.

Zech. iii. 2. O Satan, the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

XIII. Election of Christians. Matt. xx. 16. Jesus said, Many be called, but few chosen.

xxiv. 22. For the elect's sake, those days [of calamity] shall be shortened. Mark

xiii. 20.

Ver. 24. False Christs, and false prophets, shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch, that (if it were possible) they shall deceive the very elect.-Ver. 31. The Son of man shall [at the last day] send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather to

gether his elect, from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Luke xviii. 7. Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him? John vi. 37. Jesus said, All that the Father giveth me, &c.

xiii. 18. Jesus said, I speak not of you all, I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

xv. 16. I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.Ver. 19. I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Rom. viii. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

ix. 6. They are not all Israel which are of Israel.

Ver. 10-13. When Rebecca had conceived by Isaac, (the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ;) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Ver. 16. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.-Ver. 18. He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

Ver. 21. Hath not the potter power over the clay?

xi. 2. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.

Ver. 4-6. Seven thousand were reserved in Israel, who had not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. So at this time there is a remnant according to the election of grace: And if by grace, it is no more of works.

Ver. 7. Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.-Ver. 28. As touching the election, the Jews are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Eph. i. 4, 5. God hath chosen us in Christ, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness, &c.

1 Thess. i. 4. Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

2 Tim. ii. 10. I endure all things for the

call.

James ii. 5. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

Matt. xx. 1. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers unto his vineyard.-Ver. 3-6. He went out about the third, the sixth, the ninth, and eleventh hour, and sent those he found into his

ii. 9. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

v. 13. The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you.

2 John, ver. 1. The elect lady. Ver. 13. The elect sister.

Ver. 11. When they murmured against the good man of the house, because the first received not more than they who entered last.Ver. 13. He answered, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong.-Ver. 15, 16. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last for many be called but few chosen. Ch. xix. 30.

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are called, and chosen, and faithful.

See 1 Tim. v. 21. Elect angels.
Christ is God's elect. Isa. xlii. 1.

XIV. Persons chosen or elected of God, to fill offices in the church and state. Deut. xvii. 15. Thou shalt set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose. Kings chosen of God were Saul, 1 Sam. x. 24.David, 2 Sam. vi. 21. 1 Kings viii. 16. Ps. lxxviii. 70.-lxxxix. 3. 19, 20.-Solomon, 1 Chron. xxix. 1. 1 Sam. ii. 28.

Priests chosen. Levi, Deut. x. 8.-Aaron, Num. xvi. 5.-xvii. 5. 8. 1 Sam. ii. 28.

Twelve apostles chosen. Luke vi. 13.Matthias, Acts i. 24. 26.-Stephen, Acts vi. 5. -Paul, Acts ix. 15.-xxii. 14.

Place of worship chosen. Deut. xii. 5. 11. 14. 18. 21. 26. The temple, 1 Kings ix. 3.Jerusalem, 1 Kings xi. 13, Neh. i. 9.

CALLING.

XV. God doth call; his people are called. Isa. xliii. 1. Thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.

xlviii. 12. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel my called, I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

lv. 5. Behold thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee.

Ixii. 2. Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the Lord shall name.

Joel ii. 32. In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath

that were bidden to the wedding.

John x. 3. The good Shepherd calleth his own sheep by name.

xv. 15. Jesus said, I call you not servants. I have called you friends. Heb. ii. 11. Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren.

Acts ii. 39. The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Rom. i. 6. Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ.

Ver. 7. To all that be in Rome, called to be saints.

iv. 17. God calleth those things that are not as though they were.

viii. 28. All things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Ver. 30. Whom God did predestinate them he also called.

ix. 11. That the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of him that calleth.

Ver. 23, 24. The vessels of mercy he hath prepared unto glory; even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only but also of the Gentiles.

Ver. 25. God saith, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. Hos. ii. 23.

xi. 29. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

1 Cor. i. 9. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ver. 24. Unto them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

Ver. 26 27. Ye see your calling brethren,

how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

vii. 15. God hath called us to peace. Ver. 17. As the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. See ver. 18. 20, 21. 24.

Gal. i. 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ.

v. 8. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

Ver. 13. Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty.

Eph. i. 16. I cease not to give thanks, and to pray, &c.-Ver. 18. That ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

it, and take it patiently, even hereunto were ye called.

iii. 9. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

v. 10. The God of all grace hath called us unto his eternal glory, by Christ Jesus.

2 Pet. i. 3. His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.

Ver. 10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.

Jude 1, 2. To them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.

Rev. xvii. 14. They that are with the Lamb, called, and chosen, and faithful. xix. 9. Blessed are they that are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Abraham called. See Isa. li. 2. Heb. xi. 8,

XVI. Particular persons called to offices. Priests. Christ, Isa. xlii. 6. Heb. v. 10.— Aaron, Heb. v. 4.

Prophets, Isa. xlix. 1, 2.
Apostles. Acts xiii. 2.

i. 1, 2. Gal. i. 15.

Rom. i. 1. 1 Cor.

God's people are called by his name. Deut.

v. 24. Faithful is he that calleth you.

2 Thess. i. 11. We pray that God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power.

ii. 14. God hath called you, by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Tim. vi, 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called.

2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

18, 19. Amos ix. 11, 12. Jam. ii. 7. The heathens not called by God's name. Isa. Ixiii. 19.—lxv. 1.

JUSTIFICATION.

XVII. God justifieth. Isa. xlv. 25. In the Lord shall all the seed of Jacob be justi |fied, and shall glory. Rom. iii. 30.

