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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

responsible substantial person that could pay him and hath paid him the utmost farthing Rom. 3.25.26 He hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his Blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that he might be just He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 1 Iohn 1.9 and to clense us from all unrighteousness Iob 33.24 And now the Lord saith deliver the prisoner from going down to the pit I have found a ransom for him But now as for the Reprobates they go down to hell and suffer everlasting punishment for their sins without any injustice and therefore Christ did not dy and satisfie for their sins and so consequently not for every man and woman in the world These following Scriptures do fully declare the efficacie of Christ's death the vertue of his blood shed and the perfect satisfaction exhibited thereby to God the Father in the behalf of all those for whom the Lord Jesus suffered the death of the Cross He that spared not his own Son Rom. 8.32 34. but delivered him up for us all How shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed When he had by himself purged our sins Heb. 1.3 he sate down on the right hand of the Majesly on high Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people Dan. 9.24 and upon thy holy City to finish the Transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness When Jesus had received the vinegar Iohn 19.31 he said It is finished In whom we have Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins Eph. 1 7. according to the riches of his grace God hath not appointed us to wrath 2 Thess 5.9 10. but to obtain salvation by Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him He hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. ult who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him He needed not to offer himself often Heb. 9.25 26. but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself By the which Will we are sanctified Heb. 10.10 14. through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Vnto him that loved us Rev. 1.5 and washed us from our sins in his own blood The blood of Jesus Christ clenseth us from all sin 1 Ioh. 1.7 But God commendeth his love towards us that while we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us Much more then being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Rom. 5.8 9 10. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities Isa 53.5 the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed If the blood of Buls Heb. 9.13 14. and of Goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh See Lev. 4.20 26. Lev. 17 11. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot or blemish to God Purge your Consciences from dead works Gal. 3.13 14. to serve the living God Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us I beseech thee Reader examine these Scriptures seriously and thou wilt see that the Redemption of every one by Christ's blood and the damnation of thousands are inconsistent and cannot stand together Let the word of the great God by which we must all be judged prevail with you which is all I desire ARGUMENT VII MY seventh Argument or Reason is taken from John 10.14 15. I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine I lay down my life for my sheep They for whom Christ laid down life are his sheep But all and every man and woman in the world are not the sheep of Christ and therefore he laid not down his life for all and every man and woman in the world This Scripture if there were no other in the book of God is so plain and clear and full against Vniversal Redemption that he that runs may read it Object Oh but it is not said that he laid down his life for his sheep only Answ 1. Nor is it said that we are justified by faith only that we are compleat and accepted in Christ only that the sulness of the Godhead dwels in Christ only Yet who but Papists will say that we are not justified by faith only in that sense wherein the Apostle speaks of Justification by faith who dares say that we are compleat or that the fulness of the Godhead dwes in any other besides the Lord Jesul Neither is it said Husbands Love your wives only yet surely it is not fit that they should love other women with the same love which particularly belongs to their wives But secondly 2. Is there not a plain and manifest division separation and contradiction throughout the Scripture and this whole chapter between sheep and goats elect and reprobate the two seeds the Church and the world Now all and every man are not elected all and every man are not the sheep of Christ all and every man are not of the Church of Christ The separation of the goats and sheep which will be at the great day of the Lord Mat. 25.31 32 33. will make it manifest that all are not of the sheep of Christ Besides the properties of the sheep of Christ are here described They know his voice and follow him and a stranger they will not follow John 10. verse 4. for they know not the voice of strangers They are such as are known of Christ i. e. beloved of him They go in and out verse 14. and find pasture for their souls to feed upon They are such as are given by the Father to Christ who came to give them spiritual life yea that they might have it more abundantly verse 10. Are these properties and qualifications found in every man and woman in the world Doth every man and woman hear and obey the voice of Christ Is every one known and beloved of Christ How then comes it to pass that he will say to some in the last day Depart from me Mat. 7.23 I know you not Doth Christ give spiritual life Yea doth he give it abundantly to every man and woman Why then doth he say You believe not Iohn 10. verse 36. because ye are not of my sheep Doth every man and woman

