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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96295	Mankinds jubilee, or, Good tidings of great joy for all people plainly discovered by Scripture texts ... shewing that there is a common salvation of all men ... / written by Christopher Wade, An. Dom 1658.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1658 (1658)	Wing W158A; ESTC R42984	102,952	125

expressed in Eph. 1.17 21. such confiding beleevers and obedient walkers in faithfull indeavours shall never fall 2 Pet. 1.10 See briefly what the speciall salvation is distinct from the common salvation in my 19 Distinction and you shall find that the common salvation by its making the way smooth by discovering the foundation of faith and repentance and so for the entrance into the speciall salvation is a blessed salvation in excellency farre surmounting all temporall blessings in the world intended of God for mens temporall blessings only So that those mens opinions that do maintaine that Christ doth not effectually save all men except he doe eternally save all men is found fallacious As for the possibility or restored ability conferr'd on all men in due season to know the truth 1 Tim. 2.6 I conceive that the expression in due season in that text used is communicated in such a seasonable time for every mans benefit as God knowes to be fittest God cordially intending on his part to prevent mens future progresse in the sinnes of unbeliefe but however it must be communicated in this present life time and not when men are dead for there is no hope therefore whilst men are yet joyned to the living it is said a living dog is better than a dead lion Eccl. 9.4 As the tree falleth there shall it be Eccl. 11.3 The third Distinction sheweth that our Saviour Jesus Christ by a salvation first wrought by and in himselfe alone without men laid the foundation of the common salvation of all men by his descension from Heaven and personall performances upon the earth HErein we are to note that the effects of Christs performances and sufferings upon the earth is in Scripture called a reconciliation by his death Rom. 5.10 and what he doth for men by his spirit by his living againe resurrection and ascension into Heaven is distinctly called a much more being saved by his life in the same verse To performe the first of these he came downe from Heaven to the earth to perform the second he ascended up from the earth into heaven The first he effected by the effusion of his pretious blood upon earth for all men The second he operateth by the infusion of his spirit into all men by the the first in the common salvation he performed his fathers will who will have no fewer than all men saved 1 Tim. 2.4 By the second he finisheth the common salvation in bringing all men to the knowledge of the truth according to Gods will also as appeareth in the same verse And to the end he might be made capable to suffer death or taste death for every man according to Heb. 2.9 he became flesh John 1 14. And although he being in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equall with God yet he made himselfe of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant Phil. 2.6 7. Thus when the fulnesse of time was come God sent forth his sonne made of a woman Gal. 4.4 and so he became the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 made under the Law or same obligation which all men were under to redeem them that were under the Law Gal. 4.4 5. Note that it is not said that he redeemed the elect or beleevers or some part of men only but to redeem them that were under the Law in which condition by the fall all men were Rom. 3.19 and 5.18 19 20. And as without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 So by the determination of God Acts 4.28 and grace of God he tasted death for every man Heb. 2.9 whereby his most pretious blood was shed 1 Pet. 1.19 Which blood of his in respect of his personall union as composed of the Divine and Humane nature is called Gods blood Acts 20.28 the shedding of which is more pretious and pacifically efficacious with God than if all the men in the whole world had suffered And therefore by this means he became the valuable propitiation for the the sins of no lesse than the whole world 1 John 2.2 for God the Father finding him to have become voluntarily for mans sake under the Law and same obligation into the which all men were by the fall inthralled God the Father attached him and laid upon him the iniquity of us all Isa 53.6 and that by those words the iniquity of us all is meant of all mankinde see my 20 distinction Now the effects produced by his suffering upon the earth are principally two The first is his abolishing thereby the eternall curse of the Morall Law or first Testament for every man And secondly that by his death he also swalloweth up the first death in victory for all men And first to prove the first of these I proceed as followeth The fourth Distinction proveth that one means to establish the common salvation purchased by himselfe is this This Christ by his death abolished the eternall condemning power of the Morall Law for all men yet briefly shewing the necessary use thereof HErein we are first to observe that there is a Law abolished by him sor it is said of Christ he having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the Law of Commandements conteined in Ordinances Eph. 2.15 And herewith we are to know that the strength of the word abolished is a disanulling a destroying a putting out of memory Note also another full expression in this very cause speaking of Christs not slightly crossing that generall accusing bill leaving it still condemnably legible but of his blotting out the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us and was contrary to us and not only so neither but for our further security he took it out of the way nailing it to his Crosse Col. 2.14 Now I beseech you consider what more plaine or strong expressions can be used in this cause yet further to prove that hereby is meant the abolishing of the Morall Law observe that as it is herein affirmed that it is an hand-writing of Ordinances that is blotted out That God never wrote any other hand-writing of Ordinances but the Morall Law only Exod 31.18 for he added no more Deut 5.22 Neither did Moses write any Ordinances but such as were either totally Morall Law or mixed with Morall Law-Ordinances as is manifest in his written books for as God did first verbally declare the Morall Law at length before he wrote it Exod 20. Deut. 5.22 so Moses wrote not some of those words only but he wrote all the words of the Lord Exod. 24.4 in one book or hand-writing of Ordinances untill they all were finished Deut. 31.24 Thus in Scripture all those now counted five books of Moses are accounted but one book or hand-writing of Ordinances and being so composed in one Moses commanded the Levites to put not those books in the plurall number but that one book of his hand-writing into the side of the Ark of the Covenant Deut. 31.26 Therefore if the hand-writing of Ordinances that as

