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A46754	Soled comfort for sound Christians, or, A treatise of Gods absolute (and most certaine) performance of his conditionall promises in regard of the elect being a parcell of a larger discourse on John 13.17 / by Robert Jenison.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1641 (1641)	Wing J564; ESTC R24152	50,921	69

like inconvenience would follow upon Praescientia Dei falli non potest Gods preference which none denyes and his prescience may aswell hence be denyed as his praedefinitions Seeing Gods prescience is as infallible as his Decree is immutable And thus much for the first Consideration SECT 8. 2. We may secondly consider The second consideration making good the former that in Gods new Covenant of Grace the Condition required of us is also part of Gods Covenant and promise made unto us So that this is one maine difference betweene the Law strictly taken according to the Condition of workes and the Gospell preached both before after the death of Christ that the Law promiseth Life and requires perfect obedience but neither promises nor gives power to performe what it requires It leaves a man wholy to himselfe The conditions required of us are also part of Gods Covenant and promise made unto us Differēce betweene the Lavv and the Gospell Heb. 7 19 and 8 6 Rō 8 2 3 and to his owne power But the Gospell and new Covenant promiseth the same life upon new and other Conditions no lesse I take hard in themselves and impossible to us to performe aright by our own strength then the other and that is upon condition of Faith Repentance Holinesse and Perseverance in them all Yet so as that it both promiseth and gives power to keepe and performe the Conditions this latter depending on Gods Election in which regard it is said that the Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did and Christ is a Mediatour of a better Covenant which is established on better promises And why better But because what the Law could not doe in that it was weake through the Flesh is done by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus whom God sent c. The first Covenant is said to be faulty yet not in it selfe for saith the Scripture the Lord finding fault with them not with it barely saith the dayes come when I will make a new Covenan with the House of Israel Judah not according to the Covenant which J made with their Heb. 8.7 8 9 10 11 c. Fathers because they continued not in my Covenant so there is the fault of it I regarded 1. To perfect finish or performe a good worke throughly so as to answer our desire and purpose 1 To perfect it or to persevere in a good worke to the end is not from us but from God For it is God who having begun a good work● in you saith Paul to the Philippians will performe it untill the day of Jesus Christ. Phil 1 6 So Paul concerning himselfe to will is present with mee but how to performe that which is good that is how fully to finish it J sinde not Rom 7 8 Yea men cannot finish their owne evill worke alwayes according to their intent how much lesse good workes as Josephs Brethren they thought evill agaìnst him but God ment it unto good Gen. 50 20. and so over-reached them so that they came short of their purpose So Paul going towards ' Damascus with a purpose to fetch thence and bring bound to Jerusalem the Disciples of Christ Acts 9. 〈◊〉 2. Yet was taken short in the way fell down and in stead of finishing his owne wicked intent he is turned to the obedience of Christ not to doe or finish his owne will Act. 9 26 but Christs saying Lord what wilt thou have me to doe 2. Wee cannot so much as doe that which is good without Christ yea unlesse we be ingrafted into him 2 To doe it as the branch can not beare the Fruit of it selfe except it abide in the vine no more can yee except yee abide in mee Iohn 15 4 5. For without mee or severed from mee ye can doe nothing The way of man is not in himselfe it is not in man that walketh to direct his steppes Iere. 10.23 A mans heart may devise his way Jer. 10 2● Pro. 16 〈◊〉 but the Lord directeth his steppes We may know as in my Text what to doe but we as of our selves are not able to doe according to our knowledge Therefore prayeth David saying not onely Psal 11● 33 34 35 Teach me the way of thy Statutes and give mee understanding but make me to goe in the path of thy Commandements For wee are of our selves not onely blind but lame and God must teach us not onely to know but to doe Therefore saith David againe Psal 143 10. Teach mee to doe thy will Wee have that in us which till it be removed hinders us from doing that which otherwise wee should doe For the Flesh lusteth against the Spirit Gat. 5.17 Ro 7 19. So that saith Paul ye can not doe the things that ye would So he himselfe found it The good that J would saith her I d●e not Isa 26 12 If therefore ought to be done that is good It is God that worketh as formerly is said all our workes for us in us 3. To begin a good worke 3 To begin it Phil. 1 6. is not from us though wee purpose it but from the Lord It is he that beginneth a good work in us 4. To speake what wee have thought on and prepared 4 To speake good is also from the Lord and not from us For so wise Salomon concerning them both The preparation of the heart in man and the answer of the Tongue Pr● 16 1 is from the Lord And who what minister especially finds it not t●us 5. As wee cannot doe 5 To will ●t or speake and utter so can wee not so much as will any thing truely and spiritually good as not our owne Conversion or Salvation For it is God saith Paul to the Philippians which worketh in you both to will and to doe Phil. 2 13 But of this more largely anon● 6. How should man will that which is good 6 To cōceive it as of himselfe when he cannot so much as understand or perceive it For so we are taught The naturall man rèceiveth not the thing of the Spirit of God for they are foolish ●es unto him neither can he know them Rom. 8 7 because they are spiritually discerned Yea the carnall minde is enmity against God 7. Lastly 7 To think it 2 Cor. 3 5. 1 Cor. 3 19 20. Psal 94. Nay he cannot thinke any thing that is good So Paul We are not sufficient of our selves to thinke any thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency is from God Yea man 's best thoughts are vaine the wisdome of the World is foolishnes with God And the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vaine All these put together what is it that man is able as of himselfe to doe without Gods speciall and effectuall grace especially in the matter of Conversion Repentance Faith c. SECT 17.

