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A46755	Two treatises the first concerning Gods certaine performance of his conditional promises, as touching the elect, or, A treatise of Gods most free and powerfull grace, lately published without the authours privitie, and printed corruptly, by the name and title of Solid comfort for sound Christians : the second, concerning the extent of Christs death and love, now added to the former : with an additionall thereunto : both of them preached at New-Castle upon Tine ... / by Robert Ienison ...	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing J565; ESTC R2256	76,502	298

hat● set downe absolutely and whom in particular he wi●● save and imprint Faith an● Holinesse in their heart● he hath reserved to him selfe as not being boun● to reveale it till the eve● shew it onely that there such an absolute will i● God is revealed as we have already shewed SECT 7. SO that now though 〈◊〉 regard of the word a●● worke of the minister things may goe with 〈◊〉 and And 's and that the conditions in regard of man whose actions proceeding ●f judgement and having ●heir beginning from with●n his will are voluntary ●ay or may not be done or ●erformed Yet as they are Gods workes though required of us and effects of ●is Election who chan●eth without violence our ●ills hee speakes of them without Iffs and promiseth ●hem absolutely yea and ●ccordingly worketh and ●ffecteth them himselfe And so againe things may ●emaine in themselves in●ifferent to fall out this ●ay or that way notwith●tanding Gods decree or working infallibly this or ●hat The certainty of Gods decree doth not abolish the consent of mans will Gods decree doth not take away the consent liberty of mans will bu● rather order it and mildely incline or draw it forth● mans freedome of will ma● well stand with that necessitie which is of infallibility or of consequence and mans actions may bee free though otherwise in respect of Gods will they be of unchangeable necessity Gods decree takes not away all possibility to the contrary event 〈…〉 voluntarii ●i●iscie●●e voluntario committatur Greg. Armin. lib. 2. dist 29. in fine but onely the contrary event it selfe as his decree before all worlds that at this timel● should preach in this place on this argument at this time did not take from me ever since all possibility of not preaching at this time for I might have beene absent or otherwise determined But it tooke from me the actuall not preaching at this time I doe this certainly and infallibly but yet freely Gods decree takes from me the contrary event so that in sensu composito these two cannot stand together God hath decreed that at this moment I should bee preaching these things and I doe not at this moment preach these things But in sensu diviso these two may consist together God decreed that I should preach these things at this moment and I had power not to preach these things at this moment if I had pleased Now if this sound harsh to any Praescientia Dei falli non potest let it be considered the like inconvenien●● would follow upon God bare prescience which none denyes and his prescience may as well hen●● be denyed as his praede fi●●tions Seeing Gods prescience is as infallible as hi● Decree is immutable And thus much for the first consideration SECT 8. 2 WE may now secondly consider The second consideration making good the former that in Gods new Covenant of Grace the condition required of us 〈◊〉 also part of Gods Covenan● and promise made unto us So that this is one maine difference betweene the Law strictly taken according to the Condition of workes and the Gospell preached both before and after the death of Christ that the Law promiseth Life and requires perfect obedience but neither promiseth nor gives power to performe what it requires ●t leaves a man wholly to himselfe and to his owne power But the Gospell and new Covenant promiseth the ●ame life upon new and other conditions The conditions required of us are also part of Gods Covenant and promise made unto us Difference betweene the Law and the Gospell no lesse I ●ke hard in themselves ●nd impossible to us to performe aright by our owne ●rength then the other and ●hat is upon condition of ●aith Repentance Holi●esse and Perseverance in ●●em all Yet so as that it ●oth promiseth and gives power to keepe and performe the Conditions this latter depending on Gods Election in which regard it is said that the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did and that Christ is the Mediatour of a better Covenant which is established on better promises And why better But because wh●● the Law could not doe Heb. 7.19 and 8.6 Rom. 8.2.3 in th● it was weake through the flesh is done by the Law of the Spiri● of Life in Christ Iesus who● God sent c. The first Covenant 〈◊〉 said to be faulty yet not 〈◊〉 it selfe for saith the Scripture the Lord finding fau●● with them not with 〈◊〉 barely saith the day● come when I will make new Covenant with th● house of Israel Iudah Heb. 8 7 8 9 10 11 c. not according to the Covenant which I made with their Fathers because they continued not in my Covenant lo there ●s the fault of it I regarded ●hem not saith the Lord For this is the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israell after those dayes saith the Lord I will put my Lawes ●nto their minde and write ●hem in their hearts c. Thus God promiseth to ●oe for us what he requires ●f us At least hee requires ●he Fact or act of us and ●e promiseth the ability or ●ather indeed he promiseth ●nd effecteth the act also ●e promiseth both to write ●s Lawes in our hearts and to ●orke all our workes for us as ●●rticularly not onely power to beleeve but the very act of beleeving not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 posse Credere but according to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto you it is given to beleeve on him Phil. 1.29 and not onely 〈◊〉 beleeve on him Christ 〈◊〉 also to suffer for his sake So not onely the power ability and will to doe good but the will power dee● too For it is God that worketh in you saith Paul both 〈◊〉 will and to doe SECT 9. NOw all that is sai● both in the form● and in this latter Consideration What God requires he both promiseth and worketh in the Elect. will better mo●fully appeare by particul●● instances and proofes Go● promising Blessednesse a● Salvation by Christ 1 requires some Conditions us yet 2. hee promiseth to worke and effect the said Conditions in us and 3. he doth also indeed worke the same and that by vertue of his new Covenant wee will instance in some principall graces 1 Faith God promising Salvation and Happinesse doth first require Faith This is shewed in divers graces as in Faith Which God Rom. 10.9.1 requires Marke 9.23 as the Condition and so promiseth life upon that Condition and that with an Iff as in my Text saying If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and if thou shalt beleeve in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved So elsewhere If thou canst beleeve all things are possible to him that beleeveth So also Ioh. 3.16 Act. 16.30.31 Beleeve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt bee saved Promiseth Ier. 31.33