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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30025	A short view of the Antinomian errours with a briefe and plaine answer to them, as the heads of them lye in order in the next page of this book : being a nest of cursed errors hatched by hereticks, fed and nourished by their proselites : being taken as they were flying abroad were brought as the eagle doth her young ones to see if they could endure to looke upon the sun-beams of truth with fixed eyes, the which they could not : were presently adjudged to be a bastard brood, and their necks chopt off, and their carkasses throwne to the dunghill.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1643 (1643)	Wing B537; ESTC R38704	43,620	40

grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1.12 I have lived in all good conscience before God to this day Act. 23.1 I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience beareth me witnes in the Holy-ghost Ro. 9.1 Thus you see that we must not content our selves with a bare testimony but we must labour to see the work wrought in us let but thy conscience bring thee to thy tryall and thou shalt easily see how it is with thee and doe not say that this is legall teaching lest thou be filled with fancies and no reall worke of grace be wrought as yet in thee and doe not thinke that the spirit of God will worke when thou liest still and remainest an empty trunke or a dead stone no thou must be made a living stone and must worke actively by the movings of the spirit of God in thee draw me and we will runne after thee Cant. 1.3 I shall runne the wayes of thy Commandements when thou doest inlarge my heart Psal 119.32 but this they condemne as legall teaching because spirituall sloathfulnesse hath so possessed them that they will make no other triall but rest upon a bare idle perswasion or testimony but whether it came from God or the divell they know not Well they say they are justified as soone as they were borne and then as righteous as Christ and this they know from a bare testimony now it followes say they that God cannot correct them neither doth he correct for their sinne but onely to exercise their faith I grant that God doth not punish his children in wrath and fury with plagues and vengeance but as gentle corrections from a loving father for their good yet still sinne was the cause of it saith David there is no soundnesse in my flesh nor rest in my bones because of my sinne Psal 38.3 4 5. why doth the living man complaine man is punished for his sinne Lam. 3.39 then art thou made whole sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5.14 if David a man after Gods owne heart sinne scandalously the sword shall never depart from his house 2 Sam. 12 10. God is not partiall in his corrections though Coniah were as the signet upon my right hand yet would I plucks him thence Ier. 22.24 that soule that sinneth it shall dye Ezek. 18. all things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked Eccles 9.2 the wages of sinne is death Rom. 6.23 And every sicknesse or inward griese or sorrow or outward hurts or maladies all are but parts and parcels of this wages that we receive from the service of sinne and we receive this wages by parts and parsels daily for as Adam in the day that he sinned he began to dye he received some part of that wages of sinne death seized upon him and slew him by degrees and so we as soon as we were borne began to dye and all those afflictions and sorrowes that doe befall us doe but hallen us to our end but who is freed from these things what man is he that liveth and shall not see death Ps 89.41 our Prophets are dead and our fathers are fallen asleep wise men dye as well as fooles for all must dye and be as water spile upon the ground 2 Sam. 14.14 then God doth correct and that heavily for sinne yet his corrections are sweetned to his people the sting or bitternesse of them is tak●n out yet we shall not be freed from corrections nor death so long as we carry a body of sinne daily about with us death is passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 but will they say that death is not a correction it is the king of terrours Iob 18.14 will they say death is but to exercise their faith but suppose one of them were shot with a bullet how would he exercise his faith or can they exercise their faith to prevent a sinne when they are corrected for their sinne already committed saith David before J was afflicted J went astray Psal 119.67 and Manasseh was converted in the furnace of afflictions which was the meanes to beget his faith and not to exercise it before he had it it is manifest enough that God doth correct his people for sinne if thy children forsake my law and if they breake my statutes then J will visit their transgressions with a rod and their iniquity with stripes neverthelesse J will not take away my mercy from him Psal 89.30 then let not the Antonomeans forsake Gods law lest they feele the weight of his correcting hand you have I knowne of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for your iniquities Amos 3.2 then let them take heed how they say when they sinne tush God sees not God is not like to themselves he will reprove them and set their sinnes in order before them consider th●● ye that forget God lest he teare you in ●●eces and there be none to deliver you Psal 50.21 God will correct Jacob in measure and will not leave him altogethen unpunished Jer. 10.24.20.11 for the transgression of Jacob is all this Micah 1.5 Zachariah and Elizabeth are as famous as any in all the Scripture for being both just and righteous before God and walking in all the Commandements and Ordinances of the Lord blamelesse yet saith the Angell to him thou shalt be dumb and not able to speake which was a sore correction because thou beleevest not my words Luke 1.6.20 and Jehosaohat was a good man yet if he helpe the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord there shall wrath from the Lord be upon him nevertheles there are good things found in him 2 Chr. 19.23 Miriam was a good woman yet if she speake against Moses the anger of the Lord is kindled and behold Miriam became leprous white as snow Num. 12.1.9 10. for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every sonne that he receiveth if ye endnre chastening whereof all are partakers then are ye sonnes and not bastards Heb. 12.6 7 8. Ephraim bemoaned himselfe thus Thou hast chast●sed me yet saith the Lord Ephraim is my deare sonne he is a pleasant child I doe earnestly remember him still my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord Jer. 31.18.20 it is a signe of a humble heart when the Land is scourged for sinne to acknowledge our sinnes to be the cause of it as David did saying to the Lord I even I onely have sinned and done evill indeed but as for these sheep what have they done 1 Chron. 21.17 see 2 Sam. 24.10 Againe when Nathan came to him he said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12.13 Againe it is the brand of a reprobate when God ceaseth to correct him for his sinne I will no more punish your daughters when they commit whoredome nor your spouses when they commit adultery Ephraim is

