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A77726	An answer, or confutation of divers errors broached, and maintained by the seven churches of Anabaptists contained in those articles of their confession of faith propounded to the Parliament, and other grosse opinions held by them against the cleare light of the gospell. By Thomas Bakewell. Imprimatur John Downham.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1646 (1646)	Wing B526; Thomason E336_10; ESTC R200810	49,330	53

world Iohn 17.9 Sixthly This word World is sometimes taken for all the elect that ever were or ●ver shall be Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world Iohn 1.29 Iohn 2.2 Seventhly This word World sometimes is meant the wicked of the world who are in present being The world hateth you Iohn 15 19 Eighthly The World is sometimes meant the godly in present being Behold the world is gone after him John 12.19 Ninthly This word World is sometimes taken for the elect in present being before conversion Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Sonne to be a Propitiation for our sinnes 1 Iohn 4.10 God that purpoased to love his people from all eternity loves them actually as his creatures as soone as they have being in the world so God loved Adam and Eve when they had sinned as not to hate his owne worke in them but loved it and therefore sent them a Saviviour God so loved the world those in present being yet not as his children till he hath sent to them his Sonne and hath given them saith to receive him then as many as received him he gave power to become the Sonnes of God to them that beleeve in his name Iohn 1.12 Now let us trie whether Christ died for all these worlds if not let us see for which of these worlds he died First if Christ died for the universall world then he died for divels and for Angels that never sinned and for the creatures in the whole world yet I deny not but the Angels that never sinned and all mortall creatures have some benefit by his death in respect of establishment Isai 49.8 but I utterly deny that Christ died to redeeme any creatures but mankinde only He tooke not on him the nature of Angels but the seede of Abraham to make reconciliation for the sinnes of the people Heb. 2.16 17. To save his people from their sinnes Math. 1.21 neither can it be understood that Christ died for the world of Gentiles onely For he was sent to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel Math. 14.24 and the Angels told the Jewes saying Vnto you is borne this day a Saviour which is Christ the Lord Luke 2.10 And for the world of the elect I know none that makes question of it whether called or uncalled to the estate of grace yet in Gods due time they shall be sure to finde the benefit of it So then here lies our controversie they affirme that Christ died for all the wicked and reprobats in the world but I affirme the contrary upon these grounds First Christ died for the elect onely for saith Paul From the beginning God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and beleefe of the truth 2 Thes 2.13 He saith I have chosen and ordained you that you should goe and bring forth fruite Iohn 15.16 Christ was ordained for you who doe beleeve in God seeing you have purified your soules in obeying the truth 1 Pet. 1.20 21. As many as were ordained to eternall life beleeved Acts 13.48 that is called the faith of Gods elect Tit. 1 1. Those who are predistinated he calleth justifieth and glorifieth Rom. 8.30 But Heaven is not appointed for all it shall be given to them for whom it was prepared Math. 20.23 Some stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto they were appointed 1 Pet 2 8. Some of old were ordained to this condemnation Jude 4. And some are called to inherit a Kingdome prepared for them and some are charged to depart into everlasting fire prepared for them Math. 25.34 41. Some are vessels of mercy prepared for glory and some are vessels of wrath fitted for destruction Rom. 9.22.23 Those unnaturall brute beasts were made to be destroyed 2 Pet. 2.12 Then are some ordained to salvation and others to damnation and some ordained to the meanes 〈…〉 and not others and for some heaven is prepared and for others hell is prepared then sure Christ did not dye for all and every man in the world and that world whose sinne Christ taketh away and is a Propitiation and for whose persons he is an Advocate is onely the elect which may be called a world for multitude Iohn 12.19 Revel 19.6 But then they scornfully answer saying they will reade world alwayes where they finde the word elect and elect alwayes where they finde the word World then thus saith Christ I pray for them I pray not for the elect but for those that thou hast given me out of the elect and I am no more in the elect Iohn 17.9.11 And this is condemnation that light is come into the elect Iohn 3.19 Thus changing the signification of