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A89274	Mercies for man. Prepared in, and by Christ, even for such as neither know them, nor him. Discovered, that they might know, and enjoy them. Or a discourse of the interest there is for all men in, and by Christ in the end, and usefulmesse of the beleevers peculiar priviledges and service. In which is also some information about that service to which the grace of God, that bringeth salvation to all men, instructeth, and obligeth the beleever for the good of them all, according to capacity, and opportunity given him. Likewise some directions for, and concerning Christian magistrates. In the opening some instructions arising from the Apostles exhortation to Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. Delivered in November 1653. at the Munday meetings at Black-Friers: and because what then was spoken, met with some publick opposition, this is now published for further satisfaction. Written by Thomas Moor, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1654 (1654)	Wing M2605; Thomason E744_1; ESTC R207022	135,708	156

or doubting the Psalmist invites all the people to trust in him at all times and with trust or confidence to pour out their hearts before him and that on this account God is a refuge for us Psal 62. 8. suitable to which is that acknowledgement and magnifying the riches of Gods grace thorow the plenteousnesse of the redemption with him Psal 65. 2. O God that hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come and those invitations and admonitions Psal 65. 1-6 96. 7 8. 100. and that Jam. 1. 5. If any man lack wisdome let him ask it of God who giveth liberally to all men and upbraideth none yea let him aske in faith according as the goodnesse of God manifested moveth and encourageth him and if he bee in darknesse and see no light yet let him look come unto the name of God as declared in his Son Let him come without mony and price and seek unto God for those waters the Lord will hear them the God of Israel will not for sake them but will open rivers in dry places and fountaines in the desarts Isa 41. 17 18. 50. 10. 55. 1 True it is The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination to the Lord by how much the more he cometh with a wicked minde Prov. 15. 8. 21. 27. 28. 9. But this is not to put a barre against wicked and sinfull men that they should not seek the Lord or call upon him as they are exhorted Isa 55. 6 7. but to instruct and direct them and all others to seek him indeed and with the whole heart not feignedly for even righteous men may offer the sacrifices of the wicked and then shal not be therein heard and it is for their good they are not If I saith David regard iniquity in my heart the Lord wil not heare me Psa 66. 18. Every one that sets up the Idol of his iniquity in his heart and puts the stumbling-block of it before his face sets that in his eye and designe to reserve his owne purpose and makes that the end of his prayer the Lord will set his face against him for they seek not him but themselves Ezek. 14. 3. 7. Isa 58. Zech. 7. 5 6 7. They refuse to heare the Law or receive his instruction or reproofe hide their evil deeds from the light and yet for a pretence seek him and are zealous in multiplying sacrifices as Prov. 28. 9. Zech. 7. 5-7 and on the other hand sinfuland evil men through his goodnesse in mercies or chastisements may be humbled before him and heartily seek help and mercy of him shal be therein accepted as Ahab 1 King 21. 29. This is generally true Every one that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened let that grace of God therefore that bringeth Salvation to all men move encourage and provoke every man to seek the Lord while he may be found c Look unto me and be yee saved all the ends of the earth To the second part of the Proposition and so for more direct answer to the query Who those are by whom especially prayers are to be made for others even for all men of whom it is required and expected they are all those that by faith in Jesus Christ have such enjoyment and usefulnesse of him as their Advocate with the Father If any man sinne we have an Advocate wee that have beleeved is him have through faith such usefulnesse of him with the Father as to present and make out and manage our matters we have through his grace according to his will to present to him for others as wel as for our selves even for any man therefore if any of us that have beleeved on the name of the Son of God for so we have good reason to understand the word any man 1 Joh. 5. 16. from the fore-going Verses where he is speaking of Beleevers seeking and confidence of acceptance and from thence here encourageth them all and so any of them to ask it is not as 1 Joh. 2. 1 2. where any man and the whole world is evidently opposed to us and we as 1 Joh. 5. 19. but here the word Any man is only joyned with or added to us and we in such a case or businesse as in which the same is affirmed concerning the us or we fore-mentioned and in the same manner here only he enlargeth his instruction and exhortation to every particular of them If any man of you that thorow grace beleeve and are therein Spiritualized to discerne other men and things in their right colours see his Brother or any man with whom we live as all men are our Brethren after some considerations sinne a sinne that is not unto death he shall aske and God shal give him life they that through the tasts of his graciousnesse come to him are reconciled to God by Jesus Christ are therein being built on him made a company of Spiritual Priests to offer up Spiritual sacrifices even for others acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 3. Therefore the Lord speaking unto Abimelech concerning Abraham tels him He is a Prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live Gen. 20. 7. The effectuall fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much Jam. 5. 16. The prayer of the upright is his delight Prov. 15. 8. T is comely for them to have their hearts desire and prayer to God for all men in an acceptable time and that without ceasing and therefore also especially required and expected of them because they are acquainted with the good will of God concerning men as manifested in Christ shewing them good reason ground and foundation for it from thence moving and constraining them to it Of them to whom much is given shall much be required Let me then say to such Seeing yee are appointed and furnished to such excellent service with God for the good of others and it is of so continual and general concernment Be ye clean yee that beare the vessels of the Lord touch not the uncleane thing suffer the grace of God to separate you more and more from the pollutions intanglements and snares of this world and to instruct and lead you to deny your selves and take heed also of being unequally yoaked Beleevers with unbeleevers such as with whom you cannot have fellowship together in drawing on this maine designe or who being joyned with you may pull you back and tend to the streightning of you 2 Cor. 6 13 14. and that you dwel and walk together and one towards another and towards all according to knowledge as the understanding of the grace of God in Christ as declared in the Gospel instructeth you that so you be not streightened in your owne bowels nor your prayers hindred Isa 52. 10 11. with 2 Cor. 6. 12-16 1 Pet. 3. 7. And further let me adde according to the instructions of the grace of God continue instant in prayer seeing yee are thereunto appointed

