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A93680	Gods ordinance, the saints priviledge. Discovered and proved in two treatises. The first, the saints interest by Christ in all the priviledges of grace: wherein their right to the use of baptisme, and the Lords supper, even now during the reign of Antichrist, is cleared; and the objections of those that oppose the same, are answered. The second, the peculiar interest of the elect in Christ, and his saving grace: wherein it is proved that Christ hath not presented to his fathers justice a satisfaction for the sinnes of all men; but onely for the sinnes of those that doe, or shall believe in him; which are his elect onely: and the objections of those that maintaine the contrary, are also answered. / Both written by John Spilsberie. And the last transcribed, and somewhat enlarged, by Benjamin Coxe. Licensed, entred, and printed according to order.	J. S. (John Spilsbery); Cox, Benjamin, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4975; Thomason E335_17; ESTC R200803	75,307	89

Rom. 10.14 15. thus it is now afoote 2. As preaching is a publishing of the Gospel of Christ occasionally to bring men to the truth as Act. 8.4 Act. 11.19 20 21. so it is now afoote 3. As the Disciples were to preach the Gospel of Christ freely to all persons without exception as Mark. 16.15 Act. 10.34 thus it is now afoote Lastly As men are to trade with that abilitie given them of Christ for their Lords advantage as Mat. 25.15 1 Cor. 12.7 1 Pet. 4.10 so preaching the Gospel is now afoote For men are now to improve that abilitie they have received because that all men are by the same Word now as well as then to give account for the same Luk. 12.41.48 Mat. 25.25 26 27.30 All which is according to Christs Commission Mat. 28. and no way contrary to the same Object 14. There is not that converting Ministery now abroad in the world that the Word of God holds forth there is one Ministery abroad that converts men unto faith in Christ for salvation or justification but the Ministers labour to keepe such still in the sin of idolatry or false worship and then others pretend to convert these further by bringing them into order as they say by dipping But where is that Ministery that calls Persons out of the world and plants them at once in Church-fellowship For such a conversion to faith in Christ for salvation Answ as fully leaves the said converts in idolatry and short of the Gospel-order and fellowship I know no such conversion Christ owning no such faith in him for salvation that brings not persons out of idolatry unto the fellowship of the Gospel But what though there be a Ministery abroad that brings persons but part of the way and then another that brings the same persons more fully home into fellowship This order the Word of God will beare us out in for a truth as Joh. 4.37 38. And also the Jewes they made Proselytes and John the Baptist he brought them further and the Apostles they brought the same persons fully home into fellowship Act. 2.10.40 41 Act. 18.24 28. Act. 19.1 7. The same order was shadowed out in the building of the Temple by King Solomon 1 King 5.6 Where the Sidonians hewed timber and stone for the house of God abroad but the servants of Solomon laid them in the building And this I say that in reference to the meanes it is a far harder worke to convert and fit matter for the spirituall house of God out of Antichrists hard and rookie frame then-out of the heathenish and prophane world and yet not onely the best if I may so say but the very worst of them hath been from thence called home and planted in the Lords vineyard And there must be as great a power from God appeare to bring these deniers of a believers priviledges of the Gospel from their selfe-wisdome and carnall principles unto the simplicity of Christ as ever was to cast out a devill heale the sicke raise the dead or convert any sinner And yet our weaknesse through Gods power hath so prevailed that it hath brought off the chiefest of sinners unto the obedience of the Gospel and prophane persecuters of us have been convinced and become lovers of God and his truth together with us and so as Serpents have been taken up and their stings pulled out and of Lions made Lambes and thus hath Christ been pleased to honour the Ministery which he hath now in his Church and leaves not himselfe without witnesse against such as oppose him in the same 4. Inquiry Whether there be any time in which man is freed from obedience to the Scriptures since the new Testament came in force And if not then what part of truth stands now in force to be obeyed and what not For man to be freed from obedience to the Scriptures in generall I suppose none that feare God will once countenance such an opinion therefore I come more particularly to consider what part of the Scriptures is now in force and specially to be knowne and obeyed They are those Scriptures that are necessary to bring God and man together unto a onenesse in Christ And this is the Gospel which is called the Word of Reconciliation the Gospel of the Kingdome which holds forth Christ to be King Priest and Prophet and the