the word World they bring in this damnable conclusion in scornfull derision of the truth of God But they say if Christ died for none but the elect then unbeleefe is no sinne and some would sin in beleeving Christ hath died for them when it is not so I answer God gave man faith at the first to beleeve that it he had done as he commanded he should have lived for ever and although man hath lost this grace of faith yet God hath not lost his power to command man to use this faith Man is to beleeve in Christ and if he doe not he sinnes against the Gospell no man can sinne in beleeving that Christ hath died for his sin when it is not so for if he truly beleeve he shall be saved and then it is so Secondly Christ did not die for all and every man in the world for he died for none but those which his Father gave him He came not to doe his owne will but the will of his Father that sent him He must doe his Fathers businesse Luke 2.49 And he must finish the worke he gave him to doe Iohn 17 4. But it is the Fathers will that all which he gave him that he should lose none Iohn 6.39 but all was not given to Christ not the world but those that thou hast given me Iohn 17.6 and God gave him no reprobates for Christ gave his eternall life to all that his Father gave him verse 2. And the Father commanded him to lay downe his life for those that he gave him Iohn 10.17.18 But if Christ had died for more then his Father gave him then it seems Christ would have more then was agreed by the Father to give him but this would fasten sinne upon Christ in not being content but to will have more then his Covenant then Christ died not for all and every man in the world but then they will grant that Christ died for no more then his Father gave him for say they All things are delivered unto him of his Father Math. 11.27 Psal 2 7.8 I answer It is true divels and reprobates are under his Regall power to rule them with a rodde of iron but none are under his Scepter of grace and glory but his elect

his Kingdom and cast into the furnace of sin Mat. 13.41 42. Both reprobates and their sins shall be cast into hell fire and the Saints shall inherit all things Revel 21.7 Their second reason why Christ dyed for all and yet all not saved is this because he would have nothing preached to man but what is true but if Christ dyed not for all men and yet the Gospel preached to all and requires all to believe then some men are required to believe that which is not true I answer it is not sin in God to command man to believe in Christ although he knows they cannot because he made them able at the first to doe it if he had then required it and if man by sin hath now disabled himselfe yet God is not to be blamed for requiring that which he made them able to do at the first no more then a man is that hath two debtors and both disable to pay him the one he freely forgives and of the other he requires the debt nor doth he require them to believe that which is not true when the Gospel is preached unto them but if they can truly believe they shall be saved and preaching the Gospel is the instrumentall means to work faith in men that they may believe Rom. 10.1 and then He that beleeveth shall be saved Mar. 16.16 Again the Lord somtimes sends his Gospel to try if men will repent and believe and if we doe not repent and believe it makes us guilty of a great sin in not doing of it when he requiers it of us and to say God requires some to believe that which is not true is a sin to judge of the secret will of God before that he hath revealed it unto them Their third reason why Christ dyed for all and yet all not saved they say is to leave man without excuse for man cannot say that Christ hath not dyed for him and the Gospel was preached to every creature to leave many without excuse I Answer Will God give the greatest gift that ever hee gave to man as well to reprobates as to the elect to leave them without excuse Would not a lesse gift then Christ himselfe bee sufficient to leave them without excuse But then they would confirme this from these words of Paul saying The free gift came upon all men unto justification of life Rom. 5.18 Hence they would gather that Christ hath dyed for all men For by him all are justified and have life by Christ and yet many of them shall bee damned O hellish inference all this is to leave them without excuse but the truth is this as by the offence of Adam judgement came upon all men that were in him by nature even so sayth this Text by one Christ the free gift of righteousnesse came upon all the elect when they are in him by grace unto justification of life for as none is guilty of the first Adams sin till they are in him by nature so nor is righteousnesse by Christ till they are in him by grace and not many ages past they said although Christ taketh away the sins of all the world yet none are justified from the sin till they by faith behold it but