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A09386	A C[hristian] and [plain]e treatise of the manner and order of predestination and of the largenes of Gods grace. First written in Latine by that reuerend and faithfull seruant of God, Master William Perkins, late preacher of the word in Cambridge. And carefully translated into English by Francis Cacot, and Thomas Tuke.; De prædestinationis modo et ordine. English	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Cacot, Francis.; Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1606 (1606)	STC 19683; ESTC S103581	116,285	285

the better we are assured thirdly it brings with it wōderfull ioy For what greater ioy can a man here inioy then to be assured of eternall ioy Fourthly this assurāce makes a mā mor● wary and more vnwilling to displease God by sin wherby nothing is deserued but damnation Fiftly this priuiledge is the more excellent because they whi●●● wāt this knowledge altogether can haue no solid consolation And as for the Reprobate they haue no more to do with this certenty then they haue with saluation As it is impossible for them to be saued so it is impossible for thē to be truly assured of their saluation He that dreameth may think he walketh eateth talketh seeth whē he doth not and he may think he is awake whē he is not So these dreamers may think that they shal be saued and may sooth vp themselues as if they were cock-sure but they are deceiued He that is in a swoone doth sometimes perswade himself that he seeth many strange sights but his perswasion is false so the Reprobates may thinke all things runne round they may perswade themselues they are in Gods fauour and shall be saued but as the things are false whereof they do perswade themselues so their perswasion must needs also be as ●alse It is but a spirituall swoone or d●u●l●sh dreaming or dizzinesse that doth so blinde their eyes and beg●●le them The Elect only shall be raysed vp of Christ as a Sauiour and Redeemer And Pri●i 31 when all people shall be gathered before him he will separate his Elect from the Reprobate The Elect shall be placed on his right hand and vpon them he Math. 25 will pronounce the white and comfortable sentence of absolution On the contrary he will raise vp the Reprobate as he is a terrible and dreadfull Iudge he will set them on his left hand like Goates and pronounce against them the dolefull and black sentence of condemnation And more also which may increase their griefe he will vse the Elect for the approbation of his iudgement vpon them and vpon the wicked Angels also They shall attend vpon him as Iustices do vpō the Iudge at the Assises and shall approoue his sentence and this Saint Paul teacheth when as he 1. Cor. 6. 2 3. sayth that the Saints shall iudge the world and the wicked Angels Now as this is a great honour vnto the Elect to sit as Iudges vpon the wicked so it must needes minister no small griefe vnto them to be as it were iudged of those whome they before haue derided condemned nicknamed and persecuted Thus we haue seene many notable priuiledges of Gods elect and faithfull children If Balaam prophecied of the Israelites when he looked vpon them dwelling according to their tribes saying How goodly are thy tents O Iacob and thy Nu● 24 5. habitations O Israel wee may well coniecture that God will exceedingly manifest his loue vnto vs hereafter in the heauens seeing h●e hath honoured vs so highly in this vale of misery and will grace vs so much after the resurrect●●● in our entrance into heauen as that we shall iudge the World and the Angels The last priuiledge of the Elect whereof Priuil 32. I will intreate is that God will giue them the kingdome of heauen and euerlasting life Feare not little flock sayth Luk 12. 32. our Shepherd for it is your Fathers pleasure to giue you the kingdome And Paul saith that God doth glorify those whom Rom. 8. 30. Iohn 10. 28. he hath predestinated called iustified Our Sauiour saith that he giueth eternall life vnto all his Sheep As Ioshua brought the children of Israel into earthly Canaan so Christ Iesus our Ioshua will one day bring all true Israelites into celestiall Canaan will crowne thē with immortall glory To describe this bless●d estate perfectly surpasseth mans capacitie whole knowledge is as yet imperfect For Paul out of Esay sayth that the eye hath not seene and the eare hath not heard neither 〈◊〉 Cor. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64. 