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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96295	Mankinds jubilee, or, Good tidings of great joy for all people plainly discovered by Scripture texts ... shewing that there is a common salvation of all men ... / written by Christopher Wade, An. Dom 1658.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1658 (1658)	Wing W158A; ESTC R42984	102,952	125

inferred in the same Chapter as sinne abounded by the Law there grace did much more abound ver 20. and the reason thereof is there given to be this that as sin had raigned unto death even over all men as appears ver 12. by the Law ver 20. even so largely might Grace reigne through righteousnesse by Jesus Christ our Lord ver 21. by his costly establishing the Gospell intended on Gods part for the benefit of all men And to say as the truth is the Apostles very frequently in their Epistles doe lay downe in plain words these and such like generall grounds of a common salvation wherefrom they do very often frame their following discourses though indeed this their generall ground-plot though being declared by them the Apostles agreeable to the Prophets and also our Saviour Christs own plain words hath been by many Godly and Learned men overlooked which oversight hath not only as it were buried the most ready the most sure and most comfortable foundation of faith and repentance which is that Christ dyed for all and hath thereby saved them from the curse of the Law and first death bringing all men to the knowledge of truth inabling all men so that in their good use thereof they might also of ape the danger of the second death all which is herein proved but also it hath bred and nursed up and doth nourish many variable noisome contentions even in the Christian world by men blasting as much as in them lies those plain words that Christ is the Saviour of all men 1 Tim. 4.10 that he dyed for all 2. Cor. 5.15 that he is the propitiation for the sins of no fewer than the sins of the whole world 1 John 2.2 But hereto I doe intreat you to take notice that whereas in Scripture is mention made of the Oldman Rom. 6.6 Eph. 4.22 Col. 3.9 and of the New man Eph. 4.24 Col. 3.10 that the common salvation is in no for hespefull either to the Old or New man nor indeed can be for the Old man is the body of sin Rom. 6.6 the old man is corrupt through deceiveable lusts Eph. 4.22 This corrupt qualification in man is devilish and from the Devill issueth naturaily into all men by Adams fall and is nourished by Sathans continuall operations thereto annexed and cannot nor is in any mannar capable to receive any benefit or be any waies bettered by the common salvation And on the other de the New man is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that Created him Col. 3.10 and after God is crected in righteousnesse and true holinesse Eph. 4.24 And by its thus proceeding from God who is perfect perfection it no way needeth neither can it any waies be helped mended or made better by the common salvation or any other meanes Therefore we are to know that the common salvation is by grace in Christ established and by him perfected for all men whether any man doe beleeve it or not that by the help of the holy and good spirituall New man the Rationall man consisting by vertue of the Creation of the substances of soule and body might be assisted on Gods part against the continuall evill attempts and suggestions of the Sathanically deluding Old man for both the New man and the Old man do strive against each other in the person of the Rationall mean to obtaine his consent either to good by the New mans solicitation or to evill by the Old mans instigation From whence the Apostle exhorts not the spirituall new man that needeth no exhortation to good nor the diabolicall Old man that cannot possibly act any otherwise but to do evill but he perswades the Rationall man in whose person they both do strive to get the supremacy in his acceptation and affection to put off the Old man which is corrupt and to put on the New man which is after God created in righteousnesse Eph. 4.22 24. And from hence also the Apostle accounteth our yielding up our bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God our reasonable or rationall service Rom. 12.1 Which Rationall man or substances of body and soule being considered of without the sinne by themselves contracted to and in them are in themselves good for sinne doth not null those created substances which were by Creation good but doth pollute them And not only the good substances of men as in reference to the Creation but of the Devils also are not offensive being considered of apart from the sinne thereto by themselves contracted And further to confirme this necessary point Note what Paul said But I see another law in my members rebelling against the law of my mind Rom. 7.22 Herein the Apostle Paul sheweth distinctly that the Rationall man is the spectator and is the place or person in whom that combate is fought for in effect he saith I see Note that I the Rationall man do see the contest betwixt the flesh and the spirit or the Old man and the New man making war one against the other in me one of them in my mind the other in my members Againe he saith the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh so that ye cannot doe that ye would Gal. 5.17 Herein also the word yee cannot doe the things that yee would because of the strong contest of the Old man against the New man or the flesh against the spirit maintained in their persons sets sorth the Rationall man distinct from the Old and New man which rationality hath reference to Rom. 12.1 before cited And although this combate of the flesh and the spirit or the Old man and New man be very often in the conscience of every man that hath attained to years of understanding and judgement yet this distinction is either not knowne or but little discerned by any untill he become a confiding believer neither doe any yield to the new mans part but such yet I believe that no man being capable of understanding will deny but that he hath often felt such conflicts in his conscience and in his judgement although he hath persisted in resisting the good motions of the holy spirit and hath not followed much lesse accepted of that Gospell-light and so in time it may be his conscience is grown seared and then given up of God spiritually insensible of all accusations or good instructions of the spirit or New man dictated in his conscience therefore we are to understand that by the rationall man is meant every man or the substances of every mans soule and body and their faculties And that every man thus considered is totally by nature corrupt by Adams fall originally and so is Sathanically deluded and captived in darknesse and rebellious dispositions Psal 14.2 3. Rom. 3.10 18. So that before any one of mankind can attaine to be able to know or choose light or life upon necessity he the rationall man must be inabled and set free by grace in the inward man their hearts eies

