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A44497	Essays about general and special grace y way of distinction between; or distinct consideration of 1. The object of divine faith, or the truth to be preached to, and believed by men. And, 2. Gods purposes for dispensing. And, 3. His dispensations of the said truth, and the knowledge of it to men. And, 4. The operations of God with it in men in the dispensation of it. By Jo. Horne, late of Lin-Allhallows.; Essayes about general and special grace.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1685 (1685)	Wing H2802; ESTC R216477	249,720	501

soul that seeks mercy of him and submits to him Thus ●ot only Pharaoh and Sihon mighty Kings notwithstanding their greatness were hardned and destroyed by him but also the Jews the seed of Abraham Isaac and Israel despising his Law and rebelling against his counsels and commands and refusing to walk in his ways c. were not only punisht with many sore and heavy Judgements but also notwithstanding all their priviledges Gods choise of them love to them and honour conferred upon them yea and notwithstanding all their Temple-building Sacrifices and Services done to him and works of righteousness of their own wrought by them were at length for their refusals of Christ and his Doctrine and despite done to him and his Servants broken off except a remnant by grace or meer mercy reserved and unpeopled by him being hardned blindned and given up to their own imaginations and delusions to stumble and fall in them And on the other side not only Rahah Ruth and some other poor Sinners amongst the Gentiles obtained mercy but even the Gentiles more generally after and notwithstanding their long going astray and walking in their own ways Ephes 2.11 12 13 14 17 18 19 20. and their many and great abominations Idolatries Adulteries and all manner of open and heinous wickednesses had the Gospel and Kingdom of God sent unto them and therein pardon of their sins and peace from God was tendred and preached to them through and in the name of Christ and whosoever accepted the tenders and terms thereof were admitted into the kingdom and Church of God and Christ and received into nighness to them Matth. 11.25 26. So also the mysteries of the Kingdom of God were hid from the richer learned and prudent persons of the Jews that were there through lifted up against God their riches prudence yea or self-righteousness notwithstanding and revealed to the poor and simple Disciples though despicable in the eyes of the other and but as Babes and Sucklings in respect of their parts and capacities and this because it so pleased God It seemed good and meet to him to deal so with them Yea the Angels that sinned though high and glorious Spirits yet God did not because of their height power or greatness spare them but plunged them down into destruction when as poor fallen contemptible man of a far meaner constitution and condition being made of the dust was pitied by him and found mercy with him And therefore in the belief and apprehension of this Soveraignty of God over his Creatures and liberty to dispose of them in shewing them mercy or withdrawing it from them and hardning and blinding them as he pleases as also of his infinite purity and perfect hatred of sin where ever he finds it the Apostle Paul beat down his body 1 Cor. 9.27 with Act. 9.15 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3 4 5 6 c. ●d brought it into subjection least having preached to others he should himself yet notwithstanding a chosen Vessel and an Apostle be a cast away as Judas ●ough a chosen Apostle was before him and as he tells and would not have us ignorant of it many of the Fathers that were highly honoured and priviledged God was that notwithstanding so far displeased with for their sins against him that he destroyed them As the Apostle Jude also minds us that the Lord having ●ed his people out of Egypt yet afterward destroyed those that believed not that is did not abide believing as Psal 106.12 13. though they were his people and sometime believed yet that exempt 〈◊〉 them not from destruction yea Moses himself though a Prophet and greater than the rest of the Prophets yet not believing to sanctifie the Lord before the people at one time was cut off from entring into the good Land of Promise● his being such a Prophet yea and in all other things faithful would not priviledge him from such a judgement upon him having but that one time so failed before him And Jeremy Jer. 1.5 with 15.19 20 21. though a Prophet and sanctified in the