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A77750	A faithfull messenger sent after the Antinomians: to try their power in their last place of refuge, who are fled to Gods decrees for shelter, as Ioab did to the hornes of the altar, and say that they will dye there, I Kings 2. 29.30. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B533; Thomason E40_23; ESTC R5091	47,721	42

decree is in order and time before the creature which being the latter cannot be the cause of the former and saith Mr. Calvin Instit 3.22.3 Speaking of those that would have fore-sight of Faith and Holinesse to be the cause of Election but saith he how shall these things agree together that those things which are derived from Election should be the cause of Election We are elected that we may be holy that so God may love us Ephe. 1.4 Not because we are holy so then the cause of Election was in God himselfe Ephes 1.9 Saith he God considered nothing without himselfe whereby he had regard too in his decrees therefore the end of Election tends to the praise of the glory of his grace ver 6. So that it was not actuall love to the people of God from all Eternity that moved God to send them a Saviour the moving cause was then in himselfe Againe I answer from another like place to this Luke 7.47 Many sins were forgiven her for shee loved much Will they say here the womans love went before Gods forgivenesse If they say no then I say they must needs conclude the same from that place in Iohn 3.16 That God did not love them before the sending of Christ and besides if they affirme the contrary they overthrow their first Argument for then they said that they were reconcil'd in Christ before the world was but here they would have all to be done before the sending of Christ but if this were so I demand to what purpose he came if not to reconcile and to adopt us and so to bring us into the love and favour of God the discovery of their owne contradictions might be a sufficient confutation of it Againe the world here with God so loved may be understood more generall and then more speciall First more generall he hath disposed the whole world and then more speciall First more generall he hath disposed the whole world Job 34.13 that is God disposeth of Heaven and Earth and all creatures in them The world is mine meaning all things that ever God made Psal 50. He shall judge the whole world with right Psal 96.13 That is he will doe all his creatures justice and so here God so loved the world John that is God so loued all his creatures and saw them all very good Gen. 1.31 When he had finished them he rested and was refreshed Exo. 31.17 So greatly did God delight in the workes of his hands that he was not willing they should be all destroyed in regard they were all very good therefore he sent mankind a Saviour that so all his creatures might be preserved I mean some of every kind The Elect Angels should be established by Christ that they cannot fall as also the highest Heaven is established that it cannot be moved but the lower heavens and the earth with all the creatures in them are defiled with sin The Heavens are not cleane in his sight Job 15.15 And the Angels that fell he chargeth with folly Job 4.18 And the Earth also is corrupt before God For all flesh had corrupted his way Gen. 6 11.12 So then all the creatures in the two lower heavens and the earth are corrupted by the sin of man and partake with him in punishments but by Christ they that are sound alive at the day of judgment shall be restored agame to their first perfection and so remaine for ever And their earnest expectation is when they shall be delivered Rom. 8. See the Saints Inheritance after the day of judgment this world of creatures God so loved that he sent to mankind a Saviour that some of all the workes of God may be preserved for ever For the new Heavens and the new Earth which I will make shall remaine before me saith the Lord Isai●h 66.22 The second exception of this word world is more specially to be taken for the world of believers that is all the beleevers from the first to the last in the time of their being and this world was never without beleivers since Christ was promised to Adam and Eve they having a justifying Faith wrought in them they should not perish nor any true beleevers that discended of them For God so loved the world of believers that he sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world 1 John 4.14 And Christ gave his life unto the world John 6.33 And bee taketh away the sins of the world John 1.29 But these places must needs bee understood to be the world of believers they shall never perish but have everlasting life for God so loved the world of believers is to take away their sinnes They are his people children that wil not lye So he was their Saviour Isa 63.8 When Israel was a child saith the Lord then I loved him Hosea 11.1 But all this will not prove that God loved him before he was a Child from all Eternity before they were adopted or sanctified by the Spirit But they will say God loved Iacob and hated Esau before they were borne because the Apostle quoting Malachi saith It is written Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated Rom. 9. I answer the Prophet wrote this a long time after their death now if he say after their death that God loved one and hated the other in the time of their being wil that prove that God either loved or hated before they were all that the Apostle saith was done before they were born is this that the elder should serve the younger this was the purpose of God according to election Rom. 9.11 12. And Gen. 25.23 Yet this was not to be understood of their persons but the elder nation should serve the younger which was also fulfilled 2 Sam 8.14 Where it is said that al they of Edom became servants to David K. of Israel Then they alleadg these words of Moses Deu. 7 6 7 8. That God loved them before they were but in the text there is no such matter but is plainly spoken to those that were then in present being saying Thou art a holy people the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a speciall people Now the reason why God chose this people and loved them was not because they were more in number then other people but because the Lord would keep the oath which he had sworn to their fathers vers 7 8. But here is nothing to prove that God loved them before they were if we would speak of Gods love before their being then it is this The Lord loved their fathers in the time of their being and therefore he chose their seed Deut. 4.37 Again if they say God sees all things at once both past present and to come and therefore the elect that are to be justified he ever saw them justified and therefore they were alwaies beloved from all eternity I answer by this rule that God once saw David commit adultery and murther for it was done in his sight Psal 51.4 Therefore hee sees