beforesaid is blotted out be referred to Gods hand-writing then the Morall Law is abolished and blotted out for God wrote that with his owne finger Deut. 31. 18. but he added no other nor no more Deut. 5.22 And if the hand-writing of Ordinances which is blotted out Col. 2.14 be referred to Moses hand-writing then also the Morall Law is blotted out for as God spake all the words of the Law so you see proved that Moses wrote all the words of the Lord even untill all were finished Deut. 31.24 And he wrote no book of Ordinances but such as had and hath Morall Law-Ordinances frequently included in it his books now counted five books being then but one book or handwriting of Ordinances Deut. 31.26 Thus farre wee have observed that the Morall Law is abolished and blotted out as it is called the Law of Commandements or one hand-writing of Ordinances But now I pray you let us consider of the Morall Law as it is called the first Covenant Heb. 9.7 or first Testament ver 15. which was written and engraven in stones 2 Cor. 3.7 God having given no other Law ingraven or written in stones but the Morall Law only unto which Morall Law the Ceremoniall Law was appointed to be pacifically subservient Heb. 9.1 6. Also it is said that that Law also was but imposed upon the Jewes but untill the time of reformation Heb. 9.10 And as for the Morall Law it selfe which was written and ingraven in stones 2 Cor. 3.7 called there the ministration of death that it was to be done away see ver 7. And further in expresse words it is done away ver 11. and is abolished ver 13. and with the downfall thereof the very Ceremoniall Law and Priesthood to that Law belonging is abolished utterly and the Priesthood it selfe to that Law belonging at the comming in of the reformation so limited as is said in Heb. 9.10 is fully changed from the Tribe of Levi to the Tribe of Judah for our Lord sprang out of Judah Heb. 7.14 and therefrom the Apostle affirmeth that thereby is made upon necessity a change of the Law ver 12. Observe upon necessity the Law must be changed by that change of the Priesthood and for our further satisfaction in this point the Apostle saith that there is verily a disanulling of the Commandement going before ver 18. What can the Scripture say more And beloved I thinke you will not deny but it had been very frivolous for the Apostle to tell the Ephesians Eph. 2.15 that the Ceremoniall Law was abolished and to tell the Colossians Col. 2.14 hat the Ceremoniall Law was blotted out for them and as much vanity it had been for him to tell the Galathians Gal. 3.13 that Christ had redeemed them from the curse of the Ceremoniall Law for the Ceremoniall Law was never at enmity with those Nations nor against or contrary to them for the Ceremoniall Law was never in any measure imposed upon any of those people to observe except some few Proselytes Therefore as is before proved the Morall Law is abolished and blotted out for it was but added untill the seed came Gal. 3.19 Againe if the Morall Law be not so fully abolished and blotted out for all men but that it remaines in such force still that some men doe eternally perish under the curse or sentence of that Law and if any one man be lest out of the protection of the second Covenant to perish by the first Death eternally for the breach of that first Covenant or first Testament then the Morall Law is not abolished nor blotted out which to affirme is not onely a flat audacious contradiction against Gods manifest words beforesaid and is not only contrary to Rom. 5.20 21. and Heb. 9.15 where it is affirmed that Christs death was for the Redemption of the transgressions against that first Testament without any limitation but considering that the transgressions against that first Testament or Morall Law never were are or ever can be the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost as is by Scripture proved in my 9 10 and 11 Distinctions That affirmation to say that some men doe perish eternally by the Morall Law proveth also no lesse than a flat affronting opposition against our Saviour Christs owne words who affirmeth punctually that all manner of sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto the sonnes of men with this one only distinct reserve that he that blasphemeth the Holy Ghost shall not bee forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come as appeareth Matthew 12.31 32. and in Mark 3.28 And I hope you will not tax our Saviour with indiscretion for so saying Yet notwithstanding though the curse or eternall condemning power or sentence of the Morall Law is abolished and blotted out as is proved herein and also in my 20 Distinction Yet the holy righteous requirings of Love both to God and men contained in the Law is required by the Gospell for it saith Love is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 13.10 Thus though the Gospell destroyeth the eternall curse of the Law yet by its so amiably sympathizing with the holy requirings of the Law by a justiciall salutation of them both in Christ and his propitiatory performances MERCY and TRUTH are met together RIGHTEOUSnesse and PEACE have kissed each other Psal 85.10 Thus is the righteousnesse of the Law evangelically fulfilled in them that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8.4 in the first fruits of the spirit ver 23. and will be perfectly fulfilled in them at their resurrection and adoption or redemption of their bodies which beleevers wait for Rom. 8.23 Therefore we are not to reject or cast off the holy instructions which are rendered in the holinesse goodnesse and justnesse of the Law Romans 7.12 for our Saviour saith he came to fulfill the Law Matthew 5.17 And from this amiable conjunction of the Gospell with the holy requirings of the Law the Apostle saith do we make void the Law through faith yea we establish the Law Rom. 3.31 Therefore the Prophet speaking of seeking to and trusting in God saith concerning the Law Gospelized or testimony of Jesus to the Law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8.20 And the Apostle speaking of the Saints overcomming of Sathan saith and they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the words of the testimony Rev. 12.11 Also according to the proportion of ability allotted to us here in this life we may therein see the excellent perfect perfection holinesse and justnesse that is in our good God and in that pure glasse we may behold our own pollutions and deformities and though however slighted by some men yet it remaines to publick view as a famous antient pretious monument whereby we may behold the dangerous rock upon which without Christ's assistance we all mankind had eternally suffered shipwracke Rom. 3.19 and 5.12 19 20.