that is of both seeing and healing when by the light comming to them they see both him and his Father 2. The truth of that ransoming or redemption from the curse of the Law perfect in Christ for men appears further from the grace of God extended unto men in the mercies and accommodations of the natural life yea in the severest of his chastisements there appears a great abatement or taking off the greatest part of the stroke and that it is not sustained as the full and proper wages of sin but is far less then our iniquities deserve the truth and holiness of God was ingaged that the soul that sins must dye and the death was such as was wholly destructive and no intermission or mixture of any mercy but the soul to have been continually filled with madness and confusion the body with pains and all diseases in the extremity till it had been wholly turned to dust the rain of the land powder and dust we to eat our bread in sorrow and anguish of our hearts all our dayes all curses to follow and overtake us till we perish this was our portion Gen. 3. 17 c. with Deut. 28. 15 c. neither may the truth and holiness of God suffer the least impeachment he cannot in clearing clear the guilty Exod. 34. 7. Therefore in that man is preserved from so much of the destruction and confusion in his minde and of the pains and anguish in his body in this natural life as that he is a capable subject of beholding conversing with and comfortable injoyment of the works of Gods creation and providence that instead of the rain of our land being powder and dust the Lord gives rain from heaven and instead of eating our bread in the sorrow of our heart all our dayes the Lord gives food and gladness instead of thornes thistles that the Lord in any measure gives that which is good and our land yields her increase herein Gods goodness is witnessed so as through a Saviour and leading to repentance all these having in them a testimony of a door opened again to God mercy and truth met redemption wrought in another for us Psal 85. 9 12 13. Acts 14. 17. Rom. 2. 4. upon that account it is that God demeans himself towards men in his government ●ow by Christ as if he did not see their iniquities because he is well pleased for his righteousness sake Isai 42. 19 21. in whom truth is sprung out of the earth c. 3. The truth of this further appears in that all shall be raised from the first death and then be judged according to the Gospel which they could not have been if one had not by the grace of God died for them and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 10 14 15. Acts 17. 30 31. Rom. 2. 16. yea if Christ be not raised for them then can there be no resurrection of them For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 21 22. Neither could there be any reason or rule for judging men according to the Gospel for whom there was no truth in the Gospels Declarations propounded to them to be believed if no grace extended by which they might have been saved They must have perished if Christ had not died for them in the first death but there could have been no ransoming out of it and so no second death But to proceed 2. As Jesus Christ by giving himself a ransome hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law and therein saved us from perishing in that first death and misery having in and by himself taken away our sins from before the Father the sin of the world after the first consideration as passing and being found on them simply and necessarily through the first disobedience so he hath therein and by vertue thereof obtained eternal redemption even redemption of the transgressions under the first Testament Heb. 9. 12 15. A perfect restoration of all that was lost by that sin and according to that judgement a restoration of it not into their persons but into himself for them that it might be enjoyed by faith and in the first fruits of the Spirit and the hope of the harvest by any of them in believing in him through his name there it is perfect in him as in a publique person or treasury for us who will never lose it That in coming in to him it might be enjoyned by us In him God hath given us eternal life He of us to whom life is given in Christ that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life And yet it 's given him in Christ as before 1 John 5. 11 12. The sum of our loss and that in which eternal life consisteth is capacity and liberty to the enjoyment of the delightful favour of and fellowship with God in which is life All have sinned and come short of the glory of God unto which they were created in the first publique man Sin makes separation between God and men forasmuch as by it we lost that Image of God in which we were created which was such as in Soul and Body together we were capable subjects of immediate fellowship with our Creator and in also our liberty to such enjoyment we are in our selves and as in relation to the first man justly banished as well as enemies in our mindes and so at a distance strangers to the life of God but Jesus Christ in our nature as the second publique man and for us hath perfectly recovered that Image of God which we lost and in a better maner and that both in Soul and Body so as he is in our nature and as the publique person a capable subject of immediate fellowship with God and hath also liberty he is entertained to such enjoyment that now for us through sufferings he is entered into the actual possession of glory that he may appear effectually in the presence of God for us and that whosoever comes in to him by faith may in him appear perfect and righteous before the Father yea the fulness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily according to that John 17. 4 5. I have finished the work thou gavest me to do on earth and now I come to thee holy Father glorifie me with thine own self with the glory I had with thee before the world was Compared with Col. 1. 14. 15. In him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sinnes Who is the Image of the invisible God c. 'T is true the 15. verse is a description of the excellency of his person In whom we have redemption but it is also clearly a demonstration of the redemption we have in him the Image of God recovered into our nature that through faith in him it may be enjoyed by any of us whose nature he took as aforesaid Seeing whatever Jesus

