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A04540	A Christian plea conteyning three treatises. I. The first, touching the Anabaptists, & others mainteyning some like errours with them. II. The second, touching such Christians, as now are here, commonly called Remonstrants or Arminians. III. The third, touching the Reformed Churches, with vvhom my self agree in the faith of the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ. Made by Francis Iohnson, pastour of the auncient English Church, now sojourning at Amsterdam in the Low Countreyes.	Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.	1617 (1617)	STC 14661; ESTC S107828	395,581	331

‡ Or husband frend yet an adulteresse according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israell who look to other Gods and loue flagons of wine c. And many the like might be shevved out of this and the other Prophets In all vvhich vve must alway be carefull so to understand the Prophets if vve will understand them aright as one place may agree with another not imply contradictions For they neither contradict themselues nor one another And it hath alwaies ben a speciall fountaine of error and heresie to take hold of the sound or letter of some words in some places without conferring them vvith other Scriptures or having regard to the circumstances of the place it self not so much as respecting vvhat goeth before or followeth after or the like Finally the Chaldee Paraphrase thus expoundeth that vvhich is writtē in Hos 2 2. ” Ionathae Chald. paraphr in Hos 2 1. Rebuke the congregation of Israell and say unto her that she submitteth not her self to my worship therefore neither doeth ‡ Christ So this Paraphrast often speaketh my word accept of her prayers untill she shall remoue her evil works out of her sight and the worship which shee yeeldeth to idols out of the mids of her cities Thus hath the Chaldee Paraphrase Where marke if their exposition do not agree with the things aforesaid lead us so to understand this Scripture as if it were said Plead with your mother that she is not my wife nor I her husband that is that she doth not demeane cary her self as becometh my vvife in that she submitteth not unto my vvorship vvhich I haue appointed her therefore neither doe I shevv my self tovvards her as her husband to receiue her requests in the time of her need and accordingly to succour and protect her c. And it is not unknovvne among men that sometimes such things and speaches fal out between maried persons when yet notvvithstanding they remayne still man and wife together untill there be a divorce and forsaking one of another Neyther are such maner of phrases in other cases unusuall in the Scriptures and common speaches of men Ioh. 8 39. Iob 17 14. Pro. 7 4. and 12 4. Ier. 2 27. Esa 1 10 21. and 57 3 4. Ezech. 16 3 35 44. c. And note withall that the case both of all the tribes vvhen they vvere together afterward of Iudah also was often such as the Chaldee paraphrase here speaketh that they submitted not to the vvorship of God but followed idols other Gods vvhereupon the Lord many times refused to heare their prayers and to protect them as formerly he had done and gaue them up into their enemies hand time after time Iud. 2 12. c. 2 Chro. 28 and 33 ch Jer. 2 13. and 7 15 16. and 11 13 14. and 14 10 11 12. Esa 57 3 8. ●5 2 7. Zach. 7 12 13 14. Yet vvere they still the Lords vvife and people and he their God and husband as I think these men themselues will not deny And divers ” Calvin Danaeus c. in Hos 2 2. good interpreters expounding this Scripture doe so understand it as thinking it agreeth with that which is writtē in Esa 50 1. where the Prophet speaketh of Iudah to vvhom the Lord had not giuen a bill of divorce And vvith Ezec. 16 ch spoken of before And ‘ Danaeus ibid. some of them also compare it vvith Ier. 3 8. vvhich speaketh of Israel vvhen they vvere out of the land of Canaan and giuen into the hands of the Assyrians c. Whereof I haue treated here before more particularly To conclude then by that which hath ben said may appeare how in this ‘ Hos 2 ch chapter there is a further explication application of ‡ Both for the judgemēts threatned mercies promised things spoken of in the former chapter and that the several names times of the birth of the children ” Hos 1 4.6 9. there spoken of follovving one after another by degrees and being giuen as types unto Israell doe necessarily shevv that this people came not to be ‡ Not the Lords people Lo-ammi when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat set up the calues and Israell fell into idolatrie vvith him but a long time aftervvard