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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41001	Universal redemption offered in Jesus Christ in opposition to that pernicious and destructive doctrine of election and reprobation of persons from everlasting. By Jane Fearon.	Fearon, Jane, 1654 or 5-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing F576A; ESTC R218275	16,377	57

say they is the World of Believers For this Commentary they have nothing but their own Assertion and so while it manifestly destroys the Text may be justly rejected And if J.W. be in this Mind as I suppose he is by what I heard him speak let him shew me if he can in all the Scripture where the whole World is taken for Believers only But I shall shew him where it is taken for quite the contrary as The World knows Me not the World receives Me not I am not of this World besides many other Scriptures as Mat. 18.7 Joh. 7.7 8.26.12 19.14.17.15.18 19. 17 15 18 16.17.24.18 and many more Secondly The Apostle in this very place distinguisheth the World from the Saints thus And not for ours only but for the Sins of the whole World What means the Apostle here by ours Is not that the Sins of Believers Was he not one of those Believers And was not this an Universal Epistle written to all the Saints that then were so except he can make it appear the Apostle meant another thing than he spoke CHRIST is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World He saith Run Sinners then to CHRIST without Delay If they belong to the Decree of Reprobation what will it avail them to run What will avail their Prayers Cries or Tears or Concern for their Souls or walking humbly in GOD's sight According to that destructive Doctrine they may as well sit still and do nothing Would not this Doctrine give way to all Looseness and Profanity For if it was decreed from Eternity they were of the Elect there is no regard to Works Good or Bad contrary to that Scripture where it 's said Behold I come quickly and my Reward is with me to give to every Man according as his Works shall be I am not speaking of Works wrought in our own fallen Nature which we by our own strength have wrought our own Legal Performances and therefore may be truly and properly called ours whatever specious Appearances they may seem to have but by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy GHOST seeing Regeneration is a Work comprehensive of many good Works even of all those called the Fruits of the SPIRIT Doth he not contradict Himself when he saith The worst of Sinners they may be welcome to JESUS on him their Souls to rest when before he was but for a certain Number If he or any of his Opinion can groundedly tell that they are of that Elect Number that CHRIST hath died for if they be such as belong to the Election of Grace otherwise they may as well sit still and do nothing So one while this another while that such mingled Doctrine But how should it be otherwise when there 's so little Zeal for GOD among those he calls his own People as he confesses in his last Verse But CHRIT tells us what 's the cause When Iniquity shall abound the Love of many shall wax cold When love to something else gets more room in the Heart than the LORD JESUS such render themselves unworthy of Him according to His own Saying He that loves Father or Mother Wife or Children c. more than Me is not worthy of Me. What I have before written is not out of a Prejudiced Mind or the least Tincture of Enmity or Hatred to the Persons of any neither durst I forbear for the fear of procuring the Ill Will or Hatred of any For GOD hath not given us the Spirit of Fear but of Love and of a sound Mind who is my Witness who knows it's all my desire that Zion may shine and Jerusalem may become the Praise of the whole Earth and that GOD would enlarge the Borders of his Sanctuary and his Dominion may be from Sea to Sea and many may be the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the very Entrance into whose Gates are Praises and Blessed are they that do His Commandments which and not Grievous but Joyous And such have Right to the Tree of Life and enters in through the Gates into the City the New Jerusalem where Thanksgiving Honour and Glory with Worship and Obedience is Returned to Him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and for evermore Amen the 26th of the first Month 1698. I am a Well-Wisher to the Souls of all People JANE FEARON The End

Vniversal Redemption OFFERED IN JESUS CHRIST In Opposition to That Pernicious and Destructive Doctrine of ELECTION and REPROBATION of Persons from Everlasting By JANE FEARON For Zions sake will I not hold my Peace and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest until the Righteousness thereof go forth as Brightness and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth Isa LXII 1. Printed in the year 1698. Vniversal Redemption OFFERED IN JESUS CHRIST c. HAving for some time had an Unusual Weight upon my Spirit and many times being deeply Exercised in Mind I waited upon the LORD that my Understanding might be clear in what he required of me whose mighty Power reached unto my Soul and by his Living Presence my Heart was affected and could say Amen to what the LORD required of me because of the Day of his Power which otherways would have been a great Cross to my own Will which was to go to the Meeting of the People called Anabaptists at Great Broughtoun in Cumberland where I stood for some time till their Minister had done waiting upon the LORD in much