lead Captivity captive Thou hast received gifts in the Man for men even for the Rebellious that God might dwell among them And hence also doth daily load us c. But saith the Text God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still that is notwithstanding the truth of the former the permission really prepared in Christ and the means and Spirit with them to reclaim him cordially extended by Christ in his trespasses Both Scriptures shew that the things before affirmed concerning them were true and cordially for them which also will be the great reason of their everlasting condemnation in a second Death they rejecting these timely admonitions Further also not only was our Saviors body given and bloud shed for Judas But likewise our Saviour even while he was thus in time admonishing Judas that he might be such a testimony in due time to him and while it might have been for his good he as the great Mediator between God and man was earnestly making Intercession for him even while Judas was conceiving his wicked thought and enterprise against him and till he was so wholly given over and left of God to Satan that our Saviours prayer returned again into his bosome and his prayer namely Judas became sin there being no door for repentance or turning left which we cannot conclude to be fully done till after that last time of his being wrought upon to repentance and sight and owning of his sin Mat. 27. 3. which doubtlesse might have this tendency to lead him yet again to look to his Master with whom was forgivenesse but then running from his Master and to the Priests for helpe he was wholly left to his madnesse and desperatenesse verse 4 5. whence that seems to be mentioned as the time and thing in which his sin was filled up and so wrath came upon him to the uttermost Act. 1. 18. but when or whereinsoever that was this we say till such time as sinne was finished in him and had brought forth death occasioned an utter separation from God our Saviour was with earnestnesse as one heartily and much desiring to prevent his destruction praying for him as appears Psal 109. 4 5 6 7. which Scripture the Holy Ghost spake concerning Judas compare verse 8. with Act. 1. 16 17 20. For my love they are my adversaries but I to prayer or I give my selfe to prayer And that the Holy Ghost hereby means prayer for him and so them other such adversaries even then while they were acting as adversaries appears by the next verse in which he seems to have reference to this as a testimony of his goodnesse towards them They have rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my love and also by that which follows in the 7. verse as aptly opposed to or set against this Let his prayer become sin as who should say because in time he would not suffer the love testified in and grace extended by means of my praying for him to have its efficacie upon him yea further it appeares that this prayer to which our Saviour did diligently give or set himself while there was any opportunity was for Judas and so for such Adversaries even for such good for and to them as by which their destruction yea the finishing their sinne thereto might yet have been prevented while he was so making intercession for them by comparing this Psal 109. with Psal 35. which is equivalent with this and indeed clearly opens it see ver 7 8. Without cause they are my adversaries c. therefore let destruction come upon him c. See againe ver 11 12 13. compared with Psal 109. 3 4 5. They rewarded me evil for good saith the text but as for me my cloathing was sackcloath I humbled my Soule with fasting and my prayer returned into my bosome but not to be larger in this it appeares by what hath been said that the Ransome and Mediation of Christ is true and cordiall for such men as by turning his grace therein into wantonnesse and denying him that bought them doe afterwards bring upon themselves swift destruction and so for all and every of Mankinde and those are the All men here in the text to be prayed for even all those for whom he gave himselfe a ransome and is the Mediator that he might be to them a testimony in due time Yea further it appeares that by all men to be prayed for he meanes all Mankinde without exception of any in their severall and proper Ages in that instancing but one sort or degree of them particularly he saith expresly All of them though they were then generally the worst and those concerning whom there might be most occasion of wrath and doubting in the Beleever looking upon them as they were in themselves for Kings and for all in authority so our Saviour exhorts to pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us Mat. 5. 44. according to his example Luk. 23. 34. so Stephen prayed earnestly when he breathed his last for that very people who had now added this to their former wickednesse they had rejected the Gospel as brought and confirmed by the Apostles and now stoned him for Christs sake whom before they had Crucified yet kneeling downe he cryed with a loud voyce Lord lay not this sin to their charge Act. 7. 60. So Paul even when they were in part and in a great measure given up to their blindnesse and hardnesse though yet not wholly as afterward while there was any hope of prevention or recovery see Rom. 10. 1. Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Isr●el is that they might be saved and suitable to all this is that instruction 1 Joh. 2. 1 2. Having in the latter part of the first Chapter propounded a remedy against and a way of clensing from the sins of Beleevers distinct in the beginning of this Chapter he first tels them These things he hath written to them that they sinne not and then proceeds in his instruction to enlarge and shew the infinite vertue and usefulnesse of the same remedy for taking away other mens sins also if those that yet beleeve not If any man sinne before he said if wee sinne now if any man distinct from we or us and how to understand what he meanes by any man as distinguished from and opposed to us or we see 1 Joh. 5. 19. 20. We know that we are of God and the whole world lyes in wickednesse Thus then we are to understand him according to his owne explication These things I write that yee that are of God and have knowne him that is from the beginning as 1 Joh. 2. 12-14 sin not and then also if any other man sinne any of the world that yet lyes in wickednesse any one whatsoever that we have occasion to converse with and so see his sin We have that is Beleevers have an Advocate with the Father that we may boldly make