here they are not ashamed to say that the righteous God should pronounce all to be just having given them Christ to die for their sins and the life of grace to believe it and after all this that God should condemne these justified persons What miserable blasphemy is this Shall not the Judge of all the earth doe right Gen. 18.25 Is God unrighteous that taketh vengeance how then shall he judge the world Rom. 3.5 6. Then doe not harbour such blasphemous thoughts of God for whom he justified them he also glorified It is God that justifieth who shall condemn It is Christ that dyed Rom. 8.30 33 34. The fourth reason Why Christ dyed for all and yet not all saved is this they say Christ dyed for Adam and all his posterity because the elect should proceed out of his loynes I Answer as they are flesh and bloud they are the children of the first Adam and so in him under sin and condemnation but as they are new borne they proceed from the second Adam which is Christ Hee shall see his seed and he shall see the travell of his soule and be satisfied Esay 53.10 11. God the Father by Covenant gave them to Christ from all Eternity therfore sayth he Behold I and the children which thou hast given me Esay 8.18 But will it follow that all must be elected because all sinned and must all be given to Christ because they are descended of Adam or must Christ die for all because all came of Adam By this reason what is done to any is done to all if any be saved all are saved if any be damned all are damned because wee have all our nature from one man but cannot God bestow his gift on whom hee will must all have a like because all are alike descended I hope when Adam had condemned all it was Gods free grace to pardon any and as many as he pleaseth The fifth reason why Christ dyed for all and yet all not saved is because by Christ all shall rise again at the last day 1 Cor. 15.21 22. Hee is called the resurrection John 11 25. For by the sin of Adam all die and so lost their bodies so by Christ shall all rise again some to the resurrection of salvatian and some to the resurrection of damnation Iohn 5.29 Then say they because Christ raiseth all therefore he dyed for all I Answer although it is by Christ all reprobates are raised that is by his power those vessels of wrath that are fitted for destruction may be filled with it and because the body of Adam sinned as well as the soule against an infinite God therefore the bodies of reprobates should be punished with their souls eternally and because Christ will send his Angels to gather up the bodies of reprobates to bring them to their soules to bee tormented eternally Is this a good argument that Christ hath dyed for them and bought those soules and bodies this shews plainly they are goats and none of the sheep that the good sheepherd dyed for they are dogs and shall bee without when as his sheep shall never perish but shall have eternall life John 10. Sixthly They say Christ dyed for all and yet not all saved because the Father gave him all I answer Those that are given in to his wrath to be ruled with a rod of iron to say he dyed for all such you had as good say that hee died for devills being so given on to his regall power that they shall not doe what they list but then they say he died for all to purchase to himselfe a Church But cannot a man purchase a Lordship unlesse he lay down money and bargain for the whole World and when he hath purchased all the World and then

stand to their courtesie whether any will bee saved or not what miserable arguing is this Seventhly They say Christ dyed for all and yet all not saved because His Father made him Iudge of all John 5.27 28 29. I answer as before by this Argument he dyed for Devills and Angels that never sinned for he is the judge of all but if Christ shall slay those that will not have him to rule over them and cast unprofitable servants into utter darknesse Luke 19.22 27. and render vengeance on these that obey not the Gospel 1 Thes 1.7 8 9. Is this sufficient to prove that Christ hath bought them with his heart bloud when hee shall thus condemne nhem let all wise men judge But then they say if Christ should condemne these that he dyed not for in that he would be unjust I Answer as before If this were so then Christ were unjust to condemne the Devills or else they must prove that Christ dyed for Devills but men and Angels were all condemned for their sin against the Covenant of works and hee was not bound to send men a Saviour to redeem them and to establish those Angels that did not sin This may suffice to prove that Christ did not die for all and every man in the world CHAP. IV. They hold it unlawlull to use that Prayer of Christ Matthew 6.9 at a Prayer both by the godly and ungodly THey say the godly must not use this Prayer of Christ because the fift petition is forgive us our trespasses when as they are forgiven already and therefore ought not