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A04827	Of the redemption of mankind three bookes wherein the controuersie of the vniuersalitie of redemption and grace by Christ, and of his death for all men, is largely handled. Hereunto is annexed a treatise of Gods predestination in one booke. Written in Latin by Iacob Kimedoncius D. and professor of Diuinitie at Heidelberge, and translated into English by Hugh Ince preacher of the word of God.; De redemptione generis humani. English	Kimedoncius, Jacobus, d. 1596.; Ince, Hugh, b. 1554 or 5.	1598 (1598)	STC 14960; ESTC S108025	345,675	422

let vs also consider the words that follow for Peter addeth 2. Pet. 2.20 21 22. If they who haue escaped the filthines of the world through the knowledge of the Lord Sauiour Iesu Christ be afterwards againe intangled therein and bee ouercome their last condition is worse then the former and it were better for them not to haue knowne the way of righteousnes then after the knowledge of it to goe backe as the dogge to his vomite Out of these words the aduersarie indeuoureth to collect that many indued with true faith and conuersion and therefore by his death and blood washed and iustified doe perish for euer I answer as afore that here properly the question is not whether some indued with true faith and conuersion doe so fall backe that they perish but this the aduersarie was to proue that the reprobates vniuersally no lesse then the elect and all vnbeleeuers no lesse then the faithful are made partakers of redemption in Christ Which thing cannot bee concluded out of the Apostles words seeing he speaketh not but of them who through the knowledge of Christ had escaped the pollutions of the world which Huber himselfe will haue to bee referred to their faith and conuersion Secondly as touching those who falling rise not againe I denie that such were truly washed in the death and blood of Christ and iustified or were indued with a true and liuely faith in Christ For the contrary hath been aboue shewed out of the doctrine of Peter and other seruants of Christ Neither saith Peter here Peters words expounded It had bin better for them neuer to haue had true faith or els to haue obtained righteousnes then afterward to fall backe from true faith and righteousnes but hee onely saith It had been better not to haue knowne the way of righteousnes then after the knowledge of it to goe backe from the holy doctrine taught them Marke this touching back-sliders And we denie not that many who had cast away corrupt opinions of God and of matters belonging to religion and had imbraced the trueth doe afterward fall away from true doctrine to old or els new errors and by this meanes slide backe from faith that is from the doctrine of faith De fide operib ca. 25. See also in Psal 48 We confesse also that many who as Augustine weigheth this place either by fained promises or externall reformation of maners had forsaken the filthines of the world to wit adulterie fornication vncleannes wantonnes idolatrie witchcraft drunkennes bankettings and the like doe inthrall themselues againe vnto the same liue in all filthines and so runne into a more grieuous iudgement then if they had neuer knowne the way of righteousnes But they who doe after some sort or other auoide the filthines of the world are not straightwaies to bee accounted washed in the blood of Christ and iustified before God For so as many as among the Heathens haue liued honestly or forsaking the filthines of their former life haue begun to be sober shuld be also accounted for men washed and iustified in the blood of Christ Neither be the things which Huber inferreth of any force they had escaped filthines through the knowledge of Christ and are said to haue knowne the way of righteousnes and the holie commandement that is the holy doctrine of the Gospell is said to haue been deliuered vnto them Therefore they had true faith in Christ giuen them As though the faith of Christians were nothing els than the bare knowledge of Christ or of the way of righteousnes and of the holy commandement Obiection Surely the very deuils haue a knowledge of Christ and that greater then men But they are insnared againe therefore they were once set feee and at libertie Answere I graunt in part they were escaped from their former errors and their outward wicked conuersation wherein while they are againe intangled they be polluted a fresh and like dogges eate againe their vomite which they had alreadie cast vp after that sort doubtles as hath been spoken to wit either by fained promise or els truly as Peter saith while laying aside their wonted errors and maners they bee honest for a time 2. Pet. 2.18 not walking any longer in wantonnes lusts drunkennes surfettings bankettings and abominable idolatries or running any longer with prodigall persons vnto the same excesse of riot as Peter saith 1 Pet. 4. But not all in whom there is seene some reformation of maners haue purified mindes through the spirit and faith vnfained with loue voide of dissimulation from a good conscience and a pure heart There be cited also the words of Peter The 6. place 2. Pet. 1. 