use of to present all our needs and matters that are according to the wil of God for our selves and others and he that is our Advocate He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world and therefore we may thorow and by him make our prayers for any mans sin which is equivalent with and full as large as this for all men we shal adde no more for proofe of this but only this caution for a right understanding of what is said that it is possible and sometime found some men before their Natural l●fe be snatcht from them may have put themselves out of the number of this All men to be prayed for men may have so filled up the measure of their sinne as to have finished it so as it hath occasioned or brought forth Death in an utter rejection and separation from God Jam. 1. 15 with 1 Joh. 5. 16 17. Jer. 6. 30. now if any have sinned so farre as unto Death in such a sence God having wholly rejected them and we see or discerne the same that we may so judge according to the instructions of the Gospel then the Gospel saith not we should pray for that sin and yet this infringes not at all the truth of the Proposition in the termes in which it is delivered that prayers c. are to bee made for all men for these reasons 1 These were of that number All of them once and some time for God is slow to anger it is his strange and unpleasing worke wholly to give up any Isa 28. 21. and so were then to be prayed for there are none that are not to be prayed for or to be absolutely prayed against but such as have been before prayed for as comparing the fore-mentioned Scriptures it appeares we are not to cease praying for them until their sinne be unto death which it is not til finished then all the time before while it is not finished those persons were to bee prayed for upon the same ground and principles of certainty and truth that any others are The truth of this is confirmed in those Scriptures Jer. 7. 16. 11. 14. 14. 11. where the Prophet is required not to pray any more for that people nor to lift up a cry or prayer for them the reason we have in the fore-going and following Verses of those Chapters like unto that Prov. 1. 24 25. c. and Isa 65. 12 13. 66. 1-4 because God had long cryed unto them in his Spirit by the Prophets and other meanes as Zech. 7. 9-11 12. with Jer. 7. 3-12 13. to amend their wayes not to trust in lying words c. and waited long that he might be gracious to them and yet they would not hear he had called and they answered not but set at nought all his counsel and would none of his reproofe which shewes that all that time while he had done so his Servants according to his good and acceptable wil were not to cease praying for them so that even these were to be prayed for and that in an acceptable time 2 When Sinne is so wholly finished as it hath brought forth death in an utter separation from God then they being so rejected of him are left to the power of the Tempter and their owne delusions they have chosen in which condition they are become one with Satan and so of the seed of the Serpent in a full sense of the Devil and so in farre worse state than that which is meerly Natural as derived from Adam These are no longer numbred among all men as men or children of men considered but are distinguished from them and set out by names far worse than any generally applyed to Mankinde even the children of the wicked one distinct from the field of the world Mat. 13. 38 vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Rom. 9. 22. Sons of Belial 1 Sam. 2. 12. 2 Sam. 23. 6 7. the wicked and ungodly in the highest sense trees twice dead pluckt up by the roots for whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever 2 Pet. 2. 9. Jud. 12. 15. so that though there may be some at some time living amongst men that are not to be prayed so yet the Proposition remaines generally true That all men every where and in all Ages are to be prayed for and every particular of them until in any of them we see according to the instructions of the Gospel that Sinne is finished and hath brought forth Death and then they are not to be reckoned by us amongst the residue of men as naturall men considered yea God will discriminate them by some distinguishing notes As giving them up wholly to a reprobate sense Rom. 1. 28. 2 Tim. 3. 8. to have pleasure and that without reproofe having their conscience feared 1 Tim. 4. 2. in unrighteousnesse 2 Thess 2. 12. And in his providences not vouchfasing any more to reprove or call them by enlarging his servants hearts opening their mouths and giving them opportunity to preach to and perswade them which he usually doth while it is an accepted time or day of salvation towards a man or people 2 Cor. 6. 1 2-11 Ezek. 33. 33. Amos 8. 11-14 or by adding his lesser and favourable chastisements and changes in his providences with them as with others Isa 1. 5. Psal 55. 19. Hos 4. 14. So that the spiritual man shall in some measure be able to know and note them as reprobate silver that God hath rejected Yet here let me give this as my advice Let none of us be too hasty in passing sentence or judgement on men as such or in ceasing to pray for them on such an account and that for these Reasons First because God is slow to anger And it is his strange work to reprobate or give up any to perdition neither doth he it usually at once but with a great deal of slownesse and by degrees and is exceedingly unwilling when he hath begun to do it fully Hos 11. 8. How shall I give thee up how shall I set thee as Admah and Zeboim c. It s generally true He is slow to anger of great compassions and repenteth him of the evill The truth of it may be abundantly seen in the case of Pharaoh whom though God often left to his hardnesse after he had stubbornly and voluntarily hardened himselfe and made himselfe a meet vessell for such judgements yet he did not wholly nor altogether leave him therein but in part and graciously admonished and wrought on his heart by his judgements and admonitions againe and againe and did so many a time soften him after such his beginnings of hardening before he fully left him to it after which he was not long spared so likewise in that case of Jerusalem weeping over it he said How often would I have gathered thee c. Matth. 23. 37. Luke 19. 42. The truth is it is mentioned as very rare That God