David acting those fins now and will see them so for ever and because Christ once looked upon Peter when he denyed him with cursing and swearing therefore now he looks upon him at this present and sees him cursing forswearing and denying him and because Christ was once angry with Peter and said get thee behind me Sathan thou art an offence unto me and savourest not the things that be of God but the things that be of men Math. 16.23 Wil it follow that Peter is now an offence to Christ and that Christ now sees that he savours not the things of God doth God see Paul now persecuting his people because he once saw him do so and for the sins of Manasses and Moses who saith we have sinned in the light of thy countenance Psal 90.8 Doth God now see them at this present acting those sins which they committed when they were here because time was when he saw them in the very act of those abhominations A boy of 7 years old might answer that God hath perfect remembrance of them but yet he sees them as past not in present being And God once heard the groanings of Israel in Egypt under the Task-masters he looked upon them and had respect unto them Exod. 2.24 25. But wil it follow that now God sees Pharaoh tiranizing over them at this present they being in heaven out of his reach there the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest and hear not the voice of the oppressor Iob 3.17 18. And so time was when God saw Hezekiah sicke of the plague but now doth God see him sick of the plague in heaven and God saw Davids wounds stinke and putrifie for it was inflicted on him for his foolishnesse Psal 38.5 But now doth God see Davids running sores in heaven because he once saw them in time past or whether hath he a perfect remembrance of them not as in present being but as past God saw what Amaleck did to Israel when they came out of Egypt Exod. 17.14 But afterward in the time of Samuel the Prophet saith the Lord I remember what Amaleck did to Israel 1 Sam. 15.2 And so the Lord saw all the passages of Israel in the wildernesse yet saith he I remember the kindnesse of thy youth when thou walkedst after me in the wildernesse Jer. 2.2 But God sees all these things now as past yet in his perfect remembrance as wee say to remember such a thing past as if it were but now done so then God may have a perfect remembrance of things past and yet not bring them back again to a perfect being God saw all the creatures drowned in Noahs flood but it were folly to thinke that God now sees the water spread over all the earth above the highest mountaines all of us drownd in the deluge And so for things to come God hath in his mind what to do hereafter as Daniel said to the King Dan. 2.28 But the decrees are not yet brought forth Zeph. 2.1 2. As for example God hath in his decree purposed to destroy the world with fire and brimstone but wil it follow therefore that God now sees all his creatures at this present in a burning flame or whether is it low as David saith Thou knowest my thoughts long before or a far off Psal 139.2 So God sees things that are to come but not as in present being the Scripture foresaw that God would justifie the heathen through faith Gal. 3.8 But yet not in actuall being it was in his sight afar off as a man may have the frame of a house or the model of it in his minde before it be actually builded so was all the world in the mind of God before it was created God saw the moddel of it from all eternity yet not as really done but only in his purpose But when God had created all his works he saw them all and said they were all very good Gen. 1.31 But now wil some of those cursed heritiques step forth and say that God dissembled when he said they were all very good for say they he sees all things past present and to come at once and therefore he at that time saw some of the Angels falne and were then cursed devils and a great part of mankind were then reprobates and all the creatures under heaven defiled with sin at that present how wil these men cleare themselves of blasphemy if they hold these wicked tenets that man is actually justified in the sight of God because hereafter he shal be justified by this argument the whole earth was cursed of God and some of the Angels were falne and then cursed as soone as before they were created yea at that present when God said they were all very good And so on the contrary when the Angels had sinned and were cast out of heaven and man had sinned and was cast out of Paradise and the whole earth cursed for mans sin will these men say that God now looks upon divels sinful men as in the time of their Innocency and because God once said they were all very good wil he now say they are very good what blasphemy is this God saith wo be to them that call evil good and wil he do it if this were so why then were all the creatures cursed for the sin of man for by their argument God did once see man innocent therefore God alwaies sees man innocent for God sees those that are effectually called to be actually justified therefore he alwaies saw them actually justified this is Antinomian divinity but we say that God sees all things that are in present being perfectly as so but for things past hee hath a perfect remembrance of them as if they were in present being but yet he sees them as past and for things to come as not yet in present being God wil hereafter justifie sanctifie adopt and save his elect yet they are not so till they have faith effectual calling Other sheepe I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring in John 10.16 But for the present they are not brought in Suppose they say Christ looked on the young man in the Gospel and loved him Mat. 10.21 Although he was an hypocrite and without any saving grace I answer he loves the devil as to own his own work in him but yet hee may be damn'd for all that but suppose they say that God in his love and in his pitty redeemed them carryed them all the days of old Isay 63.9 I answer as before God loved his own work upon them and so redeemed them from Pharaohs bondage But they rebelled and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to bee their enemy and fought against them vers 10. But when God loves in Christ he loves for ever John 13.1 But this love is peculiar to his people as David saith Remember me ô Lord with that favour thou bearest unto thy people ô visit mee

