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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33929	A compendious discourse about some of the greatest matters of Christian faith propounded and explained between a minister and an enquiring Christian ... : and also may serve for an answer to two books, one called The practical discourse of the sovereignty of God, the other called The death of death, by the death of Christ, written by J.O. : whereunto is annexed a very brief appendix / written by T. Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing C5274; ESTC R20632	146,911	256

world out of that Election as Job of whom was not the like on the earth Job 23. Who was of the land of 〈◊〉 in the East and might be of Abrahams posterity of one of the Sons he had by Keturak whom he sent Eastward into the East Country Gen. 25. 6. And likewise his three Friends of the same Country Job 2. 11. And Elihu which made a fourth ch 32. 2. And Lo● who was not within this Election And Rahab the harlot Canonized for a Saint for hideing the spies with others that might be mentioned 5. And Abraham himself that was first and chief in this Election was so far from monopolizing all to himself and to his natural seed that it 's apparent he expected many Righteous Persons to be in the world besides himself as appears in his Prayer for Sodom Gen. 18. He began at fifty Righteous supposing that to be but a few tho in his love to Lot he descended by degrees to ten accounting that so few that he durst not mention a lesser number 6 And more than this he believed for the world in thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 1. 2 3. 15. 5 6. 18. 18. 22. 18. If he had not believed this promise of a Son and seed in whom all the Nations should be blessed I know no ground to conclude that he could have arrived to the Dignity of being the Heir of the world or Father of the Faithful Rom. 4. 11 12 13. And how they will prove themselves to be his Children or Heirs of the world with him as all true believers are Rom. 4. 16. who are so far from his Faith as that they believe the damnation of the world by Eternal Decree it behoves them to consider in time 2. To prosecute this Election when it must pass upon Isaac and Ishmael is left out it was without any wrong to him God making large provision for him elsewhere Gen. 21. 13 18. Besides those two with their Mothers were an Allegory of the two Covenants with their seeds Gal 4. 22 25. And Ishmael's rejection was not to the second death but from being Heir with Isaac Gen. 21. 10. Gal. 4. 30. So likewise Esau when Jacob was fixed on and Esau left it was not with any wrong to him the promise hitherto residing in the free will and pleasure of God and not by successive inheritance upon the elder while it was conferr'd on Abraham's seed the promise was exactly performed and that without any wrong at all to Esau especially God making large provision for him elsewhere Gen. 36. 6 7. His rejection from the Covenant and Promise being not to the second death which I suppose none dare to affirm it was Tho on Jacob and all his posterity God setled the promise Gen. 26. 2 3 4. So that this Election was so far from reprobating the world or any part thereof to the second death or to any other wrong that it was of very great advantage to the world And that 1. Thereby a liberty and advantage was given to the Gentiles to come to know and worship God in becoming proselites 2. He made large provision for the world in common and Temporal blessings and by the common means and light afforded to the world had many precious People therein And 3. One must come of Abrahams seed that should be the Saviour of the world 1 Joh. 4. 14. In whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed Gen. 22. 18. So that the world losed nothing but gained by that Election And for any to imagin an Election in the Gospel by Eternal Decree so as to reprobate all the world besides to Eternal Damnation is both unscriptural and irrational tending to undo the Gospel and to render the design of God therein to be more for Damnation than for Salvation and to render this his Election therein to be contrary to any sort of his Elections from the beginning of the world all his actings towards men in such cases having been in it self for good to men and not for hurt what of hurt comes to men being of themselves 4. Election in the New Testament taken in the strictest sense is no where so stated as to give us any ground of supposition that a'l the rest must be damned but it keeps the Door wide open for all commers that come rightly Mar. 16. 15. Joh. 3. 16 17. 6. 40. Rev. 22. 17. Whence it is that this wide Door should be so strangely shut up and bar'd against the world we may easily understand that it 's not from God 2 Cor. 5. 19 20. But from the Prince and power of darkness 2 Cor. 4 3 4. 5. Tho I own particular and personal Election as before I said yet I do not believe it as some Sovereign Discourse p. 55. That the Doctrine of Election containeth the whole sum and scope of the Gospel And p. 69. That Election is the great Fundamental institute of the Gospel the Supreme Law I say as held by him viz. With the absolute reprobation of all the world besides it 's no Gospel at all nor any part thereof if we believe the Scripture and call that Gospel which the Scripture so calls Luk. 2. 10. Behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all People Mar. 16. 15. Preach the Gospel to every Creature c. This is Gospel but I am sure that Election as pleaded for is no where called Gospel nor mentioned at all in the Scriptures no if it were which is far from it it would be the sadest tidings that ever came to the world worse than the sin and fall of the first Man which brought the world under the first death only if the second came only to raise the world to Eternal Damnation the second death which is far worse than the first O wo would be to the world that ever Christ came which is indeed the best tidings that ever came to the world And if men lose the advantage thereof it 's their own fault Joh. 3. 19. Nor do I know where it is that Election is called a Gospel Law either in terms or in the true sense thereof much less the Supreme Law especially as held if so it would be a Law of Damnation far more than of Salvation but the Supreme Law of the Gospel is that whoso believeth and obeyeth the Gospel shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned Mar. 16. 16. this is the Supreme Law of the Gospel by which we must all at last stand or fall And against which there is nor can be no Decree Joh. 12. 48. I have often thought that those who are so merciless as to damn the world by Eternal Decree think themselves sure by their Law of Election but I do earnestly advise them to see they stand clear in the true Faith and Life of the Gospel without which there is nor can be no safety 6. And so from the whole