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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

riches Yet further that it is the Duty of all men to seek the Lord and to pray unto him for Grace is out of all question but whoever cometh to God is expresly obliged to believe not only that he is but that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him Heb. 11.6 without which no foundation or motive of incouragement doth remain Now Faith can't stand alone without a bottom what warrant can any man have to believe in such a case that which God hath not promised Either they have Gods word for it or they can't be bound to believe it Faith is an assent upon Testimony that is its formal Nature and the thing testified namely that God is a rewarder yea in the very case in hand Luke 11.10 doth not transcend the faculty of the natural Man to yield his assent thereunto as the foundation of his Application unto God for the Grace that he wants If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him Jam. 1.5 but let him ask in Faith v. 6. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands ye Sinners Jam. 4.8 most express is that Prov. 2.3 4 5. If thou criest after knowledg and liftest up thy voice for understanding c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledg of God The fear of God is the thing in my Text required unto his favour And here the Dispensation thereof is made conditional and the tenor of the new Covenant with respect thereunto expressed As also in the former Chapter on the same foot of account it 's put upon every mans election or choice and laid there that they do not fear God Ch. 1.29 for that they wanted not assurance of help from God v. 23. if they had not rejected it and disregarded his methods unto it v. 25. 3. There is moreover a Threat belonging to this Constitution It 's no bare Counsel but has the force of a Law which serves further to confirm what is before asserted Every Threat doth virtually include a promise to the contrary in any establishment The Precept in Conjunction with the Sanction in case of disobedience Gen. 2.17 For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye is all that we have upon Record touching the first Covenant established with man Yet is it hence concluded that a promise of Life unto Adam in case he continued in his obedience cannot be doubted for that it must be certainly tho tacitly included in the Threat The Commination or Threat here is the denial of Grace a Dereliction of God a judicial blinding and hardening the taking away of former Talents mis-improved and leaving the Soul in an after-incapacity of Grace as now past it How full is the Scripture in this point From him shall be taken away even that he hath Mat. 13.12 lest at any time they should be converted and I should heal them v. 15. When God commands the use of means in order to the further communication of his Grace unto men that they do what they can do If now they will not seek unto God but set themselves down in a supine sloth and negligence at best or speaking evil of those things which they know not what they know naturally as bruit Beasts in those things they will corrupt themselves as Jude speaks affronting the Divine Majesty grieving his Spirit resisting it Act. 7.51 debauching their own Consciences and quenching the Spirit striving therein with them then he threatens to give them up Israel would none of me so I gave them up to their hearts lust Ps 81.12 O that my people had hearkened to me v. 13. God gave them over to a reprobate mind Rom. 1.28 that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes 2.11 12. Now they are hid from thine eyes Luke 19.42 thy day is past I will put a new Spirit within you Ezek. 11.19 but as for them whose heart walketh after their abominations I will recompence their way upon their own head v. 21. Zech. 7.11 13. The bellows are burnt the lead is consumed i. e. the cost is lost Reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them Jer. 6.29 Thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee Ezek. 24.12 13. My Spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6.3 It 's true that the Threat here doth not every way run parallel with the promise In the Promise God hath laid an Obligation on himself when the Condition is performed But the Threat carrieth in it but the nature of a penal Law which in its due Construction tho it obligeth the Sinner unto its Penalty in case of forfeiture yet it bindeth not the Law-giver unto Execution in such case God has as Supream Governour for weighty Reason reserved to himself his Prerogative Royal as to the Execution of the Threat and the timing of it when he doth it as was hinted in the opening of the Text. Sometimes he has foretold that he will and we find actually that he hath stept out of the course of his standing Law and prevented some in the way of discriminating Mercy Act. 9.14 15. without wrong to any other in the like circumstances whose undoubted right it is to have in his disposal some special grace and favour which no mortal but has to bestow on whom he pleases according to that noted saying of Prosper Deus neminem deserit c. God leaves none till they forsake him and many such he often converts But in the mean while when ever he does it the Sinner had no warrant to expect it or to adventure on it which were to sin that way might be made for discriminating Grace to abound no man has any ground to believe that God will convert him out of the way and method prescribed unto him in order to it How many may have perished on that Presumption and that by their own wilful neglect whilst they well knew that in the Communication of pardoning Grace and Acceptance unto Life God hath not reserved to himself any the like liberty of Supersedure to save any one who by a previous work of sanctifying Grace on his Soul is not afore prepared unto Glory Rom. 9.23 24. and therefore it must be a madness to adventure it Now then Soul if that be so and this be thy case say now whether God requireth any impossibility of thee or whether no relief was indeed offered thee in the new Covenant grant God has signified his willingness to admit of a conference with thee here and to put it upon thy Conscience thy self being Judg touching the equality of his ways Isa 5.3 7. What incouragement more wouldest thou have or what assurance touching the possibility of thy attaining unto favour