Trembling and Bowedness of Soul and Spirit And that which I had to Declare amongst them although not with Inticing Words of Mans Wisdom yet in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power for my Heart was filled with the Love of GOD to such whose Day of Visitation was not Expired was to shew unto them the great Benefit of the New Covenant which GOD Promifed to make with his People as also the Universality of GOD's Love to the Sons and Daughters of Men. But being opposed by Joshua Ware their Minister was not suffered to Ease my Spirit nor clear my Conscience in the sight of GOD but he spake with great Earnestness That none should be suffered to speak there but who could give an Account of their Faith and asked me What I hoped to be saved by To which I answered Not by Works of Righteousness that either I or any other could do but according to his Mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and the Renewing of the Holy Ghost c. with several more Questions which I Answer'd to which he could not by the Scripture contradict in expectation I might have had liberty to clear my self of the aforesaid weight but instead of that he with some others called to some to put me out and said A Woman should not be allowed to speak which matter I desired often to speak to but could not be heard they despising and rejecting the Message I had to bear altho in much love to their Souls and the said J. W. endeavoured to make it appear by perverting the Scripture that GOD's Love was not to all contrary to the Message of the Angel Luke 2. 10. And some of them said I preached false Doctrine in holding forth that Christ was a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World But with J. W. time after time I offered a Publick Dispute and to maintain by Scripture that Doctrine I did hold forth amongst them but was denied as some Friends there with me can witness except on these terms That only one Man of my Friends should dispute with him in my stead and neither I nor any other should be suffered to speak a word And unless I would promise not to speak I should not be suffered to be where the Dispute was and that it should be agreed upon that two Persons should be made choice of to be present at the Dispute to be Moderators neither of their Judgment not ours to see that good Order was kept and to Judge who is in the Right and who in the Wrong so it is evident the Moderators must have been of a different Faith and Principle from us Both. Now how this would consist with true Christianity and a right Contending for the Faith delivered to the Saints according to the Apostle Jude's Advice let it be seriously considered for us to give up our Faith and Testimony and to be concluded whether it 's Right or Wrong by Men not of the same Faith we thought it very Improper and that no true Christian can do and therefore could not answer his Proposals therein And yet finding a Concern to remain upon my Mind and so far as the LORD by his holy Spirit shall assist me by bringing into my Remembrance what may be suitable to the present Subject shall bear Testimony to in these following Lines in order to ease my Spirit and clear my Conscience Concerning the Vniversality of GOD's Love AND ALSO The Saving and Spiritual LIGHT wherewith every Man is Lighted GOD out of his Infinite Love who delighteth not in the Death of a Sinner but that all should Live and be Saved hath so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Joh. 3.16 And by his Light Lighteth every Man coming into the World John 1.9 Which Light maketh manifest all things that are reprovable Ephes 5.13 And teacheth all Temperance and Righteousness and Godliness and this Light lighteth the hearts of all Mankind in order to the Salvation of all if not refisted nor is it less Universal than the Seed of Sin being the Purchase of his Death who tasted Death for every Man For as in Adam all died so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15.22 As for that Doctrine viz. Absolute Reprobation according to which some are not afraid to assert That GOD by one Eternal and Immutable Decree hath Predestinated to Eternal Damnation the far greater part of Mankind without any respect to their Disobedience or Sin but only for the Demonstrating the Glory of his Justice And that for the bringing this about he hath Appointed these Miserable Souls Necessarily to Walk in their Wicked Ways that so his Justice may lay hold on them And that GOD doth therefore not only suffer them to be liable to this Misery in many Parts of the World by with-holding from them the Preaching of the Gospel and Knowledge of Christ but even in those Places where the Gospel is preached and Salvation by Christ is offered whom though he Publickly Invites them yet he Justly Condemns them for Disobedience notwithstanding he hath with-held from them all Grace by which they could have laid hold on the Gospel viz. Because he hath by a Secret Will unknown to all Men Ordained and Decreed without any respect had to their Disobedience or Sin that they shall not Obey and that the Offer of the Gospel shall never prove Effectual for their Salvation but only serve to aggravate and occasion their greater condemnation I say As to this horrible and blasphemous Doctrine our Cause is common with many Others who have both Wisely and Learnedly according to Scripture Reason and Antiquity refuted it Seeing then that so much is said already against this Doctrine that little can be added except what hath been already said I shall be short yet because