Rom. iii. 26. That God might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.

viii. 30, 31. Whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. If God be for us, who can be against us?

ix. 15. Jesus is the mediator of the New Testament, that they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

1 Pet. i. 15. As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy, in all manner of conversation.

XVIII. Men not justified by the works of the law. Rom. iii. 20. By the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight.

Ver. 28. We conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law. iv. 15. The law worketh wrath.

Ver. 20, 21. If ye do well, and suffer for

Christ.

iii. 10. As many as are of the works of the

law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do them. Deut. xxvii. 26. Jam. ii. 10.

Ver. 11. That no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. Hab. ii. 4. Rom. i. 17. Heb. x. 38.

Ver. 12. And the law is not of faith; but, The man that doeth them, shall live in them. Lev. xviii. 5. Neh. ix. 29. Ezek. iii. 21.xviii. 9. 17.—xx. 11. 13. 21.—xxxiii. 13. 15, 16. Matt. xix. 17. Rom. x. 5. James ii. 10. He that shall offend in one point is guilty of all. Compare Rom. iii. 19. Isa. Ixiv. 6. Ps. cxliii. 2. Gal. v. 4. Christ is become of no effect to you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

XIX. Men are justified freely, and by grace, through Christ. Isa. liii. 11. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.

Rom. iii. 24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

SANCTIFICATION.

XX. God sanctified the Jews. Exod. xxxi. 13. The sabbath is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Lev. xx. 8.-xxi. 8. 15. Ezek. xx. 12.

Ezek. xxxvii. 28. The heathen shall know hat I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.

XXI. Jews were commanded to sanctify themselves. Lev. xi. 44. I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy: for I am holy. Ch. xx. 7. See Numb. xi. 18. Josh. iii. 5.—vii. 13. 1 Sam. xvi. 5. Joel ii. 16.

XXII. God doth sanctify Christians. 1 Thess. iv. 3. This is the will of God, even your sanctification.

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v. 23. The very God of peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God, your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Col. i. 12. The Father hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

Rom. xv. 16. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

2 Cor. iii. 18. We are changed into the image of Christ by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Thess. ii. 13. God has chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Acts xx. 32. 1 Pet. i. 2.

XXIV. Justification and sanctification expressed in other words.

God doth wash. Ps. li. 2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.-Ver. 7. Wash thou me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Isa. i. 18. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isa. iv. 4. When the Lord shall have washed

away the filth of the daughter of Zion.

Ezek. xvi. 4. Thou wast not washed.Ver. 9. I washed thee with water.

Rev. i. 5, 6. Unto him [Christ] that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever.

vii. 14. These have washed their robes and

made them white in the blood of the Lamb. will wash my hands in innocency. Ps. Duty to wash ourselves. Ps. xxvi. 6. I xxiii. 13.

Isa. i. 16. Wash you, make you clean.

from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. Jer. iv. 14. O Jerusalem, wash thy heart

Acts xxii. 16. Be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near [unto God] having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure

water.

XXV. God doth cleanse. Ps. xix. 12. Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Ps. li. 10.

Jer. xxxiii. 8. I will cleanse them from all iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me. Ezek. xxxvii. 23.

Ezek. xxxvi. 25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness. See Efficacy of Christ's blood.

XXIII. God sanctifieth Christians by his word and Spirit. John xvii. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth. Ver. 19.

is within.

2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. See Isa. |i. 16.-lii. 11. James iv. 8. Ps. cxix. 9.

Promises to the cleansed. Job xvii. 9. xviii. 20. 24.-xxiv. 3, 4, 5.—lxxiii. 1.

XXVI. God doth purge. Ps. lxv. 3. As for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away. See Ps. li. 7.-lxxix. 9.

Isa. i. 25. I will purely purge away thy dross.

vi. 7. He said, thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

xxvii. 9. By this [affliction] shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin.

Ezek. xxiv. 13. Because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

Lev. xxvi. 11, 12. I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Ps. xlviii. 14. This is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God. Jer. vii. 23. Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. Ch. xxx. 18. 22.

Mal. iii. 3. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Matt. iii. 11, 12. John the Baptist said, Jesus shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner.

John xv. 2. Jesus said, Every branch in me that beareth fruit, my Father purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Heb. i. 3. Christ by himself purged our sins. See Christ's blood.

Duty. 1 Cor. v. 7. 2 Tim. ii. 21.

XXVII. God purifieth.

purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Cor. vi. 16. I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Heb. xi. 16. God is not ashamed to be called their God.

Rev. xxi. 3. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them: and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. See Mal. iii. 3. above.

Duty. James iv. 8. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Pet. i. 22. Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth, through the Spirit. 1 Tim. i. 5. Charity out of a pure heart.

1 John iii. 3. Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 2 Tim. ii. 22. Call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

XXVIII. God doth refine. Isa. xlviii. 10. Behold I have refined thee, but not with silver;

I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Zech. xiii. 9. I will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. Mal. iii. 2. He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. Ver. 3.

XXIX. The Lord is a God unto his people;

Ezra ix. 9. God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia.

Ps. ix. 10. Thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Xxxvii. 28. He forsaketh not his saints; Ver. 25. they are preserved for ever. xciv. 14. The Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

fore them, and crooked things straight, &c. Isa. xlii. 16. I will make darkness light beThese things will I do, and not forsake them.

xliv. 21. Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed shalt not be forgotten of me. thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou

hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forxlix. 14, 15, 16. But Zion said, The Lord ing child, that she should not have compassion gotten me. Can a woman forget her suckon the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have