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death_n	adam_n	bring_v	sin_n	7,991	5	5.4699	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26935	Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1278; ESTC R5256	19,834	110

have power to make God Ignorant and another thing to have power to do otherwise than that which he foreknoweth you will do No man hath power to make God ignorant But all sinners may have power to do otherwise than that which God foreknoweth we will do For God doth not foreknow that e. g. Gehezi shall not have Power to forbear a lye but only that he will not forbear it Yea more Gods foreknowledge doth prove that sinners have power to do otherwise For that which God foreknoweth will be But God foreknoweth that men will abuse their power to sin or will sin when they had Power to do otherwise Therefore it will be so in the Event Now if you will call their power to do otherwise a power to frustrate Gods foreknowledge you will but speak foolishly For the Power it self is foreknown And the object of knowledge in esse cognito is not after the act of knowledge And if the person will not actually sin God could not foreknow that he will sin So that foreknowledge is here when it is not causal but a medium in a Syllogisme and inferreth only the necessity of the consequence in arguing and doth not cause the thing foreknown Now when Dr. Twisse saith that all the Schoolmen agree that no necessity Consequentis or of Causation but only Consequentiae doth follow the decree of Reprobation see how far he and Arminius are in this agreed Though I know some give another fence of necessitas consequentiae But I come closer to the matter yet 4. God Decreeth no mans sin Neither Adams nor any others He may decree the effect which sinners accomplish as the death of Christ And he may over-rule men in their sin and bring good out of it c. But sin is not a thing that he can will or cause and so not Decree which signifieth a volition 5. God cannot be proved to Decree or Will the Permission of mans sin For to Permit is nothing It is but not to hinder which is no act And to Decree and Will is a Positive Act And if you fain God to have a Positive Volition or Nolition of every nothing or Negative then he must have positive decrees of every meer possible Atome Sand Worm Name Word Thought of Man c. That such and such a nothing shall never be whereas there needeth no more to keep any thing from being in this case than Gods not Causing it not Willing it not Decreeing it The Creatures Active Nature Disposition Objects and Circumstances are here presupposed And the Impedition necessary is by Act or substraction of these aforesaid And Gods non-agere needs no positive decree I must tell the Learned Reader that this room will not serve to Answer his foreseen objections but I hope I have done it sufficiently elsewhere 6. God hath not only Decreed to give but actually given a great deal of mercy to them that perish which had a natural tendency to their Salvation Christ hath so far dyed for all as that none shall perish for want of a sufficiency in the satisfaction made He hath purchased and given for all a grant or gift of himself with Pardon Justification Adoption and right to glory on condition of acceptance where the Gospel cometh In a word so that none of them shall perish that do not finally refuse the Grace and Salvation offered them 7. Men are not Impenitent and Vnbelievers for want of that called natural faculty or Power to choose and refuse aright but for want of a right disposition of their own wills And by such a moral Impotency which is indeed their viciousness and the wickedness of their wills and doth not excuse but aggravate the sin see Mr. Truman of Natural and Moral Impotency 8. To rectifie mens wicked wills and dispositions God giveth them a World of means The whole Creation and Documents of providence all the precepts promises threats of Scripture Preaching Example Mercies Judgements Patience and inward motions of the spirit All which might do much to mens Conversion and Salvation if they would but do what they could on their own part 9. Adam could have stood when he fell without any more Grace than that which he abused and neglected Gods grace which was not effectual to him was as much as was necessary to his standing if he would have done his best And it was left to his free-will to have made that help effectual by improvement He fell not because he could not stand but because he would not 10. For ought any can prove multitudes that believe not now but perish may have rejected a help as sufficient to their believing as Adams was to his standing 11. All men have power to do more good and avoid more Evil than they do And he that will not do what he can do Justly suffereth 12. Heathens and Infidels are not left unredeemed under the remediless Curse and Covenant of Innocency which we broke in Adam but are all brought by the Redemption wrought by Christ under a Law or termes of Grace 1. God made a Covenant of Grace with all mankind in Adam Gen. 3.15 who was by Tradition to acquaint his posterity with it as he did to Cain and Abel the Ordinances of Oblation and Sacrifice 2. This Covenant was renewed with all mankind in Noah 3. This Covenant is not repealed otherwise than by a perfecter Edition to them that have the plenary Gospel 4. The full Gospel Covenant is made for all as to the Tenor of it and the command of Preaching and Offering it to all 5. They that have not this Edition may yet be under the first Edition 6. The Jewes under the first Edition were saved without believing in this determinate person of Jesus or that he should die for sin and rise again and send down the spirit For the Apostles believed it not before hand Luk. 18.34 Joh. 12.16 Luke 9.45 Mark 9.34 Luk. 24.21 25 26. Act. 1.6 7 8. yet were they then in a state of saving grace as appeareth by Joh. 14. 15. 16. 17. throughout 7. The rest of the world that had not the same supernatural Revelation were not then bound to believe so much as the Jewes were about the Messiah 8. God himself told them all that they were not under the unremedyed curse of the Covenant of Innocency by giving them a life full of those mercies which they had forfeited which all did tend to lead them to repentance and to seek after God Rom. 2.4 Act. 17.27 and find him yea the left not himself without witness for that which may be known of him and his invisible things are manifested and clearly seen in his works so that the wicked are without excuse Rom. 1.19.20 Act. 14.17 So that all Heathens are bound to believe that God is and that he is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him Heb. 11.6 and are all under the duty of using certain means in order to their own recovery and salvation and to