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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	die_v	life_n	4,790	5	5.0368	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79533	A whip for the lecturers of Lewis, and for all those Presbyterians, and others of the clergy which maintain that damnable opinion of absolute reprobation, according to the sense of the within written paper. With an exact copy of two several letters sent unto the the said lecturers, wherein the author desires satisfaction concerning the said opinion, with an answer to one of the said letters, being a true copy also. / By Edward Choune ...	Choune, Edward.	1657 (1657)	Wing C3929; ESTC R171318	20,781	29

that any soul should perish that he will still have his instruction go before his destruction so that if the creature would but seek and knock God is so gracious that he upbraids no man they might both find and have the gate of heaven opened unto them for they are sent as Ambassadours from Christ to this purpose for to proclaim these rich mercies unto the world and to entreat us to be born again for the preventing of our souls damnation and are not onely sent to proclaim these rich mercies but are also sent to assure us we may have all our soules saved if we will not now reject these present offers of grace but if we will not believe and repent the Lord will require our bloud at our own hands for they have discharged their duties in telling us of our sins and of the dangerous consequence which will follow Now this is one I say of the great things which doth daily trouble my thoughts to see these Ministers which are sent as they say Ambassadours from Christ to proclaim these precious Gospel truths as before written which without doubt they are so and yet privately to maintain such a diametrically opposite and contradictory opinion which is such a gallimafry that no rational man can tell what to make of it for to my knowledge notwithstanding those rich mercies above written which they are sent to proclaim yet they privately maintain that there is never a soul in hell nor any hereafter that shall go to hell but that God from all eternity did bar them from all his mercies that Christ shed not one drop of bloud for them that Ministers prayers and preaching doth not concern them that all the Saint-like actions that is possible for them to do all will not avail with God to free them or any one of them from that place of torment Surely if men were not altogether bewitched unto their Priests right or wrong they might easily discern with half an eye most sordid contradictions and also confess that there cannot be greater impostors juglers call them what you will in any religion amongst the Papists Jews or Turks then these men are which would be accounted the onely Zelots of the Nation For my part I do much wonder that all men which stand in the presence of God to hear them do not stand amazed to see this their abominable wickedness in their offering all men salvation conditionally when their damnation is determined absolutely as appears by their cursed opinion Which damn'd opinion cuts asunder the very sinews of religion encourageth prophaneness draws away the strongest enducements unto a holy life roots up virtue plants vice leaves no place for reward or punishment for by this cursed opinion all our actions and ends are fastned at the foot of Gods chair leaving us nothing to do but onely to obey our own fates to follow the duct of the Stars or necessity of those Iron thaines we are born under our end is pitched therefore we may sit down and take our ease and wait what the Lord will do unto us for we have our supersedeas I will set down the judgment of four or five Authors in their own words for the maintenance of universal redemption which being against their abominable doctrine of Christs dying onely for the elect the first Author is Bishop Latimer I hope he is authentick because he was burn'd for his Religion in Queen Maries dayes he sayes in a Sermon of his preached in Lincolnshire it is no more but to believe and hath not Christ shed as much bloud for Judas as he did for Peter Peter believed and was saved Judas would not believe and was condemned and in another Sermon of his saith The preaching of the Gospel is universal it appertaineth to all man-kind through the whole earth their found is heard and that there is no man so wicked but he may have a remedy for his salvation The second Author is Bishop Hooper who died also a holy Martyr in queen Mary's dayes being against them some part of his sayings being also for the maintenance of Universall Redemption as God accounted in Adams sin all mankind being in his loynes worthy death so accounted in Christ or to be saved from death all those promises that appertained unto the salvation of Adam and his posterity were made in Christ and for Christ onely and appertained to our Fathers and us as we appertained to Christ He is the door the way and the life he is the onely Mediatour between God and man without whom no man can come to the father Celestiall John 1.3 6. The vertue and strength of Gods promise extendeth as far to save man as the rigour and justice of the Law for sin to damn man Rom. 5.17.18 For by the offence and sin of one man death was extended and made common to all men unto condemnation as Paul saith so by the justice of the one is derived life unto all men to justification as we were in Adam and partakers of his ill so we were in him when God made him a promise of grace and partakers of the same grace Not as the children of Adam but as the children of the Promise the as sins of Adam without priviledge or exception extended and appertained unto all Adams and every of Adams posterity so did his promise of Grace generally appertain as well to every and singular of Adams posterity as to Adam as it is more plainly expressed Gen. 15.4 5. and 17.1 where God promiseth to bless in the seed of Abraham all the people of the world Saint Paul maketh no diversity in Christ of Jew nor Gentile as Galat. 3.28 Col. 3.11 Further Saint Paul doth by collation of Adam and Christ Sin and Grace thus interpret Gods promise and maketh not Christ inferiour to Adam nor Grace unto Sin and likewise Christ saith That the gate is strait that leadeth to life and few enter Thus the Scripture answereth That the promise of Grace appertaineth to every sort of men in the world and comprehendeth them all Howbeit within certain limits and bounds the which if men neglect or pass over they exclude themselves from the promise in Christ as Cain was no more excluded till he excluded himself then Abel Saul then David Judas then Peter Esau then Jacob by the Scripture it seemeth that the Sentence of God was given to save the one and damn the other before the one loved God or the other hated God howbeit these threatnings of God against Esau if he had not of his wilfull malice excluded himself from the promise of Grace should no more hinder his salvation then Gods threatnings against Ninive Jonas 1.2 which notwithstanding that God said should be destroyed within forty dayes stood a great time after and did penance Esau was circumcised and presented unto the Church of God by his Father in all externall ceremonies as well as Jacob the Sentence of God unto Rebeccah was not in the fault that Esau his