as hath ben shevved before Moreover that when ” Hos 1 4. with v. 6 and 9. Jezreel vvas borne of Gomer the harlot noting the avenging of the blood of Iezreel upon the house of Iehu vvhich was about tvvo hundred yeres after Ieroboams apostasie then Israell yet vvas Ruchamah and Ammi still And finally that vvhen Israell for their continuance in sinne came to be ‡ Hos 1 6 with ver 8 9. Lo-ruchamah unpittied or not obteyning mercy some of the tribes and cities being delivered up into the hands of Tiglath Pileser c. yet vvere they Ammi still and so continued untill the birth of the next child when Gomer brought out ” Hos 1 8.9 Loammi not my people vvhenas Israel was caryed away by Salmanasser out of the Lords land driuen out of the Lords house cast avvay by the Lord out of his presence and made vvanderers among the heathen nations As hath ben shevved heretofore out of the Prophets and historie compared together And hitherto of this Scripture in Hos 2 2. and of the things that goe before and follovv after in the same Prophecie * 2 King 17. c. the like in other Scriptures concerning the question in hand Of which I haue spoken the more largely desiring that the right and true meaning of this and the other Prophets in these things may be found out and rightly observed Which novv both for my self and others I leaue to further consideration hoping that the right discerning and distinguishing of the things aforesaid vvill giue us great light both to direct us hovv to esteem of churches in apostasie and to keep us from the aberrations that are now so common both on the right hand and on the left whiles some regard not the defection or corruptions of Churches as they should and others by reason thereof would presently and utterly make a nullitie of such Churches or of the ordinances of God yet remayning though corrupted therein Touching Hos 13.1 The next Scripture here alledged is out of the same Prophet Hos 13 1. vvhere the vvords are these Hos 13 1. When Ephraim spake trembling he exalted himself or stirred it up in Israell but when he offended in Baal he dyed Of the diversity of the translation and application of these vvords I vvil not insist Onely for the point in hand obserue these things First that the same terme and phrase is used by Christ speaking of the church of Sardis when he saith to Iohn Vnto the Angell of the church in Sardis write These things saith he that hath the seuen spirits of God and the seuen starres I know thy vvorks that

Zedekiah and the other Ievves that remayned at Ierusalem called naughty figges for whō greater punishment was reserved Ier. 24 1 2 3 5 c. Also Zedechiah is Iechoniahs uncle 2 Kin. 24 17. and his sonne 1 Chro. 3 16. and his brother 2 Chron. 36 10. in divers respects The place of the holy city is called profane Ezec. 48 15. and 42 20. yet the name of the city is The Lord is there Ezech. 48 35. and that place in other respect may be considered as a part of the holy oblation Ezec. 48 8 20. with 45 1. c. as Ierusalem also is called the holy city Neh. 11 1 8. Mat. 4 5. and 27 53. And the faithful city becometh an harlot and yet is still the daughter of Zion the house of Iacob the Church and people of God Esa 1 1 21. with 10 32. and 37 22. Ier 2 4 13. and 5 20 21. Mic. 2 5. and 3 1 9 10. c. And very many such like every where in the Scripture may be observed And hitherto of Rom 11 11 20 23 25 26. vvhich he citeth and of ver 27 28 29. the citation of which verses he omitteth whereas they are specially to be observed for confirmation and assurance of the perpetuity unchaungeablenes of the Lords covenant made vvith the Fathers Abraham Isaac Iacob and their seed for ever Rom. 9.4 Like things may be observed out of the other Scriptures here cited by him as Rom. 9 4. with vvhich he should haue joyned also ver 5. vvhere the Apostle shevveth that to the Iewes apperteyne the adoption covenants promises Esa 59.20 21. 〈…〉 Fathers c. And Esa 59 20 21. vvhere the Prophet teacheth that the Lords covenant is with them and their seed for ever And Ezech. 34 23 30. where the fruits of the Lords eternall covenant vvith his people are largely described euen * 〈…〉 2● 25. vvhen he shall haue punished them for their sinnes and ●avenged the quarrell of his covenant upon them Where also is specially to be observed how he is still called the Lord then God and they his people ver 30. which are the words of the covenant And where moreover vve may learn to put difference between this phrase of the Lord being their God and they his people vvhich is so euen ” Psal 89 30 34. 