themselves selves and their wayes and bethink themselves of the Grace they had sinned against that so they might not abide in their unbelief and therefore the Apostle knowing the cordialnesse of God herein being one with him in his designe did strive if by any means he might provoke them to emulation that he might be an instrument of saving some of them verse 14. His hearts desire and prayer to God for whole Israel now in part rejected being that they might be saved Chap. 10. 1. So that prayer against the heathen Psal 79. 6. breathed forth also by Jer. Chap. 10. 25. That God would poure out his wrath upon them c. namely in their Rebellious enterprizes and lifting up themselves against his name and people For they saith the Text in both places have devoured Jacob and made him desolate yet the first end and tendencie of these prayers so directly against them in their evill wayes were for their good considering that as we aforeshewed in Psal 67. for Israel to be preserved among the heathen and defended from their rage and malice seeing it was to this end That by them his way might be known upon earth and his saving health among all Nations was of all mercies the most conducing to their good Therefore in the posture they were in there could be no better prayer for the generality of them than for God to poure out his wrath upon them in revenging the bloud of his servants and so blasting and breaking their enterprizes that his people might yet be preserved amongst them though in these judgements many of the heathen might be suddenly destroyed and snatched away yet even those might receive admonition and reproof from God who doubtlesse was not wanting in giving it in due time while it might be for their good even while his judgements were on them to the destroying them from the earth if they had not so long provoked him before by their rebellions that he had wholly rejected them And however the snatching away some in their stubbornnesse and rebellion so as Gods hand might be seen in it for his names sake was much conducing and therefore oft used by God as a gracious instrument to the general admonition and good of all the surviving enemies as Luke 13. 1-6 That they might see and fear and do no more so wickedly lest they also perish in like manner Therefore also is this prayer of David in the following verses delivered in such termes See Psal 79. 10. equivalent with Psal 83. 16 17. Let God be known among the heathen in our sight by revenging c. and so the first and direct end of these prayers verse 13. is that his people and the sheep of his pasture may give him thanks and praise him to all generations which is for this cause that the Gentiles may glorifie God for his mercy and come in and laud him with them compare herewith Rom. 15. 8 9 10. with Psal 67. So that even these prayers in respect of their end and tendencie were for the heathen against whom directly they were made And in such manner are these prayers to be made for all men But 2 There are also Intreaties Supplications and Intercessions to be made more directly for all men even for mercies favours and good things to be conferred on them according to their needs and capacities And such as may conduce to the great Design of God and his people for their good and those such as may be more directly and properly signified by Intercessions Prayers are to be made for all men for Gods gracious extension of such pardon of their iniquities in which they ill requite rebell and sin against the grace of God bringing salvation to them all in the means forementioned and so in all mercies and chastisements that judgements tending to their utter cutting off may yet be kept off through the mediation of Christ and for his sake that it may not be speedily executed but liberty occasion and opportunity yet put in their hands to enjoy the mercies of God that may lead them to repentance and to repent and turn to him as we have noted before Stephen at his last breathing kneeled down and cryed with a loud voice Father forgive them or do not lay this sin to their charge to execute judgement speedily but give them time yet againe to repent that in repenting they may receive forgivenesse of sins and inheritance So the Apostle generally instructs us If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall pray and God shall give give him life such pardon of the sin to the sinner as that judgement be not executed he not be cut off but breathing-time afforded that he might repent and in owning his sin as grace discovers and reproves in repenting and turning to him he shall give him life in a further sense the cleansing of the conscience and healing of the nature peace with God through our Lord Jesus and hope of the glory to be revealed neither are prayers to be made for them otherwise or on other termes and if we pray according to his will we know he heareth us But on those termes according to mens need and capacity and as the Gospel instructeth we are to be instant in prayer not to cease to pray for them Though God having many times in such cases even when judgements have been prepared for them graciously delivered them and not stirred up all his wrath against them and in such a sense forgiven their iniquity as Psal 78. 38. not laid it yet to their charge that they might turne to him and be healed yet they are sinning still to provoke him to anger and hardening their hearts against his goodnesse that leadeth them to repentance yet still prayers are to be made for them and with so much the more earnestnesse while it may be in due time God yet giving opportunity not having utterly separated them That forbearance may yet be granted That God may yet wait to be gracious and not yet cut them up for their unthankfulnesse and unfruitfulnesse as in that Parable Luke 13. 6-9 our Saviours example instructeth us and also in his praying for those that added that to all their former iniquities of abusing the former servants they crucified him that was the Heir Yet Father forgive them and by his Spirit leading Stephen after they had added yet more iniquity to iniquity still to intercede for pardon and so he instructeth us To pray for them that persecute us Blesse them that curse us in such manner and for such things as in which we may be one in Gods Design and render our selves like him who graciously through the Mediation of his Son extends such forgivenesse and longsuffering and to such ends That he still causeth his Sunne to shine and his Rain to fall and therein is really pitifull and kind to the unthankfull and evill witnessing his goodnesse to lead them to repentance Matth. 5. 45 46. Luke 6. 35

