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spirit_n	cry_v	father_n	receive_v	7,843	5	5.5639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45138	The middle-way in one paper of election & redemption, with indifferency between the Arminian & Calvinist / by Jo. H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1673 (1673)	Wing H3689; ESTC R20384	34,415	44

man-kind or of human nature but what he does in the Spirit that may be peculiar in some points at least onely to his elect Hence it is that when he tells us he Laid down his life for the World yet I pray sayes he not for the World but for those thou hast given me out of the World The prayer of Christ is a part of his intercession which is Distinct from his oblation and it is no argument from his not Praying for the World that therefore he Died not for it If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your heavenly Father give his holy Spirit to them that ask him God hath given his Son to those that never ask him even to the whole World but he gives the Spirit of the Son only to his Children even to such as can cry Abba Father when they have received it I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter even the Spirit of truth whom the World cannot receive When he prayes not for the world that he prayes for is the Spirit and the Spirit which works grace in the heart whereby we are sanctified and perseverance to bring us to glory is peculiar to those whom God does give to Christ and of whom Christ can say For they are thine and all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them You may say on the one hand If it be no more which Christ hath purchased for Peter then for all then Peter might perish for all Christs Purhcase I answer you may say so and without ignominy to his Redemption provided you know also that the Election of God and Christs Prayer will provided for Peter that further which it provides not for all and Jesus Christ when he hath made his purchase is the Executor of Gods Election On the other hand it may be said But to what purpose is this Redemption universal when none but those that perform the condition are saved I answer it is therefore universal that none of those who performe the condition may misse of Salvation As also that though it be all one to him that does not perform the same in regard of the event as if he was not all Redeemed Yet it is not all one as to God and the Verity of Scripture and his Judgment according to it The Scripture sayes often Christ Dyed for All and that God will Judge the World according to this Gospel He that belives shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned the Foundation whereof is Christs Death which must reach so far as to make this good And who knows not that the very business of our whole Religion does depend upon the Establishment of the Verity of the Holy Scriptures I must confess I should most willingly hearken to any that could make Christs Death more Advantagious and when his purchase hath procured Faith and Repentance to no body but Remission and Salvation to All upon their Faith and Repentance if they are willing to say that there is sufficient Grace also purchased for the World that all and every one should Repent and Believe and apply that Redemption I am indifferent to the use of their Thoughts But if when I rather grant a universal Power arising from Christs purchase not as a direct fruite of his Death but as a consequential Event N.B. from the Abatement only of the terms that God is not wanting to any in necessariis and consequently that all men have sufficient Light Spirit Grace or Power to be saved if they will Yet so long as we cannot deny him but he may abound in gratuitis and to give the Will and Deed it self is more than to give Power as to have given to Adam the Ipsum velle had been more and a gratuitum wherein he might have abounded if he had pleased than in giving him only Posse velle I cannot see by any means but when Christs Death is made universal the Fathers Election must be left still Per modum decreti efficaciter operantis By way of a decree effectually operating free and absoute in regard to the condition of it's Application If all men have alike the Posse velle The Power to will and no more then must the reason Why one man Repents and is Saved and not another be resolved into his own self only and so may and must he say it is I I my self have made the difference when the Scripture does say Who is it O man that hath made thee to differ But if we allow as Redemption to be universal so a Posse velle from general I say not a Posse velle as to the Covenant of our Creation but as to the Terms of the Gospel And to the Elect the Ipsum velle from special Grace we shall neither have any thing to charge God nor give occasion to Mans boasting Neither shall the condition be held impossible nor when we have performed it shall we rob God of his Glory It is pleaded That unless Faith and Repentance does lie in every Man 's own Breast Christ's purchase of Pardon upon that Condition is but a Mock I answer To deny that to Believe and to Repent does lye in our Power were indeed to evacuate Christ's Death to All besides the Elect But to say that Faith and Repentance therefore does flow from our own Wills is another matter I must offer moreover If Christ had purchased Faith and Repentance for some which All have not the Reprobate might here have something to say That the Reason why he Repented not as the Elect did was because Christ purchased Repentance for the One and not for the Other But if Christ hath purchased nothing for One but what he hath purchased for All which directly is true then cannot the purchase of Christ be a Mock to any seeing some do reap a real Benefit by it and if others do not it must be their Own fault Indeed those Divines who confound the Blessings we have in Christ so as to make them All alike the direct Fruits of his Death with no difference must be under some manifest Prejudice here against St. Augushine and his Doctrine It stands not with reason that any thing which is part of Christ's Purchase should be peculiar for how then hath Christ dyed for All That which is of meer Favour is fit for the Elect that which is of Purchase should be universal or for All Mankind If that Grace then whereby we Believe and Repent is a Fruit flowing from Christ's Death no otherwise than the Covenant it self does these Divines alone must speak agreeably who will allow no other but that which they call sufficient putting all men into an aequi librium or equal Ballance between Choosing and Refusing and so leaving it upon their own Wills to make the Difference Who are saved and who are not saved But to what little purpose such Grace as this is distinguished at all from