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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56727	A brief vindication of free grace ... relating to several positions asserted by M. John Goodwin in his late book entituled, Redemption redeem'd, and in his former treatise of justification : delivered in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at Pauls, May 30, 1652 / by John Pawson ...	Pawson, John, 1619 or 20-1654?	1652 (1652)	Wing P880; ESTC R13411	24,080	30

A Brief VINDICATION OF Free Grace Indeavouring to prove 1. That we are not elected as holy but that we should be holy and that Election is not of kindes but persons 2. That Christ did not by his death intend to save all men and touching those whom he intended to save that he did not dy for them only if they would believe but that they might believe 3. That we are not justified properly by our believing in Christ but by our Christ believed in 4. That that which differences one man from another is not the improvement of a common ability restored through Christ to all men in general but a principle of grace wrought by the Spirit of God in the Elect. Relating to several Positions asserted by M. John Goodwin in his late Book entituled Redemption Redeem'd and in his former Treatise of Justification Delivered in a Sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at Pauls May 30. 1652. By John Pawson late Follow of S. John's Colledge in Cambridge and now Minister of the Gospel at Hemmingford Abbots in Huntingdon shire 1 COR. 15. 10. By the grace of God I am what I am LONDON Printed by Peter Cole and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Printing Press in Cornhill 1652. Kendrick Mayor Tuesday the 15. day of June 1652. IT is thought fit and so Ordered by this Court that M. John Pawson be desired to Print his Sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen on the thirtieth day of May last Sadler To the Right Honourable John Kendricke Lord Mayor His Honoured Uncle THOMAS ATKIN His honoured Friends John Dethicke and Robert Tychburne Aldermen of the City of London With the rest of the Court of Aldermen MY Intent in the ensuing Discourse is to contribute my Mite towards the vindicating of Free Grace in the Dedication to testifie my thankfulness to several of you for real courtesies to you all for ample expressions of undeserved respect towards me In both which I indeavour brevity esteeming many words but cumbersome when the mind may be delivered and received in few The sum of what I lately preached before you and now again at your call here present to you appears in the Title page which things I have breifly contended for as conceiving them truths once and again delivered to the Saints own'd through successive generations by the choycest of Saints The substance aad strength of what Arminius others with him have heretofore pleaded for the contary is now Englished by the Reverend Author of Redemption Redeem'd And therefore I have all along related to some material passages of his book without the least dishonourable reflection upon his person whom I really honour for piety parts and painfulness during many years past in the work of the Lord. Though we cannot meet in the acknowledgment of these points yet I hope to meet him in the bosome of Christ In the mean time it concerns you and us all who make mention of the Lord to pray out the performance of those promises which God hath made to these latter ages one whereof is this that he will turn to his people a pure language Zeph. 3. 9. they shall not speak a mixed language one one way and another quite contrary but shall all serve the Lord with one consent Till that fulness of time come there will be great running to and fro in the * Prophet's sense i e. great debating things to and Dan. 12. 4. fro even amongst the Saints which yet in this regard will be an advantage that hereby knowledge shall be increased Every considerable debate will either further draw out or cleare up some truth or other So that though the many and hot disputes of this age be in some respects trouble some to the people of God at present yet the Remnant of Israel in after time will inherit the benefit of them May your City be not only as old Tyre the 〈…〉 whose Merchants were Princes and Traffiquers the Honorable of the earth but as the new Ierusalem a holy City a City of righteousness a faithfull city the Citizens Saints and each family a household of God So prays Your Servant in Christ Jesus John Pawson A Brief VINDICATION OF Free Grace EPHES. 2. 5. By Grace ye are saved GOd's great design in setting up the World and disposing of the things in it was to manifest himself in all his Attributes In some things God is said to have manifested his wisdom Ps 104. 24. O Lord how manifold are thy Works In Wisdom hast thou made them all In some things God had regard to the manifesting of his Might and Soveraignty in severall Texts this and that sayes God I will do and you shall know that I am the Lord. Now as God hath made provision in his several Dispensations to manifest all his several Attributes one way or other so he hath contrived to carry on the work of our Salvation in such a way as might manifest his Mercy and Grace in a special manner And therefore it concerns us to be careful in all our thoughts and discourses to advance and keep up free Grace We should not nor need not throw down any other Attribute to advance this but yet we may safely in some sense advance this above any other 'T is an Attribute God himself seems to take exceeding pleasure in manifesting He is said to delight in shewing Mercy or Grace Beside 't is an Attribute that we are more beholding to then any other Attribute whatever The Wisdom and Power of God have a great hand in making of us but the Grace of God hath the greatest hand in saving of us By his Grace ye are saved Observ The whole business of our Salvation is carried on in a way of free Grace from first to last This God hath contriv'd on purpose that he might exclude Boasting that no flesh should glory in his presence but that he who Gloryeth should Glory in the Lord and say what have I that I have not received Heaven it self is a Donative and every step in the Ladder to Heaven is free Grace every Stone of our spiritual building every Beam of our day every Link in our chain of salvation is free grace There are four main links Election Redemption Justification and Regeneration which I name the last because the proper work of the Spirit I shall indeavour to shew that each of these is made out of free Grace 1. Election is made out of free grace Rom. 11. 5. we read of the election of grace i. e. such an election as grace makes an election of grace's making as Beza expounds it Grace elects and picks out this and that person * M. I. Goodwin Red. redeemed pag. 63. Election is of persons not of kinds of individuals not of Species's God elected such and such persons in particular not persons so and so qualified in general he elected Peter as Peter