2. Pet. 1. where he speaketh of him who professeth faith but hath not workes that he is blinde and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sinnes Therefore false christians and hypocrites who perish at the length were sometime clensed and iustified from their sinnes no lesse then they whose faith by good workes is effectuall and abideth The answere hereunto is the same that was before It must bee vnderstood according to the vsage of the Scriptures The ● exposit●ons of Peters words 〈…〉 is said to haue been clensed from his olde sinnes Acts 2● ●6 Augustine which call them Saints iustified and clensed from sinnes as many as are baptized into Christ and ingrafted into his Church Because the Church ought to take them for such according to the iudgement of charitie albeit before God oftentimes they bee not such Further the sense may bee this that such haue forgotten their baptisme which is a certaine visible sanctification and purgation from sins according to that saying be baptized and wash away thy sins But as Augustine very well maketh difference betweene visible and inuisible sanctification Visible and invisible sanctifications Man by visible Sacraments through his ministerie doth sanctifie but the Lord by inuisible grace through the holy Ghost wherein lieth the whole fruite of the visible Sacraments and some men haue inuisible sanctification and it doth them good without visible Sacraments but visible sanctification which happeneth by visible Sacraments a man may haue without the inuisible but it can doe him no good For visible baptisme without inuisible sanctification did nothing profit Simon Magus These things Augustine super Leuit. lib. 3. quaest 84. whereunto Luther also consenteth vpon the second Psalme But it is too absurd and foolish that the aduersarie laboureth to wrest to his purpose also that notable description of the grace of God towards the faithfull in the beginning of the chapter in Peter Peter saith hee testifieth that they may be damned who haue alreadie obtained faith and saluation and all things belonging to godlines But what if this be denied him how will he proue it Because saith he he obiecteth vnto them blindnes The true method and sense of Peters words 2. Pet. ● 3 to verse 12. But good sir it is

Ex praedestinationis sententia sola pendere omnia qui accepturi sint verbum qui non qui credituri quinon qui liberandi à peccato qui occaecandi quidamnandi qui iustificandi That is Vpon the onely sentence of predestination all things depend who shall receiue the word who not who shall beleeue who not who shall be freed from sinne who blinded therein who shall be damned who saued Therefore seeing God saueth some men and condemneth others and that willingly for nothing can bee done if he be simply vnwilling and against it we must of necessitie confesse that both are done according to Gods purpose and that eternall For there is nothing temporall in God otherwise he should be mutable And this is nothing els than that God hath chosen some and reiected others from euerlasting Touching the certaine number of the predestinate Augustine saith truly De Cor. gra cap. 13 7. Praedestinatorum in regnum Dei ita certus est munerus c. that is The number of them that are predestinate vnto the kingdome of God is so certaine that nothing can be added to them nor any thing of them diminished And againe Electorum si quisquam perit fallitur Deus vitio humano vincitur c. that is If any of the elect perisheth God is deceiued and ouercome of mans sinne but none of them perisheth because God is not deceiued nor ouercome of any thing This treatise also teacheth that a man may be certaine of his election saluation by what meanes he may know it what we are to iudge of the election of others how necessarie and profitable this doctrine is to know Gods mercie and iustice and his free grace against all Pelagians and Semipelagians and to teach vs humilitie patience in aduersitie loue towards God and an earnest studie of all good works This is briefly the summe of these bookes which I haue translated for the benefit and helpe of the common sort that vnderstand them not in the Latin tongue that by reading and vnderstanding hereof they that erre may returne againe to the trueth and imbrace it hereafter the better they that doubt may be fully resolued hereby and they that haue held this doctrine as the trueth of God in time past may be confirmed therein and incouraged to professe it to their liues end Now these my labours I present to the view of your Honour crauing pardon for my boldnes and the protection and defence of these mysteries of the Gospel of Christ I commend vnto your Honor assuring my selfe that as the great and mightie Christian Princes of the world account it an honour vnto them to be and to be called defenders of the true faith of Christ by whom they raigne so your Honour will gladly and willingly receiue the protection of this his trueth who hath not onely aduanced you to so high a place of dignitie in this Common-wealth but hath also giuen you an heart to feare him to minister true iudgement and to promote the Gospel by furnishing