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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48584	A treatise of election and reprobation in vindication of the universal grace and love of God to mankind by B.L.	Lindley, Benjamin, d. 1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing L2312; ESTC R28788	51,533	66

less had he done it from all Eternity § 3. From the Rejoycing of the Heavenly Host over this Blessed Work of Creation Job 38.7 for then the Morning-Stars sung together and the Sons of God shouted for joy which holy pure Spirits rejoyce not at the Out-goings of Destruction or Misery or Death or Hell but at the Out-goings of the Power and Work of God and of his Life and Glory which excellently illustrates the Blessedness of this great Work its being ushered in in the Morning of it with those holy Songs and Shoutings of Joy so Divine and Heavenly § 4. From the Creature made for God created Man in his own Image in the Image of God created he him c. Even this gives us a pregnant Instance of the great Love of God to us in our Creation and secures us against the Fear of being put into the hands of Destruction by an Eternal Decree To be made in the Maker's Image and in his Likeness is sufficient warranty against it to any who know what it is to be formed after that Pattern of perfect Bliss for it must needs be that God beholds Himself above all and loves his own Image above every Image and thence hath made choice to dwell with Man delighting in him and loving him For of which of the Creatures ever said he at any time I will walk in them and dwell in them Nor doth he afflict willingly or grieve the Children of Men much less will he without cause Lament 3.33 destroy with an Eternal Destruction the Creature that with so much Wisdom he hath so curiously framed And had there been such an Eternal Destructive Decree upon Mankind then he had been created under the Curse and could not have born the Image of the Blessed on the contrary as he was created in the Image of God he could not be hated of him nor have any such Decree impending him or his Off-spring Again If there had been such a Decree Man must either have been created with the Seed of this Destruction in him which in despite of all his endeavours should increase and grow up with him till he were consumed of it or he must causlessly have been cast down of God into Perdition It cannot be the first for Man was made very good Gen. 1.31 Jer. 2.21 Mat. 13. planted wholly a right Seed sown a good Seed c. and the latter is Blasphemy As God made nothing evil so he made nothing to an evil End it is incompetent with Wisdom and Justice to make a good thing to an evil end and to be sure he that made all things good Gen. 1.30 hated no good thing for no Man willingly propagates what he hateth he must be blinder than a Beetle that gives credit to such stuff which stubs up all Wisdom and Religion by the Roots inverts all Series and Order into Confusion bereaves God of his Wisdom and Goodness and Man of his Honour and Blessing Object But it is alledged that Man forfeited his blessed Estate in the Fall and became subject to Misery so that God might justly have given him over to utter Ruin but through his infinite Mercy in Christ Jesus he choosed to save a few Vincent's Catechism p. 19 c. and pass by all the rest of Mankind So that God's Eternal Decree of Reprobation is his leaving them to perish in their Sins unto the Praise of the Power of his Wrath and infinite Justice in their Everlasting Punishment Answ If so this Forfeiture was general either all forfeited their Blessed Estate or none at all Then how is that Mercy infinite which forgives but a few or that Justice infinite which punisheth not all But as the Mercy of God in Christ is infinite there is made Provision therein for the Salvation of all if they will accept God's Salvation on God's Terms and as his Justice is infinite it is provided therein to punish all Men that despise or neglect so great Grace and Mercy And if God should leave any to perish in their Sins through their impenitency how can this be call'd his absolute Eternal Decree of Reprobation of Persons Or how doth the leaving a Man to the natural Consequence or Effect of his own evil Actions imply the Decreeing him to such an End or such Actions Put the case of a Man's stabbing himself with his own Sword Is the not forcibly hindering him from it the forcing him thereto Is the bare permitting him to do it the putting him under a fatal necessity of doing it as is imply'd in these words God 's Eternal Decree of Reprobation c. What passage can be collected out of all the Scripture to shew God's seeking to have Praise ascrib'd to his Wrath Which is not voluntary or a first Principle in him as shall hereafter be manifest So that in short these Tenents are sad ones equally void of Reason and of Gospel But I shall make it appear God did not take this Advantage against any part of Mankind or absolutely Decreed their Destruction from Eternity or from the Fall but tendered Salvation and the Gospel to them Then Neither hath he done any thing to frustrate any one's Salvation before his Birth 1. From the Benefit of Christ's Death universally extended 2 Cor. 5.14 15. 1 Tim. 2.6 Hebr. 2.9 he died for all Men he gave his Life a Ransome for all 2. From the Universality of the Gospel it brings good Tidings of great Joy to all People Luke 2.10 Mat. 28.19 Mark 13.10 and was to be preach'd to or in every Creature under Heaven all Nations to be taught c. 3. From the Universality of the Grace of God called in Scripture Titus 2.11 Gratia Salutifera the Salvation-bringing Grace or the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation This Grace hath appear'd to all Men and it bringeth Salvation it appears not empty-handed if it should cease to have such a Gift it should cease to be that Grace but all Men have the Tenders of Salvation in and through this Divine Grace and this since the Fall So God hath not taken that Advantage against any from the Fall as to leave them unavoidably to perish in their Sins c. but visits all Men in and by his Divine Grace in order to their Salvation and enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World and hath not done any Act to frustrate the Salvation of any before their Birth He that is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance 2 Pet 3.9 1 Tim. 2.4 who will have all Men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the Truth He hath done nothing to frustrate the Salvation of any Man before his Birth But God is not willing that any Man should perish c. So here we acquit our selves of Decretal Reprobation either Eternal or Temporal that 's previous to our Birth and indeed of all Decretal Reprobation § 5. That Doctrine which makes the cause of