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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88080	The glorious truth of redemption by Jesus Christ, rescued out of the hand or unrighteousnes. Or the doctrine of redemption rightly stated: wherein, 1. All Arminian and Pelagian glosses and absurdities are refuted. 2. All carnal allegations and reasonings silenc'd. 3. All concern'd scriptures seemingly discording, reconcil'd. 4. The doctrine of redemption clearly held forth, according to the harmony of scripture, and analogie of faith. By W.L.	Levitt, William.	1652 (1652)	Wing L1828; Thomason E681_7; ESTC R206784	25,340	46

hereditary from our first parents 3. As formerly God hardens no man otherwise then in a way of judgement giving men over to their own hardness 4. The Lord affords sufficient means to those that perish as to those that are saved and where he ordains the end he ordains the means 5. Such is God's soveraignty over the creature that as the wind blows where it listeth so he gives his graces to whom he pleaseth not being bound to any Object But is it not ridiculous for ministers to call upon men to repent and believe it not being in their power Answ No for 1. All that obtain the grace of faith and repentance ordinarily come to it in the use of Ordinances Faith coming by the hearing of the word When God ordains the end he as I said before ordains the means yea the Lord with the command to believe c. gives power as to Lazarus when he call'd him forth of the grave he gave him power to rise the Lord ordinarily accompanying his word with his Spirit without which Paul and Apollo may both plant and water in vain 2. God's elect people whom he intends and purposes to save and for whose sake the word is preached before conversion lie in the common quarry of mankind now it s the ministers duty to call upon all to repent and believe he knowing that to be the way to heaven but not knowing so well the secret Decree of God who shall be saved who not who shall be vessels of honour who of dishonour calls upon all that so all that belong to the election of grace may be brought over to Jesus Christ 3. Hereby wicked men are left without excuse while they ignorant of God's purpose wilfully perish in rejecting and refusing the tenders and offers of grace indefinitely held out to them as well as others Object How can God be said to will the salvation of all according to 1 Tim. 2. 4. if he have elected some only and rejected others Answ 1 Although it cannot be properly said that God hath two Wills as in reference to himself or in himself his Will being entire yet forasmuch as part of his Will is revealed and part kept secret according to our capacities we may say there is a revealed and a secret Will of God or a declaring and a decreeing Will of God now the tender of grace being universal all men ought in point of duty to wait upon God in his Ordinances he affording like means to the reprobate as to the elect he may well be said to Will the salvation of all Hence are the ungodly left without excuse for although the decreeing will of God cannot be resisted yet his declaring will is resisted every day by every sin we commit 2. For that there is a sufficient price paid for all though it become ineffectual to many through unbelief 3. Because God gave us power in Adam to stand which we wilfully lost 4. The holy Ghost in such Scriptures speaks the language of the hearts and consciences of wicked men who at last shall justifie the proceedings of God against them and clearly confess their destruction to be of themselves they being privie to that implacable hatred they had while opportunities of grace lasted both against God his messengers and all means and tenders of grace all mouths shall then be stopt 5. Whereas some Scriptures hold forth that God wills the salvation of all as in the foregoing sense he doth yet others say he hath elected some and passed by others therefore such interpretation of Scripture ought to be by comparing one with another as may maintain the harmony of both However we may conclude this as an heresie of the highest magnitude to say positively God wills the salvation of any whom he doth not bring to glory For this argues impotency in God not omnipotence Therefore I argue from his omnipotency that he saves whomsoever he wills to save Object But why did not God give Adam a Will as well as Power to stand Answ 1 Because his Will was otherwise that by his fall he might declare the riches of his free grace in and on them that are faved and to make his wrath and power known on those that perish Rom. 9. 22. it being a jewel belonging to his Crown to his Soveraignty a part of his Prerogative Royal to make some vessels of Honour some of dishonour according to his own good pleasure therefore the Apostle saith enough a man would think to all Free-willers That it 's not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that shews mercy Rom. 9. 16. 2. Such insolent and saucy spirits as will thus adventure to question and quarrel God may as well ask why God made man at all why he rejected the Angels and left them irrecoverable from their damnable condition one of which is able to do more service then ten thousand men Why he chose Israel the people of the Jews and past by all other Nations all being the works of his hands and as much in one people as another to move God to accept them but the Lord tells them and all the world that he loved them because he loved them not that they were either more in number for they were much less then other Nations or that they were better quallifi'd but he loved them because he loved them Deut. 7. 7. This also might convince all that Christ died not for all for certainly had his blood been shed for all which is the greater the Lord would never have denyed all other people his ordinances or refused to plant his Name among them more then among the Jews nay add hereunto how many thousands of the Jews although chosen out from other Nations perished through unbelief so that though Israel be as the sand yet but a remnant shall be saved Rom. 9. 27. But to pass that The Apostle Paul gives an answer to such bold spirits in their own kind in Rom. 9. Who art thou oh man that repliest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Hath not the Potter power over the clay c. As if he had said Thou lump of clay why contendest thou with thy Maker Thou worm thou inconsiderable part of the drop of a Bucket Why pleadest thou with God Object If men be condemn'd in Adam why is it said That this is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light John 3. 19. Answ Not that men are not condemn'd in Adam but that they are now more deeply guilty in despising the means of grace and salvation trampling under foot the preciou● blood of Christ as an unholy thing hence men become two-fold more the children of wrath adding to their Original thousands Actual Transgressions against so great love and light For where God gives much he requires much Object But if God hath determined already who shall be saved and