〈◊〉 came it into mans heart to thinke of those things which God hath prepared for them that loue him Neuerthelesse it may in part be described according as God hath reuealed it in his word to vs. In this estate the Elect shal be deliuered and set free frō all wants miseries frō sin and from all the temptations of Sathan 〈◊〉 ●1 4. They shall haue perpetuall fellowship with the blessed Trinity the holy Angels They shall haue perfic knowledge and they shal perfectly loue God 1. Cor. 13. 12. who will be all in all vnto them Their hearts shall be full fraught with endlesse vnvtterable ioyes Their toungs shall continually sound out the prayses of God They shal celebrate an euerlasting Isa. 66. 23. Phil. 3. 21. Sabboth seruing God most purely for euer and euer Their bodies shall be like to the glorious body of Christ bright beawtifull nimble full of agility preserued susteined by the immediate power of God without meat drinke sleep labor phisick and therfore Paul calls thē 1. Cor. 15. 44. spirituall Lastly to make vp their happine● the place of their abode shal be in the highest heauēs where there is no paines 2. Cor. 5. 1. but pleasures no wo but weale no sinne but seruing of God no griefe but glory no want but welth no sicknes but helth no death but life no iarres but ioyes no wars but peace no treachery but truth no fighting but triumphing no chāge but euerlasting continuance When a man hath liued so many thousand thousand yeres in all y ● pleasures of paradise as there are hours in a M. millions of yeres he shall not atteine vnto the end for the end is endlesse and the time is without time But on the other side the Reprobate are seuered from the solacious sight and comfortable presence of God Their fellowship is with the Diuell and his angels in ●ell fire where they are vnspeakably tormented in soule and body with endlesse easelesse and remedilesse torments Their life is death and their death is life a dying life and a liuing death When they haue spent so many yeeres in paynes as there be stars in the Skye moats in the Sunne sands on the shoare and fishes in the seas they shall be as farre from the end as they were the first day for the time is infinite their damnation is euerlasting their death shall neuer be put to death their worme shall not dye their fire shall neuer be Isa. 66. 24. put out neither shall they be put out with it But as the Salamander is alwaies in the fire and neuer wasteth so the wicked shall bee continually scorched in hell-fire and yet shall neuer be consumed Lo● then Beloued you see the Charter of the Saints in part No earthly Monarch can graunt such a one vnto his Subiects as God hath giuen freely to his Elect. All the Countries Kingdomes and

7. Greg. 14 Innoc. 9. Clemon 8 nine or tenne Monsters her mortall enemies though their slaues continually plotted and practised against her and thought the Prince of the aire thundered against her in his * Pius 5. Greg. 13. Sixtus 〈◊〉 Lieutenants as it were from the clouds with curses and cursed Excommunications Lately also he hath vouchsafed an admirable deliuerance to his Anointed our gracious King and to vs all from a most barbarous and horrible confusion And of this kinde of fauour and fauourable dealing vsed of the Lord we may reade plentifully in Diuine and Ecciesiasticall stories And no doubt the wicked haue sometimes fared the better for the Electsake as Laban did Gen. 30. 27. Gen. 39. 5. Act. 27. 24. Gen. 18. 32. Iob. 22. ●0 for Iacob and Potiphar for Ioseph and those which say led in that dangerous voyage to Rome for Paul who was in their companie God told Abraham that if there were but ten righteous persons in Sodom hee would not destroy it for their sakes Eliphaez saith that the innocent shall deliuer the Iland meaning that God doth often deliuer a whole countrey from perill for the iust m●ns sake For his Elect GOD hath altered the course of nature He diuided the waters Priuil 6. of the red sea that his people might passe dry-shod through it He caused the Sunne Exo. 14. 22. I●sh 10. 12. to stay and the Moone to stand still till his people had auenged themselues vpon their enemies For Gideons sake he caused the dew to fall only vpon a fleece of wooll and kept it from falling vpon the ground Iud. 8. 38 40. and afterwards at his request he let it fall on the earth and kept the fleece drie For Hezekiah his sake he brought the shadow in the dyall of Ahaz ten degrees Isa. 38. 