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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35120	The counterfeit convert discovered, or, William Haworth's book, entituled (The Quaker converted to Christianity re-established) refuted wherein his absurd assertion, viz. that our (own) righteousness consists in the gifts and vertues which the spirit of God works in our minds &c. is manifested ... / by John Crook and William Bayley ; also an answer to the postscript at the end of William Haworth's wicked pamphlet called An Antidote &c. by C.T.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Bayly, William, d. 1675.; Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing C7199; ESTC R24285	95,721	143

unto Mankind and received through Faith and Repentance Q. 9. Haworth Whether any Actions or Sufferings of any besides those of his have any Merit Worth Desert in them to purchase any thing at God's hand for any of Mankind An. Crook 1 st No man's Actions or Sufferings without Christ are of any Merit or Worth in God's Sight 2 dly Besides those that Christ did and suffered above 1600 Years since in Iudea his continued Mediation and Intercession have Worth and Desert in them to obtain Good at God's Hand for man 3 dly Besides a being then reconciled by the Death of his Son there is a MUCH MORE put upon A being saved by his Life Rom. 5.10 4 thly The Saints sincere Obedience and Perseverance in Christ have Reward from God for his Sake Q. 10. Haworth Whether Christ Iesus dyed in the Room Place Stead of any or only for their Benefit or Advantage An. Crook A silly Query for Christ dying for all men in their Room or Stead must needs be for their Benefit and Advantage Q. 11. Haworth Whether God's imputing Righteousness to any man be any thing else but his putting Righteousness into the Creature by Saictifying of it An. Crook Yea it is an Accepting of him in Christ the Beloved through Faith and Sanctification in him whom God hath sent and given unto us with whom the Benefit of his Sufferings and Death is so reckoned unto us as ours Q. 12. Haworth Whether Iustification be not an Act of God in absolving and acquitting a Sinner for Christ Sake in Opposition to condemning c. and accounting him Righteous for the Personal Righteousaess Sake of Christ that was wholely without the Sinner An. Crook To the first Part yea Which proves Immediate Revelation through Faith and Repentance c. To the last nay while it is wholely without the Sinner it is none of his for if Justification be God's Act in absolving a man in Opposition to Condemnation and all God's Actions are Real as thou sayest in thy Book then it is not wholely without him for those to whom there is no Condemnation are such as walk not after the Flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8.1 Q. 13. Haworth Whether God doth not find every one ungodly and in their Sins when he first gives Faith to them that justifies them c Answ Crook Yes they are both ungodly and in their Sins while in unbelief but God doth not justifie the ungodly therein but through Faith which purifies the Heart sanctifies c. But this is a most impertinent and silly Query for those must needs be found ungodly who are found without Faith Q. 14. Haworth Whether by the Blood of Christ thou meanest any thing that is not in thy Heart and Soul within thy self whether thou meanest that material Blood that was shed from that material Body of Iesus of Nazareth when he did hang upon the Tree at Mount Calvary without the Gates at Jerusalem with all his material real Sufferings both of Soul and Body Answ Crook I mean both the real and material Blood as thou callest it of Jesus of Nazareth and the Virtue Life and Mystery of it received into my Heart by Faith with all his real Sufferings both of Soul and Body Q. 15. Haworth Whether that Blood there shed was not the Blood of God according to Acts 20.28 he being God as well as Man Answ Crook The Blood there shed was properly and primitively the Blood of Christ mentioned before that by which God did purchase his Church according to Acts 20.28 quoted was properly Christ himself he gave himself for us a Ransom c. 1 Tim. 2.6 Tit. 2.14 which takes in his Blood and all that 's most Excellent in him both as God and Man Q. 16. Haworth Whether Remission of all Sins was not actually purchased by the Death of Christ above sixteen hundred years since for all that have been or shall be saved Answ Crook This in Substance is but the eighth Query over again and therefore is answered before Q. 17. Haworth Is any man any farther justified then sanctified any farther forgiven then according to that degree that Sin is mortified in him Answ Crook 1st If by farther thou meanest whether a man may be experimentally for so thou callst it in thy first Query both acquitted and condemned at the same moment of time and for the same Fact I say nay 2dly If thou askest whether a Defect or Failure in Sanctification causeth an Ecclipse of Justification I say Yea. 3dly If by farther thou intendest whether a man that was once justified wholely loseth the Benefit of his former Justification by