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A69227	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the sixt of February. 1596 In which are discussed these three conclusions. 1 It is not the will of God that all men should be saued. 2 The absolute will of God, and his secret decree from all eternitie is the cause why some are predestined to saluation, others to destruction, and not any foresight of faith, or good workes in the one, or infidelitie, neglect, or contempt in the other. 3 Christ died not effectually for all. By Iohn Doue, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Dove, John, 1560 or 61-1618.	1597 (1597)	STC 7087; ESTC S111946	36,520	88

viuet The iust man shall liue by his owne faith and the Apostles Creede beginneth Credo I beleeue not Credimus We beleeue And Iob saith of himselfe in particular I knowe that my redeemer liueth that though wormes destroy this bodie yet I shall see God in my flesh The spirit of God beareth witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God Because sayth Paule yee are sonnes God hath sent the spirit of his sonne into your hearts which crieth Abba father So that euery true Christian may by this doctrine of predestination that Christ died onely for them whom hee hath predestinated before comfort himselfe that hee is one of them which are predestinated forasmuch as he beleeueth the spirit of God which is within him euen that spirit of comfort doth witnesse to his spirit that he is the son of God and therefore assure himselfe of his owne saluation without entring into the secrets of God to iudge of other men whether they shall bee saued or no. As for the ministerie of the Gospell it continueth the same which it was euer from the first institution For though fewe are chosen yet many are called and only God knoweth who are his Therfore the Minister must preach saluation to al Paule must plant Apollo must water and leaue it to God to giue the increase Peter must cast his net into the sea and leaue to God the successe of his labors The Ministers of Gods word must doe as the seruants of the great king whē he made a marriage for his sonne which went out into the high way and inuited all without exception euē euerie one whom they could finde both good and badde and bid them to the wedding As God suffereth the sunne to shine and raine to raine vpon the badde as well as the good with all indifferencie No man knoweth whom God hath called or at what houre hee will call men or whether he will call them or not and therefore we must not refuse to do our indeuour wee must not despaire of any mans conuersion vnto the fayth or perseuerance after his conuersion in the fayth And because God hath two willes one secret and knowne to himselfe alone the other reuealed in the scriptures and imparted to vs in his secrete will hee will haue some to bee saued in his reuealed will hee commaundeth that the Gospel should be preached to all we must not inquire after his secrete will which is knowne onely to himselfe but his reuealed will which is knowne to our selues for that seruant which knoweth his masters will and dooth it not shall bee beaten with many stripes Thus counsailing euerie one that will enter into the consideration of such deepe poynts of diuinitie that they would sapere non altum but ad sobrietatem that they would be wise but with sobrietie and confesse with saint Paule O the deepenesse of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God howe vnsearchable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out