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A34979	Christ alone exalted in Dr. Crisp's sermons partly confirmed in answering Mr. Daniel Williams's preface to his Gospel truth stated, by alledging testimonies from Scripture and the doctrine of the Church of England, in the Book of homilies establish'd by law and other orthodox authorities : shewing how he hath wronged as well the truth as the said doctor in the great point of justification by the Neonomian doctrine / humbly offer'd by S.C., an unworthy son of the said doctor, author of a book entituled, Christ made sin, reflected on by Mr. Williams.	Crisp, Samuel, 17th cent.	1693 (1693)	Wing C6916; ESTC R8981	77,379	52

they will bring it to at last or they say nothing Obstructing the great Design of Redemption A virulent Charge but unless obstructing man's Righteousness from eclipsing Christ's Righteousness be the Crime nothing of this can be laid to the Drs. Charge how inconsistent is this Charge with the great cry against him that Christ saves the worst of sinners that come to him even when in their blood and filth which he freely asserts and yet presses not to live in sin but to glorifie God in all holy Conversation If by the design of Redemption Mr. williams means that we are redeemed or created in Christ Jesus to good Works and Charges the Dr. to obstruct that design what can be more contrary than that in the Doctors Sermons when he saith fol. 556. The belief of this that Free Grace abounds doth certainly and effectually teach and produce an hatred of sin and a love of holiness and in fol. 557. If there be any such as say let us sin that Grace may abound let me deal plainly with them for my part I must account them the greatest Monsters upon the Face of the Earth the greatest Enemies to the Church that ever were and I say of such dishonourers of the Church and disturbers of the Consciences of Gods People that they are Carnal Sensual and Devilish they are the greatest Enemies to the Free Grace of God and the greatest Subverters of the Power and Purity of the Gospel and the greatest hinderers of the Course of it under Heaven No persons in the World do so wound the sides of Christ as he who doth profess the Gospel and yet live Wickedly and if there be any such here let me tell them their Faith is no better than the Faith of Devils for they believe and tremble and that Christ will have a heavier reckoning and account for such when they come to Judgment than for any Persons under Heaven besides Now can Mr. Williams in cold blood say this Doctrine obstructs the design of Redemption that this opposes the scope of the Gospel Next he Apoligizes for the Doctor That he had not entertained these Opinions if he had considered that God's Electing Decree is no legal grant nor a formal promise to us I suppose it may be gathered that the Doctor considered God's electing Decree as much as his Opposer when the Dr. lays all the stress of Mans happiness upon the absoluteness and irreversibleness of it and if others had as great an honour for the veracity and stedfastness of those Mountains of Brass they would not make mens Salvation that are elected so uncertain a thing as many do As for the Decree not being a legal grant Mr. Williams hath erected a new term of Art what he means I know not but if he means 't is a grant not good in Law or that 't is such a grant as no man can plead at the Barr of God either in our own Conscience or at the great day of Judgment to say Lord thou hast elected me therefore I must be saved This I suppose I may flatly deny and say provided I know my Election as the Apostle saith 1 Thes 1.4 Knowing Brethren your Election or as Christ bids us rejoyce that your Names are written in the Book of Life when this comes to be known it may be pleaded or else there would be little ground of joy in it and it may be pleaded as a grant good in Law for the discharge of every one to whom it belongs not that the Dr. or any considerate Christian is for Election going alone without Justification and Sanctification no not in Children in the Womb that are Elected and die there So that though Election be not a formal promise yet in this sense it must be a legal grant or a grant good in Law But there may be a snare in Mr. Williams his electing Decree If he means God's decreeing to El●ct that 's one thing and God's act of Election that 's another 't is the last I insist on I cannot reach what he means by electing Decree but God's act of Election or God's actual choosing us in Christ before the Foundation of the World carries in it the Vertue of a legal grant or it is a frustrable Election which it is abominable to say of Gods act and yet some mens laying the stress of all Mens Salvation upon mans Holiness must reduce Gods election to The Decree includes the means and the end granted most freely yea more than Mr. Williams saith for the Decree not only includes the means and the end but the means is as well of the essence of the Decree as the end is which I suspect Mr. Williams denies for he saith in the next words willing the first in order to the last that is God wills the means in order to the end or God wills sanctification in order to Salvation But if by only willing the means he doth not make it a decreeing the means he falls short of the truth and makes election not infallible for God is spoken of often in Scripture of willing things to be done which are not done as How often would I have gathered you and you would not if he means only such a willing the means which Men may frustrate by not complying with his will then the Decree of the end which is eternal salvation that must fail and so God's Election is made a conditional one and not absolute that is God Elected such and such to eternal Life if they would repent and believe and obey the Gospel and not that he Elected them that they should repent and believe and obey the Gospel and this repenting and believing is left to the freedom of mans will so that God may be frustrate of his whole decree by their so stating Election and I thought it would come to that at last so that with Mr. Williams God's Electing Decree is only to the end Salvation and he wills the means Sanctification which will of God is rejected or obeyed as man's Free-will resists or complies with the motives offered to it and If Mr. Williams thinks the Dr. did not thus consider God's Election and therefore was led into false Opinions he bewrays his own misapprehension of Election and doth not at all invalidate the Drs. Positions concerning the Elect. His next words which he asserts concerning Election seem to make good my former suspicion that he makes Gods Election depend on man's will and for not considering which he blames the Dr. and they are these And as it the Decree puts nothing in present being so it barrs not God as a Governour to fix a connexion between benefits and Duties by his revealed will Here must be a great mistake of this learned and acute Gentleman in saying God's Decree puts nothing in present being what the Decree puts nothing in present being sure the Decree puts somewhat in present being the Decree puts the Decree in present being and is God's eternal unalterable Decree which the Father

