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A87005	Syons redemption, and original sin vindicated: wherein are these particulars largely handled and discovered. I. That sprinkling of water in the name of the father, son and Holy Ghost is not baptism, ... II Infants not the subjects appointed by God to be baptized, ... III That the second death was never threatned to be inflicted upon Adam ... IV A clear and large discourse as touching Gods decree, of election and reprobation. V A large exposition upon the ninth chapter to the Romanes, ... VI A brief disproof of the unlawfulness of the paying or receving of tithes, ... VII The ordination of the national ministery examined and disproved. VIII The answer of objections against the Jews return out of their captivity ... IX A clear discovery of the glorious effects (or that which will be effected) under the sound of the seventh trumpet. X A full discovery of Judah and Israels glory to be enjoyed in their own land, ... Published for the instruction and comfort of all that wait for the appearing of the Lord Jesus and Zions redemption. Being an answer to a book of Mr. Hezekiah Holland, sometimes preacher in Sutton-Valence in Kent. By George Hammon pastor to the Church of Christ, meeting in Biddenden in Kent.	Hammon, George.	1658 (1658)	Wing H504; Thomason E958_1; ESTC R207642	184,723	213

repent and there is a sort of men that cannot or more properly a time when a sort of men cannot repent First There is a time when all men may repent if they withstand not the work of grace and there is a time when they cannot repent All men may repent if they have not withstood the day of grace because they are given up or shut up to condemnation And first to prove that there is a time wherein all may repent the wch I thus prove If God hath commanded to do no man more than he hath given him ability to do and yet command all men every where to repent upon pain of eternall destruction then God hath given every man ability so as they may repent if they withstand not the time of grace but God hath commanded no man to do more than he hath given him ability to do and yet hath commanded all men every where to repent upon pain of eternall destruct on That God doth command all men to repent is plain from there Scripturs Ezek. 14 6 18 30. Mat. 11.20 Luke 13.3 Act. 1.30 Rom. 2 4. 2 Pet 3.9 Ergo God hath given every man ability to repent this argument is naden●ble because I hope no sober man will dare to say that God commandeth men upon pain of eternal death to do that which he hath not given them ability to do and yet destroyeth them because they do not that which he never meant they should do when he commanded them to do it nor gave them ability Sirs look about you how do you abuse the A●ribu●e of Gods mercy sincerity uprightnesse and faithfulnesse the Lord will meet with you ere long and overth o● you he hath a controvercy to trye with you for laying the main cause of all the murder fornicatron and thest and drookenness upon his neglect in not giving the creature ability to do otherwise We as much ability to stand as Adam had Adam did sin so soon as he was tempted and we sin not before we be tempted thereunto But you will say they lost their ability in Adam Sir I tell you nay for the Scripture saith no such thing and also I pray resolve this question How Adam came to loose his ability that he withstood not the temptation in Paradice or had not God given him ability or did God intend he should eat and so fall when he forewarned him not to eat For I find that Adam had no more power to stand in Paradice than the sons of men have now for Adam did sin so soon as he was tempted thereunto and we sin not before temptation But you will say there is lust or desire in us to do evill It is true when by the temptation of Sathan set before us or suggested in us and so there was a desire in our first Parents to the fruit when it was by temptation represented unto them for as faith the Text it was fair to look on and desirable to make one wise and so forth● So it will appear there was lust or desire in our first Parents to the fruit before they eat it I could thorough the strength of God say more to this and the Argument before mentioned than you will be able to answer before you go to Ireland or after you come there but I spare you and passe to the second thing which is to shew there is a sort of persons that cannot repent or more properly as I have said there is a time when persons cannot repent the which I shall shew and also when the time is or the cause why they cannot repent There is a day of grace exhibited to the sons of men First That there is a time that men are so given up to a reprobate sense hat they cannot repent is clear from Heb. 6.4 5 6 and Rom. 1.24 and 1 Iohn 5.15 16. so that if Daniel Noah and Iob should pray for them they could not have such repentance to do them good but I need not trouble my self to prove this because it is your assertion But I shall shew the time or cause of this their deplorable condition and shall excuse Adam of this evill that is it came not by sin committed in him but by their own personall sins but to the cause and time of this hardnesse of heart and the time is when they have withstood the day of grace and so shall prove some had a day of grace and have out or The Spirit of God hath strived with such as are lost to repent that they might be saved withstood it and that there was a day of grace to the old world see these two places of Scripture Gen. 6 1 2 3 4. and 1 Pet. 3.19 20. Secondly that Israel had a day of grace in which they might have attained everlasting peace see Luk. 19.42 Matth. 