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A27029	The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1690 (1690)	Wing B1397; ESTC R20024	135,131	242

uncapable of the benefits 15. God useth none of fallen mankind according to the severity of the first Law but giv●th to all men undeserved forfeited Mercy and bindeth them to use some means for their recovery to repent in hope and to receive and thankfully use the measures of mercy which he vouch●●●eth them And all men shall be judged according to that edition of the Law of Grace which they were under and the receiving and using the Grace or Mercy which was given or offered them 16. When the peculiar Seed was formed into a Nation God gave them by Moses a peculiar Law which exempli●ied the Holiness of the first Law but had the Promises and Grace of the second with the peculiar additions and plainlier pointed out the Messiah to come but by a way of operous Ceremonies and severe Discipline suitable to their rude minority 17. In the fulness of time Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost in a Virgin and being God and Man a● made by the Will of the Deity was made a Subject under a Law peculiar to himself according to his peculiar works and this Law given to our Mediator had three parts 1. That he should perfe●tly obey the Law of Innocency so far as it was fitted to his case and overcome the Tempter 2. That he should perfectly keep the Law of Mose● so far as it agreed to him 3. That he should perfectly do all that was proper to the Redeemer in being a Sacrifice for sin clearing and publi●hing the New Covenant sealing it by Miracles rising again instituting his Word Sacraments and Ministry ascending giving the Spirit interceding in Heaven c. his promised reward being the success of his undertaking the saving of his Church and his Glory in the glorifying of God the Father This is the peculiar Law to the Mediator 18. That which is called The Covenant between the Father and the Son is this Covenant made to and with Christ In●arnate and the fore-dec●●eing thereof with the Prophecies of it If there be more it is past our reach 19. Christ perfectly fulfilled all that he undertook and this as the second Adam not a Natural Root but a Voluntary Sponsor Not our Substitute or Servant sent by us but chosen by t●e Father and sent by him to do all his Will for Mans Redemption 20. As he took the common Nature of Man so the sins of all and not only of the Elect were the causes of his sufferings and said upon him and the fruits of his sufferings and merits were some common and some peculiar to the Elect. 21. He being not as Adam our natural Parent was not meerly by natural generation to convey his benefits to the Redeemed but by such means as he should chuse and Man consent to even by a holy Covenant or Contract being also his Doctrine and his Law in several respects which Covenant having great and precious Promises is Gods Instrument of Donation and Condonation and our title to all the blessings promised by which God doth give us right to Pardon and Salvation This Law of Grace is the Rule of our duty and the Rule by which we shall be judged 22. This Law or Covenant giveth a Conditional Pardon to all in the tenour of it with Adoption and Right to Life Eternal But actual Pardon and Right accrueth to none till the Condition be performed which is to be Believers or their Infant seed dedicated to God by Covenant Consent 23. This Condition is not that we our selves make God amends or satisfaction or give him any thing that hath any merit in Commutative Justice or do any kind of work which shall make the reward to be of debt and not of grace But it is the Belief of and Consent to the Covenant of Grace and the Believing Acceptance of the gifts and grace of the Covenant according to their nature and 〈◊〉 their proper use and is the same thing which is to be professed in Baptism which is the solemnizing of this mutual Covenant and in which God the Father Son and Holy Ghost do give themselves to us for grace and glory and we give up our selves by consent to him believingly accepting his grace and penitently renouncing the lusts of the flesh the world and the Devil and so are sacramentally invested in a state of Justification Adoption and Spiritual Life 24. The profession of this Faith and Consent in Baptism maketh men visible Christians and Church members and true heart consent in Faith maketh men Living and Justified Members 25. This belief and consent or performance of the Condition is not the Efficient Cause of our Pardon or Justification but is the necessary 〈◊〉 