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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85510	A modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace, and the defenders thereof, from the aspersions of arminianism & popery, which Mr. W. E. cast on them. By the late faithful and godly minister Mr. John Graile, minister of the gospel at Tidworth in the county of Wilts. Published with a preface concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace, wherein is a discovery of the judgment of Dr. Twisse in the point of justification, clearing him from antinomianism therein. By Constant Jessop, minister of the Gospel at Wimborn minister in the county of Dorset. Whereunto is added, a sermon, preached at the funeral of the said Mr. John Grail. By Humphrey Chambers, D.D. and pastor of the church at Pewsie.	Graile, John.; Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662.; Jessop, Constantine, 1601 or 2-1658. Pauls sad farewel to his Ephesians.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1477; Thomason E817_1; Thomason E817_2; ESTC R207370	97,971	125

other passages in him 1. He tells us that in this Covenant there is and must be a mutual consent between God and us yea a consent testified by both parties for immediately after his definition of the Covenant in the substance of it which wee mentioned before he comes to consider the administration of it which he saith is dispersed by the Lord by voice and visible signes In testimonium mutui consensus inter Deum nos In testimony of this mutual consent which is between God and us The same he doth elsewhere more largely repeat as I shall shew you by and by How both parties do give their consent in making the Covenant he doth afterwards declare and withal the freenesse of the Grace of God in both The whole substance of the Covenant saith he is free In respect of God he properly makes the Covenant with us when he doth in our hearts by the Holy Spirit seal the Promise of free reconciliation offered in the Gospel and beginneth our renovation to eternal life doth daily carry it on and at last doth perfect it In respect of us who were dead in sins and trespasses the Covenant is received when the Holy Ghost is freely given to us whereby being raised from death to life it comes to passe that we not only have a will and power to believe the Promise of free grace concerning reconciliation by Christ and the renewing of us that we may enter into the inheritaace of the heavenly Kingdome but also do believe or receive faith it self So that the freenesse and absolutenesse of the Covenant doth not consist in this that there is no condition or duty required on our parts but none that is to be performed by our own strength as he some few lines after doth expresse himself Thus saith he it is certain that this whole Covenant is meerly of free Grace and doth not depend on any condition of our owne strength but on the free mercy of God in Christ apprehended by faith which himself doth bestow The offer or tender of a double Promise in Christ to wit of the remission of sins and sanctification and so the donation of Christ himself is in respect of God most free The acceptation on our part is also free because it is the action of God in us whereby he doth seal the Promise to our hearts so that being acted by him we do act being by him made Believers we do believe and being quickned or created by Christ unto good works we do walk in them Thus far Olevian in that place and who is there Sir of these whom you oppose that doth not say the same with him So that your quoting of him is at least to little purpose for your opinion I might farther shew you that he in another place repeating the same thing adds once and again that God in giving faith to his Elect and chosen ones doth thereby give with it to them also universam substantiam foederis the whole substance of the Covenant So that the remission of sin promised in the Covenant is not Antecedent but Consequent to faith which in effect is as much for the conditionality of faith in reference to the pardon of sin the salvation of souls as is contended for by those whom you oppose but I will not insist on that I shal for your and the Readers better information and satisfaction touching the judgment of this learned Divine in this point entreat you to observe 2. That as he doth plead for a mutual consent of both parties in the Covenant So he doth withal maintaine that when God for his part performes the federatory action as his phrase is Prius assensum à nobis stipulatur he doth first require our assent to the Promises and Duties or Conditions of the Covenant Thus hee expresseth himself more then once shewing withal that this Position is most agreeable to the Scripture of the Old and New Testament alledging to this purpose that voluntary and federal Contract betweene God and the people expressed by Moses Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his wayes and to keep his Statutes and his Commandments and his Judgments and to hearken unto his voyce And the Lord hath this day avouched thee to be his peculiar people as he hath promised thee Deu. 26. 17 18. Setting down at large several Reasons why the Lord is pleased thus to proceed in the administration of his Covenant and that in reference to both the Elect and Reprobate those which are sincere and those which are but hypocritical professors of and parties in the Covenant So that if you lay all the passages of Olevian together you may at least wise the indifferent Reader may see that you have gained nothing by him nor have your Adversaries lost him 4. Having dispatch'd Olevian in the next place I turn to Zanchy whom you alledg as being fully for you And I confesse at the first sight looking on him with a bare superficial glance he doth seem wholly to be yours especially if you pitch on one passage and do not compare it with others in the same place 'T is true he doth affirm that God saith Most absolutely without any condition of Faith and Repentance inserted I will betroth thee to me for ever But if you please seriously to weigh what he delivereth in his Commentary on the same Chapter and compare one thing with another you shall find that 1. The absolutenesse which he speaks of lyeth in this not that faith and repentance are not required on the Churches part to make up the match but that the making or dissolving of the Matrimonial federal Contract between the Lord and the Church shall not depend on any condition to be performed by the Church of her owne power and strength for the Lord doth undertake even for the Church to work in her Faith Repentance and ●ll other Graces requisite to the making and perpetuating of the match that it bee not broken so he speaks and doth declare himself in the end of that very Paragraph the beginning whereof you take hold of as serving our turne God promiseth both a new Marriage and also all things which even on the 〈…〉 are necessary for the making and confirming of● the Match And more fully afterwards He promiseth That he will cause that we shall be joyned to him in a perpetual mariage But the mariage cannot be perpetual unlesse as in God so also there be in us Faith and the Spirit of Christ continuing to the end by which this marriage is both contracted and preserved Therefore he doth promise that faith and the Spirit of Christ shall continue in us You may there at large see him assert That there are connubi● leges as he calls them Lawes of the marriage or conditions thereof which are to be observed by the Church for her part which God doth undertake to write in her heart that

