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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45149	Peace at Pinners-Hall wish'd, and attempted in a pacifick paper touching the universality of redemption, the conditionality of the covenant of grace, and our freedom from the law of works upon occasion of a sermon ... / by a lover of truth and accommodation.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3700; ESTC R5169	19,418	34

is some distinction must be made here so that mediately indirectly or some way by way of Redundacy such blessings even as these are the benefits of Christs Redemption to such and such particular persons let that distinction be formed right and in such a sense will the condition we speak of be a fruit hereof to the Elect even by its redundant merit and value The purchase Christ made was a purchase for us and for himself His purchase for us was that we should be pardoned upon Condition He purchased for himself a power to give us that condition that our pardon may be compleat All power is committed to me in Heaven and Earth faith Christ after he was risen There is accordingly a Redemption by price our Divines say and by power Pardon upon condition is the fruit of his Redemption by price But the Condition is the Effect of his Redemption by power When by his Death I say he had paid the price of a pardon for All upon Condition by his Resurrection he receives power to conferr the condition to whom he pleases that is the Elect which when they perform they are justified or have absolute right in it And that may be a good resolution as to the sense of that Text He was delivered for our sins and raised again for our justification To make the matter though more plain we have that Text in the Acts. Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Repentance we see and so faith comes from this power the power of Christ as a King rather than as a Priest and if as a Priest both 't is by vertue of his Intercession as he is at Gods right hand rather than of his Oblation Now Christ intercedes for nothing but according to Gods Will His will is his Decree and it is from the decree his decree of Election that our faith and repentance does come It is not from Christs purchase by price it is not from the power of our free will but it is from Election which belongs to God not as Rector but as Lord of his own gifts working the same effectually in us It is out of this Treasury Christ gives it And not by virtue of a right to any from his death but by the power of an endless life Not as Testator but as the Executor or Dispenser of his Fathers Election In fine Christ by his death did merit or procure this power that he hath at God rights hand By this power he gives us Repentance and Faith Faith and Repentance then is not the fruit of Christs death any otherwise than mediately or indirectly as being derived from this power which he obtained by it God I again say for the merit of Christs life and death exalts him to the power mentioned Wherefore God hath highly exalted him By this power or as exalted Christ gives his Spirit to work Faith and Repentance in whom he chooses or hath chosen By this work they are regenerated and that Article in the Agreement or Covenant as some call it between Father and Son When thou shalt make his Soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed is made good to him In this way about then and no other does Faith and Repentance come to the Elect by his death when the direct and immediate fruit of it is Vniversal That is Faith and Repentance the Condition is the fruit of Christs death as all other Blessings are which are asked of God for Christ's merits sake or which he as Prince and Saviour bestows on his people Whereas now it pleased the Gentleman to tell me That he never heard any Divine say in the Pulpit that which I said If he will understand me right I will take it for a Commendation rather than disparagement seeing it does import that what these Moderate Divines do generally say in the Substance was so deliver'd by me by way of Cultivation as did make some impression upon him as if it had been new rare or singular altogether That which I delivered in effect was indeed only this That Christ hath procured for the World a General Pardon But there is none have Benefit by it but he that believes and repents If I had called this a Vniversal conditional Remission and said no more which is the same whole thing he had not perhaps been surprized and I could as easily have said so but to speak as I did was better as fitted to my pacificatory end This is what I said I gave it light from the consideration of a Pardon by Act of Parliament A Pardon is agreed on by the King and the two Houses the People know nothing of it and do nothing to the obtaining it and the Pardon is General Nevertheless if any come to have the benefit by this Pardon he must look into the Act and see how it runs he must see what Qualifications it requires and if he does or will not qualify himself according to to the Act he loses the benefit It is so in this Act of Grace or Pardon for the world It is an Act of Grace I say perfectly free to man No man does or can do any thing to pacify God or merit the same It is all from the Agreement between Father and Son that Christ should fulfill the Law and by suffering also satisfy for our sins and the Pardon thereby be granted in our behalf while man does nothing himself by way of Cause I must say Condition or Active Occasion thereunto and here do I bring off those that say this Act Law or Covenant of Grace is without condition which in this sense we all see is really so And yet when any man comes in particular for benefit by this Pardon Act of Grace Grant Law Covenant Testament for this Grant of Pardon obtained by Christ the Covenant or Testament of Christ which is his Will bequeathing what he hath purchased upon his own