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death_n	adam_n	nature_n	sin_n	8,709	5	5.4949	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29102	The imperfect promulgation of the Gospel consider'd a sermon preach'd in the Church of St. Mary le Bow, January 7, 1699/1700 : being an appendix to the lectures of the last year appointed by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Samuel Bradford.	Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4115; ESTC R25291	15,205	36

to fit in darkness because when they had an Oportunity of having the Gospel promulg'd amongst them they obstinately rejected it or it may be because they have so universally and grosly sinn'd against the Light of Nature despis'd the Dictates of Conscience and degenerated into such vile and devilish Dispositions that if the Gospel were preach'd amongst them it would only serve to aggravate their Condemnation This is very agreeable to the Directions which our Lord gave his Apostles Matth. 1● 11.14 when he sent them abroad to preach Into whatsoever City or Town ye shall enter enquire Who in it is worthy And again Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your Words when ye depart out of that House or City shake off the Dust of your Feet namely Mark 6.11 as a Testimony against them that they had the offer of the Gospel but were so wicked as to reject it T is consonant also to our Saviour's Declaration that Whosoever hath to him shall be given Matth. 13.12 and he shall have abundance And from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath which is the Reason he assigns Verse 1● 11. Why he spake to the multitude in Parables Whilst he reveal'd to his Disciples the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven adding Therefore speak I to them in Parables Verse 13. because they seeing see not and hearing they hear not neither do they understand c. 'T is certain that this may be assign'd as a Reason why the Light of the Gospel is departed from or at least very much obscured in diverse Places where it once shone very bright namely that it was not duly improv'd by those whom it enlightned We know how our Lord threaten'd the Church of Ephesus Rev. 2.4 5. for leaving her first Love Remember therefore saith he from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first Works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick out of his Place except thou repent which Threatning has been long since remarkably fulfill'd in the prevailing of Mahometanism in those Parts and if GOD hath not dealt as severely with others who may have deserv'd it as much his Goodness should not make them presume but lead them to Repentance Fifthly I have yet farther this weighty Consideration to offer in this Case viz. That the Efficacy of our Saviour's Undertaking for Men doth certainly extend much farther than the actual Knowledge of him doth This must be suppos'd as to Infants at least such as are enter'd into the Christian Covenant by Baptism that they are capable of Salvation by Jesus Christ without actually knowing and believing in him This must again be allow'd as to all the good Patriarchs and other pious Men amongst the Jews who although they did believe and hope in God for the fulfilling of the great Promise of a Messiah to come yet did not see that Promise fulfill'd nor could actually know and believe in him as we do Such in truth was the Goodness of God to Mankind as to testifie his Compassion towards them immediately after the Fall by the Promise then made of the Woman's Seed that is of the Messiah which Promise as it was renew'd upon all occasions so as an Effect of his Interposition were confer'd all the Benefits which Mankind receiv'd from God after the sin of our first Parents It was upon his account that they were respited from present Death and that their Posterity have been blest with all those Favours Temporal and Spiritual which they have enjoy'd from that time to this insomuch that the Efficacy of our Lord's Undertaking is to bear date from the first Promise of it nay from the Purpose and Intention of God before his actual Promise But more particularly yet Sixthly The Holy Scriptures do every where represent our Saviour as having made Expiation for the sins of all Mankind without Exception as well those who were born before his appearing as since and those who live in the remotest and darkest Corners of the Earth as those to whom the Gospel is publish'd He is the Propitiation for our sins saith St. John 1 John 2 2. and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole World There is saith St. Paul 1 Tim. 2.5 6. one Mediator between God and Men who gave himself a Ransom for all to be testified in due time And the same Apostle in a set Discourse expresly makes the Benefit of Christ's Death in the design of it to extend as far as the sin of Adam had done Rom. 5.13 c. The Author to the Hebrews affirms that our Saviour took our Nature upon him Heb. 2.9 that he by the Grace of God might taste death for every Man And the same inspir'd Writer is very express in declaring that the Sacrifice of the Death of Christ did in its Merit and Virtue reach buckward to the begining of the World as well as forward to the end of it Not says he that he should offer himself often Heb. 9.25 26. as the High Priest entereth into the Holy Place every Year with the Blood of others for then must he often have suffered since the Foundation of the World but now once in the end of the World hath he appear'd to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself whereby is plainly intimated that this one Sacrifice had its Effect from the foundation of the World If it be ask'd wherein the effect of this Appears so extensive I answer by my next Proposition viz. Seventhly That by means hereof God was so far reconcil'd to Men as to give Place for Repentance and to accept of it wheresover it was sincere In the first Covenant made with Adam there was no Allowance made of Repentance after Transgression but upon the Interposition of our Redeemer and in Virtue of that Expiation which he was to make when he should come into the World sinners were allowed and encouraged to repent and turn to God in hopes of obtaining his Favor The very respiting our first Parents from the execution of the Sentence denounced was an intimation that Repentance would be acceptable to God the Promise made soon after the Fall was a Confirmation of the same thing God's commanding and encouraging Sacrifices still farther encouraged Repentance The Question which God put to Cain If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4.7 plainly signified his pleasure in this Case The Goodness of God continually exercis'd towards all Mankind in so many Instances Rom. 2.4 naturally tended to lead them to Repentance All along throughout the Old Testament both in Moses and the Prophets Repentance is inculcated and encouraged That peremptory Declaration and Oath of God tho' made to the House of Israel Ezek. 33.11 yet is in very general Terms and such as seem to concern all Mankind As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the Death of the