8 backward by the which degrees the Sunne was gone downe GOD doth often preserue his chosen Priuil 7. children from pe●●is then when he doth persecute the wicked Many sorowes Psal. 32. 10. 〈◊〉 Dauid shall be fall the wicked but he that trusteth in the Lord shall be compassed of mercy Noah was deliuered when the wicked were drowned The Israelites Gen. 19. 16. passed whē the Egiptians perished Whē Sodo● was burned Lot was brought foorth When Ierico was sacked Raha● was saued When Abab was slaine Iebosaph●t escaped When Ierusalem was to be destroyed the Lord commanded Ezek. 9. 4. the godly to be brāded that they might be preserued Moreouer when the Lord deliuereth his own people then he doth sometimes thrust the wicked into their dangers The righteous sayth Salomon Pr●● 11. 8. escapeth out of trouble and the wicked shall come in his stead And as he doth vsually crosse their cursed counsels so he doth often times curse theyr malicious and bloudie enterprises and cracks them vpō their owne crownes and breakes them vpon their own backs Haman was hanged on that galowes which he himselfe Hest. 7. 9 had prepared for Mordecai whom the King did greatly aduance Daniel was brought●om the Lions and his accusers Dan. 6. 23 24. being cast into the den amongst them were deuoured of them God preserued Shadrak Meshak Abednego in the hot Dan 3. 22. fiery furnace and ●lew the men with the flame of the fire that brought them forth to be burned The Lord deliuered good Ieh●shaphat and caused his enemies that 2. Chron. 20. 23. came against him to help forward their owne destruction The Lord hath deliuered vs frō their barbarous and blood-thirsty Catholiques and hath for the honour of his mercy pulled the rotten house of their diuelish muentions vpon their owne heads His name be praysed for euer and euer Amen Christ hath altered the nature of affsictions Priuil 8. vnto his elect and faithfull members For whereas they are cast vpon the wicked as punishments due vnto them for their sinnes wherein they liue they are inflicted vpon the Godly by Psal. 8● 31 32. Hab. 12. 6. God as a mercifull Father that desireth the amendment of his children Because our hearts are drossy the Lord as our most skilfull founder casteth vs into the furnace of afflictions that he might refine vs. Because we are subiect to transgresse and goe astray the Lord imparketh vs within the pales of aduersitie and hedgeth vs about with the thorny quick-set of the crosse that we might be kept in some compasse Dauid sayth Psa. 119 67. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I keepe thy word Because wee are by nature vntoward to that which is good the Lord vseth the crosse as a Schoolemaster to instruct vs. Therefore Dauid sayth It is good for me that I haue beene afflicted that I may learne Psa. 11● 71. thy Statutes Because wee are by nature inclined to the loue of the world the Lord as our Nurse doth weane vs from the loue thereof by affliction as the Mother or Nurse driueth her Child from the brest by rubbing it with some bitter thing To be briefe the Lord by afflictions ex 〈◊〉 eth our faith and patience ●●a●neth vs humility and teacheth 〈◊〉 to esteeme of prosperity By aff 〈◊〉 s bee maketh vs to take experience or his loue and of those graces which he hath giuen vs. By afflictions he learneth vs to be mercifull vnto the miserable for the sense of sicknes and the feeling of pouerty through Gods blessing is a notable meanes to make vs pity the poore and the sick The Apostle sayth Our light affl●ction which is but for 2 Cor. 4. 17. a moment worketh vnto vs a far most excellent and an eternall weight of glory though not as a cause procuring it for wee are Ephes. 2. 8. Rom. 6. 23. saued by grace and euerlasting life is the free gift of God in Christ yet as a way and meanes directing and leading vs thereto Christ hath two Crownes the one of thornes the other of glory hee that will be honoured with the last must bee humbled and tryed with the first Thus it is euident that God sheweth himselfe a Father in afflicting his Children But as for the Reprobate his erosses are curses and his afflictions are fore-runners of further iudgements inflicted and sent of God as a seuere and dreadfull Iudge God hath altered the nature of death Priuil 9. vnto all the elect For Christ by his death hath been the death of death and the death of sinne which is the sting and strength of death First of all God by death teacheth vs to detest sinne and to acknowledge the seu 〈◊〉 ty and sharpnes of his anger against it Secondly by death he deliuereth vs vtterly from the body of sinne Till death we attaine not vnto perfection and at death sinne is wholy con 〈◊〉 ed. When we dye sinne dyeth For sinne is so nething like ●uy which falleth downe and dyeth when the tree on which it hanged is cu● d 〈◊〉 Thirdly the Lord doth sometimes take

