so it is absolutely distant from the thoughts of his heart, that a man should live to God and with God for ever, by an indul∣gence to the flesh in its lusts and affections, sensualities, and Vides nautarū ministeri is opus fuisse, ut divi∣na promissio adimpleretur. Granaten. delights. God appointed Paul and his company to escape ship∣wracke, but it was by swimming on boards and broken peeces of the ship. Act. 27. 24. Thus God hath appointed some to escape the wrath to come, but it is by faith and mortification, getting on the planck of repentance, swimming through by the strength of Christ, not drowning in the sea of the world. God appointed Noah to salvation from the worlds deluge, but it was by getting into the Arke. A Loose heart and life is no accommodation to execution of predestinating grace, but opposition. The eter∣nall,Predestinatio Dei multis est Cauta standi, nemini causa labendi. Aug. de Predestina∣tione Sancto∣rum.saving, discriminating Counsels of God, are to many the cause of their standing, to no chosen vessell the cause of their falling. The doctrine of absolute and free election rightly understood, powerfully revealed in the evidences of grace, well used, hinders no vessell of glory but helps him to heaven. They that can with∣out any Scripture warrant, any choise worke of the spirit, easily and presumptuously write their names in the book of life, and as the Israelites wantonly played about their golden Idol, so in a lascivious mirth are loose flesh-pleasers, and feast their Corrupti∣ons, will have a dreadfull demonstration after death in judg∣ment, and to eternitie, that their names were written in the black book of death, not the white of life. The most holy and righte∣ous Judge of the world will never say, Come yee blessed eternal∣ly prepared by a free choise to an heavenly kingdome, to those that lived and died in their indulged cursed natures and lives, but to those select happy ones, whose hearts were gloriously transformed, and conversation really fashioned after the Gospell pattern. O the sad confutation of them that build prophane liber∣tinisme on this firme and pure foundation, Predestinating grace, their pretended interest in it and pleasing conceits of it will va∣nish like a golden dreame: They will not rise as Elect but re∣probate; The Lord will say with hottest indignation against un∣reformed Carnall Gospellers, Goe yee cursed workers of ini∣quitie.0