SCRIPTURE Redemption Restrayned and Limitted OR An Antidote against Vniversal Redemption in ten Reasons or Arguments deduced from plain SCRIPTURE Briefly propounded in a Sermon at the Lecture in Mountsorrel in Leicestershire March 3. 1651 2. Now contracted and published for strengthning the weak and reducing misled souls who attend not the publike Ministry in those parts Whereunto is added The Saints Declining State under Gospel Administrations c. Worthy the reading and study of all Christians By William Troughton Minister of the Gospel at Onlepp in Leicestershire Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4.16 LONDON Printed by J. M. for L. Chapman at the Crown in Popes head Alley 1652. The EPISTLE To the READER ALL that I desire of thee Christian Reader is that thou wouldest diligently weigh the Arguments and Scriptures alledged in this little Treatise which are more fully handled in greater Books on this Subject together with the ensuing Catalogue and withal consider with me how derogatory the Doctrine of general Redemption is to the free Grace and Love of God yea I may truly say to all his glorious Attributes The sad concomitants and effects of this Doctrine in this divided distracted Nation as not long since in the Low Countries whence it was transferred hither How inconsistent it is with God's free and absolute Election with special Adoption and Justification with peculiar effectual grace in Conversion Sanctification Union and Perseverance Truth is but one and harmonious but Error is a Hydra with many heads It is the property of Errors to jar and be at variance but as for down Truth all the parts and branches thereof do mutually accord and convay mutual light and assistance to each other Alas What sad times are we fallen upon when manifest errors long since confuted and suppressed shall be revived and carried on with a high hand when the faithful Ministers of Christ who open the covenant of Grace to the people and the special Priviledges flowing from Redemption by Christ's blood shall be openly reviled and oppugned and that in their publike Exercises by men of Jesuitical and Antichristian Principles and Practises who boldly and daringly tell the people that we delude them and are open enemies to God and godliness yea that we preach Blasphemy in asserting that Christ shed his blood only for his Sheep That it lies not in the power of the creature to believe That the Spirit of God works irresistably upon the Elect in their conversion That such as are one Spirit with Christ cannot finally apostatize from him and lastly That visible Title to and interest in the Covenant of Grace consisting in a serious profession of the Christian faith accompanied with a sutable conversation is that which constitutes a member of the visible Church of Christ Surely though men should be silent and Christ should have but a few to contend for his Truth yet the Lord God will not long suffer these things Mal. 3.2 3. 1 Cor. 3.13 c. but will shortly come as Refiners fire and burn up this dross and stubble which cannot stand before the Jealous God In the mean while let us believe and wait and pray and tremble in the flesh Yet a little while He that hath promised to come Heb. 10.37 will come and will not tarry Blessed are they that love his appearance and shall have their garments pure and unspotted in that day W. T. The Introduction I Shall here present the Reader with a brief Catalogue of the Principles and Practises of those men whom I chiefly oppose in this Treatise whereof I my self have had some experience in my converse with them Let any godly sober Christian judge upon reading what follows if it be not high time for us to appear against this Mysterie of Antichrist which diffuseth and spreadeth it self in City Army and Country I held my peace till God made me deeply sensible of the evil and danger that surroundeth us But then I could no longer refrain with a good Conscience but must give my publique Testimony against these Doctrines and works of darkness 1. They cry down Infant-Baptisme as an Antichristian Idol and exclude all our little ones from visible Interest in the Covenant of Grace and membership of Christ's visible Church 2. They hold none to be visible Saints Disciples or Believers but only grown persons that are rebaptised at yeers 3. They baptise people into this faith namely that Christ died for all the sons and daughters of the first Adam and are not free to joyn in Worship with any sober Anabaptist who is not of this opinion witness their separating themselves not only from us but from the Churches and Societies where M. Jessey M. Kiffin M. Patience c. are Teachers 4. They own such as Christ's Disciples who are baptized into their opinion though never so ignorant formal and vain unchurching all such as differ from them though never so spiritual heavenly experienced Christians 5. They refuse to hear the ablest and most approved Ministers of the Gospel unless it be to cavil against them not only rayling against such as were ordained by the Prelates and promiscuously administer the Sacraments but also against others that go in a stricter way and are reputed by godly souls to be the most spiritual laborious and conscientious Preachers whom they shamelesly Nickname Antichristian Priests and Persecutors Witness the sermons and discourses of Master Oats M. James Brown Everard Prior c. and open enemies to the Lord Jesus yea they do with open mouth revile these faithful Ministers of Christ who are really affected and exceeding serviceable in their places to the present Government incomparably more then the worst of scandalous Ministers 6. They declare us Antichristian Persecutors of the Saints if we humbly desire the Civil Magistrate but to keep outward order and peace in the Congregation M. Marloe M. Brown and their tumultuous followers at Odeby neer I eicester while we are exercised in the publike worship of God and to prevent tumults and combustions and so by this means they utterly overthrow the office and power of the Magistrate who must neither meddle with matters of Religion relating to the Conscience or inward man nor with external order and Civil Government 7. They hold and accordingly it is practised that any of their fellow Disciples if he can but multiply words though God knows he be ignorant of the first Principles and rudiments of Christian Religion may both publikely preach and administer the Seals Witness their approbation of Rob Fielding Kendall and other their ignorant Teachers and Administrators in Leicestershire Docent priusquam discant and that these poor ignorant souls are rather Christ's faithful Ministers then our most reverend Brethren that are in Office either in the Classical or Congregational way 8. They hold that there is no true and lawful Minister of Christ in England gifted and called according to the rule of the New