peace by the Blood of his Cross But in regard plain Scriptures will not go down but Christ's Righteousness must be our Gospel Holiness I proceed with the Testimony of those blessed maintainers of the absolute irreversible vertue of the sufferings of Christ which sufferings contained in them the daily pardon of our offences and yet these I hope Mr. Williams will not say have laid down Doctrines to the dethroning Christ though the same with Dr. Crisp they say in the same Passion Sermon in fol. 177. In this Death of Christ resteth our Justification How Sure Arch-Bishop Cranmer and Bishop Ridley and you famous Martyrs you will be Antinomians by and by have a care Mr. Williams do not see this he 'll get 49 and 49 and more if the Press be not in too much haste to subscribe a Paper to countenance his accusing you for enervating Christs Laws what our justification rest in Christs death what justified in the sight of God who calleth things that are not as though they were Rom. 4.17 before we believe Sure either you are mistaken or Mr. Williams must retract his black Titles he hath given to this Doctrine however Mr. Williams take it the Doctrine is good stands firm is allowed nay commanded by many Acts of Parliament to be read and by Queen Elizabeths Letter to be read again and again by all Parsons Vicars and Curates that our justification resteth in the Death of Christ and if so having the Apostle Paul on my side Being Justified by his blood Rom. 5.9 and the Apostle John Who washed us from our sins in his Blood and our Statute Law and the Queens Letter to the Bishops that our Justification resteth in his Death I will oppose it against all Gospel Mincers though 1000 times 49 and will say that on God's part all the Elect were justifyed when Christ died or rather rose again for our justification that is for the Declaration of it tho' on man's part no man is personally justified 'till Christ come and unite himself to him and work Faith in him which is always accompanied with all other Graces in Faith the Seed and Root planted by Christ with himself in the Soul the Homilists go on for the farther ascertaining the benefits that accrew to the Elect in the Death of Christ and say In this death we be allowed how will Mr. Williams and his Friends take this In this we be allowed will they say in Christs death there is only a Foundation for Pardon or a Foundation for our being allowed O 't is much more doubtless 't is thus we now are allowed or accepted in that death of his that death had such an efficacy that we being justified by it are allowed or accepted in it he don't say we are accepted for it or allowed for it but in it we are allowed in it God looks on nothing else but that Death of his Son in which he allows or accepts of those Sheep his Son dyed for and that this is the meaning the next words shew they saying In this is purchased the everlasting Health of our Souls Ay saith Mr. Williams now they lean on my side Christ purchased this for them that is to say provided they repent believe walk holy no 't is not with that connexion tho' God works all those Graces where Christs death is imputed But they say everlasting Health is purchased and it is in this death of Christ there 't is firmly fixt on that unmoveable Rock without mentioning any previous Qualifications as terms or conditions to concur to our Title for the Title is freely given in the Purchase and the Qualifications are wrought by the Purchaser all of Grace and as sure as he laid down his life for his Sheep so surely they shall come to him the Father drawing But without any limitation to any Condition 't is asserted plainly by above 49 of these holy Reformers that in this Death of Christ I say in it which is more than by it in this is purchased the everlasting health of our Souls and we may not think that Christ will lose his Purchase he having paid the Price Salvation is sure and secure without any Ifs and And 's and connexions and distributions as their next words plainly say Yea there is none other thing than the death of Christ that can be named under Heaven to save our Souls but this only work of Christs precious Offering of his Body upon the Altar of the Cross Here are words without Sophisticating connexions saving our Souls is the thing aimed at now say they he hath not only purchased it so will say most Arminians but nothing else out the Death of Christ saves us name what you will name Repenting Believing Gospel-Holiness blessed graces all but what have they to do with Salvation they are found in the Subjects saved they being the free gift of God but as for Salvation as for the everlasting Health of our Souls that was wrought out long before our complying with the Gospel rule and made firm to all the Seed the foundation of God standing sure this work was over and so allowed by these great men when Christ died and so well and effectually done that nothing can be named under Heaven to have any thing to do in saving our Souls but this Death of Christ tho' I grant many things tend to the manifesting of it to us and making us meet for it as Faith and Holiness being the things that must and will accompany Salvation Are you for works for Conditions 'T is this only work say they saves our souls Christs precious offering of his Body upon the Altar of the Cross then and upon that Altar the material Cross on which our Lord Jesus hung and died upon that the work of saving our Souls was finished when he cryed out it is finished so that here is more than a Foundation for pardon for here is Justification nay more than Justification here is everlasting Health and Salvation of our Souls wrought upon the Cross of Christ 1657 years ago or thereabouts this was good Divinity in our great Grand-Father's days and in Dr Crisps Eyes and Lips that our Justification and Salvation was really actually in Christs Death as they say and so confirmed by every Parliament that ever Confirmed the Book of Common Prayer but now a poor sinners salvation must be tortured with our personal holiness coming in with an as it were as the Apostle saith Rom. 9.32 that is to say with our inherent Righteousness concurring complying with conformity to Gospel Rule under threats and promises or else we are for the Dethroning Christ for enervating his Laws and the Rabble that know nothing of either Justification or Sanctification shall be let loose upon asserters of Free Grace by Mr. Williams crying out O these be men against Gospel Holiness when their Opposers know in their Conscience there is such a strain of Holiness all along in Dr. Crisps Book that though it be against the grain they