For who hath knowne the mind of God or who was his counsayler Wee must not demaunde reason in matters of fayth because fayth goeth beyond reason I conclude with the godly Meditation of saint Augustin Miserum me quo modo sic induruit cor meum vt oculi me● non indesmenter fundant flumina lachrymarum dum seruus sermocinatur cum Domino homo cum Deo creatura cum creatore qui factus est limo ex cum eo qui omnia fecit ex nihilo Wretched man that I am howe is my heart hardened like the Adamant that mine eyes doe not powre out streames of teares to cōsider that the seruant expostulateth with his master man with God the creature with the Creator he which is made of the molde of the earth with him which made al things of nothing To him one inuisible and immortall God the father the sonne and the holy Ghost be all glory and honour for euer and euer Amen FINIS Med. c. 25 Gen. 18. Esay 6. Esay 24. Exod. 33. Iob. 9. Iob. 11. Esay 6. Esa 40. 4. Iere. 1. 9. Ezec. 4. 7. Mat. 5. 34 35. Iohn 4. 24 2. Cor. 3 17. Medit. 12. 24. 2. Cor. 4. Psal 82. Exod. 32. Gal. 4. Rom. 1. Baruch 6. 1. Samu. 12. 1. Reg. 16. Deuter. 7. Deut. 27. Ier. 10. Habac. 2. Deut. 26. Deut. 18. Esay 2. Esay 14. Mich. 5. Psal 115. Gen. 17. Gen. 35. Iohn 14. Ier. 23. 1. Tim. 1. 6 Psal 96. Psal 50. 1. Tim. 1. 1. Cor. 8. Zach. 14. 1. Tim. 1. 1. Tim. 6. Psal 82. Exod. 29. Leuit. 26. 2. Cor. 6. Psal 115. Psal 96. Num. 92. Ex. 20. 17 Liu. 19. 20 Dent. 5. 11. Iam. 5. 12 mat 5. 33. Pars. 2. quaest 89. artic 2. De serm do in mon. Gen. 21. 26. Ruth 3. 1. Reg. 18. Rom. 19. Apo. 10. 6. Gen. 22. 16. Nū 14. 26 Heb. 6. 13. Iohn 12. Rom. 5. 10 Col. 1. 21. Tract in Iohn 100 Iohn 3. 2. Pet. 3. 9. 1. Tim. 2. 4 Ioel. 2. Matth. 11. Psal 145. Gen. 3. Ma. 20. 16 Mat. 7. 13. Luk. 13. 24 Rom. 9. Mat. 1. Exod. 33. Esa 10. 21 22. Rom. 9. 27. Enchirid. ad Laur. cap. 95 97. Mat. 11. 21 1. Tim. 2. Psal 115. 3. Mat. 23. 27. Luke 13. 34. Enchi ad Lau. c. 100 Enchir. c. 100. Iohn 1. 1. Ioh. 5. 16. Luk. 11. 24 Mat. 11. Matt. 26. 27. Psal 19. Ma. 28 29 Mar. 16. 20. Act. 2. 5. 2. Tim. 2. 19. Exod. 20. Pro. 6. 17. Matt. 26. 21. Luk. 22. 48 Act. 2. 22 Act. 4. 25. Psal 2. 1. 2. Hugo de sancto victore dè sacra pars 4. cap. 15. Epist 48. ad Vincen. Enchir. c. 100. Ver. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23. Enchir. c. 98. Ephe. 2. Enchir. cap. 98. Ose 14. 13. 2. Pet. 2. 12. Vers 19. Vers 21. Vers 22. 23. Sam. Huberus Hel uetius Ber nensis pastor Ecclesiae Derendum gensis in Ducatu Witten● bergensi Malac. 1. Gen. 25. Ro. 9. 4. 15 Ver. 7. vnto 13. Vers 12 13. Vers 24. Ose 2. Esay 10. Vers 30. Cap. 10. 2 3 ver 9 12 Cap. 11. vers 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 ab 11. ad 29 30 31 Mal. 1. Vers 23. Gen. 27. 29 2. Sam. 8. Gene. 27. Vers 39. 2. Cor. 3. Biblioth sanc lib. 3. de vtilitate credendi ad Honoratum c. 3 Iohn 13. Psal 41. 9. Act. 1. 54. Psal 69. 25 Heb. 11. 8. Amos. 3. Mat. 6. 13 Rom. 1. 24 26. 28. Enchir. c. 100. Contra Iulian. Pelag. li. 5. cap. 3. 2. Thes 2. 1. Reg. 22. Part. 1. quaest 1. artic 6. Iob. 1. 2. Reg. 20. Mat. 20. Iohn 12 Iohn 20. Matt. 11 Matt. 27. 2 Tim. 2. Iohn 17. Gen. 3. Iohn 16. He● 2. 1. Cors 15. Rom. 5. 19. 1. Tim. 2. 2. Pet. 3. Rom. 8. Rom. 16. 2. Cor. 5. Apoc. 20. Rom. 7. Mat. 7. Heb. 6. 4. 1. Cor. 3. 1. Cor. 8. 11. 2. Pet. 2. 1. 2. Pet. 1. 9. Gal. 5. 4. Iohn 15. Rom. 11. 12. Iohn 10. 1. Ioh. 12. 19 Ier. 10. 1. Cor. 3. Iohn 6. Rom. 7. Iob. 4. 1. Cor. 15. Epist Iud. Ad C●●siph aduer Pelag. c. 4 Habak 2. Iob. 19. Rom. 8. Gal. 4. Rom. 11. Chap. 30.

