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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85510	A modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace, and the defenders thereof, from the aspersions of arminianism & popery, which Mr. W. E. cast on them. By the late faithful and godly minister Mr. John Graile, minister of the gospel at Tidworth in the county of Wilts. Published with a preface concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace, wherein is a discovery of the judgment of Dr. Twisse in the point of justification, clearing him from antinomianism therein. By Constant Jessop, minister of the Gospel at Wimborn minister in the county of Dorset. Whereunto is added, a sermon, preached at the funeral of the said Mr. John Grail. By Humphrey Chambers, D.D. and pastor of the church at Pewsie.	Graile, John.; Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662.; Jessop, Constantine, 1601 or 2-1658. Pauls sad farewel to his Ephesians.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1477; Thomason E817_1; Thomason E817_2; ESTC R207370	97,971	125

proportion is there betweene the debt and the acknowledgment Thus God seemes to speak to us in the matter of repentance Only acknowledg thine iniquities The summe of all is That a man gives freely which he gives on condition when withal he gives ability to perform the condition else salvation given for and through Christ would not be free But such are the conditions we pleade for as our duties so Gods gifts and graces and therefore the gift of salvation notwithstanding them is free Againe That we give on condition the condition being the parties duty to whom we give is free else the portions that parents give dutiful children would not be free gift But such are the conditions maintained by us such as we owe of duty to God whether he give or no he giveth therefore freely though he require them 3. That we give on conditions the conditions being no way beneficial to us who give no way equivalent to the thing we give nor any way causal of our giving we give most freely But such also are the conditions defended by us as hath beene made apparent they no way benefit the Lord at all they are infinitely disproportionable to the gift of salvation he bestowes nor do they any way move him to bestow salvation but rather his will and purpose to bestow salvation moves him to bestow them that by receipt of them his people might be fitted for the salvation he intends them And therefore notwithstanding that they are required the gift of salvation is most free Thus have we done with your Argument from the freenesse of grace which that it may well stand with our conditions I hope is well cleared as also with your Arguments taken from scripture We come now to those you fetch from Reason The first of which was taken from the intent of Christ in dying which the Scriptures hold out to be the salvation of those for whom he died Now say you if he died conditionally it will follow that he willed not their salvation at all but their damnation as much or more then their salvation for he wills their salvation if they believe otherwise their damnation and it is natural to them not to believe This and all that followes in the Argument may make against the Arminians who hold that Christ hath purchased salvation for us but not faith and that he died for us conditionally i. e. that we should be saved if we did believe but did no way procure for us that we should believe and accordingly it is used by our Authors though in other terms to destroy the Arminians conditionality as you may see in Owen But conditional redemption in which the conditions are purchased as wel as the salvation which is that we maintain it no way oppugneth Put case an outlandish man should procure for his Sonne some inheritance in our Country to be enjoyed by him upon his infranchisement you cannot say he intended his Sons non-enjoyment of it as much as enjoyment because of the condition of his Infranchisement if that the Infranchisement be procured by the father as wel as the inheritance The purchasers intent I hope is ful and firme Notwithstanding the conditionality of the purchase when the condition is purchased as well as the thing So when we maintaine that Christ hath procured salvation for us to be enjoyed conditionally if wee doe believe You cannot inferre thence that he intended our damnation as much as salvation because we have no power to believe for wee maintaine also that Christ hath purchased for us that wee shall believe Sir Arminians say That Christ died for us that we might be saved if wee doe believe we that Christ died for us that we should believe and believing have life through his name Dare you say that Christ died for any so absolutely as that they should be saved whether they did believe or no I hope you will not though your parallelling the new Covenant with that with Noah doth naturally yeild such an inference as hath already beene shewed Your second Argument was the same with one you used in your former sermons where you asserted the absolutenesse of the new Covenant viz. That this conditionality infers a liberty of will But Sir that those who plead for conditions are no way maintainers or abettors of free will their writings sufficiently declare You make men believe that we preach not repentance as the grace of God by his Spirit wrought in our hearts in and for Christ which is most untrue and who of us denies faith to be the gift of God or that God out of his love to us in Christ freely worketh it in us that therby we may be enabled to receive Christ That we are not only halfe dead but quite dead and can do nothing that is good until the spirit quicken us cannot goe to Christ til God the Father draweth us cannot believe on Christ nor repent of sin until the Lord give it unto us and enable us thereto is a doctrine I have long agoe learned from their Sermons and often meete with in their writings And as for the inference he which chargeth the Patronage of free will on that kind of preaching that holds out life and salvation upon condition of faith and repentance let him looke to it how he will quit Christ and his Apostles from that charge whose Sermons are full of counsels commands and calls that require men to repent and believe if ever they would be saved Sir conditions to be performed by us of our owne strength and power which the Arminians maintaine argue a power in mans will indeede But conditions purchased by Christ for us and to be wrought by his Spirit in us which we maintain Inferre no power of free wil at all Your third Argument was taken from election That from this conditional redemption would follow that men are elected but conditionally so that Gods election should be undetermined and uneffectual and the will of God should be made subordinate to the will of the creature Sir God may be said to elect conditionally two wayes 1. So as that the condition be considered as anteceding his election moving him to will salvation to such a person This conditionality indeed subordinates the will of the Creator to the creature and causeth election to be undetermined and ineffectual But such kind of conditions we oppugne as Arminian Or 2. so as that the condition preceede indeed the actual enjoyment of the benefits to which men are elected but followes election it self And this consideration of conditions of election we propugne as no way evacuating either the efficacy or determinatenesse of Gods election nor yet in any wise subjecting the wil of God to the will of man therein Hear what Dr. Ames saith to this very thing It never was denied by our Divines that faith was maintained as a condition antecedent indeed to salvation but consequent unto or following election it self i. e. but hath been constantly