this Church with learned and able Ministers and that freely in this corrupt age when all things are set to sale The great good report that generally is giuen of your Honor in euery place for these things of all persons but especially of Ministers and Schollers as it draweth the hearts and affections of men vnto you in all dutie causeth many a hearty praier to be made to God for your life continuance in weldoing so among other it hath moued mee though the meanest of all oftentimes to blesse God for you to reioyce in your behalfe that so much the rather because it hath pleased God out of Chesshire my natiue soile to aduance one to so high a place and authority and to make him so famous for weldoing as he hath done your Honour Goe on still good my Lord in that good course that you haue begun honour the Lord with your authoritie and he will yet more honour you keepe a good conscience in all things and the remembrance thereof shall be your ioy Bona conscientia saith Bernard afficit gaudio viuentem consolatur morientem eternumque durat that is A good conscience gladdeth a man in his life comforteth him in his death and indureth for euer And after your Honour hath serued your time according to the counsell of God and shall be ready to bee called before that great Master of the Rolles and records of all the world you shall with the Apostle say to your endles comfort Certamen praeclarum decertaui cursum consummaui sidem seruaui quid superest reposita est mihi iustitiae corona I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith from henceforth there is laid vp for me a crowne of righteousnes Thus ceasing any further to interrupt your Honour from your weighty affaires which I know be many I humbly with all dutifulnes take my leaue praying God long to preserue your Honour in health to make you zealous of his glorie constant in all weldoing to the furtherance of his Gospell faithfull to her Maiestie carefull of Iustice profitable to the whole Realme prosperous in all your waies and comfortable to your owne soule that at length you may sleepe in peace and make a ioyfull account Amen Grensteed in Essex Octob. 31. 1598. Your Honors most humble at commandement in the Lord HVGH INCE TO THE MOST EXCELLENT AND RENOWMED PRINCE AND LORD THE LORD Frederike the fourth Count Palatine on the Rhene Duke of Bauarie of the sacred Romane Empire chiefe Sewer and Elector his most gracious Lorde and Prince MOST noble Prince Elector and gracious Lorde many things are required in a good Prince beeing Gods Vicar among men among other wisedome which containeth the knowledge of diuine and humane things is a singular beautifying of him and a passing good defence Hereupon Platoes iudgement was that Common weales should then be happy when either Princes studied philosophy or els Philosophers ruled Common weales And to vse a grauer witnesse Wisd 6. the multitude of wise men is the safetie of the worlde and a prudent king is the stay of the people saith the wise man For which cause also Salomon Dauids sonne the wisest king of mortal men when in his tender yeres he had receiued the gouernment of the kingdome hauing choise offered him of God to aske what he would craued onely wisedome In Alcibiades Plato also reporteth what was the custome of the Persians in bringing vp the eldest sonnes of their kings that were to succeede in the kingdome and how they aquainted them frō their tender yeres with the study of wisedome and vertue to the intent they might gouerne the kingdome at length with honour After this sort it was At their age of foureteene yeeres the kings schoolemasters as they were called being foure chosen out of all the Persians the wisest man the iustest the most temporate the valiantest mā did

beleeuers and vnbeleeuers are receiued into grace and made partakers of remission of sinnes righteousnes and saluation in Christ Of which thing that we may not doubt at al in the Miscellanies of D. Ierome Zanchie of godly memorie Zanchius there is the iudgement extant of the Church and schoole of Tigur touching certaine Theses of the said Zanchie which at that time were hatefully pursued of certaine that moued the same mischiefe that Huber doth The promises of the free mercie of God and of sure and eternall saluation saith Zanchie in his 13. proposition albeit they be propounded vniuersally to all and are so to be preached yet vnto the elect onely in very deede they doe belong And straight after in 14. proposition Wherefore when Paul saith God will haue all men to be saued if a man restraine that word all men to the elect in any order of men whatsoeuer they be also if a man interprete that saying 1. Ioh. 2. Christ is the propitiation of the whole world for the elect dispersed or to be dispersed hereafter through the whole world he doth not depraue the Scripture Of the vniuersalitie of the promise of grace What do those lights of the Heluetian Church Bullinger Gualther Wolfius Marty Simler Lauater and the rest say to these things They doe not onely assent that the promises touching the free mercie of God and sure and eternall saluation doe belong vnto the elect onely but also they