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A87179	Good news to all people. Glad tydings for all men. God good unto all, and Christ the saviour of the world: or, The general point faithfully handled by way of exercise: or A sermon preached at Buckingham upon the 25 of March, being (as so called) Easter-day. By William Hartley.	Hartley, William, of Stony-Stratford.	1650 (1650)	Wing H974; Thomason E594_11; ESTC R206917	25,853	32

female Here is no limitation or restriction either of Nations or persons but according as Christ maketh it out Joh. 3.14 As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness so shall the Son of man be lifted up that Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God so loved the World c. In this similitude Christ brings to our understanding a Mystery In the History * Numb 21 9. we read of bodies bitten by Serpents and cured by a miraculous Ordinance of God We find also in the Mystery of the Gospel that all have sinned and are venomed by the poyson of that fiery Serpent the Devil and Jesus Christ is constituted and set forth as an Antidote to that poyson and Remedy against that sting 1 Cor. 15. So the Apostle hath it The sting of death is sin the strength of sin is the Law but thanks be to God which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ This incomprehensible mercy was occasioned through Gods love to the World God so loved the World that Whosoever believeth c. Under consideration of the word World you may understand Gods indefinite Love to all mankind and by Whosoever no man as a person by any intention of Almighty God is debarred from the benefit of his Love * 2 Cor. 4 4. If Christ or the Gospel be hid it is unto those that perish whom Satan the god of this world hath blinded c. Jesus Christ being sent on purpose that Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Object But this World that God so loved is to be understood the world of Elect and not all mankind Answ I answer That where ever you find the word World mentioned in Scripture it doth either imply the whole Creation as God made the World The World passeth away c. or the major part of men in the World The World lieth in wickedness We cannot understand the Apostle included himself and the Saints but the generality of people then living in the World Moreover observe it the world World is so far from admitting any construction in relation to Saints Elect or Believers as that it is generally quoted in direct opposition to them The World shall hate you Iohn 17. Ye shall weep but the World shall rejoyce The World hath not known thee They are not of the World c. So then it is evident That the World is no where rendered for Elect or Saints and the World here spoken of doth comprehend all mankind The better to rectifie this misprision see 1 Joh. 2.2 He is the propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only but for the sins of the whole World This the Apostle inferreth to declare the large extent of Christs Mediatorship from the benefit whereof the whole World hath no ejectment for saith * 2 Pet. 3.9 Peter He is not willing that any should perish which Negative produceth this Affirmative but that all should be Saved and come to the knowledg of the truth This Scripture with others afore cited may invite your credence to the Observation we are dwelling upon viz. It is the good will and c. Although the Scripture in its self be a sufficient testimony to confirm every truth therein comprized yet we find many Arguments by way of Illustration used as Grounds and Reasons for further conviction as we may instance in our Saviour when he refuted the Sadduces doctrine of non-resurrection God saith he as you grant is the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Now God is not a God of the dead but of the living if so then of necessity there is a Being after death And likewise to his Disciples for prevention of immoderate care A Sparrow saith he doth not fall to the ground without the will of your heavenly Father and it is he that clothes the Lillies in their royalty Now consider Doth the providence of your heavenly Father extend to Sparrows and doth he so beautifie the grass in the fields and do you think he will be unmindful of you O ye of little faith I suppose my beloved friends the Scriptures quoted may evidently manifest the truth of the Doctrine yet I crave leave to offer to your consideration some Arguments for your further confirmation The first Argument that gives me to apprehend 1 Argument grounded from Gods propriety That it is the good Will and Pleasure of Almighty God that every Creature should come to the attainment of Life and Salvation is grounded upon the propriety or interest that God is said to have in all Creatures Luke the Evangelist recording ab origine the descent of Christ from Joseph to Adam shutteth up the genealogy in these words Which was the son of Adam which was the son of God Luke 3.38 That the Creature had a