into the spirituall Kingdome or Church of Christ only our heart should not be set upon these things So then all that can be gathered from this Parable is this those that enter into the spirituall Kingdome or Church of Christ their outward peny for the day of this life shal be all alike there is no sort of men that have any promise for more of outward things than other men Eccles 9.2 But what is this concerning the glory of Heaven saith Paul There is one glory of the Sun and another of the Moone and another glory of the Stars for as one star differeth from another in glory so also is the resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15.41.42 So the Saints of God they that have done most and in the best manner being acted by the strongest Faith and with the purest aimes at the glory of God they shall receive most of God For the Lord will render to every man according to his work Psal 62.12 Blessed are they that dye in the Lord one reason is because their workes follow them Revel 14 13. The Lord will give both grace and glory to them that walk uprightly Psal 84.11 He giveth more grace to the humble Jam. 4.6 Thus you see they that most and best improve their Talent of grace here shall have both more grace here and glory hereafter therefore the workes of Sanctification are well-pleasing to the Lord in a justified person and the more Sanctification wee have here the more glory wee shall have in Heaven for ever for what is the glory of Heaven but the perfection of sanctification which is begun here and the grace of Sanctification is nothing else but glory begun therefore the Apostle in that golden chaine of grace he puts glorified in the place of sanctified Rom. 8.30 He that believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but it passed from death to life John 5.24 It is eternall life to know God to be the onely true God and Iesus Christ whom he hath sent Jo. 17.3 and this knowledge is in all beleivers So then I conclude he that most increaseth in grace here must needs increase his glory hereafter Yet this hinders not the spirit of God from being both the Author of grace and glory and the degrees thereof for this sanctification is that work of grace wrought by the spirit of God in beleevers which adornes them and makes them fit Temples for himselfe to dwel in he infusing grace into them makes them all glorious within Psal 45.13 This work is done onely by the spirit of God in the first infusing of it and we are more passive in the worke but we improving that Tallent and growing in grace as we are commanded 2 Pet. 3.18 In this we are labourers together with God 1 Cor. 3.9 And so doing we may both increase our grace here and glory hereafter This Sanctification or work of grace that is wrought in the soule differs both from inherent righteousnesse and from imputed righteousnesse for inherent righteousnesse is that civill justice that we have by the light of nature which is bred and borne with us and cannot properly be called grace but nature The Gentiles doe by nature the things contained in the Law which shewes the work of the Law written in their hearts Ro. 2.14 15. This was not infused into us but growes from naturall principles But the righteousnes of Sanctification is that worke of grace infused into us by the spirit of God as clean water that is poured into a stinking vessel which doth something corrupt the scent of it takes off that sweet savour that should ascend up into the nostrils of God so that we dare not appeare in the presence of God at his seat of justice having nothing but this upon us yet in its proper place is wel-pleasing to the Lord as I said before For he hath wrought in us that which is wel-pleasing in his sight Heb. 13.21 But if wee should presume to put this righteousnes of Sanctification in the the place of justification and so stand before Gods Tribunall Seat having onely this it would he as filthy rags and as a menstruous cloth Isa 30.22 64.6 and could not justifie us in the sight of God Now imputed righteousnesse is that holinesse of the humane nature of Christ which is without us and remaines onely in Christ and therefore it is pure and cleane in the sight of God as the water in the Fountaine In this alone we dare appeare in the presence of God and by this perfect righteousnes of Christ without us the defects of our Sanctification in our owne persons is covered so that now our works of Sanctification are accepted and all our failings are made up by that perfect reghteousnesse which onely remaines in Christ and imputed unto us and all our sins are imputed to him so long as we carry about with us this body of sin Christ makes interession for all our failings till this mortall shall put on immortality and this corruption shall put on incorruption and we by death bee freed from sin Rom. 6.7 Then shall this imputation of Christs righteousnesse cease and we shall be fully and perfectly sanctified in degrees and this shall bee our glorification and our happines to all Eternity when all defects and weaknesses shall be done away This shall be the honour of all the Saints Psal 149.9 Thus you see that God did not actually love his people from all eternity if wee look beyond the Creation it was but intentionall or a purpose to love them and when Adam was created then God loved him as the principle of his creatures and after the fall before conversion God onely loves that workmanship of his in man that is left since the fall and after conversion as his owne child yet but in part sanctified and in heaven as wholly sanctified Again some have more grace here than others and shall have more glory than others and therefore more beloved than others yet the change lies onely in us and not in God For there is no variablenesse with God neither shadow of turning James 1.17 Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 And saith the Lord I change not therefore the sons of Jacob are not consumed Mal. 3.6 But as al the creatures differ in their goodnesse so every one receives his measure of the love of God take the creatures in their first creation yet then God did not love a dog so wel as he loved a man nor the foules of heaven as the Angels of heaven If this were well observed it might be sufficient to convince them of another grosse errour that was then defended against me stil they hold the same which is this After a man is converted he is as dead as before even as dead as a stone and all his actions in themselves as they came from him are as bad as the works of the devill They