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A86329	The order of causes. Of [brace] Gods fore-knowledge, election, and predestination. And of mans salvation or damnation. Laid down so clearly, and proved so plainly by the scriptures, that even the meanest capacity amongst rational men may understand it, to their great satisfaction. As also, whether Christ died for all, or not for all: with the causes and effects that may follow or not follow, seriously considered, meekly controverted, and plainly proved by the scriptures of truth; to the great satisfaction of all rational people fearing God. By Henry Haggar, a servant of Christ, and of the congregations of his saints.	Haggar, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing H188; Thomason E735_20; ESTC R206976	22,700	32

wicked are an abomination to the Lord but it is because of works of righteousness that Christ himself hath wrought for us in his own person and doth work by us and in us by his Spirit when we are believers And though boasting in the works of the Law and boasting of works before believing be reproved yet Paul saith As the truth of Christ is in me no man shall stop me of that boasting 2 Cor. 11.10 and although be cryed down works before faith in so many places yet he preacheth up works after believing loud enough in these words Tit. 3.8 This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou constantly affirm That they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works for they are good and profitable c. and Phil. 2.12 13. Work out your salvation with fear trembling for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure Thus we may see that although it be not for our workings without Christ that we are chosen or predestinated to life and glory yet it is by our workings with Christ when he by his Spirit dwelleth in our hearts by believing and is in us the hope of glory for then he worketh in us and our works are acceptable because he works them by us and we work them in him Therefore Paul saith We therefore as workers together with him beseech you c. Therefore if men would but open their eyes they might easily see what works the Apostle speaks of when he saith Election is not of works But of this more plainly anon Secondly I answer Although God saw Adam would fall yet he saw him a creature first or else he could not have foreseen he would fall when he was a creature therefore God is the God of order and not of confusion 1 Cor. 14.33 and fore-seeth all things orderly and not confusedly So then I conclude that first he saw Adam created Secondly He saw him fallen and all his postery in his loynes Thirdly He saw Christ crucified for them Fourthly He foresaw the Gospel preached to all men in their generations Fifthly He foresaw all mens receiving or refusing believing or not believing obeying or disobeying his Gospel in their several generations as it was is or shall be communicated to the end of all ages in order at once And seeing as well then what men would do in their ages and generations to come as they do know themselves when their lives and actions are finished God could thereupon make up his Election and Reprobation chusing or electing obedient believers according to his foreknowledge to Life and Salvation and refusing and reprobating disobedient unbelievers to eternal death and damnation And thus is Election and Reprobation to be considered according to the sorekowledge of God in Christ or out of Christ from the foundation of the World according to the Scriptures Which if well considered it would put an end to all the confused and distracted thoughts in men about these things But it may be that some will yet object that I hold faith and obedience in us to be the cause of Gods electing or chusing us to life and glory Answ That faith in Christ and obedience to Christ is a cause without which God chuseth none to Life and Salvation I affirm because we never read that God chose any disobedient unbeliever to life and glory which lived and dyed so but that it is the cause for which he doth chuse any I shall utterly deny and shew the contrary in the Order of Causes thus Suppose I should affirm my obedience to be the cause of my Election to Salvation then what is the cause of my obedience Answ My love to Christ But what is the cause of my love to Christ Answ The preaching of the Gospel of Christ viz. that he died for my sins and rose again for my justification without which there could be no believers for take away Christ and take away faith and then believe who can But what is the cause of the preaching of the Gospel to us Answ Christs dying for us But what is the cause of Christs dying for us Answ Even Gods great love of pity wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and sins Eph. 2.4 at that time he commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christs died for us Rom. 5.8 Thus all men may see that I do not hold that God chose any to Life and Salvation for any good in them before he put it in them as I shall now make appear more at large by the Scriptures considering the causes in order descending from God to us or ascending from us to God 1 Cause Gods love to the sons of men as they were sinners against him and enemies to him was the cause of his sending his Son to die for sinners for his enemies for the ungodly for the unjust as appeareth by these following Scriptures John 3.16 Rom. 5.6 8 10. 1 Pet. 3.18 God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly And God commendeth his love to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life For Christ also hath suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God 2 Cause Christs dying for our sins and rising again from the dead is the cause of the Gospels being preached to sinners as appeareth by these Scriptures Mat. 28.18 19. Mark 16.15 16. 1 Cor. 15.13 14. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying All power is mine both in Heaven and in Earth Go ye therefore and teach all Nations c. And again he said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature c. But if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is vain and ye are yet in your sins c. 3 Cause The Gospels being preached to sinners is the cause of their believing as appeareth by these Scriptures Rom. 10.14 15 17. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent As it is written So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God 4 Cause Mens believing is the cause of their justification from sin as appeareth by these Scriptures Act. 13.38 39. Rom. 3.26 28. chap. 4.3 23 24 25. Be it known unto you therefore that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins c. By him all that believe are

