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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Christ yea and Christ promised his Spiritual presence with his Servants in their faithful Ministration always to the end of the World Matth. 28.20 Yet it is truly said too That as God hath his way in the Seas and his path in the great deep where none can trace him so his footsteps in his operations are not known Psal 77.19 That of Solomon in Eccles 11.5 being true where having exhorted men to disperse or scatter abroad their gifts or abilities either in outward things as riches for the relief of the Poor the bread that perishes or the word and knowledge of God the bread that endures to everlasting Life though it be as upon the Waters through difficulties and with unlikeliness as to our sense and reason of reaping any fruit of it as also upon many having used Arguments thereto both from the future recompence of Reward or proof of fruit brought forth to God thereby after many days thou shalt find it and from the uncertainty of the opportunity for doing good requiring more diligence in doing it Give a portion to seven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth And from the manner of other things 〈◊〉 which God teaches us If the Clouds 〈◊〉 full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth And men that have gifts of knowledg and understanding are compared to Clouds full of Rain as men that seem to be some body and are no body but boast of a false gift are like to Clouds and Wind without Rain Prov. 25.14 And from the fixedness of mens states after death they are like Trees that lye as they fall and having warned of consulting with carnal Reason flesh and blood in imploying our Talents or of minding and poring upon things that may discourage us He that observes the wind shall not sow and he that regards the clouds shall not reap He lays down this following Aphorism or Assertion answering to a secret discouragement of our not seeing or perceiving any good done by out dispensing our Gifts As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit or Wind nor how the bones are or grow in the Womb of her that is with Child● even so thou knowest not the Works of God who maketh all And therefore counsells In the morning sow thy seed and in the evening with-hold not thine hand for thou knowest not which shall prosper or be right either this or that or whither they shall be both alike good By all which and especially by that following Verse it appears to me that in the Fifth Verse forementioned he speaks of God's Workings in and with the Word dispensed that they are as secret hidden and unknowable so as to comprehend fathom and declare punctually every thing therein as it is to know the way of the wind or growing of the bones in the womb of a woman with Child To which agrees that of our Saviour Joh. 3.8 The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound of it but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the Spirit And that in Mark 4.26 So is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast Seed into the ground and should sleep and rise night and day and the Seed should spring and grow up he knoweth not how for the earth bringeth forth fruit of her self c. Such knowledge then is too wonderful for man to attain and comprehend and therefore we have need of sobriety lest we rashly puft up with a fleshly mind as thinking our selves by our wit and parts and sciences sufficient to dive to the bottom of this depth pry into things that we have not seen too secret and deep for us Surely it may admonish us not to be peremptory in our thoughts about them that may clash with his Revealed Doctrine the Gospel-truth which is certainly to be believed as truth by us and not upon presumptions of our knowing the abstruse Secrets of Gods knowing willing and working in men to be contradicted by our conceptions Yet some things with sobriety as the Scriptures of truth instruct and inform us we may consider and conceive and so holding us close to that Clue or Thread let us consider them in 1. The Distinct kinds of operations Attributed to God 2. The manner of his Working in those kinds of operations SECT 2. Of Gods merciful Operations in men by his Grace preventing them or his preventing Operations KInds of Gods Operations or Workings in Men in the Scriptures Attributed to him are more generally Two for they are such as are either more directly and properly God's and so Attributed to him as the operations of his mercy towards men or such as are not altogether or not always so properly God's though after some sort Attributed to him as the operation of his Wrath or his hardning operations 1. The operations of God in grace and mercy are such as his mercy to men leads him to effect and work in them by his Power and Spirit in and with the means afforded for the inlightning softning converting and leading men to himself Though its true he is in some sense 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gracious in all his works Psal 145.17 Either to those he works in and upon or to others whose good and glory he makes them subservient to Psal 136 1● 18 19. As he slew mighty Kings for his mercy endureth for ever Og the King of Bashan for his mercy endureth for ever c. But in this Distinction we intend by gracious operations or operations in mercy operations of the first so such as directly tend to the good and welfare of those in whom they are And so he works 1. By way of prevention of men in and with his gracious means and manifestations of himself to them vouchsafed them while altogether in themselves dead blind ignorant helpless and before they know or can by themselves know or do any thing that is good And so generally the operations wherewith he prevents men capacitating men for the good to which he calls and moves them such as Christs first inlightnings of men preventing them with his light truth goodness and therein giving them capacity to see them and so speaking to them in his Calls as to give them a capacity of hearing him though otherwise deaf and dead in themselves and then in that capacity of seeing and hearing he requires them to see and hear that is Exercise those capacities and abilities brought to them by him Of which we read Isa 42.18 19. Isa 42. Hear ye deaf and look ye blind that ye may see And Joh. 5.25 The deaf hear the voice of the Son of Man And they that hear that is listen or exercise the hearing faculty given them by him in his preventing them do live this is Christs standing at the door of mens hearts and knocking so as men may hear upon which he promises That if any man hear

