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truth_n	love_n	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,627	5	10.8118	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57955	A vindication of the baptized churches from the calumnies of Mr. Michael Harrison, of Potters Pury in Northampton-shire. Being an answer to his two books, intituled, Infant baptism God's ordinance. By William Russel, M.D. A lover of primitive Christianity.	Russel, William, d. 1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing R2360A; ESTC R218555	79,105	138

on purpose to damn them as the Calvinists say And this leads me to the Second Reason for he triumphs over us in this saying Thus this rotten Pillar of universal Grace is overthrown His 2d is this He denyes that God hath afforded every person in the Visible Church sufficient Grace for their Conversion To make it out he insists upon three things necessary in order to Conversion 1. That a Person sit under the Ministry of the Word faithfully preached Multitudes saith he in the visible Church do not enjoy a faithful Ministry some none at all others only such as are sent in Judgment that dawb with untempered Mortar c. Answ What visible Church must this be that he speaks of What a Church and have no Preacher and others Churches that have Preachers sent to them in Judgment only This cannot be the Church of Christ but the Synagogue of Satan For Christ hath promised to be with his Church by his Spirit alway even to the end of the World But will he charge all this upon God I know that when some Persons have sinned away all their Mercies and the Grace offer'd them then he doth sometimes give them up to strong Delusions to believe Lyes as is the case of the Papists and others but he charges the fault upon themselves because they did not receive the love of the Truth that they might be saved but took pleasure in Unrighteousness It would therefore be horrid wickedness for any that professes Christianity to charge God with being the cause of this when he hath declared their Destruction is of themselves 2. He saith They cannot be converted except their Consciences be awakened and stirr'd under the Ministry of the Word c. Persons may sit under the best Ministry and yet never be thus convinced Now that we may know where he hath a Mind to lay the blame he insinuates it in saying this Conviction is only from the Holy Spirit who bloweth where he listeth Answ A●●ho ' I acknowledge that no Man is converted without the Operation of the Holy Spirit yet I am far from thinking that the reason why they are not converted is because the Holy Spirit doth not operate with the Word but it is because they resist the motions and striveings thereof God's Spirit did strive with the Old World but they resisted it and perished by the Flood And as Stephen saith Acts 7. 51. Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost as your Fathers did so do ye Now Stephen was better skilled in these matters than Mr. H. for he justifies God and charges it upon them as being a stiff-necked and obstinate People uncircumcised in Heart and Ears But 3ly saith he There must be a divine powerful drawing of the Soul to Christ by the Spirit which he calls an irresistible power which he also saith is not afforded to all that sit under the Gospel-Ministry and they cannot come to Christ without it Answ That the Divine Power is in it self irresistable I grant but that is not here the Question But whether that power be exerted in an irresistable way which was the thing he should have proved if he had spoken ad rem but that he seldom does And I have already proved that the Spirit in its Operations upon the Souls of Men hath often been resisted However the Man crys ●ictory and saith This Anabaptistical Doctrine of Universal Grace is but a lying Invention of their own c. which I will put up among the rest of his Railery for it deserves no better Treatment As for what he says that Free-will is the consequence of our Opinion I may truly ●●y by a figure in Rhetorick that he is a profound man for drawing of Consequences But to the point in Hand The Words in the 4th Article of our Confession which he refers to are these Unbelief therefore being the cause why the just and righteous God will condemn the Children of Men it follows against all contradiction that all Men at one time or other are put into such a capacity as that through the Grace of God they may be eternally saved John 1.7 Acts 17.30 Mark 6.6 Heb. 3. 10 18 19. 1 John 5.10 John 3.17 Now there is not one word of Free-will in those words as quoted by himself nor yet in the whole Articles in that Confession so that he quarrels with his own shaddow and not with us for we say through the Grace of God But suppose we had let fall such Words as his Friend Mr. Baxter hath used about Free-will in his Call to the Vnconverted Oh! what a noise would he have made about our Ears His Words are these 1. In his Presace And for the point of Free-will which you harp so long upon Divines are not so much disagreed about it as you imagine Augustine as well as Pelagius Calvin as well as Arminius the Dominicans as well as the Jesuites all do generally maintain that Man hath Free-will No man of Brains denyeth that a Man hath a Will that is naturally free it 's free ●●●m Violence and it 's a Self-determining principle In page 31. We are commanded to tell you what thoughts of Kindness God hath towards you and how happy how certainly and unspeakably happy you may be if you will page 32. I do here in the Name of the Lord of Life proclaim to you all that hear me this day to the worst of you to the greatest to the oldest Sinner that you may have Mercy and Salvation if you will but turn there is Mercy in God there is sufficiency in the Satisfaction of Christ the promise is free and full and universal you may have Life if you will but turn page 90. If nothing will serve turn but Men will yet refuse to turn we are next to consider who it 's long of if they be damned And this brings me to the last Doctrine which is That if after all this Men will not turn it is not long of God that they are condemned but of themselves even of their own Wilfulness They dye because they will dye that is because they will not turn if you will go to Hell what Remedy God here acquits himself of your Blood it shall not lye on him if you be lost pag. 102. But you seem to intimate all this while that Man hath Free-will his Answer is The Dispute about Free-will is beyond your Capacity I shall therefore now trouble you with no more than this about it your Will is naturally a free that is a self-determining Faculty but it is vitiously inclined and backward to do good but that is the wickedness of it which deserveth the punishment your disability is your very unwillingness it self which excuseth not your sin but maketh it the gre●●er page 44. And think not to exte●●ate I by saying that it was only for his Elect for it was thy sin and the sin of all the World that lay upon our Redeemer and his Sacrifice and Satisfaction is sufficient for all