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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87179	Good news to all people. Glad tydings for all men. God good unto all, and Christ the saviour of the world: or, The general point faithfully handled by way of exercise: or A sermon preached at Buckingham upon the 25 of March, being (as so called) Easter-day. By William Hartley.	Hartley, William, of Stony-Stratford.	1650 (1650)	Wing H974; Thomason E594_11; ESTC R206917	25,853	32

GOOD NEWS to all PEOPLE GLAD TYDINGS for all MEN. God good unto All AND Christ the Saviour of the World OR The general Point faithfully handled by way of Exercise OR A Sermon preached at Buckingham upon the 25 of March being as so called Easter-day By WILLIAM HARTLEY 1 Tim. 2.4 Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledg of the truth Heb. 2.9 We see Jesus who was made a little lower then the Angels by suffering death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man LONDON Printed by John Macock for Lodowick Lloyd and Henry Cripps and are to be sold at their shop in Popes-head Alley 1650. For his beloved Cozen Captain Francis Freeman SIR WHen I call to mind the glorious refreshing Beams distilled from the men of your generation on Saints seeking after God it is hard to say Whether the remembrance doth minister greater comfort or sadness seeing such hideous Clouds have overwhelmed our Horizon that we are given to believe the Sun is upon the Equinoctial Point passing into the ecliptick Line * Nescio quis tineros oculus c. Whether the misty Vapours of our own Climate or that fruit-nipping North-East wind hath occasioned these Fogs interposing Supposition granteth no Conclusion and how Titan will be able to dispel these obstructive Mists before he dippeth himself into the * Tingere in altum Sol ita videtur navigant Vir. Sea 'T is Wisdom to praise a fair day at night To Morrows generation may Calculate whether Justice follow you or you follow Justice Sir I ask pardon for digression and present you this Discourse from the Press of which you were a Hearer in the Speech and beg resentment therein so far of your Spirit as it hath a witness from truth in the Spirit I am Your unworthy Kinsman William Hartley To the Reader Courteous Reader I Am deeply sadded when I consider the great rents the particular and general Point hath made in the Church of Christ and what sad disaster hath followed for want of holding forth the truth in love By providence having an opportunity to declare my thoughts touching the Vniversal Love of God to mankind I was mis-apprehended by divers of my Hearers whom I judg to be godly and Mr Birdits promise to inform the Auditory touching his and their misprision being not to my knowledg yet effected To wipe off the prejudice that Mr Birdit infused in the people not only of my self but the doctrine I have at the desire of my friends put this ensuing Treatise unto publique view although the Subject matter therein contained hath been managed ex superabundanti by many able and knowing men in the Scripture yet I humbly take liberty to cast my mite into the treasury I am not ignorant how contemptible this small piece offered will appear in the eyes of some and how sleighted of others because not coyned with the currant stamp yet I presume all rational and unbiassed professors will judg the mettal of this discourse according to its weight or worth in the ballance of Reason and Touch-stone of the Word of God which is the ultimate request of him whose desire is to know truth Stonystrat April 4. 1649. WIL HARTLEY GOOD NEWS to all PEOPLE GLAD TYDINGS for all MEN. ACTS 17.30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now he commandeth all men every where to repent IN the former part of this Chapter we read of Pauls practice viz. that as he passed from place to place his manner was to go into the Synagogues of the Jews there being a concourse of people he made it his business by arguments and reasoning from Scripture to declare Jesus Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this action of Pauls to wit his going into the Synagogues is warrantable see a president in Christ himself * Luk. 4.16 And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the Synagogues and stood up for to read c. It is evident from this place of Scripture and many more That Christ who taught the people upon the Mount in a Ship at the Sea side taught also in the Temple and Synagogues of the Jews not in relation to any sanctity in the places but in reference to an opportunity there being an Assembly of persons Herein the Apostle Paul professeth his integrity That he had shuned no occasion having taught the Word publiquely and from house to house Act. 20.20 As all endevors tending to the glory of God are incident to obstruction so this enterprize of the Apostle meets with no small opposition Two sorts of Adversaries are recorded The Jews those who worshipped the same God The Church of Christ hath no greater Enemies then those who spring from her own bowels That which Christ speaketh of a mans foes is most true in relation to Saints Their Enemies are of their own houshold Christian against Christian Beleever against Beleever Secondly Lewd fellows those of the baser sort uncivilized men who are adversaries to all goodness and good men these run open mouth at Paul but devout and moderate people the men of Berea neither distasted his person or doctrine but searched the Scriptures whether these things were true or no This Idolizing of persons places and forms hath done no small prejudice to the power of Truth and mystery of the Gospel At Athens though a City wholy given to Idolatry yet there Paul is drawn forth to preach the Gospel they being a people affected with Novelty unto them he declares the glad news of Jesus Christ 'T is remarkable that such a Heathenish people Philosophers of the Epicureans Stoicks c. should admit of a debate as Vers 19 20. May we know what this new Doctrine whereof thou speakest is For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears we would know therefore what these things mean c. I promise ye Sirs this civil deportment hath not been found in many of our Divines so called who in stead of embracing conference to argue out the Truth secundum pondus cry out with the invective Jews Away with such a fellow he is not worthy to live The Apostle having gained audience convinceth the vanity of the Athenian worship by interposition of the true taking notice of an Altar erected to an VNKNOWN GOD Whom therefore saith he ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you And the times of this ignorance God winked at Acts 17.30 but now he commandeth all men every where to repent Before we proceed to the Doctrinal part of the Text I shall open these three things First What is meant by Times You are to understand 1. What is meant by Times that when Time or Times are attributed to God it is spoken in reference to the capacity of the Creature God in himself being above and beyond all Time A thousand years in