106 43 44 45. when and vvhiles the Lord doth visit their iniquities with the rod betvveen their knovving of the Lord their God to be vvith them and they to be his people by the enjoying of his mercies and fruits of his favour according to his adoption and eternal covenant ver 30. and 31. Like as there is difference betvveene “ Ezec. 2 3. 33 7. Zac. 1 1. 2 3 4. a Prophets being among them between ‡ Eze. 2 5. 33 33. Zach. 2 9.11 their knowing of this that a Prophet hath ben among thē Finally note here hovv this being the onely place of all those that he alledgeth together vvhere the title of Gods people vvhereof he speaketh is ascribed unto them the Prophet in this place speaketh not simply or onely of their being Gods people but of their knowing and finding by experience that the Lord their God is vvith them and that they are his people Which being well observed as I haue shevved here before is the more against this man himself Like as also is the next and last place which he citeth out of Hos 3 5. Hos 3 5. vvhere it is expressely said that vvhen the children of Israel being put out of the land and punished for their idolatrie and other sinnes shal haue fit many dayes without a king c. then afterward they shall returne and seek the Lord their God which are the vvords of the covenant and David their king and shall feare the Lord and his goodnes in the latter dayes By vvhich it is evident that there is all that time no default on the Lords part but that it is vvholly of themselues vvho in so long a time doe not returne and seek the Lord their God and Christ their king nor fear the Lord and come to his goodnesse all this while And vvhereas he speaketh of this people being called beloved in respect of their estate to come he may see in the beginning of this chapter but three or four verses before that which he citeth that this term of beloved yea beloved of their friend and husband was ascribed unto them by the Lord vvhen Hoseah prophecied notwithstanding their adulterous estate being idolaters and apostates The vvords are these vvhich upon like occasion haue ben treated off before Then said the Lord unto me saith Hoseah Goe yet loue a woman beloved of her † Or husband as Ier. 3 20. friend yet an adulteresse according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israell who look to other Gods and loue flagons of vvine Hos 3 1. Which Scripture being vvell considered and compared vvith the other Scriptures aforesaid doeth so evidently convince this mans erroneous assertions and abuse of Scriptures as it may suffice for answer and refutation of all that he hath throughout his treatise about the matters aforesaid And hitherto of these objections concerning the circumcision estate of Israell Some other things moe of like sort doth this man and others except hereabout vvhich I need not novv stand upon By that vvhich hath ben said the discreet Reader wil find how to answer any other objections which they bring hereabout And in the things aforesaid I haue vvritten more largely then I purposed that so I might vvith one labour both more convince them and better informe the Reader concerning these things Yet there being another objection or tvvo that are much urged about this matter I vvill novv also in particular annex somewhat further thereabout and then God vvilling proceed to other matters vvhich are novv likewise much called in question OBIECTION VI. But if Israel now were the church and people of God then ought none to haue left them it had ben schisme so to doe c. ANSWER 1. Nay the same Prophets that acknovvledged them to be the people of the Lord yet taught all to leaue and forsake their sinfull estate false vvorship vvhereinto they vvere fallen being novv become idolaters apostates schismaticks that had divided themselues from Iudah c. Hos 4 15 16 17. and 5 2 3 11. and 11 12. Amos 4 4 5. and 5 4 5. with Mic. 1 5 13. 2 5. and 6 16. 2. Euen in Iudah also it may be observed that both in the time of Manasseh vvhen he set up a grauen image in the Temple of God and caused Iudah to sinne vvith his idols as also in the dayes of Iehojakim long after in the time of the Machabees vvhen Antiochus set up his idoll and other profanations in the Lords sanctuarie then the faithfull syncere vvorshippers of God refused to communicate vvith them