terms are all we must know but the same thing he must read the Act and see how it is passed or read over the Will and see how it is made he must go to the Rowl which is the Word of God It was decreed from Eternity it passed at Christs death it was inrolled in Gods Words and promulgated by the Ministers of it and there he will find that God requires of every man to Believe Repent and walk sincerely before him in order to have the Benefit and that unless he Believes and Repents he is to have none by it And by this do I justifie those also of our Divines which are the Generality who say this Act Law or Covenant of Grace hath Conditions And when thus much will be acknowledged on both sides to wit That it is the sound Believer only or sincere Convert that is pardoned Absolutely so as to be Saved you have a way chalked out for Reconciliation of our Brethren at least so far as I drive to wit That Conscientious

mortal does what he can Every man can do more good and less evil than he does I say if he does sincerely what he can which all the Elect from the four quarters of the Earth and the Elect only will surely do he shall have life notwithstanding all Imperfections This being premised as to the Possibility the Performance then it self shall be founded In Dono supernaturali a Viatore quocunque possibiliter recipiendo secundum legem ordinariam as the School speaks Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth Him and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him 'T is an Errour one of them called Vulgar which hath reigned too long in the Christian Church to think that none can be Saved by the Name of Christ who have not heard him Preached to them or that the extent of Christ's death and the benefit of it is commensurate with the knowledge of him This Errour hath arose through carelesness of Divines in not considering the point and the partiality of the People to their own Religion The Jew will have none but the Jews the Mahometan none but the Mahometans the Christian none but the Christians to be Saved But I am hugely-perswaded otherwise that there are Millions who have been and Thousands are living in the World that have never known and shall never know how much they are beholding to Jesus Christ till they come before him in Judgment and then they shall know it to their comfort and Christ will stay for his Thanks till that day when that Comfort and those Thanks shall be Everlasting To say that any man is was or shall be Saved without Christ is an Errour indeed and if any one should or shall go to preach up the Salvability of the Heathen without this foundation that is to lay any other Foundation than what is laid Christ Jesus the Eighteenth Article of the Church does Anathematize that person for such ignorance is truly accursed But that Article must not be thought to Curse or Condemn any that maintain Salvation alone by Christ though he hold also that some Heathen may be Saved Let the Title of the Article give the Interpretation Another thing is this We must take heed how we order our conceptions in the matter of our Salvation that we set not God aside either as Rector or Lord in it We must not advance and justifie his Rectorship so as to exclude his Lordship nor so advance and justifie his Lordship as to exclude his Rectorship in the business On one hand those persons that hold Christ dyed for all procuring Salvation on condition but leave the condition on Mans free will or on a cooperating with general Grace procured as some say thereby they do excellently illustrate Gods Rectorship and justifie Him in dealing with us according to Gospel-Law but they exclude his Lordship As on the other hand they that hold Christ dyed only for the Elect purchasing the Condition as well as the Benefit and that there is no Covenant but what is Absolute they do excellently advance God's Lordship but in effect do exclude his Rectorship from having a hand in Mans Salvation But as for those persons now that hold Christ hath dyed for All in purchasing Pardon and Salvation on Condition but that the Condition flows not from the power or cooperation of Man's Free-will nor directly from Christ's purchase but from Election These do most manifestly give God his glory both as Rector and Lord while they make Him as Lord to give the Condition to his Elect and as Rector to Judge of them as of all the World according to that Condition Qui perpendere potest perpendeat The third thing is this When some Scriptures say That Christ laid down his Life for his Sheep with the like appropriating his Redemption to the Elect this does not contradict such places as allow it to the World for Christ dying for All does include the Elect But the meaning is because that when Christ hath indeed dyed for All to purchase a Pardon upon Condition it is his Sheep only that hear his Voice the Elect only perform that Condition and reap the Be-Benefit of it And now At the Close of these Matters you may remember Sir I came to make mention of that passage of Abraham speaking to Lot when there was strife between their Servants and I said the same on this occasion I said it to your people I would say it to all others the like affected about London There hath been and there is Contention arising or risen the more is the pity among our Citizens some speaking for one Minister and some for another and so against one and against another But let us know that this strife is indeed between the Herdmen or the Parties when both Ministers are themselves minding only the same thing the opening the Scripture in reference to a right understanding of the Grace of God and the freeness thereof revealed in it even as it way among the Corinths one was for Paul another for Cephas when Peter and Paul preached but the same Truth And therefore let not I pray you the Herdmen fall out any longer among themselves for Abraham and Lot are Brethren FINIS