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earth_n	hear_v	heaven_n	oil_n	4,117	5	10.0452	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13997	The high-vvay to heauen: or, the doctrine of election, effectuall vocation, iustification, santification and eternall life Grounded vpon the holy Scriptures, confirmed by the testimonies of sundry iudicious and great diuines, ancient and moderne. Compiled by Thomas Tuke.; High-way to heaven.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1609 (1609)	STC 24309; ESTC S102479	78,861	226

and a mourning therefore 2. A being cast downe in our owne conceit and a meeknesse wrought therby to beare our punishment 3. An hungring after the righteousnesse which is in Christ and a prizing of it aboue all earthly things 4. A musing vpon and a desire to thinke and speake of heauenly things 5 A conflict of the flesh and spirit therein by practise the power of the spirit getting the vpper hand 6. A purpose vnfeined vpon strength receiued of vowing ones selfe wholly to the glory of God and good of our brethren 7 A resignation of our selues into Gods handes 8 An expecting of the dayly increase of our soules health and our bodyes resurrection 9. An acknowledgement of our offences with a true purpose to leaue them 10 The forgiuing of our enemies and a delight in Gods saints 11. A desire that after death the Church of God may florish and haue all peace 12. A spirit without guile that is an vnfeined purpose alwayes to doe well howsoeuer our infirmities put vs by it Now though a man shall not find all these things alwayes in him there is yet matter of true comfort if hee finde any It is sufficient to prooue it true fire and not painted if there bee smoke or heate onely though no flame If there be but breath it is ynough to shew life though the body stirre not and one Apple is sufficient to prooue the tree to liue so one good and constant motion or resolution of grace is sufficient to prooue a mans election vnto glory By this wee may know that wee belong to God if we finde any impression of the grace of God in vs. But if all these signes be wanting yet wee may not dispaire but commend our selues to the grace of God and vse the meanes of saluation For a man may be elected though for a time he liue vnconuerted and in his sinnes as wee see by the examples of Paul and of the thiefe vpon the Crosse Though this be true that Whosoeuer is conuerted is elected yet this is not true that Whosoeuer is not conuerted the same is not Elected Because the Elect may be for a time aliants from God vnregenerated as were the Ephesians Corinthians Colossiās yea al mē are such by nature Hauing thus described Election I proceed to the accomplishment or execution of it CHAP. III. What the execution of Election is Foure Arguments to prooue the ordination of the meanes These meanes are common or speciall Of the former there be two And of the latter two THE Execution of Election is the dispo●●tion vsing and application of all secondarie causes or means by which as by certaine degrees or steps God doth accomplish his decree and come to the end of it For wee must know that as God doth ordaine the end so he doth subordaine and apply the meanes which tend vnto the end This the Lord sheweth by that speech in Hoseah I wil heare the heauens and they shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare the corne ●he wine and the oyle and they shall heare Israel Euen so as God hath by his election appointed certaine persons to saluation he doth likewise appoint and apply the meanes and makes them walke in the way which leades to saluation The trueth of this assertion is euident by these 4. reasons following First none of the yeeres of vnderstanding were euer saued without the regeneration of the Spirit without faith in Christ without repentance towards God without loue to the Saintes and finall perseuerance for these things are euery where vrged in the Scriptures therefore the Elect were predestinated vnto these means by which they might come vnto eternall life which is their end Secondly God threatens eternall destruction to the wicked and vnbeleeuers but promiseth eternall happinesse to all penetent faithfull righteous and godly men which perseue in pietie vnto the end therefore b● these meanes of Predestination the Elect doe clime vp to heauen and attaine to life Thirdly the Apostle doth expresly place effectuall vocation and iustification betwixt predestination and glorification as the fore-runners and antecedents of it Fourthly the very word Predestination doth teach as much For predestination is not onely the preparation constitution and ordination of the end but of the meanes also which tend vnto the end Predestination saith Augustine is the preparation of the benefit of God by which those are most certainely deliuered who are deliuered And Aquinas saith that three things are of be considered in predestination the Destination of the counsell the execution of the same and the meanes causas medias of the execution These two principles are therefore to be remembred First that Whosoeuer are elected to eternall life as to the end the same are also elected and ordained to the meanes of that end Secondly that the First cause doth not abolish or take away the second Thus wee haue shewed that God doth execute his decree of Election by meanes and that the meanes and the end are inseparably conioyned These Meanes are of two sorts Some are such as serue for the execution of the decree both of Election and Reprobation indifferently Others serue onely for the Execution of Election by which the Elect are distinguished from the Reprobate Those common meanes are two the creation of man and the permission of his fall or his fall permitted The Creation of man is the forming of man according to the image of God but yet in a changeable condition Here we must remember these 2. things First that God created the substance of soule and body and that he gaue them certaine faculties powers and that withall there was placed in them true righteousnes knowledge holines without any prauitie distēper or iniquitie But yet as Cyrill truly speaketh Our father Adam was of a mutable disposition and had by nature habilitie to loue iustice and hate iniquitie and contrariwise to embrace iniquitie and to refuse iustice For God properly and by himselfe is constant and immutable and if any thing else continue constant it is through him who is bound to none but will doe whatsoeuer hee will A Gold-smith makes a costly Iewell beset with pearles and precious stones and voyd of all deformitie but yet so makes it that if it fall it may be crackt and broken so God made man most perfect and garnished his nature with excellent graces and gaue him power to continue in the same perfection if hee would yet did he not make him so vnchangeable but that hee might both fall and by falling breake and loose his excellencie as the euent declareth Secondly we must know that Adam was no priuate person but represented all mankinde And therefore we stood and fell with him For hee was the root and we are his branches he was the spring and we the streams he was as the head and wee are as the members As the King his Nobles Knights and Burgesses doe