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A41001 Universal redemption offered in Jesus Christ in opposition to that pernicious and destructive doctrine of election and reprobation of persons from everlasting. By Jane Fearon. Fearon, Jane, 1654 or 5-1737. 1693 (1693) Wing F576A; ESTC R218275 16,377 57

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For if through the Offence of One many be Dead much more the Grace of GOD and the Gift by Grace which is by one Man JESUS CHRIST Therefore as by the Offence of One Judgment came upon ALL MEN to Condemnation EVEN SO by the Righteousness of One the Free Gift came upon ALL MEN to Justification of Life And we all agree that Adam's Sin brought the Curse upon all his Posterity And shall we not likewise believe that as in Adam ALL Die so in CHRIST shall ALL be made Alive 1 Cor. 15.22 This also might be proved from many other Scripture-Testimonies if it were at this Season needful but the afore-mentioned Scriptures being so clear except a Man will close his Eyes he cannot but see the Truth of this Doctrine But some may say What is then the Cause of Condemnation Answ According to John 3. 18. He that believeth in Him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because hath not believed on the Name of the only begotten Son of GOD And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and Men love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds are evil For every one that doth evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved But he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in GOD John 3. 19 20 21. And CHRIST exhorted those who followed him while they had the Light to believe in the Light that they might be the Children of the Light John 12.36 Whereby it may be concluded that the Light Grace or Measure of GOD's Spirit may be Removed from them which strives with a Man in order to save him during the time of his Visitation which GOD gives unto All in which Time or Day they may be saved We do not understand the whole Time of every Mans Life though to some it may be extended even to the very hour of their Death as we see in the Example of the Thief upon the Cross But such a Season at least as sufficiently cleareth GOD of every Man's Condemnation which may be to some sooner and to some later according as the LORD in His Wisdom sees meet so that many Men may out-live this Day after which there may be no possibility of Salvation to them and GOD justly suffers them to be hardened as a just Punishment of their Unbelief and even raises them up as Instruments of Wrath and makes them a Scourge one against another Whence to Men this Condition may be fitly applied those Scriptures expressed by the Apostle Rom. 1. from Vers 17. to the end but especially Vers 28. Even as they did not like to retain GOD in their Knowledge GOD gave them up to a Reprobate Mind to do those things that are not convenient That many may out-live this day of GOD's gracious Visitation to them is shewn by Example of Esau Heb. 12.16 17. who sold his Birth-right so he had it once and was capable to have kept it but afterwards when he would have Inherited the Blessing he was rejected This appears also by CHRIST's weeping over Jerusalem Luk. 19.42 saying If thou hadst known IN THIS THY DAY the things that belong unto thy Peace BUT NOW they are hid from thine Eyes which plainly imports a Time when they might have known them which was now removed from them though they were yet alive Therefore we having the Experience of the Inward and Powerful Work of this Light in our Hearts even CHRIST revealed in us cannot cease to proclaim the Day of the LORD that is Arisen in it crying out with the Woman of Samaria Come and see one that hath told me all that ever I have done Is not this the CHRIST That others may come and feel the same in themselves and may know that little small thing that reproves them in their Hearts however they have neglected it is no less than the Gospel preached in them CHRIST the Wisdom and Power of GOD being thereby seeking to save their Souls This is that Universal Evangelical Principle in and by which this Salvation of CHRIST is shewn or presented to all Men both Jew and Gentile Barbarian and Scythian of whatsoever Countrey he be And therefore GOD hath raised up unto Himself in this our Age Faithful Witnesses and Evangelists to preach again His Everlasting Gospel and to direct as well the high Professors who boast of the Scriptures and the outward knowledge of CHRIST as the Infidels and Heathens that know Him not that way that they may all come to mind the Light in them and know CHRIST in them the Just One whom they had so long killed and made merry over and He hath not resisted Jam. 5.6 And give up their Sins Iniquities False Faiths Professions and Out-side Righteousness to be Crucify'd by the Power of his Cross or Spirit in them so as they may know CHRIST Within to be the Hope of Glory and may come to walk in his Light and to be saved Who is that True Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Having briefly hinted concerning the Universal Redemption by CHRIST which for some Time hath been a Concern upon my Mind I shall proceed to speak something in short concerning the New Covenant Behold The Days come saith the LORD that I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah not according to the Covenant which I made with their Fathers c. But this shall be the Covenant that I will make c. saith the LORD I will put my Law in their Inward Parts and write it in their Hearts and will be their GOD and they shall be my People And they shall teach no more every Man his Neighbour and every Man his Rrother saying Know the LORD for they shall all know Me from the least of them to the greatest For I will forgive their Iniquity and I will remember their Sins no more Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. Now those that would have this great Benefit to be GOD's People and to have this great Blessing of the Gospel to have their Iniquities Forgiven and would know the Teachings of his holy Spirit must take heed to this Law written in the Heart So shall such witness with the Apostle That GOD having raised up his Son JESUS whom he hath given for a Light to the Gentiles and for a Covenant to the People and sent him to bless them in turning away every one of them from their Iniquities otherways such Deprive Themselves of that Good the LORD intended for them as may be seen in Jerem. 18. 9. where it is said At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation or concerning a Kingdom to Build and to Plant it if it do Evil in my Sight that it obey not my Voice then I will repent of the Good wherewith I said I would Benefit them As also in Isaiah Chap. 55.