confirme it with this reason That the promises are hidden things for faith and can no otherwise be perceiued then by faith therfore they belong onely vnto them who are adorned with faith by God Certainly say they the promises of this kinde are to be preached vnto all because the ministers of the word know not such as are elect according to purpose and they haue a flock consisting of reprobates and elect but they are made effectuall by the power of Gods spirit in them onely who are of the number of the elect Afterward touching the other proposition that is this whole controuersie they make a pure and cleere confession publishing it with a lowd voice in these words The vniuersalitie of the elect in the worde All men by the opinion of new writers We truly are of the same iudgement and cannot reiect with a good consciēce that exposition which also we acknowledge to be agreeable to the text and not once alleadged by Augustine a father most worthie praise of all for which interpretation he was neuer of any man condemned of heresie In the same place they subscribe also to Zanchies opinion that true faith is giuen once onely to the elect The elect perseuer in faith and that the elect once indued with true faith and ingrafted into Christ by the holy Ghost cannot altogether lose faith shake off the holy Ghost and wholly fall frō Christ and that because of the promise of God and the prayer of Christ Notwithstanding that true faith and the spirit is as it were a sleepe and languisheth in the Saints when they fall but is not altogether taken away otherwise the seede of God should not remaine in them as it is said 1. Ioh. 3. Behold Huber the sentence of so many worthie men whom thou hast gotten for thy defendors consenting against thee Therefore there is no cause that thou shouldest seeke after craftie wresting of words and make wiles to intrap men through some phrases of theirs whose iudgement is so plainly knowne Yet least thou shouldest chaunce to doubt of these things Zuinglius take but the aduise of Huldrich Zuinglius onely the ornament of thy Heluetia and the brightnes of all kinde of learning Annot. in Euang. epist Pauli per Leonem Iudae editis There be many such kinde of speaking vsed afterward in like maner of his successors Annot. ad Heb. In Ioh. 6. In Ioh. 12. That the son of God tooke flesh that he might be made a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world that his flesh was giuen for the life and redemption of the whole world and that he died for all that he might quicken all by himselfe In Ioh. 17. and by his death giue life to the vniuersall world that Christ came to saue all and to giue eternall life to all c. That man surely vseth thus to speake but in a farre other sense than thou huntest for such kinde of speakings in his schollers and successors For expounding himselfe he expressely writeth In Matth. 15. Whereas Christs death is the remedie and plaister of our diseases and wounds yet that many feele not the efficacie thereof In Ioh. 3. namely such as doe not acknowledge their sinnes Also that he was sent to forgiue sinnes to all repentant sinners and to communicate eternall life that he is the life and saluation of the godly the life of beleeuers and such like In Ioh. 6. praefat in histo de pass In epist ad Rom. 3. In Ioh. 12. And yet he taketh away the sins of the whole world and giueth life to all both because no sinnes in the world are forgiuen but by and for the onely reconciler Christ Iesus and also because he is an vniuersall Sauiour to wit not onely of the Iewes but of the Gentiles also that they that haue the fruition of Christ his oblation may for euer goe to God through him and may haue by faith through Christ the blotting out of all their sinnes as more at large a man may see in the same writer tom 1. expostul ad Fridolium Attend and weigh O Huber and cease to abuse the testimonies of thine Heluetians The 8. testimonie Musculus The same thing I say of Musculus whose iudgement who so looketh into I know very well he will marueile at Hubers wit and at his desire and captious kinde of speaking to peruert all things De remiss pecc q. 2. Thes 586. These are his words That the grace of remission of sinnes is appointed for all mortall men This Huber catching at greedily setteth it in his booke in great letters but malitiously altogether pulled away from the words following wherein lieth the meaning of that saying to wit that the grace of remission of sinnes is appointed for all mortall men as farre forth as the Gospel is to be preached to euery creature and the mercie of God to be set forth to all And so Musculus vnderstandeth the sayings Ioh. 3. 1. Ioh. 2. So God loued the world Christ is the propitiation for the sinnes of the whole world not that remission of sinnes by the grace of God befalleth to all without difference of beleeuers and vnbeleeuers which is the opinion of the aduersarie and not of Musculus Nay thus he testifieth openly If we consider them who by the grace of God obtaine remission of their sinnes as of the elect so of these also there is a small number in respect of the reprobates whose sins he saith are