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A67773 A short and sure way to grace and salvation being a necessary and profitable tract, upon three fundamental principles of Christian religion ... : how man was at first created, how he is now corrupted, how he may be again restored : together with the conditions of the covenant of grace, and to whom the promises of the Gospel belong ... / by R. Younge ... Younge, Richard. 1658 (1658) Wing Y185; ESTC R14649 25,252 24

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be it Yet to be affectedly ignorant and to shut their eies against the light of the Gospel is by far more damnable this is a sin with a witnesse As what saies our Saviour John 3. 19. This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darknesse rather then light because their deeds were evil And so on the contrary This is life eternal to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent John 17. 3. Besides without knowledge the minde cannot be good as wise Solomon affirms Prov. 19. 2. A man may know the will of God and yet not do it but he cannot do it except hee know it Neither can he be born of God that knoweth him not 1 John 4. 7. nor can he love God vers. 8. Whence that terrible text Jer. 10. 25. Power out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not Psal. 79. 6. And that other more terrible 2 Thes. 1. 7 8. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming flie to take vengeance on them that know not God Whence the Prophet Isaiah is peremptory It is a people of no understanding therefore he that made them will not have mercy upon them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Is a. 27. 11. Observe these Scriptu●es you ignorant souls that think your ignorance will excuse you and let not Satan nor your deceitful hearts so delude you as to think that God is in jest where he saith My people are destroied for lack of knowledge and because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also re●ect thee Hosea 4. 6. Or if you do you shall one day finde him in earnest For as you know not Christ here so when you shall look for entrance into his Kingdome hereafter he shall say unto you Depart from me I know you not Mat. 25. 12 41. which will be but a sad saying And far better were it that you were ignorant of all other things which makes Saint Paul say I desire to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 Corinth 2. 2. Sect. V. Now this being the case of millions in this City and so all the Land over what can we other then conclude That few even amongst us shall be saved as our Saviour affirms Matth. 7. 13 14. 20. 16. And that the whole world lieth in wickednesse as Saint John speaks 1 John 5. 19. And that the number of those whom Satan shall deceive is as the sand of the Sea Revel. 20. 8. 13. 15 16 17 Isa. 10. 22. Rom. 9. 27. Which being so I hold my self bound to acquaint them what every one must of necessity know or they cannot be saved the which I will do in a few lines that all who will may have the benefit thereof Wherefore let all such if they hve ears hear what I shall say unto them out of God's Word in laying open those three fundamental principles before mentioned Sect. VI Touching the bounty and goodnesse of GOD in Man's Creation these things would be known 1. That God in the beginning made Man in Paradice after all his other works that he might come as to a Sumptuous pallace ready furnished 2. That he was made a compendium and abridgment of all the other creatures as being a little world of himself for whereas Planets have being not life Plants have life not sence Beasts have sence not reason Angels have being life reason not sence Man hath all and contains in him more generality then the Angels viz. being life sence reason 3. That as he was made Lord of and had dominion over all so he did excell all other visible creatures 1. In that he had a reasonable soul 2. In that he hath a speaking tongue 3. In that he was made upright with his face lifted up to heavenward 4. In that all things were made subject to him 5. In that he was made after the Image of God 6. In that his soul is immortal 7. In that he was ordained to eternal glory More especially we are to know that as God made all things else for mans use and service so he created man male and female more immediately for his own honour and service and did accordingly adorn him with gifts and abilities above all other visible creatures For God made us had not we un-made our selves after his own Image endowing us as with reasonable and immortal souls so with perfection of all true wisdom holinesse and righteousnesse writing his Law in our hearts and giving us ability to obey and fulfill the same in every point and withall a power to stand and for ever to continue in a most blessed and happy condition free from all misery and to enjoy a sweet and blessed Communion with his Creiter So that man was created very good did clearly and perfectly know the whole will and works of his Maker was able out of the integrity of his soul and fitnesse of all the powers fully willingly and chearfully to love observe and obey his Maker in every tittle and circumstance he required and to love his neighbour as himself so that neither the minde did conceive nor the heart desire nor the body put in execution any thing but that which was acceptable and well pleasing unto God as these insuing Scriptures do plainly prove Gen. 1. 26 27. 30. Eccles. 7. 29. Rom. 2. 14 15. Sect. VII Which being so how should it humble us and make us ashamed of our present condition and withall set us on fire with a holy zeal to out-strip and go before all the rest of the Creatures in obaying our Creator as far as he did make us out-strip them all in spiritual and divine excellencies whereas hitherto they have out-stript and gone before us in a high degree as for instance Though we are bound to praise and serve God above any creature whatsoever in that all the creatures were ordained for our sakes yet heaven earth and sea all the elements all the creatures obey the word of God and serve him as they did at first yea call upon us to serve him onely men for whom they were all made most ingratefully rebell against him As if you consider it rightly the obedience of insensible and bruit creatures unto the will of God is a great check and reproof unto the disobedience of man Man is the chiefest of creatures and they the lowest yet do they as far exceed him in obedience as he doth them in natural eminencie The Stork and the Swallow know their appointed times The Oxe knows his owner and the Asse his Masters crib the Sea moveth in a settled and unmoving course the Stars fit their many changes to a steddy rule answerable to the will of him that never changeth The Lord by Moses but spake to the rock and it gave water to the thirsty Israelites he but commanded the clouds to rain down Mannah and the winde to bring them in Qu●ils for the satisfying of