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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

of that his Misery It is most plain and obvious to every enlightened Understanding that by the Tenure of the first Adam's Covenant all are Born Heirs of the Curse and Wrath of an offended God and are by reason of that Spiritual Impotency which is inflicted on Adam's Nature as a Punishment for breaking God's Law as altogether unable to believe in an Atoning Saviour when offered by God in the Gospel of his Grace as they are to perform the Condition of that Holy Law of God the Violation and Breach whereof hath Cast and Condemn'd at God's Barr the whole Race of Mankind Man's wretchedness and Misery then is of himself he can truly and justly blame none for it but himself Gen. 3.17 Eccles 7.29 Hos 13.9 This granted it unavoidably and by necessary consequence follows that God is most Just and Righteous in Sealing to the day of his Wrath with the black Character of Reprobation that part of Adam's Posterity on whom he hath fixedly resolved to Glorify that adoreable and tremendous Attribute of his incensed ●●stice for breaking his Just and Righteous Law And where is the Man who will undertake to prove God Unjust and Unrighteous in case he had dealt with the Elect themselves as he hath done with the Reprobates viz. Seal them up to the Judgment of the Great Day of his Wrath God is Debtor to none of Adam's Children unless to Damn and Forsake them for ever for their Devil-like Apostacy and Rebellion In this adoreable and tremendous Dispensation of his in Reprobating the greatest part of Mankind and electing to himself out of the failen and corrupted Mass some few of Mankind on whom he purposed to Glorify the Riches of his Grace through Christ his Son He acts towards both in a way of absolute Soveraignty so that as the Reprobates cannot say they have not merited that Curse and Misery which is like to be their Portion for ever so neither shall the Elect be ever able to attribute their Salvation to any other Cause besides the Soveraign free and rich Grace of God which had it pleased God might have sixt its hold on the Reprobates making them the Elect while they themselves were overlookt and passed by For my own part I must ingeniously confess that I am so far from reflecting on God as any way Unjust or Partial for dealing with Adam's Children as he doth that I am rather astonish'd to think that any of Adam's Apostate Off-spring should ever escape that Curse and Wrath to which they were all equally Born Heirs apparent Ephes 2.3 And were by nature the children of wrath even as others This this was the State and Condition of the Elect themselves as they are the natural Off-spring of Adam But the Banner of God's free Grace and undeserved Love and Pitty hath been by the Arm of Divine Soveraignty effectually displayed over them when in their Blood and Wretchedness even then when God first laid the Foundation of their Salvation in Election According to Ephes 1.4 5 6 7. and Ephes 2. to the 10. ver Well may every justified believer cry out with Paul Rom. 11.33 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh the depth of the Riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Judgments and his ways past finding out In this bottomless Profundity or Depth of God's Unsearchableness the Wit and corrupt Reason of Unregenerate Men with all their acquired Parts are swallowed up and confounded by reason whereof it comes to pass that many times such as are admired for their great Reason and Learning will not allow the Creator of the World that Priviledge which they readily grant to a Man like themselves viz. To decree or act any thing but what their blind Reason and perverted Judgment can see a Reason for it Oh what an Age do we live in wherein the Immensity and Unsearchableness of God is on every occasion of Mens disputing Principles of Religion called on to hold up the Hand at the Barr of those Mens Carnal Reason who indeed have lost the use of right Reason Of such Men I would gladly know whether they can with all their Mother Wit deckt and adorn'd with all their Academical Learning Fathom the depth of the Created Ocean or tell the exact number of the Stars and what Influence they have on Humane Bodies If they can tell how the Soul and Body of man are United Or how the Bones grow in the Womb of the Woman with Child With many other Secrets in Nature not only difficult but even Impossible to be found out by the Wit and Learning of Adam's Children Witness the many Learned Philosophers wherewith the World abounded whose Wit and Learning came vastly short in finding out and tracing the Almighty in his Works of Creation and Providence From whence I Argue A Minore ad Majus From the Lesser to the Greater If all the Mother Wit and acquired Parts and Learning of the Children of Adam could never find out many Secrets in the Works of Creation and Providence how much more impossible is it for them to find out the Almighty Creator himself to perfection The Query which Zophar the Naamathite put to Job will never be answered by any Creatures in Earth or Heaven any other way than in the Negative Job 11.7 Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection And from what Source or Fountain Mens Atheistical and Sawcy Reflections on God for making such a difference between Adam's Children in Saving but few in Comparison and Damning the rest should spring I cannot tell unless from their profound Ignorance of the Immense and Incomprehensible Perfection of God's Being and their not owning and believing his absolute Soveraignty over his Creatures I Appeal to the Conscience of every Savingly Englihtened Man who Reads this whether this wilful and affected Ignorance of God and their denying his absolute Soveraignty over his Creatures be not the very Portal or Door at which the horrid Profaneness and matchless Debaucheries of this worst of Ages which now lays the Kingdoms open to utter Ruine have entred the Stage This is that which the Devil and his busy Agents the Romish Jesuits aim'd at when in the late K. J. his Reign they obtained the King's Royal Prohibition forbidding Ministers both Non. and Con. to meddle in Preaching with the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation They well knew how Subservient the keeping the People Ignorant of the Doctrine of Election would be to open the Floodgates to Profaneness and Debauchery and consequently prepare England for a ready Reception of cursed and damning Popery The denying the Doctrine of God's Soveraignty in Electing and Reprobating Lapsed and Guilty Rebels and teaching and maintaining both in Pulpit and Print Freewill to good in Unregenerate Men as also the Doctrine of general Redemption is a Doctrine which is altogether Unscriptural and because of Mens Violence and Peremptoriness in Teaching and Propagating the same and their Obstinacy in