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spirit_n	jesus_n	lord_n	soul_n	17,358	5	5.0806	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88080	The glorious truth of redemption by Jesus Christ, rescued out of the hand or unrighteousnes. Or the doctrine of redemption rightly stated: wherein, 1. All Arminian and Pelagian glosses and absurdities are refuted. 2. All carnal allegations and reasonings silenc'd. 3. All concern'd scriptures seemingly discording, reconcil'd. 4. The doctrine of redemption clearly held forth, according to the harmony of scripture, and analogie of faith. By W.L.	Levitt, William.	1652 (1652)	Wing L1828; Thomason E681_7; ESTC R206784	25,340	46

from heaven shall teach any doctrine dishonourable to God in denying any of his attributes destructive to the harmony of Scripture believe him not nay hold such accursed according to Gal. 1. 8. though their conversations be never so unblameable for herein Sathan transforms himself into an Angel of light and as he so his ministers 2 Cor. 9. 14 15. 2. Attend upon every ordinance of God publike and private not for custom but conscience sake take heed of that vain opinion and practise of too to many in our times that while they tell us of living above Ordinances they live without them in the utter neglect and contempt of them whereby they become a very prey to the divel and their own lusts up to which it 's just with God to deliver them Rom. 1. 28. 3. Beware of slighting and scorning those that under God have been instruments of thy conversion how despicable soever they be in the eys of others the blind man would not be perswaded by the Pharisees out of his senses concerning Christ that he was a sinner c. Whether he be a sinner or no saith he I know not one thing I am sure of that whereas I was blind I now see and since the world began it was never known that a man born blind had his eys opened So when you hear able godly conscientious ministers and messengers of God slighted and vilified as it 's too common in our days a heavie judgement of God upon this Nation I say plead thy experiences in their behalf and frame arguments from their conversation doctrine and work of grace in thy soul who was born stark blind and dead to maintain the justness of their cause and innocency against all gainsayers 4. Have no mans person in admiration either minister or private Christian but let thy affections be so poysed that the image of God in every man be the basis and foundation of thy affections although they may differ from thee in some circumstantial points if fearers of God stand not at a distance with any 5. Part not easily with any truth of God resist herefie in the very beginning buy the truth and sell it not contend earnestly for the faith once given to the Saints lean not to thy own understanding but consult with the godly judicious learned when any truth is called in question part not upon easie terms for there are that are cunning to deceive therefore take heed of being deceived it 's Christ's own caution Mark 13. 4. Mat. 24. 4. so the Apostle in Eph. 4. 14. Eph. 5. 6. 2 Thes 2. 3. 6. Be not puft up with conceit of thy own abilities think meanly of thy self according to Rom. 12. 3. be humble and God will give thee more and more knowledge of him He will teach the humble Psal 25. 9. 7. Ever suspect that doctrine that magnifies the creature that tends to loosness of life neglect of religious duties and embrace that doctrine that presses holiness and attendance upon divine ordinances that sets up Jesus Christ and lays the creature low and though it be against the grain of nature yet it 's the more like to proceed from God 8. Endeavour to walk as becomes thy profession sutable to that light and knowledge thou hast of God so shalt thou know more of God if we follow on to know him Hos 6. 3. to him that ordereth his conversation aright will he shew his salvation 9. Be conversant with the most knowing judicious godly Christians and be very well advised when either an old received truth is called in question or an old error is spread under the notion of a new light for old error soonest settles upon young heads Men and women young in the matters of God shun the society of men profane selfish or peevishly disposed whose minds run after novelties 10. Pray the Lord to direct and preserve thee in the ways of truth and righteousness so shalt thou be preserved from the error of the wicked I conclude with the prayer of the Apostle 2 Thes 5. 23. Now the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout and I pray God that your whole spirits souls and bodies may be kept blameless to the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ FINIS

the Lord over all his creatures as is clearly held forth in Rom. 9. 21 22. 2. If men of themselves have free-will then the will of God is not only resisted but utterly rejected contrary to the priviledge the Master hath of his servant the power a Father hath over his children and contrary to the great soveraignty of God whose will indeed is uncontrollable and irresistable viz. his decreeing Will what he determines shall come to pass Psal 148. 6. Jer. 5. 22. Luk. 22. 22. Acts 2. 23. Rom. 9. 19. Ezek. 12. 25. 8. That this Doctrine destroys the very end of Christs coming in the Flesh appears For The main end of Christs coming in the flesh was to destroy the body of sin the works of the Divel his blood being the purchase of his Church and applicable to none Rom. 6. 6. Acts 20. 28. but Believers such as drink it by faith Titus 2. 14. Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and purge us to be a peculiar people to himself zealous of good works So that for whom he dies he redeems as well from all iniquity as death he never procures pardon but for his purged ones whom he purifies with his blood he came not only to save from original but actual transgression he being a perfect Saviour His end was not only to be made sin for us but that we might be made righteous in him For those for whom he Rom. 3. 25. died for them also he rose again Them whom he justifies 1 Pet. 2. 24. with his blood he sanctifies with his Spirit and them also glorifies But this opinion tells us he dyed for millions 2 Cor. 5. 21. that never partake in his Resurrection Intercession who he neither sanctifies nor glorifies and so destroys the main end of all he hath done and suffered for the sons of m●n Come we now to answer those Objections and Allegations of men contrary minded Object If this be not the meaning of such Scriptures that Christ dyed for all mankinde what then is their right sense Answ For that 1 Cor. 15. 22. As in Adam all dy even so in Christ shall all be made alive it hath no relation at all to the Doctrine of Redemption but of the Resurrection the Apostle discoursing upon that subject and so it 's true as in Adam all dy so by the power of Christ's death and resurrection shall all be raised out of the grave he being the first fruits of those that sleep Nevertheless some shall arise to the resurrection of life others to the resurrection of condemnation John 5. 29. So that some are so far from being made alive to eternity that they arise to receive the sentence and doom of everlasting death and torment But suppose this place had intended the doctrine of Redemption by Jesus Christ as that Rom. 5. 18. and other Scriptures do speaking in general terms yet we must take heed of making every particular Scripture it s own Interpreter for no Scripture is of private interpretation the spirits of the Prophets being subject to the Prophets 2 Peter 1. 20 therefore we must compare one Scripture with another lest we utterly destroy that sweet and holy harmony that is to be found even in Scriptures seemingly opposite one to the other and then such places will hold forth this truth that as all that perish perish in Adam so all that are saved are saved by Christ or as all that dy viz. eternally dy in Adam so all that live viz. eternally live in and by Christ For all do not dy eternally in Adam so all do not live eternally by Christ Although there be sufficiency in the blood of Christ for ten thousand worlds yet it becomes efficacious to none but such as lay hold upon him by faith his elect his chosen ones before the world began Such who are given to him by the Father out of the world who are but a remnant a little flock compared with those that perish The intent of such Scriptures being to declare the way and means of salvation and damnation not the number of those that are either saved or perish the mistake lying chiefly in the mis-interpretation of the word all and world which are in Scripture diversly to be accepted as appears in the ensuing discourse All in Scripture often put for many and few for none as in Phil. 2. 21. All seek their own things but none the things of Christ whereas blessed be God there are many that do principally seek the things of Christ not their owne Object But if some be Elect and some Reprobate how are mens destruction said to be of themselves as in Hos 13. 9. 2 Pet. 2. 1. Answ 1 Because God gave us at first power in Adam to stand which we having wilfully lost the Lord may justly charge us with the guilt of our owne blood for all our actual transgressions and rebellions are fruits and effects of that original pollution 2. By reason there is in all that perish a desperate heart of impenitency and unbelief implacably bent against God despising and rejecting all means of grace and salvation men of reprobate minds who shall never be able to say at last at the great and general day Lord I would have believed and repented but thy Decree of Reprobation kept me back for such men know 1. That they were ignorant whether they were in the compass of that Decree 2. Their own Consciences shall tell them although it was their duty to wait upon God in the use of all means of grace and although they sate many yeers under the droppings of Divine dispensations yet they utterly abhorred all means and opportunities of grace whatsoever and chose rather to perish then to be saved by Christ For this is to be noted that Scripture saith not that God gives reprobate minds to any but that he gives them over to reprobate minds which all men naturally are of God infuses not sin but reprobates 1. By permission suffering men to go on in their sins 2. By subduction withdrawing or with-holding the gifts and graces of his Spirit he being a free Agent and not bound to bestow his graces to any therefore whom he intends and purposes to save to them he gives the grace of faith and repentance others he passes by it being his Prerogative Royal to have mercy on whom he will have mercy it being an effect of mercy that any at all are saved 3. By Tradition delivering men up to the hardness of their own hearts and power of their own lusts saying to the filthy be thou filthy still and to the unholy be thou unholy still Rev. 22. 11. and this a just judgement of God upon them Object If it be not in mens power to repent and believe why is impenitency or unbelief charged upon them as their sin Answ 1 As before God gave us power to stand after he had created us in a holy and innocent estate 2. Unbelief is a sin