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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43581	A review of Mr. Horn's catechisme, and some few of his questions and answers noted by J.H. of Massingham p. Norf.	Hacon, Joseph, 1603-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing H177; ESTC R16207	79,887	160

to Keep the whole Law Jam. 2. 10. I think it is no sense and therefore can be no truth to say That we vowed in our Baptisme to keep Gods holy Intention that all men or each man respectively should be saved How much better a transition then this do we finde in the Church Catechisme You said you did promise in your Baptisme to keep Gods holy Commandments Tell me how many there be Ten c. So that the meanest capacity understood that question far better without this answer then with it As for the Text 1 Tim. 2. 4. God will have all men to be saved to come to the knowledge of the truth it may be thus explained S. Paul sheweth there the reason why at that time kings and worldly powers were to be prayed for more than in former times because God now intended to enlarge the limits of his Church and shew mercy to all the world excluding no nation or people And as it was more suitable to Gods nature who is a Spirit to be worshipped in spirit and truth Joh. 4. and not as before Christs coming in outward rites shadows and ceremonies which then bare a great part of Gods service So was it more agreeable and consonant That whereas there is one God Creatour of all mankinde there should be now access to him for all people by one Mediatour and not for one nation onely as heretofore And because this cannot be done so well not quietly and peaceably unless Kings and earthly Potentates embrace the Christian faith Therefore especially must they be prayed for So that Gods will in this place is not his command and to be saved is matter of reward not of work a reward which he bestoweth on us not a work which he commandeth us to do And to come to the knowledge of the truth is not to beleeve but to be made partakers of the Gospel by publication The which was joyned indeed with a command or charge to his Apostles to preach the Gospel but no command there was to the Nations to receive it untill it were brought them and they did come to the knowledge of it But may the universalists now say If it be indeed the will of God that all that hear the Gospel should be saved Then is not salvation limited to some onely called the Elect. To this I answer by putting them in minde of what I suppose they have often heard Gods will is twofold 1. Revealed and Conditional thus he willeth all men to be saved 2. Secret and absolute so he willeth onely a few to be saved If they cannot understand how he should will things thus contrary one to the other let them help themselves with this similitude A Nobleman Landlord to many decayed tenants deeply endebted to him willeth them to pay what they ow him otherwise to be ejected To some few of them formerly his menial servants he sendeth secretly supplies and enableth them to discharge their arrears against the rest the law passeth The Landlords will now is that all his tenants should pay their rents enjoy their houses and lands as formerly and that none of them should be dispossessed or emprisoned And it is his will also that a few of his tenants should certainly hold possession though most of them be cast out of these two the first will is conditional upon their performance and payment the second is absolute because accompanied with his power and purse and grounded upon his own performance If this be right and reason and plain to be understood then let them not say that we denie the Scripture-saying God willeth all men to be saved and let them give us leave to say withall that he doth not absolutely will all men to be saved because he doth not by his Almighty arm rescue all men out of the bands of infidelity in which by their own fault they are fast held Qu. and Answ 295 296 297 298 299 300. It is observed of some men that in disputation and of many men that in discourse they will be sure soon to winde themselves into that point where their skill lyes Our Authour in his fix last Questions and Answers returns thither where his zeal lyes and where he is never found long time non-resident This zeal he sheweth not in giving his adversaries a parting blow but as I may say in storming them having before given them onely some easier assaults And as in a fray is usual he taketh up that which cometh next to hand to strike and to lay on withall though no way fitted though never intended for any such purpose And rather then he will suspect his own confidence he will censure wel-nigh all Christians the generality almost so he saith Qu. 297. as if they were false worshippers unbeleevers and void of true religion because they refuse what he tenders them that may presently turn their dross to silver and their shadows to solidity and substance Among other things he saith they give God the lie words with which it pleaseth the holy Ghost to aggravate the hainous and sacrilegious sin of wilfull infidelity of denying Christ made known to whom God the Father gave so manifold testimony but are not lightly to be taken up against every false opinion much less in defence of any errour He saith They make void Gods grace and Christs death This is truly said of such as persist in their unbelief rejecting the Gospel being offered and refusing to be baptized He needed not to have spoken more hardly of them had they renounced their Saviour and turned to Mahomets belief They are very zealous he saith but their Religion and Devotion are abominable in Gods sight and most horrible impieties He hath left nothing wherewithall to express the worst that is in them when their best is thus bad They multiply services without knowledge and offer the sacrifice of fools they miss of Gods promises and seek after him but finde him not because they seek him by the works of the Law endeavouring to establish their own righteousness As if it were all one to him to speak what is true and to speak what he knoweth to be false when he is in hot pursuit of his adversaries But I have now paid that small debt which I might seem to ow as vvell to them that desire to learn and not to be abused as to others vvho love to be deceived rather than be taught The vvords of Salvian though touching another subject shall serve me for my Caution and for my Conclusion De Gubern Dei lib. 1. Sed de his dicendum amplius non est tanta quippe est majestatis sacrae tam tremenda reverentia ut non solùm eaquae ab illis contra religionem dicuntur horrere sed etiam quae pro religione nos ipsi dicimus cum grandi metu ac disciplina dicere debeamus that is It is best to say no more concerning these matters because so great and so dreadfull is the sacred Majestie of