henceforth live to themselves but to him that died for them and rose agin And Paul saith 1 Tim. 2.5 6 that there is one God and one Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransome for all to be testified in due time From whence the Reader may do well to consider that if we may understand the Scripture as it is written that there is one God and one Mediator so also we may understand from the same scripture that the same Mediator gave himself in due time a ransome for all Again Paul saith in the same Epistle ch 1.15 that it is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation that Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom Paul was the chief Whence I conclude If he came to save the chief of sinners then surely he left none without a Saviour and means of salvation Again he saith to Titus ch 2.11 that the grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men hath appeared And Heb. 2.9 That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man And 1 John 2.2 that he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world And chap. 4 14. he saith speaking of himself and the rest of the Apostles We have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world Thus we have the testimony of all the Prophets the Angel of God Christ the Lord himself all his holy Apostles agreeing together in one to prove that Christ died for all mankinde and by him grace mercy and eternal life is offered to all and the worst of sinners The substance of which I shall in order once more put down that you may take notice of the sweet harmony of Scriptures in the proof of this pretious truth which is thus That the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of all that went astray Isa 53.6 that he gave himself as ransome in due time for all men yea the chief of sinners 1 Tim. 2.6 chap. 1.1 5. that he by the grace of God tasted death for every man Heb. 2.9 that he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world I John 2.2 that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world 1 John 4.14 that he is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world that all men through him might believe Joh. 1.7 29. and to him give all the Prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Acts 10.43 and Christ testifieth of himself that God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3.16 and this is glad tidings of great joy to all people Luke 2.10 And thus the pleasant harmony of Scriptures out of the mouths of so many faithful witnesses which none dare deny must needs make sweet melody in the hearts of all true believers But now it remaineth for me to speak to those Objections which are usually brought against these Scriptures To which I shall give a brief yet through the help of the Lord I hope a satisfactory Answer And to that end I shall summe them all up into four heads thus The common Objections are raised against the word all men and the word every man the word world and the word whole world Which are managed thus that Christ died for all the Elect for every one of die Elect for the world of believers or the whole world of the Elect. To which I answer That Christ died for the Elect I freely grant because he died for all men every man and the whole world as aforesaid that but he died for the Elect as they were Elect or because they were Elect I utterly deny and will shew the contrary by the Scriptures anon But first I will consider the Objections whether they arise naturally from the Scriptures or no which will appear thus If the Scripture nowhere speaks of a world of believers and Elect persons then we have no ground to believe that Christ died for a world of believers and Elect persons But the Scripture nowhere speaks of such a world Therefore we have no ground to believe Christ died for such a world Nay the Scriptures are so far from calling believers and Elect persons a world that they are opposed against the world as appeareth by the words of Christ John 15.19 If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you But now if we should grant these men their Argument it would destroy their own principle which is That none of the Elect can perish But that some that Christ died for may perish is evident in these words of Paul And so shall thy weake brother perish for whom Christ died 1 Cor. 8.11 But if Christ died for none but the world of Elect as they say then some of the Elect may perish And thus their folly is manifest Therefore I shall now shew by the Scriptures what world Christ died for Rom. 5.6 When we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly vers 8 But God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us vers 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life From all which we clearly see that Christ died for the world of ungodly and for the world of sinners and for the world of his enemies yea for the world of unjust 1 Pet. 3.18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God But the Elect as Elect are not unjust for who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth c. See Rom. 8 33 34. Therefore he died not for the Elect as or because they were Elect but even for the world that John speaks of when he saith We know we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness 1 John 5.19 Obj. But the Saints and those that shall be saved were once sinners as well as others Eph. 2. Answ But that was not as they were Elect in Christ but as they were reprobates or void of judgement concerning the faith out of Christ without God without hope yea enemies in their mindes by evil works See vers 1 2 3 11 12 13 c. all which hath been the condition of the best of Gods people until they be justified by faith and made nigh by the blood of Christ for Jews and Gentiles are all under sin and every mouth stopped and all the world guilty

