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A27633 The true state of Gospel truth, established upon the free election of God in Christ the agreement, and yet difference between law and Gospel, so, that the Gospel cannot be stiled law : the inconditionateness of the Gospel salvation : the procedure of the day of judgment : in the way of a conciliatory discourse upon Mr. Williams his concessions / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1693 (1693) Wing B2185; ESTC R19088 45,331 46

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into Gospel Truth as stated and vindicated by Mr. Dan. Williams especially in Reference to the Doctrin of justification and the nature of his Proceedings with his Testimonies hereupon By Thomas Edwards Esq Price stitcht 1 s. 6. You may be supplied with Dr. Chancey's Three Parts lately Printed against Mr. Williams 7. You may likewise be supplied with Dr. Crisp's Works 8. Where is Sold Mr. Troughten's first and second Parts of Justification and Ca●●● on Job in two large Volumes in Folio Price bound 40 s. And Poole's ●●n●●sis Cr●●icorum in two large Volumes bound 1 l. 10 s. A Right State of Gospel Truth Presented to Mr. Williams Occasion'd by some Assertions of his so called Defence of Gospel Truth I Have upon the View and Consideration of the Reverend Mr. Williams his Defence of Gospel Truth and the many excellent Confessions of the true Grace of God wherein we stand therein found Thought it necessary for my self as in a low and humble Capacity yet having appeared as a Reconciler upon the Account of the Sermons of Dr. Crisp not to come forth as a Disputant much less as a professed Adversary but as a Reconciler of some of the Collateral and Derivative Branches of that Grace and Truth I find in that Discourse to their Principals and to Prune what seems not to be so Reconcilable that the Whole may be seen in its Order and Beauty And herein I Labour to avoid not personal Reflections I am out of the Temptation of them where I Profess Honour and Esteem only but of any Aculeate Animadversions on or Encounter with particular Expressions wherein the Fundamental Interests of Truth are not lodged or concerned but I have set my self to Establish those grand Points of Gospel Truth which I am perswaded ought at all times to be set in a clear and full Light on all Just Occasions in the most stated and Solemn Discourses and at all other times so interwoven That they may shine out and give their Light both to Prayer and Preaching While there is just room and scope yet left for all those Scriptural Expatiations into Instruction Exhortation Expostulation Reproof as Methods of Direction into the ways of Righteousness but still so as they may be enlightned by these Springs of Gospel Light Truth and Grace which I am now undertaking to Conciliate them unto This I have endeavoured in the most plain and perspicuous Method And so that whatever may appear in Mr. William's Book of a contrary Sentiment and Inclination may be comprehended so as to be resolved in some Cases of Doubt in others Foreprized or Guarded against not to say Answered And herein I have made it my Business to level the Discourse to these Heads or Points 1. To state the Gospel Doctrin concerning the Eternal Councils of God with Relation to all his Elect who are the principal Concernees in all these Points Yet with necessary Respect to all others so far especially as what is said of others or in General is necessary to be considered as Il●ustrating these things with Relation to the Elect. 2. I have made an Essay upon that noblest Point of Debate How far the Law upon its own Authority necessarily and indispensibly falls in with Ratifies and confirms the Power and Authority of the Gospel And how far the Gospel finds necessary to it self and to its great Ends not to make void but to Establish the Law And whether upon all this the Gospel can by it self be properly stiled a Law which I on great Reason make out in the Negative 3. I have offered great proof that the Faith Repentance Sanctification and Good Works the Gospel requires cannot be justly deemed or taken for Conditions or Qualifications but are Effluxes as from Electing Love and Grace so from the Righteousness and Death of Jesus Christ and his Victorious Resurrection through which the Holy Spirit is given and are as free as Election and Justification Themselves When they are considered in strict Relation to the Elect however in Relation to the Non-Elect or as generally spoken of They may put on such Notions or Representations as of Conditions or Qualifications 4. I have endeavored to Illustrate the Procedure of the Day of Judgment to be so described in Scripture that the Primary and Supream Representations and that subordinate all others to themselves are most exactly agreeable to the Free Grace of the Gospel not as a Law nor requiring any Qualifications or Conditions with Relation to the Elect but as gloriously appearing with its own Product and Effect as it shall be made to appear the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God and by the appearance of Jesus Christ with his Saints in whom he will be glorified and admired at that day I begin with the first And seeing I direct this Conciliatory Discourse to them whom I suppose to acknowledge with me an Election of a certrin Number to Salvation and Glory I make this Appeal to them Are there not in Scripture highest Assertions of Eternal Love and Grace Independent upon Qualifications and Conditions in them who shall be made Partakers Do not all stand in a Frame and Connexion Election Calling Justification Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption All as free and as certain the one as the other It is true the Wisdom of God hath so contrived and ordered this Preaching the Gospel That it is to be published promiscuously to the Non Elect with the Elect and as I may say to Probe for the Elect and to draw them out with Efficacy and Power by the Spirit joining with the Word It is also most true These cannot be apply'd to particular Persons but as ●●●●●ing Grace singles them out by Calling Sprinkling the Blood of Christ on their Hearts and Sanctification but they are always True concerning the whole Number and Body and so concerning every single Person And they may and ought to be openly Asserted and Maintained in Doctrin and also to be offered in Preaching and Publication of the Gospel as occasion Requires to invite and draw Souls by so free Absolute and Independent a Grace declar'd to Lost Man in all the Election of God And who knows but it may draw this and that particular Person in a Congregation and therefore with great hopes of a Divine Co-Operation It ought to be as other Truths Promulged And I doubt not when God opens the Mouths of his Servants in the boldest and frankest Declarations of Truth as he will when the as 't were new Song shall be learnt and so taught by the 144000 on Mount Sion with the Fathers Name on their Foreheads it shall be Sealed with the greatest Number of Converts as it was in Peter's Sermon offering that Grace which thing I humbly declare my self to be waiting for as the great Consolation of Israel And there are undeniably many great Scriptures that set out the freest most absolute and Independent Grace throughout our Salvation from first to last as Patterns or Exemplars of all Scripture such