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Universal redemption offered in Jesus Christ in opposition to that pernicious and destructive doctrine of election and reprobation of persons from everlasting. By Jane Fearon.
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Fearon, Jane, 1654 or 5-1737.
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vers 7. where it is said Let the Wicked forsake his way and the Unrighteous Man his Thoughts and let him return unto the LORD and he will have Mercy upon him and to our GOD and He will abundantly pardon Whereby it may be plainly understood although the Covenant be sure on GOD's Part yet the Failure is on Mans Part in not Abiding in this holy Covenant and in dis-regarding and slighting that Law or Light GOD hath appointed for a Teacher for a Guide and for a Leader which would lead into all Truth Holiness and Purity without which No Acceptance with GOD. And furthermore The Apostle speaking of the Excellency of this Law saith The Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the Flesh GOD sending His own SON in the likeness of sinful Flesh and for Sin condemned Sin in the Flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit And as he delighted in the Law of GOD after the Inward Man and could speak of the Efficacy of it and the Sufficiency thereof so it may be observed the great Benefit he received through minding this Law and believing in it was that it set him free from the Law of Sin and Death it was that whereby he was translated out of the Power and Kingdom of Satan into the Power and Kingdom of the Dear SON of GOD who is sufficient for all that believe on him For GOD sent not his SON into the World to condemn the World but that the World through Him might be saved John 3.17 as they believe on Him Otherways according to his own Saying If ye believe not that I am He ye shall die in your Sins and whither I go thither ye cannot come John 12.46 47. Who saith again And if any Man hear my Words and believe not I Judge him not for I came not to Judge the World but to Save the World So it appears that the Love of GOD is held out to All that All might have been or may be saved by CHRIST But alas it proved the misery of the Jews who were of that Stock of whom CHRIST came according to the Flesh GOD's Peculiar People whom he had chosen above all the Families of the Earth to fall short through Unbelief and because they Believed Him not they did not Receive Him but they that Believed Him Received Him And as many as Received Him to them He gave Power to become the Sons of GOD John 1.12 13. So here may be plainly seen Unbelief was the Cause wherefore the Jews came short of the Benefit that GOD is bestowing upon such who do not only believe that CHRIST our LORD came in that prepared Body to do the Will of His FATHER to be offered up once for all but also believing on Him as He is come the second time without Sin unto Salvation waiting for His Inward Appearance by His Light and Grace in their Hearts and Souls that thereby they may know the Great Work of Regeneration with out which they cannot see the Kingdom of GOD nor doubtless enter into it So it may be observed the Fault is on Mans Part and not by an Eternal and Absolute Decree as some assert Again It is said in Rev. 3. 20. Behold I stand at the Door and Knock IF ANT MAN hear my Voice and open the Door I will come in and sup with him and he with Me. And blessed are they that hearken to the Inspeaking Voice of the Son of GOD who is Undoubtedly knocking at the Door of every Mans heart during the day of his Visitation in order to reclaim him from the Evil of his ways and to cleanse his Heart from all Iniquity that so he may be United or Married to the Lamb. But and if Man will not hear His Voice nor hearken the LORD will certainly be clear of his Blood and his Destruction will be upon his own Head And again It may be read in Rev. 22. 17. And the Spirit and the Bride faith Come and let him that heareth say Come and let him that is athirst Come and WHOSOEVER will let him take of the Water of Life freely Mark WHOSOEVER so there is None Excluded And according to the saying of our LORD John 4. 14. But WHOSOEVER drinketh of the Water that I shall give him shall never Thirst but the Water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of Water springing up unto Everlasting Life O the Benefit of it and the Joy of it unto such who know the springing up thereof is that which cannot be Demonstrated as it is Felt and Witnessed There is much Assurance of Peace It springs up to Everlasting Life There 's no Thirsting after any other Refreshment to the Soul but that which proceeds from the Spirit For this spake He of the Spirit that such should receive who believed on Him O what pity it is that poor Mankind should deprive themselves of such Great Blessings such Unutterable Kindness such Great Favour such Joy as to draw Water out of the Well of Salvation in themselves by falling short through Unbelief as did the Jews For because of Unbelief they were broken off Behold therefore the Goodness and Severity of GOD On them which fell Severity but towards thee Goodness if thou continue in his Goodness otherwise thou shalt also be cut off Rom. 11.22 And again I am not ashamed of the Gospel it is the Power of GOD unto Salvation unto every one that believeth But he that believeth not excludes himself from the Benefit of this Gospel-Power Moreover it is said Prov. 1. 20. Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her Voice in the Streets she crieth in the chief Places of Concourse in the openings of the Gates in the City she uttereth her Words saying How long ye Simple ones will ye love Simplicity and the Scorners delight in their scorning and Fools hate Knowledge Turn you at my Reproof Behold I will pour out my Spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my Hand and no Man regarded but ye have set at nought all my Counsel and would have none of my Reproof I also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh Here may be seen the Love of GOD without respect of Persons when He is calling to the Scorners to the Simple and to Fools As likewise in Acts 10.34 where the Apostle Peter saith 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 with Him So he makes the Fear of GOD and the working of Righteousness the Qualifications Such then that have this are Accepted where-ever they be But Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of Man that
