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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15826	The saints sufferings, and sinners sorrowes. Or, The evident tokens of the salvation of the one, and the perdition of the other Phil. I.28, 2 Thes. I.6,7	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 26087; ESTC S101332	67,289	372

propagates Evangelicall faith or the want of it to his posterity It is personall both in the habite and privation No man is saved but by his owne faith or condemned but by his owne infidelity The want of faith in Christ is every mans proper sinne and can be imputed to none without the Gospel Wee make it the Churches sinne and not of all the world Gods preparation and donation of faith Leaving the power of Mans innocency and vniversall freedome to beleeve legally or Evangellically wee fall into the safe way and say that wheresoe●●● the Gospel is preached God gives or is prepared to give faith in Christ Hee mockes no man but is serious in the salvation of every soule to which the Gospel is sent Every hearer in the Church is zealously perswaded to repent The Ministers minde and Gods meet in his holy ordinances and the Word is earnestly spoken to every eare God himselfe goes with his message from seate to seate and from man to man with true and hearty desire of his conversion yet notwithstanding he gives not equall grace to all as shall appeare in our distribution thereof The donation of faith Act. 13.48 As many as were ordained to eternal life beloved To the Elect hee gives faith He is not onely prepared to preach unto them his Gospell but hee prepares their hearts to receive it He gives unto his chosen ones the blessed Gospel of peace and reconciliation and hee gives them faith to beleeve it We have all the same capacity but not the same conformitie Our powers are alike in understanding and will but that obedientiall and filiall subjection to God and his Gospel is peculiar to some God is prepared to give faith to all that heare his Gospel Matth. 23.37 I would yee would not It is the will of God by the Gospel that all should be gathered unto him Mans will resisteth Gods will and makes that Gospel of none effect that should be effectuall unto all God may adde further grace and give men hearts to receive as freely as his Gospell is offered unto them but such grace is a royall prerogative and reserved for some of many All are beholding to God but some finde and feele the very riches of his grace and are never able to be thankefull enough that they above others should receive so much Of the righteousnesse of God To require performance and give no power is as unequall in the command to al as it is in the gift to some To seeke where hee sowes not and to reape without labour is unreasonable if not unrighteous Man never had power to obey and therefore a heavy and harsh command is imposed upon him Mans power to obey the Gospel There is never a man but is guilty of that power that God hath given him and does lesse than he is inabled by his owne freedome There is no man but he may frequent the meanes and come to the place of Gods worship Secondly being come hee hath eares to heare Thirdly he hath an understanding to know the logicke and language of the holy Ghost Fourthly by that knowledge to come to an historicall faith Fiftly to affect reverence and regard both Ministers and message Sixtly to bring forth some fruits Seventhly to attend and wait daily for the regenerating Spirit that may convert and turne him truely unto God This power man useth not and is justly condemned for the abuse of it Want of faith in Christ simply no sinne If condemnation were absolutely and originally from faith a power were necessary to beleeve but in divers cases faith is found to be no sinne in the want of it Adam in the estate of innocency had no faith in Christ as a Mediatour and was blamelesse because no Law injoyned it Secondly men that need this faith and yet want the Gospell to convince them are guiltlesse of the sinne though in some sense they may bee said to bee guilty of the punishment Every curse and want of favour being due to every sonne of Adam It therefore remaineth that they onely are to be taxed that have the Gospell Sinnes of the Gospell are aggravations of the Law It must bee presupposed that a man is guilty of sinne and death before the Gospell charge him with a greater measure of evill and make him worse both in sinnes and sorrowes It is not the want of faith barely that turnes a man into hell for finde payment in thy selfe and satisfaction to the Law and God will challenge thee no further but that is impossible and therefore the Law casts the first stone at thee and beares thee over with the blow of death then comes the Gospel and buries thee under that stone without all hope of mercy A man is blind and rejects a cure his wilfulnesse hath made him the worse and more worthy of greater woes so the Gospell tenders thee a pardon thou contemnes it and for contempt deserves the sorer punishment It is not therefore necessary for God to give every man power to be●eeve but it is necessary for every man to be carefull he abuse not the power he hath and so double his terments and punishments in ●e●l Conviction is the worke of the Spirit The Father gives over the administration to his Sonne the Sonne to the Spirit and he is the first that argueth and disputeth with men of mercy and salvation In his hands is now the kingdome of the Father and the sonne and this kingdome is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reggum violentiae the Kingdome that suffereth violence Mat. 11.12 13. Luke 16.16 In this kingdome the Saints in suffering are more than conquerors Rom. 8.37 This is more than ever any Emperour could utter who have gained and kept their conquests with hardnesse and hazzard Matth. 28.18 19. the power of Christ is to preach and proclaim that he will take his power and reigne in and over all men He is mercifull in giving warning before the execution and leaving his Spirit to make preparation for his kingdome which shall bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kingdome of power Rev. 11.17 ruling and over-ruling all the world Christ having ended the subjection of the world shall give over his kingdome to his Father which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 15.24 O the divine administration of the Trinity The Father the first person passeth all to the Sonne the Sonne makes it descend againe to the holy Ghost The same is the order of regression that was in the progression as formerly we have declared The holy Ghost the first possessour of the kingdome returnes it into the possession of the Sonne and the Sonne leaves it in the hands of his Father where he first had it that he may be all in all From him was the proceeding and by good reason it must be to him againe The comming of the Holy Ghost The Gospel convinceth no man in the absence of the Spirit Wee must pray in hearing of the Word Come holy Spirit and visit our hearts

