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A46755	Two treatises the first concerning Gods certaine performance of his conditional promises, as touching the elect, or, A treatise of Gods most free and powerfull grace, lately published without the authours privitie, and printed corruptly, by the name and title of Solid comfort for sound Christians : the second, concerning the extent of Christs death and love, now added to the former : with an additionall thereunto : both of them preached at New-Castle upon Tine ... / by Robert Ienison ...	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing J565; ESTC R2256	76,502	298

who in particular were predestinated to goe into everlas●ing fire with the devill It would as little pray for them though yet living on earth as it doth for him 2 God so farre wills the salvation of all 2 By giving men so much grace as to leave them faulty if they answer it not that hee seriously exhorts sinners to repent and accordingly in his Gospell gives them so much grace knowledge and good motions and so far enables them thereunto that there is a true fault in them that repent not that is there is either contempt or neglect of the Gospell and so indeed besides their other sinnes a new fault against the Gospell whence their condemnation becomes the greater and the condition of such as never heard of Christ more tolerable at the day of judgement then theirs Math. 11.21 22 23.24 Therefore besides that God gave men power sufficient in Adam to doe what he requires and that men have disabled themselves to doe that which hee otherwise hath right to require I say God upon the forenamed groūd may seriously invite all exhort all require of them that which hee gives them so much grace to performe that it is out of their owne deficiency if they performe it not withall may punish them justly for not doing it their perishing is of thēselves Man is never punished but for his owne sinne Onely God gives not that powerfull grace to them as hee is not bound by which as depending on his election infallibly they might convert Here is then the mystery Christs merits are availeable to all beleevers Though God invite all and promise life to all upon the condition of faith and that promise be grounded as is granted upon the merits of Christs death yet the fruit of Christs death doth actually belong only to such as beleeve The price paid for all and which shall certainely bee to the salvation of beleevers yet profits not all But to beleeve is not g●ven to all because faith is not given to all as not the meanes of faith but to the Elect onely We therefore preach and teach that Christ dyed for all How Christ dyed for all men so as that all and each may by the vertue of Christs death through faith the Gospell once comming to them may I say obtaine remission of sin and life and so Christs death hath purchased a possibility of salvation for all men if all men can beleeve But wee say againe that Christ so dyed for the Elect that How only for the Elect. by vertue of the merit of his death which was specially intended for them according to Gods eternall decree they not onely might but should infallibly attaine faith here and obtaine life eternall hereafter and that without any cōpulsion of their wills Hence it comes to passe though the particularitie of Gods promises be objected as an odious doctrine and comfortlesse that the promises of the Gospell are of two sorts Gerhard ●●●pri G●ds promises distingu●sbed 1. Conditionall which are m●●e gene●●l 1. Conditionall and of the end which is salvation requiring faith and repentance and so Gods promises are generall and hee seriously invites all and mocks none who performe the condition 2 Absolute which are particular 2. Absolute and of the Meanes whereby as he absolutely and without condition required of us promised Christ himselfe Gen. 3.15 so also both the outward and also inward effectuall Meanes as the working of faith writing his Lawes in our hearts Ier. 31.33.34 and 32.40 putting his feare in our hearts that wee depart not from him c. Which as they depend not on any condition in man but only on Gods free absolute and immutable decree so doe they particularly and specially belong to the Elect and not to all Let any shew me a promise in Scripture whereby God hath promised to give faith universally to all without exception But who these in particular are the effects of Gods eternall love manifested in time on and in them doe and will shew and declare An Additionall Shewing the true state of the aforesaid question mistaken by the opposer and the truth further strengthned by the same arguments s● the Doctrine of our Church and of Scripture 〈◊〉 which it was o●pose ●●with the best way of ●econciling see●●ing contrarieties and ●●●trudicti●●s of S●●ptu●● in the ●oint of Gods free grace and mans Free-will THe former Doctrin● co●cerning the extent of Christs Death though seemingly opposed yet was but lightly hurt seeing the true state of the question as it was handled was not so much as touched That which the opposer undertooke to prove on the Text Arminian grounds for their universall Redemption Rom. 4.25 was That Christ died for the sinnes of all and each Which he would prove 1. from the Doctrine of our Church or from some passages out of the Common Prayer Booke Homilies and Articles 2. From the Scripture shewing that it teacheth that Christ died 1. For the World Iohn 3.16 17. 1 Ioh. 2 2. 2. For all men Esay 53.6 Tim. 2 6. Heb. 2.9 3. For ●uch 1. as might h●ve perished Rom. 14.15 1 Cor. 3.11 2. as do Perish 2 Pet. 2. 1. Heb. 6.6 With Lutheran answeres to that interpretation which we give of these places Now I The true state of the question Christ died not with like intention to save all Which is shewed whose purpose was and is to defend my selfe and the Doctrine taught by me and as it was taught by mee doe avow that in all this the state of the question is mistaken which was not and is not Whether Christ died for al men and each but whether for all alike and out of equall love and a like intention of saving all Therefore to the proofs brought and alledged I thinke good only to answer by opposing like yea much stronger proofs both from our Churches Doctrine but especially from the Scriptures The chiefe difficulty will be in reconciling of the seeming differences 1. Our Church 1 To be the doctrine of our Church which sheweth Christ died for his servants and people Te Deum as it tells us of Christs full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sinnes of the whole World so it tells us also for whom more specially he died and whom he redeemed Wee pray thee helpe thy servants whom thou host redeemed with thy most pretious bloud and O Lord save thy people What people not all and make thy chosen people joy full But what people is that not every people or person alike Thou hast multiplied the Nation and not increased the Ioy. Esay 9.3 According to the double expression of the promise made to Abraham Gen. 22.17 I will multiply thy seed ●s the Starres of the Heaven by which may at least by allusion But believers be meant the children of Abrahams faith the elect and as the sand which is upon the Seashore The darke sands are