20 and 23 chap. I could moreover out of this chapter it self compare vvith ” Hos 2.2 vvith v. 13 16. this verse that vvhich is vvritten in the 13 16 verses follovving vvhere it is said I wil visit upon her the dayes of Baalim c. Hos 2 13. And it shal be at that day sayth the Lord that thou shalt 〈◊〉 me Isht and shalt call me no more Baali For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their name Hos 2 16 17. so comparing these together leaue it to the Reader to consider whether the meaning here may not be this agreeable to some things aforesaid Plead vvith your mother that she is not Ishti my vvife and that I am not Isha her husband because she calleth me not Ishi my husband that is doeth not vvorship me synceerly vvithout mixture of Idolatry as she should and as I her husband haue appointed her to doe but calleth me Baali my Lord that is * Like as novv the Papists vvorship God in by their images c. worshippeth me as her Lord or husband in and by Baal and such like Idols c From vvhich hovv ever she vvill not be dravvn vvhiles she remayneth i● this estate yet I shall hereafter cause her to leaue it and to cleaue unto me and serue me in sincerity when I shall by corrections and by my vvord and spirit bring her to repentance and amendement Hos 2 2. vvi●● ver 13 16. c. Where note that the vvord Baali is in it self ” ●xo 21 3 De● 24.4 2 〈◊〉 21 26 vvhere ●●th Jo● and Baal is ●sed to note out the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 3● 23 〈◊〉 8. a good terme signifying my Lord or my husband but because it vvas a vvord not kep● peculiar to husbands but made common to Idols unto vvhich it vvas applie I and abused in Idolatrie therefore vvould not the Lord so be called nor so be vvorshipped vvith a mixt and adulterate kind of service and ●orship c. Neyther doeth the Lord blame punish this onely in Is●●ell but in Iudah also and all the tribes together who vvere likevvise ●uilty of the same transgression of vvorshipping Baal as Israell was As ●ay be seen throughout the Scriptures Iud. 2 13. and 8 33. 2 King 21 3. ● Chron. 24 7. and 28 2. Ier. 2 2 8 23. and 7 9. and 9 14. and 11 13 17. and 19 5. ●●d 23 13 27. and 32 29 35. Zeph. 1 4. Of these things as I said I could in●●st but I vvill proceed to other things following in this Prophecie And here first obserue † Hos 3 ch the next chapter therein the very next pro●hecie of Hoseah following after the other aforesaid Where the Lord ●ovv again giving another type said unto him * v. 1 c. Goe yet loue a vvoman be●●ved of her ” Or husband as it is trāslated Ier. 3 20. friend yet an adulteresse according to the loue of the Lord tovvard the ●●ildren of Israell who look to other Gods and loue flagons of vvine c. Where eve●● sentence of the prophecie is a convictiō of their manifold errors The ●ord had before said to Hoseah “ Hos 1 2 c. Goe take a wife of vvhoredomes c. ch 1. 〈◊〉 2. Now after that vvhereof he spake both in the first second chapter he saith unto him again Goe yet notvvithstanding that thou hast done before in taking a vvife of vvhoredomes c. Goe yet I say and loue a vvo●●n beloved of her husband yet an adulteresse c. And vvho novv is typed out by this vvoman The Lord himself shevveth it is the children of Israell And vvho is this friend or husband that loveth this vvoman He saith expressely ●●s the Lord that loveth the children of Israel What also is this vvomans adulterie He shevveth it likevvise as plainly to be Israels looking to other Gods and loving flagons of wine that is intentiuely vvorshipping idols delightfully frequenting † Exo. 32 5 6. vvith 1 Cor. 10 7. Num. 25 2. vvith Psal 106 28. the banketting feasts that vvere kept in honour of those their Idols And hovv very evident novv are all these particulars If then the Prophet did in deed meane before that Israell being yet 〈◊〉 the land of Canaan was not any way to be esteemed the Lords vvife ●●r he her husband hovv then saith he here that she is yet beloved of ●●e Lord being an idolatresse as the woman that is loved of her husband ●●●ing an adulteresse May we think that the Prophet contradicteth him●●●f as these men usually doe thēselues God forbid Or doeth this type ●●ntradict the former where she is called ‡ Hos 1 2. a vvife of whoredomes Or doth 〈◊〉 contradict the Prophet Ieremie vvho also speaking of Israels idola●●us defection from the Lord saith thus ” Jer. 3 20 Surely as a wife tretcherously de●●●teth from her † Hebr. frend husband so haue you dealt tretcherously with me O house of Israel 〈◊〉 the Lord. Jer. 3 20. Why also doth the Prophet in this same chapter when again he threat●th their exile speak of it in the time to come saying ‡ Hos 3 4. The children of Is●●● shall abide many daies without a King and vvithout a prince and vvithout a sacri●●●● and vvithout an image and vvithout an Ephod and vvithout Teraphim c. Why ●●th he not in the present time The children of Israel doe novv sit without a 〈◊〉 and vvithout a sacrifice c. but that novv he denounced what vvas yet ●●come did not declare what vvas upon them already in this behalf 〈◊〉 as yet they had their king and their sacrifices statutes and Tera●●m c. and so had yet in their ovvne land among themselues the face of a church and common vvealth though adulterate and corrupt Hos 3 4. vvith 1 1. and 9 3. and 2 King 14 23.24 and 15 8 9 17 18 24 27 28. and 17.1 2. Yea * Zachariah Shallum Menahem Pekachiah Pekah Hoshea six kings reigned in Israel after Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash in vvhose dayes Hoseah prophecied Hos 1 1. vvith 2 King 14 29. and 15 8. 