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A69684	The doctrine of particular unconditionate election (before time) asserted and prov'd by God's word against the Quakers, papists, and Arminians : in answer to a challenge given the author (by the Quakers) to make good (by the Scriptures of truth) the abovesaid doctrine ... / by Ja. Barry.	Barry, James, fl. 1650-1702.	1700 (1700)	Wing B969A; ESTC R27208	49,035	128

the obtaining from God the true sense of the Scriptures so much boasted of he will plainly see how egregiously they are mistaken in both the one and the other for neither doth God intend the Death of his Son for Salvation to any of Adams Children save those whom he Elected and from Eternity Chose in Christ neither doth God make such an Universal tender of it to all Men as the Quakers rashly and boldly affirm he doth This lyes on me to demonstrate and make good against these boasting Universalists the which that I might do to satisfaction of the judicious and unprejudiced Reader I shall propound my Argument dilemma-wise thus The Terms All Any and Every on which they ground their Unscriptural Assertion they are to be taken either in an Universal sense intending every individual of Mankind or else they are to be taken in a limited and restrained sense as intending some of all sorts ranks and degrees of Men indifferently If by the Universal Terms above named some of all sorts ranks and degrees of Men indifferently be to be understood then the Assertion of the Adversaries is manifestly false and consequently the Doctrine of particular Election is true If by those Universal Terms all Men and Women without exception be intended as the Adversaries will have it then must I be allowed to demand of them how any of Adams Children come to be Damned For seeing that God willed that Christ should Redeem all the Children of Adam who fell by his Transgression I would fain know how any created Power can effect the hindering God of bringing about his own purpose or frustrate the end and design of Christ in laying down his Life for undoubtedly if God should absolutely will and purpose the Salvation of every individual Son and Daughter of Adam it is not to be questioned but that he being the Elshaddai the Mighty God every way perfect and all sufficient would find out ways and means to effect and bring about his own purpose seeing that he works all things according to the Counsel of his own most Holy Will As Paul witnesseth Ephes 1.11 It is in the Work of Regeneration as it is in the Work of the first Creation 〈◊〉 Cloaths his Word with a creating Power so that whenever and where-ever he sends forth that creating Voice of his Mighty Spirit neither Devil nor Self nor any other Enemy or Impediment whether internal or external shall ever be able to give any stop to his intended Work As the Lord himself tells his Church by the Prophet Esa 43.13 Yea before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of my Hand I will work and who shall let it Whom God in Justice and Righteousness will Damn and Sentence to the Flames of his deserved Wrath for Sin who can rescue and save them Whom God in Sovereign Mercy and Grace purposeth to save and deliver who can hinder or prevent him Jo. 10.27 My Sheep saith the Lord Jesus hear my Voice and I know them and they follow me And I give unto them Eternal Life and they shall never perish neither shall any Man pluck them out of my Hand My Father which gave them me is stronger than all and no Man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers Hand I and my Father are one Here 't is plain that from the invincible Power of God and Christ the cortainty of the Life and Salvation of the Elect is inferred and proved That many of Adams Children are already in Hell and that many more will be Lodged there the Scriptures affirm and the Quakers cannot deny How comes this to pass seeing God if we must Believe the Quakers designed a general Redemption for all Mankind and that the Son of God laid down his Life to Ransom them from the Curse and Wrath of God due for their Sin to say that God willed their Salvation but that their own Obstinacy and Wickedness hindred that his Will should be accomplished on them is in effect to say that God did seriously and efficaciously will and purpose that all the Children of Adam should be saved but indeed the grant est part of Adams Posterity fell by the Power of Satan and their own rebellious Will Now whether to think or say that either the power of the Serpent or the corruption in a Sinners Nature can or ever did or shall overturn or prevent the efficacious Will of God being accomplished be not Impious and Blasphemous I leave to every impartial and sober Reader to judge Thus the first Member or Branch of the Objection appears to be rotten and unsound neither is the second any better which affirms that God makes a general offer of that Salvation to every individual Sinner in the World the which if it be true as the Quakers affirm they are highly obliged to shew how it comes to pass that the greatest part of the World by far should remain in Darkness I mean with respect to the very external means of Salvation the which God hath seen sit to deny to many Nations in the World to which also the very Letter of the Holy Scripture bears witness A few Instances hereof I lay down that the Reader may plainly see how vain these foolish Beasters are in their Imaginations who would fain impose on all that God doth love all the Children of Adam with an equal Love and that the offer of his Grace in general is made to all without any exception or limitation wherein they prove themselves as false in their sayings as they appear vain in their deluded Imaginations They say and boldly affirm that the tender of Salvation is made to all alike I say they belye the Spirit of God in pretence of pleading for God by whose Instinct and immediate Inspiration they would make the World believe they themselves above all Men are guided and not only so but they egregiously thwart and contradict the very Letter of the Scripture which they seem to own and acknowledge to be Holy True and the Rule and Standard of Tryal of all matters in Religion wherein they and Christians differ For satisfaction herein let the Reader peruse and with serious consideration weigh in the ballance of Gods Sanctuary what is recorded in Psal 147 19.20 He sheweth his Word unto Jacob his Statutes and his Judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation And as for his Judgments they have not known them Praise ye the Lord. Whether the place now quoted doth not evidently prove that when God chose called and settled a Church unto his own peculiar Use and Service to whom he gave his Word and Ordinances for a rule of Faith and Holy Obedience he did not leave the other Nations of the Earth out of whom he chose his People with a peculiar Love and Favour in their Native Darkness and Blindness is a matter to be enquired into That of our Saviour in Mat. 20.16 Many are called but few chosen Doth also