Being in God was acknowledged by those heathenish Poets and asserted by Paul Acts 17.29 Forasmuch as we are all of his Off-spring c. We shall only add that expression of Moses in his prayer O God thou art the God of the Spirits of all flesh Numb 16.22 The scope and purport of these Scriptures is to declare God to be the Creator and Father of all Spirits Abraham is said to beget Isaac Isaac Jacob c. that is the formative vertue which did create hands feet and limbs did proceed from the persons mentioned but the Spirit which gives Essence and Being to the Creature cometh from God * Simile A Window is said to light the house when it is the Sun for if the Sun withdraw his light as in dark nights may be observed the window lighteth the house no more then the wall In this sence God is said to open the womb of Rebecca when he gave life to the formative vertue so then men are said to beget men when it 's God that is the Father of all Spirits If a man have never so many children he wisheth the welfare of all as may be instanced in Abraham who provided not only for Isaac and Ishmael but for those children also that he had by Keturah Gen. 25.5 unto whom he gave gifts and sent them into the Wilderness How did David lament over Absalom an undutiful son Now if we that are wicked desire the welfare and happiness of our own children can we have such hard thoughts of God as to create a Soul on purpose to destroy it Behold saith the Lord All Souls are mine the Soul of the father and the Soul of the son I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth 2 Argument grounded upon Gods Invitation The second Argument is grounded upon the several Invitations of God to the Creature we read Prov. 1.10 these expressions Wisdom cryeth without she uttereth her voyce in the street How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and scorners delight in scorning and fools hate knowledg Turn ye

GOOD NEWS to all PEOPLE GLAD TYDINGS for all MEN. God good unto All AND Christ the Saviour of the World OR The general Point faithfully handled by way of Exercise OR A Sermon preached at Buckingham upon the 25 of March being as so called Easter-day By WILLIAM HARTLEY 1 Tim. 2.4 Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledg of the truth Heb. 2.9 We see Jesus who was made a little lower then the Angels by suffering death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man LONDON Printed by John Macock for Lodowick Lloyd and Henry Cripps and are to be sold at their shop in Popes-head Alley 1650. For his beloved Cozen Captain Francis Freeman SIR WHen I call to mind the glorious refreshing Beams distilled from the men of your generation on Saints seeking after God it is hard to say Whether the remembrance doth minister greater comfort or sadness seeing such hideous Clouds have overwhelmed our Horizon that we are given to believe the Sun is upon the Equinoctial Point passing into the ecliptick Line * Nescio quis tineros oculus c. Whether the misty Vapours of our own Climate or that fruit-nipping North-East wind hath occasioned these Fogs interposing Supposition granteth no Conclusion and how Titan will be able to dispel these obstructive Mists before he dippeth himself into the * Tingere in altum Sol ita videtur navigant Vir. Sea 'T is Wisdom to praise a fair day at night To Morrows generation may Calculate whether Justice follow you or you follow Justice Sir I ask pardon for digression and present you this Discourse from the Press of which you were a Hearer in the Speech and beg resentment therein so far of your Spirit as it hath a witness from truth in the Spirit I am Your unworthy Kinsman William Hartley To the Reader Courteous Reader I Am deeply sadded when I consider the great rents the particular and general Point hath made in the Church of Christ and what sad disaster hath followed for want of holding forth the truth in love By providence having an opportunity to declare my thoughts touching the Vniversal Love of God to mankind I was mis-apprehended by divers of my Hearers whom I judg to be godly and Mr Birdits promise to inform the Auditory touching his and their misprision being not to my knowledg yet effected To wipe off the prejudice that Mr Birdit infused in the people not only of my self but the doctrine I have at the desire of my friends put this ensuing Treatise unto publique view although the Subject matter therein contained hath been managed ex superabundanti by many able and knowing men in the Scripture yet I humbly take liberty to cast my mite into the treasury I am not ignorant how contemptible this small piece offered will appear in the eyes of some and how sleighted of others because not coyned with the currant stamp yet I presume all rational and unbiassed professors will judg the mettal of this discourse according to its weight or worth in the ballance of Reason and Touch-stone of the Word of God which is the ultimate request of him whose desire is to know truth Stonystrat April 4. 