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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50428	Sanctification by faith vindicated in a discourse on the seventh chapter of the epistle of St. Paul to the Romans : compared with the sixth and eighth chapters of the same epistle / written by Zachary Mayne ... to which is prefixt a preface by Mr. Rob. Burscough.	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.; Burscough, Robert, 1651-1709.	1693 (1693)	Wing M1487; ESTC R11086	85,470	62

of St. Paul † Rom. 7.18 In me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing seems inconsistent with those places where he says ‖ Gal. 2.20 I live 〈◊〉 yet not I but Christ liveth in me and where he informs us that the Spirit of God dwells * Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 3.16 in the Faithful and that their Bodies were the Temples † 1 Cor. 6.19 of the Holy Ghost And I do not see what Solution can be given of this Difficulty unless it be that as Origen * Meris est Scripturae Divinae personas latenter res causas de quibus dicere videtur nomina commutare into potius eisdem nominibus in aliis atque aliis rebus uti Orig. ubi supra tells us It is the manner of the Holy Scripture tacitly to change the Persons and Things and Causes and Names of which it seems to speak or rather to use the same Names in representing different Matters An Observation which being rightly understood may be of great and frequent use but it requires great caution and judgment in the application of it With Origen many others both Ancient and Modern Writers of great eminence concur in this Interpretation And amongst the last some of our own Nation especially have done excellently on this Subject But the Learned Author of this Treatise hath handled it more copiously than any that I have seen and as he hath in my opinion managed it with great strength of Reason so he hath carried on the whole Work with that Spirit of Piety and Charity for the good of Souls that I hope it may contribute something towards the Reformation of a degerate Age which abounds both with Hypocrisie and Prophaneness and calls for the helping Hands of those that are in a capacity to stem the Torrent of Iniquity This is what I thought fit to say by way of Preface and I add no more but my hearty Prayers That the Almighty who is of purer eyes than to behold sin would bless those Endeavours that are employ'd against it and in the vindication of Holiness and that he would so dispose the Hearts of all Men that the Disobedient may be turn'd to the Wisdom of the Just and that the Just may be justified * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 22.11 still that they that are in Error may be brought into the Light of Truth and they that have received the Light may walk worthy of it and give diligence to make their Calling and Election sure April 20. 1693. Robert Burscough THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IN my first Address to thee I make a solemn Profession That I serve no Party of Men neither can I see any worldly Interest that I can promote in the Writing of this Treatise but rather the contrary and if I had not hoped it might be of some use to the Publick I should not have troubled my self in the Composing nor thee in the Perusing of it and having said thus much I shall shew thee first the Occasion and then the Reasons of my Vndertaking The Occasion was this I have for these Thirty Years and more kept my Thoughts suspended in the Controversie of Election and Reprobation and the Liberty of Man's Will not without making Enquiry by Reading Discoursing and Meditating with all which I have joyned serious Prayer But I was very loath to determine my Thoughts without a clearness and evidence At last observing the Clashing that there was in Books and in the Pulpit by one against the other the Animosities and Feuds raised in the Parties the Intricacy of the Knots and the Abstruseness of the Discourses upon this Subject as they lye in Controversal Writers I thought the safest quietest and surest way was to endeavour to find out the Truth as it lay in the Scripture alone and by it self and to this end I taskt my self to commit to my Memory all the first Eleven Chapters of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in Greek for in the ninth and eleventh Chapters of that Epistle is the chief Seat of this Controversie and I was willing to learn all the Chapters before that so I might observe as warily and curiously as I could begging God's assistance how the Apostle made his Approaches to that great Mystery of Election and Reprobation which especially in the ninth Chapter hath been made the Rise and Occasion of dreadful Disputes for that I did not question but this wise Master-builder did raise this high and lofty Superstructure of his ninth and eleventh Chapters upon a sure Basis and though I know that an Epistle may contain distinct Subjects that may have no great if any connexion and dependance yet it is very obvious to any Observer that the most disputative and argumentative part of the ninth Chapter hath a clear relation to and connexion with the third and fourth Chapters foregoing wherein the Apostle is proving Justification by Faith Rom. 9.30 31 32. What shall we say then that the Gentiles which followed not after Righteousness have attained to Righteousness even the Righteousness which is of Faith But Israel which followed after the Law of Righteousness hath not attained to the Law of Righteousness Wherefore Because they sought it not by Faith but as it were by the Works of the Law And this was the reason of their reprobation So that the Election of the Gentiles and some few Jews was really grounded upon their cleaving to the way of the Promise and Faith whereas the reprobation of the Jews was as I have said from the contrary reason And accordingly Dr. Hammond concludes his Paraphrase upon the ninth Chapter with these words The Sum then of this whole Chapter will be reduced to these five Heads 1. The Priviledges of the Jews and among them especially Christ's being born of that stock 2. That those of them which resisted and believed not in Christ were delivered up to obduration by God and the Gentiles taken in their stead 3. That 't was most just with God to deal thus with them 4. That some of the Jews at that time believed in Christ 5. That the cause that the rest believed not was that after a Pharisaical manner they sought Justification by the Works of the Law Circumcision c. despising the Faith and Doctrine of Christ and that Evangelical way of Justification and so stumbling at the Christian Doctrine which they should have believed were the worse for him and the preaching of the Apostles by whom they should have been so much the better And I bless God in about half a Year's time I picked up so many spare Hours as in which I obtained what I designed the getting by heart those eleven Chapters and have repeated them often exactly and in the getting of them and at last my ninth and eleventh I have attained a very comfortable Satisfaction in the Controversie about Election and Reprobation and do not at all repent any Hour's time spent in the endeavour with relation to