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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08129	Certaine sermons, preached by the reuerend and iudicious diuine master Thomas Nevvhovse late preacher of Gods word in the citie of Norwich. And now set foorth for the vse and benefit of Gods people, by Robert Gallard, Master of Arts and minister in the same citie	Newhouse, Thomas, d. 1611.; Gallard, Robert.	1614 (1614)	STC 18493; ESTC S102789	66,753	182

vnsearchable and vnconceiueable iudgements of God Augustine also had well taken out this lesson who considering of this great and high mysterie and the strangenes of it why God draweth some and not othersome why hee giueth perseuerance to some and not to others why hee chuseth some and refuseth others hee doth not reason the matter but admireth and saith O Altitudo And this sobrietie of iudgment haue all Gods children practised in all ages neither may we carpe and cauill at that which for the depth and profoundnes of it wee are neuer able to conceiue Thus much shall suffice to haue spoken of the generall doctrine and of the vse thereof now let vs descend to a more particular handling and examining of the text And to speake of the words as they lie in the text whereas the Apostle saith God hath not appointed vs c. it is manifest that there is a number of men in the decree of God appointed to wrath or there is a decree of Reprobation the which that wee may the better vnderstand may bee thus described Reprobation is the decree of God by which vpon his owne will he hath purposed to refuse certaine men for the manifestation of his iustice For the cleering of this description these foure points offer themselues to bee considered First the obiect or matter of this decree Secondly the order of it Thirdly the impulsiue cause Fourthly the end Touching the first The thing decreed is the reiection of certaine men neither may this seeme strange or hard to any for God is a most absolute and soueraigne Lord and may doe with his owne what he will and therefore may open the gates of heauen and admit into his kingdome whom hee will and therefore may barre the gates and shut out whom he will and who can controle him or iustly reprehend him Is any mans eye euill because he is good or doth God vse partialitie or acceptation of any mans person Nothing lesse for vnto the one as Augustine saith * Tom. 2. epist 105. he giueth indebitam gratiam and to the other debitam poenam The Scripture also is pregnant in this point Prouerbs 16.4 God hath made all things for himselfe yea the wicked man to the day of euill Rom. 9.22 There are vessels of wrath fitted or framed to destruction in this place some are appointed vnto wrath Iude verse 4. there is mention of certaine false teachers that were of old ordained vnto condemnation neither are they ordained to the end alone but to the meanes also 1. Pet. 2.8 Christ is a stone to stumble at and a rock of offence to certaine men which stumbled at the word being disobedient vnto the which thing they were euer ordained Why should we then be squemish or afraid to speake with the Scripture that God hath reiected some men and purposed to glorifie his name in their deserued condemnation The order of this decree followeth wherein we are to consider first of all that God for his part as he doth conceiue all things at once and not successiuely one thing after another but past present to come at once with one eternall and immutable act of vnderstanding so hee doth decree all things at once and not successiuely the reason is plaine because all things are present vnto him wherefore we are not greatly to contend about the order there being no difference of it in God in whom there is neither prius nor posterius Yet for the helping of our weakenes in this high mysterie we may distinguish the counsell of God in this point into two acts or degrees the which that we doe not in any wise misconceiue this ground must be laid That whatsoeuer God hath decreed hee hath done it most wisely now wisedome requireth that a man should thinke first of the end then of the meanes and therefore determine first touching the end and then after touching the meanes now the end which God propoundeth vnto himselfe in the decree of Reprobation is partly the manifestation of his wrath expressed in this text and partly of his power and iustice Rom. 9.22 The first act therefore of this decree may not as I take it be vnfitly thus conceiued It is the decree of God wherein hee hath purposed to passe by some men that in them hee might manifest his wrath and iustice This act is called by schoolemen the priuatiue or negatiue reprobation because God in it denieth to giue grace and by some later Diuines the decree of preterition And it hath not any cause out of God in the creature The second act is the ordaining of the creature vnto iust punishment which is termed in Schooles the positiue or affirmatiue reprobation Againe this act in regard of the obiect hath a double consideration the one is simple as it respecteth this or that particular man as Pharaoh Saul Iudas comparatiue as it respecteth this man and not that as Pharach and not Moses Saul and not Dauid Iudas and not Peter The impulsiue cause of the priuatiue or negatiue reprobation is no other then the will of God as it may appeare Romans 9.22 What if God would c. and in the same chapter verse 18. no other reason is rendred why God hardneth the hearts of men that is hauing offered thē means of mollifying their hearts and hauing put into their mindes good motions doth suffer them notwithstanding to abuse them to their greater hardening and hereupon in his iust iudgement doth deliuer them vp to Satan and their owne concupiscences as vnto tormētors that they become more obdurate and obstinate in sinne and so worke their owne woe and in fine make vp the measure of their owne damnation saue onely the will of God whom hee will hee hardeneth neither is there any other reason rendred of the hatred of Esau then of the loue of Iacob Likewise our Sauiour Christ Matth. 11.25.26 yeeldeth no reason of the reuelation of the Gospell to some and the hyding from others saue the good pleasure of God Euen so O Father because it pleased thee But this seemeth hard vnto many to ascribe vnto God whom the scriptures euery where describe to bee full of bountie and mercie and slow to wrath such a decree and that vpon his owne will let vs therefore consider their reasons First they hold it to be a matter of crueltie and rigour for God thus to purpose the reprobation of man Answere Shall it bee no crueltie in man who is but a pettie Lord or rather a Tenant at will hauing all his interest and title vnto the creatures by grant and concession from God to kill an oxe or a sheepe for his vse to hunt or to kill the Hare or the Partridge for his pleasure and shall God who is a most absolute and soueraigne Lord ouer all creatures be accused and arraigned of crueltie and seuere dealing if vpon his will he do refuse and forsake his creature for his glorie Further it is obiected That he that ordaineth to the