womb thereunto yet turning out some way it seems stood 〈◊〉 upon his returning again otherwise 〈◊〉 had been rejected his first ordination 〈◊〉 notwithstanding Psal 51.1 2. Thence David also ●ing sinned in the matter of Vriah could not nor durst plead any engagements upon God to continue his favour to hi● or restore him to it as if God was by any thing fore-done to him or by him ing●ged to save him but only pleads and 〈◊〉 for mercy according to the multitude of his mercies as intimately acknowledging therein that he had so broken Covenan● that nothing of his former priviledges of services could plead an exemption from Gods judgement but that God might justly cast him out of his sight and depsive him of his presence and spirit He lay at Gods mercy and good pleasure therein whether to cast him away or re● him and could challenge nothing of favour as due debt upon any account to him And this Prerogative God hath and exerciseth over his Creature that so no flesh might presume to sin against him and abuse his grace or turn it into wantonness thinking to plead an exemption from those forest judgements as the Jews were very often apt through mistake to do because they are his people and he had chose and called and saved them of because they have formerly believed obeyed and served him built him Temples offered Sacrifices preached or prayed in his Name c. But that all might learn to tremble before him and stand● awe of him and work out their own salvation with fear and trembling with all lowliness of mind depending on hi● mercy and grace for their salvation not ●ing high minded or pust up with pride or there priviledges or services or any excellencies found in them or received 〈◊〉 God by them And that the poor ●nd humble sinners yea the vilest and most wretched might be perswaded and ●couraged to flee to him for mercy and ●eg it of him who notwithstanding their unworthiness can extend it to them and ●oth and will to all that in due time ●ble themselves under him and seek mercy and grace of him in Christ Jesus To these purposes he both admonished Israel when first taken into favour and ●ghly honoured of him to be his choise people after being redeemed miraculously ●om Egypt they had heard his voice from Heaven out of the midst of the 〈◊〉 as no people under Heaven had 〈◊〉 though he had so loved and chosen them and would keep mercy and covenant with them if they loved and obeyed him yet if they after all this should forget him and serve other Gods they should perish even as the other Nations driven out from before them Rom. 2.8 9 10 11. He would ●ut no difference between them therein except it might be in destroying them with a more grievous destruction as they had been more honoured of him whence ●s● those serious cautions

have procured by our former slightings of him as the Spiritual Manna and food of Life Psal 2.1.6 with Act. 4.27 10.38 John 1.50 2.20 21. Col. 2.9 Luk. 4.18 19. Isa 61.1 2 3. Zech. 4.6 7 9. Eph. 4.5 5.25 26. 1 Pet. 2.5 lifted up by God's Will that whosoever believes in him might not perish but have everlasting life Yea He is the Anointed of the Lord the King The Temple the Restorer of our Breaches The Returner of our Captivity The Builder of the House of God His hands have laid the Foundation and his hands shall finish it bringing up the Top-stone with shootings and crying grace grace to it Yea He is the orderer of God's House and Service The Master of the Musick the tuner of our Hearts that they might make sweet Melody in the Ears of God Coll. 3.16 being filled with Grace In a Word He is All and in All in the New Creature 7. Nay all the Excellencies of the Creatures as well as All the Ordinances of the Law are but shadows to him Col. 3.9 10. Mal. 4.2 3. Rev. 22.16 Psal 84.11 Rev. 5.5 6. Gen. 22.8 John 1.29 Psal 18.1 2. Deut. 32.4 1 Pet. 2.4 5 6. Isa 28.16 Zech. 3.2 Verse 8. 6.12 Isa 11.1 10 11. Jer. 23.5 6. Cant. 2.2 3 4 5. John 15.1 Psal 52.8 106.2 He is the Son of Righteousness The bright and the Morning Star A Sun and Shield that will give Grace and Glory c. The Lyon of the Tribe of Judah The meek and Innocent Lamb even the Lamb of God which he hath found and provided for himself for a Burnt-offering to take away the Sins of the World The Rock the Fortress the Stone of Strength graven by the Lord. The one Stone upon which are seven Eyes graven for the removing of the iniquity of the Earth and laid as a sure Foundation in Sion The Branch The Root of Jesse and Branch of Righteousness and Plant of Renown The Apple Tree amongst the Trees of the Wood full of Fruit and