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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87179	Good news to all people. Glad tydings for all men. God good unto all, and Christ the saviour of the world: or, The general point faithfully handled by way of exercise: or A sermon preached at Buckingham upon the 25 of March, being (as so called) Easter-day. By William Hartley.	Hartley, William, of Stony-Stratford.	1650 (1650)	Wing H974; Thomason E594_11; ESTC R206917	25,853	32

doctrine could have of their Auditory * Simile Suppose you and I with four or five hundred more were slaves in Turkey if a Merchant should come and say That the States of England had taken care to release some few of us but the names of the parties to be released that was not known what could this yield to the prisoners more than a doubtful hope But if the States Agent should tell the enslaved fellow Natives Here is a Release come for you all will not every prisoner joyfully conclude If for all then for me also The Doctrine of Predestination and Reprobation simply as persons leaves the creature in a continual suspence sometimes he thinketh he hath a right to Christ by election at another time he is at a stand in himself questioning what reason he hath to think so when the Doctrine of Gods Free-Grace to All gives him credence of Gods Universal Love to the World or all Mankind and consequently unto him The consideration whereof putteth him upon a duty of striving to make his Calling and Election in that love sure by good works Again Mark my beloved Friends how many Absurdities this Doctrine of Predestination and Reprobation of Mankind simply as persons casteth upon Almighty GOD. 1 Absurdity First The Doctrine of Reprobation chargeth God with Injustice Abraham in capitulation with God about the destruction of Sodom gathereth this conclusion That thou shouldst destroy the righteous with the wicked that be far from thee Which words though spoken by interrogation yet contain a positive conclusion viz. That it is far from God to condemn the righteous with the wicked and the Judg of all the World will judg righteously Now if Judgment take place before the Fact or condemnation precede the being of the person is it not to charge God with male-administration of Justice And as the Apostle hath it Where there is no Law there is no Transgression and sin is variation from a rule which is transgression of a Law Secondly The Doctrine of Reprobation of men as persons chargeth God with Partiality 2 Absurdity One of the ill consequences that should follow a King in Israel was that he should make some of their sons Captains others he should make Cooks and Confectionaries without any consideration had to the qualification in persons unto such an office only such men were appointed unto such employments meerly because it was his will As great personages will dignifie one mans child with the name of his Page and others must be his Foot-Boys If you will believe Peter God is no such Respecter of persons but he that serveth him shall be accepted and whoso fancyeth Election and Reprobation in God simply considered as persons rendereth God partial and a Respecter of persons Thirdly Remisness The Doctrine of Predestination and Reprobation of men simply as persons is a Doctrine of Remisness Security and Carelesness Take a creature when he hath concluded himself to be a predestinated person and so consequently of necessity must be saved if Conscience checketh him ever so much for his uneven walking he presently flies to this Refuge The best of Gods Children are subject to fall God sees no sin in his People Whom God loves he loveth to the end all which Scriptures are true in their places but not Arguments for Remisness Again A man that concludeth himself an elected person Security though he wilfully continueth in a notorious sin upon check of Conscience which is the witness of God in us he singeth his Soul this Requiem Lot David and Peter had their gross failings yet Children of GOD and so fancieth to himself Security Once more Take a prophane person Carelesness when he hath been taught this Doctrine That some as persons were chosen to life and others appointed to death meerly out of Gods decree and without any respect had to obedience and disobedience what 〈◊〉 conclusions doth this man draw If I shall be saved I shall be saved if I was appointed to be damned I shall be damned what need I care how I spend my time Was not the Thief upon the Cross a Chosen Vessel And thus poor Soul he bolstereth himself in his careless walking which if it were taught him That God Electeth or Chooseth the Righteous man to himself and rejecteth and turneth the Ungodly into Hell he would soon endeavor to turn over a new leaf and no more take up these preposterous expressions used in our generation concerning a lewd person I am sorry God gave him no more grace and of one that committeth felo-in-se becoming his own executioner That he was born to such an end and ordained so to do but rather speak the Apostles language where he saith Rom. 1.21 That when men know God and worship him not as God hence it is that they become vain in their imaginations committing evil with greediness Lastly It contradicteth Scripture 2 Sam. 22.27 Lastly The Doctrine of Election and Reprobation simply as persons contradicteth the whole scope and generality of Scripture With the upright man thou wilt shew thy self upright with the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure with the froward thou wilt deal frowardly 1 Sam. 2 30. c. And touching Eli's sons who were of the lineage of Aaron see what God saith Them that honor me I will honor and them that despise me shall be light esteemed And as I give my judgment that Doctrine which Iohn the Baptist preached Mat 3. should be seasonable for our times Now is the ax layd to the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewed down and cast into the fire And so to put men upon tryal of their faith in the Gospel by performance of Works answerable to the Gospel The Papists * Incidit in Sillam qui vult c. Silla was to set Works supereminent above Faith I wish the Protestants Charibdis be not to erect Faith without Works The Apostle Iames makes them paramount in Abraham demonstrating that Faith and Works ought to be equivalent in us Now I have done with this subject I crave my Text leading me thereto a word or two by digression In the times of this ignorance God winked c. From which observe with me the Apostles method you understand whom he spake to a Heathenish people wholy given to Idolatry yet take notice with what mildness of spirit he reproved them useth no railing at all but in love by way of argument convinceth the vanity of their worship telling them by way of encouragement that God 〈◊〉 willing to pass by or wink at their former ignorance provided now they would be changed in their mindes and repent wherein you may observe that the Gospel of Christ is to be declared by way of meekness and affable perswasions The Apostle hath an expression 2 Cor. 5.20 Now we are Embassadors of Christ we pray you in Christs stead to be reconciled unto God May not this