adoption of children but that done in Christ that this might be done was done for all them that were under the Law and who those are see Rom. 3. 19. though under it as a testament all Covenant were only all Israel after the flesh yet under the condemnation penalty and curse of it and so by it declared and concluded were all the world for what the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God By one man sinne entred into the world and Death by Sinne for that all have sinned Rom. 5. 12. Compare that with ver 18. As the disobedience of one was unto or upon all in the first publique man to condemnation so the righteousnnesse of one is unto or upon all in the second publique man unto justification of life his one righteousnesse hath so prevailed with the Father that he is justified in the nature and roome of all That one dyed for all is accepted with the Father as if all had dyed 2 Cor. 5. 14. that they might live and to that end live that after this Grace appeares they might not henceforth live to themselves but to him that dyed for them and rose againe 2 Cor. 5. 15. So that in Jesus the second publick Person the whole nature is delivered from the first condemnation and judgement The truth and verity of which is proved in that Rom. 5. 19. from this reason For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners namely in their particular persons and that is so many as ever came to have being from him even from the beginning verse 13 14 which fully shews That that offence was unto or upon the whole nature in him as the publick Man to condemnation before any of the individuals had their particular beings from him seeing there needs no other work or medium on their part but deriving beings from him to make them sinners in their own persons Even so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous even in their particular persons by way of imputation and application of the Righteousnesse of another to them Rom. 3. 22. 4. 3 4. And that is so many as receive that abundance of grace testified in that already done in Christ for men and that gift of righteousnesse by faith verse 17. and so come to have being in him in beleeving on his name That Righteousnesse that is unto All it comes upon All that beleeve even in their particulars which fully shews that one Righteousnesse was unto or upon the whole nature of man as men considered in him the second publick Man to the justification of life while all were out of him seeing there needs no other work or medium on their part no discovery or receite of any peculiar grace or gift of grace for them while sinners and enemies that was not for others nor any thing else is requisite for any one of this nature of man to make them righteous in their particulars but a receiving by faith that true in Christ for and towards them as men and sinners with the rest even that abundance of grace that love of God to Manward Tit. 3. 4. Rom. 5. 6 8. and that gift of righteousnesse The Son of God sent the Saviour of the world Joh. 3. 16. and 4. 14. Therein they are made righteous by the imputation and application of the righteousnes of another to them By him all that beleeve are therein through his name justified from all from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 10. 43. 13. 39. which shews the truth of Justification Righteousnesse perfect in him for them as men and sinners considered that so in beleeving in him without the works of the Law or any other medium it might be received by any of that nature the whole nature is justified and acquit of that first disobedience and so of the guilt or condemnation of that sinfulnes in them as meerly and necessarily derived from it In that he in the common nature and in the room of them all as the second publick man is justified for them In his Resurrection he was taken from the prison and from the judgement Isa 53 8. And this so verily and vertu●lly for them all That the Father now judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son Joh. 5. 22. He doth not go to Law or proceed to Judgement with men according to that Law and Judgement by which without a Saviour they stood as condemned before him under which Christ was made for them Though men still according to his Ordinance passe through the first mortality and death as the fruit of sin yet not as the due and proper wages thereof and therefore shall not perish in that death he having taken out the sting and poyson that would have made it destructrive by his coming and passing through it and so abolished it 2 Tim. 1. 10. nor according to that Judgement The truth of which appears not onely in these serious and full Assertions of it but likewise by divers arguments or reasons used by the Scripture to evince it As First The nature of all present and eternal condemnations in the Scripture They are not because the fathers have eaten sowr grapes and the childrens teeth are thereby necessarily set on edge but every one for his own proper iniquity Ezek. 18. 2-4 no man condemned or abiding under the wrath of God for present or shall be eternally condemned meerly because he was simple or in darknesse or because he was filthy and poluted but because he loved his simplicity when the wisdome of God was oft and long reproving him Prov. 1. 22 23 24. c. When light came they loved darknesse rather Joh. 3. 19. Because in thy filthinesse was lewdnesse or stubbornesse and that thus evidenced and of this nature I have purged thee and thou wast not purged Ezek. 24 13. They hardened their own hearts wilfully when he spake in his Spirit by the hand of the Prophets Therefore came there a great wrath upon them from the Lord Zech. 7. 9. 11 12. And this could not have been the nature of condemnations present or eternall neither had the world been capable of sinning sins of that nature as for which they are now charged and under condemnation if Christ had not done for them the things mentioned in this Text given himself a Ransome for them and become a Mediator and by vertue thereof a Testimony in due time unto them See our Saviour so reasoning Joh. 15. 22. 24. If he had not done that for them which never man did or could do namely redeem his brother or give to God a Ransome for his soul Psal 49. 7. yea if also he had not spoken to them preached by his Spirit to their spirits in the means he used They had not known or been capable of sins after this consideration as now they are charged on them

