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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

not sufficient for Salvation without the Truth be inwardly taught by the Spirit yet how often hath this man affirmed That whatever the Spirit works in us is but our own Righteousness yet here to the Confutation of all his former Affirmations saith That without the inward Teachings of the Spirit there is no Salvation no not by Jesus of Nazareth c. so big is this man with the prodigious Monsters not only of dividing the Holy Ghost from Christ but of horrible Confusion Ignorance Unbelief and Blasphemy 1st Confusion in that he is so Contradictory to himself 2. Ignorance because it implies a Distrusting of Christ even while we are acted by the Holy Ghost which is impossible 3. Vnbelief because he saith he dares not trust to the Holy Ghost and yet saith we cannot be saved except we be inwardly taught by the Holy Ghost 4. Blasphemy because he supposes it is possible for the Holy Ghost to deceive us else why doth he say that he dares not trust to the Holy Ghost but to Christ c Neither will it at all help him for to say He intends only as to Justification because he acknowledgeth there can be no Salvation by Jesus of Nazareth and consequently no Justification by Christ without the inward Teachings of the Spirit for saith he historical Knowledge cannot do it but the inward Knowledge which the Spirit gives doth do it so that what he hath said though against his Will amounts to this viz. That true experimental Justification by Christ cannot be savingly known without it be inwardly taught by the Spirit by which Grant he hath renounced these two Erroneous Opinions viz. 1st That what the Holy Ghost works in us is our own Righteousness and 2dly That he was deceived and mistaken when he said he durst not trust to the Holy Ghost but to Christ and hath confirmed the Truth to be on my side viz. That we are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 Haworth Faith as a Habit or Act in us is our own Righteousness p. 54. Crook He hath conveyed all his right to this by his former Grant only he hath that left which still renders him more suspitious viz. That his Claim is nought because it will not indure Scripture-Terms but no marvel seeing he dares not trust to the Holy Ghost But let his late Recantation include his uncouth word Habie amongst his other Mistakes of Unscund Expressions c. for the Scripture no where calls that Faith which is wrought by the exceeding Greatness of that Power which raised up Christ from the Dead Eph. 1.19,20 our own Righ cousness which is as absurd an Affimation as to say the Apostle intended viz. by not having on our own Righteousness c. not having Faith c. Haworth That Error of the Quakers viz. that first Risings to Evil in the Heart if not consented to are not Sin and here in a Digression I will take Leave to propound some Arguments against that Error of the Quakers desiring J. C. to give a fair Answer to them p. 56. Arg. 1. Haworth That which the Apostle calleth Sin we ought to call it so but the Apostle giveth this Name to those Metions to Evil Ergo. Crook The Apostle Rom. 7.5 distinguisheth between Motion and Sin Ergo Motion in some Sense is not Sin 2. He distinguisheth between his former State in the Flesh when Motions brought forth Sin unto Death and his present Condition which implies unconsented to Motions do not 3. Though Motions in a strict Sense may be called Sin yet not unto Death or damning because as it is subjected in Vn-consenting Persons it looseth its own Natural Venome and Relation to Guilt Vid. Dr. Taylor upon Original Sin Chapter 6. Arg. 2. Haworth That which is a Transgression of the Law of God delivered by Moses is a Sin but a Motion t●… Evil though not consented to is so Ergo. Crook To this thou hast answered thy self in confessing all the Commandments save the last forbid consent to evil Thoughts arising in the Heart according to Christ's Interpretation of them Mat. 5. so that if there be not consent there is no Transgression and consequently not Sin but thou would'st have the 10th Commandment as it were to be different in Nature from all the rest and to forbid more as if to covet my Neighbour's House were worse then to kill my Neighbour and to covet my Neighbour's Ox were worse then to steal it Arg. 3. Haworth That which is to be mortified and crucified must needs be Evil c. I ask from wherce they arise c Crook To deny resist and refuse to consent to Motions to Evil is a mortifying and crucifying of them And for thy further Information they arise a naturae vitio i. e. from a Defection of Nature and inclines to Sin c. Arg. 4. Haworth If they are such as are a Burden to one that is made Partaker of the new Nature then they must be evil and sinful c. Crook This is as true of Outward Afflictions and Punishments as of Inward Motions and Risings and no man will say that these are sinful in themselves and yet they are burdensome to such as are made Partakers of the New Nature c. Arg. 5. Haworth If these Motions bring so much Guilt upon a man that there is need of the Attonement of Christ and if it were not for the Grace of God in Christ we should be condemned for them c. then they are Evil but c. Crook It is the Grace of God in Christ that enables a man to wrestle with and deny to consent unto these Motions and therefore these Motions unconsented to are not his Sin and consequently bring neither Guilt nor Condemnation Arg. 6. Haworth That which flows from an Evil Fonntain must needs be Evil but c. Crook By thy own Confession in pag. 59. thou sayest That in Case we yield not to Satan's Temptations we are not guilty so that thou hast answered thy self For either those Temptations which come from Satan come not from an Evil Fountain or else there is no Necessity that that which flows from an Evil Fountain must needs be the Evil of Unconsenting Persons Arg. 7. Haworth That which is a Privation of that Righteousness and Image that was at first in man and should be now in man and the Law requires it should be in everyone of us that must needs be Evil but c. Crook I deny that Evil Risings or Motions to Evil have made such a Privation of that first Image of God in man that there is not so much of it remaining in man as to resist or shew a dislike to them for the Heathen Poet proves the contrary Video meliora proboque tamen deteriora sequor i.e. I see the best things and approve them to be so yet I follow the worst Arg. 8. Haworth These Motions must be either Good Evil or Indifferent