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A45149	Peace at Pinners-Hall wish'd, and attempted in a pacifick paper touching the universality of redemption, the conditionality of the covenant of grace, and our freedom from the law of works upon occasion of a sermon ... / by a lover of truth and accommodation.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3700; ESTC R5169	19,418	34

is some distinction must be made here so that mediately indirectly or some way by way of Redundacy such blessings even as these are the benefits of Christs Redemption to such and such particular persons let that distinction be formed right and in such a sense will the condition we speak of be a fruit hereof to the Elect even by its redundant merit and value The purchase Christ made was a purchase for us and for himself His purchase for us was that we should be pardoned upon Condition He purchased for himself a power to give us that condition that our pardon may be compleat All power is committed to me in Heaven and Earth faith Christ after he was risen There is accordingly a Redemption by price our Divines say and by power Pardon upon condition is the fruit of his Redemption by price But the Condition is the Effect of his Redemption by power When by his Death I say he had paid the price of a pardon for All upon Condition by his Resurrection he receives power to conferr the condition to whom he pleases that is the Elect which when they perform they are justified or have absolute right in it And that may be a good resolution as to the sense of that Text He was delivered for our sins and raised again for our justification To make the matter though more plain we have that Text in the Acts. Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Repentance we see and so faith comes from this power the power of Christ as a King rather than as a Priest and if as a Priest both 't is by vertue of his Intercession as he is at Gods right hand rather than of his Oblation Now Christ intercedes for nothing but according to Gods Will His will is his Decree and it is from the decree his decree of Election that our faith and repentance does come It is not from Christs purchase by price it is not from the power of our free will but it is from Election which belongs to God not as Rector but as Lord of his own gifts working the same effectually in us It is out of this Treasury Christ gives it And not by virtue of a right to any from his death but by the power of an endless life Not as Testator but as the Executor or Dispenser of his Fathers Election In fine Christ by his death did merit or procure this power that he hath at God rights hand By this power he gives us Repentance and Faith Faith and Repentance then is not the fruit of Christs death any otherwise than mediately or indirectly as being derived from this power which he obtained by it God I again say for the merit of Christs life and death exalts him to the power mentioned Wherefore God hath highly exalted him By this power or as exalted Christ gives his Spirit to work Faith and Repentance in whom he chooses or hath chosen By this work they are regenerated and that Article in the Agreement or Covenant as some call it between Father and Son When thou shalt make his Soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed is made good to him In this way about then and no other does Faith and Repentance come to the Elect by his death when the direct and immediate fruit of it is Vniversal That is Faith and Repentance the Condition is the fruit of Christs death as all other Blessings are which are asked of God for Christ's merits sake or which he as Prince and Saviour bestows on his people Whereas now it pleased the Gentleman to tell me That he never heard any Divine say in the Pulpit that which I said If he will understand me right I will take it for a Commendation rather than disparagement seeing it does import that what these Moderate Divines do generally say in the Substance was so deliver'd by me by way of Cultivation as did make some impression upon him as if it had been new rare or singular altogether That which I delivered in effect was indeed only this That Christ hath procured for the World a General Pardon But there is none have Benefit by it but he that believes and repents If I had called this a Vniversal conditional Remission and said no more which is the same whole thing he had not perhaps been surprized and I could as easily have said so but to speak as I did was better as fitted to my pacificatory end This is what I said I gave it light from the consideration of a Pardon by Act of Parliament A Pardon is agreed on by the King and the two Houses the People know nothing of it and do nothing to the obtaining it and the Pardon is General Nevertheless if any come to have the benefit by this Pardon he must look into the Act and see how it runs he must see what Qualifications it requires and if he does or will not qualify himself according to to the Act he loses the benefit It is so in this Act of Grace or Pardon for the world It is an Act of Grace I say perfectly free to man No man does or can do any thing to pacify God or merit the same It is all from the Agreement between Father and Son that Christ should fulfill the Law and by suffering also satisfy for our sins and the Pardon thereby be granted in our behalf while man does nothing himself by way of Cause I must say Condition or Active Occasion thereunto and here do I bring off those that say this Act Law or Covenant of Grace is without condition which in this sense we all see is really so And yet when any man comes in particular for benefit by this Pardon Act of Grace Grant Law Covenant Testament for this Grant of Pardon obtained by Christ the Covenant or Testament of Christ which is his Will bequeathing what he hath purchased upon his own terms are all we must know but the same thing he must read the Act and see how it is passed or read over the Will and see how it is made he must go to the Rowl which is the Word of God It was decreed from Eternity it passed at Christs death it was inrolled in Gods Words and promulgated by the Ministers of it and there he will find that God requires of every man to Believe Repent and walk sincerely before him in order to have the Benefit and that unless he Believes and Repents he is to have none by it And by this do I justifie those also of our Divines which are the Generality who say this Act Law or Covenant of Grace hath Conditions And when thus much will be acknowledged on both sides to wit That it is the sound Believer only or sincere Convert that is pardoned Absolutely so as to be Saved you have a way chalked out for Reconciliation of our Brethren at least so far as I drive to wit That Conscientious

people may hear Both with profit and without offence as Preaching no other Doctrine in regard to Practice however they may differ in the Explication but what is consonant or may be made consonant to one another There are some I know apt to think the Covenant of Grace to be without Condition upon the account they say it is not made with Man because he can promise of himself to perform nothing but with Christ in behalf of the Elect as their Head who hath therefore undertaken with the Father both to purchase the terms by his Blood and see them performed by his Spirit in all such so that they shall be infallibly Saved But I see not how these men get any thing by this for if Christ hath undertaken to do thus that is To see these terms performed by his Elect it must be in that Order as the Scripture declareth and that is By giving them Repentance that they may be Forgiven Faith that they may be Justified and Perseverance that they may be Saved and this does not hinder but makes the Covenant to be Conditional When those that hold it made with man and to have conditions do make Faith to be Gods gift and the performance to be by Grace no less than these do As for their speaking of a Covenant and thinking it not made with Man I must confess I wonder Give me such a Man and I will Ask him Hath the Covenant of Grace a Mediator or No Who will dare to say No Well then A Mediator is not a Mediator of one sayes the Apostle that is Not of one but two Parties There must be two Parties at odds that have a Dayes-Man come between them to lay his hand upon both to bring them to an Agreement Christ is our Dayes-Man and besides him there must be two Parties or he can be no Mediator between both A Mediator is not of one sayes the Scripture but God is one God is one or but one one party only and there must be another therefore on necessity besides the mediator and him which is Man There is one God and one Mediator between God and Men the man Christ Jesus The light here is so esclatant it cannot be resisted but I will produce what is yet more palpable Let us turn to the Covenant it self This is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the Lord I will put my Laws in their minds and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a Poople What a strange thing now is it that any here should suppose this Covenant to be made with Christ and not with man when it is expresly said to be made with Man with the House of Israel And what is this House of Israel I will tell you and there is more here need to be told It is the whole world all the Nations that come in at the Preaching of the Gospel into the Church of God or the Messiahs Kingdom that is this House It is spoken in the style of the Old Testament when Israel only was Gods people and his peculiar heritage or dwelling but now the partition wall is broken down there is no man that receives the Gospel but he comes into this House a House wherein we must understand too there are Vessels that are of Wood See a Book called The Ax laid to the Root of Separation as well as of Gold though the denomination be still from the better sort He comes I say and is ingrafted into the Jews Olive or Covenant he does at his Baptism enter Covenant with the Father Son and Holy Ghost which is the only True God and the same God with the God of the Jews and so they become his people a holy people a chosen generation according to the Titles which that people had even the whole body of them called the Church in the Wilderness Only we have this good difference that when that people had their Laws written by Moses which were so many and grievous and in one place said to be not good we have none now but the Law of Nature which is writen within every mans breast as is the very intent I think of this Text with the verse after together with the revealed mind of God about his Son This Sir is a great business and Gods mercifulness for his sake in forgiving our iniquities which follows must be understood according to the Tenour of the Gospel declared by Christ and his Apostles He that believes shall be saved and he that believes not shall be damned Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Upon this touch you can judge what enlargement would follow and with what due caution it should be made The Gospel is preached they Mystery of Christ God incarnate revealed the Idolary of all the earth disclaimed confounded destroyed the Religion of the Jews abolished what then remains but the word that is nigh us and in our hearts that is the Religion of Mankind Christ indeed did institute a Church and Officers for the gathering and governing it He hath commanded and left us two Sacraments and bid us pray in his Name and what else is there in the Christian Religion but the new Commandment which we had from the beginning Love The Law of Love whieh is our duty to God and our Neighbour and that is verily the Law of Nature according to which the Patriarchs of old and all the holy men in the world lived before there was Law or Gospel Si igitur eundem illum quem prisci ac ipso Mose antiquiores coluerunt Deum Christi doctrina gentibus universis demonstrauit haud dubium est quin ejusdem cum illis divini cultus facti sumus participes communem porro habentes religionem communem quoque benedictionem fortiturosesse palam est Eusebius De Demons Evan. l. c. 3. The sense of this quotation and of other Authority I might cite also as of Justin Martyr who tells us that * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they that live according to Reason as Socrates are Christians though call●d Heathen in his Apology and of Clemens Alexandrinus who says the Greeks of old by their Philosophy were justified Strom. l. 1. I leave as coming in obiter with the consequence to the Candid and Wise Adhibita semper est universis hominibus says Ambr. or Prosper quaedam supern aemensura doctrinae quae etsi parcioris occultiorisque Gratiae fuit sufficit tamen sicut Dominus judicavit quibusdam ad Remedium omnibus ad Testimonium De Voc. Gen. c. 5. SIR THere was another point concerning our Freedom from the Law which I also occasionally stated in regard to the present peeping up of Antinomianisme and seeing the said Gentleman gave me his thanks for that I think it but a peice of good manners to present him the same with the rest which he controverted Especially seeing I shall bring it to