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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86564	Thyra aneogmene. The open door for mans approach to God. Or, a vindication of the record of God concerning the extent of the death of Christ in its object. In answer to a treatise of Master Iohn Owen, of Cogshall in Essex, about that subject. / By John Horn, a servant of God in the Gospel of his son, and preacher thereof at Lyn in Norffolk.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2809; Thomason E610_1; ESTC R206332	332,309	352

other ways do I finde Reprobation befalling any one Now that that is done for the sinning against a mercy afforded and the fruits of it presupposes that mercy to have extended to them and not the contrary CHAP. IX An Answer to his last General Argument drawn from sundry Texts of Scripture HIs last general Argument is from divers Texts of Scripture Argu. 11 which he pretends to hold out That Christ died onely for the Elect but never a one of them concludes it I wonder how quick-sighted men are to spie out conceptions where no such Phrase or Expression as they conceive is held forth and yet cannot see plain expressions Scrip. 1. But let us view those Scriptures The first is Gen. 3.15 I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between her seed and thy seed He shall break thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel I will not call this as he doth a better one Argumentum a baculo ad Angulum but sure this place says not whom and how many Christ died for or that he should die at all It says but that the seed of the woman and them that are born of Satan granting that by the Serpent Satan is meant shall have enmity between themselves and the womans seed shall conquer Satan How the Elect should be the seed of the woman more then others I finde no reason much less proof for it And how it follows That if Christ brake the head of Satan then he died not for All I see as little Again I finde not that any man as he is born into the world is called a childe of Satan one of the Serpents seed And we have shewed That Christ might die for All as faln in Adam and yet destroy all such as after that and the goodness extended to them thereby should rebel against him though the Verse speak not of destroying any but the Serpent himself He shall break thy head So that this Argument concludeth nothing He neither proving the Serpent to be the Devil and so that the Devil goes upon his belly and eats dust nor the seed of the woman to be the Elect onely nor that any till they rebel against Christ are the seed of the Serpent nor that Christ was promised to the seed of the woman there is no such passage in it That I will give the womans seed one to die for them At the most it amounts but to this That Christ in himself and those that believe in him shall get the better of Satan and all that do oppose them Which we grant His second place is Matth. 7.23 Scrip. 2. I profess unto you I never knew you But Christ says he saith expresly he knows his own whom he died for Joh. 10.14 17. Surely he knows whom and what he hath bought c. This is fallacious reasoning To shew the vanity of which we are to minde That to know in Scripture is sometime to apprehend understand or discern a thing what it is and of what nature So Christ knew what was in man and knows all things But oftentimes to know is to own approve and acquaint ones self with so God is said to know the way of the righteous And in both these senses Christ is in some measure known of his and he knows his sheep But in the latter sense we say He knows not that is approves not of all he died for Though buying them they are his own yet he skils not of many of them in their states and ways so as to own them for his friends and acquaint himself with them as the word here signifies It s as much as You went without my Mission however without my liking in all your ways His Argument that He hints thus Christ knows them He died for But he knows not All Ergo Died not for All is fallacious The Minor is Negative in the third Figure and the Major a particular Affirmative or a falsity For we deny take knowing for owning approving and countenancing as there it signifies that Christ so knows all that he died for though he doth his sheep It s like this Israel that came out of Egypt was planted by God in Canaan But all Israel that passed over the red Sea was not so planted Ergo they all came not out of Egypt We grant that Christ knew whom and what he bought even all of them Simplici cognitione as knowledg signifies in the former of the senses above mentioned But that he owns them all in their way and frame we deny It s like this A Prince ransoms an hundred slaves some of them under pretence of honoring him do wicked acts to his dishonor and then being brought to an account they plead what they have done to honor him how they have spoken for him c. He bids them be gone for he approved none of their actions never owned them in what they say they did for him they secretly carrying on a Trayterous design against him And as such people pleading his ransoming of them and the cost he was at for them and the pains he took to do them good would but plead against themselves and he could easily answer them that they were the more ingaged to have loved him sought his glory and served his designs and not to have counterfeited with him secretly seeking to betray him under pretences of love So will Christ * Aug. Ser. 67. De ultimo Judicio Christum impios gratiae suae abusores ita redarguentem judicantem inducit Gravior inquiet Christus peccatorum tuorum crux est in quâ invitus pende● quam illa quam tui misertus mortem tuam occisurus ascendi Impassibilis cum essem pro te pati dignatus sum sed tu despexisti in homine Deum in infirmo salutem in viâ reditum in judice veniam in cruce vitam in supplici●s medicinam quia omnia tua mala ad medicamenta poenitentiae confugere noluisti ab auditu male non mereberis liberari c. say to those that their Destruction shal be the greater and the less excuse there is for their wickedness for that he having been at such cost to buy them and being so gracious a Lord to them yet they would deny him and work iniquity against him Nor will that advantage them to say as Mr. Owen suggests Is it not because thou dyedst it for thine Elect that none can lay any thing to their charge and why should we be charged if thou dyedst for us he can easily say to them My Death indeed was efficacious to them to salvation from all such charges for mine Elect were such as loved and served me and walked in my spirit and if at any time they stept away Matth. 25.35 36. Heb. 10.29 2 Pet. 2.1 yet they returned again at my reproofes unto me and I improved the vertue of my blood with my Father to the utmost for their good and protection But so hath not your way been before