position or qualification of the Receiver in the very nature of the Act suitable and needful and by Divine Institution and Promise made the Condition and acceptable 26. Though we are not capable Receivers of Justification till we thus penitently and believingly consent yet when we do so it is the merit of Christs Righteousness by which we are justified For the Covenant of God is but his Instrument by which he giveth us Christ to be our Head and Life in and with him and so giveth us Justification as procu●●d by his Merits 27. Justification is a word of many senses sometimes it signifieth making us righteous sometimes the Law or Covenants virtu●l judging us righteo●s it being the Rule of Judgment sometimes Gods esteeming us righteous in his own mind sometimes for a Justifying by ●vidence or Witness sometimes by ●polo●y of an Advocate sometimes by the Sentence of the Judge and sometime for the Execution of that Sentence But the notable special sorts are three Making just ●udging just and Vsing as just And they that will dispute of Justification and not tell in what sense they take the word do but abuse their time and talk 28. No man is judged righteous by God that is not first made righteous 29. He that is made righteous is justifiable in Judgment and virtually justified in Law 30. No sinner is made righteous as to the Preceptive part of the Law of Innocency it being a contradiction to have been a sinner and no sinner 31. Pardon of sin doth not make the fact done to be undone or not done nor the sin to be no sin nor not to have deserved punishment But it remitteth the punishment and the fault so far as it inferreth punishment because of the merit and satisfaction of the Mediator and delivereth the sinner from that which he was bound to suffer by the violated Law 32. To make a man righteous before God that hath sinned all these things must concur 1. He must have a Mediator that must answer the Ends of the Law that condemneth him and so meriteth his Justification 2. This Saviour must make him a Pardoning and Justifying Covenant to convey the right of the purchased benefits to him 3. He himself by grace must per●orm the Conditions of that Covenant accepting the free gift believingly according to its

When Words are used in diverse Sences he that denyeth them in one Sence denyeth them not in another And he that mistaketh the meaning of a Word may deny the Word and yet hold fast the matter signifyed by it And he that speaketh the greatest Errour in Terms not understood may mean and hold the truth 2. And Consequences not dis●erned will n●● prove a man to be a real Heretick or one that holdeth not the truth which by such consequences he subverteth Therefore all Pa●i●ic●t●●s conclude that Consequences are not to be charged too far when not understood Ortho. Who k●oweth mens minds but ●y th●i● Words What ev●r they be to God who searcheth the heart they are damnab●e Hereticks in foro Ecclesiastico Reco●cil I excuse not the Words which I have largely accused I would save others from them I confess it is W●rds that the Church must judge of and judge by But it must be Words as signif●cant of the M●tter and of the Mind of the speaker And therefore the Church must try the speakers meaning by informing and convincing questions and explications I pray you tell me when you are Catechizing your Parishioners young or old do you me●t none that in ignorance speak words that subvert the Foundation And yet when you better search their meaning you may find that they mean better than they speak I write against all their dangerous words especially to save others from being drawn by them to errour and to Prevent the errour that the Church and Gospel may receive thereby Ortho. But if they defend them they are Hereticks For how else shall we know whether they deny not Fundamentals Rec●ncil I will tell you how Ask him first whether he believe the Fundamental Truth If he say yea Ask him whether if he knew that his Consequence contradicted or subverted it which of the two he would let go And by that you may know which it is that he holdeth fastest For Instance Ask such a one as Dr. Crispe whether he would hold that Christ was really a sinner and God made him such and the Essence of all our sins were his and none of ours if he knew that this were inconsistent with the perfection and Office of Christ and the truth of the Gospel Ask him whether he would hold that the sin of the Elect cannot possibly do them any hurt nor any Duty that they do be any means or help to their Good or Salvation if he knew that this were contrary to the Gospel and Free Grace