1649. WIL HARTLEY GOOD NEWS to all PEOPLE GLAD TYDINGS for all MEN. ACTS 17.30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now he commandeth all men every where to repent IN the former part of this Chapter we read of Pauls practice viz. that as he passed from place to place his manner was to go into the Synagogues of the Jews there being a concourse of people he made it his business by arguments and reasoning from Scripture to declare Jesus Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this action of Pauls to wit his going into the Synagogues is warrantable see a president in Christ himself * Luk. 4.16 And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the Synagogues and stood up for to read c. It is evident from this place of Scripture and many more That Christ who taught the people upon the Mount in a Ship at the Sea side taught also in the Temple and Synagogues of the Jews not in relation to any sanctity in the places but in reference to an opportunity there being an Assembly of persons Herein the Apostle Paul professeth his integrity That he had shuned no occasion having taught the Word publiquely and from house to house Act. 20.20 As all endevors tending to the glory of God are incident to obstruction so this enterprize of the Apostle meets with no small opposition Two sorts of Adversaries are recorded The Jews those who worshipped the same God The Church of Christ hath no greater Enemies then those who spring from her own bowels That which Christ speaketh of a mans foes is most true in relation to Saints Their Enemies are of their own houshold Christian against Christian Beleever against Beleever Secondly Lewd fellows those of the baser sort uncivilized men who are adversaries to all goodness and good men these run open mouth at Paul but devout and moderate people the men of Berea neither distasted his person or doctrine but searched the Scriptures whether these things were true or no This Idolizing of persons places and forms hath done no small prejudice to the power of Truth and mystery of the Gospel At Athens though a City wholy given to Idolatry yet there Paul is drawn forth to preach the Gospel they being a people affected with Novelty unto them he declares the glad news of Jesus Christ 'T is remarkable that such a Heathenish people Philosophers of the Epicureans Stoicks c. should admit of a debate as Vers 19 20. May we know what this new Doctrine whereof thou speakest is For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears we would know therefore what these things mean c. I promise ye Sirs this civil deportment hath not been found in many of our Divines so called who in stead of embracing conference to argue out the Truth secundum pondus cry out with the invective Jews Away with such a fellow he is not worthy to live The Apostle having gained audience convinceth the vanity of the Athenian worship by interposition of the true taking notice of an Altar erected to an VNKNOWN GOD Whom therefore saith he ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you And the times of this ignorance God winked at Acts 17.30 but now he commandeth all men every where to repent Before we proceed to the Doctrinal part of the Text I shall open these three things First What is meant by Times You are to understand 1. What is meant by Times that when Time or Times are attributed to God it is spoken in reference to the capacity of the Creature God in himself being above and beyond all Time A thousand years in

thy sight are but as yesterday And again One day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day Now to the Creature a thousand years are a thousand years and one day is one day but with God it is not so All times persons and actions whether past present or to come are as at one instant in his view as you may instance * Simile A man standing upon a hill and an Army marching in the Vale to them that march some are in the Van some are in the Rear some are in the Battel but the person on the hill seeth them all at one prospect So to us mortals one generation passeth another followeth a third hasteth after but all in Gods view at once Times of ignorance That is when persons are unacquainted with the knowledg of Christ though never so wise in other things yet their life and time is a life and being in ignorance When the Apostle accounted all things as dung and dross in comparison of the * Phil. 3.8 Excellency of the Knowledg of Christ we cannot imagine that he excluded worldly wisdom for he that will be wise in the sight of God must become a fool that he may be wise Secondly What we are to conceive of Gods winking 2. How to understand Gods winking In the times of this ignorance God winked Praeterire fecit Deus saith the Original a Metaphor taken from our vulgar expression Sir you are to wink at or take no knowledg of small matters Thirdly What it is to repent 3. What it is to Repent He commandeth all men every where to