in his Second Appearing according to that of our Saviour Come to me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give 〈◊〉 rest And there remaineth yet a Rest for the People of God and so Christ is called too the Rest wherewith the weary should be made to Rest And by the Apostle Christ is said to be the substance or body of the Sabbaths Col. 2.16 But more particularly The Seventh-days Sabbath was appointed to be a Sign between the Lord and the Children of Israel for ever That it is the Lord that doth Sanctifie them as Exod. 31 13 14 17. And so it might signifie and be a Sign that in and by ceasing from all our Workings and Labours to get Life and Righteousness Rom. 4.5 Act. 26.18 1 Cor. 1.30 to and by our selves and in attending to Christ and God in Christ so God would sanctify us according to that To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the Ungodly 〈◊〉 Faith is imputed to him for Righteousness And Sanctified says Christ by faith that is in me And Christ is made 〈◊〉 us of God Sanctification as if he should say The Sabbath I injoyn you as a perpernal Covenant to signifie to you and instruct you That you are not you own Sanctifyers or Sanctified by your own Works and Labours but by me in Christ your resting place in a quiet ceasing from your own Thoughts and Words and Works and resting in and upon Christ I shall ye be holy to me Isa 58.13 2. The Anoual or Yearly Sabbath I ●all that day of Expiation 1 Levit. 16.31 23.27 28 31 32. the tenth Day of the seventh Month in which besides their resting from their labours they were all of them to afflict their Souls and Fast and the High Priest was by Sacrifice and by entning into the Holy of Holios with the bloud of the Sacrifice to make an atonement for himself and for all the People and to lay their Sins upon a Scape-Goat to be carried by him into a desert place The most lively and clear ●ype of Christ the great High Priest and the Atonement made by him for all men by his own bloud and sufferings first endured by him and then in the vertues of them presented before the Father in Heaven for the taking away our Sins there that so mercy might be extended by him to us Both the Bullock for a Sin-offering for Aaron and the Goats for the People signified Christ bearing and suffering for the sins of those that are Priests to God the Israel of God our Sins and for the Sins of the People even of the whole World 1 Joh. 2.2 the Goat that was slain a Type of him dying for all m● and bearing their Sins in his own B● on the Tree and the Scape Goat 〈◊〉 was sent away having the Sins of 〈◊〉 Congregation confessed upon him another Type of Christ removing and carrying away our Sins by the vertues of his Sacrifice and remitting them to the World so as not to impute to them or charge them upon them Yet so as if any man rested not on that day 2 Cor. 5.19 21. and afflicted 〈◊〉 his Soul he was cut off from his People deprived of the benefit of that geners Atonement or Expiation Lev. 23.29 30. as signifying that the way for men to enjoy the bene●t of the general Atonement or Purgation of Sins made by Christ Act. 10.43 13.38 39 40. 1. Joh. 1.8 9 10. is to own and confess their Sins and be afflicted for them in the sense and acknowledgment 〈◊〉 them and to rest upon and believe in him otherwise they must perish Indeed there was in this as in all other Types many differences between the Type and the Truth by reason of the imperfection of the Types and perfection● the Truth not to be reached fully by them here the day the Priest the Sacrifice we● different things but all pointed out Chri● here the High Priest first offered for 〈◊〉 own sins and then for the Sins of 〈◊〉 People But Christ had no Sins proper● his own none as a Priest for he kn● or did no sin Heb. 7.26 27. neither was guile found● his mouth He was holy harmless undedefiled separated from sinners made 〈◊〉 ●han the Heavens Who needed not to do 〈◊〉 those Priests did daily to offer first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people But this the hithermost the offering for the Sins of the People he did at once or what sins might in any sence be called his as imputed to him and owned by him and so undertaken to be satisfied for and removed as the sin of Adam and all as in him and what naturally and necessarily springs up therefrom for which he in the first place and most properly undertook to ransom men from the judgment due to them or also the sins of his Members as such that are owned by him as parts of himself the sins of Believers for these and for sins of the People sins of another nature committed willingly by Men in their own persons against the Grace and goodness of God extended to them through him Rom. 5.14 sins after the similitude of Adam's transgression that he might obtain power to forgive them also Rom. 5.18 for all these he did offer up himself once so as that by that one Offering he hath both obtained a ●ease of that first Judgment in which all stood condemned so as no man shall perish therein and he hath obtained power to forgive those other offences after the similitude of Adam's transgression upon their confession of and turning from them Yea Heb. 10.14 he hath for ever per●ed the sanctified ones provided them 〈◊〉 a perfect purgation so as there needs no more Sacrifice for sin to their perfe● saving Yea so perfect was that his one Offering that there-through he ha● obtained eternal redemption power of forgiving sins and setting free from S● and Death for ever and therefore stand not to offer any more but is gone into Heaven it self there to appear in the presence of God for us and having as it were sprinkled his Bloud upon the Mercy-seat appearing in Heaven as a Lamb that was slain he is set down on the Right hand of God Rev. 5.6 expecting till all his Foes be made his footstool Heb. 9.10 11 12 25 26. and 10.10 11 12 13 14. Indeed if any man refuse now in the day of Grace and Atonement to own himself the Sinner and fall down before God to seek and accept his pardon in Christ he goes without its benefit and is cut off from the Congregation for which yet the Atonement was made This indeed belongs to the Ordinance of Sacrificing yet as appropriated to such a peculiar day and joyned with this appointment of rest I think it falls fitly to be spoken to amongst the Sabbaths enjoyned them 3. Their Seventh year Sabbath was appointed for rest to the Land