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lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	11,191	5	4.5836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88080	The glorious truth of redemption by Jesus Christ, rescued out of the hand or unrighteousnes. Or the doctrine of redemption rightly stated: wherein, 1. All Arminian and Pelagian glosses and absurdities are refuted. 2. All carnal allegations and reasonings silenc'd. 3. All concern'd scriptures seemingly discording, reconcil'd. 4. The doctrine of redemption clearly held forth, according to the harmony of scripture, and analogie of faith. By W.L.	Levitt, William.	1652 (1652)	Wing L1828; Thomason E681_7; ESTC R206784	25,340	46

hereditary from our first parents 3. As formerly God hardens no man otherwise then in a way of judgement giving men over to their own hardness 4. The Lord affords sufficient means to those that perish as to those that are saved and where he ordains the end he ordains the means 5. Such is God's soveraignty over the creature that as the wind blows where it listeth so he gives his graces to whom he pleaseth not being bound to any Object But is it not ridiculous for ministers to call upon men to repent and believe it not being in their power Answ No for 1. All that obtain the grace of faith and repentance ordinarily come to it in the use of Ordinances Faith coming by the hearing of the word When God ordains the end he as I said before ordains the means yea the Lord with the command to believe c. gives power as to Lazarus when he call'd him forth of the grave he gave him power to rise the Lord ordinarily accompanying his word with his Spirit without which Paul and Apollo may both plant and water in vain 2. God's elect people whom he intends and purposes to save and for whose sake the word is preached before conversion lie in the common quarry of mankind now it s the ministers duty to call upon all to repent and believe he knowing that to be the way to heaven but not knowing so well the secret Decree of God who shall be saved who not who shall be vessels of honour who of dishonour calls upon all that so all that belong to the election of grace may be brought over to Jesus Christ 3. Hereby wicked men are left without excuse while they ignorant of God's purpose wilfully perish in rejecting and refusing the tenders and offers of grace indefinitely held out to them as well as others Object How can God be said to will the salvation of all according to 1 Tim. 2. 4. if he have elected some only and rejected others Answ 1 Although it cannot be properly said that God hath two Wills as in reference to himself or in himself his Will being entire yet forasmuch as part of his Will is revealed and part kept secret according to our capacities we may say there is a revealed and a secret Will of God or a declaring and a decreeing Will of God now the tender of grace being universal all men ought in point of duty to wait upon God in his Ordinances he affording like means to the reprobate as to the elect he may well be said to Will the salvation of all Hence are the ungodly left without excuse for although the decreeing will of God cannot be resisted yet his declaring will is resisted every day by every sin we commit 2. For that there is a sufficient price paid for all though it become ineffectual to many through unbelief 3. Because God gave us power in Adam to stand which we wilfully lost 4. The holy Ghost in such Scriptures speaks the language of the hearts and consciences of wicked men who at last shall justifie the proceedings of God against them and clearly confess their destruction to be of themselves they being privie to that implacable hatred they had while opportunities of grace lasted both against God his messengers and all means and tenders of grace all mouths shall then be stopt 5. Whereas some Scriptures hold forth that God wills the salvation of all as in the foregoing sense he doth yet others say he hath elected some and passed by others therefore such interpretation of Scripture ought to be by comparing one with another as may maintain the harmony of both However we may conclude this as an heresie of the highest magnitude to say positively God wills the salvation of any whom he doth not bring to glory For this argues impotency in God not omnipotence Therefore I argue from his omnipotency that he saves whomsoever he wills to save Object But why did not God give Adam a Will as well as Power to stand Answ 1 Because his Will was otherwise that by his fall he might declare the riches of his free grace in and on them that are faved and to make his wrath and power known on those that perish Rom. 9. 22. it being a jewel belonging to his Crown to his Soveraignty a part of his Prerogative Royal to make some vessels of Honour some of dishonour according to his own good pleasure therefore the Apostle saith enough a man would think to all Free-willers That it 's not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that shews mercy Rom. 9. 16. 2. Such insolent and saucy spirits as will thus adventure to question and quarrel God may as well ask why God made man at all why he rejected the Angels and left them irrecoverable from their damnable condition one of which is able to do more service then ten thousand men Why he chose Israel the people of the Jews and past by all other Nations all being the works of his hands and as much in one people as another to move God to accept them but the Lord tells them and all the world that he loved them because he loved them not that they were either more in number for they were much less then other Nations or that they were better quallifi'd but he loved them because he loved them Deut. 7. 7. This also might convince all that Christ died not for all for certainly had his blood been shed for all which is the greater the Lord would never have denyed all other people his ordinances or refused to plant his Name among them more then among the Jews nay add hereunto how many thousands of the Jews although chosen out from other Nations perished through unbelief so that though Israel be as the sand yet but a remnant shall be saved Rom. 9. 27. But to pass that The Apostle Paul gives an answer to such bold spirits in their own kind in Rom. 9. Who art thou oh man that repliest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Hath not the Potter power over the clay c. As if he had said Thou lump of clay why contendest thou with thy Maker Thou worm thou inconsiderable part of the drop of a Bucket Why pleadest thou with God Object If men be condemn'd in Adam why is it said That this is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light John 3. 19. Answ Not that men are not condemn'd in Adam but that they are now more deeply guilty in despising the means of grace and salvation trampling under foot the preciou● blood of Christ as an unholy thing hence men become two-fold more the children of wrath adding to their Original thousands Actual Transgressions against so great love and light For where God gives much he requires much Object But if God hath determined already who shall be saved and

