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A10800	An exposition vpon the hundred and thirtie Psalme Gathered out of some of the ancient fathers and later writers. / By Alexander Roberts Bachelour in Diuinity, and preacher of the word of God at Kings Linne in Norfolke..	Roberts, Alexander, d. 1620.	1610 (1610)	STC 21073; ESTC S112040	93,874	109

Scriptures for they beare witnesse of Christ and in them we thinke to haue euerlasting life Ioh. 5. 39. This point is fully handled by a Lib. 2. de Gratia de ciuitate Dei lib. 18. cap. 47. c. S. Austen and the sounder b Aquinas in 3. Lectura ad caput decimum Epist ad Rom. Schoolemen Thirdly here is confuted the opinion of humane merits If any suppose to make a step to heauen by them we may answere as Constantine c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Socrates lib. hist Ecclesiast 1. cap. 10. did to Acesius a Bishop of the Nouatians Set to the ladder and climbe vp alone For woe to the best life if it be censured in iustice Therefore the Saints pray Enter not into Iudgement with thy seruants O Lord and confesse for no flesh is righteous in thy sight Psal 143. 2 for our workes be prebrum and pudor shame and reproch and our righteousnesse consisteth not in perfection of holynesse but pardon of sinnes therefore blessed is the man whose wickednesse is forgiuen c. Rom. 4. 6. For when we were dead in our sinnes and trespasses and by nature the children of wrath God rich in mercy according to his great loue wherewith he loued vs euen when we were dead by sinnes hath he quickned vs and raysed vs vp together and made vs to sit together in the heauenly places with Christ Iesus that he might shew in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace through his kindnesse toward vs in Christ for by grace are yee saued through faith not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes least any man should boast d Aliâs non esset salus munus largientis sed merces operantis Ambrosius de vocat Gent. lib. 1. cap. 5. himselfe Ephes 2. 1. 2. 3. c. Nostra merita Christi misericordiae we must make as Bernard e Sermone 43. super Cantica saith was his vse pro aceruo meritorum fasciculum ex amaritudinibus Christi for a heape of our merits a bundle of Christs sufferings and lay them betweene our breasts for by his bloud he hath purchased vs to be a people peculiar to himselfe Tit. 2. 14. Wherefore blessed be God euen the father of our Lord Iesus Christ who hath blessed vs in all spirituall blessings in heauenly thinges in him c. by whom we haue redemption through his blood euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes according to his rich grace Ephes 1. 3. 7. 8. And he shall redeeme Israel from all his iniquities Of the Authour of this redemption we haue heard Now the subiect redeemed is Israel that is the number of the faithfull to whom this benefit doth belong Hereof it necessarily followeth that Christ hath payed vnto Doctrine his Father the price for the sinnes of man The vertue whereof albeit in respect of the merit and power be infinite and so sufficient for the redeeming of ten thousand worlds if there were so many yet in respect of the counsaile of God and the euent is effectuall only vnto Israel to the Elect. And in appeareth thus First for whom the sonne of God did not pray for them he did not offer himselfe These two can not be seuered parts of his Sacerdotall office but he prayed only for the Elect and for them offered him selfe and reconciled them to the father Iohn 17. 9. 19. Ephes 5. 25. Therefore to them alone not to others doth saluation appertayne which hee hath purchased Secondly if it be true that he payed the ransome and dyed for all indifferently and effectually then should not his death be beneficiall to them for whom he dyed For it doth not profit the reprobate who shall be punished with eternall perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2. Thes 1. 9. whose doome is pronounced by Christ Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuill and his Angels Math. 25. 41. Thirdly put this as graunted that all men none excepted before and after that Christ dyed be through his bloud truly and vndoubtedly receiued into the fauour of God Then hereof wil follow many dangerous consequents which doe ouerthrow the groundes of Christian religion For then no originall sinne nor guilt thereof the whole off-spring of Turks Infidels and Pagans should be borne in fauour and acceptance with God and those saued who are not in the couenant of grace But the Scripture teacheth vs that by the offence of one the fault came vpon all to condemnation Rom. 5. 18. and are by nature the children of wrath Ephes 2. 3. taken aliue of the Diuell to doe his will 2. Tim. 2. 26. already condemned because they beleeue not in the name of the only begotten sonne of God Ioh. 3. 18. Aliants from the common wealth of Israel strangers from the couenants of promise and haue no hope c. Ephes 2. 12. Therefore all and only the faithfull are partakers of the fruits and benefits of Christs death and resurrection of free iustification with God of quickning from the death of sinne and the body and at the last of immortall life and endlesse glory For these alone heare the word of Christ and beleeue Ioh. 10. 28. are iustified by faith are reconciled to God and haue peace through our Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 5. 1. are regenerate by the holy Ghost are raysed vp to a new life in Chist and haue their hearts purified by faith Rom. 6. 4. Acts 15. 9. And lastly these be they who sleeping in the Lord Iesus God shall rayse from death and bring with him that they may enioy life and glory eternally in heauen 1. Thes 4. 14. Math. 25. 31. Ioh. 3. 16. Secondly this is that truth which the Ancient Fathers haue taught and constantly professed So Chrysostome f In 9. caput Epist ad Hebraeos homilia 17. expounding that of the Apostle Hebr. 9. 28. Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many propoundeth the question Why of many not of all and answereth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because all beleeued not If thou doest not beleeue Christ did not descend Christ did not suffer for thee As Ambrose g Lib. 4. de fide ad Gratianum cap. 1. instructeth the Emperour Gratian. The authour of life gaue himselfe to death for the life of the Elect. Gregory h Pro electorum vila vsque ad mortem tradidit se author vitae Homil 2. in Ezechielem so teacheth the people Infinite are the authorities of Augustine but that of all other is most pregnant where handling that demonstratiue proofe of the free and inestimable mercy of God i Tractatu 45. in Euangelium Iohannis towards vs. Rom. 8. 32. in that he spared not his owne sonne but gaue him for vs all demaundeth which all and satisfieth his owne doubt Euen for vs whom he hath soreknowne whom he hath predestinate whom he hath iustified whom he hath