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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02798	The fulness and freeness of Gods grace in Christ declared. Namely, how God orders and appoints men to their final ends; some to honor, some to dishonor to eternity. The second part.; Fulnesse and freenesse of Gods grace in Christ declared. Part 2	Duke, Francis.	1655 (1655)	Wing D2502A; ESTC R176022	62,389	122

in the loss of his glory and to his dishonour for ever by nulling his truth in that all mankind together with themselves might fall into eternal misery and so not one ever should aspire to eternal happiness that glory over theirs For in Adam all die that is eternally vessels of dishonour But for the further enlargement of the fall of man I refer the Reader to the third Chapter of my former Treatise but now in this particle of time when man fell and the world with him then God gave being to the seventh means to cary on his final End by the assent of humane nature to eternal glory in his manifold wisdom to the rebounding of his glory to all eternity notwithstanding what was done by the Apostate Angels as will appear in the next Chapter and Chapters following CHAP. IV. In this Chapter is proved that God gave being to the seventh means to accomplish his final end IN this case as is said God passed by Men and Angels because this means is not man only nor God only but personally God Man that is the second in the one God assumed not the person of any man but the nature of every man as it was said the seed of the woman And this person by this personal union was made the the seventh means in the beginning of time namely in that instant of time in which the whole frame of Nature fell by its principal part as is described Gen. 3.15 for then saith God I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed affirmatively concluding he shall break thy head Luk. 1.70 so that this seventh means was then known by name that is the seed of the woman And thus God spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets since the world began and accordingly when the fulness of time was come Gal. 4.4 God sent forth his son made of a woman and so forth And because the Text saith God sent forth his Son made of a woman he tels us that himself was the sole efficient of this means for womans seed was but the subject matter and no formal cause nor man any efficiency in it but God only and alone according to his word to the Serpent I will and so forth Wherefore when an Angel said unto Mary Luk. 1.31 32 33 34 35. Loe thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bear a son Then said Mary unto the Angel How can this be seeing I know not man The Angel then tels her how saying The holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the most high shall overshadow thee therefore that holy thing which shall be born of thee Heb. 1.4 5 6. shall be called the Son of God From this ground the Text saith Who shall declare his generation implying none but God himself he being so much better then the Angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name then they For unto which of the Angels said he at any time thou art my son this day have I begotten thee Again when he bringeth in his first begotten into the world he saith And let all the Angels of God worship him Quest In regard he was not born nor begotten until the fulness of time how can he be Gods first begotten Answ I answer He was begotten so as never none was nor ever shall be by the power of the most High and so the first begotten in this sense that ever was Secondly The first begotten in priority of time for he was the first born of man from the dead fall of Adam in that word of God when he threatned destruction to the designe of apostate Angels by womans seed and so the first begotten from the dead fall of the whole frame of Nature this was intimated by God when he instituted the earths first fruits to be his and of the beasts which first opened the womb to be his and the first-born of man to be his implying that Christ was the only first-born from the dead of every creature in an universal relation and that he was the seventh means to destroy all the apostate Angels foresaid means and so to carry on Gods final end is clear For this purpose saith the Text was the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil and our Lord himself saith For this end was I born 1 Epist Ioh. 3.8 and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness to the truth The which truth may be considered negatively or affirmatively Negatively thus That God never did Ioh 18.37 nor now doth intend glory to himself by mans operations good or bad everlastingly but according to his rules made suitable to man Or affirmatively thus That God really intended and still doth to return glory to himself for ever by mans operations good or bad according to his rule suitable to man that is some to honour and some to dishonour according to their works to all eternity and not as the apostate Angels lyingly affirmed that God really intended neither for we see they denyed man should die at all and for life God intended no such thing to us in our first parents as precedently is proved Consequently it must follow from their lies as our Familistical Ranters affirm that all shall be alike that is none saved nor damned Iohn 8.44 As the Scriptures affirm But these filthy dreamers are the children of their Father the Devil whose works they will doe But for the further inlargement how our Lord did witness the truth and what that righteousness of his is which is imputed to the world in general and to man believing the truth more special I refer the Reader to the eighth Chapter of my former Treatise to the which the fourth Chapter in the same Book will give much light Because the Text saith Observ God sent his Son in the fulness of time Hence observe what is implyed in those words namely That it was ful time then for God to send him and for him to com because by that time the apostate Angels had not only seduc d Noa's posterity by apostacy from that posture God put them in by Christ to Heathenish Idolatry universally as in due place wil appear and also what that posture was which they left Rom. 10 11 12 but also seduced Abrahams seed in the like apostacy excepting some very few of both sorts by which Gods final end became almost as it was in the fall of Adam Psal 2.3 Therefore when the Lord lookt down from heaven upon the children of men as saith the Text to see if there were any that would understand and seek God he concludes all are gone out of the way and so forth but when the time was come that by the just judgement of God he shut up all men in unbelief it was to this end that he might have mercy upon all to be put into the said posture and