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A77730	The antinomians Christ confovnded, and the Lords Christ exalted. In which is contained a briefe confutation of Dr. Crispe and Mr Lancaster. Also, a combat with the Antinomians Christ in his den, his arraignment; and the fainting soule built upon the true rocke, against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile, Mat. 6.18. Imprimatur James Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B527; Thomason E17_16; ESTC R11989	75,787	71

and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word Eph. 5.25.26 and the church is his body chap. 1.22 23. for as the body is one and hath many members so also is christ 1 cor 12.12 But how doe you know your selfe to be a living member of christ A. As all our members are acted and moved by the soule or spirit that is in us so are alll the members of christ by his spirit for by one spirit we are all baptized into one body whether we be Iewes or Gentiles bond or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit 1 cor 12.13 and our body dyes when the soule is gone but sayth Paul ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwel in you now if any man have not the spirit of christ he is none of his rom 8.9 and so if on of our members suffer all the members suffer with it or if one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it if we doe so then we are the body of Christ and members in particular 1 cor 12.26 27. hereby we perceive the love of God because he layd downe his life for us and we ought to lay downe our lives for the brethren 1 Joh. 3.16 VVhat are the conditions between God and his reople in the new covenant being the covenant of grace A. God will say it is my people and they shall say the Lord is my God Zech. 13.9 that is God makes many gracious promises unto us and we by faith shall receive and apply them to our selves yea that faith on our part whereby the covenant is made to us it also is within the promise made on Gods part they shall say the Lord is my God the covenant it selfe is a promise I will make an everlasting covenant with them and the conditions on our part are all within that promise I will put my feare in their hearts that they shall not depart from me besides all other promises on Gods part that are included in that covenant for sayth the Lord I will bring upon them all the good that I have promised them Ier. 31.40 41. 42. Heb. 8. But is not the righteousnesse of christ imputed to us for our justification before ●hat we have faith A. No for our persons must be united to Christ by faith as Thomas beleeving sayd my Lord and my God Iohn 20.27 28. so we come to have a true right and title to the righteousnesse of Christ for as we were all in the loynes of Adam by nature when God made that covenant of works with him and all his Posterity so none hath right to the righteousnesse of the second Adam till he be cut off from the old Adam and by faith grafted into Iesus Christ and so we come to partake of the root and fatnesse of the true Olive tree rom 11.17.17.24 How is Jesus christ tendred in the Ghspell A. The Angell sayd unto them feare not for behold I bring you good tydengs of great joy which shall be to all people for unto you is borne this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord Luk. 2.10.11 sayth the Lord I will give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit the desolate heritages that thou mayest say to the prisoners goe forth Isa 49.8 9. What is requ●red of them to whom he is thus tendered A. Onely beleeve Mar. 5.36 beleeve in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Acts 16.31 Whosoever beleeveth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life John 3.16 What is that faith that gives us right to Christ and a true title to all his merits in the worke of our redemption A. It is a saving faith and not a historicall faith such as the Apostle James speakes of Jam. 2.19 and it is a living faith and not a dead faith Jam. 2.17 I live by faith in the Sonne of God who gave himselfe for me Gal. 2.20 and it is called a justifying faith not for the worthinesse of it as being an excellent grace of God but as an instrument applying Christs righteousnesse for our justification How came we by this faith and how is it wrought in us A. Faith is the gift of God Eph. 2.8 and it is wrought in us by his spirit thou hast wrought all our workes in us Isa 26.12 Phil. 2.13 the instrumentall meanes that the spirit of God for the most part useth is the Preaching of the Word so then Faith cometh by hearing the word preached Rom. 10.14.17 What call you the Word of God A. The two Testaments the first is from the beginning of Genesis to the end of he prophesie of Malachy this is called the old Testament and from the first of Matthew to the last of the Revelation is called the new Testament How doe you prove these two Testaments to be the Word of God A. First because of the true relating of things to come and the accomplishment of them at the time appointed which none could doe but he that knowes all things both past and to come Secondly they lay open the particular and secret thoughts and lusts of the heart which sheweth that they are the