and tended to mens damnation Ask him whether he would hold that our inherent and acted Righteousness did not make us so far Righteous and no whit furthered our Justification or Salvation if he knew this were a contradiction and against Christ Ortho. By this Rule we shall judge none Hereticks but Infidels f●r who will ●xpresly renounce Christianity but they Reconcil The Word Hereticks is variously used as men are inclined 1. Of all that are stiff in any hurtful Errour against sound Doctrine and so all or most Christians are Hereticks For all have many Errours and all men are too stiff in their own conceits 2. For those that consequentially subvert Essentials Amesius is not singular who saith in Cas Consc that Theology is so concatenated that every Errour by consequence near or remote subverteth the Foundation I would except only Genealogies Chronologies Topography Grammar some Prophecies Positives But of meer morals it is not improbable 3. For all that Schismatically separate from the Apostolical Churches and their Commmunion and gather Sects to themselves for the promoting of their Errors I provoke you to name to me any Text of Scripture that calleth any by the reproved Name of Hereticks that did not separate from the Catholick Church Though all Schismaticks be not Hereticks for some cause divisions in the Church and yet depart not from it Yet all Hereticks in ●cripture-sence were Schismaticks for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signfieth ●ot only the choosing of a new Doctrine but also a new separated Sect and Church for the promoting of it Ortho. Th●se Libertines are generally Separatists Reconcil You are historically mistaken Dr. Crispe was a Conformist himself and so have been many hundreds who have held some of the forementioned mistakes Have you read Luther on the Galathians And Aepinus and Gallus and Am●s●●rphi●s and S●hlusseloergius and abundance such Lut●erans who damn George Major for saying That Good works are necessary to Salvation and that maintained that they were hurtful to Salvation tho' no doubt they meant that confidence in them was hurtful Have you read Islebius that turned from Antinomianism to be a Papist Bishop and helpt to rectifie Luther's Phrase by calling him to oppose him Have you read Learned Beza himself and many and many such excellent men both Calvinists and Lutherans of imputed Righteousness and against Imputing Faith for Righteousness and of the definition of Faith Till Camero Pla●eus Amyraldas Capellus Testardus Codurcus Bloudel Dallaeus Drelincourt stopt them and before them Melanchthon Bucer and after Cargius Olevian Vrsine Parcus Scultenus Wendeline Ludovicus Crocius Conradus Bergius Johannes Bergius Martinius and such other great Divines stopt them in Germany How many speak indesensibly How many Bishops and Conformists in England have held and written unjustifiable words about Justification Was Dr. Tully a Non-conformist No nor Mr. Ro●orough Mr. Walker and many such before the Assemblies times Though Dr. Gell Mr. Thorndike and many such did ill in inveighing against imputed Righteous●●ss in undistinguishing words yet too many by a very ill sence and sort of it gave them too much occasion which put so many Learned Judicious Divines to explain it of whom in England the chief were Ant. Wotton Mr. William Bradshaw Mr. Tho. Gataker Bishop Davenant Bishop Ro●ert Abbot Mr. William Fenner and other Zealous Converting Preachers such as Jo●n Rogers Tho. Hooker Tho. Shephard and the New-England Churches against Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr Wheeler that by Mr. Weld published the Narrative ●f the Antinomian Errors and of the strange Monsters from Mrs. Dyer and Mrs. Hutchinson and her death and of late Mr. Benj. Woodbridge Mr. Tho. Hot●hkis Mr. Tho. Warren Mr. Graile Mr. Jessop but especially Mr. Truman Mr. Gibbons of Blackfryers and Dr. Stilling fleet It is not a thing unknown that it was not only such as you call Separatists but many Bishops and Conformists that in opposition to Popery for want of distinguishing have such words about Imputation as encouraged the Antinomians Therefore you cannot take all as Hereticks in the Scripture-sence who hold the same Errors Ortho. Then we shall not know what H●resie is i● men d● not segregate themselves to propagat● it Reconcil You may know what opinions are pernicious or if you will Heretical when you know not whether the man be a Heretick that owneth them Even the Heretick Hereticating Papists say there must be an obstinacy against sufficient light of evidence And all ten●tiousness through prejudice