The immutability of the purposes of God proposed for a second demonstration of the
truth in hand-Somewhat of the nature and properties of the purposes of God: the
object of them-Purposes, how acts of God's understanding and will-The only
foundation of the futurition of all things-The purposes of God absolute-Conti-
nuance of divine love towards believers purposed-Purposes of God farther con-
sidered and their nature explained-Their independence and absoluteness evinced
-Proved from Isa. xlvi. 9-11; Ps. xxxiii. 9-11; Heb. vi. 17, 18, etc.-These places
explained-The same truth by sundry reasons and arguments farther confirmed-
Purpose in God of the continuance of his love and favour to believers manifested by
an induction of instances out of Scripture: the first from Rom. viii. 28 proposed,
and farther cleared and improved- Mr G.'s dealing with our argument from hence
and our exposition of this place considered-His exposition of that place proposed
and discussed-The design of the apostle commented on- -The fountain of the ac-
complishment of the good things mentioned omitted by Mr G.-In what sense God
intends to make all things work together for good to them that love him-Of God's
foreknowledge-Of the sense and use of the word speywoza, also of scisco, and
yon in classical authors-Пpés in Scripture everywhere taken for foreknow-
ledge or predetermination, nowhere for pre-approbation-Of pre-approving or pre-
approbation here insisted on by Mr G.-Its inconsistency with the sense of the
apostle's discourse manifested-The progress of Mr G.'s exposition of this place con-
sidered-Whether men love God antecedently to his predestination and their effec-
tual calling-To pre-ordain and pre-ordinate different-No assurance granted of the
consolation professed to be intended-The great uncertainty of the dependence of
the acts of God's grace mentioned on one another-The efficacy of every one of them
resolved finally into the wills of men-Whether calling according to God's purpose
supposeth a saving answer given to that call-The affirmative proved, and excep-
tions given thereto removed-What obstructions persons called may lay in their
own way to justification-The iniquity of imposing conditions and supposals on the
purposes of God not in the least intimated by himself-The whole acknowledged
design of the apostle everted by the interposition of cases and conditions by Mr G.
-Mr G.'s first attempt to prove the decrees of God to be conditional considered-
1 Sam. ii. 30 to that end produced-1 Sam. ii. 30 farther considered, and its unsuit-
ableness to illustrate Rom. viii. 28-31 proved-Interpretation of Scripture by com-
paring of places agreeing neither in design, word, nor matter, rejected-The places
insisted on proved not to be parallel by sundry particular instances-Some observa-
tions from the words rejected-What act of God intended in these words to Eli, “I
said indeed"-No purpose or decree of God in them declared-Any such purpose
as to the house of Eli by sundry arguments disproved--No purpose of God in the
words insisted on farther manifested-They are expressive of the promise or law
concerning the priesthood, Num. xxv. 11-13, more especially relating unto Exod.
xxviii. 43, xxix. 9-The import of that promise, law, or statute, cleared-The example
of Jonah's preaching, and God's commands to Abraham and Pharaoh-The universal
disproportion between the texts compared by Mr G., both as to matter and expres-
sion, farther manifested-Instances or cases of Saul and Paul to prove conditional
purposes in God considered-Conditional purposes argued from conditional threat-
enings--The weakness of that argument-The nature of divine threatenings-What
will of God, or what of the will of God, is declared by them-No proportion between
eternal purposes and temporal threatenings-The issue of the vindication of our ar-
gument from the foregoing exceptions-Mr G.'s endeavour to maintain his exposition
of the place under consideration-The text perverted-Several evasions of Mr G.
from the force of this argument considered-His arguments to prove no certain or
infallible connection between calling, justification, and glorification, weighed and
answered-His first, from the scope of the chapter and the use of exhortations-The
question begged-His second, from examples of persons called and not justified-
The question argued begged-No proof insisted on but the interposition of his own
hypothesis-How we are called irresistibly, and in what sense-Whether bars of
wickedness and unbelief may be laid in the way of God's effectual call-Mr G.'s
demur to another consideration of the text removed-The argument in hand freed
from other objections and concluded-Jer. xxxi. 3 explained and improved, for the
confirmation of the truth under demonstration-2 Tim. ii. 19 opened, and the truth