13 16 23 27 30. But the time vvas now a comming as here he threatneth vvhen they should be † Hos 9 3.12 15 17. driuen out of the Lords land house and presence and be “ Esa 7 8. so broken as they should not novv be a people but ” Hos 3 4. cease to haue their owne politie and kingdome as hitherto they had enjoyed it in their ovvne land Which accordingly came to passe afterward 2 King 17 ch Finally note here by this occasion whether the latter part of the third verse of this chapter may not be translated thus Thou shalt not be for an other man neyther also vvill I be for thee or vvith thee † ●●dler 〈…〉

dayes of Ahaz as Hoseah also did he limiteth the time expressely from that day forward saying Within threescore and fiue yeres shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people Esa 7 1 8. with Hos 1 1 9. and 3 4. and with Deut. 32 21. So yet then it was not done Which Hoseah also often shewed both by the types before spoken off more expressely when speaking of Israel he saith in plain termes speaking of the time yet to come ” Hos 9 17. My God will cast them avvay because they did not hearken unto him and they shall be wanderers among the nations Where there is a denunciation of exile rejecting of them by the Lord as had ben before in the first second and third chapters of this Prophecy So plainly signifying that as yet it vvas not done seing that yet they were not cast away by the Lord nor made wanderers among the nations but were yet still dwelling in the Lords land vvhere and when Hoseah thus prophecyed unto them Which is made evident yet further vvhen the Prophet in the same chapter threatneth also for time to come saying ” Hos 9 3. They shall not dwell in the Lords land but Ephraim shall returne to Egypt and they shall eat uncleane things in Assyria c. And † ver 12. Woe unto them vvhen I depart from them And moreover again ‡ ver 15. For the vvickednes of their doings I vvill driue them out of myne house I wil loue them no more So then hitherto the Lord had loved them and was not departed from them but shewed compassion upon them and kept them in his ovvn land as in his house and presence had not yet driuen them from thence to be vvanderers in other lands c. Which when the Lord afterward brought upon them then was the bill of divorce giuen whereof ‡ Ier. 3 8. Ieremie speaketh vvhich was also thus foretold by Hoseah and the other Prophets as is aforesaid But what is this to the point of the question in hand vvhich is not touching the condition aftervvard but concerning their circumcision estate from the time af Ieroboams apostasie whiles they were yet in the kind as in the Lords house and presence and so in deed before the bill of divorce was giuen them and they cast out of the Lords house and presence In vvhich time how graciously the Lord dealt with them and respected his covenant towards thē how the Prophets esteemed them and dealt vvith them as vvith the people of God the Scripture every where shevveth as we haue here before specified Which how these men vvill ever make to accord vvith their assertions let the time manifest and such as are judicious obserue And novv that I am here speaking of the Prophets I could also note out of Ezekiel how the Lord bade him lye on his side Ezec. 4 4 5 6. and beare the iniquitie of Israell three hundred and ninety dayes that is reckning a day for a yere 390 yeres the Lord so noting out his long sufferance and bearing with his people notwithstanding their idolatrie before he cast them off Ezec. 4 4 5 6. But hovv should this be verifyed if the Lord himself brake covenant with them and cast them off vvhen they fell into Idolatry vvith Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat Nay seeing these yeres of Gods long sufferance began with Ieroboams reigne and falling into apostasie as ‘ Mr. Brought Consent of Scripture some reckon them or about the seuen and tvventieth yere of Salomons reigne when he declined to idolatrie 1 Kin. 11.4 as ” M. Junius annot Ezec. 4 4 5. others think and ended with the last captivitie and carying avvay of the Iewes by Nebuchadnezer this doth directly confirme