men to the justification of life John 4. 42. This indeed is the Christ the Saviour of the world John 1. 29. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world Mark 16. 16. He that believes and is baptised shall be saved he that believes not shall be damned John 3. 15 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life He that believes not is condemned already John 1. 5 19. The whole world lies in wickedness John 7. 7. The world cannot hate you but me it hateth 1 John 4. 14. And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world 1 John 2. 2. And not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world 2 Cor. 5. 9. That God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself Gal. 3. 8. In thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed John 3. 17. That the world through him might be saved John 6. 33 51. Ana giveth life unto the world Which I will give for the life of the world Other Scriptures of like concernment John 12. 47. 15. 18 19. Rom. 4. 13. 11. 12 15. 8 32. Acts 3. 16 25. Gal. 3 28. 2 Pet. 3 9. Ezek. 18. 32. 33. 11. Prov. 1 30. Mat. 23. 57. Luke 1. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 4. 2 Pet. 3 9. c. John 14. 17. Whom the world cannot receive John 17. 2 9. Thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to them thou hast given him I pray not for the world but for them thou hast given me out of the world Mat 15 24. I am not sent but to the lost sheep of Israel Rom 11 7 Then Israel hath not obtain'd but the election Rom 9 27 Though Israel be as the sand yet but a remnant shall be saved Eph. 1. 4 5. Chosen us in him before the foundation of the world John 10. 15. I lay down my life for my sheep Jude 4. Men of old pre-ordained to destruction Other concern'd Scriptures Mat. 20. 16. 24. 22 24. 29. 34. Luke 13. 23. 1. 68. 18. 17. Mar. 13. 20 22 27. Act 13. 18. Rom. 8 29 30 33 9 11 23. 11. 5. Tit. 1. 1 2. 1 Pet. 1. 2 20. 2 Pet. 1. 10. Eph. 3. 11. 1. 4 9. 2 Tim. 1. 9 Rev. 14. 4. Gal. 5 17. Forasmuch as that 1 Cor. 15. 22. first mentioned to maintain that pernicious doctrine of Universal Redemption hath no relation at all to the doctrine of Redemption but of the Resurrection I shall not speak much to it only this It 's true that by the power of Christ's death and resurrection all men both godly and wicked shall arise at that great and terrible day of the Lord but withal consider that as some shall arise to the resurrection of life so also others to the resurrection of condemnation the day of resurrection is so far from being any benefit to unbelievers as that it 's only the taking them out of prison to receive their last and dreadful doom and so to be hurried to the place of execution But as for all other Scriptures that seem to plead this heresie if we compare them with others we shall finde them directly opposite to that opinion For as it is said the Lord Christ bealed all sicknesses and diseases and evert one possessed with divels c. in like sense he dyed for all and becomes a Saviour to all to wit all that are given to him and come to him by Faith For as millions of men in the world never received cure by Christ of their corporal diseases that neither came nor were brought to him so millions perish that never lay hold upon Christ by faith his blood being beneficial to none but such as come to him and eat his flesh and drink his blood by faith It 's unreasonable contrary to harmony of Scripture derogatory to the excellency of the blood and merit of Christ overthrows the omnipotency and very being of God denies his soveraignty over the creature tramples under foot that precious doctrine of election and predestination makes the eternal decree of God of no effect destroys the doctrine of free grace and instead thereof sets up free-will or a Law of works as already hath been plainly manifested with many other gross absurdities attending to hold that Christ shed his blood for all universally and indefinitely that he hath freed all from the guilt of Adam's transgression and puts every man into a state of innocency that all men have power to stand or fall to repent and believe c. But that Christ laid down his life for his sheep for those whom God the Father hath given him out of the world for all that believe that many are called but few chosen that Christ's flock is a little flock that none but the elect nay the elect of Israel obtain mercy that but a remnant even of Israel shall be saved that certain men are elected and chosen to be vessels of honour and some pre-ordained to condemnation before the world was that no man can come to Christ unless drawn to him by God the Father that we are not able of our selves to think a good thought that it's God that works in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure that we are all by nature children of wrath and disobedience dead i● trespasses and sins that faith is the gift of God and that without faith none can receive the least benefit by the death resurrection or intercession of Christ that all men dying in a state of unbelief perish eternally that the ungodly and hypocrite shall be in hell tormented for ever while the godly and such as believe in the Lord Christ shall reign● with him eternally in glory This Scripture clearly holds forth as by comparing one Scripture with another he that runs may read The main cause of this error as aforesaid is a misconstruction and mis-interpretation of the words all and world which are severally accepted for even the elect may be called the world not unaptly considered in themselves being very many Rev. 7. 4. read there of an hundred forty and four thousand of the Tribes of Israel sealed and verse 9. a great multitude whom none could number and yet all these compared with those that perish but a remnant a little flock and in this sense is the word world to be taken in 1 John 29. and 2 Cor. 5. 19. and divers other places And whereas it is said As in Adam all dy even so in Christ shall all be made alive If that Scripture had any reference at all to the doctrine of Redemption it should be thus interpreted That as all that dy eternally dy in Adam so all that live eternally live in Christ the way and cause of salvation being there intended not the number that are to