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A35175 An exposition of the second verse of the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans with an appendix on chap. III ver. 27 : the former being the summ of fifteen sermons, the latter of five, for further explication of that great doctrine of justification / by Walter Cross, M.A. Cross, Walter, M.A. 1694 (1694) Wing C7260; ESTC R31338 133,901 168

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of God neither as to Law or Fact as to the former there is no dispute the latter these Arguments may Confirm 1. Man would be then an ungovernable Creature which is a great Absurdity for God intended the Care and Government of the Creatures he made he could not make him Happy or Miserable in Spirit if not free his Will and would he make one that might disorder his Harmony and frustrate his Designs whether God would or no 2. Such a Power in Man would limit an Infinite Being it would limit his Will he worketh all things according to the Counsel of his Will Eph. 1.11 The distinction has Absurdity enough in it of those who say 't is true in Natural things but not in things Moral 3. It limits God's Power as to all Civil Affairs in the World for still his designs must depend on the Inclination of Man 4. The Knowledge of God This Conclusion is so apparent for what is uncertain in it self cannot certainly be known that Poieret denies God's foreknowledge of Sin and that until it came to pass there was not one Thought or Idea of it in God And Pomponatius denies his Knowledge of Future Contingencies 5. It would both rob God of much Praise and Glory and rob poor Sinners of much Hope and Comfort For 1. The Doctrine of Perseverance is undetermined by it No Person could have any Assurance from his highest Attainments in Grace Paul could not have had any Confidence of God's perfecting the begun Work of Grace Phil. 1.6 if that had been true Nor Peter have concluded God's establishing strengthning and settling the dispersed Jews from their being called 1 Pet. 5.10 Those Chains of Grace between Predestination Calling Justification and Glory would be very easily solvible 2. God's Providential Care Mat. 6.31 If God so cloath the Grass of the field shall he not much more cloath you Oh ye of little Faith is overthrown by it 3. The Work of Conversion Luke 11.25 I thank thee O Father because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed unto Babes is derogated from Go● by i. 4. The Scripture positively asserts the contrary both in Morals and Spirituals Exod. 34.24 Neither shall any Man desire thy Land when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year There was then a brave opportunity for the Enemies to invade Israel when all the Males were at Jerusalem and not one Man in all the Land not one Man in all the Countrey left to defend any Fort Passage City or Castle the Lord promiseth not only that he would protect it which he could have done by many miraculous ways but he promiseth though they should fight against it all the Year over yet at that time they should not desire it John 6.44 No man can come to me except the Father draw him every Man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me Phil. 2. He worketh to will and to do Psal 110. The people shall be willing in the day of thy power Jer. 20.9 Thou art stronger than I and hast prevailed the manner how is expressed before O Lord thou hast deceived me and I was deceived But the Original is Thou hast enticed or overperswaded me Then I said I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his Name but his word was in my heart as a burning fire I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay 5. The Efficacy of Effectual Calling is ascribed to the Efficacy of Divine Influence on the Heart of Man and not to Man's Will or the Rethorick of Ministers 1 Cor. 2.4 that Efficacy is call'd a Powerful Spiritual Demonstration there is a tripple Demonstration the one is to our Sense when we see with our Eye and hear with our Ear the other is to Reason when the Connection between Terms or Properties of things are clear and evident but this third Kind seems to be the Lords immediate proposing clear Apprehensions of the thing to the Soul of Man which is called a speaking to the Heart Hos 2.14 I will allure her and will sp●ak to her Heart which is particularly described 2 Cor. 3.18 We all with open face beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. There is first the Image or Idea which is a Glorious and ravishing Apprehension of God Secondly There is the Glass wherein this Idea is represented which is either the Scripture as the Mean of Conveyance or rather the Intellect of Man because it is by an immediate Efficiency of the Spirit and the Apostle is discoursing of the Jews who had that Glass of the Scripture but could not receive this Idea into their Minds from it by reason of a Vail on their Minds they were blinded but this Vail is done away in Christ So there is a double operation the first is a disposing of the Mind so as these Objects may be suited to it for there is no Love but where there is a Likeness Different Pallats reli●h different Dishes the Eye cannot be made to see by outward light without a due Disposition for receiving and reflecting this Light the Pharisees could see no takingness in the Doctrine of Humility while they received Honour one of another nor any goodness in Charity while they remained Covetous The Gentiles thought the Gospel foolishness while they judged their own imperfect Rigeteousness acceptable to God or their Sins so small that the loss of a Beast in a Sacrifice could make a sufficient recompense And so it is said of every Natural Man that the things of God are foolishness unto them and that they cannot discern them because they are spiritually discerned But when he is Spiritual he discerneth all things So this subjective Influence is the making of a Man Spiritual which is call'd a New Creation a Regeneration a Resurrection The third thing is the Author of this Perswasion or of this Image raised in the Mind the Spirit of the Lord. The fourth thing is the infl●ence it hath upon the Soul we are changed into the same Image So that whether the Objective Operation or the Subjective have the precedency is a Question among Divines But this Text sets the amiable and most perswading and charming Object of God presented to the Soul as that which moulds the Soul in a likeness to its self as we see in Bodily things passionately seen marks a Child in the Womb of the Mot●er This is call'd A drawing with the Cords of a Man that is not by Violence as with Cart-ropes but with bands of Love Hos 11.4 and the constraining Power of Love 2 Cor. 5.14 And when the Word is blest to be an Instrument of it it is called an ingrafted Word or a Divine Seed Lastly This Doctrine of Denying God an Absolute Empire and Government over the Will of Man to turn it which way