23.37 And thirdly that the Spirit of God striveth with such to fasten grace and mercy on them that never do receive it Prov. 1.22 23 24. And fourthly the very cause why there is such a time when men cannot repent is because they do refuse grace and repentance when God offereth it for the Lord did strive by his Spirit to reclaim Israel from their sinnes that he might not cast them away and shut them up in unbelief but they refused to hearken and pulled away their shoulden Zach. 7.8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Iob. 21.12 13. Prov. 1.22 23 24 25 26 27 Esa 66.3 4 5. ch 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone least they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of Host sent in his Spirit by the former Prophets and said to God depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy laws THEREFORE 〈◊〉 a great wrath from the Lord of Host THEREFORE it came to passe as he cryed and they would not hear so they cryed and I would not hear saith the Lord of Host for that they have hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord. From whence we may see there are some that although they do reprint and cry to the Lord in their 〈◊〉 it will be to no purpose the Lord will laugh at their calamity and mock when there fear cometh from these and much more that I could instance you may see the cause and time of an hardened heart that is when a soul hath means of grace and maketh not use of it but walketh in his old sinnes and is not reclaimed at last the Lord giveth them up to hardness of heart and clappeth an oath upon their head that they shall never enter into his rest Heb 3.11 now what use may we make of this even to prise opportunity of grace and not to put the evill day far from us and so fould our arms in security untill misery cometh upon us as an armed man for assuredly when

secret will never intends they should do as first he commanded Pharoah to let Israel go and secondly commanded Abraham to offer up Isaac and did not intend they should do it Answer And to the first that is God did command Pharaoh to let Israel go and yet did not intend he should let them go To which I say God did intend that Pharoah should let them go although God knew that Pharoah at the first would not let them go but Gods fore knowledge that men will do evill is not the cause that they do evil God knew that Cain would stay Abel yet he was not the cause of his so doing But you will say that God hardened Pharoahs heart Answ So he might justly do as I shall shew the cause in the exposition of the Ninth of the Romans if the Lord please but that is not our question but our question is Whether God did intend Pharoah should let Israel go we argue no● the case whether he should have let them go-sooner or later but singly thus whether Pharoah should let Israel go the which I do affi●me that God did intend that Pharaoh should let Israel go and the Lord said that he knew that he would let them go although not at the first as you may see Exod. 3.19 20. and if Pharoah had let them go at the first be had not sinned in so doing yet it pleased God to shew to Moses that he would harden his heart bee use he had hardened himself against him so that Israel must not expect to go presently and yet the Lord sheweth Moses that he would so weary him with his signes that he would make him willing to let Israel go at the last these two things observe First That God intended when he had tryed Pharoah by his signes that he should let Israel go God did not harden Pharoahs heart on purpose to keep Israel from going but because Pharoah had slited the Lord in saying who is the Lord I will not obey his voice and let you go that therefore the Lord did harden Pharoah when first Pharoah had hardened The Scripture saith that Pharoah hardened his heart against the Lord. himself that he might know that the Lord was stronger than he I might spend much time in running thorow the causes of things but of that anon And Secondly take notice this was not Gods secret will namely in appointing Pharoah not to let Israel go when he had commanded him to let them go but it was his revealed will made known to Mosis and Aaron and in the next place I come to examine the matter as touching Gods commanding of Abrahams offering up Isaac and so shall p●ss from this particular to the second Argument I shall be very brief saying that in a sense as beforesaid Abraham did offer up Isaac and also this is not a secret thing because the Scripture saith it was but to try Abraham as I have before proved therefore I pass to the third Argument the second you grant to be true And the third is If Adam in his best condition as he stood in Paradice before the fall were but an earthly Adam In his best estate was but an earthly man man and all his enjoyments earthly then he could loose no more then what he had to loose which was but earthly but Adam in his best condition was and enjoyed but as beforesaid Ergo