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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85207	Hidden manna or, the mystery of saving grace. Wherein the peculiarity of Gods especiall grace to the elect is asserted and proved, and divers objections of Pelagians and Arminians about the power of the will of man to supernatural good, are fully answered and confuted. By that reverend, learned, and faithfull minister of Gods word, William Fenner B.D. late of Rochford in Essex. Perfected many years since by the author whilst he was preacher at VVillingsworth in Staffordshire. Imprimatur Edm. Calamy.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1652 (1652)	Wing F692; Thomason E1310_2; ESTC R209026	31,828	115

Hidden Manna OR The Mystery of Saving Grace Wherein The peculiarity of Gods especiall Grace to the Elect is asserted and proved and divers Objections of Pelagians and Arminians about the power of the Will of man to supernaturall good are fully answered and confuted By that Reverend Learned and faithfull Minister of Gods Word William Fenner B. D. late of Rochford in Essex Perfected many years since by the Author whilst he was Preacher at VVillingsworth in Staffordshire Joh. 14. 22. Judas saith unto him not Iscariot Lord how is it that thou wilt manifest thy selfe unto us and not unto the world Imprimatur Edm. Calamy Printed at London by R. I. for S. Bowtell at the Bible in Popes-head Alley 1652. TO THE Worshipfull my very loving Friends Mr. John Wollaston now Sir John Wollaston Kt. and Alderman of the City of London and Master Thomas Parkes Esquire Grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ THe will of man is more wilfull then the understanding blinde The Prophet speaking of the Learned Scribes and Doctors saith They have known the way of the Lord but they have altogether broken the yoke Jerem. 5. 5. more wilfull then blinde yea the very Pagans When they knew God they glorified him not as God Rom. 1. 21. Yea They were haters of God ver 30. who knowing the Judgements of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only doe the same but have pleasure in them and doe them ver 32. The reason why I say a wicked man sinnes more out of wilfulnesse then blindnesse is three fold the first is taken à causâ from the cause because his wilfulnesse is the cause of his blindnesse For fooles hate knowledge Prov. 1. 22. or at least they regard not to know it Prov. 29. 7. Neither is this only true of those people that have preaching who actually refuse instruction and will not learne amendment of life of whom the Psalmist speaks They know not neither will they understand Psal 82. 5. But it is true also of those blinde soules that live under blinde Guides they doe potentially and innato habitu reject the Doctrin of newnesse of life of whom Salomon speakes Speake not in the eares of a foole for he will despise the wisdome of thy words Prov. 23. 9. The second is taken ab effectis from the effects because the effect shews his wilfulnesse more then his blindnesse He knowes that drunkennesse and company-keeping is a sinne yet he will live in it he knowes that interloquutory swearing is a sinne and yet he will continue in it That worldlinesse or Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor pleasure-hunting is a sinne yet he will goe on in it like Ovids Medea that knew the good and yet would not doe it his sinne is not so much ignorance of the sinne as hatred of good The wicked shall be cast away for his malice Prov. 14. 32. and therefore Moses calls the sinne of the wicked A roote of Gall and Worm wood Deut. 29. 18. they are sharpe and piquant against purity and bitter against the power of godlinesse they are said to walke after the stubbornnesse of their heart vers 19. all shewing that they are more wilfull then blinde What wilt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou say now saith S. Chrysostome thou knowest not what things are to be done thou both knowest them and willingly refusest to walke in them The third is taken ab experientiâ from experience experience tells us that the wicked are more wilfull then blind wherefore else could Elias that was a Prophet thirty yeares and Elisha that was a Prophet in his roome sixty yeares wherefore could they doe no more good upon the people Wherefore does St. Hierom. Nicephorus John after his so many scores of yeares teaching breake off with this speech He that is filthy let him be filthy still Revel 22. 11. The Drunkard heares us preach against drunkennesse and he will not obey the Blasphemer heares us preach against blasphemy and he will not be reformed the Church-sleeper hath heard his Church-sleeping condemned and yet he will not mend it If Nero could not endure Vespasian because he slept at his Musicke how can God endure such as sleepe at his Word yet no restauration Whence we see that the will is more corrupt by wilfulness then the understanding by blindnesse The heart is deceitfull above all things Jerem. 17. 9. Above all things That is the heart is corrupt above all things namely the will above all things else and therefore above the understanding The heart of the wicked is like an Oven as hot as fire Hos 7. 6. That is the will is like a red hot Oven where all sins are baked with the heat of Concupiscense And therefore wicked men are very oft said to walke after the stubbornness of their heart Jer. 9. 14. Jer. 11. 8. Jer. 13. 10. Jer. 18. 12. Jer. 23. 17. Eccles 11. 9. There be three reasons why the Will is more corrupt of the twaine 1. Ratione Originis because the Will was it that first rebelled against God for the Serpent could not have deceived the understanding of Eve unlesse she would the understanding as long as it was in innocency could not be deluded by the Devils guile unlesse it would for otherwise God had made the understanding imperfect with a sinfull ignorance the understanding it selfe like a naturall Agent understands and works ad ultimum virium as well as it can and it suspends not its consideration it selfe now it is the Will only that is essentially free and a free worker of its owne workes and now freely itching to sinne by its privie influence into the understanding suspends it not to consider and libertate participatâ by a participated freedome not to observe Satans policy Thus Adam and Eve willingly guld ate the forbidden fruit and first sinning willingly they and we are most punished in the wil most corrupted in wil. And therefore all sinne is devolved upon the heart as the first inward cause thereof The Atheism of the Atheist is cast upon the heart The foole hath said in his heart there is no God Psal 14. 1. The mischiefe of the mischievous is turned upon the heart But mischiefe is in their hearts Psal 28. 3. the iniquity of the vaine man is truly fathered upon the heart His heart gathereth iniquity to it selfe Psal 41. 6. Our Saviour Christ sets all corruption upon the hearts score Out of the heart proceede evill thoughts Murthers Adulteries Fornications Thefts False Witnesses Blasphemies Matth. 15. 19. St. Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c addes more Reviling touchy teasty words filthy talking c. And I may adde Out of the heart proceeds drunkennesse and company keeping c. That is out of the wil for the heart is commonly put for it 2. Ratione reatus because the will is it that indeed is guilty of all the evill in