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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80867	The foundation of God, with the immutability thereof laid for the salvation of his elect; with infallible marks and signs of election. Which may serve as a storehouse of comfort to religious minds, in this season of danger felt and feared.	Crompton, William, 1633-1696.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7031A; ESTC R175852	40,951	136

have done had he longer lived The answer is ready This argument is prevented and cut off by the former distinction Gods knowledg was of things that actually should come to pass and not of things that might be only St. Augustin in his discourse of Predestination uses three arguments to confirm this truth in hand sharply condemning the Opinion of Pelagius and in him all Jesuits and Arminians at this day concluding that the Lord chose us not for faith but to faith he chose not such as were worthy but by chusing made them worthy The sum of all may be collected into one positive conclusion or doctrinal Instruction viz. That there is a foundation laid in God for the salvation of his Elect that nothing can alter this foundation of God seduce his Chosen finally from him nor hinder them totally from assurance of salvation Matth. 24.24 False Christs and false Prophets shall arise to seduce if it were possible the very Elect. If it were possible implying not a difficulty as Bellarmine would have it and the Remonstrants expound it but a reseptive impossibility as it will plainly appear to any perusing the Text impartially with the circumstances and intent of the Speaker False Christs and Prophets with lying Signs and Wonders shall deceive or seduce many but for the Elect that they should be seduced it is impossible in respect of Gods immutable Purpose and Decree Let them be of good comfort the foundation stands sure That there is such a foundation appears Ephes 1.4 5. According as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestinated us with the adoption of children by Jesus Christ c. Rom. 8.29 30. For whom he did fore-know he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son c. 1 Thessal 5.9 For God hath not appointed us to unto wrath but to obtain salvation by Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy Calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace Titus 1.12 According to the faith of Gods elect in hope of eternal life which God that cannot lye promised before the world began That this foundation is sure see Psalm 125. v. 1 2. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever Jer. 31.3 I have loved thee with an everlasting love John 10.28 29. I give unto them everlasting life and they shall never perish c. What can be spoken more plainly Jer. 32.4 I will make an everlasting Covenant with them and I will put my fear into their hearts that they shall not depart from me All which are so plain and full as should put an end to all altercations and silence all Disputes in this Point We may conclude nothing can change or alter the foundation of God none can reverse the Seal of the Almighty nor break one link of that golden Chain The Creature as it had no influence upon the foundation so neither hath it any power to alter it First Hereticks nor wicked Seducers cannot It is the plain Doctrine of our Apostle here his only aim being to comfort the Church against Seducers and men seduced neither one or the other were laid in the foundation Secondly Not the gates of Hell Matth. 16.18 i. e. all the power and policy of Hell combined all the wiles of the Devil cannot conquer one Soldier in Christs Camp much less shall rout the whole Army Thirdly Not the Will of man it self because God by infallible grace ceases not to govern and dispose the acts of the Will in them he hath known and called As an inferiour Orb cannot alter the motion of the first Sphere because it is moved with and by it no more can the Will of man alter the foundation of God because the acts thereof are guided by and disposed according to Gods Will and fore-knowledg in the foundation Again The gates of Hell are stronger than the will of man they overcame it when it had most strength and freedom in Paradise therefore if the gates of Hell which are stronger cannot alter nor prevail against the foundation the will of man which is weaker and depends thereon cannot do it Satan by his instruments Hymenaeus Philetus Pelagians Jesuits and Arminians with other secret Enemies to God and a Divine Life may and do destroy the temporary faith of such as were left out of the foundation but can never destroy the justifying faith of such as were then taken known and marked out to be the Lords But the Doctrine consists of two parts we will sever them a while to joyn them together more firmly as the breaking of a bone doth finally occasion it to become stronger in its Union The first part concerns the foundation which is the Purpose and Will of God whereby he eternally determined to create and dispose of Angels and Men to their several Ends by certain means Not all to one end the Creatures end is according to the Creators Love his Love was not alike to all diversity of gifts and services sheweth it being tied to none Justice and Mercy both as well as Knowledg Power and Providence took place in laying the foundation that God might be glorified in both This is exprest by our Saviour Matth. 24.40 Two shall be in the field the one is taken the other left There is two of a Tribe and one of a Family as the Prophet speaks Jer. 3.14 As it is and shall be in the execution of the Decree so it was in the foundation Two determined to be created Angels and Men both falling the one is taken the other left Heb. 2.6 Deus non expectabat Angelos sed proecipitavit as St. Bernard expresses it the Angel was left without mercy for a prey of punishment that elder off-spring of Divine Love was expell'd from the beatifick Presence the Imperial Robe of Heaven was descended upon Man who lay on a Dunghil he was drawn out wash'd gilded over with grace the true seed of Glory Two Brothers in one Womb before they had done either good or evil the Decree was past on them the foundation laid that the one should be loved the other hated i. e. past over Two Apostles Peter and Judas both sin greatly little difference in the act both betray him but God puts a difference in the event the one repents being elected the other despairs being past by in the foundation and so ordained to perdition So the renowned Augustin against Julian the Pelagian In one and the same Decree of Disposition saith he one is rejected by Justice not Chance another elected by Mercy and not Merit by mercy in the Elector without any merit or act of Faith or Free-will done or fore-seen to be done in the Person elected Some are chosen to believe to build up their own and the faith of others some others left