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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54651	Calling and election, or, Many are called, but few are chosen being a consideration of Mat. 22.14 / by Charles Phelpes.	Phelpes, Charles.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1973; ESTC R31116	95,202	218

in that Consideration simply were counted for the Seed but in Isaac should His Seed be Called namely such as are born of the Promise in Christ by the Gospel which no man is till he hath been once Born John 3. 3 5 7. For the confirming which he brings in this Instance also of Jacob and Esau the former a Type of Christ and those who believe through Grace the latter of the Law-workers as hath been said Rom. 9. 6. 11. And this also further appears to be the meaning of the place in Ver. 30 31 32 33. where the Apostle sums up briefly and clearly what he had said more largely and darkly What say we then viz. in what he had forespoken from Ver. 6. to this place the Answer to which Question followeth viz. That the Gentiles which followed not after Righteousness have attained to Righteousness even the Righteousness which is of Faith But Israel which followed after the Law of Righteousness hath not attained to the Law of Righteousness Wherefore Because they sought it not by Faith but as it were by the Works of the Law For they stumbled at that stumbling Stone c. See Mr. Thomas Moor senior in his Explicite Declaration of the Testimony pag. 321. 353. 376. And Mr. John Horn in his Essays pag. 36 37 And in Reviewer Reviewed pag. 88 92 99. c. Thus far we have indeavoured to shew That by Election is not meant an absolute Decree of God respecting some mens Persons in a personal Consideration nor are God's Elect and Chosen oncs the Subjects of such a purpose Now we add further 2. Nor are the Elect here spoken of such as are called simply as that doth signifie the Act of the Caller For God may Call and thus men may be Called to the most High and yet not so Exalt Him as to come unto Him Has 11. 7. God may Call and men refuse Prov. 1. 24. So much is signified in the Words that it is more and a further Business to be Chosen then to be Called Many are Called but few are Chosen Though a man cannot be Chosen but he must be Called I speak of such as are come to years of Capacity yet he may be Called and not Chosen Yea we may read the words as others do Many are the Called In some sense namely the Call may have some Prevalency upon men so as they may Credit the Report of the Testimony of Christ and come amongst and be reckoned as Members of God's People and make some right acknowledgment and profession of the Faith and yet not be Chosen Not every one that saith unto Christ Lord Lord either by way of Confession or Supplication shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of Christ's Father which is in Heaven Mat. 7. 21. Men may be so far prevailed with by the Call as to desire to have Christ's Name on them and be Hearers of the Word and make a Trade of Hearing they may seek Him daily and frequently tread His Courts and use His Ordinances and yet not be Chosen in this peculiar sense we speak of Isa 4. 1. and 48. 1 2. Jam. 1. 22 24. The man that had not on the Wedding Garment was not Chosen and yet the Call had such Prevalency upon him as that he was gathered thereby into the House or Church of Christ and was there when Christ found him Mat. 22. 10 12. And this is good to be considered also by us that we deceive not our selves For we are apt to think that if we have been Baptized into the Name of Christ and read the Scriptures and frequent the Assemblies of Gods People whether publickly only or also privately and are perswaded of the Goodness and Truth of that Reported in the Gospel and in some sort receive His Grace and profess to know God that we are certainly in a good and happy estate and condition when as notwithstanding all this though we be in these respects of the Called we may not be Chosen Men may be Baptized and yet be in the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity Acts 8. 13 23. Men may be Hearers of the Word and no Doers and so deceive their own selves Jam. 1. 22. Men may Believe in vain and receive the Grace of God in vain 1 Cor. 15. 2. 2 Cor. 6. 1. Men may profess to know God and yet in Works deny Him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good Work reprobate Tit. 1. 16. Oh therefore Let none of us deceive our selves in thinking our selves to be something when we are nothing But let every one of us prove and approve his own Work and then he shall have his rejoycing in himself alone and not in another Gal. 6. 3 4. Let every one of us so receive the Grace of God to purpose that we may be not only of the Called but of the Chosen ones also And this leadeth us to the Affirmative Answer to the Question before propounded having spoken so largely to the Negative to shew who are not the Chosen viz. 2. The Election here spoken of is a being severed or gathered out of the World in which men at first are out of the State Principles Ways and Works of the World into Christ Jesus And so the Elect are such as for the Excellency of the Knowledg of Christ do suffer the loss of all things and count them but dung that they may win Christ and be found in Him Phil. 3. 4 9. 10. Such they are who are the Called according to purpose such as so Answer the Call and End of God in Calling them as that they come unto and walk in Christ Jesus and after His Spirit Consider and compare Rom. 8. 28. with Ver. 33 34. and Ver. 1. The Elect or Chosen are such as come unto Christ and so come as that they forsake all that they have for His sake that they may have this Pearl of great Price So it appears in this Parable plainly The Kings Oxen and Fatlings being killed and all things ready he sends forth his Servants first of all to the First-bidden Guests to call them saying Come unto the Marriage namely to Christ and that Provision in Him as is before shewn These were Called but not Chosen they came not to Christ that they might have Life But instead thereof they made light of the Marriage and Marriage-feast and Invitation thereto And came not but went their ways one to his Farm another to his Merchandise and the Remnant took His Servants and intreated them spitefully and slew them But when the King heard He was wroth c. because they were not Chosen They did not so highly value Christ as to prefer Him before the things of this World and come unto Him though they were thus Called Mat. 22. 2 4 8 14. The King then sends forth His Servants unto the Gentiles to Invite them to come to the Marriage and to gather them into the House which accordingly they do And