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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02837	The equall vvayes of God tending to the rectifying of the crooked wayes of man. The passages whereof are briefly and clearly drawne from the sacred Scriptures. By T.H.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1632 (1632)	STC 12976; ESTC S103940	24,541	49

THE EQVALL WAYES OF GOD Tending to the rectifying of the crooked wayes of man CHAP. I. In which foure generall positions are set downe as the ground-worke of all Conclusions deduced thence FOr the opening and clearing of the equall waies of God obvious to humane search we must stil keepe in minde these foure Positions 1. God from all eternitie decreed to doe what the Scripture tels us that in time he hath done or doth doe or absolutely saith he will doe 2. God before whom all things are naked who is the searcher of mans heart who knowes our thoughts long before from all eternitie sees whatsoever in time cometh to passe 3. The decrees of God for the making of the world for his dealing with the creatures therein are not in time one former or later then another in God But are all at once simul and semel from all eternitie decreed by him 4. All Gods decrees are infinitely wise holy just tending to his glorie and have no externall cause but are squared according to the rule of his mercy and justice These positions are evident and granted I suppose by all sides Hence these generall inferences as also diverse others may be concluded I. That God who will hereafter glorifie a certaine number of men and adjudge a certaine number of men to everlasting torment both numbers knowne only to himselfe hath decreed the same from all eternitie before man had done good or evill II. God by his infinite wisedome seeth from eternitie what will be the estate of all men and what in mercy and justice will be his dealing with them first and last So that whatsoever he hath absolutely decreed and doth foresee that very thing doth undoubtedly come to passe most certaine salvation to some most certaine damnation to others CHAP. II. Particular positions about Gods dealing with man to bring him to salvation Conclusions thence IN the next place we descend more particularly to these positions 1. God from all eternitie decreed to make the world and all things therein exceeding good and man after his owne image 2. God seeing man falne from this happie estate to have brought on himselfe death and vanity on the creatures from eternitie decreed that the second person in Trinitie should assume humane nature and being God and man also without sinne should shed his pretious blood and offer up himselfe by death a sacrifice of infinite merit and in it selfe sufficient for all mankinde 3. God also decreed for making this sufficient sacrifice effectuall to speake to man himselfe as to Adam Cain Moses Balaam c. and by holy men his prophets as Enoch Noah Moses David Esay c. who spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost sometimes by word of mouth sometimes by writing and by other his servants the preists and Levites to instruct man And in the last times of the world for the perfecting of that doctrine to speake to man by his sonne Iesus Christ by his Apostles and their successors with whom Christ promised to be alwaies even to the end of the world so that they were to cooperate with him by their preaching the word 4. God decreed to give man certaine religious rites as of old types sacrifices of diverse kinds circumcision the passeover and since Christs time Baptisme the Lords supper as to instruct man so on Gods part to seal the covenant made to them who rightly use the same that he is their God in Christ 5. God decreed by the visible things of the world by severall punishments and judgements persecutions captivities warres famine c. and by miracles c. which the spirit of God wrought by the ministry of his servants for the conversion of man to humble and instruct man 6. God decreed by his Spirit to strive with mankind for the bringing them to repentance and faith both of old and in these later times but not alwaies to strive with them And therefore in his unsearchable mercy and justice hath fixed certaine limits for the same which are knowne only to his divine wisedome unlesse sometimes he reveale them as in the hundred and twentie yeares set for the old world So there was a fixed time in Gods decree a day of the Iewes untill which God by his Spirit working together with the preaching of his prophets sent early and late and lastly by the preaching of his Son sued to thē to turn unto him In which day of visitation seeing they knew not the things which belonged to their peace and would not be gathered to God God strove no longer with them but left the generalitie of that nation to themselves 7. God also from eternitie seeing the falling away of the Gentiles of old and of the Iewes in these later daies from the true Church to whom belonged the promises in Christ and the priviledges of the fame decreed to leave a way open to the Gentiles then for their comming into the true faith and worship of God and now sets open the gates of the spirituall Ierusalem on each side of the Cittie for all nations to come in These decrees distinctly laid downe for our better understanding in God are not one former or later then another but all at once upon his sight of all things from all eternitie by his infinite wisedome goodnesse and justice most holily decreed the word of God telling us that these things in time have beene are or shall be done and performed on Gods part Now from these positions it may be inferred I. That God by making man at first in an happie estate and when man was falne by providing a Saviour in himselfe sufficient for all by taking a course on his owne part for the salvation of all so farre as in mercy and Iustice he pleased by swearing that he wils not the destruction of the wicked and by lamenting at it shewes us evidently that so far he wils the salvation of all men II. God did not decree to passe by nor to forsake the greatest part of mankinde in Adams fall as not bound to them as indeed he was not to any but on his part decreed to take a course after Adams fall so far as in mercie and justice he would for the recovery of all And when the fixed time of his striving with them was expired then only in the execution of his decree he left them to themselves as Cain and his house the Iewes Apostate and their seed continuing in apostacy and so of others in like sort III. God hath taken a course on his part to keep man from sinne and is not the author of mans sinne having made man at the first in such an holy estate as that he had free will to good and when that free will was lost taking a course on his part to have man guided by his word and spirit a meanes in it selfe sufficient to keep man from sins dominion for he hath