called Deus huius seculi the God of this world Sometime the name of God is ascribed vnto men Ego dixi vos dij estis I haue sayd ye are Gods meaning kings rulers and magistrates to whom the sword of iustice is committed because they represent the person of God but they shall die like men sometimes to Idols Faciamus Deos qui praecedant nos Let vs make Gods to go before vs. It was the voyce of the people to Aaron when Moses was in the Mount of which Paule speaketh Euen then when they knew not God they did seruice vnto such things as by nature are not gods And When they knewe God they glorified him not as God but became vaine in their imaginations their foolish heart was full of darknesse when they professed themselues wise they became foolish for they turned the glorie of the incorruptible God into the image of a corruptible man of birds and foure footed beasts creeping things Such gods are made with hands and cannot saue themselues they are vanitie abhomination the doctrine of vanitie teachers of lies expressely forbidden in Gods book They haue eyes and see not eares heare not noses and smell not handes and touch not feete and walke not they that make them are like vnto them and so are all they that trust in them But the Prophet speaketh of one God in this place which is omnipotent which is a spirite which is euery where present and seeth al things which is immortall which is called in a word the Lord God and the God of gods Sing vnto the Lord a new song sing to the Lord al the earth sing to the Lord and praise his name declare his saluation frō day to day for the Lord is great and much to be praysed he is to be feared of all Gods For all the gods of the people are Idols but the Lorde hath made the heauens And The God of gods euen the Lorde hath spoken and called the earth euen from the rising of the Sunne to the going downe thereof I conclude this first part with Saint Paule Nowe vnto the King euerlasting immortall inuisible vnto God onely wise bee honour and glorie for euer and euer As I liue As there is but one God to the faithfull which hath but one name that he may haue no fellowship with the gods of the Nations so is he immortall onely hath immortalitie and dwelleth in the light that none can attaine vnto whom neuer man sawe nor can see that hee may bee distinguished from princes which also are Gods but they shall die like men and he is a liuing God that he may be distinguished frō Idols which are but dead Gods and therefore hee sayth As I liue I delight not c. In which wordes I obserue two things to wit the Lord sweareth and he sweareth by his life that is by himselfe He swore in his wrath that they shoulde not enter into his rest None saith he of the men which came out of Egypt from twentie yeares olde and vpward shal see the land concerning which I swore to Abraham Isaac and Iacob because they haue not wholye followed mee excepting Caleb and Iosua And as God swore so sometime man sweare that lawfully notwithstanding the general prohibition wherin oaths are forbiddē Thomas Aquinas alledgeth the authoritie of Saint August Contra mendacium where hee sheweth that all oathes are not simply forbidden but vpō respects Ne iurando ad facilitatē iurandi veniamns deinde ad consuetudinem demum ad periurium Least often swearing breed in vs a delight and delight growe to an habit and at the length to periurie And in another place Si iurare cogeris scias de necessitate venire infirmitatis illorum quibus suades quae infirmitas mala est non male facis qui bene vteris iuramento vt alteri vtiliter persuadeas sed à malo est illius cuius infirmitate iurare cogeris If thou be constrayned to sweare it is long of their weaknesse which will not beleeue thee without swearing which weaknesse of theirs is sin thou art not in fault which takest a lawfull oath to make fayth vnto an other but hee is in the fault whose incredulitie is such that he will not beleeue thee without an oath So to confirme a trueth Iacob and Laban made a couenant betweene themselues by swearing one to the other By an oath Boaz promised marriage to Ruth Abdias being a iust mā and fearing God swore vnto Elias Paule to the Romans God is my witnesse whom I serue in my spirite in the Gospel of his sonne that without ceasing I make mētion of you in my prayers And in swearing diuerse ceremonies haue beene obserued according to the times and places as in the time of Abraham they swore laying their handes vnder their thighes Afterward the Iewes taking the law of Moses in their handes the Christian touching the Gospel But as a learned man sayth Ceremonia iuramenti nihil est modò res iusta sit animus iuraniis bonus religiosum iuramentum It is not materiall what outward ceremonie is vsed in swering so as it be in a lawfull cause the cōscience of him which sweareth being good and the oath religious which hee taketh But whosoeuer sweareth hee must sweare by the Lorde and when the Lorde sweareth he sweareth by himselfe So the Angel swore by him that liueth for euermore there should be no more time By my selfe haue I sworne saith the Lord to Abraham because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thine onely sonne therfore I will blesse thee and multiply thy seede as the starres of heauen As I liue saieth the Lorde I will do vnto you as you haue spoken in mine eares your carkasses shall fall in the wildernesse But the reason why men sweare by the Lord and the Lord by himselfe is alledged by the Apostle An oath for confirmation is the ende of all strife so God willing more abundantly to shew vnto the heires of promise the stablenesse of his counsell bound himselfe by an oath that by two immutable things wherein it is impossible that God should lie we might haue strong consolation which haue our refuge to holde fast the hope that is set before vs. Now men sweare by him that is greater thē themselues but when God made the promise to Abraham because he had no greater to sweare by he swore by himselfe But I come to the last and essential point where he protesteth that he delighteth not in the death of a sinner That he delighteth not in the death of a sinner we need no further proof then this that hee sent his sonne to die for the saluation of sinners God sent not his sonne to condemne the