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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04167	Diverse sermons with a short treatise befitting these present times, now first published by Thomas Iackson, Dr in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, and president of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford. ...	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1637 (1637)	STC 14307; ESTC S107448	114,882	232

omnipotent power Whereas if he had said the invincible lawes of necessity did suffer Pompey not to lay these forewarnings to heart he had spoken like a Christian. For there can be no other invincible law of necessity besides the irresistible will of the one omnipotent God and that is a law absolutely invincible and most irresistible and yet a law which admits a liberty of choice in the parties subject to it or a law for the most part disiunctive It was the irresistible will of God that Pompey should have sufficient or as this Authour speakes abundant warning to correct his errour or to abate his high spirit or pride of heart and yet it was one and the same irresistible will of one and the same God that these forewarnings how prodigious soever should not necessitate his will or enforce relentance upon his present resolution No matter of fact or signes of the time can bee more infallible prognostickes of calamities foresignified by them then these signes of the time which it pleased our Saviour to interpret No prophecie or prediction though uttered by an Angell from heaven can induce a greater necessity or argue a more inevitable futurition of things so foretold then the expresse prediction or prophecie of the Sonne of God himselfe Though here or elsewhere he often foretold the destruction of Galilee and Ierasalem yet was not the destruction of either of them from the date of this prophefie absolutely necessary or inevitable but necessary only upon supposition or conditionally necessary unlesse yee repent yee shall all likewise perish Yea but this proposition might bee true if they did repent they should not perish But this doth not argue their repentance to have beene possible For Hypothetica propositio as they say nihil Ponit in esse this proposition would be true though in a beggers mouth If I had tenne thousand pound I should bee a rich man yet the truth of this proposition puts no money in his purse But he that would apply this Logicke rule unto our Saviours speech in my text doth either jeere our Saviour or make him to bee a jeerer of the sons of affliction which later of two evils is the worse for wheresoever the contract or covenant is serious or where the bond or grant is reall and legall the condition must be facible The Prince or Iudge that would grant or promise a malefactor suppose a man-slayer his life upon condition or provise that hee should restore the party whom he had slaine to life againe would be thought rather to mocke him than shew mercy to him and to do himselfe and his authority more wrong than the other good Solomon did not mocke Shimei when hee gave him life upon this condition that hee should keepe himselfe within the confines of Ierusalem This condition though not performed by Shimei was facible and the breach of it did bring death upon Shimei Every condition or promise if it bee serious praesupponit aliquid in esse presupposeth some estate in being As when our Saviour saith except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish This exception or condition presupposeth an estate in sinne yet an estate mutable It presupposeth these men were truly lyable to destruction threatned but it presupposeth withall that the doore of life and salvation though now but narrow was not utterly shut against them that as yet it was called to day with them yea that after this time there was a season wherein this sonne of God did call them to repentance when he beheld the city and wept over it Oh that thou hadst knowne this thy day c. After they had cast him off from being King over them and exempted themselves from his wonted speciall protection yet hee ceaseth not to pray for them Father forgive them for they know not what they do But here some who thinke it part of their office to send off Gods intended mercies from such as they have marked for reprobates will tell you that our Saviour did then pray not for the Iewes but for the Roman Souldiers yet Roman Souldiers they were not but Iewes of the worst condition which stoned the blessed Martyr Steven to death and yet he prayed Lord lay not this sinne unto their charge And it will be no sinne in us to thinke that the dying disciple did learne this extraordinary charity from his dying 〈◊〉 Now if either master or disciple had knowne the destruction which hanged over this peoples head to have beene at that time altogether inevitable neither of them would or might have prayed for them or against the plague which in the issue fell upon them for it was never lawfull for the Prophets nor is it for any man living this day to pray for any people or person in case they infallibly know that they are utterly cast off by God or left in a state impennible As for the destruction here threatned against Galilee and Ierusalem though at this time truly evitable yet it became Iesse evitable every day than other for almost forcy yeares by their continuall perseverance 〈◊〉 speciall sinnes and their progression in sinne without relentance was occasioned by the neglect of the signes of the time or the forewarnings which God had given them for their good No publique plagues or calamities whether fore-signified by such signes as these in my text or punctually foretold by Gods Prophets or by his Sonne the Prince of Prophets become inevitable unlesse it bee by contempt or neglect of forewarnings given or by deeming all events to be inevitable because they are foresignified or foretold by God himselfe or by his embassadours It is true sometimes that the very inevitability of ensueing calamities is either expressely foretold or foresignified but such presignifications or predictions can bee no forewarnings but rather peremptory denunciations of some irreversible sentence or doome after warnings given be they more or fewer To scorne or neglect forewarnings given is a Symptome of hardnesse of heart and contempt of Gods word To thinke all calamities are inevitable which are foretold or foresignified or of which God himselfe hath given forewarnings is a branch of false Doctrine or an heresie sometimes adludged by the lawmakers of this land so capitall that they did exempt the maintainers of it which were then the sect of the Anabaptists from all benefit of the Kings royall pardon as is apparent from the generall pardon of the thirty 2 yeare of King Henry the eight but by what cōstitutions of the visible Church of England which then was the errour of such men as thought nothing could fall out otherwise then it doth was condēned for an heresie or by what parliamentary law it was adjudged to be a capitall heresie uncapable of pardon or whether such Ecclesiasticall constitutions or municipall lawes as were then in force have beene since by like authority repeald or antiquated by disuse or discontinuance of practise are points without the limits of my profession and besides my intention either to