away his children by death that they should not see those euils which he h 〈◊〉 purposed to plague his enemies withall Mercifull men are taken away sayth Is● 57. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and no man vnderstand●th that the righteous is taken away from the euill to some So the Lord tooke away good Iosiah 〈◊〉 Chr●n 84. 28. that his eyes might not see all the euill which hee purposed to bring vpon that place Yea such is his loue vnto his Saints that he cannot doe that to the wicked which he would so long as they liue amongst them As the Angell told Lot that he could do nothing till he was gone out of Sodome euen so it may be ●en 19. ●2 truly sayd that Gods loue is so feruent towards his chosen as that it sometimes keepeth him from scattering his iudgements in those places wherein they liue Therefore he doth often remoue them by death that he may more freely poure out the vials of his wrath vpon the vngodly Fourthly by death God learneth vs to seeke a place of rest and to alie●ate our affections from the world which being like vnto bird-lime would otherwise more easily belime our affections that they could not soare vp to the heauens the place of our home Fiftly by death the Lord humbleth vs and teach●th vs not to pra●ke and plume vp our bodies lyke Peacocks as if wee meant to liue euer Sixtly the Lord by their deaths occasioneth their exper●●c● and feeling of the vertue of Christs resurrection Lastly as death is the complement of mortification and endeth the battell betweene the flesh and the spirit so it fully finisheth all earthly calamities and as a ●erry 〈◊〉 it transporteth vs ouer the tempestuous and broad Ocean of tribulations and afflictions into the calme and quiet hauen of endlesse happinesse But as for the Reprobate it is to them as a boat to cary them out of a riuer of earthly miseries into a restlesse bottomlesse sea of infinite ineffable torments And because their felicity if any consisteth in the finite fruition of worldly prosperity God in his appointed time by death as by 〈◊〉 knife cutteth asunder the threed of life and so casteth them out of their paradise and sendeth their soules to the place of the damned where they shall continue terribly tormented till that dolefull and dismall day of vengeance God hath ordeined the writing of his ●ri●●l 10 word the preaching of it the administration of the Sacraments and his dispensers of them principally and properly for the be●●fit of the Elect. Sa 〈◊〉 Paul sayth Whatsoeuer things are written aforet●me are written for our learning that we ●om 15. 4. through patience and comfort of the Scrip 〈◊〉 s might haue hope Iohn saith he wrote that wee might beleeue in the name of 1. Ioh 5. ●3 Christ. Therefore his writings properly belong to the children of God And the Apestle writing to the 〈◊〉 ans sayth that Christ gaue some to be Apostles and some Prephets and some ●uangelists and some Pastors and Doctors But to what end For the reparation of the Saints and for the edification of Christs Eph●● 4. ●2 body And this is no small prerogatiue for the Sacraments are signes and seales of Gods grace The preaching of the Gospell is the power of God to saluation to all that doe beleeue In his word hee hath recorded his will And his Ministers are as it were his Trumpeters which do sound in our eares the trumpets of his Law and Gospell and instruct vs when to stand still when to retyre and when and how to march forward They are through his assistance our spirituall Fathers by whom he doth procreate and beget vs vnto himselfe for our good and his owne glory Now all these things profit the Reprobate nothing at all but do indeed through the rebellions corruption of they● hearts harden and stiften them as the Sunne doth clay The Lord hath vnited all his elect and Priui 1● de●re children vnto Christ by his Spirit and by a true and liuely faith And by reason of this vnion they are after a sort vnited to the whole Trinity Father Sonne and holy Ghost Yea hence it is that we are partakers of Christs benefits For as the members of the body haue neither sense nor motion vnlesse they be vnited to the head and as the