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death_n	adam_n	grace_n	sin_n	4,888	5	5.2180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29532	Three links of a golden chain, or, Three of the principal causes of mans salvation viz, God giving his elect unto Christ, their coming unto Him, His receiving of them, doctrinally opened and practically applied as it was lately delivered unto the Church of God at Great Yarmouth / by John Brinsley.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4732; ESTC R23814	51,310	88

corrupt mass that lapsed condition Yea shall we rise higher and with the Supralapsarians as some at this day from their difference in judgment from others about this point are called and look upon man in his pure naturals as not yet fallen meerly as Gods creature simply and absolutely considered yet here shall we find that which will sufficiently vindicate God in his proceedings and dealings with him It was the plea of that Housholder in the Gospel when some of his labourers whom he had hired into his Vineyard quarrelled with him about the unequal distribution of their wages What saith he is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own Mat. 20. 1● So do men look upon that which they have a Property in they make account they have power and liberty to dispose of it as it pleaseth them And so indeed they justly might were that property absolute which none of the son● of men have in whatever they enjoy Now such is the Interest which God hath with all the sons of men who being his Creatures live and move and have their being in and from him he hath an absolute property in them and consequently an absolute power over them so as he may dispose of them not only in regard of their temporal but eternal estates as it pleaseth him And out of this plenitude of power it is that he electeth some whilest he rejecteth others chooseth some to be vessels of mercy predestinating them to obtain salvation whilest he passeth by others by a Negativ Reprobation or Praeterition leaving them to themselves and by a Positive Reprobation ordering them to just condemnation for sin Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardeneth so the Apostle concludes it Rom. 9. 18. They are the former sort of these we have now to deal with Gods Elect people who as I said may be called his people and that upon a special a peculiar account The Lord knoweth them that are his his by Election 2 Tim. 2. 19. saith our Saviour speaking to his Father of his Apostles Iohn 17. 6. Thine not by a pious kind of disposition as Grotius fouly corrupteth that Text but by a gracious pre-election And such are all those who are given to Christ to believe on him and to be saved by him they are Gods chosen ones a chosen generation as St. Peter hath it 1 Pet. 2. 9. chosen by him out of the world before the world was As he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world Eph. 1. 4. And thus are they his people Even as the peopl● of Israel were in an outward and visible way whom Moses tells Deut. 7. 6. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself So are all Gods Elect ones in an inward and invisible way God having set a special love upon them and chosen them they are his people And being thus his by Election now in the third place in order to the executing and bringing to pass his gracious purpose towards them he giveth them to his Sonne Christ Thine they were and thou gavest them to me saith our Saviour there of his Apostles Ioh. 17. 6. And so is it with all those who are ordained to eternal life being God the Fathers by Election he giveth them unto his Son Christ So we find believers frequently described as in the verse next but one after the Text v. 39. This is the Fathers will which hath sent me that of all that he hath given me I should lose nothing And so in that 17. of Iohn the Disciples are divers times set forth under that Periphrasis Those whom thou hast given me v. 9 11 12. And so all other believers all that then did or afterwards should believe on him Of them speaketh the 24th v. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me All believers are given to Christ Quest But how are they said so to be Ans. To this it may be Answered they may be said so to be two wayes Intentionally and Actually Intentionally before time Actually in time 1. Before time in Gods eternal purpose and decree In his Decree of Election God ordaining them to the end to obtain salvation ordaineth them also to the meanes giving them unto his Son Christ choosing them in him So saith the Apostle in tha● Text forecited Eph. 14. As he hath chosen us in him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In Christ whom God his Father constituted and appointed to be as it were the Head and Root of the Election into whom his elect people were by his decree as it were ingrafted as all mankind by nature was into the sixst Adam that so they might be made partakers of those saving benefits by and through him of Grace here and Glory hereafter as before all men were of sin and death brought in by the first Adam Thus they are given to Christ before time 2. In time in the execution of that decree when they are brought actually to believe on Christ to receive him as their Saviour and Lord Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me saith Christ speaking of his Disciples as that Text is by many expounded Isa. 8. 18. And upon this account our Saviour saith of his Apostles in some of those Texts forecited Iohn 17. 9 11. that they were given to him by his Father viz. actually given to bel●eve on him to follow him to own and acknowledge him for their Lord and Master Quest Now of which of these shall we understand our Saviour here to speak in the Text Ans. Here Expositors are not all agreed Some understanding it of the latter of these So Grotius who interprets it of an effectual giving Gods preparing men for Christ and working faith in them in such saith he as have a precious disposition thereunto And so Carthusian conceives it may be here looked upon All that he giveth me i. e. saith he such as by his secret inspiration he inclineth to come unto me And so Maldonate and some other Romish Commentators would have it But this were to confound these two parts of the Text Gods gracious Donation with mans Effectual Vocation his Giving with mans coming which are here set forth as two distinct acts the one of them antecedaneous to the other going before as in Order so in Time All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me Gods giving goeth before mans believing Others there are who put both together Gods Election before time and his calling in time So Gorran But others and that more rightly restrain it rather to the fo●mer of these Gods giving before time in his decree of Election So our Protestant Divines generally look upon it not without the co●sent of some Romanists And with them I shall choose to go along as I