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A89274	Mercies for man. Prepared in, and by Christ, even for such as neither know them, nor him. Discovered, that they might know, and enjoy them. Or a discourse of the interest there is for all men in, and by Christ in the end, and usefulmesse of the beleevers peculiar priviledges and service. In which is also some information about that service to which the grace of God, that bringeth salvation to all men, instructeth, and obligeth the beleever for the good of them all, according to capacity, and opportunity given him. Likewise some directions for, and concerning Christian magistrates. In the opening some instructions arising from the Apostles exhortation to Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. Delivered in November 1653. at the Munday meetings at Black-Friers: and because what then was spoken, met with some publick opposition, this is now published for further satisfaction. Written by Thomas Moor, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1654 (1654)	Wing M2605; Thomason E744_1; ESTC R207022	135,708	156

me shall come to me even such as now will not come to him that they might have life though graciously drawn by the Father as vers 35 36. Them will he bring to be slain for ever before his face because they would not that he should reign over them who is their lawfull Lord and unto whom they were all given that through him they might have been saved But then it follows as another part of the Fathers will concerning him That whosoever seeth the Son and believeth in him or as v. 37. he that cometh to him speaking in the present tense for as the same verse saith All shall come either here or hereafter but he that now in this day of Gods grace and patience cometh in the Fathers drawings which answers the Fathers giving to Christ Joh. 17. 2. or at least is that in which they are made capable subjects of such giving It is the will of the Father concerning Christ that he should give unto such eternal life For God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son the Saviour of it 1 Joh. 4. 14. That whosoever of the world so loved by him and to whom love is so testified in and through the Son doth through this grace beleeve in him implying that all so loved by him do not so answer his love again that they should not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 3. 16. And this is the reason that such prayers for the peculiar blessings of eternal life to be conferred on persons are only to be prayed for for those on the behalf of whom there is also such peculiar matter of Thanksgivings to be made And such and of like nature are those Thanksgivings to be joyned with prayers of the first sort as already mentioned and is to be seen in the Scriptures quoted and although in them there be many things acknowledged and commemorated to Gods glory and for our encouragement to pray those prayers unto him which are peculiar priviledges of the Saints for whom such further things are directly desired as they only are capable of yet for as much as those peculiar mercies acknowledged as well as those desired are in respect of their end and tendency for the good of all men as we see in that example of our Saviour Joh. 17. 18 21 23. and those of like nature Psal 4. 1 2. c. 56. 9-13 116. 16-18 even these Thanksgivings also in a like sense as the prayers of this sort forementioned may be truly said to be made for all men According to that of our Saviour Joh. 11. 41 42. Father I thanke thee that thou hast heard me And I know that thou hearest me alwayes but because of the people that stand by I said it That they may believe that thou hast sent me Therefore his praise is of him in the great Congregation because of Gods furnishing and upholding and hearing him for their good Psal 22. 22 25. And for this cause he will confesse to him among the Gentiles and sing unto his name Again he saith Rejoyce yee Gentiles with his people and laud him all ye Nations Rom. 15. 8 9 10. there also is further to be considered That the bottome matter of all Thanksgivings the foundation and root of all those things for which thanks is to be given to the Father by Jesus Christ That from which all the other springs is nothing else but that which is true in Christ for all men namely Gods so loving the world as not to spare his only begotten Son But to deliver him to death for us all That he by the grace of God should taste of death for every man and give himselfe a ransome for All A Testimony in due time This being true and cordially done and the ends and vertues of this with the Father is the only cause and reason That with him in and through him he gives all things pertaining to life and godlinesse Rom. 8. 32. with 2 Pet. 1. 1 3. So as whosoever believeth in him and so receiveth and closeth with him in the knowledge and faith of what he hath done and is become for all men and the love of God in him to Man-ward doth therein receive and is made capable of further receiving that eternall life in him by faith of it in him for them and with him to be given them and so in a first fruits of spirituall enjoyment Joh. 3. 