Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	law_n	prerogative_n	3,673	5	10.4433	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69684	The doctrine of particular unconditionate election (before time) asserted and prov'd by God's word against the Quakers, papists, and Arminians : in answer to a challenge given the author (by the Quakers) to make good (by the Scriptures of truth) the abovesaid doctrine ... / by Ja. Barry.	Barry, James, fl. 1650-1702.	1700 (1700)	Wing B969A; ESTC R27208	49,035	128

refusing to receive and submit to the contrary Doctrine which is according to the Scriptures and the only Doctrine which designs the Destruction of Sin in the Hearts and Lives of true Believers and the Promoter of true Holiness God most Justly punisheth such People with a giving them up not only to believe the most Nonsensical Lyes for true Religion but even to wallow like Swine in the Mire of the grossest Immoralities even to an excelling the very Pagan World To illustrate the point I am now defending against the Quakers and Arminians viz. That God in Electing some and Reprobating others doth Act therein most freely as an absolute Soveraign Let them give me leave to put this Question to their Reason and Conscience such as it is suppose that all the several Parties in the City who differ in their Mode or Way of Worshipping God should in their respective Meetings instead of Worshipping God lay all their Heads Hearts and Hands together to contrive and carry on a Plot against the King and the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom with a full intent to destroy both the one and the other to which Plot all the several Parties do as one Man harmoniously and unanimously agree the Law condemns not only the Practice as Traiterous and Treasonable but Sentences the very Persons all and singular who are prov'd to have had any hand in such a Plot to a shameful and cruel Death The Plot comes to be Discovered upon Discovery the King who hath the Executive Power of the Law in his own hand he considers the matter and finding that all these several Parties whom he took to be Loyal Subjects are turned Rebels as most evidently appears by the unnatural Plot lately engaged in by them all against both his Person and Government for which both he and they know full well the Law condemns them all alike The King to whom the Executive Power of the Law belongs according to his Prerogative he Nominates two Select Parties out of all the rest viz. Quakers and Arminians to whom he resolves to extend his Favour in giving to them his Royal Pardon the other several Parties distinct from them he resolves to leave them to the Sentence of the Law to undergo the deserved Penalty thereof for that horrid and unnatural Rebellion I would fain know what the Quakers and Arminians could object against the King of England for passing an Act of Indemnity or Free Pardon on the People called Quakers and Arminians and leaving all the other Parties to suffer Death Seeing that herein the King Acts by Prerogative not according to Desert for the Quakers and Arminians deserved Death as well as the rest who are excluded out of the Pardon My reason tells me that the Quakers and Arminians would be so far from charging the King with Injustice or Partiality that they would rather sound forth his Praise for saying them by his Favour and Mercy no way deserved whom in strictness of Justice he might have left to the Sentence of the Law And in case any of the Criminals condemned to Die should offer to murmur against the King for making such a Difference between his equally guilty Subjects would not the Quaker and the Arminian both Plead the Kings Prerogative for saving themselves when at the same time and by the same Soveraignty he past by the rest and shall the King of Kings be Disputed against and Reflected on for Acting in matters of the like nature by his own undoubted Prerogative If any should be so saucy and bold as to demand a reason why or wherefore the King of England should leave seven or eight several Parties out of his Royal Pardon and extend the Benefit thereof only to two Select Parties who were both as liable to Death by the Law as the others the Answer is ready it is the Kings Soveraign Will and Pleasure to make the two Select Parties Nominated in his Pardon Objects of his Pity and Mercy and the rest to be the Objects of his incensed Justice to undergo that Death and Misery which they by Rebeilion brought upon themselves Now in all this hath not the Potter power over the Clay of the same lump to make one Vessel to Honour and another to Dishonour Rom. 9.21 Reader I pray consider that the lump in the place now quoted intends no other than Men and Women whom God the absolute Soveraign of the World Decreed to Create The making Vessels is Gods Creating Mankind with a purpose to permit their Fall His making one Vessel to Honour and the other to Dishonour is Gods Creating one with a sixed purpose to recover him out of that fallen State into which he was to fall and that by Soveraign Grace the other he leaves to Die and Perish in that wretched State into which he of his own default fell In this Procedure God is altogether free neither can the Creature so left by God any way reflect on God as dealing unjustly or unequally with him and the reason is because God is under no Tye or Obligation to give Grace to that Creature who of his own accord did abuse and throw away that stock of Grace whereby he was rendred capable of keeping the Law of his Maker and who by the Instinct of his vitiated and corrupted Nature doth obstinately oppose and resist the means of Cure propounded and tendred in the Gospel So that the point in Controversy between me and the Adversaries already Named is in this comparison propounded in the Verse last quoted lively set forth from which it is apparent that the design of the Apostle is to prove that God as the undoubted Soveraign of the World who Acts what him pleaseth and that according to the Counsel of his own most Holy Will decreed to make some of the corrupted Mass to be Vessels of Mercy and of the rest Vessels of Wrath and that by Electing some unto himself upon whom he purposed to bestow his Love with all the means tending to fit and prepare those Persons so Elected and Chosen for the actual enjoyment of that Love Such as a Redeemer to Die for them Faith whereby they should be made Partakers of that Redeemer with all the saving Graces of the Spirit promised in the Covenant of Grace with final perseverance in Grace to the end the rest as hath been before observed he left or passed over purposing to leave them in that wretched and deplorable Condition into which they causelesly plung'd themselves Neither is God therefore the cause why the Reprobate is Sinful and Wicked but his own Will which being left to its own natural freedom did most freely and readily choose that which was by Gods Law forbidden upon pain of Gods Displeasure and Curse The second Property in Gods Act of Election is its unchangeableness and therefore most certain it is that he or she whom God hath once purposed to Love and Save shall never finally or totally fall away from Grace or miscarry eternally Psal 33.11 The