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A93680	Gods ordinance, the saints priviledge. Discovered and proved in two treatises. The first, the saints interest by Christ in all the priviledges of grace: wherein their right to the use of baptisme, and the Lords supper, even now during the reign of Antichrist, is cleared; and the objections of those that oppose the same, are answered. The second, the peculiar interest of the elect in Christ, and his saving grace: wherein it is proved that Christ hath not presented to his fathers justice a satisfaction for the sinnes of all men; but onely for the sinnes of those that doe, or shall believe in him; which are his elect onely: and the objections of those that maintaine the contrary, are also answered. / Both written by John Spilsberie. And the last transcribed, and somewhat enlarged, by Benjamin Coxe. Licensed, entred, and printed according to order.	J. S. (John Spilsbery); Cox, Benjamin, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4975; Thomason E335_17; ESTC R200803	75,307	89

holy Spirit giving such a light of the knowledge of the Gospel and calling upon the sinner to obey the Gospel so revealed 〈◊〉 is sin a man falls into when he is onely enlightened by the worke of the holy Spirit with the knowledge of the Gospel and called upon by the same Spirit to yeeld obedience thereunto and God doth not adde a further powerfull worke giving unto him a new heart and putting a new spirit within him And thus is discovered the desperate wickednesse of mans heart and his hatred of the Gospel which would in like manner appeare in all if all were dealt with in like fort By this it may be discerned how grosse the errour of our adversaries is who account this sin and blasphemie against the Spirit to be nothing else but finall unbeliefe 5. The scope of our Saviour here was to shew that this sinne against the holy Spirit shall never be forgiven to any person that once falles into it and that herein this sinne differs from all other sinnes that men commit For there is no sin but it may be forgiven and is or shall be forgiven to some that have committed it this sin onely excepted there being no sin save onely this which may not be repented of and is not repented of through Gods mightie grace by some that have committed it Our adversaries doe notwithstanding straitly presse us with these words Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him Whereto I answer That this clause It shall be forgiven him doth here signifie no more then it may be forgiven him As in 1 Cor. 3.15 this clause He himselfe shall be saved doth signifie no more then he himselfe may be saved For it is not of necessitie that every one must be saved that builds hay and stubble on Christ the foundation that is brings false professors of faith into an outward union in Church-fellowship with others that are built on Christ the Rocke Thus it still remaines firme that no sin is indeed remitted to unbelievers And thus this place makes not against us Some of our adversaries doe also object against us 17. Object From Jer. 31.33 34. answered Jere. 31.33 34. affirming that God hath now made the Covenant there spoken of with all men and consequently that all mens sins are forgiven This therefore shall next be inquired into The words of that Scripture are these This shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel Aster those dayes saith the Lord I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquitie and I will remember their sin no more Touching which Scripture I affirme and undertake to prove that God hath not made the Covenant here spoken of with all men but with his Elect onely 1. The Scripture doth not teach us by the house of Israel to understand all men 2. This Covenant God keepes and performes with all those and unto all those that he hath made it with otherwise God were not faithfull but rather false and deceiving which to imagine were odious blasphemy But God performes this Covenant onely to his Elect. 3. It is manifest from the latter part of vers 34. that God performes this Covenant both to all those and onely to those whose iniquitie he will forgive and whose sin he will remember no more This place therefore is so farre from speaking for our adversaries as that it overthrows them altogether But they object that all of the house of Israel are not Gods Elect. I answer that Israel notwithstanding did typifie the whole companie of Gods Elect as also is intimated in Psal 135.4 and accordingly they who are declared to be Gods Elect are called Israel and Israelites indeed Rom. 9.6 Psal 73.1 Joh. 1.47 Gal. 6.16 They further object that God puts his Law in the inward parts and writes it in the hearts of some at the least that are not his Elect. I answer that the Law here spoken of is the very doctrine of the Gospel and that Gods putting this Law into mens inward parts writing it in their hearts is his making them to understand and to love to believe and to obey this Gospel And this God workes onely in his Elect whom he makes his own people and he is found to be their God For this see Jere. 24.7 Jere. 32.38 39 40. Ezek. 11.19 20. Ezek. 36.26 27 28. It being a cleare and most manifest truth though some of our adversaries are so blind that they cannot see it that that precious promise in Isai 54.13 is made onely to the Elect. Some endeavour to frame an objection against us from Dan. 9.24 18. Object From Dan. 9. 24. answered where we thus read Seaventie weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy Citie to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquitie and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse c. But all this is spoken with a manifest reference and restriction to Gods Elect. Thy people that is The people of Israel who are thy people after the flesh thou being one of that separated Nation viz. as they are a type of the Israel of God and no otherwayes Or rather Thy people that is The Israel of God to which thou appertainest So also Thy holy Citie that is The Citie Jerusalem as it typifies the heavenly Jerusalem Or rather Thy holy Citie that is Jerusalem which is above which is thy mother Here also observe that everlasting righteousnesse is the portion of all those whose transgression is finished to whose sinnes an end is put and for whose iniquity reconciliatiō is made This then is peculiar to Gods Elect who onely are heires of everlasting righteousnesse who onely are that remnant of Gods heritage whose iniquitie he pardoneth and whose transgression he passeth by whose iniquities he will subdue and all whose sinnes he will cast into the depths of the Sea Micah 7.18 19. These onely are that Jacob the Lords servant and that Israel whom he hath chosen Isai 44.1 whose transgressions he blotteth out for his own sake and will not remember their sinnes Isai 43.25 These onely are that Jacob which the Lord bath redeemed and that Israel in which he hath glorified himselfe whose transgressions he hath blotted out as a thicke cloud and as a cloud their sinnes Isai 44.22 23. These are they to whom the Lord proclaimed himselfe not onely mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth but also keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquitie and transgression and sin Exod. 34.6 7. See also Psal 103.10 11 12 13. As touching the rest he proclaimes himselfe

encounter with his enemies Though the Church lyes sometimes low and obscure yet God at some times raiseth her up againe The Church is as the Temple sometime open and sometime shut and as the Moone sometime at the full and sometime in her change and as a wife sometime sporting with her husband as Rebecca with Isaac Gen. 26.8 and sometime in travaile and paine sometime singing the song of Moses and the Lambe and sometime hanging her harpe upon the willowes And thus shee is made conformable unto Christ her head who is sometime is bloud sometime on his throne sometime in a cloud and sometime with his face shining as the Sunne sometime with a raine-bow on his head and sometime in the brightnesse of his glory Therefore although that truth doth not alwayes in like manner appeare yet this frees not man from his obedience unto it when it appeares but rather engageth him the more Christ foretells of false Christs and false Prophets that shall arise and deceive many Object 21. saying Lo here is Christ or there Matth. 24. And this is fulfilled in those that attempt the worship of God some one way and some another and yet have missed the right way And some perceiving their mistake have begun againe and all for want of the infallible Spirit of God to lead them forth at the first And as they failed before even so they may doe againe 1. Answ Christs words in Matth. 24. are an answer to a demand of his Disciples concerning his coming and the end of the world see vers 3 4. And Christ doth not answer concerning his coming in the ministery of the Gospel and administration of his Ordinances for therein he came not in such a manner as he speakes of in this Chapter see vers 27.30 But concerning his personall coming the time whereof was to men unknowne whereupon he chargeth all his to be alwayes ready waiting and looking for his coming continually see vers 36.42 43 44. 2. The false Christs and false Prophets that Christ here forewarnes the faithfull to take heed of are such as shall shew great signes and wonders ver 24. How then comes it to passe that they which hold forth the Gospel and Ordinances of Christ are closely insinuated to be these false Prophets whiles this is one maine exception against them That they do not shew great signes and wonders Surely they prepare men to be deceived by these false Christs and false Prophets who teach men to receive none as Ministers of Christ though they prove their doctrine and way by the Scriptures never so clearly unlesse they shew great signes and wonders and confirme their word and way thereby 3. The false Prophets here spoken of are such as shall falsly affirme themselves to be such Prophets as the Prophets of the old Testament Isaiah Jeremiah and the rest were in their time and as Agabus and some others were in the Apostles time And the false Christs here spoken of are such as shall falsly affirme themselves to be Christ in person as appeares in vers 5. This therefore cannot be taken up and applyed against those that now stand up for the present use of the Ordinances of Christ 4. As in the next Chapter Christ teacheth his servants not to hide their talents in the earth but to trade with the same that is to use their gifts to the gathering of the Elect and the Churches edification in which use their gifts also shall be encreased so in Mark 13. which is the same in effect with this present Chapter he mindeth his servants not onely to watch that they may not be found sleeping vers 35 36. but also to consider the authoritie that he hath given unto them and the worke that he hath appointed them vers 34. which must be understood of a ministeriall authoritie and a worke of the Ministry to continue till his coming And in this Chap. vers 45 46. he minds them to give unto his houshold their meat in due season which houshold must needs be his Church and their meat his Word and Ordinances 5. Doe not they in some sort affirme Christ to be in the desert and in secret chambers who affirme the Church to be in such a sort in the Wildernesse as that there is now no place for the appointed Ministry of the Gospel and Gospel Ordinances 6. As touching the want of an infallible spirit to lead men forth into all truth It is true indeed that not onely all true and faithfull Preachers of the Gospel but also all true believers have an unction from the holy One and know all things 1 Joh. 2.20 But this is meant onely of some measure of knowledge for true believers must still grow in knowledge 2 Pet. 3.20 And it is meant onely of their knowing all those things the knowledge whereof is necessary to salvation As touching other things the Spirit of truth doth not leade the Saints into all truth at once The Apostle Peter and the Church at Jerusalem was defective in the understanding of the extent of Christs Commission touching the preaching of the Gospel to those Gentiles that were not Proselytes untill God did further informe them This appeares in Acts 10.10 15 19 20 28.34 Acts 11.2 18. yet was Peter a true Apostle and the Congregation at Jerusalem a true Church Yea it appeares that the brethren which prophesied in constituted Churches were not free from all possibilitie of mistaking Note well 1 Cor. 14.29 and 1 Thes 5.20 21 22. David and all Israel with him did mistake when they carried the arke of God in a Cart 1 Chron. 13. And were afterward sensible of their mistake and reformed it 1 Chron. 15. yet David was the faithfull servant of God the Priests were the Priests of the Lord and Israel was his people and God did not reprove their endeavour to bring up the arke to Jerusalem though he made a breach upon them at the first because they sought him not after the due order Therefore mens mistaking the truth in some things doth not make voyd that truth which they have neither should men forbeare to receive truth till they can infallibly receive all at once Although even godly men be not infallible yet the rule of Gods written word according to which the Saints are to walke and to judge of wayes and Doctrines is an infallible rule To prevent some further objections to make the answers more full to some objections already minded consider how the vessells of the house of the Lord being cut in pieces the doores of the Temple shut up the Lampes put out and the burning of incense and offering burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel being quite let fall in the dayes of Ahaz 2 Chron. 28.24 and 29.6 7. in the dayes of Hezekiah the Priests and Levites being encouraged and commanded by the King renewed and restored the solemne worship of God their authoritie for the doing of this being not from any

Gods Ordinance THE SAINTS PRIVILEDGE Discovered and proved in two Treatises The first The Saints Interest by Christ in all the Priviledges of Grace Wherein their right to the use of Baptisme and the Lords supper even now during the reigne of Antichrist is cleared and the objections of those that oppose the same are answered The second The peculiar Interest of the Elect in Christ and his saving Grace Wherein it is proved that Christ hath not presented to his Fathers justice a satisfaction for the sinnes of all men but onely for the sinnes of those that doe or shall believe in him which are his Elect onely And the objections of those that maintaine the contrary are also answered Both written by JOHN SPILSBERIE And the last transcribed and somewhat enlarged by Benjamin Coxe Mark 13.34 35.37 The Sonne of man is as a man taking a farre journey who left his house and gave authoritie to his servants and to every man his worke and commanded the porter to watch Watch yee therefore c. And what I say unto you I say unto all Watch. Ephes 1.3 4. Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love Licensed entred and printed according to Order LONDON Printed by M. Simmons for Benjamin Allen and are to be sold at his Shop at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley 1646. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER Wise and Christian READER IT is not to be expected in this inquiring age wherein through the good providence of God truth hath some libertie to shew her face and many also are travailing in paine to bring forth that man-childe but there will be likewise a spirit of errour as forward and ready to put off his ware in this open market as the spirit of truth and especially in this Kingdome where the people generally have been so long trained up in the strength of rationall notion made out by the arts and parts of nature who will be easily drawne to trade with such as have best skill to set out their ware upon the strongest termes of the creatures reason For he that can present the richest jewel in reasons treasure is like to carrie away * That is naturall affection swayed by reason in spirituall things the fairest daughter that nature hath Which causeth so much division and contention among men professing Religion as that many of the godly can hardly tell where to set a foot upon found ground to the great sadding of their spirits and turning of many away from the truth The consideration of which caused me to hold forth that light I have from the Lord in these two subjects First That as God hath a people whom he calls and owns out of the world even so hath he among all errours and by-paths a truth and a true way for such to observe and to walk with him in a part from the world and the rudiments thereof as witnesses to the truth in the profession of the same according to the rule of truth left to all his in his last Testament wherein all that professe him shall be confessed of him Secondly Unto these Christ hath preached and God hath assigned such priviledges as are not common to the world out of which he cals them to injoy the same As Christ himself even so all things by him are for such to injoy as believe in him and no more For as the end was first minded in Gods ordering of the means even so in all the causes concurring to effect the same the end must ever be minded as the life and strength of the cause so that as God chose persons in Christ and gave them to him to be saved by him so their sinnes were laid upon him for them he died rose againe ascended and appeares in Gods holy presence presenting them perfect in himselfe Unto him all such shall come as were given to him and had their sinnes laid upon him for him to give satisfaction for them All such shall be saved from all their sinnes by him that being the end for which they were laid upon him This I believe to be a truth that deserves no aspersion to be cast upon it nor tends to cause any division or contention among such as walke by faith in the light of truth though the rationall strength of nature in her owne wisdome cannot rest here satisfied And thus in summe Christian Reader I present to thy view the subject I deale upon endeavouring to maintaine the right priviledges purchased by Christ and freely given to all that believe in him for salvation against such as oppose the same who under pretence of seeking the truth doe by cunning and crastie enquiries undermine the same and as they of old did overthrow the faith of some who deny unto such as do believe in Jesus Christ for eternall life Church fellowship and communion with Christ in his Ordinances of the new Testament for want as they say of a Ministery with power from God to call and fit a people for Ordinances and to administer the same This opinion much oppresseth and disturbs the godly for whose sakes I have endeavoured to hold forth my portion of light for such as belive to consider well the freedome priviledge of faith in all the free purchase of Christ and gifts of grace and to hold fast the libertie wherewith Christ hath made them free not to be brought into bondage by men And as none are to lose any priviledge they have by Christ no more are any so to be satisfied with a right to all things in Christ as to neglect their dutie to him in their confession of him in holding out an holy fellowship and communion with him in all those relative properties of a wife to a husband and a body to a head in such order by himselfe appointed as may serve to the honour of his crowne and dignitie declaring him to be the first borne among them and to have the pre eminence over them This being the end for which God sanctified him for him to call and sanctifie a people to keep him a name and praise in the earth that glory might be given to God in the Church y Christ through all ages and not for such as believe in him to give away as far as in them lies his glory name and praise by forsaking of their priviledges and therein denying themselves to be vessels of mercy called to hold forth the same according to the Word to the glory of his Grace This caused me to lay all so close to the try all of Scripture which disclaims such faith as brings not man to the obedience of truth that God may have his glory from man as well as man his salvation of God who hath not tied his childrens benefits by Christs purchase to this or that condition and qualification

Whether such as believe in Jesus Christ for salvation may injoy the Ordinances of the new Testament namely Baptisme and the Lords Supper now under the reigne of Antichrist And seeing that all the true and right administrations according to the first order and patterne have been lost through the mystery of confusion in the world How wee shall now come by a true and orderly administration of Ordinances according to the first institution if not by the same Ministery with the same calling and gifts of the holy Spirit that the first Ministery had The second Question is How farre the death of Christ extended to the taking away the sin of man whether he dyed for the sinnes of all men without exception or for the sinnes of some onely Unto the first Question I shall by the help of God now addresse my selfe to an answer And first I say that such as believe in Jesus Christ in the Scripture-sense may and ought to enjoy the Ordinances of Christs new Testament as their own free Priviledges by Grace and part of their inheritance as they are heires of glory and that even during the reigne of Antichrist for then have they most need of them as being Christs their Generalls colours and part of that spirituall armour by which they are to fight against the Beast and all false wayes Rev. 12. Eph. 6.12 13. They are the memorialls of Christs love unto all that believe in him and look for him in his absence Luk. 22.19 With 1 Cor. 11.24 25 26. And the Ordinances of Christs Testament are given to such as believe for the helps and confirmation of their faith and the declaration thereof and thereby God separates them from the world and owns them for his people And for the same Ministery with the same calling and gifts of the holy Spirit that the first had I own no other Ministery But for the better understanding of this truth I desire that wee may consider well of an answer to some inquiries thus 1. What worke God had for the first Ministery above what he hath for any now 2. Whether Christ hath left in his New Testament an absolute rule to know such as are sent of God to the work of the Ministery and what the same is 3. If there be salvation now for men and meanes thereunto approved and appointed of God then what that is 4. Whether there be any time in which man is freed from obedience to the Scriptures since the New Testament came in force and if not then what part of truth stands now in force to be obeyed and what not 5. Whether the New Testament be not of equall Authoritie with the Old to command obedience and holds not forth a rule for the same as the old Testament did 6. Whether Christ requires not a publick confession of him by all that believe in him and if he doe then what the same is and the rule for it Now to each of these particulars And first what worke God had for the first ministery or workmen to doe above others either then or now Where in generall minde The worke God had for the first workmen was first to be eye-witnesses of Christs doings and sufferings death and resurrection and so to testifie him to be the Son of God come in the flesh and exalted to be Lord over all Acts 1.1 2 3 4. Acts 10.39 42. Acts 4.33 1 Joh. 1.1 2. 2. They were to disanull and make voyd that typicall way of worship standing under types and shadows instituted by God and confirmed to the people by signes and wonders Exod. 19.9 And to set up and establish another way of worship in the place thereof that was never knowne before and therefore to be confirmed by signes and wonders at the first founding of it as that before was Which signes and wonders stand for ever together with the same truth as witnesses for the truth and against all that shall oppose or condemne the same to the end of the world And whereas many look and expect for some to come from God working miracles signes and wonders let such take heed they be not deceived by the man of sinne who is set out by God in his Word to come that way and deceive many Mat. 24.24 Mark 13.22 2 Thes 2.9 Rev. 16.14 Rev. 19.20 But where is one word in all the new Testament that any man shall come from God in this manner of working miracles signes and wonders 3. They were to the people then the unerring Oracles of God and the infallible mouth of Christ for all to have recourse unto for the minde and counsell of God whose testimony was unquestionable being that by which all things must be tryed Mat. 28.19 20. Gal. 1.8 9. 1 Joh. 1.1 7. 4. They were the layers of the foundation and the ministeriall instituters of the whole state and order of Christs Church to be observed of all to the end of the world 1 Cor. 3.10 11. Ephes 2.20 Rev. 21.14 Lastly They were the pen-men of the holy Scriptures of the new Testament in which Christ is held forth or set up as an ensigne among all Nations for the obedience of faith Mat. 24.14 Luk. 2.31 Isai 52.10 By which all both persons and actions shall be tryed and judged 2 Pet. 3.15 1 Cor. 14.37 Rom. 2.16 2 Thes 1.8 This worke God had for the first workmen or ministery to doe who bare witnesse to the same by signes wonders and miracles from heaven for the convincing of the world that the same was of God Heb. 2.4 Mark 16.20 Joh. 16.8 9 10 11. Joh. 17.20 21. There are now no more instituters or beginners of any such work All that men have to doe now is onely to learn their way and to walke in the same and so to believe and receive their testimony Joh. 3.11 Rom. 10.16 2 Thes 1.10 And to build upon the same foundation laid by them 1 Cor. 3.10 11 12. The rule and warrant for the same being their word and writings aforesaid Yet let this be minded that some of the worke in the hands of the first workmen namely the Apostles was then and is now as proper and common unto others as to them As to preach the Gospel and gather the Elect of God into the fellowship of Christs body to beare witnesse to the truth and to suffer for the same and the like All which as well belongs to preaching Disciples now as to them then Joh. 17.20 21. 2 Tim. 2.2 4.2 If it be said Object 1. where the same worke is to be done there the same workmen are required for the doing of it both in respect of Ministery and Gifts because the Scriptures hold forth but onely one Ministery appointed and given by Christ for the work of the Ministery which is to continue to the end of the world where and when the said worke is to be done Eph. 4. Mat. 28. This I confesse and affirme to be true Answ but let us minde in a

in vers 1. and 4. Neither the coherence or context neither yet the matter will suffer us to understand it otherwayes For whosoever they are for whom Christ gave himselfe a ransome the same are certainly redeemed from destruction and shall for ever be saved For where a ransome is paid and accepted for any the ransomed is thereby freed and made safe Exod. 21.30 Exod. 30 12.-15 Psal 49.7 Jer. 31.11 12. And the everlasting salvation of the ransomed of the Lord is clearly held forth in Isai 35.9 10. and 51.10 11. Hos 13.14 with 1 Cor. 15.54 55. Therefore these AB for whom Christ gave himselfe a ransome are onely as aforesaid men of all orders and degrees even those many spoken of in Mat. 20.28 Mark 10.45 Those whom Christ hath redeemed to God by his bloud out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation Revel 5.9 It follows To be testified in due time compare this with 1 Pet. 1.20 21. but was manifest in these last times for you who by him doe believe c. Consider also how the words there aforegoing doe declare that they which are ransomed or redeemed with the bloud of Christ are redeemed from their vaine convensation 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Yea Christ gave himselfe for them that he might redeeme them from all iniquitie and purfie them unto himselfe a peculiar people Tit. 2.14 And this is the summe of the gospels testimony concerning Christ that being made perfect be became the another of eternall salvation not to all persons in the world but unto all them that obey him Heb. 5.9 having given himselfe for them Ephes 5.25 26. Thus this Scripture is so farre from being full and strong against us that it doth not oppose us in any thing Now becanse the objection from this Scripture seemes to our adversaries to be backed and strengthened by the saying of Peter in 2 Pet. 2.1 therefore that place shall next be looked into 2 Pet. 2.1 There shall be false teachers among you 5. Object From 2 Pet. 2. 1. answered who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction We grant the persons here spoken of to be Reprobates but minde that though the Lord be here said to have bought them yet it is not said that he gave himselfe a ransome for them Between these two there is a great difference The Lord Christ hath authoritie and power given unto him of the Father over all men see Psal 2.8 9. Yea over all creatures Heb. 2.7 8. over the Angels in heaven 1 Pet. 3.22 And the Devils that hate him are yet under his power In the exercise of this power and authoritie he shall at the last day judge all both men and Angels Joh. 5.27 Acts 17.31 Then every knee shall bow to him of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and every tongue shall confesse that Jesus Christ is Lord Isai 45.23 Phil. 2.9 10 11. This Lordship the man Christ hath obtalned by his death Phil. 2.8 9. In that by his death he hath obtained his kingly power and authoritie over his Church and consequently this power and authoritie over all that as King of his Church he may use it to his Churches good Ephes 1.20 21 22 23. and the Church may enjoy the glorious benefit of it see Revel 2.26 27. 