all that he lost was but earthly enjoyments Your answer seems very weak in my opinion which is say you All sinned in Adam to condemnation or damnation and hence Insants by nature are children of wrath or otherwise say you what is meant by the Hebrew Text in dying thou shalt dye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the which is guilt or cause of punishment or judgment the which may be taken for the first or second death as the Scripture offereth it unto us ndifferently To which I answer and first to the first which is All sinned in Adam say you to condemnation it is very true that for Adams sin all men were condemned for saith God Dust thou art and to dust thou shall return meaning not only Adam but all his Lines and therefore it is appointed once for men to dye for we must needs dye and be like water spilt upon the ground and as I have said the word condemnation will not help you because there is the very same in Luke 23.40 and yet it is only a temporal death and so I am come to the next thing which is That Infants say you are children of wrath by nature If you mean they are children of wrath as in respect to outward punishment we differ not because Gods Justice must be satisfied for God thereupon to inflict it if he sinned but he did sin therefore it must of necessity be punished otherwise Justice not satisfied because there was no Repentance given or required as in reference to that sin but if you suppose that Infants be children of wrath as in respect of punishment to the second Death we much differ and I will give you seven years time to prove it in which time prove it if you can And whereas you ask me what is meant by the Hebrew word in dying thou shalt dye I answer as beforesaid that so soon as Adam had eaten he was in a dying condition and so are all men dying untill they be dead so that in the midst of life we are in death continuing not in one stay and so I come to examime what you say to my fifth Argument which is That opinion which in the extent of it will make the Devil to speak true and God to lye is anabsurd blasphemous opinion but such is the opinion that saith that the Death that God threatned to Adam was the second Death and yet that second Death not inflicted for that sin on Adam and all his Lines so he saith God speaketh falsely and the Devil truth Ergo that opinion an obhor'd blasphemous opinion but the minor is false as you say for say you Although God threatned Adam with eternal death yet he lyed not in inflicting it because his threatens was to dehort Adam from sin not his peremptory resolution but as to Hezekiah and Niniveh To which I answer you have said nothing at all to prove my minor false for as I have said that God did say that if Adam did eat he should dye and that eternally say you but the Devill said that he should not dye viz eternally but Adam did eat now if Adam and his Lines did nor so dye a● God said they should viz eternally as you say then who it was that spake true God or the Devill I leave the Reader to judge God said they should dye but the Devil said they should not surely dye All men did dye the first death or shall be changed which is as death as God did say and so its plain that

had a purpose about them before they were born was it to love him on hate him Answer Because I shall give forth the Exposition of this Chapter in its particular order I shall give a short answer to the question here and the answer is thus Israel stood much upon a fleshly account as I shall show you more at large in the discourse of the Chapter and pleaded their birth-priviledges very much and God did purpose both by Ishmael and Isaac and Esau and Jacob to take them off from that fond conceit and therefore as he purposed not to choose heirs to the heavenly Canaan by a fleshly discent or eldership according to the flesh so he purposed to discover it by these Esau and Ishmaels casting off sheweth the casting away of Israel and grafting the Gentiles in their place to type to wit Ishmael and Esau who were the eldest and so by consequence heirs to that inheritance which was but a type of Heaven the which the Lord shewed by dispriviledging of them of that earthly land and promises and giving it to the younger that also fore-seeing Israels unworthiness he would take away the Kingdom to wit the Gospel which of right did belong unto them and was first preached unto them and give it to the younger brethren to wit the Gentiles and yet notwithstanding did bestow great inheritances upon them and hated neither of them but for their sins committed personally and so I pass to the next thing which is a question also that you ask How Malachy comes to quote that place of Gen 25. and Paul to quotē both Answer The very reason that Paul quoteth it is to prove the choice of the Gentiles as in Rom. 9.24 25 26 30 They being counted the younger people as Luke 15. And for the very same reason Malachy quoteth it and calleth it the burthen of the word of the Lord to Israel and sheweth them although Esau or Edom were the elder people yet for their sins the Lord cast them off and you Israel as if the Prophet should say who are accounted the eldest people to whom the service of God hath been committed yet you have broken it and done abomination before me and poluted my Ordinances and therefore