in that regard he was forward by his departure in doing good to his servants and continueth more able to communicate himself in all celestial and spiritual blessings to those that wait upon him for he is still walking in the midst of the golden candlesticks and hath the stars in his right hand and is able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him because he ever liveth to make Intercession for them But none of these things hold in the inferiour Ministers of the Gospel when they are removed by death their personal Ministry from the moment of their death ceaseth for ever as to all uses and advantages in respect of others and that consideration layeth a heavy weight of sadnesse upon the hearts of Believers when their faithful Ministers are by death taken from them 2. Secondly True Believers know that the final removal of faithful Ministers from any people carryeth in it the face of a Judgement from the Lord. It was a Promise of great love I will give you Pastors according to my heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding And on the contrary when the Lord taketh away faithful Ministers from any people he then depriveth them of one of his choicest mercyes upon earth which cannot therefore but have the appearance of a Judgement in the eyes of true Believers The Prophet Micah represented evil men as weary of the faithful Teachers and saying to them Prophecy ye not and then from the Lord denounced the Judgement of their ceasing from amongst them They shall not prophecy unto them Their refusal of the Prophets was their great sin and the Lords removal of his Prophets was his heavy judgment upon them If it be asked concerning a faithful Minister when he dyeth of what Disease he dyed it may be often truly answered of the judgment of God upon an unthankful people When men are sick again of their faithful Ministers and long to be rid of them it is a righteous thing with God to let them dye that such a people may dye without instruction The contempt of the Ministers of the Gospel who desire to be faithful is a spreading Disease amongst us at this day Men looking divers wayes do yet unanimously consent to render the Ministers of the Gospel in this Nation as odious as possibly they can Without distinction they are all branded as Tythe-Mongers Time servers Antichristian Self-seekers and what not But it is enough that God is the supreme Judge of those that are thus traduced and of their Accusers 〈◊〉 howbeit whilst this Disease so generally reigneth and rageth it is no marvel though many of Gods faithful servants dye of it whose removal by death though possibly some triumph in yet the true Believers of the Gospel of whom there is blessed be the Lord a very considerable number throughout our Land ●annot but be as they are much sadded at it as carrying the face of an ill presaging judgement in it Having thus gone through the Doctrine proposed I come now to a few words of Application 1. Here is one work whereby they that truly believe the Gospel may have reflexive knowledge of themselves namely by their enjoying the faithful Ministers of the Gospel in love and parting with them in sorrow I know there is great difference of judgement at this day who are to be accounted the faithful Ministers of the Gospel of Christ To this an answer may be gathered from what I have before delivered at present I shall only say this That they who being in the place of the Ministers of the Gospel do visibly apply themselves to do the work of the Ministers of the Gospel labouring in the Word and Doctrine that they may ministerially translate men out of darknesse into the Kingdom of Gods dear Son and build them up in faith and holinesse to eternal life are so farre doubtlesse unto others at least the faithful Ministers of the Gospel that they who take them to be such and as such enjoy them in love and part from them in sorrow may from that disposition of theirs receive some evidence in themselves that they are in the number of the true Believers of the Gospel whereas they who make it a chief ingredient of their Religion to scorne and revile the Ministers of the Gospel whilst they live and to insult over them when they dye to vomit out their choler upon them both living and dying are not likely for ought I can learne from the Scriptures to be approved by our Lord Jesus Christ at his appearing as true Lovers and Believers of his blessed Gospel 2. Secondly This should be a strong inducement to those that are imployed in the Ministry of the Gospel to make it their special desire care and study to be found faithful in the Work of the Lord committed to them that they may bee enjoyed in love and have the true Believers of the Gospel their unfeigned Mourners at their Funeral The Apostle saith Let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the mysteries of God Moreover it is required in Stewards that a man be found faithful The Office as we see which God hath called the Ministers of the Gospel unto calleth upon them to be faithful Without faithfulnesse a nominal Minister of the Gospel how much soever he boasteth and prideeth himselfe in his Office is but like unsavoury salt good for nothing but to be trodden under foot with contempt both by God and men But when faithfulnesse is found in a Minister of the Gospel it maketh him shine as a Star very gloriously in the eyes of the Lord and all true Believers That Minister of the Gospel hath the best monument to perpetuate his name with honour whose faithfulnesse in the Ministry hath procured him the love of true Believers so that his presence is pleasant to them in life and his memory precious with them after death 3. In the third place the servants of God may here read their warrant for sadly bewailing and mourning over such as have been faithful in in the Ministry of the Gospel when they are by death finally taken from them Heathenish mourning over the dead accompanied with murmuring and impaciency against God becometh not the children of God in any wise It is the Lords command given of old to the Jewes Ye are the children of the Lord your God you shall not cut your selves nor make any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead Because they were by Covenant the children of God above other Nations therefore they were not to follow the practice of other Nations in their excessive mourning for the dead but to quiet themselves in the will of their God and Father knowing that his Saints are precious in his sight both in life and death And accordingly the Apostle Paul carefully provided that the Thessalonians having imbraced the Gospel of Christ might not sorrow over their dead as Heathens destitute