justified from all things c. To declare his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of all that believe in Jesus Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law For what saith the Scripture Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him for righteousness but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our sins and raised for our justification 5 Cause Our knowing our selves justified from our sins by faith in the blood of Christ is the cause of our love to Christ according to these Scriptures Joh. 4.10 19. Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins Therefore we love him because he loved us first 6 Cause Our love to Christ is the cause of our obeying of Christ according to these Scriptures 1 John 5.3 John 14.15 21 23. If ye love me keep my Commandments And he that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me And if any man love me he will keep my words For this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not grievous 7 Cause Our obeying of Christ is the cause of his giving us eternal life as it is written Mark 16.16 Rev. 22.14 Heb. 5.9 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved And blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in thorow the gates into the City And Christ being made perfect through sufferings he became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him Thus are the causes of Gods Election and mans Salvation laid down in order so clearly that the meanest capacity may understand them which more briefly are thus 1. Gods love was the cause of his sending his Son to die for sinners 2. Christs dying for sinners and rising again for their justification is the cause of the Gospels preaching 3. The preaching of the Gospel is the cause of our believing 4. Our believing is the cause of our justification from sin 5. The knowing our selves justified from sin by the blood of Christ is the cause of our love to Christ 6. Our love to Christ is the cause of our obeying of Christ 7. Our obeying of Christ is the cause of his becoming the author of eternal Salvation to us and all them that obey him Now if we consider the causes in order from us to God it is as clear beginning at the last 7. Our obedience is the cause of our salvation 6. Our love is the cause of our obedience 5. The knowing of our selves justified from sin by the blood of Christ is the cause of our love to him 4. Our believing is the cause our justification 3. The preaching of the Gospel is the cause of our faith 2. Christs death and resurrection is the cause of the Gospels preaching 1. Gods love is the cause of sending his Son to die for us Thus it appears that it is not for any works of righteousness that we have done but of his love and mercy he saved us by sending a Saviour Titus 3.4 5. From all which these following things are considerable and ought to be considered of all that desire to fear God a right 1. There was a necessity of Gods love in sending his Son to die for us without which he had not come to die 1 John 4.10 2. There was a necessity of Christs love in dying for us without which the Gospel could not be preached 1 Cor. 15.3 4. 3. There was a necessity of the Gospels being preached without which there could have been no believing Rom. 10 14 15 17. 4. There is a necessity of our believing the Gospel without which we cannot be justified from our sins by faith in the blood of Christ Rom. 3.25 5. There is a necessity of our being justified by faith in the blood of Christ without which we cannot come to know that he loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1.5 6. There is a necessity of our knowing his love wherewith he first loved us without which we cannot love him again For we love him because he loved us first 1 John 4.19 7. There is a necessity of our loving Christ who loved us first without which we cannot keep his Commandments For this is love that we keep his commandments and his Commandments are not grievous 1 John 5.3 8. There is a necessity of our keeping his comandments and obeying his voice without which we cannot inherit the promises nor be heirs of eternal life For Christ is become the Author of eternal salvation to all those that obey him Heb 5.9 And blessed are they which do his Commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and enter it through the gates into the City Rev. 22.14 And we have need of patience that after we have done the will of God we might inherit the promises Heb. 10.36 for the doers of the Lords work are blessed in their deeds James 1.25 But those that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteoussness he will render indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil And Those which will not hear him even Christ that great Prophet in all things whatsoever he shall say unto them shall be destroyed from among his people with an everlasting destruction from the presence of God and from the glory of his power when he shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord jesus Christ See Rom. 2.8 9. Act. 3.22.23.2 Thess 1.7 8.9 By all which we see that there is as great a necessity of our keeping the Commandments and Ordinances of Christ as there was of Gods sending his son to die for us and as there was of Christs dying for our sins and rising again for our justification for without faith in Christ and obedience to Christ there is no promise of life and salvation by Christ All which may serve sharply to reprove three sorts of people First Those which are ignorant and know not Christ nor his commands what they are and are contented with their ignorance and think to make that a cloak for their sins Secondly Those which are careless and when they know God and Christ and his Commandments will not do them but presume upon mercy and salvation without obeying of Christ These are those which think to be saved by faith onely without doing the will and work of God in their generation the which James calleth vain men James 2.14 17 20. saying What doth it profit if they have faith and not works Can faith save them But

