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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44489	The best exercise for Christians in the worst times in order to their security against prophaness and apostacy : good and useful to be consider'd ... / proposed to consideration by J.H. ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1671 (1671)	Wing H2793; ESTC R34470	179,378	328

THE BEST EXERCISE FOR CHRISTIANS In the worst Times In order to their Security against Prophaness and Apostacy Good and useful to be consider'd and improv'd by all the Lovers of God and Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ for their direction and preservation in these times of the overspreading of Iniquity and Transgression from the too great Deluge of Errors and Impieties threatning our destruction Proposed to Consideration By J. H. an unworthy Servant of God in the Gospel of his Son Mal. 3.14 15 16 17. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and a book of remembrance was written before the Lord for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man that spareth his own Son that serves him London Printed for Thomas Passenger at the sign of the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1671. TO THE READER Christian Reader REad I pray thee also with candor and consideration this Epistle for as it informs thee something about this Treatise so it also supplies some defect in it and contains something useful to be considered The ensuing Treatise was first in its substance the matter of some of my more private Exercises some years since which being copied out upon the desire of one who I wish may be as diligent to peruse and make good use of it as I was for his helpfulness ready to copy it and afterward viewed by some of my friends met with so good respect as induced me to make it publick that others also might have benefit by it To which I was the rather willing because it proposes and excites to such exercise as is good and needful at all times for all that think of Heaven and desire the enjoyment of God and Christ and being in the way thereto would not fail thereof through the temptations befalling them in the world But especially in evil and perillous times wherein such temptations most abound What is there more behoveful for us then or can afford like safety and satisfying to us as Gods love towards us and therefore what should be so much endeavoured after by us as to obtain that and having obtained it secure it to our selves Indeed there is a general and universal love of God herein also mentioned in and through the gift of Christ the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world extended to all men wherewith God prevents all our endeavours and under which all men are during the day of his grace and patience and which men need not in a sort endeavour for it being attested in the Scripture absolutely for and towards all without proposing any condition for attaining it expressed in such sayings as these that God sent his Son the Saviour of the world Gave him to be the Propitiation for our sins That Christ came into the world to save sinners Dyed for all and is risen again Bare our sins in his own body on the tree That God hath made him Lord of all and prepared a feast in him for all people Isa 25.6 and the like These have no condition proposed for our being included in them for its never said God sent him for us or Christ dyed for us if we believe or repent nor is it said he came to save sinners if they believe and repent But without that if It is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners That he dyed for us while yet without strength ungodly and sinners not suspending it upon our believing and repenting As if in case we believe not he dyed not for us or came not to save us For though it is true that there is a salvation and that the main end of his coming that we cannot have except we repent and believe yet the end of his coming is not to be confounded with the event and effect He came to save Israel out of Egypt and to bring them into Canaan generally yet many of them perished by the way Exod. 6.8 with Numb 26.64 and were not eventually brought in thither So Christ came to call sinners not if they will repent but to repentance or that they might repent That was the end of his coming and calling not the condition of it and such an end as is oft not answered in the event witness Prov. 1.23 24. Isa 50.2 66.4 where he complains that when he called they refused and answered not Besides that there are acts of his saving in which he hath saved and doth save us before we can be capable of coming to him for salvation or of repenting and believing The very foundation of Repentance and Faith towards God lies in those principles of the Doctrine of Christ or Word of his beginning in which he is asserted to have died for all and to be risen again Which had he not first done for us so as to have ransomed us from under the first judgment and from the power and jurisdiction of Satan as he would otherwise have exercised the power of death over us had he not in that respect destroyed him and made peace for us yea and did he not save us by upholding and preserving us and prevent us with his calls and grace bringing salvation to us we could be in no capacity of repenting believing and being further saved by him In such sense he hath partly saved us by his death before his calling us having abolished death 2 Tim. 1.9 10. and partly is saving us through his mediation during the time of his calling us yea before our obeying him yea and whether we obey his call or not Rom. 2.4 5. his long-suffering being to be accounted salvation 2 Pet. 3.15 and so he is the Saviour of all men and not onely of them that believe or upon condition of believing The feast is prepared for men in which is all fulness of Grace and Eternal life given us in Christ 1 John 5.11 whether men come to him for it and receive him and it in and with him and the invitation prevents mens coming to it and is given and is to be given whether men come or not whether they will heare or whether they will forbear It is not said nor ordered to the servants to say Go tell them if they will come I have prepared my dinner c. but absolutely Go tell them I have prepared my dinner my Oxen and fatlings are slain and all things are ready come to the Wedding This is to be and is by Wisdom and her Maidens said to the simple and persons without understanding Mat. 22.4 Prov. 9.3 4. And they who here go with an If or condition in their mouthes as to these things they do not their message rightly they keep not the wholesome form of sound words used in the Scriptures they let not men see certainly that Grace and love of God which