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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96295	Mankinds jubilee, or, Good tidings of great joy for all people plainly discovered by Scripture texts ... shewing that there is a common salvation of all men ... / written by Christopher Wade, An. Dom 1658.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1658 (1658)	Wing W158A; ESTC R42984	102,952	125

men for them themselves to do or leave undone who will have by Christ in due season their wils and apprehensions freed as is by Scripture proved in my 6 and 7 Distinctions so that thereby they are inabled spiritually to heare and understand and feare and love and be obedient to the faith How far this tract discovereth what fallacious scholasticall shifts some erroneous Protestants are in many considerable Scripture points inforced to use by reason of their not being guided by the litterall sense of the plaine Texts of Scripture which doe unanimously confirm the common salvation or infranchisement of all men in the inward man in due season and that thereby some of them have and doe confirm that God did by decree by his absolute will and power only reprobate some part of mankinde without any respect by him had to their doing evill merely as Creatures without any cause done or fore-seen to be done on the creatures part Thus they charging God contrary to his own word with palpable tyrannicall partiality and respect of persons or else with some other Protestants that dare not stand to that horrid and hideous affirmation do say that God did not so tyrannically reprobate any man But they thinking to moderate the businesse yet by being deluded also by humane art do as fallaciously maintaine that God fore-knowing all men fallen into Adams sinning did only by preterition passe by some men so as decreedly they should not have any such means used with them whereby they might be inabled in their good use thereof to obtaine eternall life but that some men of Adams posterity must upon necessity eternally perish though it then could not be in their own actuall sinnes yet in those sins which unavoidably as a violent irresistible inundation overwhelmed them originally by another mans offence to which sins they never actually consented and to which transgressions they much lesse personally acted it being committed by Adam before they had a being or before they were born They by that means rendering our good God who is a faithfull Creator unfaithfully forsaking some men of Adams posterity even whilest they were as concerning their own personall consent or act innocent Creatures and also before they were after the fall inabled to depend on him and also before they had actually or personally forsaken him which tenent is proved by Scriptures to be absolutely false in my 16 and 17 Distinctions which preterition by them imagined if you doe but view the intrals of it you shall finde it to bee in effect no other than a disguised or masqued tyrannicall decreed reprobation for as hath been said he that hath power and doth keep from a man his sood of lively-hood may as really kill that man so as if he cut off his head with a sword How far this tract doth detect the error that is in the protestant tenent concerning Christs giving himselfe a ransome for all men by their affirming that Christ doth not effectually ransome any man except that man be eternally saved which fallacy is ripped open to view in my 2 6 and 7 Distinctions wherein is proved that Christ doth effectually ransome all men and save all men from the impossibility to be eternally saved that came over all by Adams fall and estates them by himselfe with a possibility in themselves to be eternally saved How far also though not medling with the impertinent tradition of popery this tract doth shew plainly that the many hereticall errours of the Papists upon which the whole rabble of their false destructive doctrine and fantasticall ceremoniall discipline doth depend was hatched and is nursed by their not making use of the large and true Scripture extent of the common salvation of all men in setting free all men in due season in the inward man minde and will by free grace so that in their well usage of that meanes they might beleeve and might be eternally saved for by the Papists casting away this Scripture-truth confirming the gratious setting free of all mens by the fall diabollically captived wils they do fallaciously affirm that man hath free will by nature or by originall descent from Adams loines which naturall freedome of will by its consenting to good is the disposing cause of our justificarion For as I finde recorded they say that works Congruo are the disposing cause of our justification Andrad in Conc. Trid. Ses 6. which as they say is of mens selves and standeth of the assent of mens wils and reason and this faith say they is Catholike and perfect but yet unformed and as soon as works are thereto joined they call it formed and then say they it is meritorious condigne and justifieth for say they we are justified by faith and charity together as the disposing cause of our justification as a necessary cause to obtaine at Gods hand the grace of justification but rather by charity Conc. Trid. Ses 6. than by faith because say they that charity goeth before our justification as a necessary cause to obtaine at Gods hand the grace of our justification and adoption of his children Thus by the Papists rejecting the Scripture-testimony concerning the setting free all mens wils by free grace by Christ procured in the common salvation as is proved in my 6 and 7 Distinctions they are so wildred an deluded that they doe heretically appropriate the disposing power to act meritoriously well unto mens well acting in the freedome of their natural wils Conc. 6.9 And because the Scripture doth maintain so strongly that no mere man hath freedome of his will by nature and that as in the tract is proved that no mere man whatsoever no not Adam if he had stood in his estate of innocency much lesse any beleever who are all as concerning themselves defective cannot nor could not have the least footstep at any time in any one thing to challenge the least reward as due of debt to them from their Creators hand otherwise than he by whom they are what they are and from whom they have received whatsoever good they have is pleased according to his Covenant made by his owne free grace to account them worthy and that though all beleevers are not in themselves in this life righteous yet by Christ to impute righteousnesse unto them that doe beleeve in him that justifieth the ungodly But this Scripture-truth is so mortally destructive to their fancied meritorious life with God that rather then they will lay down their bosome-imbraced delusions and humane traditions they will venture at one stroke desperately to hazard to deface the Holy writ it selfe and as I find recorded that some of their deceived Grandees have thrust into the world this blasphemous conceit that the written Gospell is but as a nose of was Vita Pont. which may be set or turned divers waies as it best pleaseth the humours of men that steer the course for their doctrine and discipline or as some of them have said the written Gospell