to pray for pardon of sin being pardoned already I Answer David a man after Gods own heart when Nathan the Prophet told him that the Lord had put away his sin yet he prayed the Lord to deliver him from bloud guiltinesse 2 Sam 12.13 Psal 51.14 and in his old age he prayed the Lord not to remember the sins of his youth and to pardon his iniquity for it is great Psal 25.7 11. And although the Lord will cleanse the house of Israel from all their uncleannesse yet for this he will be enquired of by them Ezek. 36.25 26 29 97. And they must take up words and say take away all our iniquity Hos 14.2 and the Apostles by Christ were taught daily to say forgive us our sins because we sin daily and our assurance is but for the time present and who knows how soone he may lose it and say with David and Jeremiah I am cut off Psal 31.22 Lam. 3.54 and with Iob Though thou holdest me for thine enemy and settest me as a mark for thine arrow Iob 7.20.13 24. But they say if any man lack assurance of Gods favour let him pray for it rather then for pardon of sin being done already I answer assurance of Gods favour is employed in that prayer for pardon of sin for it is sin onely that separates betweene us and our God Esay 59 2. and we should more desire the pardon of sin being an offence to God then our own comfort that comes by that pardon again the way to get assurance and to keepe it is by praying for the forgivenesse of sins for suppose we have at the present our comfortable assurance that all our sins past are forgiven yet we sin continually and every new sin is as a cloud betweene God and us and darkens our assurance of it now by this prayer we disperse and dispell these clouds which would soon deprive us of all our comfortable assurance of Gods favour therefore David prays to be clensed from all his secret sins although unknown Psal 19.12 for all sinnes will cause the Lord to hide his face from us more or lesse Esay 54.2 but they say Christ taught his Disciples to pray for pardon of sin before hee suffered because hee had then appeased the wrath of his Father yet afterward hee required no such thing but if Christ had not satisfied the wrath of God before he came in the flesh and suffered in it then I would know what became of all the Patriarks and Prophets that died before but I have often said that God made a Covenant with Christ from all Eternity to give him all the Elect as they fall in the severall ages of the World upon condition that he should give his life a ransome for them and so the Father set him a day and trusted the Son for the payment of it and gave him all the elect according to their Covenant that fell in those ages before the day of payment for the purchase and then in the fulnesse of time he paid for the purchase and now the Son trusts the Father to give him all the Elect that fall in those ages since the purchase was paid so then the death of Christ was vertuall to save those before his comming as well as those after for God was in Christ reconciling the World or multitude of the Elect in every age of the World from the first to the last to give them to Christ and so by vertue of the Covenant he was slaine from the foundation of the World Revel 13.8 Therefore it is said by Isaiah unto us a child is born Esay 6.9 And Abraham saw his day and was glad Joh. 8.58 And Christ was as pleasing to his Father before he came in the flesh as after for sayth he I was set up from everlasting then I was by him as one brought up with him and I was daily his delight Prov. 22.23 30. Therefore if Christ say in Jobs time I have found a ransome then he will deliver his soule from going into the pit and his life shall see the light Iob 33.24 28. so then in every age when the Father gave any to Christ his death did vertually satisfie for them they being in Christ by faith with whom the Covenant was made but they say before Christ suffered all power to forgive sins was in the Father and afterward given to him Mat. 28.18 And then and not before he got the keyes of hell and death Revel 1.18 I Answer Christ had power to forgive sin before he suffered Mat. 9.5 6. for he was King of his Church ever since that promise was made to Adam Gen. 3.15 and had the keyes of hell and death ever since although he never made it known to the world till then Rom. 16.25 and if that covenant had not been made before the covenant of works was broken by Adam all creatures had perished eternally but they say although Christ taught remission of sins after his death yet then he did not teach to pray for pardon of sinne I Answer that prayer which he had taught before was to remain to the worlds end for sayth he When you pray say forgive us our sins and to denie this were to renounce all those truths taught by him before his death and to confine our selves onely to what hee taught afterwards Again then the Doctrine of resurrection was most in question to be resolved on