as I was magnified upon Pharaoh and Edom by impoverishing them so will I be magnified by impoverishing you O house of Israel For I have no pleasure in you saith the Lord neither will accept an offering at your hands For from the rising of the Sun even to the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles Mat. 1 11 12. and in every place Incense shall be offered unto my Name and a pure offering For my Name shall be great among the Heathens saith the Lord of Hosts but ye have prophaned it c. From whence take notice the Apostle Paul quotes his saying As it is written Esau hated for his sins which he committed in time and not for Adams Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated For the very same cause that the Lord hated Israel and cast them out and calleth them the people of his wrath for the same cause he hated Esau And that he hated Esau for his sin and not before he was born see Amos 1.11 Obad. 6.9 10 11 15. How are the things of Esau sought out thy mighty men O Teman shall be dismayed to the end that every one of the mount of Esau might be cut off by slaughter for the violence against thy brother Jacob Shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off for ever Thou shouldest not have looked upon thy brother in the day that he became a stranger as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thy own head From whence we may see Esau was hated for his evil and not before he was born Again there is not one Text in the whole book of God that saith Esau was hated before he was born Rom. 9. saith no such thing As God respecteth not persons but looketh upon one man in misery as well as another with the eye of pity so he wanteth not ability to do them good Again If God did hate Esau before he was born then he must be a respector of persons for illustration take this comparison If two men were in misery and a third should redeem one out of his misery and leave the other in misery he must want ability or otherwise be a respector of persons the which neither of them is in God he is no respector of persons and to say he wanteth ability is Blasphemy but God hated not Esau before he was born but all that were lost by the first Adam was redeemed by the second otherwise the free gift was not so large as the transgression For as by the offence of one Judgement came upon all men to condemnation So by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men to justification of life So that if Christ did redeem but a part then there was but a part lost for so many as were made sinners by the first Adam so many were made righteous by the second Adam or otherwise Christs redemption was not as large as Adams transgression and then an imperfect Saviour the which to say were Blasphemy but the Scripture saith He tasted death for every man and a Sacrifice for the whole World and gave himself a ransome for all men and the like but it no where saith that he did not die for all or that he dyed for part of the world But you will Object Object and say That his bloud is said to be sh●d for many Answer All are not a few then they are many but no man can rationally conclude that Christ did not die for all from the Text that saith he dyed for many or this is the blood of the New Testament Sometimes the word many is to be understood all which is shed for many If they consider that all are not a few as aforesaid and if not a few then it must be many and you shall see that the word many in Scripture sometimes must be understood all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Daniel 12.1 2 3 4. Many of them that sleep in the dust shall arise some to Everlasting joy and some to Everlasting shame and contempt From 〈◊〉 if your sence be to be understood in the word many not to imply all in some places then at the general Resurrection when good and bad shall arise some to joy and some to shame all shall not rise onely some of both sorts and this is the manner of your reasoning from the word many but it cannot be proved that Esau was reprobated before he was born And although it be read in Romans the 9. That before the children w●re born or had done good or evil it was said uwo her the elder shall serve th● younger But in the 25. of Gen. it is not said children But two

From whence we may see that when God hath given any man his Spirit so as to qualifie him for the work of the Ministery and the Church Elected him for the same then according to the practice of the Church of Antioch and others also they ought to keep a day solemnly unto the Lord by fasting and prayer Act. 3.1 2 3. at which time the Eldership ought to lay their hands upon the person or persons so Elected and approved of as aforesaid and give them their charge in the presence of all the Congregation and this is Gods method and our practice in Ordaining of Ministers And again their charge is mainly to preach the Gospel instant in season and to study that they may divide the word of truth aright that their profiting may appear to all men that behold them and several other thing of this nature that might be added as matter of their charge but I shall passe both from this particular and this subject and come to the vindication of Zions Redemption Zions Redemption Redeemed IN the answer of this discourse viz. Zions Redemption your ignorance