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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26935	Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1278; ESTC R5256	19,834	110

moreover assert a special Decree and Grace of God which with a chosen number shall antecedently Infallibly secure his Ends in their repentance faith perseverance and salvation Is this any detraction from or diminution of his universal Grace or rather a higher Demonstration of his Godness As it is no wrong to man that God maketh Angels more holy immutable and happy 14. And what if men cannot here tell how to resolve the question Whether any or how many are ever converted and saved by that meer Grace which we call sufficient or rather Necessary and common to those that are not converted and whether mans will ever make a saving determining improvement of it must plain truth be denyed because difficulties cannot easily be solved And yet in due place I doubt not but I have shewed that this question it self is formed upon false suppositions and is capable of a satisfactory solution 15. I conclude in general that nothing is more sure than that God is most Powerful Wise and Good and that All his works to those that truly know them do manifest all these in conjunction and perfect Harmony and that as to his Decrees and Providences he is the Cause of all Good and of no sin in act or habit and that our sin and destruction is of our selves and of him is our Holiness and Salvation And that he attaineth all his ends as certainly as if mans will had no liberty but were acted by Physical necessitation And yet that mans will hath as much natural Liberty as if God had not gone before it with any Decree of the Event and as much moral liberty as we have moral virtue or holiness And these Principles I have laid down in a little room that Tempted persons may see that it is our dark and puzzled braines and our selfish diseased hearts that are the cause of our quarreling with God his Decrees and Providences and as soon as we come to our selves and are cured these odious apprehensions vanish and God appeareth as the unclouded Sun in the Lustre of his Amiable Goodness And when we come to Heaven we shall see to our Joy and his Glory that Heaven Earth and Hell declare him to be all perfectly Good without any mixture of evil in himself or in any of his word or works And we shall find all our sinful suspicions and murmurings turned into a joyful consent to the Angelical praises Psal 136.1.2 26 c. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is Good for his mercy is for ever O give thanks unto the God of Heaven for his mercy is for ever Rom. 4.8 11. Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory and Honour and Power for thou hast Created all things and for thy Pleasure they are and were Created Rev. 7.12 Amen Blessing and Glory and Wisdome and Thanksgiving and Honour and Power and Might unto our God for ever and ever Amen The Lord is Good to all and his tender Mercies are over all his works The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great Mercy Psal 145.8 9. The Word of the Lord is right and all his works are done in truth He loveth righteousness and judgements the Earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Psal 33.4.5 O how great is thy Goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men Psal 31.19 O therefore that men instead of quarrelling with his unknown mysteries would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful works to the Children of men Psal 107.8 15 21 31. In the Conclusion I take it to be wholsome advise to those that are under this Temptation 1. That they will oft read over the Psalms of Praise and think when they read them whether David and the ancient Church were not like to know what they said than a self-conceited or a melancholy tempted sinner 2. That they would consider who it is that is the Grand enemy of the Glory of Gods Goodness And they shall soon find that it is no other than the Devil None but he that is most evil can most envy Infinite Goodness his honour And is the Devil fit to be believed against God And that after the warning of our first Parents ruine which befell them for believing Satan when he slandered both Gods Wisdome Truth and Goodness to them 3. That they would bethink them to what end it is that the Tempter and the Enemy of God doth thus deny his Goodness Is it not a plain act of malice against God and us Is it not that he may disgrace God as evil and rob him of his Glory and also that he may hinder man from Loving him and so destroy all piety and virtue and goodness in the World Who can Love him whom he believeth to be bad and so unlovely And what Grace or happiness can there be without the Love of God 4. That they would think what horrid wickedness this sin containeth where Melancholy and involuntariness doth not extenuate it Is it any better than a denying that there is any God As is said before To be God is to be Perfectly Powerful Wise and Good And if be none such there can be no God And then who made the World and all that is Good in it by derivative goodness Yea is it not to represent the most amiable blessed God in Satans Image who is most evil and a Murderer from the beginning Joh. 8.44 that so men may hate him and fly from him as they do from Devils And can you tell how great a crime this is 5. That they would consider how this impious conceit is calculated for the licensing of all manner of villany in the world and to root out all the relicts of goodness from among mankind For who can expect that any man should be better than his Maker and that he should have any Good which denyeth God to be Good 6. That they would labour hard to be better themselves For he that hath a true Created Goodness is thereby prepared to relish and admire Gods primitive uncreated goodness Whereas a wicked or a guilty sinner cannot much value that which he is so unsuitable to and which he thinks will be to him a consuming fire Truly God is good to Israel and to such as are of a clean heart Psal 73.1 But he that liveth in the Love of sin will be doubting of the Love of God and fearful of his wrath and unfit to relish and delightfully perceive his goodness Psal 34.8 Taste and see that the Lord is Good blessed is the man that trusteth in him 7. Study Gods Love as manifested in Christ Then you shall see what man on earth may see But think not falsly narrowly basely of his office his performance or his Covenant 8. Dwell in the believing foresight of the Celestial Glory The reflections of which may wrap up a believing soul on earth into extasies of gratitude and delight 9. Remember what Goodness there is in the Holiness of God which is demonstrated in his severest Justice Yea what mercy it is to forewarn men of the punishment of sin that they may want no necessary means to scape it 10. Remember how unfit the selfish Interest of obstinate despisers of Grace and salvation is to be the measure or index of the Goodness of God And how much more credible the concordant testimony of the Heavenly Host is who Live in the Love of Love it self and are everlastingly delighted in the Praises of the Infinite Greatness Wisdom and Goodness of the most perfect blessed Glorious God FINIS