to himself a certain number of Persons to whom alone excluding all others that Promise of Grace and Salvation shall be made good But God hath made a Promise of Life and Salvation to some particular Persons only excluding all others therefore God hath elected and chosen to himself a certain number of Persons to whom excluding all others the Promise of Life and Salvation shall be made good That God hath made a Promise of Life and Salvation to some particular Persons only excluding all others is evident and plain to such as acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority Gen. 17.7 And I will establish my Covenant between me and thee and thy Seed after thee in their Generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God to thee and to thy Seed after thee Here the Judicious and Unprejudic'd reader may plainly see that Abraham and his Seed were particular Persons distinct from all other Nations and People which were round about him And these it pleased God of his meer Soveraign Grace to single out for his own peculiar Use that they may be a Holy People to bear his Name and to give him a pure and spiritual Worship and Service which should be according to his own Holy Institution and Divine Appointment And that they may be made Partakers of the promised Inheritance which was the sure Possession of the Kingdom of Heaven of which the promised Land of Canaan was but a Type and Shadow The People of the Jews was but a small People when God fixt his Love on them and called them Deut. 7.6 7 8. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth The Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you And because he would keep the Oath which he had sworn unto your fathers hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and Redeemed you out of the ho●●● of Bondmen The same Promise which was made to Abraham and his Seed under the Old Testament Dispensation is confirmed by the New And evident it is that as God chose and called Abraham under that dark Dispensation with whom he entred into a Covenant of Grace the Benefit of which was to be of equal extent to himself and his Children even so many of them as were the Children of the Premise So under the Gospel Dispensation God who is a free Agent acting all he doth in a way of Soveraignty saw fit to make known by the Gospel that among the Gentiles also he had a select and chosen People on whom he had decreed to conferr the Riches of his free Grace through the plenteous Redemption that is in his Son Jesus Christ and that pursuant to his own immutable Decree and Purpose electing and choosing them before Time began Acts 2.39 for the Promise is to you and to your Children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Here is that Promise formerly mentioned which looks at Abraham and his Children and also discovers the gracious Design of God to make a certain number of the Gentiles actual Partakers of the self-same Grace and Blessing The manner of the Apostle's expressing himself is full of Clearness and Perspicuity proving that the promise of that Grace and Salvation is not designed for all and singular the Gentile Sinners that then were or in after times should be in the Word but he limits and restrains the Promise to a certain peculiar number least Sinners should mistake the Apostle and conclude that because he had laid down an universal Term saying And to all that are afar off he by way of Explanation shews what the Spirit means by that universal Term adding even as many as the Lord our God shall call in which he plainly shews and invincibly proves that none of the Gentile Sinners shall ever partake of God's special Grace but such as are in time effectually called out of a State of Nature to a State of Justification and Sanctification the which is never granted to any but in the Right of a Covenant-promise which Covenant-promise respects that gracious Act of God electing and choosing in Christ his Son as many of Adam's Posterity both of Jews and Gentiles as his own Soveraignty pleased according to that of the Apostle Rom. 8.30 Moreover whom he did praedestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified And our Saviour himself in Jo. 10.16 designs the Gentiles whom God had in his electing Love given in charge to him in those Expressions And other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice c. Arg. 2. If among the many thousands of People who hear the Gospel Preached but some and that very few comparatively are savingly Converted receive Mercy are Justified and Sanctified and are made to Persevere in a course of Faith and Holy Life then God hath elected and chosen only a certain peculiar number of Men to Life and Salvation But among the many thousands of People who hear the Gospel Preached but some only are savingly Converted receive Mercy are Justified are Sanctified and do finally Persevere in a course of Faith and Holy Life Therefore God hath elected and chosen only a certain peculiar number of Men to Life and Salvation There is nothing more evident than that the greatest number even of those People who are outwardly called by the Gospel do slight and contemn the Gospel and the Grace offered therein Witness that of our Saviour Mat. 20.16 For many are called but few are chosen Luke 14.16 17 18 19. That Parable of the King who made a great Supper to which the King by his Servants invited the Guests notwithstanding which many of them made blind Excuses and shifted it off By which Practise in the Guests we are to understand that great slight and contempt which worldly minded Sinners put on the Lord Jesus and his great Salvation wrought for the Elect which God offers in the Gospel the which they undervalue preferring the Accommodations of this perishing World before that great and precious Salvation To this also pertinent is that of Paul Rom. 10.16 But they have not all obeyed the Gospel for Esaias saith Lord who hath believed our report Rom. 9.27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant only shall be saved Now then if among those many who are Externally called and the very many who make a Profession there are but very few who savingly Believe Repent and finally Persevere in a course of Faith and Holy Life then