the particulars vvhich I haue here before alledged against the objections aforesaid Besides that this same Prophet ‘ Ezec. 16 and 23 ch othervvhere sheweth as I haue noted ‡ Pag. 74 c. here before that Iudah by her idolatrie and iniquitie justified her sister Israel So as if by their idolatrie the covenant vvas also broken on Gods part and circumcision among them become a lying signe and detestable sacrament then must it likewise be in Iudah And vvhere then was the Church of God and his ordinance of circumcision if it was neyther with Israell nor Iudah But Ieremy saith that Israel was not forsaken nor Iudah of his God of the Lord of hosts though their land was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel And Hoseah no doubt contradicteth not the other Prophets So as then vve must still remember to distinguish betvveene the breach of the covenant on the peoples part together with the speaches of the Prophets that are spoken in that respect and between the breaking regarding of the covenant on the Lords part and the things spoken by the Prophets in that behalf When Israell played the harlot and brake the covenant on their part yet the Lord bare vvith them a long time shewed compassion upon them respecting the covenant on his owne part which he in mercy had made with thē as novv we haue seen out of the historie Prophets aforesaid It is also a commō thing vvith the Prophets to speak of things to come as if they vvere already done because of the certainty of the fulfilling of them accordingly As when Hoseah saith ‡ Hos 8 8. Israell is swallowed up now † Meaning they shall be As the Translations haue it usually they haue ben or are among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure vvhen as yet they dwelt in the Lords land uncast out from thence as he shevveth in the next chapter and throughout his prophecie Hos 9 3 11 12 13 c. Hoseah moreover was one of the last Prophets that prophecyed to Israell before their finall captivitie and continued prophecying from the dayes of Vzziah unto the raigne of Hezekiah in the sixt yere of whose raigne Israell vvas captived by Salmanassar king of Assyria So he might now vvell speak of things as already done which vvere so shortly certainly to be fulfilled And namely of the things signified by the children aforesaid succeding one after another Jezreel Lo-ruchamah Lo-ammi With the last vvhereof Lo-ammi not my people may that also agree that she is not my wife nor I her husband Hos 2 2. with 1 9. Yet himself that in the first chapter thus foresheweth their estate by the child named Lo-ammi not my people doth notvvithstanding afterward stil cal thē Ammi my people throughout his Prophecie so teaching us hovv to esteem to them until that was performed in deed vvhich was thus foreshevved in figure And again the Lord that by the Prophet saith in the second Chapter Plead with your mother that she is not my wife nor I her husband doth aftervvard in the third chapter say to the same Prophet Goe yet loue a woman beloved of her

5 21. and 5 1 10 11. 1. Because the graces and fruits aforesaid namely the spirit of adoption faith in Iesus Christ with the fruits thereof are certain pledges and assurances of Gods eternall election unto salvation as hath ben shewed before pag. 222. Novv as God himself so his decree and loue toward his elect for salvation is unchangeable therefore it cannot be that those vvhom he hath chosen unto life eternall should by him again for ever be rejected and become reprobate unto condemnation and so to fall utterly from the Lord to be deprived for ever of his quickning spirit and saving faith in Iesus Christ Mal. 3 6. and Exod. 3 14 15. Jam. 1 17. Heb. 6 17 18 19 20. Mat. 24 24 31 34. 1 Sam. 15 29. Psal 102 13 14 27 28. Ier. 31 3. Joh. 13 1. compared with 2 Cor. 1 19 22. Rom. 8 15.16 Gal. 4 6. and 5 22 23. Ephes 1 3 14. Phil. 1 6. Tit. 1 1 2. Rom. 8 29 39. 2 Els it vvould follow eyther that such were not the Lords giuen unto Christ or that the Lord is overtaken and deceived in his decree election of grace or not able to preserue them by his grace power to eternall life but that they vvhich are his sheep for whom Christ layd dovvne his life might notvvithstanding perish and be plucked out of his hands Contrarie to the doctrine of Christ Mat. 24 24 31 35. Ioh. 3 8 14 15 16. and 5 24. and 6 35 37 39 40 56 57 58. and 10 15 27 28 29. And contrarie to his prayer Ioh. 17 20.24 with 14 16. Contrarie also to the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Esa 54 9 10. and 55 3. with Act. 13 34. Jer. 31 31 37. and 32 40. Habak 2 2 3 4. with Rom. 1 16 17. and 4.20 25. and 8.29.30 1 Pet. 1.3 4 5. 