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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00544	A discouery of the abhominable delusions of those, who call themselues the Family of loue Wherein their false Christ, and false profession is plainely laide open; and all their grosse cauils cleerely confuted.		1622 (1622)	STC 10682; ESTC S118690	53,977	110

mercy the knowledge of the Gospell being reuealed to the world by his Son hee admonisheth all men euery where to repent euen you Athenians of your ignorant worship else as he had no regard in the time of your ignorance you continuing the same he will yet haue no regard of your ignorant Deuotion the like is said of Caines worship that God regarded it not Gen. 4.5 God hath so little regard of Ignorance that if his owne Commandements should be performed without knowledge Heb. 11.6 it were sinne For without Faith it is impossible to please God and whatsoeuer is not of Faith is sinne Rom. 14.23 the wages of sinne is Death This place therefore may be for confirmation of what is said to proue that God hath no regard of any ignorant worship whatsoeuer But their mayne obiection is from Cornelius in that he is called a Deuout man Act. 10. cap and one that feared God with all his Houshold which gaue much Almes to the people and prayed God continually a iust man of good report among all the Nation of the Iewes The holy Ghost saith of this man That his Prayers and his Almes were come vp in remembrance before God Therefore saith the Lord now send men to Ioppa and call for Symon whose surname is Peter hee shall speake wordes vnto thee whereby both thou and all thy House shall be saued This man say they was in the estate of saluation before euer Peters Doctrine came vnto him which if it were so it must bee by Faith in the promised seed Iesus Christ and then will make nothing for them where we can see a man or men in whom wee can behold asmuch good as in Cornelius wee will willingly say asmuch of him as of Cornelius But wil it therefore follow that such as liue in Idolatry and wilfully though ignorantly goe on in the same that such must be declared to bee in the estate of saluation Seeing the Lord hath so plentifully declared the contrary Can any such thing be said of Cornelius wee neither reade that he was an Idolater nor refused to receiue Christ Iesus when hee was offered Thus much Cornelius estate proueth That men that walke in no euill way but on the contrary haue many goodnesses in them God so remembreth and respecteth them that hee will not leaue them till he haue sent Peters Doctrine vnto them whereby they may be saued yea God respecteth any good in any as in Ahab 1. King 21.29 1. King 14.13 Ionah 3.10 Rom. 1.12 c. Ieroboams Sonne Niniuie yea in those that haue no more but the workes of God to teach them as euery reasonable Creature vnder Heauen hath that if they vse that well and glorifie God by that they haue he will not leaue them till he haue brought thē to Peters Doctrine whereby they may be faued Now that Cornelius although a iust man fearing God and his prayers had in remembrance with God was therefore in the estate of Saluation before Peters Doctrine came vnto him it may be questioned if not absolutely denyed for these reasons 1. Because the Lord saith Act. 11.14 Peter shall speake wordes vnto thee whereby both thou and thy House shall be saued If they were in the estate of saluation before to what end are these wordes spoken 2. It is said when Gods worke concerning Cornelius was declared vnto the Apostles and the rest of the Circumcision Vers 18 they glorified God saying Then hath God also to the Gentiles graunted repentance vnto life If they had life before what cause had they to glorifie God for granting it now by Peters Doctrine 3. Peter relating that God chose him that by his mouth the Gentiles Cornelius and the rest should heare the word of the Gospell and beleeue Act. 15.7.8.9 For saith hee God which knoweth the hearts bare them witnesse in giuing vnto them the Holy Ghost euen as vnto vs And hee put no difference betweene vs and them after that by Faith hee had purified their hearts Now this being so that by Peters Doctrine the ioyfull tidings was brought and they beleeued by which Faith their hearts were purified and then they were in the same estate with the faithfull who dare be so bolde notwithstanding all these manifest testimonies as to say Cornelius was in the estate of Saluation before any part of these came vnto him Those Iewes are said to feare God when as yet they had not repented of killing the Lord of Life The humiliation of Ahab and Neniuie Act. 2.5 came vp in remembrance with God as before is proued Act. 17.23 and 3.1 The blinde Athenians are said to bee Deuout and the vnbeleeuing Iewes kept a constant course in Prayer These be the best proofes they haue for a thing of so great consequence the iustifying of those whom God condemneth Saying vnto the wicked thou art righteous Ezek. 13.22 thereby strengthening their handes that they cannot returne from their wicked way by promising them life But wee hope the Godly wise will reject the euill and cleaue fast vnto what God hath so plentifully and plainely taught that Ignorance shall not excuse any that continue in wickednes For if ignorance would excuse men how happy were the Ignorant Or if one ignorant person that iustifieth himselfe in his wickedne might be saued why not two and so twenty and then where were the period to stay vs heere Where were our rule which Ignorant should bee saued and which not Or how could it be auoyded but all Ignorant persons must be saued how wicked soeuer if of ignorance The reasons for one if there were any would bee reasons for all ignorant persons whatsoeuer And for Conclusion of this thing they obiect That generall repentance will serue from Psal 19.12 Who can vnderstand his faults cleanse mee from secret faults To which wee answer If there be any Repentance generall or particuler we will not gaine-say it for we acknowledge the righteous doe offend oft in words and actions Mat. 18.22 which they know to be euill the particulers whereof are so many that they are not able to vnderstand them and therefore ought they to pray Cleanse me from secret faults that are hid from me for want of remembrance the particulers of which if they were of could be related they would particulerly repent of them But Idolaters that liue in Idolatry and take pleasure therein though of ignorance cannot bee brought within this compasse For let an Idolater who performeth any generall Repentance let him be asked whether hee intend to include in his Repentance his Idolatry which others know he liues in his answer will be no in no wise It is his Idoll which is his God or God-seruice which he accounteth one of the best actions that he doth For example Let one of the Family of Loue be asked one that is not yet deified for one that is deified cannot sinne and so needes no repentance let a youngling in the