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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63272	Scripture redemption, restrayned and limited, or, An antidote against universal redemption in ten reasons or arguments deduced from plain Scripture ... : Whereunto is added The saints declining state under gospel administrations ... / by William Troughton ...	Troughton, William, 1614?-1677?	1652 (1652)	Wing T2320; ESTC R33853	29,739	82

Testament Doubtless this is a principle that tends much to division and confusion and so we have found it in the places where it hath been received 9. They usually publish and promote their corrupt opinions and doctrines in places where the Saints abide So did M Brown both at Mountsorrel and Odeby wittness that profane carriage of M. Brown and his followers at Mount sorrel And at Odeby and in contempt of the publike faithful Ministry they will prepossess and invdde the Pulpit though they know beforehand that others are appointed to preach 10. They do ordinarily disturbe and interrupt the faithful Ministers of Christ in publike preaching and prayer putting on their hats in prayer time and laughing in the faces one of another and withal procuring some of the M. Marloe and M. Brown with their followers common Souldiery to guard them with their swords in their hands 11. They daringly challenge the Ministry of Christ to dispute with them and yet will observe no Order nor keep to any rules of Disputation no nor so much as agree on the terms of the propositions to be disputed upon much less will they yeild that there shall be a Moderator for they are altogether for popular irregular confused Disputes that they may make a noise and amuse the people and gain applause to themselves as men of great gifts and excellent parts 12. They quarrel with us for our praying before and after Sermon telling us that there is no precept nor example for it in all the New Testament nor will they enter a dispute with us on these terms M. Brown and his followers in Leicestershire that one of us seek the Face of God by Prayer for direction before and after the Dispute 13. They absolutely deny that there is any Original sin or corruption of Nature they scoff at God's absolute Decree from eternity and openly preach 〈◊〉 Free-will and for total and final Apostacie from Grace and the worst of Pelagian heresies and Popish opinions the very naming whereof was formerly odious to godly Christians 14. They bring their followers into miserable Soul bondage and slavery as the Jesuits and Popish Priests do with their Proselytes not suffering them to be present at our Meetings and Exercises lest they should be acquainted with Gospel priviledges and Christian Liberty and so renounce their Antichristian enslaving doctrines 15. They give out threatning language telling us Witnes M Browns carriage words at Mount sorrel that we dare not shew our faces where they have appeared and endeavouring by all sinister means to render our Persons and Ministry odious to the People as if the despising and hating their faithful Ministers were a ready way and a fit means to make them Christs true disciples If this generation of men should sit at the stern as I hope they never shall for my part I could expect but little Freedom or protection from them either for my self or any godly man that opposes their fancies 16. If we fight against their opinions with Scripture weapons and Arguments and warn the People in the name of Christ to take heed of their Errors In this case they are ready to make an Insurrection upon us yea some of them have beaten some of our hearers With these and such like carnal weapons do they maintain their cause party and kingdom 17. Their great designe where-ever they come is to pull down the powerful Ministry of Christ as that which stands in their light and hinders the building of their Babel and the setting up of their Kingdom 18. They hold that we cannot have true peace of Conscience nor comfortably conclude that Christ dyed for us in particular unless we believe that he dyed for every man in the world and so for Cain Judas Pharaoh c. Thus have I given you a taste from my own experience of their opinions and practises much more might be added but I affect brevity and enough hath been said if God give a blessing to make humble souls beware of them AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST Universal Redemption In X. Arguments IT should not seeme strange to us that there are so many heretical and corrupt opinions broched in these dayes for the Church and faithful servants of God have been from time to time sharply exercised with error and false doctrine and besides do not we find it prophesied and foretold Matth. 7.15 that wolves shall come in sheeps Mat. 24.23.24 1 Ioh. 4.1 1 Cor. 11.19 clothing and shall say los● here is Christ and there is Christ But we are not to believe them but try the spirits and search the scriptures and again is it not said that there must be heresies even for this end that they which are approved may be made manifest Times wherein errors abound are times of Tryal many professors will stoutly hold out in other stormes and tempests who yet will be born downe and overwhelmed with this storme and make shipwrack of the faith which they once professed 2 Tim. 3.1 2 Tim. 4.3 4. The last times will be perillous times men will not indure sound doctrine but having itching ears will heape up Teachers like themselves and though we may well hope that there are many poor misled souls whom God will in mercy reduce and bring back to the acknowledgment and love of his truth yet for the seducers themselves they do for the most part grow worse 2 Tim. 3.13 and worse and run from error to error it being the just judgement of God upon them 2 Thess 2 10 11. that they should be given up to strong delusions to beleeve lyes who have not received the truth in the love of it that they should be filled