will not deny thee any advantage that God will account with thee for But God is no respecter of persons meerly on that score to accept thee Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Christian first and also of the Jew Mahometan and Pagan Infidel World Rom. 2.9 For there is no respect of persons with God v. 11. Again They were nigh to God and had more hope and helps for Eternal Life than others that were strangers to the covenant of advantages peculiar to them had Rom. 3.1 they had the custody of Gods Oracles which was more than to be within the sound of them v. 2. And this is now thy priviledge with others and all the World comparatively are in a hopeless condition besides if not absolutely lost But God respects thee not for this thou maist perish by thy own neglect for all that without escape Heb. 2.3 as well as they Again They were Circumcised and took upon them to be debtors to the whole Law And thou art Baptized and become a debtor to the whole Gospel and hast the badge of Gods Covenant upon thee as they had Acts 7.8 But as Circumcision profited not unless they kept the Law but was made uncircumcision Rom. 2.25 so neither can Baptism now save without the answer of a good Conscience towards God 1 Pet. 3.21 it shall no more be accounted to thee than if thou were unbaptized They had the Law and the Service of God Rom. 9. The Temple of the Lord are these Jer. 4 7. so do the Ordinances and Service of the Gospel belong to and oblige thee thou art of the Church and all the institutions of the Gospel belong to it If thou beest secluded it 's for thy own prophaness or contempt and thou art not thereby neither broken off the Olive-tree I grant 2 Thes 3.15 but however this is not to be trusted to God respects no mans person for that The Israelites partook of Sacraments with Gods Warrant with whom many of them God was not well pleased 1 Cor. 10.4 5. Thou maist have eaten and drunk in Christ's presence and yet he not own thee Luk. 13.26 To come yet nearer In the point of Belief Thou believest that there is one God so did they when they worshipped the golden Calf which they had made Exod. 32.5 and so do the Devils also believe and tremble Jam. 2.19 Again The Jews did believe the Scriptures of the Old Testament to be the word of God a divine Record in the whole some understanding less some more of it they admitted it for the Standard of Doctrines Acts 18.28 ch 26.27 We are Moses Disciples say they We know that God spake unto him Joh. 9.29 in him they trusted For in them ye think ye have eternal Life Chap. 5.39 so thou believest of both Testaments thou ownest the Revelation of the Gospel but what is this to acceptance with God Who have received the Law by the disposition of Angels and have not kept it Acts 7.53 Out of thy own mouth upon the Gospel will God take issue in his final Judgment against thee Rom. 2.16 1 Tim. 1.9 11. The Bible which thou carriest to the Church with thee if thou fearest not God even it shall condemn thee as now it judgeth thee Yet farther They also call themselves the holy City and stay themselves upon the God of Israel Isal 48.2 They leaned upon the Lord and said Is not the Lord among us Mic. 3.11 this was their National claim but what was all that whilst they built up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity v. 10. In the general also they looked for the Messias Unto which promise our twelve Tribes instantly serving God day and night hope to come Acts 26.7 Tho their apprehensions of him were indeed very confused and now being come to the most of them he was a Stone of stumbling Acts 4.11 In like manner thou leanest on God and thou callest thy self a Christian some scarce knowing at all what Christ was others more distinctly understanding and believing the Truth of him thou art a Disciple of his Acts 9.26 Cha. 11.26 a Believer not almost but altogether a Christian in Belief and Religion tho not such a one as Paul was Acts 26.28 But a Believer thou art not ore tenus or nominally only but really in its kind the stile may truely belong to thee as heretofore it did to all that were of the Christian belief and is frequently denominated of them 1 Cor. 6.1 Chap. 14.22 1 Tim. 6.2 Who believed not to the saving of their Souls Heb. 10.39 nor were influenced any more by it than others by their belief of the Deity Rom. 1.21 of which no question could be made nor doubt were not men deficient to themselves Suppose then this to be thy plea for respect unto thy person with God that thou art no Jew nor Gentile but of the Church of God 1 Cor. 10.32 built on Peters Confession that Jesus is the Christ the son of the living God Matt. 16.18 This thou believest that there is no other name under Heaven given whereby thou must be saved but so did the Devils believe of him most expresly Mark 5.7 Luke 4.41 so the Damsel cried concerning Paul and Silas These men are the servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of salvation Acts 16.17 whilst the Anticipation of Education Laws and Customs prevailed with a great part of mankind to disbelieve and reject the same and do to this day 1 Cor. 1.23 Acts 25.19 which is not thy case Thy Faith is sound and Orthodox so far forth Moreover possibly thou art so far true to thy Conviction herein that thou renouncest thy own Righteousness which is of the Law and all other Pleas and betakest thy self in thy way wholly to Christ for Salvation So do all with us generally recognize in the preamble of their last Will and Testament and do mean no question as they say Flesh and Blood hath nothing in a bred Christian against it that is no Heretick whilst Christ is looked unto as a Saviour only Thou thinkest it may be that the fear of God and working Righteousness enter not the terms of acceptance with him nor is supposed to a regular belief on or particular trust to or hope in Christ for thy Salvation Or that thou art a fearer of God when there is no such thing and hereupon thou believest in his Name as they did John 2.23 24. and the Rulers Chap. 12. Who believed on him v. 42. but did not confess him loving the praise of men more than of God and there split themselves rendring that their Faith a meer Presumption being deficient in that which was to come between their assent and such reliance Rom. 10.10 so did Simon the Magician Acts 8.13 23. so Luke 8.13 John 8.30 31. or it may be thou renouncest the Plea of the Pharisee as Heretical Luk. 18.11 neither indeed canst thou say that thou art no