because Christ dieth no more and death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6.9 Yet our Saviour Christ though he be God also yet being therewith the Sonne of man by an Incarnation with humane Nature sin excepted He hath power to forgive and doth forgive as aforesaid as the aforesaid sins of all men as against himselfe without any oblation sacrifice atonement or propitiation made to him the Sonne of man and from thence he exhorteth all men so largely often and freely to forgive one another their trespasses as appeareth Mat. 8.21 22. and in the prayer he taught his Disciples and in Luke 17.4 Thus we finde that all the sins that have been are or are to be acted by any man or all men ever since God the Fathers virtually applying at Adams fall the effects of Christs blood shed for all mens sins And from that time unto the end of the world sinnes against Christ only and his in lightning in abling preparative worke and that they are all as concerning everlasting punishment all forgiven to all the sonnes of men excepting only our Saviour Christs former own exception concerning those of them sinnes which are by some men themselves rebelliously transformed into the sinnes against the Holy Ghost by their persisting obstinately and wilfully in unbeleese against the holy spirits gratious teachings which are alwaies by grace annexed in due season to our Saviours in lightning all men so effectually as is proved in my 6 and 7 Distinctions The eleventh Distinction sheweth what those sins are which in Scripture are accounted to be sinnes against the Holy Ghost and that they shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come and the cause why whereby the second death is discovered also OBserve herein considering that Christ doth inlighten every man that commeth into the world so that no fewer than all men through him might beleeve John 1.7 9. And also that in obedience to his Fathers will he doth bring all men unto the knowledge of the truth accoding to 1 Tim. 2.4 as is largely proved in my 6 and 7 Distinctions And considering therewith that the Apostle absolutely affirmeth that if we finne wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearfull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries Heb. 10.26 27 so that effect Heb. 6.5 6. From hence we see proved that those sinnes which are sinnes against the Holy Ghost are the sinnes which some men doe commit against the holy Ghosts teachings after they are by Christ in due season inlightned and after they are helped to the knowledge of the truth and whereas those sins are by Christ said to be unpardonable as in Mat. 12.13 I find the cause to be first in respect that they are sinnes against the second Covenant being the Covenant of grace secondly that they are sins persisted in against the spirit of grace Heb. 10.29 its dictates and teachings who being so offended being God having no INcarnation with humanity These transgressions against God the Holy Ghost by transgressing against the second Testament in wilfull persisting cannot be forgiven without a valuable satisfaction made to satisfie justice with And thirdly I finde the irrecoverable cause to be because there cannot be any valuable satisfaction made for men to satisfie justice for a deity offended who hath no Incarnation with humane nature but by one who though being God and one in Union in the Trinity is made capable to suffer death by taking upon him humane nature And fourthly to conclude this cause I finde that although Christ being so made capable to suffer death did dye to satisfie God the Fathers justice for the sins which as an unresistible violent inundation overwhelmed all Adams posterity though sinners in the seed for sins by him acted without the personall consent much lesse actuall performance of any one of them so preserving all men from the curse of the Law and first death due for the transgressions against that Law ' as in my 4 and 5 Distinctions Yet concerning mens owne actuall and personall sinnes in their individuals wilfully and persistingly acted against the Holy Ghost and second Covenant after their inabsing and inlightenment considering that there is none other of the Trinity but Christ Jesus capable to suffer death nor any other to be found any wise able to make satisfaction to that deity the Holy Ghost so oftended having as God the Father no incarnation with humane nature From hence proceeds the irrecoverable eternall fearfull condition of such Transgressors openly discovered in these few words of Scripture where it is said that without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and by its affirming withall that Christ being raised from the dead dyeth no more and that death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6.9 From which cause those wilfull persisting transgressors of the second Covenant against God the Holy Ghost must in justice unavoidably perish in the eternall second death Thus I have briefly hinted what the sins against the Holy Ghost are and what the cause is that they are unpardonable as appeareth also Rev. 10.14 15 21 8. Now beloved if you please herewith to take farther notice of the impossibility of their recovery Mat. 12.31 32. and Heb 6. and some particulars of their eternall punishment discovered in Heb. 10.26 27. 2 Pet. 21. Rev. 21.8 Jude 12. 2 Pet. 9.10 2 Thes 1.7 8 9. I shall not need to make any further discovery to shew you what the second death is which is to be a much more sorer punishment then pertained to the breach of Moses Law Heb. 1.29 Only I do intreat you to take notice that because our Saviour Christ hath said that all sinnes and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto the sons of men but only the sinnes or blasphemies against the Holy Ghost That some men have cavilled at this our Saviours affirmation saying then all unbeleevers actuall sins are remitted without any punishment because in that sence the unbeleevers doe perish eternally for their unbeleefe only They herein contrary to Scripture separating the act of unbeleefe it selfe from the evill actions of men or actuall sins of men wilfully persisted in after inlightenment until those men prove to be of that sort of men that are called Goats Mat. 25.32 33. and of the serpentine seed Gen. 15. their actuall sins being also thereby by them transformed into the same nature by their wilfully becomming the children of the Devill John 8.44 From hence that fearfull affirmation ariseth that some men are twice dead that were not only once dead by that one mans offence Rom. 5.12 by the first death but though being fully set free by Christ from the eternall danger of that first death and law of works as in my 4 and 5 Distinctions they doe through their owne wilfull defaults fall into the danger of the eternall second death for their wilfull