contradictions of those that hold that Christ for died none but the Elect I shall now proceed to prove by undeniable reasons that it must of necessity be a truth that Christ died for all men tasted death for every man and was a propitiation for the sins of the world that all men through him might believe and that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Reas 1. Because all the Prophets the Angel of God the Lord Christ himself and his holy Apostles do testifie it with one consent Reas 2. Because there is not one Scripture from the beginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelation that doth deny it either negatively in saying that he did not die for all nor yet affirmatively in saying that he did die but for some Therefore what so many faithful witnesses affirm and none deny must needs be a precious truth Reas 3. Because as Christ died for every man Heb. 2.9 so he commanded the Gospel to be preached to every creature Mark 16.15 16. He said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature Reas 4. Because he calleth all men everywhere to Repentance Acts 17.30 At the times of this ignorance God winked but now he calleth all men everywhere to repentance Reas 5. Because those which are damned are damned because they believe not in Christ the onely begotten Son of God Joh. 3.18 He that believeth not is condemned already because he believeth not in the Name of the onely begotten Son of God which could not be except Christ died for them Reas 6. Because they which are damned might have been saved 2 Thess 2. 10 11. They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved therefore God shall send them strong delusions to believe lyes that they all might be damned Reas 7. Because some deny the Lord that bought them but how can they deny the Lord that bought them except the Lord bought those that deny him and bring upon themselves swift destruction See 2 Pet. 2.2 Reas 8. Because they which follow after lying vanities forsake their own meries Jonah 2.8 but what mercies can those forsake for whom Christ died not Reas 9. Because some men may and do neglect their own salvation Heb. 2.3 but what salvation can they neglect for whom Christ never died to offer it to them Reas 10. Because we are commanded to make prayers and supplications and giving of thanks for all men 1 Tim. 2. but to what end should we or how can we in faith pray for all men if Christ did not die for all men and that prayer that is not of faith is sin for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14.23 and without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 And now having given these reasons for the confirmation of Christs death for all men I shall briefly shew the dreadful absurdities which follow their judgements which believe that Christ died for none but the Elect. 1. If Christ died not for all men then Despair is no sin in them that perish by it seeing there is not any thing for those men to believe unto salvation for whom Christ died not 2. If Christ died not for all men then it would be a sin for some men to believe that Christ died for them because they should believe a ly and all will confess it is a sin to believelyes 3. If Christ died not for those that are damned then they shall not be damned because of their unbeliefe acording to the Scriptures John 3.18 Mark 16.16 4. Satan doth no evil in perswading men that Christ died not for them but doth perswade them to believe the truth if it be true that Christ died but for some few of the world 5. If Christ died not for all then the devil deceiveth not those that are damned for unbelief and as for the Elect these men affirm they cannot be deceived and so the devil is no deceiver 6. If Christ died not for all men then it is no heresie to teach some men to deny that Christ bought them contrary to 2 Pet. 2.21 22. where he saith plainly that some men bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction 7. If Christ died not for all men then it is a vertue in some men to be unbelievers and not to believe in Christ that he died for them but rather to believe that he did not die for them for if that be a truth it is a vertue to believe all truth And then it followeth those that believe that Christ died not for them do as well as they which believe Christ did die for them seeing both are true and it is as much vertue to believe one truth as another 8. If Christ died not for all men then the Apostles and those which according to the command of Christ Mark 16.16 do preach the Gospel the glad tidings of grace and peace to all men and every creature do sin in that they preach lyes to most men 9. If Christ died not for all men then in vain doth God by the Gosp●l call all men every where to repentance for what good can repentance do to those for whom Christ died not 10. If Christ died not for all men why then do the Ministers of the nation baptize all and say they make them members of Christ children of God and heirs of Heaven in their baptism 11. If Christ died not for all why do the Ministers of the nation give the Sacrament as they call it to all and tell all that come The Body of the Lord was broken for thee Take eat this c. and The Blood of the Lord Jesus was shed for thee Take and drink this c. What will they offer to tell untruths when they are about such a work as that How then can men believ them in any thing else 12. If Christ died not for all why do the Ministers of the nation take Tythes of all What will they take Tythes of those that Christ died not for How can they think to do them any good for that they have of them if Christ died not for them Would they take it well if a man should yearly take the tenth part of their goods and yet do nothing for it 13. Lastly if Christ died not for all why then doth the Lord say 2 Pet. 3.9 that he is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Now if the Lord be not willing that any should perish then did he not give his Son for all Consider and judge what shall hinder these men from pleading thus Lord thou saidst thou wast not willing that any should perish but yet thou wast willing that we should perish or else thou u wouldst have sent thy Son to die for us as well as others and then possibly we might have been saved or however we had been left without