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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53508	A sermon preached at St. Michaels, Wood-Street, at the request of some Friends and now published to prevent mistakes / by Titus Oates ...	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing O54; ESTC R15541	31,378	28

believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life Now when it pleased God to direct Moses to make a Brazen Serpent and lift it up he did it not with an intent only of healing a few persons but that whosoever did look upon it should be healed by it Numb 21.8 So Christ who was sent into the World to save man was not sent to some few nor listed up on the Cross for some few but lifted up that all might look upon him with an eye of Faith and live Then consider the following Verse For God sent not his Son to condemn the World Now it is impossible to expound the word World here to be the Elect but all men who by sin were in a state of Condemnation till Jesus Christ came into the World therefore the taking the word world in this fence doth set forth and magnifie the love of our holy good God for certainly it can't appear so lovely in the apprehensions of men when intended but for a few in respect of the sons of Adam as when designed to be extended to all Again consider how God in all the Holy Scriptures hath been pleased to express himself to have abundance of grace sweetness love mercy pity and kindness to hate nothing that he hath made and wills the salvation of them that die and perish for ever look upon those compassionate expressions of his to the vilest of men Why will ye die ye House of Israel c. Now if we take the word world in its genuine latitude we shall find it to have an ●●exact consistency with all those lively intimations nay demonstrations of those excellencies of the eternal God we find them confirmed in giving his Son to the world to save that which was lost otherwise we must of necessity judge that Jesus Christ did come in his own Name and not in the Name of the great God and to preach Doctrines of his own invention and not the Will of his Heavenly Father or else we must look upon God who ●s Truth it self to pretend very fairly to men in the Old Testament unkindly in the New 〈◊〉 And besides all this let us consider what the learned have said in all Ages upon this very Text now in debate see Gualter in his 20. Homily on the Gospel according to St. ●ohn Et hoe quidem clarius exprimit quando cos nominaturus quos it a dilexerit Deus non Abrahami aut Isaacci aut Jacobi aut Mosis aut Davidis Prophetarum Mariae virginis Apostolo●um deniq sanctorum martyrum meminit sed mundi quem totum in malo jacere Evangelist a ●oster testatur cujus principem esse diabolum ipse Christus non uno lo●o affirmat From which words I do observe that this judicious and reverend Divine doth not terminate Gods ●ove to some few particular persons but according to the sence of our blessed Redeem ●r doth by the word world understand the generality of all Mankind and by this means ●oth rende Jesus Christ to speak that which was consistent with the Intentions Decrees ●nd Predeterminations of the most High God who before Christ did appear in the world had manifested himself o be gracious and merciful in pardoning sins and transgressions Quar● Salvator dictus est mundi saith St. Augustine speaking of Christ Nisi at mundum solver so that both modern and ancient Writers have with one consent upon these word now in hand viz. God so loved the world understood by the word world the whole posterity of fallen Adam who was the beginning of sin and entailed the misfortune of dying and being subject to sorrow upon his whole posterity which brings to mind that saying of S. Paul Rom. 5.18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the fe●●gist came upon all men to justification of life see vers 19. For as by one mans disobedience many word made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous In which you may see two sorts of persons represented to your consideration the one condemned to death by reason of Adam's offence and the other justified to life by Christ our Lord Now who were they that were condemned they were no more than all and who were they that were justified no fewer than all in the other verse no more than many were made sinners by Adam nor any fewer than many made righteous by Christ God certainly suted the salve not only in respect of its quality but also in respect to its quantity to the sore the larger the malady was the larger extent the remedy was to be of therefore we may see the coextensiveness of the Grace of God in his Son Jesus in order to the justification of men with the sin of our first Parent in respect of the condemnation of men so that as we are induced to believe that by the disobedience of one many have been made sinners and so guilty of and liable unto death that is that all ●●en as they come respectively to be conceived and born are now made liable to death by the disobedience of one being long since acted and should have perished for ever had ●ot the abundant grace of a good God prevented it so certainly it will appear and be ●ound true in due time that many even as many yea the self same both number and ●ersons in their successive conceptions also and comings into the world with those that ●re already past shall be made righteous that is have been and shall be delivered from ●●e guilt of that sin and liableness to death by the obedience of one man that is by the ●bmissive deportment of Jesus Christ towards the most high and eternal God in yielding ●imself up to death From all which I draw this conclusion remembring the voice from ●eaven to St. Peter Acts 10.15 Call not thou common that which God hath cleansed that is not safe for any man to make that number less which God hath made greater nor 〈◊〉 assert a signal disproportion between two numbers which God hath computed and ●●awn up to a perfect equality Another Text appears also ready to vindicate the truth of this Proposition now in ●bate and that is the words of St. Paul in his Epistle to Timothy 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3 4 5 6. I ●hort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made 〈◊〉 all men for Kings and for all that are in authority that under them we may lead a quiet ●d peaceable life in all godliness and honesty for this is acceptable in the sight of God our Savi●r who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth for there is one ●d and one Mediator betwixt God and Man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himself a rans●● for all In which words confider the duty enjoyned and that we find in the first