THE ETERNAL PLAN

ALL THE ETERNAL COUNCILS ORIGINALLY TERMINATE IN CHRIST, AND ALL DIVINE BLESSINGS RESIDE IN HIM AND DEVOLVE UPON HIS CHOSEN IN CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR UNION WITH HIM {Ephesians 3:11, Colossians1:19,27,28.} Therefore He says to His Father, “The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one” {John 17:22.} 

 

THUS, GOD IN HIS OWN IMMUTABLE SELF IS THE AUTHOR; CHRIST, IN THE AMPLITUDE OF HIS OWN PERFECTION IS THE OBJECT; AND ALL HIS LITTLE ONES, IN THE RIGHT OF INSEPARABLE UNION ARE JOINT HEIRS WITH HIM OF ALL THE BLESSINGS CONTAINED IN THE ELECTION OF GOD {Romans 8:17.} And as for those persons whom God has chosen in His beloved Son for His own inheritance, He blesses them in due time, “with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ;” so as they shall be perfectly qualified for that Felicity and exalted Station to which they are appointed. 

 

THEY ARE REDEEMED, JUSTIFIED AND PARDONED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, AND SO COMPLETELY ACQUITTED FROM ALL CONDEMNATION THAT NO SIN CAN BE LAID TO THEIR CHARGE {Romans 3:24, 8:33,34, Ephesians1:7, Colossians 1:14.} They are enlightened with heavenly light {John 8:12, 12:46, II Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 5:8.} They are spiritually united to Christ by faith and love, whereby they enjoy a communication of the fullness of His grace, so as they are transformed into His image {Ephesians 3:17, John 1:16, Colossians 3:10.} And they shall persevere in the Truth, growing in grace, “unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ” {John 10:28,29, Ephesians 4:13,24, I John 2:27.} THEY SHALL BE RAISED UP AT THE LAST DAY, BY CHRIST MIGHTY POWER, in His heavenly likeness {I Corinthians 13:10,12, 15:42-44,49, Philippians 3:21, I John 3:2.} 

 

AND THEY SHALL BE BLESSED IN HIS IMMEDIATE PRESENCE, FILLED WITH HIS INCONCEIVABLE LOVE, AND ELEVATED IN HIS GLORY, WORLD WITHOUT END {Psalm 16:11, 17:15, I Thessalonians 4:17, John 14:1-3, Revelation 21:2,3, 22:4,5.} THUS, ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PLAN, THE STRUCTURE IS RAISED TO PERFECTION IN THE HAND OF JEHOVAH. “He shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, GRACE, GRACE UNTO IT” {Zechariah 4:7.}
 

-preacher John Johnson (Election of God Undisguised, 1759 A.D.)

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