sins of the world after the first consideration as necessarily derived and found upon it through the first disobedience which sins were charged upon him and acknowledged as his though made so by way of imputation for he knew no sin Psal 40 12. with 2 Cor. 5. 21. And this he hath perfectly done he hath by himself purged our sin and is set down on the right hand of majesty But this was also a secondary end of the same one offering yea the end of the first end That by vertue of the infinite satisfaction for sin made in his sufferings and the perfect righteousness compleated in his sacrifice he might be impowred in the name and majesty of his Father to take away dayly the sins of the people after the second consideration even as they are now charged upon them and the wrath of God abiding on them because of them namely all sins as wilfully continued in and multiplied against the light and grace of the redemption extended he needs not come down again to suffer or make a new offering for the taking away any sin but ever liveth and continueth in the presence of God presenting the vertues of that one offering and thereby dayly so taketh away the sin of the world as now charged on them even their wilful ignorance and unbelief of the grace of God by Christ and so all other sins as the love of them against light is the occasion of their hardning in wilful ignorance to unbelief of the light that reproves them that comes to save them and so as the continuing under the pollution and power of them is occasioned by such their wilful ignorance and unbelief sins of this nature I say he so taketh away from before the Father by his continual intercession for the transgressors as Isa 53. 12. Luke 13. that judgement is not speedily executed but the for bearance patience and renewed goodness of God yet extended to admonish allure and lead to repentance until any have wholly filled up the measure of their sin giving up themselves to and becoming one with Satan and so fully made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction and to leave or give men up wholly thereto also God is very slow through the continuance and prevailing of Christs mediation for men and for all them that turn in his reprovings through his name believe in him that he should give them forgiveness of sins eternal life and so through his name save them to the utmost he is fully impowred on the same account of the ends and vertues of his one offering seeing he ever liveth with it to make intercession for us Heb. 7. 25. See how all this is set before us 1 John 2. 1 2. in that ground given us for praying for any mans sin which it doth not appear to us to be so wholly finished as to have occasioned or brought forth death in an utter separation from God The Apostle having before directed them to the same fountain for forgivness and healing of their own sins in the beginning of this chapter he gives them this caution that the end of his thus instructing them to a fountain for their cleansing is Not that they should continue in sin that grace may abound but that they sin not and then proceeds to instruct and direct them to an usefulness of and running to the same fountain for other mens sins If any man sin we believers have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous we have or enjoy him by faith and such usefulness of him as our Advocate appearing especially for us to plead our cause and present our matters according to his wisdom and with the odors of his incense the vertues of his sacrifice and therefore we may present all our needs and matters to and by him because he that is our Advocate is also the propitiation for our sins that having made peace by the blood of his Cross is also the standing propitiation or Mercy-Seat with the Father The sin-offering and so the great and constant mediation for the dayly covering and taking away the iniquities and mixtures that otherwise might hinder our prayers And therefore we may make such use of him as for the presenting our supplications for pardon of any mans sin according to his will declared in the Gospel because he that is the propitiation for our sins is also the propitiation for the sins of the whole world even such as yet lye in wickedness that being the explication of the whole world as opposed to believers by this Apostle 1 John 5. 18 19. The sins for which he here is said to be the propitiation are such or sins after such a consideration as in which we are to pray for pardon of them dayly as we see them in our selves or others which are onely sins after the second consideration that is all or any sins as they are found in us continued in or multiplied against the light or powerful instructions and reproofs of the grace of God that brings salvation to all men and come to redeem or save them from any of their iniquities as Acts 3. 26. Tit. 2. 11. 'T is after this consideration onely that God by Jesus Christ charges sin upon us as our sin and for which his wrath or displeasure abides upon us that when light comes Men love and willingly chuse darkness rather because their deeds are evil All the wrath on the former account being taken away and the sin perfectly covered and purged in Christ now 't is our sins as they are against this grace in so delivering or ransoming us in and by Christ and bringing this Salvation to us for which he is angry and that doth stir up new wrath and displeasure for the removal or taking away of which we are dayly to pray with thanksgiving for the other perfectly done as the ground that this may be done for us See this clear in our types Psal 85. 1 4. As for sin in either guilt or pollution as it passed on us and yet may be considered as in or upon us meerly and necessarily through the first disobedience and the poyson of it so we are not to pray for the pardon of it or that it may be taken away from before the Father and he may not lay it to our charge or to the charge of any man but in all our prayers to acknowledge and give thanks for that as already perfectly done in and by Christ which if it had not we had had neither ground nor door to approach or pray to the Father for any thing and therefore with thanksgiving to God in the name of Christ for this as already done we are to pray that both our eyes and the eyes of others may be opened to see and understand how great things he hath done for us and as this instructeth we are to pray on this ground for pardon and healing of sin as wilfully contracted in us against light c. or either as the