as I suppose is very much discovered As first say you The ten Tribes are threatned never to be a people more and Hose a tells us say you God will love them no more Isa 7.8 Hosea 9.15 16 17. God will cast them away and they shall be wanderers amongst the Nations and yet say you I believe there is hope of their call for they are elected and beloved page 31. To which I answer and say That although you know not the mystery of God in the prophets yet you might have learned to lay your contradictions farther asunder for say you in page the 29 that God saith by the Prophet Hosea He will love them no more and yet in your page 31. you say They are elected and a beloved people as in Rom. 11. Gould discover your ignorance at large but because time is precious I shall onely disprove what you say and not so much paraphrase on your words to shew the contradistions as possibly I might do if I had time But say you Israel shall not return again into their own land for God will love them no more Therefore it will be necessary for me to open your Text of Scripture cited by you and secondly to prove that God had an everlasting love to the house of Israel as in reference to the manifestation thereof in time And thirdly to prove that the ten Tribes viz. Israel shall return and also Judea into their own Land and these in their particular order And first to the first Isa 7.8 which is to open these two Texts of Scripture Hos 9.15 16.17 namely Isaiah and Hosea which saith the Prophet Isaiah 7.8 For the head of Syria is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Reazin and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people Ans To which I answer and say 2 King 17.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 That this Text is a Prophecy of Ephraims extirpation from being a Nation in their own Land so that Israel for their sins was to be carried away captive as was done according to Gods word as is recorded in the Book of the Kings yet not such caprives as that they never were to return For the very same Prophet that prophecies of their Captivity also prophecies of their return as you may read in the eleventh Chapter of his Prophecy saying And he shall set up an ensign for the Nations Isa 11 12 13 14 15. and shall assemble the out-cast of Israel and gather the di●persed of Judah from the four quarters of the earth and the envy of Ephraim shall depart and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off and the Lord shall utterly destroy●th tongue of the Aegyptian Sea and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the River viz Euphrates as Rev. 16 12 and shall smite it in the seven streams and make men go over dry-shod and there shall be an high-way for the Remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria like as it was to Israel in the day when that he came up out of the land of Aegypt From whence we may see that although Israel must be broken from being a Nation for a time yet there is a Remnant which spring from their loins which shall return again and enjoy their own Land But I shall passe at present to your next proof of Scripture which is the words of Hosea saying All their wickedness is in G●lgal Hos 9. for there I hated them for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house I will love them no more all their Princes are revolters my God shall cast them away because they did not hearken unto him and they shall be wanderers among the Nations From these words you conclude that they shall never return because the Prophet saith That he will love them no more but his God will cast them out and make them wanderers among the Nations In these words we may learn these two things First the prophets zeal for the Lord that he doth not onely pray to the Lord to bring judgements upon them Jers 14. as in the foregoing ver but also saith that he wil love them no more also saith he My God will cast them out and make them wanderers amongst the Nations And secondly he giveth the reason why he thus spake and that was saith he Because they did not hearken unto the Lord but were revolters from him Now let the Reader judge whether you understood what you printed for doth this Text imply that Israel shall never return because the Prophet saith That HE will love them no more But admit the Prophet speaks as in the person as we may say of God yet the reason why he would love them no more was because of their sins now if they had repented God could not but have loved them according to the property of his mercy Do you not know what is the property of the Attribute of Gods Mercy Did you never read what the Lord said unto Israel in the tenth Chapter of the Book of Judges Judg. 10.12 13 14 15 16. In these words Ye have for saken me and served other gods wherefore I will deliver you NO MORE Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation From whence we may see that God useth the word NO MORE in this place saying I will deliver you no more and also we see the cause was for their sins yet when they humbled themselves and said We have sinned do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee Judg. 12 32 33. deliver us only we pray thee this day and they put away their strange gods from among them and served the Lord and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel And