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A46755	Two treatises the first concerning Gods certaine performance of his conditional promises, as touching the elect, or, A treatise of Gods most free and powerfull grace, lately published without the authours privitie, and printed corruptly, by the name and title of Solid comfort for sound Christians : the second, concerning the extent of Christs death and love, now added to the former : with an additionall thereunto : both of them preached at New-Castle upon Tine ... / by Robert Ienison ...	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing J565; ESTC R2256	76,502	298

doe or not to do the things commanded and exhorted ●unto seeing such commāds and exhortations are made to all especially in the Church in common to good and bad 3 Both they in part and chiefely Papists would hence establish besides the other freedome of will which we hitherto have overthrowne I answer then in particu●ar to the doubt propounded The answer 1 Our strength now is not to be measured by Gods commandements Three things first ●wee must not measure our strength by Gods commādnents so much wee may ●nd must learne out of Scripture God commands us to love him saying Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule Mat. 22.37 and with all thy minde So also wee may read in Deut. Deut. 30.6 6.5 Yet the same Lord tells us also that hee himselfe must first Circumcise our hearts to love him Saying by Moses The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy Seed to love the Lord thy Ge● with all thine heart and wif● all thy seule that thou ma●● live And to the like effect are all those places named concerning Faith remiss●● of sin Repentance new ob●dience Perseverance yea● humility all which God requires at our hands yea and exhorts us unto yet as we● have seene See Sect. 9 10 11 12 13 14. we worke no● these but God by his effectuall grace and according to his promise worketh them in us So to specifie ●it and to shew it in some of these more expressy Christ saith Come unto mee all yee that labour yet the same mouth saith Mat. 11.28 No man ●an come unto mee Iohn 6.44 except the Father which hath sent mee draw him So God bids us ●urne Turne ye even unto me ●ith all your heart c. Ioel 2.12 Yet ●aith Ephraim Ier. 31.18 Turne thou ●e I shall bee turned And ●he Church Lament 5.21 ●urne thou us unto thee O ●ord and we shall bee turned ●nd in very deed wee can●ot suspirare sigh for sin ●nlesse God doe first in pi●are inspire and breathe it ● Rom. 8.26 God must ●ause his winde to blow breath into us the Spirit of Life before these waters of repētant teares doe flow Psal 147.18 So againe Learne to doe well Isa 1.17 and Ia. 2.12 So doe as they c. And here Happy are ye if y● doe them And yet saith our Saviour Christ Without me ye can doe nothing Iohn 15.6 And so for knowledge David speaketh thus 1 Chrs. 28.9 And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Father c. And here If we know these things c. ●●at 11.27 And yet saith Christ No man knoweth the Father save the son and hee to whensoever the Son will reveal● him And John 6.46 SECT 26. SEcondly 2 Gods precepts and exhortations are grounded on his promise such Exhortations and Precepts have their foundation ground not on our naturall power but on Gods promises as is said 1 Thes 5.23 24. and on the new Covenant So the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soule and body bee preserved blamelesse unto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ then it followes Faithfull is he that calleth you who will also doe it Phil. 2.12 13. So worke out your owne Salvation with feare and trembling For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to doe of his good pleasure So Wash yee make yee cleane Isa 1.16 Ezek. 36 2● saith God by his Prophet Isa But by his Prophet Ezekiel I will sprinkle Water upon you and yee shall be cleane and I will clense you So walke before me Gen. 17.1 Ezek 36.27 Rom. 6.12.14 an bee thou perfect And I wild cause you to walke in my statutes Lastly Let not sinne reigne in your mortall bodies And Rom. 6.12.14 sinne shall not reigne or have Dominion over you c. Rom. 6.12.14 SECT 27. THirdly 3 These exhortations are not yet in vain 1. Not in regard of the reprobate who thus are told what they shold have done Luke 12.47 and lastly I● say that yet such Exhortations and Commandments are not in vaine but serve for very good ends and that both in regard of the reprobate and Elect. 1 The reprobate are hence put in minde what they should doe or should have done and what once they had power to have done Secondly thus they are left without excuse 2 They are thus convinced as was Pharach Exod. 8.1 as knowing Gods will but not doing it and Gods justice is thus made more manifest in their condemnation they cannot say they now perish for want of meanes but because they are awanting to the meanes Such commands then are not in vain though the thing commanded bee not performed for God hath other ends which hee is not bound to make knowne to us why ●he commands such things God sends Moses to Pharaoh ●bidding him say unto him Let my people goe that they may serve me● Which was often repeated yet the e●ent shewed that the secret pleasure and purpose of God was that hee should not let them goe yea God also told Moses so much saying Exod. 11.10 Pharaoh shall not hear●en unto you and a reason ●s given that my wonders may be multiplied in the Land of Egypt And see Rom. 9.17 and Exod. 9.16 And then it is added the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart so that he would not let the Children of Israel goe out of his Land Now though Pharaoh as others his like now stood bound to obey this Commandement And the Cōmandment in regard to God is not in vaine yet Gods chief ayme herein was not Ph●raohs obedience but to convince him of Rebellion and hardnesse of heart and so according to Gods intention it was properly a Commandement of Conviction so I may say as sound Divines have said before me 〈◊〉 Gods Word in the ministery of it where the command is given to all to Repent and believe is not to delud● men though effectuall grace be not given to all so to doe That Commandement though it should of all in duty be obeyed and though in the intent of the Minister who is to preach Faith and Repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 and to call them thereunto even those that oppose themselves it have onely one end namely the Salvation of those hee preaches unto yet as the event makes it plaine by which God declares at length what his purpose was in the intention and counsell of God it hath diverse ends in them that are ordained ●o eternall Life it is a precept of obedience because God will fully enable them to doe that which hee commandeth In the rest it is a Commandement of tryall or conviction that to unbelievers their sin might be discovered and all excuse cut off Thus when the precept is given to believe but not the