Sanctification of the Spirit ●hey were elected This course because wee see it and doe observe it in the Scripture we must conceive G●d bath thought fittest for the manifestation of his glory by shewing forth his mercy justice Libertie and other his attributes Now if wee understand and conceive it not so well as wee would yet should we not by any meanes question it or frame things as we please according to our easiest apprehension but rather rest denying our owne reason judgement will in that we see it to be the course which God pleaseth to take Tvvo cōsiderations for the clearing of the first doubt And this is that which now we come particularly to shew and prove out of his word preparing the way and endeavouring to make all plaine by handling of two maine Considerations SECT 3. First Gods promises distinguish●d some are of the End or of Happines Act. 16.21 Rev. 2.10 And these are conditionall Psal 1 1. Psal 119 1.2 Ioh. 20.29 Rō 4.7.8 Psal 32 1 2. Math. 24.26 Consider that Gods promises in Scripture are either of the End or of the meanes leading to the End Now first the promises concerning the End as especially concerning Salvation and Blessednes are with Condition as Beleeve and thou shalt be saved Be thou faithfull unto death and I will give thee a Crowne of Life Or because here is mention of blessednes this happines is promised with Condition of Doing and Evangelicall obedience Happy are yee if yee doe them So elsewhere upon the condition of obedience negative Blessed is the man that walketh not in the Counsell of the ungodly c. 2. Assirmative Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walke in the Law of the Lord. So it is promised upon the condition of Faith Blessed are they that have not seene and yet have beleeved of the pardon of sinnes Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sinnes are covered And of perseverance and constancy untill the day of Jesus Christ Blessed is th●t servant whom his Lord when he comm●th shall finde so doing Now these promises being conditionall all partake not of the End which is Salvation because all partake not of nor keepe the condition none indeed being able of himselfe to keep any of those Conditions It is not in mans power to doe good to Beleeve Repent Pe●severe as of himselfe the promise of this will follow anon and God is not now bound to give this power to all but to whom onely he pleaseth 2. But now God bath also made promises Some are of the Meanes and they are absolute which are most free and absolute of giving where and to whom he pleaseth as the Conditions and Meanes themselves of Life which hee himselfe worketh in us that so by these Meanes we might attaine to the End as Deut. 30.6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy Seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule that thou ma●st live Where the End promised is life Suffrag Brittannorum de 5. article-Thes Het●rodoxa 1. which the Israelites shall never attaine unlesse this Condition of loving God were kept But God doth here absolutely promise that he himselfe wil give unto them this Condition and accordingly will circumcise their hearts to love the Lord. So in like manner as we have heard God promiseth Blessednesse to wel-doing to Faith Repentance Perseverance c. which are also Conditions required of us And this is the tenor of the Gospell yet hee also promiseth to give Faith Repentance power to doe well with the act of weldoing and perseverance with all other Meanes and Conditions and that without Condition without Iffs And 's and absolutely So that these Graces and Meanes of Salvation are not guifts given or promised and offred upon Condition but absolutely Gods promises concerning these Meanes of Salvation and Blessednes as is said are absolute and are of such guifts and graces as which God seeing our impotency and inability to attaine the End without the meanes also to performe the Conditions and to use the Meanes as of our selves and by our owne stre●gth and power doth promise to performe or will enable us to performe This will also bee more evident ●non in the particular instances SECT 4. But before I further proceed A digression further clearings and justifying the aforesaid distinction from the imputation of Libertinisme it wil be needfull to vindicate what hath been taught from such inferences as some mistaking or rather cavelling at this Doctrine and differenes of the promises may make yea have already made As if because it is said as shal be proved 〈◊〉 that the graces of Faith Repentance c. are promised absolutely without Iffs And 's or without respect to Conditions in man that therefore a dore is hence opened to Libertinisme and Swenckfeldianisme whereby the foundations of Christianity are overthrownne in asmuch as men are thus taught to neglect the hearing of Gods Word and of the Gospell preached not to regard meekenesse in receiving the Word and Humility unto which Grace is promised Yea even as they would have it the grace of Election I answer No such thing can rightly without willfull cavilling be inferred hence For first That life is not promised but upon condition doth exo●ude all negleot of means not to speake that none oppose Libertisme Familisme and Contempt or neglect of the meanes of the hearing and reading of the Gospell more then those that use this distinction of the promises this very Doctrine that the promise of Salvation is made upon condition and made good to none being otherwise capable but to those that carefully use all the meanes ordained and appointed to Salvation excludes all carelesnesse and neglect of meanes one or other seeing wee teach men according to the Scriptures Gal. 6.7.8.9 That whatsoevever a man soweth that shall he reap c. And that wee are no● to be weary of weldoing Without which constancie no reaping can be expected and that we ought to give earnest heed to the things we heare for how else can we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Heb. 2.1.2.3 c. This wee shall further shew and urge in the Conclusion of all 2. But now cheefly concerning the absolute promise of giving the Meanes and effecting the Conditions 2 concerning the absolute promises of the meanes on which blessednes and Salvation is promised I say 1. Seeing Salvation and blessednes is the maine end instanced in and the cheife end respecting man that the meanes appointed of God thereunto The mean●s being many must not be divi● being many are not to be severed and divided one from another but to be considered conjoynedly and all of them with relation to their maine end and that therefore as they are meanes of Salvation whether they have a nearer connexion with life as Faith Repentance Justification c Or be further