fragrancy and pleasant of Shadow The true Vine The Olive Tree in the House of God always green and flourishing c. Yea who can set forth all his Praises which according to the Gospel and what it asserts as done and suffered by him and received as the reward of his Sufferings to furnish him for our Salvation are to be ascribed to him Isa 55.1.2 Rev. 22.17 Such things the Gospel declares of him as true in themselves and the benefit of them open and free to and for all Men so as that whoever will may come and partake of them in submitting to and believing on him CHAP. III. Of things further contained in the Gospel-Faith and thence observable as implyed and signifyed therein SECT 1. Of the Hope of the Gospel SUch is the Doctrine or Faith of the Gospel as hath been said in the former Chapter and it is true in it self and praedicable as truth to all Men. The Everlasting Gospel of God neither is 〈◊〉 less true for mens not hearing or believing of it nor the more true for their heating and believing it But besides There is something contained in that Doctrine that is called the hope of the Gospel Col. 1.23 As the Covenant and Promises of God so far as yet future to any man Indeed all that is declared in the Gospel as done and accomplished in Christ in his Personal Appearing Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension was to the Fathers before Christ as to Abraham Isaac Jacob David with whom he is said to have made his Covenant and so to the Prophets and Holy Men matter of Hope because as then not actually performed but now as accomplished and declared to us they are to us matter of Faith onely and the Foundation of the things to be hoped for which is that of God's Covenant or Promises as yet unaccomplished to any of us which as the Promises partly concern the time of this Life partly and most properly and fully the Life to come I shall instance God assisting in either of them briefly 1. For this Life The Gospel declares as matter of hope 1. That God will so hear and help Christ and through him his Servants making him in their faithful Ministration of and through all means of his appointing so a Light to the Gentiles and God's Salvation to the ends of the Earth that through the dispensations of his Spirit with the means to Men they may be put into a capacity of hearing turning at his reproofs and seeking after him according to God's Promise to Christ Isa 49.7 8 9. And Christ's Prayer for and Promise to his Disciples John 17.9 18 Psal 95.8 Heb. 3.7 20 21 22 23. Matth. 28.19.20 Whence it is said To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as implying That during the day of Grace God in Christ will not be wanting to speak to men so as they may hear him if they will not stop their Ears and harden their Hearts But this is a matter of daily Dispensation from Christ and as well matter of Faith to as of the hope and expectation of his Servants for men therefore I wave it and shall speak to it under that Head of Gods operations in Men. 2. That whosoever in Christs preventing them with his Grace and Calling do hear and turn at his reproofs Prov. 1.22 23. Ezek. 33.16 Act. 10.43 13.37 38 39. John 1.12 Eph. 2.14 18 19 20. 1 Pet. 2.9 and seek and close with him for them the Gospel Promises and accordingly it is matter of hope and expectation by and for them that God will forgive and pardon all former Iniquities and Trespasses to them and graciously receive and own them and put them amongst his Children give them the priviledges and favour of being a people nigh to him of his Houshold yea his Sons and Daughters As the Gospel Preaches The forgiveness or not imputation of Sins through Christ to men as a thing verily true and extended to them before their Believing so far as that them notwithstanding he is Administring his Grace to call and enable them to listen to him that they might Believe 2 Cor. 5.19 20. 6.1 2. Luke 24.45 47. so it also promises and gives well grounded and assured hope of the forgiveness of them in the further sense above mentioned so as to the justifying of them from them accepting and owning of them and making them his Sons and Heirs the Subjects of his special grace and favour in their returning in that grace afforded and believing on him Yea and also that he will have more choice care of theirs Acts 16.31 Gen. 17.5 6 7. than of theirs that reject him till any of them also do reject him 3. To the Believer Prov. 1.23 33 2.1 5 6. Matth. 13.11 12 13 15. yet further the Gospel propounds this as matter of hope and expectation That God in his owning him will further