16. and 1. 12. 1 Joh. 5. 11 12. Rom. 5. 6-11 Therefore this is made the bottome matter of all the Thanksgiving and acknowledgement as being the foundation root and cause of all the rest Col. 1. 14. In whom we have redemption through his bloud even the forgivenesse of sins So Eph. 1. 7. Psal 130. yea this the bottome of the rejoycing song to Eternity Thou wast slain and out of the bowels and vertues of this and of the love of God to Man-ward and that was so to us even when we were dead in sins and trespasses through Christ Jesus it issued And in the discoveries and presentation of this was effected That they were redeemed from among men c. Rev. 5. 9. with 1 Pet. 1. 18. Eph. 2. 4 5 8. Joh. 3. 16. Tit. 3. 4 5. And for this namely That done and perfect in Christ and that cordially to this end That the other might be done in them as 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. 21. And the furniture and faithfulnesse of Christ in the name of the Father for being a testimony to men in due time affording means and therein inlightning reproving teaching according to mens needs and capacity for the bringing them back to God All men have cause to praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull works to the children of men And if they will not yet let the Redeemed of the Lord whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy do it for themselves and them Psal 107. 1 2 8 15 16. c. For he hath broken the Gates of brasse in peeces and cut the Bars of Iron asunder slaine the enmity in himselfe that was between God and mankind that he might reconcile man to God Eph. 2. 16. So that There is great Thanksgiving to be made directly for all men to the glory and praise of God and the incouragement of his people to pray in faith for those good things in their behalf and for the good of them and for good things to be directly bestowed on them according to their needs and capacities that may tend to the furtherance of the great Designe of God for the good of all men And that not onely for the great love of God in the gift of his Son and the redemption wrought in him for them But also for all those mercies and accommodations of the naturall life means leading to repentance and forbearance hitherto extended and his good Spirit accompanying the same inlightning reproving c. And all to bring men to God That they might seek him and live as

meeknesse instructing the ignorant and such as oppose themselves If God peradventure at any time may give them repentance c. They are set in the world to this end to be the salt of the earth the light of the world Mat. 5. 13 14. Instruments by bearing witnesse of Christ of reproving the world of Sin of Righteousnesse and of Judgement c. Joh. 15. 26. with Chap. 16 8 9 10. And of making manifest the savour of his knowledge in every place A company of spiritual Priests to serve about holy things for the good of others A chosen generation that they should shew forth the praises of him that hath called them even among the Gentiles and that both by word and work that they may glorifie God c. 1 Pet. 2. 3 4 9. 12. with Mat. 5. 16. Servants they are of the house but in their service and warfare sent out of the house into the field of the world Prov. 9. 1 2 3 4. Cant. 7. 11. Unto a generation of men that are crooked Amongst whom they live to shine as lights holding forth the word of life Phil. 2. 15 16. The Children of the Kingdome are seed sowne in the field of the world where amongst them and like unto them will be alwayes tares until the end of this world Matth. 13. 38 39. yet they are preserved from the evill to the end they might bring forth fruit to God and that there might be none barren among them This consideration may be useful First to informe of the great love of God to the world to All men which is herein exceedingly commended for as God sent not his Sonne so neither doth he send the Gospel and Servan●s and Spirit of his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved This is the Condemnation that when light is come into the world men love darknesse God doth not cover hatred with lying lips pretending love he is not such as many men are who hiding the Vision of all from the people honour him with their lips but their heart is far removed from him Isa 29. 11. 13. nor is he as they would render him to men such a one as themselves Psal 50. 20 21. That hath burning lips pretending love and offering grace and yet a wicked heart That while he hateth yet dissembleth with his lips and layeth up his deceit within him That while he speaks faire yet may not be beleeved because mean while he hath the perfection of abominations in his heart against the men to whom he so speaks fair This he abhors as greatest folly and wickednesse in others Prov. 10. 18. and 26. 23 24 25 26. He doth not thus graciously call and proclame his provision prepared and with arguments of that nature send his servants to them all and invite them to be reconciled And yet all this but in pretence of love and for their good but it is really so We may well argue with that good woman Judg. 13. 