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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49338	Mercy triumphant, the kingdom of Christ enlarged beyond the narrow bounds which have been wont to be set unto it by Edward Lane, minister of the Gospel ; being an antidote against a book lately come out, of Doctor DuMoulin's, called Moral reflections upon the number of the elect, wherein the said author will prove by Scripture, that not one in a hundred thousand (nay probably not one in a million) from Adam down to our times shall be saved.	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing L333; ESTC R17029	54,157	64

displeasure against the World for Sin and to bring many Souls out of the Snare of the Devil unto Glory than Sin could be able in its most deadly Venome to destroy or than that Satisfaction can be which shall ever be giving by those who are doom'd to everlasting Fire but never be finished For in this is only creature-Satisfaction but in the other Divine Upon the account of which full Satisfaction being foreseen and praedetermined by the wise Counsel of Heaven to be paid to the uttermost Mercy even at the Instant of mans Restauration from his Fall began her Triumph in the behalf of her dear Purchace rejoycing against Judgment looking upon him that was to be the Executioner of it that is the Devil with infinite Disdain And that her Joy might be full the World was by Gods Decree to be brought under her Protection for the Sake and Safety of her Beloved Children her Children I say the Fruit and Offpring of Divine Grace which is and ever was as we may Read Ps 110.3 more fertile than the Womb of the Morning that spreads her Issue over all the Earth Let Mercy then Triumph as she well deserveth And how shall her Triumph be profited if her Enemy be permitted to carry captive after him at his will the greatest number of those that have been deluded by him That her Triumph therefore might be the more Glorious when in Justice God might have Condemned all to everlasting Death he left some to suffer according to their Demerits but delivered more up into the Armes of Mercy to be saved and how else should the Merit of our great Redeemer Jesus Christ prevaile more abundantly to save as the Apostle argueth the case Rom. 5.15 c. than the Sin of Adam was to bring Death and Destruction upon himself and all his Posterity The great Objection that can be here cast in is that the major part of the World are and have always been Aliants from the Covenant of Promise Which though it should be granted yet will it not become us to determine of their final Estate so as to judge them to Eternal Perdition For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are Gods ways higher than our ways and his Thoughts than our Thoughts It is his good Pleasure we commonly say to save Infants of beleiving Parents who never came under the Guilt of any actual Sin though they cannot according to the Tenour of the Gospel lay hold upon Christ by Faith yea though they should suddenly or otherwise by some casualty die unbaptised unless we will beleive as the Church of Rome Beleives that there is a Limbus Infantum where they are shut up for ever separated from the Joys of Heaven and the Pains of Hell And such as are Invincibly Ignorant as Ideots and born Changelings and those that cannot hear nor speak nor understand being born Deaf and wanting such Intellectuals as are proper to Rational Creatures yet these we are apt charitably to beleive may also non obstante be in a State of Salvation And I beseech you may not the Wisdom of the Omnipotent God have its free Liberty to Act and his Grace to operate in a way beyond our Apprehension for the Salvation of many of those who are yet Strangers unto him by bringing them sooner or later into the Bond of the Covenant in such a kind and manner and by such means as shall seem good unto him yea and without means too For this is his Perogative who hath said I will be Gracious to whom I will be Gracious and I will shew Mercy to whom I will shew Mercy It must be granted the Devil hath by Gods Permission prevailed much to draw the greatest part of the World into most abominable Idolatries c. and consequently into a State of Condemnation But we must ever remember it is God that Governs the World and that he will not allow a Scrutiny to be made by us into the Secret of his Soveraignty or that we should be busily Inquisitive why he suffereth so great a part of mankind to abide so long during many Generations in the Region of Darkness and in the Shadow of Death In so doing we shall but shew our selves to be ungovernable under him That which should satisfie us is this viz. The Government he manageth by his Incomprehensible Wisdom Power and Goodness according to the Counsel of his own Will for he is Sui Juris absolute in his Power and for the advantage and advancement of the Kingdom of his dearly beloved Son and this I presume will be acknowledged by all For us then to conclude the final Reprobation of whole Kingdoms and Nations under this Divine Government because their present Infidelity is not restrained by the wise Providence of God which ruleth in these Kingdoms of men what 's this but to set Limits to the glorious and boundless Attributes of the most high in the Exercise of his Government or to tell him in effect he must everlastingly condemn all these Aliants that are not acquainted with his Gospel else his Government fails in the Administration of it Is it fit for us Poor Worms to dispute thus of Gods Arcana Imperii rather should we humbly adore the Infinite Wisdom of our Governour and confess his Judgments to be Unsearchable and that his Ways are past finding out What know we but that God who can bring Light out of Darkness and Good out of Evil may righteously confound his Enemy the great Prince of Darkness who hath brought all this Mischief into the World even in his greatest Strength and in the thing wherein he hath dealt proudly shew that he will be above him Such a Reflexion as this would surely better become us than by an Audacious Arguing to charge God foolishly which though it be not uttered in Terminis yet hath our Pragmatical medling with Gods Government such a Sense in it or in our hast uncharitably to Condemn the greatest part of mankind and that by Virtue of Gods Decree as is likewise pretended to everlasting Fire and in it to remediless Torments Let this then be another Consideration which may lay a Restraint upon us to keep us from the too common Arrogancy of sentencing millions of millions c. of our own Flesh and Blood to Hell viz. We are to let God alone to govern the World for the Kingdom is the Lords and he it is who is the Governour among the Nations Ps 22.18 God is not the God of the Jews only Hath he the ordering of them alone It was spoken when the Jews were Gods Selected People Is he not of the Gentiles also meaning doubtless at large all the World over Yes saith the Apostle Rom. 3.29 And so ought we to say yes of the Gentiles also of what Nation or Language soever they be in any part of the World Add hereto the Conversions of men are not all after one sort Ordinarily indeed they are wrought by the Preaching of the Gospel

