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A61367	Salvation by Jesus Christ alone ... agreeable to the rules of reason and the laws of justice ... : to which is added a short inquiry into the state of those men in a future life who never heard of Jesus Christ ... / by Tho. Staynoe.	Staynoe, Thomas, d. 1708.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5353; ESTC R12475	186,900	402

the State of the Jewish Nation then when they were led Captive to Babylon yet it may for all that have a farther Prospect to their utter Extirpation when their whole Nation was rooted up after our Saviour's Crucifixion And then as God punished the Amorites the Moabites those of Mount Seir the Edomites the Philistins the Tyrians the Sidonians the Egyptians the Assyrians for their Cruelties to the Jews See Ezek. chap. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. and afterwards the Romans for theirs All which Nations and perhaps some others the Romans excepted are summed up under the Name of Gog and Magog in the Thirty eighth and Thirty ninth Chapters So the Destruction of those who were seduced under the Second Resurrection may be there described Allegorically by the Destruction of Gog and Magog That is the Destruction of those who shall then reject the Saviour and oppose his People after he is tendred to them upon the second Resurrection may because of the Parity of the Case be accounted for in such Terms in which the Enemies of the Jewish Church the Type of the Christian Church are recorded to have been destroyed by the Prophecies of the Old Testament Gog and Magog then in the Twentieth of Revelations are those People of the Second Resurrection who having been seduced by Satan to refuse and oppose the Saviour and them who dying in him rose first are for such their Refusal and Opposition destroyed by the Vengeance of Heaven So much for the Second Resurrection But before we quite leave it I must remark That the Reasons why there are not in the Scriptures any more express Revelations of a future Probation of those upon their Resurrection who knew nothing of a Saviour in this World seem to be these Two 1. Because their Resurrection and Probation upon such Resurrection neither does nor can concern those who have the Scriptures For by those Scriptures they may come to the Knowledge of the Saviour in this Life which is as much as concerns them And 2. Had this Resurrection and Probation been put into the Scriptures yet those who had not those Scriptures in this Life could for that Reason have known nothing of the Matter in this Life and so as to them as well as to the others it had been put into the Scriptures in vain But yet when the Account which the Scriptures give us of God's Dealing with Mankind draws towards a Conclusion that is when it comes to that Period where their Case ends who have in this Life had the Revelation of a Saviour and where their Case begins who shall have such Revelation after their Resurrection I say when the Scriptures do come to that Point they do by the Account that they then give us of the thousand Years of the City of the Saints of Gog and Magog c. compared with some other Texts give us some duskie Glimpses of such an Oeconomy and Proceeding 3. The Third and Last Resurrection is accounted for in the Eleventh and following Verses to the end of the Chapter In which we have an Account of the Last Judgment by the Description of the great White Throne and him that sat upon it c. And this Resurrection I take to be only the Resurrection of Gog and Magog and of all others who had refused the Saviour in this Life as Gog and Magog did after their Resurrection 1. For first The Faithful in this Life were raised in the Fourth Verse and died no more All then that were raised at the first Resurrection I take to be one Part of those who were written in the Book of Life For tho' the Description of those raised in the Fourth Verse may not seem and is not thought by some to extend to all the Faithful in this Life but only to Martyrs Yet because several other Texts do assure us that the Dead in Christ shall rise first therefore by the warrant of those Texts in conjunction with the Fourth Verse I do extend the first Resurrection to all who believed in this World Besides They who did not receive the Mark of the Beast nor of his Image in the Fourth Verse and they that did I say this Division does include all Believers and Unbelievers in this World And it is notorious that so it does through the whole Account that this Book of the Revelations gives us of the Beast and his Followers and of those who refused the Mark of the Beast 2. And we have already surmised That some of those who are raised by the Second Resurrection shall believe and be saved and that too before the great White Throne is set And indeed it is not to be thought that the Saviour should be made known to them unless some of them were to have received and believed in him And therefore I do entirely exclude both these Sorts of Believers that is in other Words I do exclude all who shall be saved out of this Third and last Resurrection And he who shall well weigh and consider the Account that is given of the Great Judgment mentioned in the Eleventh and following Verses will I believe be satisfied that it is only the Judgment passed upon Unbelievers For as the Books that were opened are mentioned as distinct from the Book of Life so it is expresly said that they were judged out of the Books If therefore the Book of Life did contain in it all that were saved as most notoriously so it did for besides the Import of the Phrase the Text tells us that whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire ver 15. Then those who were judged out of the Books distinct from the Book of Life can only be the Unbelievers and the Reprobate The third and last Resurrection therefore does only belong to such From which I would remark That God is slow in the Execution as of other his Judgments so more notoriously in this his last and heavy Judgment because we find that he has assigned the very last Place to this among all his Dealings with the Children of Men. FINIS