23. If God had intended to slay us he would not have found out and accepted such a sacrifice for us nor would he have sent his Messengers to shew us and tell us such things as these I say we may well thus argue seeing God himselfe argues and positively affirmes on his Word and Oath the truth and cordialnesse of his love to man-ward from the latter of these onely namely his sending his Messengers to call and warne them which indeed also shews the truth of the former the provision prepared and way opened for them all to turne to him the declaration of which is the summe of their message received of him 1 Joh. 1. 1-5 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. which if it were not so he would not have told them see Ezek. 33. 7. 10 11. God having set Ezekiel as a Watchman and other Watchmen to hear the word at his mouth and to warne the people He did thus reason against their unbeleefe and murmuring whereas they said Though he by his Watchmen called and warned them yet he did not therein lift up the yoak of thraldome on their Jawes as hee saith he doth while he sets meat before them Hos 11. 4. but left them necessarily under the power and bondage of their iniquities under which they were naturally so that when he called they could not heare and turne and how should they then live To this God answers and argues it from his having set Watchmen among them Therfore say unto them As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked of such wicked men as doe dye Ezek. 18. 31. he hath now no pleasure none at all after any consideration neither secret nor revealed in their death but that they should turn and live though afterward when the day of his grace and patience is at an end towards them his heart will stand otherwise affected towards them though no change in him their condition being wholly changed they being become perfectly one of the Seed of the Serpent wholly rejected of God Then he will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh But now he is slow to anger and his very forbearance is salvation and shews that he is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance and be saved 2 Pet. 3. 9. 16. And that appears as we have noted by his Declaration of himselfe and heart towards them in sending his servants and using other means to proclaim his goodnesse to them and call and lead them to repentance Rom. 2. 4. For I the Lord saith he speak righteousnesse and declare things that are right and therefore have not spoken in secret or covertly as one that would not that all should understand me or take me at my word nor have willed my servants to use hidden things of dishonesty But as 2 Cor. 4. 1 2. So here I have not said in vaine to the house of Israel seek ye me Therefore seeing I also call to all the ends of the earth look to me and be ye saved for I am a just God and Saviour Isa 45. 19-22 As one that hath no pleasure in your destruction I have sent to call you and because I know you have no strength in your selves as of your selves but are naturally dead in trespasses and sinnes Therefore all the day long while I have been calling you to behold me I stretched out my hand to a rebellious people Isa 65. 1 2. He spake in his Spirit by the hand of the former Prophets Zach. 7. 11 12. 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. Wherefore then when I called was there none to answer have I no power c. Isa 50. 2. Turn you Turn you why will ye dye While God by Jesus Christ in any means but especially in the declarations and invitations of his Gospel is calling to any of us This is indeed a time of finding with him and so urged as a motive to perswade us to seek him

good of others though those among whom they live neither acknowledg it nor desire it yet are to prosecute it as their main designe to give them that which is due to them namely To let them know of and see the grace of God in Christ towards them and the instructions and reproofs thereof in the tidings and patterns of it according to capacity and opportunity given them and therefore to abstain from fleshly lusts and to deny themselves in whatever might hinder them as the grace of God in Christ that brings salvation to all men teacheth them for the good of others and in so doing shall live honestly These two godliness and honesty are answerable to those two great Commands on which hang all the Law and the Prophets the grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men requiring and affording motive and motion to the same Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy minde with all thy soul with all thy strength The second is like unto it a Spring or Fruit of it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Yea these are contained and found in those two great Commands of the Gospel which it gives ground for and moves to and writes in the heart of the believing receiver of it To believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in which the Father is believed in loved and so rightly worshipped as is foreshewn The other is like unto it and indeed but the Fruit of it and part of the same Commandment and therefore both are called one Commandment 1 John 3. 