joyned to Idols let him alone Hosea 4.14.17 so when the L●●d smote Uzzah for his errour that he dyed David was afraid of the Lord t●●t day 2 Sam. 6.7.8 when Christ said to his Apostles one of you shall betray me every one suspected his owne heart saying Lord is it I Mat. 26. then let not us say God cannot correct us nor any other for our sinnes which is one maine cause why they refuse the covenant but let them know if God have forgiven them yet he will take vengeance on their inventions Psal 99.8 then if God send Jonah to cry against the wickednesse of Niniveh and he goe to Tarshesh from the presence of the Lord God will send a great and mighty wind and tempest so that the ship was like to be broken and Jonah forced to confesse and say for my sake this great tempest is come upon you Ionah 1.2.12 the judge of all the earth will doe right Gen. 18. and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done saith the Lord God Ezek. 14.23 and when some received the Sacrament unworthily for this cause many were sicke and weake and many dead 1 Cor. 11. then doth not God correct his people for sinne or will they say they dye onely for ●ryall for these men were some of them Gods people which shall not be condemned with the world ver 32. judgement beginneth at the house of God 1 Pet. 4.17 which makes David say my flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements Psal 119.120 Hab. 3.15 but these people are so full of mirth from those following grounds that they brake out into laughter saying they cannot sinne being in Christ and if they should yet God cannot see it or if he should chance to see it he cannot be displeased with it or if he should be displea●ed his hands are bound that he cannot correct them for it then they must neither repent nor be sorry nor pray for the pardon of any sinne neither past present nor to come neither must they heare of their sinnes any more this fils their faces full of comfort when their hearts have cause enough to be heavy saith Salomon he is the happy man that feareth alwayes Prov. 28.14 when this feare stirres up watchfulnesse and diligence to please God with reverence and godly feare H●b 12.28 a child may feare his fathers rod although he feare not to be disinherited even the reghteous shall see and feare Psal 52.6 legall threatnings cannot hurt the righteous saith David let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindnesse and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent oyle which shall not breake mine head Psal 141.6 these lower hearbs will make us relish promises the better and stick faster to them and it will inflame our love to God more deeper for saving us from those dangers threatned and it will stirre up compassion in us towards our brethren to helpe them out of those dangers and to worke out our owne salvation with feare and trembling Phil. 2.11 Thus they being justified as soone as they are borne and then as righteous as Christ this they know from a bare testimony or revelation or suggeestion then God cannot correct nor punish them for sin now it followes that they are freed from the commanding power of the law of God by their free grace they are discharged from all duty or obedience to it now the law of God is no rule for them but wh●● they doe is onely out of love and curtesie for they owe God nothing at all Here I grant that the Juditiall law was not made for us and the ceremoniall law was ended in Christ but the morrall law abides for ever I meane the commanding and discovering power of it remaines as a glasse to beleevers and as a rule or a bridle to keep them in continuall obedience to the Lord. And whereas it is said If ye be led by the Spirit ye are not vnder the law but under grace Gal. 5.18 it is to be understood you do obey the law freely without the lashing or constraining power of the law and where it is said sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace Rom. 3.13 this is plain that if sinne have dominion over you you are under the curse and condemning power of the law but from the raigne of sinne and from the curse of the law you are freed by Christ Rom. 8.1 Gal. 3.13 This curse and condemning power of the law is not made for a righteous man but for the ungodly for sinners and unholy for murtherers and whoremongers theeves and lyars and perjured persons or any other sinne that is contrary to sound doctrine 1. Tim. 1.9.10 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandement holy just and good Rom. 7.12 but they will have the commanding power of the law to last but till John the Batpist because it is said the law and the Prophets were untill John Luke 16.16 and the law was added for transgressors till the seed should come Gal. 3.19 I answer they prophesied of Christ till John Mat. 11.13 but when John shewed them the Messiah and poynted to him with his finger saying Behold the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world John 1.29 then they ceased to prophesie or to foretell of his coming when they saw him but to say that the law should la●● but till John is yet to prove and cannot be gathered from this place For til● the law sinne was in the world Rom. 5.13 but will they gather from hence that there was no sinne in the world after that the law was given if Mical be childlesse till her death she must needs be so for ever and Paul saith to Timothie Till I come give attendance to reading exhortation and doctrine neglect not the gift that is in thee 1. Tim. 4.13.14 but after that Paul is come must he neglect these duties because it is said do them till I come thus they force the Scriptures to favour their errours Then they say Christ is the end of the law for righteousnesse so I say too for he hath put an end to all types and shadowes of the Ceremoniall law and he hath put an end to the curse and bondage of the morall law Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us Gal. 3.13 and from the condemning power of it Rom. 8.1 but if we speak of obedience to the commanding power of the law Christ is the scop and end to which all our obedience tends and he is the end for whose sake all the promises are made good unto us and not for our obedience and he alone gives being and performance to them all 2 Cor. 1.20 and he is the end of the law for righteousnesse that is the law brings us to Christ for righteousnesse and in him we have righteousnesse ●● fulfil the laws not