are without he is well pleased with it accounting such not far from the Kingdom of God Finally if it will well become us to ascribe unto our Lord Jesus Christ all the Glory that can well be imagined by us and undoubtedly this will be a part of his Glory that his Kingdom shall be much more enlarged than the Kingdom of his Enemy the Devil For as the wise Preacher faith Pro. 14.28 In the multitude of People is the Kings Honour and that this inveterate Enemy may not at last with Triumphant Exultations make his boast Luctationibus robustis luctatus sum et etiam palmam Tuli with great wrastlings have I wrastled against God and his Christ and I have prevailed If I say these Principles be granted as they must unless we will dissolve all the Bands of Christianity only I confess I cannot be so positive in the second what should be the reason that this Opinion hath so long been tenaciously maintained viz. It is Decreed of God that the number of those that shall perish for ever in Hell is much greater than the Number of those that shall be saved in Heaven It is I must say an Amazement to me to see and hear the Considence that hath taken hold of many among us in their busie medling about this matter affirming presumptuously without Reason that which is infinitely beyond the Reach of men or Angels One Author there is of reverend Antiquity whom I am not willing here to name who is reported by a late Writer Ravanellus to give some reason for it which indeed is comprehensive of all that can be said though upon a diligent Search I do not find the Quotation agreeing with the pretended Original the Words in the Apographon are these Ita est ut intelligeremus quid omnibus deberetur atque adeo ut inde liquidius constaret quanta sit Ira dei erga peccatum Peccatores quanta sit ejus Bonitas Clementia erga Electos quae eo pretiosior est quo paucioribus communicatur ideoque magis ab illis Agnoscenda Praedicanda i e so it is that we may know what we have all deserved as our due and that it may appear thereupon the more cleerly how great Gods Anger is against Sin and Sinners and how great his goodness and Mercy is to his elect which the fewer they be that are saved by it is the more precious and by them to be so esteemed and proclaimed This is all which I for my part have ever read or heard to be alledged in this case But Judge I pray for I appeal unto all men that are able to discerne First whether we may not much better attain to the knowledge of the just desert of our Sins in a way which will more directly give us a right understanding therein and which we may be sure is more according to the Rule that the Spirit of God hath set us than in this way of Reflexion upon others who shall perish in their Sins though I say not but that this also may be sometimes of good use if it be with moderation considered as it ought to be which I fear is but seldome among most People But a way doubtless may be shewed unto us if we would apply our selves aright to the using of it which is more sure and convincing First the Conscience which God hath set in every Mans Breast as it is a faithful Monitor if it may be suffered to speak so it is in stead of a thousand Witnesses against us all for our eternal Condemnation unless Mercy prevent it And what man is there I except not the Heathen who doing by nature the things contained in the Law shew the Work of the Law written in their Hearts Rom. 2.14.15 what man I say is there let him be the most holy most humble most zealous man for Gods Glory that ever was in the World except the Man Christ Jesus in whom this faithful Informer hath not at one time or other done his Office in this kind of accusing and judging Yea the better the Heart of man is the more freedom hath it there to deal plainly in speaking of the Wrath which is to come as due unto all men for Sin 2. Doth not the Written Word of God sufficiently shew unto us in many other places of it that all mankind hath deserved to fall and perish under this Wrath for ever Is it not written cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law to doe them and is it not written also that in many things we offend all Is it not written all have finned and come short of the Glory of God and that even the best of us all are by Nature the Children of Wrath too as others are But there is no need to multiply Quotations to this purpose evident it is the Holy Scripture doth frequently testifie the same Truth that knowing the Terror of the Lord we may be perswaded by it Judge again in the next place whether Gods Anger against Sin and Sinners hath not appeared infinitely more in the cursed and cruel Death of his only begotten Son being thereby made a Curse for the Sin of the World than if he had in his just Indignation cast the whole Race of mankind into Hell for ever and should not the Consideration hereof also more work upon us to make us sensible of Gods Anger against Sin and Sinners than to talke unadvisedly with our Lips of a matter wherein we are totally ignorant and which will in the end prove to be rather than that which is here pretended too bold an Intrusion into Gods Pavillion a derogation also from Christs Merits and a Dishonour to the great Name of our God to whom belong Mercies and Forgiveness though to us and to all men belongeth confusion of Face for ever because we have rebelled against him But what a Word is this that followes viz. Gods Mercy is the more Precious and accordingly to be the more magnified the fewer they are who shall be partakers of it or which is all one because but a few shall be saved If this be Evangelical God be merciful to me I am yet to learn after so many Years teaching and studying the Holy Scripture what is the true Doctrine of the Gospel of my Lord and Master Christ Jesus What is it come to this shall the Rich and superabundant Mercy of God wherein we have trusted and triumphed all along be thus streitned accounted the more precious because it reacheth but to a few It grieves me to find so eminent a Leader in the Church to be so reported of as is here written of him which to my apprehension if it be true and I am not willing to be too Inquisitive signifies that he hath let fall too foul a Blot upon his most excellent Workes though I confess at first Sight it did worke in me a suspicion of my Judgment in this Point