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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04185	Sermons on several subjects; shewing Gods love to mankind. Salvation is by grace. Wilderness-provision. God a strong hold in trouble. Light is to be improved. / By J. Lougher minister of the gospel.	Lougher, John, d. 1686	1685 (1685)	Wing L3093C; ESTC R180071	105,071	248

Isa 27.8 In measure he debateth and stays his rough wind in the day of the East-wind He will not contend for ever Isa 57.16 nor be always wroth lest the spirit fail before him and the soul that he hath made But his mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him Yea the end of God in afflicting is to manifest his Love He is angry that he may love angry a little that men repenting he may love them for ever What excellent declarations of God's Love are these to the degenerate Sons of Men yet as if all this were but a small matter there are yet greater operations of it Above all things the Incarnation of his Son Jesus Christ doth most eminently manifest the Love of God to the Sons of Men and demonstrates that he is Love it self 1 Joh. 4.9 10. Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his only begotten Son into the world to be a Propitiation for our sins that we might live through him I speak of the common interest of all men in it It was brought to pass by God for to make his love to men appear He so loved the world John 3.16 that he gave his only begotten Son c. And Christ came and died in our nature for the world of Mankind and not for the lapsed Angels Which of the Angels can say To us a Child is born to us a Son is given He took not on him the nature of Angels Heb. 2.16 but the seed of Abraham The good Angels need no pardon the bad Angels are excluded from it and Man only hath a Saviour provided for him and offered to him in the Gospel upon terms highly just equal and reasonable Look at the Angels in themselves and they are noble Gold and Silver are the Monarchs of the world as one stiles them Brass and Copper the Gentry but Lead and Iron are the Refuse of the world What hath Iron in it Of how mean a colour is it yet the Loadstone refuseth all other metals and attracts the Iron to its self Thus the Angels are excellent and glorious creatures Gold and Silver as it were in comparison of Man yet Christ took not the Angelical but the Humane Nature how full of Astonishment is this An● all flowed from the Love of God to Man And what strange passages do concur i● the work of Man's Redemption All wer● done by the death of the Lord of Life he was in poverty that men might b● made rich and died that they might liv● who believe in him He was wounde● that they might be healed and bare th● curse that they might have the blessing and all this from the Fountain of Divin● Love 1 Joh 2.2 God so loved the world so admirally so unspeakably so inconceivably non but himself can tell how that he gave h●● Son to be a Propitiation for the sins of th● whole world And Christ so loved Men that he gave himself to death for them and what had he more to give It is th● nature of Love so to do where Divin● Love is in any height or perfection thoug● it be but in a creature it brings an extasie it makes that creature go out of i● self deny it self neglect its own profi● and pleasure and seek the Glory of God and to be taken up wholly in the Servic● of God This Love was perfect in Christ and this made him empty himself an● lay aside his Majesty and Glory for th● good of them he loved Here 's Divin● Love to the height and in its perfection and may bring to an extasie for the Love is such a Mine as is too deep and rich for any creature to fathom or count the value of it yet this the Love of God hath contrived and effected for Man And whereas some make an ill use of this Love to overthrow Christ's satisfaction If God say they so loved Man as to give his Son for him then he was not angry with him and if not angry then there was no need at all of a satisfaction to be made for him Though Love and Hatred that I may briefly answer it are inconsistencies yet Love and Anger may well stand together He gave his Son there was great love Isa 53. It pleased the Father to wound him and bruise him for our iniquities there was great wrath God's wrath was kindled against Job's Friends yet in love he directs them to atone him by a Sacrifice Job 42.7 8. God could not but be angry at the sin of the World and yet in love gave his Son to be a Propitiatory Sacrifice for sin Oh the vast immense Love of God to fallen Man in this particular Unto all this let me yet add one demonstration of God's Love to fallen Man which is manifest in giving his Word unto him both Law and Gospel which is made known at one time or other unto all Nation most hearty desires and entreaties to a●cept the same Ezek. 33.11 1 Tim. 2.4 He declares therein th●● he takes no pleasure in the death of s●ners but would have all men to be save and to come to the knowledge of t●● Truth He is troubled and grieved wh●● men slight and neglect the tenders 〈◊〉 Peace made to them Obj. Some will say Why doth God th●● permit so many to perish even the most Mankind and to lie for ever under his wrat●● How can this stand with such Love as G●●● declares to the Sons of Men Ans God's Love and Justice are n●●● inconsistent but can and do stand w●●● together His Justice takes place up●● those who despise the riches of his Gra●● and Love He might have stood up●● the first terms made with Adam T●● terms of that Old Covenant wee just a●● righteous All his Posterity were co●cerned therein to stand or fall in hi●● He sinned and so brought sin and dea●● upon all the World of Mankind By o●● man sin entred into the world Rom. 5.12 and death 〈◊〉 sin and so death passed upon all men for th● all have sinned Here God might have stood upon it and have held all men to the terms of the first Covenant which was death upon the first transgression and these terms he might have prosecuted to the utter destruction of all men He was not bound to make new ones yet this he hath graciously done and made a new Covenant his own Son a second Adam the Head and Mediator of this Covenant He is freely offered and tendred in the Gospel to the Sons of Men Jam. 3.16 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life If men refuse and reject the tenders of Salvation as the most do their destruction is of themselves and the Love of God appears more in saying the remnant that believe than any severity in destroying the rest especially considering he is not the cause of their sin but is grieved that they will not

