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A53957 A practical discourse concerning God's love to mankind written for the satisfaction of some scrupulous persons / by Edward Pelling ... Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1694 (1694) Wing P1083; ESTC R21771 58,579 154

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to Christ considering the High Dignity of his Person though in his state of Exinanition he was made lower than the Angels that he might be in a Capacity to taste Death for every Man Next it is proposed as the great Motive for our Patience and Perseverance and confident Hope in God amidst all our Tryals in this World And then it is used as a very powerful Reason to Encourage us all to Amend our Lives in case we have Heinously Sinned or to depend upon Christ's Merit and Intercession for the Pardon of all our Trangressions THESE two observable things being throughly well consider'd are enough to make all Thoughtful and Teachable Men afraid of contradicting a Principle so very clear in itself and of such vast importance and concernment in its Use After these Manifest and Express Declarations over and over touching the Universal Extent of the Merit of Christ's Death to make a Monopoly of it for the Benefit of a Jew only leaving all the Residue of Mankind under an absolute inevitable Necessity of Perishing for ever What is this but to give the Holy Scripture the Lye and to shake the Minds of People in the Practice of their Duties nay to Deterr them from the practice of Religion by Ruining and Diging up the very Foundation which was designedly laid for the Building up of all Men in Faith and Holiness and to Support the whole Fabrick of Piety and Vertue BUT there are some particular Passages which serve to Demonstrate and Confirm the Point in Hand beyond one would think all possibility of Cavil and therefore I shall insist upon those after a more Copious rate omitting many others which if Critically Enumerated would presently swell into a great Heap AND the first shall be the Words of St. John which indeed I mentioned before but have not distinctly consider'd where he tells us positively That Christ is the Propitiation for our Sins and not for our Sins only but also for the Sins of the whole World 1 Jo. 2. 2. There is no question but when he saith Christ is the Propitiation for our Sins he means his own Sins and the Sins of others who Professed Christianity with him In the first verse he calls them His little Children which cannot but signifie Believers And if we may pretend to guess at God's Elect we have Reason to think both the Apostle and those he there Wrote to to have been of that Blessed Number and that St. John thought so too by the Account he gives of himself And then truly saith he our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ cap. 1. 3. And again I Write unto you little Children because your Sins are forgiven you for his Names sake v. 12. Much more to the same purpose he saith afterwards That they had overcome the Wicked one That they had known the Father That the Word of God did abide in them That they had an Unction from the Holy one That they were the Sons of God That they had passed from Death to Life And divers other such Characters he gives of them whereby we may easily perceive that St. John looked upon them to be in a State of Salvation And whosoever Reads his Epistles throughout will find Reason enough by the strain of them to believe that the Divine Apostle thought his own Salvation very secure Now in that speaking in his own Person and in the Person of other Faithful Christians he affirmeth Christ to be the Propitiation not for their Sins only but also for the Sins of the whole World He must be understood to mean the whole World of Infidels for there lies the Antithesis And the whole World being distinguished into two great Divisions the Sheep and the Goats those who are the Sons of God and those who are not and Christ being said to be the Propitiation for all we must conclude that he died for more than are supposed to be Predestinated to Eternal Life or else I cannot conceive to what purpose St. John spoke those Words or what Truth or Sence they can bear if he died for Believers only To say he is the Propitiation also for the sins of the whole World if it were not so would have been Superfluous and False and therefore this single Text should put it out of Controversie That he died for all Mankind He Paid on his part a Ransom for All he made on his part an Atonement for All so that all were Deliver'd from a Necessity of Perishing all were put anew into a possibility and capacity of being happy for ever And if after all this some will not lay hold on the Blood of Christ by a free and lively Faith nor perform the Terms of a New-Covenant of Grace which was Sealed by the Blood of Christ but will trample under foot the Blood of the Son of God this is no diminution to its infinite Valour nor to his Act and Intention but an Aggravation of their Guilt who were put by him into a good Condition and might have been Eternally Saved had they not been wanting on their own part to themselves by willfully neglecting so great Salvation This is a Plain Easie and Natural Account of St. John's meaning And to the same Effect though in other Words St. Paul tells us That Christ is the Saviour of all Men especially of those that Believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. This Assertion could not be True nor the Distinction Needful or to any purpose were he not the Saviour of them that Believe not Why should the Apostle come off with an especially of those that believe if Christ did not his part to Save all in general the whole Race of Mankind He might have said who is the Saviour of the Elect and no more if no more had been in Christ's Eye and Heart His saying especially doth not Limit or Restrain the Merits of his Death to Believers but only restrains the Application of his Merits to them through the fault of others who make his Blood of no effect to them by being Unbelievers It shews that they exclude themselves from having that Benefit by his Death which he purchased for All and intended for All if they would Believe and Repent None were passed by by any absolute Decree of God or for want of Affection in the Son of God he died for every Man with a Sincere purpose and upon Condition that every one would lay hold on his Cross and cleanse himself from all Filthiness by the Blood of Sprinkling Upon that Account he is the Saviour of all Men and the propitiation for the Sins of the whole World as to Merit and Intention But because all do not come unto him after all but continue still in a State of Wickedness and Infidelity therefore as to Efficacy he is not so much their Saviour as he is others to all intents and purposes he is a Propitiation and Saviour especially to Believers 2. SECONDLY For the farther Confirmation of this Point let us hear