onely way unto the Father and brings persons to be of the houshold of God Which houshold is that composed order and instituted state of Christs Church of the new Testament with the subjects in that order and state according to the same Testament of which Testament Christ is the Mediator who hath confirmed the same by his own bloud and sanctified all things therein contained All which the Scriptures of the new Testament hold forth and therefore they of all others are to be obeyed for therein the whole Mediator ship of Christ together with the effect of the same and his rule and order for ever to be observed is written for our learning This Testament and Christ the Mediator thereof and mans salvation are all so inseparably joyned together by the holy Spirit that the Gospel holds forth no one of these without the other so that there is no faith in Christ approved of apart from the word of the Testament of which he is the Mediator And that faith which is truly of him and in him brings up the heart believing to a professed subjection to him Both which together viz. faith and the profession of faith doe give unto a man both a being and a name in Christs Testament Rom. 10.10 Gal. 3.26 27. Mark 16.16 Take away from a man either faith or the profession of faith and there is no name found for that man in Christs new Testament Rev. 22.14 Heb. 3.1 Heb. 10.22 23. None are owned either of God or man to be members of Christ that are no way under the profession of him as appeares in Mat. 10.32 33. 1 Joh. 4.3 And there is now no profession of Christ according to the rule of his Word without Baptisme Mat. 28.19 Mark 16.16 Luk. 7.30 Gal. 3.26 27. Ephes 4.5 By all which it appeares not onely in generall that the Scriptures of the new Testament stand now in force and are to be obeyed of all that doe believe but also in particular that the word of the new Testament which holds forth Baptisme and require the use of the same is still in force and to be obeyed because the cleare promise of the saving benefits of Christs Mediatorship and the administrations of the new Testament whereof he is Mediator goe together in the Word Act. 2.38 Act. 22.16 Rom. 6.3 4 5. 1 Cor. 12.13 Col. 2.12 1 Pet. 3.21 And here let it be well minded how Christ encourageth us to the perpetuall observation of that rule in Mat. 28.19.20 by this promise And lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the world And how the Apostle signifies it to be our duty

in the use of the Supper to shew the Lords death till he come 1 Cor. 11.26 Is not then the word of the new Testament concerning the use of the Ordinances of the new Testament now in force Let us take good heed that we doe not diminish from the word of Christ nor make voyd the same Deut. 4.2 Rev. 22.19 Psal 119.126 And so I passe to the ext inquiry which is this Whether the new Testament whereof Christ is the Mediator Qu. 5. be not of equall authoritie with the old Testament whereof Moses was the Mediator to command obedience and holds not forth a rule for the same as the old Testament did This will appeare to be an undeniable truth that the authoritie of the new Testament is equall with if not above the authoritie of the old Testament 1. The instituter and Law-giver of the new Testament is of equall power and authoritie with the instituter of the old being the Sonne of God who is Lord over all Heb. 1. Rom. 10.12 James 2.1 2. The Mediator of the new Testament is higher and of greater authoritie then the Mediator of the old Testament Heb. 3.1 6. 3. The whole state Lawes and Ordinances of the new Testament are of a higher and more heavenly nature then the state and Ordinances of the old Testament Heb. 9.2 Cor. 3. Heb. 12. and given with greater authoritie and therefore the neglect of obedience thereunto is by the holy Spirit laid under the greater punishment Heb. 2.1 4. Heb. 12.25 4. The old Testament was confirmed by the bloud and death of Buls Goats and the like but the new Testament is confirmed by the bloud and death of Jesus Christ the Sonne of God the Lord of life and therefore of greater authoritie then the old Hereby it is manifest that the authoritie of the new Testament is equall with if not above the authoritie of the old Testament to command obedience And touching the rule of the same obedience this is cleare also being of the same nature with the Word or Testament it selfe for that which commands a thing shews also what it commands That command by which a mans wayes shall be tryed judged justified or condemned that is the rule given by God of mans obedience unto him and this is the word of Christ as he is the great Prophet of the new Testament and consequently the Scriptures of the same new Testament Act. 3.22.23 Mat. 28.20 Christ thus commanding obedience with authoritie in the new Testament and holding forth the rule thereof in the same dispenseth neither with things nor time nor persons Act 17.30.31 Heb. 2.1 2 3. Heb. 12.25 The new Testament requires obedience onely of such as are under the same Object 15 The Gospel that declares the authoritie Answ and government of Christ is sent out into all the world and holds up him to be Lord of Lords and King of Kings before all Nations and commands and requires obedience and subjection of all without exception and makes neither age time person gift nor qualification the condition of mans obedience to the Gospel and subjection to his Crowne If all in generall are to obey the Gospel Object 16. then all that come at the outward call are to be admitted to fellowship and communion All that may be judged to come in obedience and faith are to be admitted to fellowship and communion And all ought to come and submit and tender themselves and their service that their Lord and King might receive them who doth not receive any but such as come in faith neither did he otherwise intend in the call but to sever between the good and the bad Matth. 