science or griffe receiueth no nourishment except it be set in the stock and grow vp with it Fuen so vnlesse we be vnited vnto Christ our stock and spirituall head we haue no spirituall life and motion neither are we actually partakers of his benefits But being once vnited and knit vnto him we receiue sense and sap life and motion All the elect and faithfull people of God are partakers of the prayers of all Priuil 12. the Godly throughout the world The children of God haue fellowship one with an other as with Christ their head Whereas on the contrary they pray for the confusion and finall destruction of his and their impenitent pestilent and irreconciliable enemies and can not but hate and abandon those whom they see to walke peruersly in wicked and reprobate courses without remorse of conscience and all shew of repentance For GOD hath put a secret antipathy and mortall en●●y betweene his seed and the seed of the Serpent Therefore Salomon sayth A wicked man is an abomination to the iust and he that is vpright in his Prou. 29 27. way is an abomination to the wicked And as Dauid sayth The wicked practiseth against Psal. 37. 12. the iust and g●a●●●eth his t●●th against him So he also sayth thus of himselfe Psal. 3●● 6. I haue hated them that giue themselues to deceitfull vanities And againe Doe not I hate them O Lord that hate Psa. 139 21. thee I hate them with the perfection of hatred as if they were mine vtter enemies And in the fifteenth Psalme contemning Psal. 15. 4. of a vile person that is of a wicked wretch and the honouring of the Godly is made an infallible note of a faithfull member of the Church By which it appeareth that there is no sincere and solid communion betweene Gods children and the slaues of the Diuell And therefore it is one of our priuiledges and peculiar dignities to inioy the loue and louely communion of the Saints Faith by which we walke and liue Priuil 13. by which we are iustified and adopted without which it is impossible to please GOD this faith which is a supernaturall Heb. 11. 6. Act. 13. 48. T●● 1. 1. gift of God aboue corrupt and created nature this faith I saye is peculiar and proper to the Elect therefore Saint Paul ●alieth it The ●aith of the Elect and teacheth the Thessalonians 〈◊〉 Thes. 3 2. that it is not common to all men Secondly Hope is an excellent gift of God for it maketh not ashamed and by Rom. 5. 5 it the Apostle sayth we are saued that is by

operation is infinite but yet it must be distinguished for it is either potentiall or actuall The potentiall efficacie is wherby the price is in it selfe sufficient to redeeme euery one without exception from his sins albeit there were a thousand worlds of men But if we consider that actuall efficacie the price is payd in the counsell of God and as touching the euent only for those which are elected and predestinated For the Sonne doth not sacrifice for those for whom hee doth not pray because to make intercession and to sacrifice are conioyned but hee prayeth onely for the elect and for beleeuers Ioh. 17. 9. and by praying he offereth himselfe to his Father verse 19. For as Illyricus hath well obserued this whole prayer in the 17. chapter is indeed as he speaketh an oblatory and expiatory prayer or as the Papists call that blasphemous forme a Canon or rule of sacrifice by which Christ hath offered himselfe a sacrifice to the Father for the sinnes of the world Therefore the price is appointed and limited to the elect alone by the Fathers decree and the Sons intercession and oblation Secondly Christ bare their person and stood in their roome vpon the crosse for whom he is a mediator and consequently whatsoeuer Christ did as a redeemer the same did all Ephes. 1. 6. Coloss. 3. 1. those in him with him which are redeemed Christ dying rising again ascending sitting at the right hand of the Father they also die with him rise againe ascend and sit at the right hand of God Now that all these things can be truly said of the elect only and of such as beleeue I proue it thus To say that any one of the wicked which are to perish for euer is raised vp in Christ rising againe is flat against the truth because the raysing vp of Christ is that I may so speake his actuall absolution from their sins for whom he died for euen as the Father by deliuering Christ to death did in very deede condemne their sins imputed vnto Christ for whom he died so by raysing him vp from death euen ipso facto he did absolue Christ from their sinnes and did withall absolue them in Christ but being absolued from their sins they shall not perish but be saued Therefore that wicked man which perisheth for his sin cannot be said to haue risen againe with Christ and therefore Christ did not beare his person vpon the crosse Thirdly the expiatory sacrifice sanctifieth those for whom it is a sacrifice as the holie Ghost plainly and absolutely auoucheth Heb. 9. 