use of at that Time by the most celebrated Laws but also in Consideration of our Saviour's Purchase I say when we find Things so and that too in the Book of God wrote professedly on this Subject does it become us to think that the Holy Ghost the Indicter of these Things did only word himself at random Or ought we not rather to think that in so doing he had a Regard to those Legal Ways of Conveyances which were established by Man's Reason and Sense of Justice in those Laws which were then most current in the World We cannot I am sure we cannot rationally think so For why are we told that we are bought with a Price Why are we told that our Saviour purchased us with his Blood Why are we told that we are redeemed not with corruptible Things as Silver and Gold but with the precious Blood of Christ but that our Redemption and Salvation did as to the Justice and Equity of it answer to those Legal Ways of transferring of Rights from Man to Man For our Redemption was purchased by our Saviour so it is expresly worded and by him therefore conveyed and made over to us because otherwise it could in no Sense be called our Redemption Indeed a Purchase does in the very import of the Word imply the Acquisition of a Thing in a Legal way and by so doing does in the Nature of the Thing imply also a Legal Power of making over such Thing to another For he can only legally sell or otherwise give or convey who has a Legal Right in the Thing sold given or conveyed And he can only legally purchase who pays a Legal Price When therefore the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures does so word the Manner of God's bestowing and our receiving Salvation in and by our Saviour as to do it in such Terms which were at that time Terms of the most celebrated Law next to his own that ever yet was or perhaps ever will be in the World and when he does so frequently and almost constantly it would become us to believe and think that he designed and that too even by his manner of expressing the Thing to insinuate to us that the Salvation he all along speaks of was bestowed in a way of Conveyance at that time familiar among Mankind in such a way as was established both by their own Laws and by their own Practice in such a way that their best Reason granted to them by himself had set on foot And that upon this Account his way of doing it so as is by him expressed and that too all along in that very Book where he affords us the Discoveries of it is just equitable and legal I do but run over these Things and in a manner glance at them because I rather design to give an Hint to others more able so to do than to pursue them my self For if a Man well-studied in the Civil Law a Law that will weigh with Mankind so long as good and sound Reason has a free Passage in the World But I say would such a Man so throughly acquaint himself with the New-Covenant the Covenant of Grace in Jesus Christ as to be able exactly to compare it with that Law which is the Business of his Profession I do not at all question but that such a Comparison judiciously managed would go a great way in removing those Doubts which have been started by People of all Parties concerning Man's Redemption And because several Learned Men I know are very well versed in both those Laws I do the rather hope that God will put it into the Heart of some of them to bless the World with such a Christian and beneficial Piece of Learning But this by the by In the mean time from what has been said in short we may learn thus much That the Salvation of Man is the Purchase of the Son of God that the Benefit at least of such Purchase is by the Purchaser made over to Man that in Consideration of that Intimate Union that is between him and Man by his taking upon him the same Flesh and Blood with Man and by affording to Man the Communications of his Spirit a Way is opened as for the more congruous and equitable Way of such Conveyanee on the one Side so on the other Side for the more congruous and equitable Way of Man's entring upon the Possession of such Purchase and that when the whole Thing is strictly sifted and examined it will be found to be agreeable to the just and equitable Rules of Law as well as to the express and plain Revelations of the Gospel But I desist Only I would offer an Inference or two that may relate to our Practice before I do so 1. And first If God spared not his own Son when he had put himself into the Place of Sinners we may from thence conclude that neither will he spare us when we our selves are Sinners and that too by our own default For besides that he was and was so proclaimed by God himself his only Son in whom he was well pleased I say besides that the Generosity Charity and Candor of such an Undertaking as our Saviour's was by which he shewed more Tenderness to others than to himself may be thought to be a very considerable Motive even to Justice it self so far as is possible to remit to him a great deal of that Rigour and Severity which Sin does deserve And then if notwithstanding such his Undertaking yet he was fain to pay the uttermost Farthing that is to die how can we hope to escape if we the Original and therefore also the Principal Sinners come under the Severity of so exact a Justice We may be sure that the Portion of Vengeance allotted to us in such a Case will not be less severe For if God so treated his Beloved because interposing Son how do we think he will treat avowed and professed Rebels Or as our Saviour himself speaks in the like Case If these things are done in the green Tree what shall be done in the dry 2. And as this Consideration may serve us for Caution so the next that is the second may serve us for Consolation And I shall give it in the Words of the Apostle in the Eighth to the Romans ver 32. He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all Things For his delivering up his Son for our sakes to become Man to lead an hard and uncomfortable Life and to die a miserable and scandalous Death that both by his Life and Death he might work out our Salvation is such an exalted Evidence of God's Love to us that Imagination it self can hardly conceive that any thing can extinguish it but our Ingratitude for it And our Natural Reason and Common Sense may easily instruct us that he whosoever he be that is ready and willing and that too even to Performance to do us the