with darkness and error who have not spiritually improved that light which they once had It is not in mans power to inlighten the understanding convince the conscience and informe the judgment of an erroneous person we can only morally propound truth to the understanding and the spirit of God must make the understanding yea the heart one with truth otherwise it cannot be effected We often wonder that people should not readily receive and imbrace truth when it is so clearly and plainly held forth and propounded in the word of truth but why should we wonder at it Considering that it is but given to a few savingly to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven Mar 13.13 c. 1 Cor. 2.4 1 Thess 1.5 and though the word and Gospel of Christ come to many in the letter yet but to few in the Evidence Power and demonstration of the holy Ghost Truly my soul mourns in secret to see the holy word of God so wretchedly abused misapplyed and wrested a nose of waxe to serve mens fancies whereas we ought to have a reverend and high esteem of the Majesty and authority of God's holy word by which we must be judged we ought I say to fall under it to submit humbly to it and to frame our heads

as for God's command to thee to use the means that thou mayst believe and repent it is not grounded upon Christ's dying for thee in particular but on the connexion and harmony which is between the mean and the end faith and salvation Thirdly there are thousands of precious Saints some alive and some at rest with the Lord who have and had true faith and peace of Conscience and joy in the holy Ghost and yet were meer strangers to the Doctrine of Vntversal Redemption Fourthly I would gladly be resolved in this what more ground of believing to salvation there is from the universality of Redemption then from the universality of the offer of Christ in the minstry of the word unless men will hold an Vniversal Salvation for seeing Christ died for many thousands that shall be damned may not I question whether I be not one of that number and whether Christ died for me so as that I should in the event believe to salvation The Unive salists will not acknowledge that Christ hath merited and procured faith for all them whom he died for This must needs be uncomfortable to a poor soul that finds it impossible to believe from creature strength and ability but blessed be the Lord who puts it out of doubt in his word that Christ hath merited faith for us and that we have faith through him and for his sake 2 Pet. 1.1 To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Christ To you it is given for Christ's sake Phil. 1.29 Rom. 8.32 not only to believe on him but to suffer for him He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shal he not with him freely give us all things Faith and repentance and a new heart I hope are good things here we have an argument from the greater to the lesser If God hath given Christ which is the great gift for poor sinners he will then freely give to them a spirit of faith and repentance Let me ask our adversaries this question what men are bound to believe for the peace of their Consciences when they take it for granted already that Christ died for them being comprehended in the world of mankinde To conclude this smal Tract which I desire the good Lord to bless to the Reader we declare unto you in our Ministry that Christ died for all for the world for every man and woman that shall believe on him and accept him and close with him upon the terms of the Gospel and is not here incouragement to poor sinners be their sins never so great Thou art not excluded by name why shouldst thou exclude thy self through unbelief Suppose a company of passengers be ready to sink and a rope is let down from the ship will they stand to question whether the rope was let down with a purpose to save them from drowning wil they not rather strive who shal be most forward to take hold of it and come up by it If a pardon be published that whoever will accept of it be his rebellion and treason never so hainous he shall find mercy is not here incouragement to the worst of rebels to come in and accept of pardon and not question the secret intention of the magistrate whether he propound the pardon in general terms only for tryal conviction or for their actual deliverance There is not any one sin except the sin against the holy Ghost which is therefore unpardonable because they that commit it have not grace to repent but some that have been guilty of that sin and have committed it have found mercy Paul Mary Magdalen Peter Manasseh Sampson Solomon Zacheus c. are now glorious Saints in heaven And is not here ground and incouragement for thee to believe If the Lord give thee a heart to believe for it is his gift By grace are ye saved through faith Eph. 2.8 and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Doubtless there are many precious saints that can witness to this Truth tell you by experience that God gives true faith peace of conscience in such a ministry as this breathing by his spirit thereon for the Spirit breaths where it pleaseth as the wind bloweth where it listeth and thou knowest not whence it cometh nor whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the Spirit Now the Lord lead his people into truth and by the light of his Countenance and the brightness of his glorious appearance let error and darkness be dispelled and all Antichristian Doctrines and opinions suppressed certainly as the glorious God hath in a great measure already so he will much more ere it be long vindicate his own spirit his Sons Blood his Truth his Ministry his Ordinances his Saintes his own great and glorious Name and testifie more clearly and convincingly against the mysterie of Antichrist which now worketh in this Nation under another vizard and by other Instruments then formerly it hath wrought but shall have no better success then it formerly had FINIS