13. 14. The sacrifice and sanctification appertaine to the same persons and Christ is their perfect Sauiour whom he saueth not only by meriting their saluation but also by working it effectually But Christ doth sanctifie only the elect and such as beleeue therefore he was a sacrifice only for them And this was the iudgment of the ancient Church in this point Augustine saith He which spared not his Jn Iohan. tract 45. owne Sonne but gaue him for vs all how hath he not also with him giuen vs all good things but for what vs for vs which are foreknown Tract 2. predestinated iustified and glorified Againe Those whom he pleased to make his brethren De recta fide ad Regin In Ioan. lib. 11. cap. 14. he hath released and made fellow heires Cyril saith If God who is most worthy was in the flesh he was of right sufficient to redeeme the whole world Againe The Lord Iesus separating his owne from those which were not his saith I pray only for those which keepe my word and cary my yoke For he doth make them alone and that iustly partakers of the benefit of his mediation whose Mediator and high Priest he is Gregorie saith The author 2. Hom. in Ezek. lib. 1. of life gaue himselfe to death for the life of the elect Againe The Lord will redeeme In Psal. 33. the soules of his seruants to wit with his precious blood because he which beleeueth rightly In Ephes. cap. 1. in him is redeemed from the due thraldome of his sins Sedulius All things are restored which are in the earth * Or when seeing that the men themselues who are predestinated vnto eternall life are renewed from the corruption of the old man Beda The flesh of the Hom. in sab post reminise Lord is furnished with spirituall vertue that it might be a sweet sauor sufficient for the saluation of the whole world Againe Our Lord Hom in vigil P●s● and redeemer to the elect-whom he knew to be placed in his flesh yea and to vs also whom he foresaw should beleeue in the last times he Jn Reuel part 1. hath procured the remedie of saluation by his death and resurrection Ioachim the Abbat The word All which for the most part is vniuersall doth not alwaies signifie so much as it seemeth as in that place When I shall be lift Col. 1. 19. 20 vp I will draw all things to my selfe And by him he hath pleased that all things should be reconciled in him It seemeth that in these In 2. Reg. cap. 7. places Elect Things onely are vnderstood Angelomus What other nation is there in the earth besides the elect people for which God the Son of God vouchsafed to come into this world as it were into Aegypt that taking vpon him the forme of a seruant he might with the merchandize of his blood redeeme vnto himselfe an acceptable people zealous of good workes Ruper●us In that houre he washed those only from sin whom his death Jn Exod. lib. 2. cap. 6. findeth faithfull whether dead or liuing Againe The passion of Christ is the iudgement In Ioan. cap. 12. of the world that is saluation seuering the whole number of the elect which were from the beginning of the world to the houre of the same passion from the reprobate And the casting out of the prince of this world is the reconciliation of the nations of the elect Againe I will draw all things to my selfe what all things namely All Elect Things as all the members follow their head Haimo Christ hath taken away in the Elect not onely originall In cap. 5 ad Rom. but all actuall sins also and hath ouer and besides giuen them eternall life Radulphus The blood of the high Priest Christ was the purgation of all beleeuers Innocentius In Leuit. lib. 17. cap. 2 Lib. 4. de Myst. Missae cap. 4. Christ blood was shed effectually for those only who are predestinated but for all men in regard of sufficiencie for the shedding of the blood of that iust one for the vniust was so rich in price that if euery one had beleeued in the redeemer none at all had been held captiue of the diuell Arnoldus Carnotensis He redeemeth none but those whom he calleth Ben 〈◊〉 allis tract 7. de verbis Domini and washeth by grace neither doth the Spirit