hath compassion on whom 〈◊〉 will have compassion If any ask wheth●● God should not have been gracious if 〈◊〉 had saved all mankind I answer Ye● but his grace is now more full to tho●● that he saves when others are lost eve●● as a Prince's grace is more full to one 〈◊〉 two Rebels whom he saves out of man● they being obnoxious to the Justice of th● Law as well as others Two things w●●● clear the meaning of this Proposition 〈◊〉 us if we duly consider them 1. That the first and last stone of th● building of salvation is of grace Not 〈◊〉 grace infused into us but of grace as it 〈◊〉 seated in God his free favour to the creature All the spiritual blessings which are bound up in the bundle of salvation flow from this fountain of the free and rich love and grace of God Election is of grace Rom. 11.6 There is a remnant according to the election of grace Vocation is of grace the Apostle Paul saith God called him by his grace Gal. 1.12 Justification is of grace Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his grace Regeneration and Adoption are of grace Eph. 1.5 Adoption is said to be according to the good pleasure of his will James 1.18 Of his own will begat he us Redemption is said to be according to the riches of his grace Eph. 1.7 Hope and Faith are of grace We read of some who believed through grace and of good hope through grace Acts 18.8 2 Thes 2.16 Power against sin is from the same Rom 6.14 Sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace The New Covenant is a Covenant of grace When Adam had spent all that stock of grace he had at first it was free whether God would set him up again The giving of the Gospel is called the dispensation of the grace of God Eph. 3.2 'T is true the meritorious cause of all this was the death of Christ yet it was grace which set thy design on foot It was by the grace of God he tasted death Heb. 2.9 2. That all this Salvation is only of gra●● For in the Scripture grace is opposed works Rom. 4.4 To him that worketh the reward not reckoned of grace but of d●● And further Rom. 11.6 he saith if it be grace speaking of Election then is i● more of works otherwise grace is no 〈◊〉 grace But if it be of works then is it no m●● grace otherwise work is no more work Pla●ly setting grace and works in direct op●●sition in the matters of Salvation A● having said here By grace ye are saved presently adds in the next verse Not works Titus 3.5 Not by works of ri●teousness which we have done but of 〈◊〉 mercy hath he saved us 2 Tim. 1.9 〈◊〉 hath saved us and called us not accord●● to our works but according to his o●● purpose and grace which he purposed Christ Jesus before the world beg●●● These Scriptures give full witness to th● point and shew that it is only of gra●●● and not of works Therefore those th● die in their infancy and such as repent the last hour as the Thief on the Cr●●● did are saved by grace only for th● can do no good works If it were 〈◊〉 works it must be either of those done b●fore conversion or of those after it N●● of those before conversion for they 〈◊〉 but splendida peccata as some term them all a man doth in this state is not only sinful but sin it self for they are not done in faith without which it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 The Pharisees and the young man in the Gospel did very many good works yet they were not saved by their good works God accounts of fruits according to the nature of the root whence they spring A bad Tree cannot bring forth good fruit saith Christ Matth. 7.18 Nor yet of works after conversion for when converted they are in a great measure saved as you heard in the former Doctrine Good works are rather the effect of salvation for they are new created unto good works Eph. 2. v. 10. Besides that cannot be the ground of salvation which is it self imperfect as all their best works are And were they free from imperfection yet could they not merit salvation because whatever merits it must be proprium our own Indebitum that which we are not bound to do and proportionatum it must bear a proportion to the thing merited The best works of the best men are defective and wanting in all these for they are not their own but wrought in God and by the strength of Christ They are due to God even the utmost of their ability 〈◊〉 their bounden duty nor do finite work bear any proportion to an infinite rewar● The doings and sufferings of the be therefore can be no causes of salvation for they can never be accepted but by th● Righteousness of Christ and not for a●● thing in them or their works mereto●ously He hath made us accepted in th● Beloved Eph. 1.6 and therefore salvation is to the praise of the glory of h●● grace as it is in that verse Some wi●● say salvation is promised as a rewar● Heb. 11.26 but not a reward of deb● but of free bounty The gift of God is eternal life Rom. 6. ult You will say Glo●● is the Crown of Righteousness but tha● is only in respect of God's promise an● Christ's purchase You will say A●● works wholly excluded from the state o● salvation Nothing so only exclude● from being the causes of salvation They are via regni not causa regnandi as some speak Some from what hath been said may grow slighty in good works and neglect them Luther is reported to complain in his time that if he commended good works to men some would do them as if they would set up a Ladder to climb to Heaven by them if he extolled the free grace of God as the grand cause of salvation and acceptance with God they would lay aside good works or be very negligent and formal in them But let us remember that though salvation be not of good works yet they ought to be done because it is the will of God we should be zealous of good works Titus 2.14 We are created in Christ unto good works which God ordained we should walk in them They that have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works Titus 3.8 Faith without works is dead Let our Light so shine before men that they may see our good works c. Mat. 5.16 Good works if neglected a man cannot be saved yet are we not saved for them they are good companions which make our journey more comfortable yet our company do not carry us And though salvation be not for them yet God rewards every man according to them and will not suffer any good work to be lost but will abundantly reward it Here I might assign Reasons why salvation is of grace I