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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20809	The vvorldes resurrection, or The generall calling of the Iewes A familiar commentary vpon the eleuenth chapter of Saint Paul to the Romaines, according to the sence of Scripture, and the consent of the most iudicious interpreters, wherein aboue fiftie notable questions are soundly answered, and the particular doctrines, reasons and vses of euery verse, are profitable and plainly deliuered. By Thomas Draxe. Minister of the word of God.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 7187; ESTC S116746	91,311	159

the knowledge of Christ wherby he doth determine in his due time to cal the rest are without repentance .i. they are irreuocable constant such as he cannot repēt off for his decree if vnchāgeable Questions Enemies for our sake Beloued for the fathers sake 1. Qu. Can one and the same person be an enemy and a friend vnto God beloued and hated of him at one the same time especially seeing that the affirmation hereof seemeth to imply a flatte contradiction Answ. Yes thus Paul before his conuersion was a friend of God in regard of his election albeit an enemy before and thus our Sauiour Christ is said to giue his life for his friends Iohn 15.13 But in Rom. 5.10 Christ is said to reconcile vs vnto his Father by his death whiles we were yet sinners when we were enemies as that all the Elect are by nature children of wrath and enemies vnto God but they are also friends and beloued euen before their calling and sanctification because by the grace and mercy of God they are from all eternitie chosen and beloued in Christ Rom. 9.11.13 and because God will doth in time call them to faith knowledge and obedience Secondly we for the clearing of the Text answer that the Iewes in Pauls time and sithence were and are enemies vnto God in regarde that the greatest multitude of them were reprobates so cast off but yet both then and euer since they are beloued of God so many of them as are elected which albeit they then and hitherto haue bin but few yet at their generall calling it will appeare that they are very many Beloued for the Fathers sake Quest. If any one be loued as here we haue a particular instance for his Fathers sake then a man may bee called and conuerted by reason of and for his fathers merits and so euery man shall not liue by his owne faith Ans. The argument followeth not For first faith and regeneration commeth not by naturall succession but proceedeth altogether from grace Secondly the children of the faithfull are not for their parents faith accepted to eternall life but they must beleeue them-selues and liue and bee saued by their owne faith Lastly in that the Iewes are beloued for their Fathers sake as Salomon was neuer wholy depriued of Gods spirit and fauour for Dauids sake it proceedeth not from their workes or persons but onely from Gods gratious and euerlasting couenant the fountaine and roote of it The summe of the couenant is that God will be their God and the God of their seede and therefore there must be some to whom the couenant must bee made good and fulfilled and these are loued for the couenant sake The gifts and calling of God are without repentance Quèst Touching the graces of God if they bee neuer taken away why doth God so often depriue men of them that formerly had them Ans. First they are common and temporall gifts either of nature policie or else of illumination and outward profession onely that are common to Gods children with reprobates these God doth strip and depriue men of many times for their vnthankfulnesse and to discouer their vnsoundnesse and hypocrisie Secondly because men who are cōmonly Reprobates alwayes neglect contemne and abuse them thus they quench and put out the holy spirit and what light soeuer was offered vnto them and whatsoeuer knowledge and grace of God was bestowed vpon them it dyeth in them by little and little for God in his iustice taketh his tallent from them as hee did from Saul and Iudas But for those peculiar endowments of Gods elect which are linked and chained vnseperably together such as are predestination vocation iustification and glorification these are giuen to the Godly in fe● simple and are neuer taken away from them The calling of God without Repentace Quest. Why then did God repent that he created man and that hee made Saul King and why doth hee many times reuoake his promise and his threarnings Ans. This is spoken figuratiuely and vnproperly for the change is not in his Gods will and decree but onely in the things or euent and that as the conditions in men implyed and vnderstood are changeable Secondly by this kind of speech God would shew how hainous and horrible were mans sinnes and naturall corruption proceeding partly from his rebellious will and partly from the Diuell Thirdly God declareth that he in respect of the outward worke and act will doe that which men when they repent vse to doe namely destroy his worke Thus hee drowned the whole world in Noah his time and in fight caused Saul to be slaine Lastly God hath purposed and ordained at once by his stedfast decree that he will so often ratifie this change of the effects of his anger and mercies as often as any iust cause commeth betweene Ezek. 24.25 Math. 18.35 Rom. 2.6 which inter-current cause if it be euill God decreed the permission and ordering of it onely but if it be good God decreed to worke it and doth in time bring it into act and effect As concerning the Gospell they are enemies Doctr. Seeing that the Iewes oppugning the preaching of the Gospell and refusing to admit of it are said to bee enemies vnto God we draw this generall Theoreme viz. that all men during the time that they receiue not the word of God but resist and with-stand the course and preaching of it are Gods enemies and hated of them Apoc. 12. v. 4. 17. 1. Thes. 2.15.16 2. Tim. 4.15 Reas. The reason hereof is because the Preaching and ministery of the word is Christs golden Scepter vnder which all his subiects must be ranged and his easie yoake that all his people must beare Math. 11. v. 29.30 1. Vse This serueth to condemne Iewes Turkes Papists false brethren and all vnderminers and persecutors of the Church who howsoeuer they slatter themselues in their sinnes errors and Idolatry and thinke they do God seruice yet in very truth they are nothing else then Gods flatte enemies and they that refuse to be sworne to and acknowledge his supremacy ouer their soules and bodies 2. Vse Secondly we must take heed that wee make no leagues of amitie or of vnnecessary traffique with them least in fine by our ouer-much sociablenes familiarity with them wee learne their workes and pollute our selues with their sinnes and abhominations 2. Cor. 6.16 They are nothing but pitch poyson and contagious leapers by whose familiarity we may soone bee defiled and infected Vse 3. We must not by our dissimulation hipocrisie ill life harden and confirme them in their sins heresies but to the vttermost extent and straine of our ability endeuor both by life and doctrine to gaine win them Vse 4. We must remember how God hath for these many hundred years punished their contempt contumacy both with spiritual bodily punishment captiuity and forasmuch as we professe