apprehending the true sence of this Text. Rom. 9.18 to look upon the one will of God as it is by his own determinate counsell to be by Christ dispensed ever since the restoration before mentioned accordingly as men do beleeve or not beleeve Also note that though it be said that he that beleeveth shall be saved yet you know or ought to know that all beleevers during this life are in themselves unworthy their faith and works are imperfect and though their imperfections are such by the inhabitation of the remainders of the old man in them that men indeed considering of themselves as in themselves may admire why God should be merciful unto them yet as his second Covenant was established by that his one will so according to that his Covenant of grace he will have mercy on all such men though unworthy in themselves as by faithfull indeavours doe humbly aime at the performance of that his condition annexed to the second Covenant as is fully proved in Eph. 1.11 12 13. Heb 6. Chap. 2 Thes 2.3 4 5. James 2.5 And also considering that those conditions annexed to the Gospell are according to his will in holy writ published and propounded to the world to be observed John 1.16 What a preposterous injurious taxation doe you that stand to maintaine the effects of his power and will only in this point as separated from all his other holy attributes cast upon our just impartiall God and faithfull Creator by your from this Text and such like affirming that notwithstanding what condition soever that God hath in his owne word by his one will so published to declare to the world what his will is concerning mans salvation by their obedience to the faith Yet that he hath as you conceive in effect in this text declared that his secret mentall reserve is to proceed by his power and will only to harden some men to eternall destruction without any respect of their actuall and personall disobedience against the Gospell-Covenant though so propounded to them by himselfe Thus yee render up God by his exalting his power and will to destroy his Gospell-grace which is according to conditions performed by men to be obteined Doe you not bring in God placed upon the theatre of the world by you wrapped up in de●uding Simon Magus his cloathes making shew to do that for some men which in truth he doth not nor really never did intend to doe for them Therefore beloved with consent of Scripture to gather up our gratious Gods holy attributes together which such people have so farre dispersed asunder let us chearfully conclude this cause maintaining Gods impartiality with the very words of this Text that God will have mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardneth that he will have all men come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2.4 and though even beleevers are in themselves ungodly yet he by his not starting from his second Covenant and the conditions thereto annexed made by him he will have it so it must be so though there be no cause in them deserving it yet he will have mercy on those and impute righteousnesse unto them that beleeve in him that justifyeth the ungodly and that it is his declared will also that he will 〈◊〉 have mercy upon any such man that after ability given him by grace to be obedient to the faith yet will wilfully persist in the sinne of unbeleefe contrary to the condition of grace by God himselfe annexed to the Gospell The sixteenth Distinction sheweth the unwarranted dealings of some men with Gods prerogative by a wrested application of Gods hardning Pharaohs heart SOme men have applyed these words where it is said and whom he will he hardeneth Rom. 9.18 as if God by his absolute prerogative will doth harden some mens hearts without any regard of their hardning their owne hearts first and they doe attempt to prove that their surmized tenent by their bringing in Gods hardning of Pharaohs heart Exod. 4.21 as they suppose not in respect of Pharaohs hardning his heart first to be the moving cause of God thereto therein they though being Christians and intrusted with his word yet ill requiting Gods loving kindnesse by making advantage of a wrong sence thereof which makes against his impartiality and will not on his part therein take notice of the true procuring cause of Pharaohs misery where it is said that Pharaoh hardned his owne heart Exod. 8.15 neither doe they once own but rather conceale Pharaohs proud blasphemous answer given to Gods message which was first of all delivered by Moses and Aaron to him in a peaceable way to prevaile with him Exod. 5.15 nor of this tyrannicall dealing with his people before that message was delivered unto him nor of his multiplying afflictions upon his people after that first message from ver 6. to ver 11. Neither have they on Gods side shewed that Pharaoh hardned his heart againe Exod. 8.32 nor that Pharaoh sinned yet more and hardned his heart he and his fervants Exod. 9.34 But behold yee Christians that thus in effect doe maintaine that God is the compulsive author of sin and rebellion in some men even against himselfe and be ye astonished for behold the very Heathen Idolatrous Philistines that even their Idolatrous I Priests and Diviners did to provoke the people to send speedily away the Ark of God from among them reprove them saying Wherefore then doe you harden your hearts as Pharaoh and the Egyptians did when he had wrought wonderfully amongst them 1 Sam. 6.6 Thus you see here that the very Idolatrous Heathens have gotten the start of all such Christians in this point by their laying the fault rightly upon the Creatures as Pharaoh and the Egyptians thereby vindicating the impartiality of the Creator according to 1 Pet. 1.17 which such Christians will not vouchsafe to do but rather hide the same although in that Text 1 Pet. 1.17 it is said that God judgeth without respect of persons according to every mans works then not according to his first hardning of some mens hearts see the proud rebellious answer of those people the similized clay to the gratious exhorting message sent from God their similized Potter Ier. 18.12 and the people hardning their own hearts as an adamant stone in direct rebellion against Gods generall exhortations lovingly propounded unto them Zech. 7.9 10 11 12. See also in Rom. 1 chap. how gratiously God manifests and shewes himselfe to them ver 19 20. and yet how rebelliously they behave themselves towards him See also the unstained impartiality that is in our faithfull Creator confirmed in that he forsaketh no man before they actually and personally forsake him 2 Chron. 15.2 Ezek. 18 chap. Isa 5.2 3 4. compared with chap. 6.9 10. and Isa 44.18 compared with Mat. 13.15 and John 1.7 9. and Acts 8.27 as also Psal 145.9 Pro. 21.29 Jer. 7.25 26 27. besides God doth not harden any mans heart first nor forsake