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A53957 A practical discourse concerning God's love to mankind written for the satisfaction of some scrupulous persons / by Edward Pelling ... Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1694 (1694) Wing P1083; ESTC R21771 58,579 154

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God's Everlasting Kingdom The Reason of this and what the things are which we are bound to perform Fifthly CONSIDERING therefore what Qualifications are necessary in Us to make our present Calling and Election firm effectual and eternally Beneficial to us our care must be in the fifth place to make such a due Use of the Divine Love and Goodness towards us all as to perform those things which are indispensibly necessary in order to the actual Possession of God's Everlasting Kingdom As yet the way to it is laid open for us and we have a Liberty and Power given us to enter in but it is upon certain Conditions We are delivered from a necessity of Perishing notwithstanding our many Provocations we are made capable of Eternal Life notwithstanding our former guilt But yet divers things are required on our part that we may be actually admitted into a fixt State of Happiness in Heaven Though God loved us and gave his Son to us to tender satisfaction in our stead and by undergoing a Temporary Death himself to Rescue us from Everlasting Torments in which Services of the Divine Oeconomy the World had not any the least Hand they were acts of pure Grace of Mercy undeserved unthought of by Mankind yet God being the Soveraign Governour and Legislator of the Universe it would have been inconsistent with his Honour and Greatness to have given up the Authority of his Laws which yet he must have done had he permitted us to take our own Courses and to live according to our own Wills without any danger Therefore that he might at once provide for our Indemnity and secure his own Authority also when Christ was pleased so freely to undertake the Office of a Mediator it was Covenanted between the Father and Him that upon such and such Conditions his Obedience Death and Intercession should be perfectly available on our behalf And for the making of those terms good it was Covenanted likewise that the Holy Spirit should be given to inable us for the performance of those Duties which were expected from us and that such a Measure should be accepted at our Hands as we should perform by our sincere endeavours according to our Capacities and Power Hence it was that Christ brought us Laws from Heaven to Regulate and Govern our Actions that we might not frustrate the Counsel and Love of God towards us that we might not at last fail of God's Grace nor come short of his Glory and of that Happiness which the Lord Jesus came into the World to purchase for us all The Price is paid and it was Love unspeakable in Christ to lay it down and in his Father to accept it at his Hands for us But though the general Purchase be made yet for the compleat Possession of it we must be careful to behave our selves so as God requires us in order to the conveyance of the Title to every particular Soul We must believe stedfastly on the Name of the Son of God and to this Faith we must add sincere Repentance from all Dead Works and make it our business to serve God in true Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our Life Without these Performances on our part Christ will in the end profit us nothing because he is the Author of Eternal Salvation unto all them that obey him Heb. 5. 9. They only will have the Final and Everlasting enjoyment of God's Love to the World For the Law by which the Righteous Judge of all the Earth will proceed is very plain Rom. 2. 6 7 8 9 10 11. He will render to every Man according to his Deeds to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality God will render Eternal Life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness He will render Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul that doeth Evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile But Glory and Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh Good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile for there is no respect of Persons with God You see Men's Eternal Doom depends upon the Quality of their Lives and Actions here as they are either Good or Evil so will God reward them with Happiness or Misery hereafter And for this Reason it was that St. Paul calleth God the Saviour of all Men especially of those that believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. He is the Saviour of all Men Intentionally because He intended not to Reject any by an Absolute Decree or to exclude any from the Hopes and Means of Salvation but by the Doctrines and Holy Life of his Son Jesus Christ did intend to open and shew the way of Peace unto all and encouraged all People to follow it to the end and because too he sent Christ to offer him satisfaction for the Sins of all Men to Die for all Men and to Merit Eternal Salvation for all if all would lay hold on his Merits by such a lively operative and purifying Faith as is perfected by Charity In short because he hath done those things which were becoming and proper for a Wise and Merciful God to do for Sinful and Reasonable Creatures in order to their Salvation He is rightly called the Saviour of all Men Sufficiently Meritoriously Intentionally and if he be not to all Actually and Effectually so too it must proceed from the voluntary Neglect and Crimes of some who by their Evil Deeds hinder themselves from being Actually and Effectually Saved To Illustrate this by a plain Similitude such as it is Suppose a great number of us were Captives and Bond Slaves sold as Slaves were formerly wont to be Sold into the Hands of Arbitrary and Merciless Masters And suppose the King of his tender Compassion and Goodness towards us as having been his own Subjects should send a valuable Consideration and Ample Ransom with a gracious purpose to Redeem us all without exception but with a Proviso and upon condition of our true Faith and Allegiance to him though some out of a strange Love of Slavery or through Carelesness or Crosness of Temper or by some other Miscarriages might hinder themselves from being Actually Ransomed and so throw away their Liberty for ever yet this could be no disparagement to the King's Clemency and Goodness He would deserve the Name of our common Redeemer nevertheless the intentional Redeemer of us all and I doubt not but in such a case we should all think it very Reasonable for us to acknowledge the Kindness intended for all To apply this instance and to use the Scripture Expressions which relate unto it We were all once sold under Sin become the Servants of Unrighteousness taken Captives by the Devil who laid his snares for all Mankind But God of his Mercy sent his Son into the World to recover us all out of the snare of the Devil to lead Captivity Captive to give himself a Ransom for all to