or to agree with other places and as it is commonly called with the analogie or Proportion of faith But what if wee cannot make these agree But by bringing their understandings in obedience to the word so as to satisfie our selves In this case let us ingenuously and as there is true cause suspect yea acknowledge our owne shallownesse and our Ignorance which onely makes all Contradictions in Scripture must wee bee wiser or full out so wise as is God himselfe If God please to keepe secret from us the connexion of things the order and manner of his working It will become us to search no further for there is no searching of his understanding but to rest in that which is clearly revealed By resting in things revealed and in such things so in the generall revealed though for manner and circumstance not so clearly conceived to deny our owne reason and to bring with us an humility of understanding I meane not in the Popish sence to beleeve by an implicite faith what by mens authoritie Without determining of things secret under pretence of the Church shall be imposed upon us but to submit to the truth of Gods word of the Scriptures the authority of which is greater then the whole capacitie of humane understanding and wit as one speaketh that generally in all such things as we otherwise can s●e no reason of as for example when judgements like the overthrow of Sodom Gomorrah c. were to befall Gods people of Israel and Judah so that the question in regard of the strangenesse circumstances of the evills was foretold to be Deut. 29.23 24 25 wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this Land what meaneth the heat of this great anger men shall give this answer and say It was because they have forsaken the Covenant of the Lord God of their fathers c now this answer might soon safely be given out of the revealed will and word of God but if any would inquire further as how or whence it came that God would suffer them so to provoke him and not stay them by his power c. their mouth is stopt with that which followes And verse 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may doe all the words of this Law That they were destroyed for their sinne is evident that 's revealed but if you inquire into any higher cause in God that 's a secret and we should sinne to seeke a reason of his counsells here wee should captivate our reason understanding to Christs word not diving into the reason or depth of Gods doings and judgements as knowing most certainely that both that is most true which he speaketh and just which hee doth as an ancient writer truly speaketh and with Paul cry out O depth how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out wee eannot call that unjust in which wee cannot deny the judgement of God Ro. 11.33 for his will is the chiefe and supreame Iustice of all neither is that therefore not just which God doth because man cannot comprehend the power of his Iustice saith Salvian Curiositie condemned The instance given is not impertinent to the case in hand Christ died for all men yet the most of men by Gods just judgement perish in their sinnes and if wee speake of those that have heard of Christ in and for their unbeleefe and impenitencie This is the onely cause of their perishing which wee are to looke unto if we will needs search and looke higher As dangerous seeke out reasons of Gods will we shall lose our selves and the truth too if wee will needs pry into the arke we shall be destroyed with those of Bethshemesh if wee will search and gaze upon the majesty of God and dive into those depths we shall bee overwhelmed with his glory perhaps come into the bottomlesse depth of all our onely wisedome will bee to become fools that we may bee wise 1 Cor. 3.18 The best answer of doubtfull things in Scripture is our faith to beleeve what God teacheth when wee see not the reason of it if ever wee would profit in Gods Schoole and to deny our owne reason where God denies to give a reason Points of this Nature are matters of faith not of dispute and faith will beleeve that it sees not and yeeld its assent to those things the causes whereof it knowe not which rule I wish it were as well practised as is well said by an Arminian Of such things and doubts as we cannot easily answer especially in reconciling seeming differences bring faith saith an ancient Father and martyr that is a ready solution of all doubts Let us not leane to our owne understanding Iusti● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 none is saith prosper a more eloquen● preacher and publisher of such deepe mysteries and secrets then he that confesseth that the things which hee teacheth are such as cannot be expressed And so I will conclude with a saying of Cajetane in the case of Gods particular Election of some according to his Immutable decree Cajetane in Rom. 9. and of mans free-will free from compulsion which case includes this of ours which is Christ died for all men and Christ died specially and with intention and purpose according to Election to save some onely namely the Elect This onely will quiet our understanding I find saith he of the one I of the other both in the Scripture both are true now if you shall say joyne these two true things together make them agree J answer I know for certaine that one truth is not contrary to another but how to conjoyne them I know not This Ignorance quiets my understanding And so in this our case if that which hath otherwise beene said will not do it seeing both truths are evidently taught in Scripture Let not us oppose the one to overthrow the other for in the ●ence explaned It may ●e ●●anted that Christ died 〈◊〉 all men but rather in this and in all other like cases let 〈◊〉 acknowledge ●our owne weaknesse of judgement and Ignorance and let this Ignorance quiet and bound our understandings FJNIS