female Here is no limitation or restriction either of Nations or persons but according as Christ maketh it out Joh. 3.14 As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness so shall the Son of man be lifted up that Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God so loved the World c. In this similitude Christ brings to our understanding a Mystery In the History * Numb 21 9. we read of bodies bitten by Serpents and cured by a miraculous Ordinance of God We find also in the Mystery of the Gospel that all have sinned and are venomed by the poyson of that fiery Serpent the Devil and Jesus Christ is constituted and set forth as an Antidote to that poyson and Remedy against that sting 1 Cor. 15. So the Apostle hath it The sting of death is sin the strength of sin is the Law but thanks be to God which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ This incomprehensible mercy was occasioned through Gods love to the World God so loved the World that Whosoever believeth c. Under consideration of the word World you may understand Gods indefinite Love to all mankind and by Whosoever no man as a person by any intention of Almighty God is debarred from the benefit of his Love * 2 Cor. 4 4. If Christ or the Gospel be hid it is unto those that perish whom Satan the god of this world hath blinded c. Jesus Christ being sent on purpose that Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Object But this World that God so loved is to be understood the world of Elect and not all mankind Answ I answer That where ever you find the word World mentioned in Scripture it doth either imply the whole Creation as God made the World The World passeth away c. or the major part of men in the World The World lieth in wickedness We cannot understand the Apostle included himself and the Saints but the generality of people then living in the World Moreover observe it the world World is so far from admitting any construction in relation to Saints Elect or Believers as that it is generally quoted in direct opposition to them The World shall hate you Iohn 17. Ye shall weep but the World shall rejoyce The World hath not known thee They are not of the World c. So then it is evident That the World is no where rendered for Elect or Saints and the World here spoken of doth comprehend all mankind The better to rectifie this misprision see 1 Joh. 2.2 He is the propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only but for the sins of the whole World This the Apostle inferreth to declare the large extent of Christs Mediatorship from the benefit whereof the whole World hath no ejectment for saith * 2 Pet. 3.9 Peter He is not willing that any should perish which Negative produceth this Affirmative but that all should be Saved and come to the knowledg of the truth This Scripture with others afore cited may invite your credence to the Observation we are dwelling upon viz. It is the good will and c. Although the Scripture in its self be a sufficient testimony to confirm every truth therein comprized yet we find many Arguments by way of Illustration used as Grounds and Reasons for further conviction as we may instance in our Saviour when he refuted the Sadduces doctrine of non-resurrection God saith he as you grant is the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Now God is not a God of the dead but of the living if so then of necessity there is a Being after death And likewise to his Disciples for prevention of immoderate care A Sparrow saith he doth not fall to the ground without the will of your heavenly Father and it is he that clothes the Lillies in their royalty Now consider Doth the providence of your heavenly Father extend to Sparrows and doth he so beautifie the grass in the fields and do you think he will be unmindful of you O ye of little faith I suppose my beloved friends the Scriptures quoted may evidently manifest the truth of the Doctrine yet I crave leave to offer to your consideration some Arguments for your further confirmation The first Argument that gives me to apprehend 1 Argument grounded from Gods propriety That it is the good Will and Pleasure of Almighty God that every Creature should come to the attainment of Life and Salvation is grounded upon the propriety or interest that God is said to have in all Creatures Luke the Evangelist recording ab origine the descent of Christ from Joseph to Adam shutteth up the genealogy in these words Which was the son of Adam which was the son of God Luke 3.38 That the Creature had a Being in God was acknowledged by those heathenish Poets and asserted by Paul Acts 17.29 Forasmuch as we are all of his Off-spring c. We shall only add that expression of Moses in his prayer O God thou art the God of the Spirits of all flesh Numb 16.22 The scope and purport of these Scriptures is to declare God to be the Creator and Father of all Spirits Abraham is said to beget Isaac Isaac Jacob c. that is the formative vertue which did create hands feet and limbs did proceed from the persons mentioned but the Spirit which gives Essence and Being to the Creature cometh from God * Simile A Window is said to light the house when it is the Sun for if the Sun withdraw his light as in dark nights may be observed the window lighteth the house no more then the wall In this sence God is said to open the womb of Rebecca when he gave life to the formative vertue so then men are said to beget men when it 's God that is the Father of all Spirits If a man have never so many children he wisheth the welfare of all as may be instanced in Abraham who provided not only for Isaac and Ishmael but for those children also that he had by Keturah Gen. 25.5 unto whom he gave gifts and sent them into the Wilderness How did David lament over Absalom an undutiful son Now if we that are wicked desire the welfare and happiness of our own children can we have such hard thoughts of God as to create a Soul on purpose to destroy it Behold saith the Lord All Souls are mine the Soul of the father and the Soul of the son I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth 2 Argument grounded upon Gods Invitation The second Argument is grounded upon the several Invitations of God to the Creature we read Prov. 1.10 these expressions Wisdom cryeth without she uttereth her voyce in the street How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and scorners delight in scorning and fools hate knowledg Turn ye