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soul_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	12,735	5	4.2755	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45400	Charis kai eirēnē, or, A pacifick discourse of Gods grace and decrees in a letter of full accordance / written to the reverend and most learned Dr. Robert Sanderson by Henry Hammond ... ; to which are annexed the extracts of three letters concerning Gods prescience reconciled with liberty and contingency ; together with two sermons preached before these evil times, the one to the clergy, the other to the citizens of London.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing H519; ESTC R35983	108,515	176

no salvation possible to lapsed man by any other Covenant Which being set in opposition to the first Covenant of perfect unsinning obedience and therefore called a second and Evangelical Covenant on condition onely of sincere obedience of doing what by Gods gift purchased by Christ men are enabled to do it follows still that whatsoever acceptation or mercy they who never heard of Christ can be imagined to have afforded them by God must be conformable to the tenure of the Evangelicall Covenant and so to the praise of the Glory of that Grace whereby whosoever is accepted by God is accepted in the beloved § 45. The second Consideration is the analogy which in one respect is observable between those to whom the Gospel is not revealed and all children and Idiots within the pale of the Church for although believing in Christ were supposed equally by the law of Scripture to be exacted of all and so of both those sorts nay by the intervention of the vow of Baptism to be more expresly the obligation of those that are baptized then those that are not yet there is no reason producible to free the Christian children and idiots from the blame of not believing which will not with equall force be producible for those heathens to whom the Gospel was never revealed it being as impossible to see without the presence of the object as without the faculty of sight without the Sun as without eyes without the revelation of Christ as without the intellective faculty which if it be not part of the importance of that decree of heaven Go and preach and then he that believeth not shall be damned yet it is fully accordant to it and shews that that Text was not designed to give suffrage to the damnation of all but Christians which is all that your Corollary or my observations have aspired unto to which it is yet farther necessarily consequent that these Scripture Decrees which you speak of and whosoever speaks of any other must be resolved to speak from some other dictate then that of Scripture comprize not all men no nor all baptized Christians under them being terminated onely in those to whom the Gospel is revealed and those certainly are not all that are brought into the world or even to Baptismal new birth § 46. The third consideration is that seeing the Scripture assures us that they which have received more of them more shall be required and that he that knoweth and doeth not shall be beaten with many stripes this must needs advertise us that whatever priviledges Christians may have beyond heathens this is not one that a smaller degree of obedience and performances shall be accepted of them then of heathens would be but the contrary that to whom less is given less will be required according to that of S. Augustine Ex eo quod non accepit nullus reus est No man is guilty from that which he hath not received § 47. The fourth Consideration is that God rewards those that have made use of the single talent that lowest proportion of Grace which he is pleased to give and the method of his rewarding is by giving them more grace which as it is in some degree applicable to heathens who have certainly the talent of naturall knowledge and are strictly responsible for it so if they use not that but retain the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. that makes their condition but the same with ours who are finally lost also and at the present have our talent taken away from us if we make not the due use of it § 48. This 't is visible hath befaln those Nations who once had the Gospel preacht to them and after the knowledge of the truth return'd to their heathen sins and so had their candlestick taken from them to which and not to Gods primary denying them Evangelical Grace their present Barbarity is to be imputed And the onely conclusion which we can hence duely make is the acknowledgement of Gods just judgements on them and reasonable fear lest he deal in like manner with us if we transcribe their copy imitate them in their demerits Should God most justly thus punish this nation at this time could it either now or in future ages be reasonable hence to argue against the Doctrine of Vniversal Grace in case there were a concurrence of all other evidences for the truth of the Doctrine Certainly it could not In like manner then it cannot be reasonable to argue thus from the like fate and effects on other Nations § 49. To which I may add that Christ being we know in Gods decree and promise the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world if this argument be now of force against the heathens it must equally hold against all that understood no more of the Predictions of Christ then the Pagans do now of the History § 50. And then it must should it have force follow not onely that the Sacrifice of Christ was intended to be of avail to none but the Jews to whom onely the Oracles of God were committed which yet you acknowledge was intended to all but also that as far as we have wayes of judging a very small part of those Jews received the salvifick Grace of Christ if it were confined and annext to the revelation and belief of him For if we may judge of other ages by that wherein Christ appeared the Prophecies of the Crucified Messias were very little understood by that people All this makes it more prudent and rationall and pious to search our own wayes then to pass sentence on other men which is the onely thing I have aimed at in these four Considerations § 51. Your second Proposition which you tender as a Conjecture I cannot but own under an higher style of an evident truth of Scripture It is this That there is to the outward tender of Grace in the ministry of the Gospel annexed an inward offer also of the same to the heart by the spirit of God going along with his word which some of the Schoolmen call auxilium Gratiae generale sufficient in it self to convert the soul of the hearer if he do not resist the Holy Ghost and reject the Grace offerr'd which as it is grounded upon these words Behold I stand at the door and knock and upon very many other passages of Scripture beside so it standeth with reason that the offer if it were accepted should be sufficient ex parte sui to do the work which if not accepted is sufficient to leave the person not accepting the same unexcusable This I say I am obliged to assent to in the terms and upon the double ground both of Scripture and reason whereon you induce it If there were but one text of Scripture so convincingly inferring it that sure would advance it above a barely probable Conjecture But I think the whole tenure of the new Testament inforceth the same and though you name but one