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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27592	A conciliatory discourse upon Dr. Crisp's sermons on the observation of Mr. William's dissatisfactions in them : in which the unsearchable riches of Christ ... / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2134; ESTC R34407	34,697	34

A Conciliatory DISCOURSE UPON Dr. Crisp's Sermons ON THE Observation of Mr. Williams 's Dissatisfactions in Them In which the Unsearcheable Riches of Christ IN THE Covenant of Grace passing Knowledge is yet Aspired to to be made Known Humbly Presented To the Preachers of the Merchants Lecture at Pinners-Hall To the Sustainers of it And the Congregation usually Assembled there By T. BEVERLEY LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1692. Where you may be furnished with Dr. Crisp's Works And likewise his Son's Book Samuel Crisp Esq Entitul'd Christ made Sin You may also be supplied 〈…〉 The PREFACE I Have not long ago endeavour'd to Write as a Reconciler between Two Persons of Estimable Memory Dr. Crisp and Mr. Baxter Now Both in their Spirits with Christ where They have Fully Concerted their seeming various Apprehensions or Representations in so Great Points not only by Receiving those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those Vn-utterable Explanations of them but in their Highest Enjoyments and Mutual Congratulations in those Fundamental Truths and Graces wherein they were even here notwithstanding a seeeming Discord and much more there One in Christ. But we that are on this side their Line still See through a Glass Darkly Perceive Know and Speak as Children and so Express our selves Diversly one from another as we look to this or that side of Truth Not being able to Comprehend the perfect Physiognomy or Representation of it at once And indeed in the Great Points that are nearest allied to the Coveant of Grace we are most unable to pronounce clearly That first Engraving upon our Hearts and the Divine Revelation of Christ From Faith Rom. 1. 17. having not yet Attain'd To Faith in Perfection are ready in this our Imperfect State to enter a Centest in our Minds and we cannot decide as we ought between the Eternal Law of Righteousness and the Everlasting Gospel of Righteousness and while we have Great Discourses in Scripture upon Both we very hardly keep the Ballance of the Sanctuary even in our Vnderstandings as it is in it self While therefore the Servants of Christ are some in their Ministry inclining the Beam one way and some another though according to the manifold Distributions of one and the same Spirit to both in the main yet they are ready to find fault mutually at their so doing It may be no Injury then for a Third to endeavour to set Both even though great Infirmity may appear in that also For who is sufficient for these Things Especially it is to be consider'd The Gospel-Righteousness or of Faith hath ever since the Apostles Preaching and Writing suffer'd an Eclipse by the Mystery of Iniquity early working and by degrees from that very time the Ap●stle dates 2 Thess 2. it was cover'd more and more Till the very State of the Christian Church fell into the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Dark and Foul Place of the Apostacy 2 Pet. 1. 19. And though the Eclipse be much less than it was by the Light returning in the Reformation yet it remains in part and oh that it were not in Great part Now it is very observable That grand Prophecy of the Revelation knowing upon what side of Evangelical Truth that Black Shade would most dreadfully fall gives its Divine Symbols or most Exquisite Figures for prevention for preservation of the Witnesses of Christ for Condemnation of the Apostacy for Recovery out of it in this Supreme Article of Gospel-Truth the Blood of Christ Hence there are so often mentions of the Lamb of his Blood of Robes wash'd white in his Blood The pure and perfect Song of the Lamb as it was sung in the Apostles Days is given chap. 5. as the Great Standard The Witnesses are within the measur'd Temple during the whole Apostacy Which Temple is the known Type of Christ in his Redemption They are at the Golden Altar of Incense the pure Intercession of Christ in the deep of the Apostacy Along the entire space of which that New Song of the Lamb chap. 5. is almost wholly lost The Apostacy is thus condemn'd ch 13. 8. All the Earth Worshipp'd the Antichristian Beast whose Names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life slain from the Foundation of the World The difference is not very great whether we apply the last words to the Lamb slain or Names written I prefer the first shewing the Eviternity of the Sacrifice of Christ above the Vpstarts of Antichristianism At the end of the Apostacy when the Witnesses Seal'd on their Foreheads appear'd with the Name written there as I have further intimated in the following Discourse The Song as it were new because so much Lost is Sung again with the Voice of Thunder and to be Learnt chap. 14. and is perfectly Learnt chap. 15. after the Preaching of the Everlasting Gospel There the Kingdom of Redemption in its fully Glory follows wherein the Saints are Priests not only of God but of Christ a 1000 Years chap. 20. 6. Have the Name not only of God but of the Lamb written on their Foreheads And the Throne of God and the Lamb is in that City of Redemption c. 22. 3 4. And it is most notorious Matter of Fact that the most Glorious Ray of the Reformation was the Restoration of the Doctrine of Justification by Free Grace and Faith in Jesus wherein Luther and Calvin with other Reformers however in other things they differ'd yet concurr'd herein as under the Spirit and Zeal of Elijah All in it How much any under the Profession of the Reformation have declin'd from this Ipsi Viderint Let them well look to it I am far from esteeming the Reverend Persons I have to do with Dead or Living among that sort But this Great Fall of the Christian Church as from Heaven in this Point would tempt any considering Person to be most on the side of those who ascribe most to Free Grace and the Righteousness of God in Christ Except they hold the Doctrine or Deeds of the Nicolaitans the Turning the Grace of God into Lasciviousness which Thing Christ hates ch 2. 6 15. being the other part of Antichristianism Indulgences to Sin And this I never heard Dr. Crisp charg'd with and he is particularly acquitted by his Reverend Opposite I dare not pretend to justifie all my own much less anothers Expressions who knew his own Grounds and Reasons of so expressing and it is most probable thought some unusual ones necessary to alarm the Thoughts and Minds of Men into the Observation of the Truths he design'd to exalt as not enough exalted I do not pretend to enter as they say the Lists with so Judicious and Worthy a Person as Mr. Williams nor with the Things he hath spoken giving a Cordial Assent to much the most nor shall I I hope appear Contentious wherein I dissent but have only consider'd what Truth lies on each hand more than what he himself hath so excellently observ'd and have therefore made his