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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93608	The fountaine of free grace opened by questions and answers: proving the foundation of faith to consist only in Gods free love in giving Christ to dye for the sins of all, and objections to the contrary answered by the Congregation of Christ in London, constituted by baptisme upon the profession of faith, falsly called Anabaptists. Wherein they vindicate themselves from the scandalous aspersions of holding free-will, and denying a free election by grace.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing S482; Thomason E1181_3; ESTC R208134	13,080	28

THE FOUNTAINE OF FREE GRACE OPENED BY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Proving the Foundation of Faith to consist only in Gods Free Love in giving Christ to dye for the sins of all and Objections to the contrary Answered by the Cnogregation of Christ in London constituted by Baptisme upon the profession of Faith falsly called Anabaptists WHEREIN THEY VINDICATE THEM-Selves from the scandalous aspersions of holding Free-will and denying a free Election by Grace LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1645. To the impartiall Reader that desireth truth only for the love of it Grace and Peace be multiplied in this life with happinesse and salvation in the life to come through Jesus Christ IT is not a thing altogether unknowne to those that are any whit read in Controversies that many striving against the errours of others have sometimes denied some truthes and given their Opposers thereby much advantage to have a concei●e of the goodnesse of their cause whilst they saw the manifest truth denied by those that contended against them the which thing hath fallen out without all doubt with the Arminians of late who notwithstanding they have been found to hold forth many notorious errours rasing the very Foundation of Christian Faith to wit denying Originall Sin holding Free will and Falling aw● Yet in as much as in confuting them the manifest Truth hath been denyed for the most part viz. Christs suffering for the sins of all These Adversaries have rather been emboldned then informed or convicted because they conceived that their Adversaries were driven to deny the manifest truth therefore they themselves were in the Truth And on the other side these erronious persons have glossed their errours under the pretence of being direct consequences of Christs suffering for the sins of all whereas indeed and in truth it is no such matter the which thing not being so warily weighed nor so diligently searched as it ought hath caused many to thinke evill of this doctrine and of us professing the same conceiving that wee can not be the Church of Jesus Christ whilst wee in their conceivings maintaine such errours Whereas we having more narrowly searched the same and by searching have found not only that it is a truth but such a truth as is the very foundation of saving faith Doe therefore conceive that wee ought to be so farre from shunning the Doctrine in respect of the ill esteem it hath fro● others as that we ought rather to owne it more deare to us then our lives and also to seeke by all meanes possible that may be to make the same known to others and for this end serves this following Discourse partly to cleare this Doctrine from those evil consequences that are supposed undenyably to follow upon it and partly to manifest the excellent worth of this Truth to our selves and others it being so farre from makeing us not to be the Church of Christ as it is indeed the very doctrine upon which the Church of Christ is founded Cu●teous Reader therefore lend thy diligent search of this enfuing Discourse with the quotations thereunto annexed and if thou find the profit by it that is intended give God the glory and let us have thy prayers and we shall ever rest Thine in any service of love to our power The Church of Christ in London falsly called Anabastsapt THE FOUNTAINE Of Free Grace opened Q. What meanes hath God provided for mans salvation A. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever beleiveth in him should not perish but have eternalll life John 3. 16. Q. Is it the duty of all mankind to beleeue in him for Salvation A. Yea. Q. And why A. Because eternall life is promised to whosoever doe beleeive in him and eternall death is threatned to them that doe not beleive Q. Are not all under the penalty of everlasting damnation though there were never a Christ to be beleived on A. Yes surely for so it doth appeare Rom. 3. 9. 23. ch 5. 12. 16 17. 18. 19. Q. Why then is eternall death threatned to mankind for not beleiving in him A. For two causes First for that Christ having suffered the punishment of our sins we should not suffer if we beleive in him the want of which therefore causeth our sins to rest upon us still and Secondly because the not beleiving in him is the neglect or contempt of mercy offered and so a grevious sin and doth deserve condemnation more then any other sin of any other kind John 3. 18. Heb. 2. 3. 4. Q. Hath Christ then suffered the punishment due for the sins of all mankind A. Yes surely for so it is written 2 Cor. 5. 15. Heb. 1. 9. 1 Tim. 2. 6. Isa. 53. 6. John 1. 29. and 3. 16. 17. 2 John 2. 2. John 6. 51. 4. 42. 12. 57. Ob. Then all mankind must needs be saved or else God be unjust in punishing our sins in Christ and in 〈◊〉 also A. It doth not follow for though our sins are punished in Christ yet they are not pardoned in us unlesse we beleeve hence it is that we are justified by faith in Christ nor without for he that beleeveth not shall be damned Mar. 16. and the reason is because else Christ hath not the Honour of Mediatourship as means of pardon of sins and secondly he that trusts not in Christ trusts in himselfe and must be tried according to his t●n● whereon he leaneth Obj. But yet it semeth God is unjust in punishing Christ and us also A. Not so for Christ did not suffer for any such end as to free us from punishment without faith in him but that those that beleeve might be saved Joh. 3. 16. and the rest left without excuse Joh. 12 47. 48. which could not be if he had not suffered the punishment due for the sins of all Ob. But yet then it seemes that Christ suffered in vaine A. Not so for in that those that beleeve in him are saved and those that beleeve not have no excuse to make for themselves why they beleeve not in him therefore he died not in vain Q. Could not Christ have effected that all should have beleeved A. He could if he would but his suffering for all doth not necessarily enforce that he must worke faith in all he was free in the giving of himselfe to suffer Joh. 10. 18 and he is free also in quickning the soules of whom he will Joh. 5. 21. Ob. Why doth Christ say Mat. 23. 37. How oft would I gathered thy children together and yee would not A. It was not to shew that auy thing was impossible or too hard for Christ to doe but only to shew the aversnes of those people to the meanes of grace afforded Q. Shall every one that beleiveth in Christ be 〈◊〉 A. Yea sur●●y for so it is written John 3. 16. Acts 16. 31. Q. What is that thing that is to be beleeved by all A. That which Christ hath commanded to be preached to all Rom.