great a sinne it is Want of faith in Christ is of all sinnes the greatest it denies the mercy of God and makes a man the murtherer of himselfe It tals for Iustice and refuseth a pardon It convinceth of sin and rejects the remedy It casts a man into the jawes of death and cares not for helpe or hand that should pull him out Moses Law is not without punishment but this without escape If the Gospel deny us mercie our misery is irrecoverable The neglect Heb. 2.2 3. The Law of Moses in every transgression and disobedience is repayed with recompence and reward All the benefite is that an escape is granted from the rigour of this Iustice but if we neglect the great salvation of the Gospell we have no way to avoyd vengeance and wrath to come Lose the opportunity of the Gospel and all is lost Wee may recover the losses of the Law but if we looke not to the Gospel our case will bee desperate The Contempt There is no mercie Heb. 10.28 to the despiser of Moses Law and yet ver 29. there is sorer punishment to him that despiteth the Spirit of grace speaking in the Gospel No mercy is the hight of misery and yet Moses Law cannot be strained so high as to deny all mercy It may inflict death but the Gospel may take off the eternall punishment thereof but alas if the Gospell be abused and mercy denyed what Law shall remove that curse and bee able to release the sinner Evangelicall Apostacy We are all fallen in the first man and are for our Apostacy to be loathed and left of God without pittie But the Lord dealt not so with us for our sinnes He had mercy upon us in the Mediatour and made him a meanes to reconcile us againe and bring us into favour but reade with trembling all Apostataes frō the Gospell and see with horrour your dreadfull doome Heb. 10.38 If any draw backe my soule shall have no pleasure in him Woe unto us if such words had beene uttered against us for our Apostacy in Adam The Lord never set his soule against us but even with it pittied us and pardoned us graciously but now to Apostatize and forsake his mercy his very heart riseth against us and we are most loathsome and abominable in his eyes Hee abhorres for ever to cast a favourable looke upon us or once to vouchsafe us acceptation againe Christian Apostataes are the worst of men and shall have wages with the greatest vengeance Matth. 12.31 32. Blasphemie against the Gospell cannot be forgiven All legall blasphemie is pardonable the Father pardoneth it against himselfe the Sonne will remit it for his part but if it proceed to touch the Spirit it passeth all mediation I will not bee peremptory and yet I presume never any man committed this sinne against the Law I conceive it onely to be a Gospel-sinne that will admit of no pardon in the rejection of mercy The Iewes committed this sinne in the Scribes and Pharisees and I feare all this rabble here condemned in Peter were not farre from it having had the Gospell so long continued and so violently and wilfully opposed It is enough that I have touched it as the height of disobedience against the Gospell and have wished men to take warning of this woe and wickednesse Evangelicall despaire The preparation of the Law is to bring the sinner to despaire in himselfe and all worldly helpe and so is a meanes to bring him to Christ but Evangelicall despaire of mercy after the meanes of the Gospell offered and contemned is deadly and dangerous and few ever went out of it Men lie long under the sense of their owne misery without comfort but they may with confidence wait and expect to the last and rest in hope they shall not alwayes bee denyed their suites and supplications Onely desperate contemners of the Gospell when they fall into some extraordinary judgement of God and the horror of their owne consciences are little better than Devils waiting for the damnation and utter perdition of their soules Satan will be sure to perswade men first that God will not punish and then that GOD will not pardon The world is guilty of this sinne Want of faith in Christ is as common as it is dangerous for Saint Iohn stickes not to charge all the world with it and truely either in the penalty or the sinne wee may judge no mā exempted Where the Gospel is not preached it is the punishment of their first rebellion God is not tyed to give faith to any or to affoord him his Gospell These mercies are transcendent and of no mutuall right betweene God and his creature The Gospell was preached in Paradise but Adam had no Covenant that it should be hereditary and follow him and all his posterity The Law was intailed but the Gospell is the free blessing of Almighty God Want of faith the penalty and punishment of all Mankinde Faith in a Mediatour and faith in God are of a large difference The Law in commanding threatning promising is to be beleeved and the want of this faith brought Adam into sinne and it is the roote of all sin and deserver of all judgement What GOD commands that the creature must beleeve to be his duty what he threatneth he must in faith and feare yeeld unto and what he promiseth hee must likewise with the same faith imbrace Now this faith is an affection or rather a piece of Gods Image framing the affectiōs in a conformable power to all Gods cōmands cōminations promises but Evangelicall faith is no part or piece of the created image of God but a new principle put into the soule in place of originall righteousnesse to bring forth actuall obedience both in the inward and outward man The want of this faith as I said before is not the root of all sinne for where there is no Gospel the want of this faith will never bee imputed for a sinne The want of that other is truely and indeed the root of all sinne and originall of all punishment Not to beleeve in God was the sinne of Adam and all his posterity But want of beleeving in Christ is not of the same extent It is a signe that no sin is discharged we may safely say it is the desert of all men for the want of the first faith to be deprived of this Negative Infidelity condemnes no man for sin take away the meanes of Conviction and the sinne ceaseth Non positis medijs c. Deny men the Gospel and free them of the Gospel-sinnes but positive Infidelitie is a sin and where God affords his Gospel hee lookes for obedience and condemnes the contrary Want of faith the sinne of the Church To want faith where the Gospel is preached is an hainous and horrible sinne better such men had never heard it than that the sound of it should passe away without sense and sanctification This is that that truely makes the world guilty Legall