occasion or fruit of ignorance or unbebelief in Christ as before that sin as found in us and others after this consideration may not be laid to our charge but forbearance and forgiveness administred according to the Gospel now for these sins or sins after this consideration it is that he is here said to be the propitiation the standing propitiatory sacrifice or mercy-seat for the dayly covering with the infinite vertues of his satisfaction and offering for sin once made and so taking away dayly from before the Father the sins of the world after this consideration and so his being the propitation for our sins which might hinder our prayers and for the pardon of which we have dayly to pray and not onely for ours but also for the sins of the whole world is equivalent and the same with his being the continual and standing Mediator between God and men by and with the vertues of that one offering of himself 'T is true his making the atonement or propitiation and peace in himself for us in that at first perfectly done in giving himself a ransome is here more strongly implyed and signified seeing without it or if that had not been done and perfect for them in Christ this could not have been done for them by him if he had not made peace he could not have been a standing propitiation for sin but that which is here directly spoken to and signified by his being affirmed to be the propitiation is according to the latter sence And so God hath set him forth to be a standing propitiation that through him his righteousness may be declared not onely in giving the forgiveness of sins through faith in his blood but in granting forbearance of the same to men that do not believe that they might have opportunity and space afforded thereto as well as also to be a propitiation to or in them and so of them in their particular persons through faith in his blood as Col. 1. 22. 2 Cor. 5. 18. And all this through by vertue and by means of the redemption that is in him Rom. 3. 24 25. Behold then that Lamb of God that having by himself perfectly purged our sin is now set down on the right hand of God and there dayly taking away the sin of the world as now charged on it the great Mediator between God and men by and with the vertues of his having given himself a ransome for all men and that he may be so viewed by us consider 3. That by vertue of his ransome given and accepted and his Mediation continually made with the Father for all men he is in the name of the Father a Testimony or to be testified to them in due time to each in their several and proper ages and to every one at such time and seasons as may be most for their advantage and good and now in these last ages the most seasonable time for that for divers considerations by the coming of Christ and his bringing light and immortality to light by the Gospel to the Gentiles 2 Tim. 1. 10. Heb. 1. 1 3. of which more directly is here spoken in which the ground of making prayers with thanks givings for all men is more opened then formerly though it was the same in Christ before But he●e for brevity sake we shall onely shew how in general he is and alwaies was unto all men every where and in every age by vertue of his sacrifice accepted and vertuous with the Father from the beginning a Testimony in due time of the truth of the redemption in him and the Fathers goodness through him And that in these two things 1. In affording to all as they come to capacity and need of it means opportunity and space to repent 2. In sending forth his good Spirit in the supernatural light and power of it in and with those mercies and means to bring the light and understanding of his goodness to the heart and thereby to reprove men of their evils and turn them to God 1. In affording to all as they come to capacity and need of it means and opportunity to repentance for children that know not any thing and so are not capable of actual doing good or evil as they are not capable of hearing and rejecting the word of Christ of voluntary chusing and setting up idols in their heart and departing from the Lord under whose special care and protection and gracious government by Christ they are so there is no condemnation or charge of sin upon them by or according to the Gospel and so no repentance needful or required of them for though born under the guilt of sin according to the Law under which Christ was made for them and so with a corrupt and polluted nature yet by reason of him that hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law they are not by God held under condemnation on that account neither nor shall perish in that death And as they have no capacity in their particulars personally to adhere to and close with the grace of God in Christ and so actually to believe in him so neither is that required of them by him that requires not but according to what he hath sown and in his givings furnished to yea he that imputes righteousness without works and doth not charge with unbelief where there is not a hearing and rejecting as John 3. 19. and 12. 47. doth graciously accept and own them by vertue of the Redemption wrought in Christ for them yea and reckons them as believers and so of the kingdom and as a testimony of that would have them brought to him and accepts that as their coming and saith Whosoever shall receive one such little child in his name therein receiveth and acknowledgeth him Mat. 18. 5 6. and 19. 13 14. yet in them Christ is a testimony of the truth of the Redemption in him and the Fathers goodness through him unto all men in preserving their natural life while he continues it to them to the comfortable injoyment of his mercies and free from the sting and poyson of the first death and easing them of so much of the pains and miseries of those shadows of that death and mortality that is upon them as he sees good for them and for us In which as there is no destructiveness in that which remaines so there is a great abatement and taking off even of the greatest part of the stroke or curse which the truth of God required should have been executed upon us in them by reason of our sin not onely to bring forth in sorrow but for trouble without case Cursed shalt thou be in the fruit of thy body Gen. 3. 16. Deut. 28. 18. we may say as sometimes concerning Joseph Gen. 45. 7. It appears by Gods present gratious dealing with us in them that God hath sent a Jesoph into our condition of misery and made him under our Law and curse before us and he is now through sufferings entered into