25.6 7.10 11 12. Mat. 13 48. For though many are called yet few are chosen Mat. 20.16 And it is one thing to command subjection and another thing to bid a man immediately and directly to believe he shall be saved By refusing subjection unto Christ men pull upon themselves heavie judgements and dreadfull destruction and this their destruction shall be from the power and just sentence of Christ Mat. 11.23 Mat. 23.34 35.37 38. 1 Cor. 10.5 11. Heb. 3.17 18. Isai 60.12 2 Thes 1.8 9. The Lord Christ hath a Lordly right and power in and over all creatures and though the same doth not yet fully appeare in the effects of it yet in due time it shall Heb. 2.8 with Rev. 11.15.17 In the meane time Christ the Lord demands his right of all men and will judge the disobedient for their disloyaltie to him Jude 15. Luk. 19.27 Yea he requires all both persons states and powers to be under subjection who also shall acknowledge him to be Lord to the glory of God the Father who subdued all things under him Psal 72.8 9 10 11. 1 Cor. 15.24 25. Phil. 2.9 10 11. Thus the holy Scriptures hold forth Christs power and dominion and call for subjection to the same of all persons without exception Psal 2.12 And when Kings and Nations shall acknowledge this and submit themselves thereunto then shall they fit downe in peace one with another and learne to warre no more Isai 2.4 Zech. 9.10 And so shall be delivered from those many heavie miseries and destructions which they suffer one from another for their rejecting and opposing the Scepter of Christ their Lord and King as the Jewes of old did And whereas some conceive that Christs kingly office to rule and command is of no larger extent then his Priestly office to redeeme and to save from sinne and wrath I doe believe that Christ by his kingly power commands and rules over both Angels and Devils and all his enemies for whom he was never a Priest to redeeme them and save them from sinne As David a type of Christ was in some respect King onely of Israel and yet in the exercise of his kingly power for Israels good commanded rules over many heathen Nations and Kingdomes so Christ is indeed in some sense and in some respect King of his own peculiar people only who onely are they that obey him willingly and sincerely and over whom he reignes for their eternall good to make them Kings reigning with him and yet in the exercise of his kingly power for their good he rules with might over all the world and justly punisheth all the disobedience of the whole world And now I come to consider of the last enquiery thus Whether Christ requires not a publick confession of him Qu. 6. by all that believe in him and if he doe then what the same is and the Rule for it Now that Christ requires a publick confession of him by all such as believe in him is so cleare in the Scriptures that I suppose none that believe the Scriptures will deny it Mat. 10.32 33. Joh. 12.42 43. Rom. 10.9 10. 1 Joh. 4.2 3. But for the more full clearing of this truth two things must be minded 1. What we meane by believing in Christ 2. What by confession of Christ

may here understand onely every son or which is all one every man that shall be an heire of salvation This I am the more confirmed in by that which follows in vers 11. 17. where they for whose sake Christ tooke part of flesh and bloud and consequently for whose salvation he tasted death are declared to be brethren of Christ and children given to Christ of the Father I am also the more confident of this because of these words by the grace of God in the place objected to us it being certaine that the Elect and onely they are the object of that grace of God whereby wee are saved Thus I can discerne no strength at all in any objection to be made against us from this place Some endeavour to make a seventh objection from 1 Tim. 4.10 7. Object From 1 Tim 4. 19. answered we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all man specially of them that believe But the shewing of the true meaning of the place may save them the labour of making their objection The Scripture speakes of a twofold salvation 1. A salvation temporall of which you may reade in these places Psal 106.8.10 Nebem 9.17 Mat. 8.25 Touching this salvation God is the Saviour of all men Yea he preserveth man and beast Psal 36.6 2. Eternall salvation And this God hath prepared for his owne people and for none other saving them by his Son Jesus Christ from sin and eternall destruction To these he gives to believe in Jesus Christ that they may be saved by him according to the promise of the Gospel Thus he is the Saviour of all men specially of them that believe And thus there remaines no objection to be made against us from this place Another place from which an objection is made against us 8. Object From Heb. 10. 