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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41001	Universal redemption offered in Jesus Christ in opposition to that pernicious and destructive doctrine of election and reprobation of persons from everlasting. By Jane Fearon.	Fearon, Jane, 1654 or 5-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing F576A; ESTC R218275	16,377	57

say they is the World of Believers For this Commentary they have nothing but their own Assertion and so while it manifestly destroys the Text may be justly rejected And if J.W. be in this Mind as I suppose he is by what I heard him speak let him shew me if he can in all the Scripture where the whole World is taken for Believers only But I shall shew him where it is taken for quite the contrary as The World knows Me not the World receives Me not I am not of this World besides many other Scriptures as Mat. 18.7 Joh. 7.7 8.26.12 19.14.17.15.18 19. 17 15 18 16.17.24.18 and many more Secondly The Apostle in this very place distinguisheth the World from the Saints thus And not for ours only but for the Sins of the whole World What means the Apostle here by ours Is not that the Sins of Believers Was he not one of those Believers And was not this an Universal Epistle written to all the Saints that then were so except he can make it appear the Apostle meant another thing than he spoke CHRIST is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World He saith Run Sinners then to CHRIST without Delay If they belong to the Decree of Reprobation what will it avail them to run What will avail their Prayers Cries or Tears or Concern for their Souls or walking humbly in GOD's sight According to that destructive Doctrine they may as well sit still and do nothing Would not this Doctrine give way to all Looseness and Profanity For if it was decreed from Eternity they were of the Elect there is no regard to Works Good or Bad contrary to that Scripture where it 's said Behold I come quickly and my Reward is with me to give to every Man according as his Works shall be I am not speaking of Works wrought in our own fallen Nature which we by our own strength have wrought our own Legal Performances and therefore may be truly and properly called ours whatever specious Appearances they may seem to have but by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy GHOST seeing Regeneration is a Work comprehensive of many good Works even of all those called the Fruits of the SPIRIT Doth he not contradict Himself when he saith The worst of Sinners they may be welcome to JESUS on him their Souls to rest when before he was but for a certain Number If he or any of his Opinion can groundedly tell that they are of that Elect Number that CHRIST hath died for if they be such as belong to the Election of Grace otherwise they may as well sit still and do nothing So one while this another while that such mingled Doctrine But how should it be otherwise when there 's so little Zeal for GOD among those he calls his own People as he confesses in his last Verse But CHRIT tells us what 's the cause When Iniquity shall abound the Love of many shall wax cold When love to something else gets more room in the Heart than the LORD JESUS such render themselves unworthy of Him according to His own Saying He that loves Father or Mother Wife or Children c. more than Me is not worthy of Me. What I have before written is not out of a Prejudiced Mind or the least Tincture of Enmity or Hatred to the Persons of any neither durst I forbear for the fear of procuring the Ill Will or Hatred of any For GOD hath not given us the Spirit of Fear but of Love and of a sound Mind who is my Witness who knows it's all my desire that Zion may shine and Jerusalem may become the Praise of the whole Earth and that GOD would enlarge the Borders of his Sanctuary and his Dominion may be from Sea to Sea and many may be the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the very Entrance into whose Gates are Praises and Blessed are they that do His Commandments which and not Grievous but Joyous And such have Right to the Tree of Life and enters in through the Gates into the City the New Jerusalem where Thanksgiving Honour and Glory with Worship and Obedience is Returned to Him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and for evermore Amen the 26th of the first Month 1698. I am a Well-Wisher to the Souls of all People JANE FEARON The End

vers 7. where it is said Let the Wicked forsake his way and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts and let him return unto the LORD and he will have Mercy upon him and to our GOD and He will abundantly pardon Whereby it may be plainly understood although the Covenant be sure on GOD's Part yet the Failure is on Mans Part in not Abiding in this holy Covenant and in dis-regarding and slighting that Law or Light GOD hath appointed for a Teacher for a Guide and for a Leader which would lead into all Truth Holiness and Purity without which No Acceptance with GOD. And furthermore The Apostle speaking of the Excellency of this Law saith The Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the Flesh GOD sending His own SON in the likeness of sinful Flesh and for Sin condemned Sin in the Flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit And as he delighted