that it should not be possible for them to Receive it would not this make the LORD to send forth His Servants with a Lye in their Mouths which were Blasphemous to think commanding them to bid all and every one believe that CHRIST died for them and had purchased Life and Salvation whereas it is no such thing according to their afore mentioned Doctrine But seeing CHRIST gave a Commission to Preach Repentance and Remission of Sins and Salvation to All it is manifest he died for All For he that hath Commissionated his Servants thus to Preach is a GOD of Truth and no Mocker of poor Mankind neither doth he require of any Man that which is Impossible but is a Principle of Truth Engraven in every Just Man's Mind And seeing He is both a most Righteous and Merciful GOD it cannot at all stand either with His Justice or Mercy to bid such Men Repent or Believe to whom He has made it Impossible Moreover If we regard the Testimony of Scripture in this matter where there is not one Scripture that I know of that affirmeth CHRIST not to have died for All there are divers that positively Assert He did 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3 4 5 6. I exhort that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all Men c. for this is good and Acceptable in the sight of GOD our Saviour who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED and to come to the Knowledge of the Truth who gave Himself a Ransom FOR ALL to be testified in due time Except we will have the Apostle here to intend quite another thing than he asserted there can be nothing more plain to confirm what we have here asserted and this Scripture doth well Answer to that manner of Arguing which we have hitherto used For first The Apostle here exhorts him to Pray for All Men and to withstand such an Objection as if they had said with our Adversaries CHRIST prayed not for the World neither willeth He us to pray for All because He will not that All should be Saved but hath ordained many to be Damned that He might shew forth His Justice in them He withstands I say such an Objection telling them That it is good and acceptable in the sight of GOD who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED I desire to know what can be more expresly affirmed Or can any two Propositions be stated in Terms more Contradictory than these Two GOD willeth that Some Men shall Not be Saved GOD willeth All Men to be Saved or GOD will have No Man Perish If we believe the last as the Apostle hath affirmed the first must be destroyed seeing of Contradictory Propositions the one being Placed the other is Destroyed Whence to conclude he gives us a Reason of His willingness that All Men should be Saved in these words Who gave Himself A RANSOM FOR ALL As if he would have said Since CHRIST died for All Men since he gave Himself a Ransom for All therefore he would have All Men to be Saved This CHRIST Himself gives as the Reason of GOD's Love to the World in these Words John 3.16 GOD so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son that WHOSOEVER Believeth in Him should not Perish but have Everlasting Life compared with John 4.9 This is very positively affirmed Heb. 2.9 in in these words But we see JESUS who was made a little lower than the Angels for the Suffering of Death Crowned with Glory and Honour that He by the Grace of GOD SHOULD TASTE DEATH FOR EVERY MAN He that will but open his Eyes may see this Truth here asserted If he tasted Death for EVERY Man then certainly there is NO Man for whom He did not taste Death then there is no Man who may not be made a Sharer of the Benefit of it For He came not to Condemn the World but that the World through Him might be Saved John 3.17 He came not to Judge the World but to Save the World Joh. 12.47 If He never came to bring Salvation to great part of Mankind but that his coming though it could never do them good yet shall augment their Condemnation from thence it necessarily follows that He came not of Intention to Save but to Judge and Condemn the greater part of the World contrary to His own Express Testimony And as the Apostle Paul in these words above-cited doth assert Affirmatively that GOD willeth the Salvation of ALL so doth the Apostle Peter assert Negatively that he Willeth Not the Perishing of any 2 Pet. 3.9 The LORD is not slack concerning his Promise as some Men count slackness but is long suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish but that All should come to Repentance And this is correspondent to that of the Prophet Ezekiel Chap. 33.11 As I live saith the LORD I have no pleasure in the Death of the Wicked but that the Wicked turn from his Ways and live If it be safe to believe GOD and to trust in him we must not think he intends to cheat us by all these Expressions through his Servants but that he was in good Earnest And that this Will and Desire of His hath not taken effect the blame is on our parts which could not be if so be we were never put in any capacity of Salvation and that CHRIST had never died for us but left us under an Impossibility of Salvation What means all those Earnest Invitations all these Serious Expostulations wherewith the holy Scriptures are full As Why will you die O House of Israel Why will you not come unto me that you might have Life I have waited to be gracious unto you I have sought to gather you I have knocked at the Door of your Hearts Is not your Destruction of your selves I have called all the Day long If Men who are so Invited be under no capacity of being saved if Salvation be impossible unto them why doth the Psalmist express himself thus The LORD is gracious and full of Compassion slow to anger and of great Kindness or Mercy The LORD is good to all and his Tender Mercies are over all His Works of which Man is the Noblest Part. This Doctrine is abundantly confirm'd by the Apostle 1 John 2.1 2. And if any Man sin we have an Advocate with the FATHER JESUS CHRIST the Righteous and He is the Propitiation for our Sins and not for ours only but also for the Sins of the WHOLE WORLD Here the Apostle John tells us plainly That CHRIST not only died for him and for the Saints and Members of the Church of GOD to whom he wrote but for the WHOLE WORLD Let us then hold it for a Certain and Undoubted Truth notwithstanding such as oppose If we Regard the Testimony of the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans we must conclude that the Death of CHRIST was as large to Save as Adam's Sin was to Condemn Rom. 5.15 18. where he says