1 Cor. 6.2 3. Psal 1 49.6 7 8 9. Dan. 7.27 The Father also being pleased thus to shew his gracious approving and accepting of Christs dying for his Church even by giving him this power and authoritie over all for his Churches good In this sense and in this sort Christ hath bought all creatures yet it doth not follow nor is it true that Christ hath given himselfe a ransome for all creatures or presented to his Fathers justice a satisfaction for the sinnes of all creatures We are put in mind that the Lord having bought these sinners this was a great aggravation of their sin in denying him We acknowledge this to be true But let it be considered 1. In what fort they did deny Christ 2. How their being bought by Christ was an aggravation of this their sin 1. They did not deny Christ openly saying expresly that Jesus was not the Christ for they brought in their damnable heresies privily and made merchandise of Christians with fained words 2 Pet. 2.1.3 and were admitted to their love-feasts Jude 12. But their denying of him was like unto that which Paul spake of in Tis. 1.16 being rebellion against his commands 2. It was a great aggravation of their sin of rebellion that they denyed the Lord that bought them 1. Because Christ having bought them had power and authoritie to command them therefore they ought to have obeyed him and not to have rebelled against him 2. It was for the present very beneficiall unto them that Christ had so bought them For Christ in the exercise of that power and dominion over the world which by his death he hath obtained conferres upon men all the benefits that they receive It was therefore an aggravation of their sin that they did rebell against such a benefactour 3. Christ having obtained by his death this dominion over all for the good of those that believe in him the consideration of his being the Lord that hath so bought all should perswade sinners to believe in him This therefore was an aggravation of their sin of unbeliefe and disobedience 4. Thus the Apostle did also reprove their madnesse in rebelling against the Lord that bought them who therefore could not want power to punish them Now although the Lord in that sense and in that sort that we have taken notice of hath bought these yet will he truly say unto them in the day of judgement I never knew you Mat. 7.23 A sixth objection is presented to us from Heb. 2.9 That be by the gract of God should taste death for every man 6. Object From Heb. 2. 9. answered Whereto I thus returne answer 1. I deny not but have already declared that every man without exception of any doth in this life receive benefit by the death of Christ And what Christ effecteth by his death the same was intended both by the Father and by Christ 2. I am informed that the word man is not here expressed in the Greeke Text but supp●yed by the translators Whereupon I would have it to be considered whether they might not as well have supplyed the word Son because of that which follows in vers 10. For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings 3. Though we here reade for every man yet considering what here follows in vers 10. and what went before in Chap. 1.13 Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of salvation I conceive by every man we

to be that Lord that will by no meanes cleare the guilty Exod. 34.7 who will take vengeance on his adversaries and reserveth wrath for his enemies Nahum 1.2 who repayeth them that hate him to their face to destroy them Deut. 7.10 Their owne iniquities shall take them and they shall be holden with the cords of their sins Prov. 5.22 The reward of their hands shall be given them Isai 3.11 Their iniquity shall be remembred with the Lord and their sin shall not be blotted out but the same shall be before the Lord continually Psal 109.14 15. Some endeavour to confirme the objection that I have now answered by another objection from Isai 40.1 2. 19. Object From Isai 40.1 2. answered where it is thus written Comfort yee my people saith your God Speake yee comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquitie is pardoned c. But they should here take notice that by my people the Lord clearely meanes his chosen people and none other This therefore is to be applyed to the Elect onely They object that this was spoken of Jerusalem which then was That believers in that Jerusalem were even then to make use of it is acknowledged But it is manifest that as this was onely meant of believers so it was specially meant of believers which should be in the time of the Gospel more fully declared and of Jerusalem which is above which should then be more clearely discovered and gloriously enlarged This is made evident partly by this clause in vers 2. that her warfare is accomplished partly by that which follows in vers 3 4 5. The voice of him that cryeth in the Wildernesse Prepare yee the way of the Lord c. And here mind the saying of Peter in 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12. Of which salvation the Prophets have enquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow Vnto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you Our opposers now seeme to fly to that which is written in Isai 53.5 6. 