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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61500	Three sermons preached by the Reverend and learned Dr. Richard Stuart ... to which is added, a fourth sermon, preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Harsnett ...; Sermons. Selections	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5527; ESTC R20152	74,369	194

the Innoce●t bloud and had laid his hands his bloudy hands upon himselfe when he had so done the Holy Ghost saith Acts. 2.25 Abiit in locum suum he went to a home not of Gods but of his owne providing The fearfull doome at the last day is Ite non Auferte Goe your waies not Carry them away goe the way your selves have chosen And it is to the sheep Venite benedicti Patris mei Come ye blessed of my Father and to the Goats Ite maledicti in ignem paratum Goe into the fire ye ●ursed but it is not Ite maledicti Patris Goe ye cursed of my Father God intitles himselfe to the blessing only And the fire is prepared but for whom Non nobis sed Diabolo Angelis ejus Not for you but for the Devil and his Angels So that God delighteth to prepare neither Death nor Hell for damned men This last branch of Gods protestation I delight not in the death of any sinner I resolve into six Consequences as Links depending on this Chain 1. God's absolute will is not the cause of Reprobation but sin 2. No man is of an absolute necessity the childe of Hell so as by God's Grace he may not avoid it 3. God simply willeth and wisheth every living Soul to be saved and to come to the Kingdom of Heaven 4. God sent his Sonne to save every Soule and to bring it to the Kingdom of Heaven 5. God's Son offereth Grace effectually to save every one and to direct him to the Kingdom of Heaven 6. The neglect and contempt of his Grace is the cause why every one doth not come to Heaven and not any privative Decree Counsel or determination of God These six I will breifly discuss and so commend you to the Grace of God For the first Almigty God at the Creation when he tooke a view of all his Creatures as men use to do that have newly drawne an Image they view and pry to see what is amisse in it it seemes when he looked upon them he found they were Good and when Man was made behold They were very Good Gen. 1.31 Now if God had cast a way man before he had sinned not in eye to sin but in absolute judgment the malicious would have cried the Kingdome of God is worse then the kingdome of Satan For Satan is not divided against Satan Belzebub the Prince of Devils doth not cast out Devils Matt. 12.26 But by this Device Ipsa bonitas Goodnesse it selfe is divided against goodnesse the Goodnesse of the Creator against the Goodnesse of the Creature God is at defiance with his owne Creature and Image the Fountaine of Goodnesse that God did see in Man what was it but Radius divinae bonita●is a beam of that Goodnesse which issueth from the Fountaine God himselfe Secondly God's Hate does not arise as his Love doth for his Love ariseth of and from himselfe For being all beautifull and glorious which cannot be but all lovely and amiable within and seeing himselfe cannot but love and like himselfe ●o that he hath in him to move him to Love but he hath not in him to move him to Hate but that commeth from without and there is nothing from without which God hateth but sin The man of sin had so much goodnesse as to say Odi quia Inimicus I have hated him because he is my enemy Now sin only is the sworne enemy to God Enemy to his Goodnesse being badnesse it selfe Enemy to his Majesty being baseness it self Ene●y to his Glory being Ignominy to his lightnesse being Darkness to his Beauty being Deformity to his Justice being Iniquity to his Pity being Cruelty to his Life being Death to his very Being it selfe having no Being Sin was an intruder into the World and had not where to lay his head So that God cannot hate any thing but sin and what he hates he hates for the sake of sin The second consequence is No man is of absolute necessity the child of Hell so as by God's grace he may not avoid it And this is a sprig of the former Branch For if God cannot hate any man but for sin and himselfe cannot delight in sin then can he not delight that any man should go to Hell but he that delighteth himselfe to die in sin Let us look back to the Garden from whence wee came God planted in the Gardan of 〈◊〉 a Tree of Life and it was 〈…〉 to be found as the Tree of Death A●am with the same ease might have reached out his hand to the Tree of Life and saved all as to the Tree of Death and marred all So that it was not absolutly necessary that any should goe to hell When Adam had erred in making choice of the wrong Tree and had barred himself from the Tree of Life God put him out into the open field of the World and in it planted a Tree of Lif● better then the Tree in the Garden of Ed●n a Tree that came downe from heaven Apocal. 2.7 and caused his Herald to proclaim before it This is the Tree of life that came downe from Heaven whosoever tasteth of this Tree shall not die but have ●verlasting life The Tree which was in the Garden of Eden did never seek men and reach forth fruit unto them but man was to seek and to reach forth his hand unto it and so taste it But this Tree seeketh us and reacheth forth fruit unto us Nay God himselfe plucketh off the fruit and followeth us with it as a Nurse doth follow her child with meat Psal. 81.11 Aperi os tuum late Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it And if w● will not be at the 〈…〉 our mouth that we may be 〈…〉 Heaven Death will be at the paines to o●en her jawes that we may feed him in hell They lie in hell and Death knaweth upon them Psal 49.14 The third consequence is God simply willeth and wisheth every living soule to be saved and to praise God for his goodness among the Angels in heaven And this Truth the Holy Ghost hath taught us by the mouth of holy Paul 1. Tim. 2 4. Deus vult omnes salvos esse God would have every man living to be saved and none to die eternall Death And here the Genevian conceit hath delt with this gracious bounty of God and this blessed saying God will have all to be saved as Hanan did with the Ambassadors of David he cut off their Garments to the hips and this hath curtailed the grace of God at the stumps for it saith It must not be meant that God would have every living soule to come to Heaven but one or two out of every Order and Occupation to come unto heaven As if our gracious God were fallen out of liking with Christian souls and suddenly fallen in love with Orders and Occupations And yet I feare me beloved it were as easie to bring up all Christian souls unto heaven as it is to