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Sect. 3. Answer to three Objections more.
Object. 3. BUt if the actual enjoyment of this benefit be limited to the Elect, then I am still where I was; for I know not any thing concerning mine election. If you can make it sure to me, that God hath not cast me out by an eternal Decree, but hath appointed me to salvation, then I shall have some courage in the using of any means, and taking any pains for attaining that end: But if I be none of that number, then I have nothing to do with Redemption, and all my labour of beleeving and repenting, and doing good will be lost, and I shall runne in vain.
Answ. 1. I grant it to be an undeniable truth, that whatsoever we do, whether we run, or sit still, we shall all in conclusion bee found such (as to our everlasting estates) as God hath decreed we shall be.
But then 2. Hence to infer, that it is no matter what a man doth, or how he walks, is a wicked and dangerous conclusion; for the Decreee of Predestination, hath made a ne∣cessary connexion, betwixt the means, and the end; but that godless inference, breaks this golden chain all to peeces. To live in ignorance, security, unbeleef, disobedience is the ready way to hell, and consequently a fearful mark of Reprobation. To neglect