20. Object From Isai 53.5 6 answered He was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed All wee like sheepe have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath laydon him the iniquitie of us all But here they will find as little defence or helpe as they have found in those places to which wee have already followed them They conceive that all men are brought in here speaking or atleast some speaking as in the name of all whereas indeed onely believers doe here speake Onely that people of God for whose transgression Christ was smitten vers 8. Onely that seed of Christ which is spoken of in ver 10. Onely those many whom by his knowledge Christ doth justifie having borne their iniquities vers 11. Onely those transgressours for whom Christ made intercession vers 12. which are onely those that come unto God by him Heb. 7.25 Joh. 17.9.20 Who are healed by the stripes of Christ but onely believers To these onely according to the promise in Malach 4.2 the Sun of righteousnesse did arise with healing in his wings Consider also How this is applyed unto believers and unto believers onely in 1 Pet. 2.24 25. Who his owne selfe have our sinnes in his own body on the tree that wee being dead to sinnes should live unto righteousnesse by whose stripes yee were healed For yee were as sheepe going astray but are now returned unto the Shepheard and Bishop of your soules Here take notice both of the end that Christ propounded unto himselfe when he so bare our sinnes and also how he was not frustrated neither did faile of the same Moreover I demand this of our opposers whether this confession being sincerely made doe not shew a man to be a believer viz. Christ was wounded for my transgressions he was bruised for my iniquioies c. They dare not answer negatively How then dare they affirme that any other beside believers doe here make this confession Though many unbelievers did esteeme the Lord Jesus in his passion to be stricken smitten of God and afflicted according to that saying in Isaiah 53.4 yet onely those that were afterward converted to the faith did come to such a fight and humble acknowledgement of that their sinfull errour as is there held forth But possibly it will be objected unto us that it is written in Matth. 8.16 17. They brought unto Jesus many that were possessed with devills and be cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were sicke That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet saying Himselfe tooke our infirmities and bare our sicknesses Which hath cleare relation unto that in Isai 53.4 Surely he hath borne our griefes and caried our sorrowes Which makes it seeme probable at least unto some that this is to be extended farther then to believers onely Hereto therefore I thus answer 1. The Prophet Isaiah there manifestly speakes of Christs bearing our sinnes which are there called our griefes and our sorrowes because they are causes of griefe and sorrow Here in Matth. 8.17 they are in like manner called our infirmities and our sicknesses because they are causes of infirmitie and sicknesse for it is sin that hath brought in all griefe and sorrow infirmitie and sicknesse 2. The love and compassion that Christ effectually shewed in casting out the Devills out of those that were possessed with them and healing the sicke did prove him to be that promised Saviour which should so beare and carrie the griefes and sorrowes of his people And all the good which he did to men by such his workes was the fruit and so also the evidence of that his bearing the sinnes of his people And therefore I conceive the Evangelist said that he did this That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet c. that is That the fulfilling thereof might be manifest 3. The persons to whom Christ so shewed compassion were either indeed Gods chosen ones or at least of the nation of the Israelites which were the appointed type of all Gods Elect. See Matth. 9.2.22 Joh. 4.53 Luk. 7.9 Mat. 10.5 Mat. 15.24 c. And thus it was intimated who they were whose griefes and sorrowes Christ came to beare and to carrie viz. Gods peculiar and chosen people There is also an objection made from Genes 12.3 21. Object From Gen. 12.3 answered and other like places where God said unto Abraham In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed But this is fully taken off in Galat. 3.8 9.