23. That we love one another as he by the grace of the Gospel obligeth and hath given us Commandment And so this living in godliness and honesty answers to and gives explication of that chap. 1. 18. Holding faith and a good conscience which are begotten and ingendered and we strenghthened to hold fast and walk in them through his grace as declared in that name of his in his Son in our looking seeking or adhering to it according as by that grace extended we are directed and strengthened Therefore the Psalmist Psal 24. after he hath given this description of those persons that are capable subjects of everlasting dwelling abiding and having fellowship with God vers 4. He that hath clean hands and a pure heart that hath not lift up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully which verse in each of the parts answers to godliness and honesty here Then in vers 6. he gives the fundamental or bottom-description of them or rather a declaration who they are in whom the truth of the former description found This is the generation of them that seek him that seek thy face O God of Jacob now the glorious face of God is clearly manifested in the face of his Son as delivered to death for our offences and raised again for our justification and in seeking looking to or beholding his face as there revealed in righteousness the heart is therein sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water as Heb. 10. 22. 2 Cor. 3. 18. the heart purified through obedience to the truth to unfeigned love of God and Brethren 1 Pet. 1. 22. For therefore hath God condemned sin in the flesh in condemning his Son in the flesh for sin that the righteousness of the Law not onely life and peace the end of it but even the righteous affections and services towards God and men which it required but gave no strength to perform might be fulfilled in them who walk not after the flesh consulting with it or minding the things of it but after the Spirit that bears witness of and glorifies Jesus and the glory of God as in the face of him and so such use of the Law is good as is according to and taught by that glorious Gospel That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1. 11 15. Thus having seen what that is in which the believer is continually to be exercised and lead his life as here expressed under these terms In all godliness and honesty We come here to consider How in this exercise not neglecting wavering or shrinking from it but in all godliness and honesty the grace of God teaches them and for the good of others to lead a quiet and peaceable life Quietness and peaceableness is sometime opposed to timerousness doubtfulness and hastiness and signifies quietness patience and confidence in waiting for the accomplishment of Gods word and his own bringing to pass the good things he hath promised in his own time and way without making such unreasonable haste as is unsuitable to believing in God for the accomplishment of his word as sometimes Abraham began to do in concluding Eleazer to be his heir and after in taking Sarahs advice to go in to his Maid and then because that brought forth something suitable to their expectation concluding presently that birth of the wisdom and strength of the flesh was the promised seed in this sence quietness is to be understood in that counsel to Ahaz Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted if ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established Isa 7. 4 9. And that to Israel Isa 30. 15. Thus saith the Lord In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and confidence shall be your strength though they would not take it but would trust to their strength and swiftness And so also quietness and assurance Isa 32. 17. may in the first place signifie for the work of righteousness that is already wrought in Christ is peace He hath made peace by the blood of his Cross by him to reconcile all things take out the enmity that came in by sin and restore the whole creation which yet waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God but shall then as certainly be accomplished as that which he hath already actually finished in himself that the other may be brought to pass by him when he shall take to him his great power and raign and bring those that sleep in Jesus with him Then shall his people dwell in a quite habitation and sure resting places and their eyes that now sleep in him shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation c. compare the whole chapter with chap. 32 22 c. and chap. 11 and 12. Now the effect of this righteousness of God as manifested in that don● and from thence expected in accomplishing that to come is quietness and assurance for ever It being believed begets and works quietness and confidence in waiting now as well as it shall bring forth quietness and assured rest and peace for ever in enjoyment by way of actual possession then when that King shall reign in righteousness c. And so also the words quietness and assurance are here to be understood surely it is good both to hope and quietly to wait for the salvation of God Lam. 3. 26. Yea he that truely hopes for those things