repent Repentance in the proper signification of the word doth imply a change of the minde Contrition weeping or sorrow for sin is a sign or fruit of repenting but not Repentance it self Sorrow was found in Judas as well as Peter and profane Esau shed tears when Englishman-like he was wise afterwards A Malefactor at the Bar takes on heavily for fear of punishment when haply his heart sits as close to his lust as ever for being let loose he followeth his old trade afresh True Repentance is Conversion of the heart * Acts 3.19 Repent and be Converted which properly consisteth in renovation of the minde * Rom. 12.2 Be ye transformed by renewing of your mindes which is pertinently set forth by the Apostle Rom. 6.19 As ye have yeelded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yeeld your members servants to righteousness unto Holiness In the times of ignorance c. The subject matter of this Text may be this Ye men of Athens that do so desire after news I declare unto you That ye have spent your time in ignorance and blinde devotion which God is willing to pass by provided ye be converted and changed in your mindes which thing God commandeth to be done by you and all men every where in the world This being considered we shall draw this general Conclusion from the words of the Text Doctrine It is the good will and pleasure of Almighty God that every Creature should come to the attainment of Life and Salvation That which is spoken of the Peace of God is most true of his Goodness It passeth all understanding that is the narrow capacity of the Creature is not able to comprehend the infinite love and kindness that is in God It is too much given to the Creature to limit the goodness of God and when Gods universal Love unto all Mankinde is declared then are arguments drawn of improbability not unlike that of Abrahams Gen. 17.7 Shall a childe be born unto him that is an hundred years old And shall Sarah that is ninety years old bear That God should manifest love and kindness unto good and godly men an account is easily rendred but that God should declare his mercy and compassion to the ungodly that cannot be understood although the Parable of the lost sheep be read unto them every Sabbath day The sick are the proper object of the Physicians cure Christ came not to call the Righteous but Sinners to Repentance The Doctrine of Predestination viz. That God before all Eternity did elect and choose some persons to Salvation and themselves included in the number pleaseth very well but that God chooseth only through faith and reprobates none but in reference to disobedience of faith is not relished notwithstanding they know the Scripture where it is said He that believeth shall be saved he that believeth not shall be condemned John 3 18. because he believed not in the only begotten Son of God That Jesus Christ came into the world to redeem some and they the persons is well resented but that Jesus Christ came into the world to save All yea that which was lost is not so well approved of The Prophet David speaking concerning the goodness of God Psal 145.9 informs how far it doth extend The Lord is good unto All and his tender mercy is over All his works It doth not read good unto some or exercising mercy unto part of his works as divers would give it out Our Saviour in his Sermon upon the Mount Mat. 5. concludeth the Chapter with these words Be ye Merciful as your heavenly Father is Merciful Which perfection did consist in loving our enemies doing good to them that hate us and it is thus reasoned That if we love our friends that love us or do good to them that do good to us Heathens Publicanes are capable of such a * Ingratus est qui gratiam degree of righteousness But the Saints of God must go further their love and goodness must not only extend to friends but enemies also and that from a president in God their Father Who maketh his Sun to rise upon the evil and on the good and sendeth rain upon the just and on the unjust that is to say upon All as was minded before from the Psalmist His tender mercy is over All his works This tender mercy I offer my judgment hath relation unto Jesus Christ who is proposed or set forth by God the Father an Universal Tender of Love to the whole * By Creation or Creature understand Mankind Creation The Argument Paul gives why prayers for Kings and such as were invested with authority though as we have ground to believe were for the generality wicked and ungodly persons was acceptable in the sight of God is concluded from Gods indefinite love to mankind 1 Tim. 2.4 Who will have All men to be saved and come to the knowledg of the truth For there is one God and one Mediator betwixt God and man even the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for All c. And as the Apostle renders it in another place * Heb. 2.9 That he to wit Jesus Christ through the grace or free gift of God tasted death for Every Man whether Jew or Gentile bond or free male or