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A40900 Art thou a ruler in Israel and knowest not these things? Viz. The great errour in that which is called the Apostles creed And the reall truth of Jesus Christ his glorious conquering personall reigne on Earth, over the Devill, sin and death for one thousand yeares. With mans salvation by the free grace and favour of God and Jesus Christ. Laid open by him who heartily desires the manifestation of all the truths of God, and of Jesus Christ. And the utter excirpation of all the errours of men. William Farmer, Gent. Farmer, William. 1648 (1648) Wing F445A; ESTC R222651 20,610 26

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saved as the Text saith God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Sonne God did not so love the world for any thing in the world that could or did move God so to love the world but as the Text saith This is my beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased So that God is well pleased with his elected chosen ones in Jesus Christ because Iesus Christ hath trod the wine-presse alone by a sufficient suffering of the wrath of God unto Gods full satisfaction and hath wrought out the perfect work of righteousness by his perfect obedience to all the commandements of God and so is God through his love in Iesus Christ well pleased with his elected ones who receive their salvation according to election from the free grace of Gods love in Iesus Christ Quest If salvation be by the free grace of God and nothing of man Then wherefore doth God command duties and promise rewards Answ. God doth not command duties from man because God doth need any thing that man can doe neither can man do any duty untill or except first God worke in man both the will and the deed to enable him thereby to doe the duty which God commandeth neither doth God promise a reward because man doth deserve the reward for doing of the duty for when man hath done all that he can he is but an unprofitable servant by which Text God is a Master may command what he please and man is but a servant and so doth but his duty in doing what God hath commanded therefore man cannot deserve or merit the promised reward For he that breaketh but one commandement although he could keepe or perform all that is commanded in all the rest but one he is guilty of all And so no man as he is of the seed of Adam according to the lust of the flesh can possibly keep or perform all the commandements of God therefore none of the seed of Adam according to the lust of the flesh can deserve or merit for doing of a duty that reward which is promised for the duty But inasmuch as God hath promised a reward for doing of a duty the reward is a due reward to him that can doe all the duties that God hath commanded and to none else And so no man but Iesus Christ only and alone ever did or could keep performe all the commandements of God therefore none but only Iesus Christ could deserve or merit the reward promised for doing the duty commanded And no man was but Iesus Christ alone of the seed of Adam and not according to the lust of the flesh Therefore in the first place that man in whom God doth worke both the will and the deed to enable him to will and also to doe a duty And in the second place that man whose duty is accepted of God in Jesus Christ In the third place that man may by and for the perfect obedience of Iesus Christ expect the promised reward as Paul saith have respect to the recompence of reward because hee looketh not for the promised reward in and for his own but in and for the perfect righteousnesse of Iesus Christ As for example Iesus Christ hath promised a Disciples reward to him that shall give a cup of cold water to a Disciple in the name of a Disciple The duty commanded is but a cup of cold water to be given The party to whom the water is to be given must be a Disciple or child of God that wanteth the same Now he that will or shall expect to receive the reward must not think to receive it for the richnes of the gift neither because he hath done the duty For neither of these nor both these are of a valuable consideration to deserve such a reward because a Disciples reward is eternall life as the Text saith Master we have left all and followed thee and what shall we have Saith Jesus Christ not only you but also whosoever shall leave father mother wife children house or lands for my sake shall receive in this world an hundred fold and in the world to come life everlasting But he that for such a small duty as the giving of a cup of water and for so small a value as a cup of water is of must find out a more valuable consideration why he should receive such a great reward as Everlasting life before he doe receive the same And that must be if it be aright thus Jesus Christ is God unto whom all power was given both in heaven and in earth And thereby was Christ made able to perform whatsoever he should promise both in this world or the world to come And Christ is God in whom all the promises of God are yea and amen as the Text saith who hath found God a lyar at any time Now that man that will or shall expect such a great reward for so small a duty and of so small a value must doe this He must know that God hath wrought that will or good affection in him towards the poore members or little ones of Jesus Christ for to helpe them in their need And he must likewise know that although a cup of water be but of a smal value or esteem where there is enough yet it is the gift of God to him and that he himselfe doth receive the water from God before he can give the water to another and that he doth give the water to a childe of God because hee esteemes him to be a child of God and that the love of Jesus Christ constraineth him to love the members of Iesus Christ And when it is so given then may a man expect that God will accept of the duty in and through Iesus Christ and for his perfect obedience sake who hath merited from God ability from God to perform whatsoever he hath promised And so will make good all his promises If the duty be done in Christ and for Christ his sake and the promised reward expected not because the duty is done nor for the things sake but because Christ who is an able and a faithfull God hath promised the same Therefore man ought to yeeld obedience and to doe the duty commanded and to expect the reward promised for these reasons First because God hath commanded the duty as a Master man ought to yeild obedience because he is a servant Secondly because God and not man himselfe worketh both the will and the deed in man to enable man to doe the duty commanded Thirdly because God who maketh the promise is able and faithfull and will keep Covenant And fourthly Because God in a God of Justice and as the Text saith will come in flaming fire rendring vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ who requireth nothing of man towards his owne salvation but my sonne give me thy heart or believe that thy salvation is by the free grace of God and of Iesus Christ as Iesus Christ said to the Jewes O Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I have gathered you together as a hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and ye would not That is how often would I have taken you into my protection out of the snares of the world the Devill and the flesh by my Gospel to take you off of the rudiments of the Ceremoniall law and have saved you by my precious blood and perfect obedience and ye would not Therefore thy destruction is of thy selfe O Israel because I offered my selfe unto thee and thou wouldst not receive me as the Text saith He came unto his owne and his owne received him not FINIS Their booke 19 articles o● the Church Joh. 19. 30. Lu. 23. 46. Joh. 19. 28 1 Pet. 3. 18 19 20. Lu. 23. 43. Lu. 23. 42. Gen. 2. 〈◊〉 6. 6. Pet. 3. 20. ●et 1. 22. ●… 1. 1 2. Rev. 20. 1 2 3. Gen. 1. Gen. 6. 6. Mat. 27. 66. Isa. 11 7 8 9. Isa. 65. 25. Rev. 19. 16. Rev. 21. 1 2 3. Isa. 65. 17 18 19. Isa. 66. 22. 1 Kings 8. 27. 1 Tim. 6. 15 16. 1 John 4. 12. Isa. 11. 6 7 8 9. 2 Pet. 3 4. 2 Pet. 3. 8. Gen. 6. 6 Rom. 8. 21 12 23. Rev. 21. 1 23. 2. ●ev. 20. 6. 2 Pe●… 2 Pet. 3. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Colos. see N●… Creed Rev. 21. 22. 2 Pet. 3. 4. 2 Pet. 3. 13 Rev. 21. 3. ● Kings 8. ●7 Rev. 22. 16. 2 Pet. 3. 14. 2 Rev. 22. 6. ●6 18. ●●v 21. 16. ●en 3. ●en 5. 3. 〈◊〉 7. 6. Rev. 13. 18. Rom. 8. 19 20 21 22 23. Rom. 8. 29. Eph. 1. 4 5. 11. Predestination Rom. 8. 32. Election Joh. 3. 16. Mat. 10. 42. Mat. 19. 27. 29. 2 Thes. 1. 8.