1 Iohn 5.4.13.18 Revel 13.8 and 21.27 and 22.6 9. And contrarie to their assured perswasion recorded for our instruction and comfort in the Scriptures vvhen they say I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shal stand at the latter day upon the earth c. Job 19 25. And againe I know whom I haue beleeved and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I haue committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1 12. And vvhen the Apostle speaketh of all the elect saying Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is euen at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Who shall separate us from the loue of Christ Shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednes or perill or sword c. Nay in al these things vve are more then conquerours through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shal be able to separate us from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Rom. 8 33 39. 3. Neyther els could vve in this life haue assurance of salvation in Christ but should still be wavering and in doubt and so be left without sound comfort in the midst of the manifold tentations and afflictions of this life Like as cometh to passe by the erroneous doctrine of the Papists in this and other like points of their religion Contrarie also to the assured promise of God the true nature of faith and the gracious testimonie of Gods spirit and fruits thereof in us Besides the examples of such as are recorded in the Scriptures to haue had assurance of salvation and of perseverance to the end As vvas shewed in some examples here before Psal 119.49.50 and 56.3.4.9 13. and 62 1.2 and 116.10 vvith 2 Cor. 4.13.14 Psa 55.3 vvith Act. 13.34 Iohn 5.24 and 6.35.37.39.40 and 10.27.28.29 and 14.27 and 16.33 and 20.31 Rom. 4.20 25. and 8.16 39. 2 Cor. 1.21.22 Gal. 4.6.7 and 5.22.23 Ephes 1.13.14 and 4.30 Phil. 1.6 Tit. 1.1 Hebr. 2.10.11.17.18 6.17 20. 11 ch 1 Pet. 1.2 6. and 2 Pet. 1.3 10. 1 Ioh. 5.4.13 4. Els also the righteousnes vvhich novv we haue by the redemption of Christ should not be more stable and firme unto us then the righteousnes vvhich Adam or the Angels had by creation in that first estate of integritie For Adam fell from his righteousnes and many of the Angels also from theirs leaving their first estate Whereas they vvhich are redeemed by Christ and made partakers of his righteousnes having it once sealed in their hearts by the spirit of God shal never loose it again For the redemption vvhich Christ hath wrought for the elect and the righteousnes vvhich he hath brought in for us by his death is eternall Dan. 9.24 Hebr. 9.12.24.28 and Rom. 8.15.23.30.33.34 38.39 2 Cor. 1.21.22 Ephes 1.7.13.14 compared vvith Gen. 1.26.27 and 3.1 7. Psal 49.12.20 Eccles 7.29 2 Pet. 2.4 Jude ver 8. And they vvhich trust in the Lord and are built upon Christ the rock by faith in him are as the Scripture saith like mount Sion vvhich cannot be removed but standeth for ever Psal 125.1 And like the vvise man which buildeth his house on a rock against vvhich all the raine floods vvinds and stormes that fall and beat upon it can not prevaile to make it fall because it is founded upon a rock Mat. 7.24.25 and 24.24 5. Besides that if one of the elect and faithful beleevers in Christ may vvholly fal away from the Lord be rejected for ever then also might another and another and so all of them For vve haue all like precious faith vvith the Apostles themselues though in several measure and degrees through the righteousnes of God and our Saviour Iesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.1 And thus the faith novv spoken of is fitly called the faith of Gods elect Tit. 1.1 If therefore any and so all of the elect and faithfull beleevers in Christ might vvholly fall avvay from the Lord and be rejected for ever how then were the decree of Gods election eternall and unchangeable as vvas shevved before hovv should the promise of God to his people be certain everlasting how is the covenant of Gods grace certainly confirmed by the death of Christ for salvation to his elect through the blood of his crosse vvhere and what should be the benefit of Christs faithfull keeping and preservation of his people vvhat vvould be the fruit and comfort of the gracious presence and povverfull working of the Spirit of Sanctification in us Finally vvhere should now be the certaintie and stabilitie of the grace power glorie and kingdome of God in Christ for and through the salvation of the elect and faithfull Which the whole Scripture teacheth us to ascribe unto God with praise thanks for evermore Mat. 6.9 13. compared vvith Ephes 1.3.4.5.6.7