every Failure in Sanctification I answer Nay because while the Sense of God's former Mercy abides in the Heart Man is sooner humbled and his Faith thereby greatly strengthned for his speedy Recovery 4thly Or if by this Query thou wouldst know whether a man that is not so fully and perfectly mortified and sanctified as he yet desires and endeavours to be may notwithstanding be justified by Faith and have Peace with God through Jesus Christ I say Yea. 5thly and lastly If by farther thou believest according to pag. 36. of thy Book that a man without or as free from all manner of Good as Christ was without or free from all manner of Evil may yet in that state be justified that is indeed farther then I dare go Q. 18. Haworth Whether is Justification any thing else but an Act of the Light within every man upon Obedience to it giving Peace Answ Crook Yea it is more then an Act of the Light as in every man for its the Act of God and is called the Justification of Life Q. 19. Haworth Whether is there any Good Work done by any man before he is justified and forgiven all his Sins Answ Crook If man be not justified without Faith nor his Sins forgiven him without Repentance and if believing and repenting be good Works the Querist answers himself Yet I do say both Faith and Repentance do flow as Streams from a Fountain which Fountain is Christ Q 20. Haworth Whether Faith as a Habit in or Act of our Mind or any Good Work proceeding from the Spirit in us be any part of that Righteousness that justifies Answ Crook If by proceeding from the Spirit in us thou intendest the Spirit of Christ then Christ and his Spirit being one what he doth in Experimental Justification as thou speakest that his Spirit doth also 1 Cor. 6.11 Q 21. Haworth Whether there is any such thing in the Nature of God as Vindictive Justice so that Sin must be punished upon all them that accept not of the Attonement of Christ Jesus by the Sacrifice of himself Answ Crook Shall not the God of all the Earth do justly yea surely and Sin must be punished upon all them that accept not of the Attonement of Christ Jesus that one Offering that perfects forever them that are sanctified by whom we have now received the Attonement Rom. 5.11

the Sentence of Eternal Judgment and Condemnation and this is spoken to thee in Love to thy Soul if thou canst receive it but however I am clear of thy Blood if thou perish as sure thou wilt except thou Repent speedily Written the 24th of the 4th Moneth 1676. by a Lover of Truth C. Taylor A Postscript Reader BY this time thou mayest be sensible not only of the dirty Puddle of abusive Language and ilfavoured Names which my Adversary hath cast upon me through his whole Book but also of his own Confusions and Contradictions to himself so that thou need not ask the Reason why I answered his Book no sooner the Proverb being at hand to inform thee viz. That no man makes haste to that Market where nothing is to be bought but Blows It hath been said He that will make a good Souldier of Jesus Christ against Errors c. must first conscientiously study the Christian Art and Method of this Warfare otherwise they may easily build up what they go about to throw down and make Balaam 's haste who was sent to curse and yet in Conclusion blessed altogether Numb 24.10 Like Effects have still attended such malicious and unexperienced Undertakers being too much of Jehu's Temper to be good Souldiers under Christ's Conduct for that Spirit cannot endure to march against his Enemy with a Sober Pace but had rather be tossing Fire-Balls and Granadoes then gently perswading from Sound Judgment and Good Experience in the Spirit of Meekness For Few men's Errors or Mistakes saith one find Access to their Judgments but by the Way of their Affections nor will it be easie for men to come at Errors c. to disthrone them but by making their Approaches the same Way I mean by making Friends of their Affections that they may not side with their Judgments against them There is an Art saith the same Author as well of Composing Differences of Judgments as far as Composure in this Kind may with the Honour of Truth be admitted as of Opposing that which is not meet to be admitted to Composition But my Antagonist is not like to attain this Art while he goes about to convince men by False Accusations and Bad Language I know no Reason why he should so account me his Enemy and such a one as he can scarce invent Names odious enough to call me by but also represents me not fit to be conversed or eat and drunk withal except it is because I have told him the Truth without Flattery and then it may be true according to the Latine Proverb Obsequium amicos veritas odiu on parit i.e. Flattery gains Friends Truth makes Foes I have not knowingly wronged him in any thing and if it be thought I have dealt too sharply I desire the Reader to consider my Provocation My Inclination Temper is as much as may be to live in Peace and Love with all men and therefore had not my Adversary's often boasting and daring Invocations for my Answer as I hinted to the Reader before necessitated me to the Publication thereof