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A95352	None but Christ, or A sermon upon Acts 4. 12. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the commencement Sabbath, July 4. 1652. To which is annexed, an enquiry after what hope may be had of the salvation of [brace] 1. Heathens. 2. Those of the old world, the Jews and others before Christ. 3. Such as die infants, and idiots, &c. now under the Gospel. / By Anthony Tuckney, D.D. and Master of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1654 (1654)	Wing T3217; Thomason E1523_3; ESTC R208588	57,811	146

light to the Gentiles as the glory of his people Israel Luke 2. 32 From East to West this Sun of righteousnesse enlightens all And if any without the Tropick of the more visible Church should have the light of John 8. 12 life it is from more oblique beams which by wayes best known to himself he dart●th upon them where ever they be if they be under the whole Heaven or amongst men the Text tells them to whom they must be beholden for salvation Of which if we yet doubt Austin I am sure is certain Certus sum non esse animam ullam Epist 28. in genere humano cui non sit necessarius ad liberationem Mediator Dei hominum c. 4. And thus lastly in reference to all Times and Ages whether of our life or of the world 1. Of our life If we be grown up to be men it will be more easily granted that he that believeth not shall be damned Mark 16. 16. And for those that die Infants although we cannot so easily understand how they should actually believe yet we must believe that unlesse unto us a Child were born and a Son given they who in themselves are Children of wrath would never become heyrs of life This also is another Article of Austins Creed which Epist 157. he would have kept inviolate Illa fides in nobis salva sit quâ credimus nullum hominem sive majoris sive parvulae quamlibet recentioris aetatis liberari e contagione mortis aeternae et obligatione peccati quam contraxit prima sua nativitate nisi per unum Mediatorem Dei et hominum Jesum Christum Whether old or young we must have the everlasting Father to be the Isu 9. 6. Prince of our peace or else our breach is irreconcileable 2. And the like is to be said of the several Ages of the world from first to last Christ is the first and last which Rev. 1. 11. Epist 157. made St. Austin still confidently affirm in reference to this my Text. Ex ●o tempore valet ad servandum genus John 1. 29. Rev. 13. 8. humanum ex quo in Adam est vitiatum c. Christ the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world was slain from the beginning of the world Which beleevers in all their sacrifices almost as ancient as the world De Demonstrat looked after as Eusebius sheweth which made Ignatius conclude that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 1. cap. 10. Ad Magnes Histor lib. 1. cap. 4. and Eusebius in another place to the same purpose calleth them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christians indeed though not then so named for in the faith of a Messiah a Christ to come they lived and died and so were saved as the Apostle sheweth at large Heb. 11. So that as the whole body is under the Head It a omnes sancti qui ante Domini nostri J. C. nativitatem erant quamvis ante nati erant tamen corpori universo sed capiti cohae serunt Augustin Gregor homil 17. in Ezek. though one part of it be born after another So here also in this mystical body of Christ As Austin compareth it or as Gregory alluding to that passage of the Gospel expresseth it Some went before and some came after but both all cry Hosannah and that word signifieth salvation to the Son of David In a word to conclude this generall proof it is Pauls full scope in his most divine Epistle to the Romans to prove that neither Jew nor Gentile can be justified or saved but only by the faith of Christ the second Adam by whom are saved all that are saved as all were undone by the first But should I recite all Scripture-proofs of this truth I should transcribe the greatest part of the old and new Testament Bernard saith of some that by Dum multum sudat quo modo Platonem faciat Christianum se probat Ethnicum Epist 190. labouring to prove Plato to be a Christian proved themselves no Christians which makes me fear I should too much wrong both my self and this most Christian Auditory as though it were scarce Christian if I should labour too long in the proof of this fundamental characteristical Article of their Christianity And therefore I the rather come to the ground of it in the Reas 1 Second part of the Text. There is salvation in none other because there is no other name given whereby we must be saved And it is taken as Calvin observeth from Explicatio est proximae sententiae in Christ● solo est salus quo ●iam it a Deus decrevit c. Calvin in locum Gods free purpose which is especially to be heeded in matters of his free grace and if he appointed no other then it is high presumption in us to fansie any other When in our selves we are all justly condemned we must give God leave to chuse as whom he will save so by what means he will procure and dispense this salvation And if for that he hath made choyce only of Christ as in some respects necessary but in all respects as Austin truly saith absolutely most convenient Sa●andae nostraemiseriae convenientiorem modum non fuisse August de Tem. lib. 13 Cap. 10 aliter absolutè potuit salvasse mundum licet ad satisfactionem de rigore justitiae videtur necessari● hypostatica unio Lorinus Orthodox Eplicat Lib. 3. then he was not more blasphemous who said he could have told God a better way to have made the world then they are presumptuous who dare be so bold as in their wanton fancies to conceit another way of redeeming the world then by Christ alone which was the most happy product of the most divine Counsels of all the three Persons in the blessed Trinity from all eternity And shall we then attempt to be wiser than God and in effect say that He might have spared his Counsels and Christ his death Seeing there may be a way for such as never knew him to come to life without him so Andradius sticks not to accuse God for cruelty if it should be otherwise But when the Q●estion in the Prophet was is there any other God besides me God thought he had sufficiently answered in the Negative when he said I know none Isa 44. 8. and so if the like question be made of a Saviour whether there be any other besides Christ let us sit down satisfied with this it is he only who of God is made 1 Cor. 1. 30. to us wisdom righteousnesse c. He it is whom the Father hath sealed and let John 6. 27 that make this impressiō on our hearts that although there be many that are 1 Cor. 8. 5. 6. called Gods Lords many and accordingly many conceited wayes of Religion and thereby of salvation yet to us as there was but one God so but one Mediator between God and man the