29. answered is Heb. 10.29 Of bow much sorer punishment suppose yee shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under-foot the Son of God and bath counted the bloud of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing c. This is cleare that by the bloud of the Covenant is here meant the bloud of Jesus Christ which he himselfe calls the bloud of the new Testament or Covenant Mark 14.24 But who is the person that is here said to be sanctified with this bloud Our adversaries say The sinner here spoken of But his sinner is not in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 He is not made partaker of Christ Heb. 3.14 He is not sprinkled with his bloud 1 Pet. 1.2 How then is he sanctified with his bloud Those that are sanctified with this bloud of Christ by one offering Christ hath perfected them for ever Heb. 10.14 Therefore they are saved eternally It is not therefore the sinner that perisheth but Jesus Christ himselfe spoken of by the name of the Son of God in the words immediately afore-going who is here declared to have been sanctified with this bloud There is a sanctifying of Christ spoken of in Joh. 10.36 That was the Fathers setting him apart to the office of Mediatour That is not the sanctifying here spoken of But that you may rightly understand the sanctifying here spoken of you must remember that Christ did beare our sinnes 1 Pet. 2.24 Yea the Father did lay on him our iniquitie Isai 53.6 And so he was made sin for us 2 Cor. 5.21 Now that our sin might neither returne upon us nor still lie upon him it was necessary that he should purge it away from himselfe This he did by himselfe Heb. 1.3 by his bloud Revel 1.5 Doing this he sanctified himselfe with his own bloud and had he not done this he had not sanctified us with his bloud as the Scriptures declare him to have done Heb. 13.12 Therefore when he was neare to his Passion in which he was to doe this worke he said to his Father concerning his Disciples For their sakes or for them as some understanding the Greeke tongue doe say the words may be rendred that is for their good I sanctifie my selfe Joh. 17.19 As this interpretation seemes to be genuine and proper and no way forced so it fully agrees with the Apostles scope which was to hold forth the excellency of the bloud of Christ that so he might also shew their odious sin that count it an unholy thing And the excellency of the bloud of Christ could not be more clearly declared then by shewing that Jesus Christ when he was made sin for us all our sinne then lying upon him was sanctified by his own bloud Thus this Scripture being truly understood and so made to agree with other Scriptures makes nothing at all against us The next place of Scripture objected to us by our adversaries 9. Object From Heb. ● 15 answer that we will now consider is Heb. 9.15 from which they endeavour to inferre that Christ hath freed all men from their sinnes against the first Testament and consequently from their sins against the Law considered as sinnes against the Law And if Christ have freed all men from their sinnes against the Law considered as sinnes against the Law then he hath presented to his Fathers justice a satisfaction for the sinnes of all men The words in that place of Scripture are these And for this cause he is the Mediatour of the new Testament that by meanes of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternall inheritance Here these things are to be considered 1. By the first Testament is not here meant any covenant made with Adam or any Testament given to Adam before his fall but the legall and typicall Covenant and Testament made with Israel and given to Israel in the dayes of Moses as appeares in the words following viz. in vers 16 17 18 19 20. compared with Exod. 24.3 4 5 6 7 8 9. see also Heb. 8.6 7 8 9. 2. The Apostles scope here is to shew that the believing Jewes were freed from their sinnes against the first Testament not by the bloud of bulls and of goats or any such like thing offered according to the Law of Moses but by the death of Christ This appeares in this Chap. in vers 9.12.13 and in Chap. 10. vers 1.4 5.8 9 10 11. And here note by the way that these words once for all in Heb. 10.10 doe not signifie once for all men as some have ignorantly conceived but once and no more 3. The restriction of this to believers appeares plainly in the words of the Scripture objected if men had eyes to see it It appeares likewise clearly in the verse afore-going Also in vers 24. compared with Chap. 7.25 Also in Chap. 7.25 Also in chap. 10.10.14 15 16 17. And that unbelievers under the Law were not redeemed from their sins against the Law is manifest in Rom. 2.12 where it is said that they shall be judged by the Law 4. As it hath been already