in the Law of GOD after the Inward Man and could speak of the Efficacy of it and the Sufficiency thereof so it may be observed the great Benefit he received through minding this Law and believing in it was that it set him free from the Law of Sin and Death it was that whereby he was translated out of the Power and Kingdom of Satan into the Power and Kingdom of the Dear SON of GOD who is sufficient for all that believe on him For GOD sent not his SON into the World to condemn the World but that the World through Him might be saved John 3.17 as they believe on Him Otherways according to his own Saying If ye believe not that I am He ye shall die in your Sins and whither I go thither ye cannot come John 12.46 47. Who saith again And if any Man hear my Words and believe not I Judge him not for I came not to Judge the World but to Save the World So it appears that the Love of GOD is held out to All that All might have been or may be saved by CHRIST But alas it proved the misery of the Jews who were of that Stock of whom CHRIST came according to the Flesh GOD's Peculiar People whom he had chosen above all the Families of the Earth to fall short through Unbelief and because they Believed Him not they did not Receive Him but they that Believed Him Received Him And as many as Received Him to them He gave Power to become the Sons of GOD John 1.12 13. So here may be plainly seen Unbelief was the Cause wherefore the Jews came short of the Benefit that GOD is bestowing upon such who do not only believe that CHRIST our LORD came in that prepared Body to do the Will of His FATHER to be offered up once for all but also believing on Him as He is come the second time without Sin unto Salvation waiting for His Inward Appearance by His Light and Grace in their Hearts and Souls that thereby they may know the Great Work of Regeneration with out which they cannot see the Kingdom of GOD nor doubtless enter into it So it may be observed the Fault is on Mans Part and not by an Eternal and Absolute Decree as some assert Again It is said in Rev. 3. 20. Behold I stand at the Door and Knock IF ANT MAN hear my Voice and open the Door I will come in and sup with him and he with Me. And blessed are they that hearken to the Inspeaking Voice of the Son of GOD who is Undoubtedly knocking at the Door of every Mans heart during the day of his Visitation in order to reclaim him from the Evil of his ways and to cleanse his Heart from all Iniquity that so he may be United or Married to the Lamb. But and if Man will not hear His Voice nor hearken the LORD will certainly be clear of his Blood and his Destruction will be upon his own Head And again It may be read in Rev. 22. 17. And the Spirit and the Bride faith Come and let him that heareth say Come and let him that is athirst Come and WHOSOEVER will let him take of the Water of Life freely Mark WHOSOEVER so there is None Excluded And according to the saying of our LORD John 4. 14. But WHOSOEVER drinketh of the Water that I shall give him shall never Thirst but the Water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of Water springing up unto Everlasting Life O the Benefit of it and the Joy of it unto such who know the springing up thereof is that which cannot be Demonstrated as it is Felt and Witnessed There is much Assurance of Peace It springs up to Everlasting Life There 's no Thirsting after any other Refreshment to the Soul but that which proceeds from the Spirit For this spake He of the Spirit that such should receive who believed on Him O what pity it is that poor Mankind should deprive themselves of such Great Blessings such Unutterable Kindness such Great Favour such Joy as to draw Water out of the Well of Salvation in themselves by falling short through Unbelief as did the Jews For because of Unbelief they were broken off Behold therefore the Goodness and Severity of GOD On them which fell Severity but towards thee Goodness if thou continue in his Goodness otherwise thou shalt also be cut off Rom. 11.22 And again I am not ashamed of the Gospel it is the Power of GOD unto Salvation unto every one that believeth But he that believeth not excludes himself from the Benefit of this Gospel-Power Moreover it is said Prov. 1. 20. Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her Voice in the Streets she crieth in the chief Places of Concourse in the openings of the Gates in the City she uttereth her Words saying How long ye Simple ones will ye love Simplicity and the Scorners delight in their scorning and Fools hate Knowledge Turn you at my Reproof Behold I will pour out my Spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my Hand and no Man regarded but ye have set at nought all my Counsel and would have none of my Reproof I also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh Here may be seen the Love of GOD without respect of Persons when He is calling to the Scorners to the Simple and to Fools As likewise in Acts 10.34 where the Apostle Peter saith Of a Truth I perceive that GOD is no Respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth Him and worketh Righteousness is Accepted with Him So he makes the Fear of GOD and the working of Righteousness the Qualifications Such then that have this are Accepted where-ever they be But Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of Man that