I should have born all his Abuses if God had given leave and in Silence have buried his whole Book notwithstanding the Answer had lain so long by me And whereas the man's Confidence in his own Abilities hath imboldned him to promise an Answer to whatever Questions I should propound unto him therefore Lest either he should think himself so perfectly instructed in all Points of Divinity that nothing can be added to him or all others so much below him that he is able to resolve all their Questions whatever may be proposed to him I have instead of his thirty Queries to me that I have answered propounded half the Number to him if he think them either worth his Answer or Consideration they are as followeth Query 1. WHether thy own Author Doctor Stillingfleet saith true in his 172d page if I mistake not of his Discourse of the Sufferings of Christ viz. But above all things it is impossible to reconcile the Freeness of Remission with the full Payment Qu. 2. Whether notwithstanding Nature and Will be two things really distinct the one from the other in the Creature yet in God by Reason of the Infinite Simplicity of his Essence or Being they are not so but one and the same Qu. 3. Whether thou dost not believe that all Contingencies and Things done or that come to pass in this World were not necessitated thereunto by an unavoidable Decree or Destiny so that no man could do more Good or less Evil then he doth If yea then why did not Saul come down to Keilah and the men of Keilah deliver David as the Lord had told him viz. 1 Sam. 23.11,12,13 and then Qu. 4. Whether Christ when he wept over Jerusalem was not either ignorant of this Decree or delusive in his Wishes when he said O that thou hadst known in this thy Day the things that belong to thy Peace c Qu. 5. Whether thou dost not believe that God hath elected and decreed such a determined Number of Persons meerly out of his own Prerogative that those and neither more nor less but those shall be saved If yea then Qu. 6. To what End is all preaching with those general and frequent Exhortations to Holiness and Conditional Promises of Reward to the Righteous and Conditional Threatnings of Eternal Damnation to the Disobedient and Rebellious Qu. 7. Whether thou dost not believe that God loved David as well or as much and that his Salvation was as sure when he was in the Act of Adultery with the Wife of Uriah as at any other time either before or after the Fact Qu. 8. Whether thou dost believe that those Sentences and Phrases in Holy Scripture viz. Christ tasting Death for every man and Dying for all and his being a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World c. intend any more or otherwise then the determined Number expressed in the fifth Query If so then Qu. 9. Whether thereby thou dost not only make those Phrases and Sayings delusive but makest the dear Son of God to suffer and dye to secure those that his Father had secured before by an eternal and unchangeable Decree Qu. 10. Whether thou dost not believe that there are some Reprobates and those not a few towards whom God sheweth no Patience or Long suffering at all imagining that many Infants of dayes yea many immediately from the Womb are sent to the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone for evermore Qu. 11. Whether according to thy Belief of Personal-Election and Final-Reprobation God doth any more in the Procuring of Conversion and Salvation then in the Reprobates Impenitency Damnation Qu. 12. Whether in the Conversion and Salvation of the Elect according to thy Faith God hath not absolutely and antecedently without the Fore-sight of any Good Deeds of theirs resolved upon and by irresistable means in their several Generations draweth them to believe repent and endure to the End that so they might be saved and his absolute Decree accomplished Qu. 13. Whether on the other side it is not thy Faith that the Damnation the Sins and the Final Impenitency of Reprobates God hath of his own Will and Pleasure peremptorily decreed this his Decree he executeth in time drawing them on by his unconquerable Power and Providence from sin to sin till they have made up their Measure and in the end have inflicted on them that eternal vengeance which he had provided for them If so Qu. 14. What Difference is here in the Course which God taketh for the Conversion and Salvation of the Elect and the Abduration and Damnation of Reprobates Therefore Qu. 15. What hindereth but God according to such Principles and Grounds may as truly be stiled the prime Cause and Author of the sins of the one as of the Conversion of the other John Crook THE END ERRATA Ingenions Reader THere are a few Faults escaped the Press which thou art desired to correct some whereof are as followeth Page 10. line 35. blot out no. p. 12. l. 25. read had been p 18. l. 17. read Faldo and Hicks c. p. 44. l. 6. read Habit p 67. l. 27. for Glorified read Glorifieth p. 69. l. 23. for them any read the many p. 73. l. 24. read goings forth p. 76. l. 17. for Comforting read Converting The rest may be easily discerned and corrected from the Sense of the Matter