words of him in whose sight all things are naked and open Heb. 4.12.13 Thirdly they command all duties of piety equity and sobriety and forbiddeth all vice in such a sort that all the writings of men though layd together could not d●e Fourthly they discover a state of damnation to man and conclude him in it and they reveale a sure way of salvation which never could enter into mans heart but as it was revealed by the spirit of God which found and ordained that way Fiftly it is a word of power to the pulling down of strong holds and casting downe imaginations and every high thing that exalts it self and every thought to the obedience of Christ 2 cor 10.4 5. Sixtly the universall consent and agreement it hath though pend by divers and at sundry time which argueth that holy men spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 2.21 What part of this word of God is the most concerned in the covenant of grace A. In the promises of the Gospell and fulfilled in the person of Christ both in his active and passive obedience as I sayd before and working faith and all other graces in his people But are christians that ore entred into this new covenant contained in the Gospell are they I say freed from the old covenant contained in the law A. They are freed from the curse and penalty of the law and from the legall fulfilling of it to that end which Adam was bound to doe it in the time of innocency for although the ten Commandements published at Mount Sina● were the same for substance that was in Adams heart before the fall yet the manner of Adams obedience and theirs differ much thus Adam was then bound

all men after they have lived a while here A. All must dye and be as water spilt upon the ground 2 Sam. 14.14 death is passed upon all for that all have sinned rom 5.12 Why must Gods people dye hath not Christ taken away their sinne A. Christ hath forgiven their sinne and covered it with his righteousnesse Psal 32.1 but he doth not take away the being of sin til death Ro. 6.7 no man liveth and sinneth not 1 Kings 8.46 he is a lyar that saith he hath no sinne 1 Joh. 1.8 What followes the day of death A. A particular judgement it is appointed 〈◊〉 all m●n once to dye and from death to ●u●gement Heb. 9.27 the body returns to dust and the 〈◊〉 of all returne to God the spirit of man goes upward Eccl. 3.21.12.7 What followes the particular judgement A. The general day of judgement that day of God wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the earth shall melt with fire and heat and the workes that are therein shaall be burnt up 2 Pet. ● 10.12 Who shall be the Judge A. Iesus Christ the Sonne of God we must all appeare before the Judgement-seat of Christ rom 14.10 12. 2 cor 5.10 What will be the manner of his comming A. The Sonne of man will come in a cloud with power and great● glory Luke 21.27 and attended with his holy A●gels Marke 8.38 and with all his Saints in heaven 1 Thes 3.13 and those that are alive at that day shall he changed in the tw●nkling of an eye 1 Cor. 15.51 52. and caught up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the ayre 1 Thes 4.17 those in heaven shall come with Christ and those on earth shall meet him and they shall be ever with the Lord the dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Thes 4.16 What will Christ doe when he is come A. When the Sonne of man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory mat 24.31 and all Nations shall be brought before him and he shall seperate them as a Shepheard doth his sheep from the goats and set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left ver 32.33 How shall men at that day be summoned before the Judge A. He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet mat 24.31 and when the Trumpet shall sound the dead shall be raised 1 Cor. 15.52 and the living changed 51. How will christ examine every mans cause A. The books of every mans doings shall be laid open and their consciences shall be made to accuse or to excuse them and every man shall be tryed by the workes which he did in his life time because that workes are manifest signes either of faith or unbeliefe Dan. 7.10 Rev. 20.12 2 cor 5.10 What followes their examination A. Then he will give sentence of absolution and salvation to the godly saying to them come ye blessed of my Father 〈◊〉 the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world and to the wicked he will say depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angels mat 25.34.41 What is the estate of the godly after the day of judgement A. The Saints shall them inherit all things rev 21.7 Dan. ● 27 2 Pet. 3.13 14. Isa 56.22 and they shall enjoy the presence of God where are rivers of pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 and they shall see christ face to face 1 cor 13.12 1 Ioh● 3.2 and we shall re●gne with christ for ever Revel 5.10.21.1 2 3 4 5 7. What is the state of the wicked after the day of judgement A. It is eternall perdition and destruction which stands in three things especially First they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 thes 1.9 Secondly their fellowship shall be the devill and his angels mat 25.41 thirdly their torment shall be fire and brimstone hurning eternally Rev. 21.8 Isa 33.14 Who can dwell with everlasting burnings where the Worme of a guilty conscience dieth not and the fire of Gods wrath is not quenched mar 9.44.46 fire and brimstone and a horrible tem●est this is the portion of their cup Psal 11.6 What is the end the Lord hath in all these things A. His owne glory what if God be willing to shew his wrath and to make his power knowne on the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction and that he might make knowne the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory rom 9.22 23. Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the Sonne of man Luke 21.36 Now the God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus that great Shepheard of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good worke to doe his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen Heb. 13.20 21. FINIS

the way of Gods proceeding thus First Elect then holy and then beloved Coloss 3.12 Then I conclude that we are neither beloved nor justified before faith see Pet. 3.17 Thus the faithfull messenger of the Lord Christ defended himselfe with the sword of the spirit which is the Word of God against this seven-headed Hidra in be Dan. Now I 〈◊〉 shew you those five incurable wounds that this faithfull messenger gave him that cut so deepe that a man might see the very bone perished In this wound was written that we are justified by faith therefore not before faith this was harsh to him that had none But the servant of the Antinomians Christ thought to salve it up saying that he spake of the act of beleeving as though that faith in the true Christ could be in the soule and no act of beleeving But this shewes what a faith theirs is The Apostle of the true Christ saith Faith without workes is dead James 2.17 Now if their faith be no better I grant that they may be justified aswel without it as with it But it seemes he hath gotten some old heretick of his side which said that it was a wresting of the Scripture to say that we are justified by faith but he is ashamed to name him and therefore I suppose his conscience is convinced and hath checked him for speaking of it but he said a man may be both justified with faith and without it in a different sense First to be reputed and accounted just I answer but this is Gods worke alone But then secondly It may be taken to declare or manifest us to be just as workes Justifie I answer as faith is a worke it declares yet not to others but to our selves Hast thou faith have it to thy selfe before God Rom. 4.22 But faith it selfe is many times as hard to be known as our justification I meane that act of it that justifies us which is to take and apply Christ and his benefits unto us Thus it justifies is very hard to be known but as it workes by love and acts all other graces so it sanctifies and may easily be known and by this meanes we come to know that we are justified I hose fruits of faith justifie the trueth of our faith that it is living and not a dead faith when it bringeth forth fruits But faith is the hand of the soule taking hold of Christ the Iustifier and so it is counted for righteousnesse Rom. 4.5 So then God justifies by forgiving and pronouncing a sinner to be just and our works justifie by declaring to others that God hath justified us but faith justifies by receiving and applying Christ and his merits and so makes us just If you did but know what true faith was you might soone know where to place it in point of Justification so should you not exalt it into Gods place nor abase it into the place of workes The second deadly wound that was given to Hidra in his Den was this He that beleeueth not shall be damned Mar. 16.16 And this cut so deepe that he almost despaired of help For saith he if it be finall it is a note of damnation Now this is all that we require for we do not say that every man shall be damned that is in the state of unbeleife for then all should be damned but we say that finall unbeliefe damnes the soule and this you grant and yet you said that Infants are justified before they have faith Now if they should dye being justified are they damned because they do not beleeve or are they saved and yet dye in unbeliefe How will you get out of this circle This den may be called the land of darknesse without order Iob 10.22 Being full of Theeves and without government dashing and splitting themselves one against another A third deadly wound the faithfull messenger gave him in his den was this Without faith it is impossible to please God Therefore wee cannot bee justified without it Now a man pleaseth God when he doth those things that God requires and in that manner that he requires and to that end as he requires Now these he approves to be well done because they are grounded upon his Word acted by a justified person and tend to his glory Now this you grant saying we cannot come to God without faith and therefore cannot please him but you being sensible that your faith is nought if you have any and therefore you seeke another way to cure it saying although wee cannot come to God before wee beleeve yet God can come to us and Justification is Gods act upon a sinner and not a sinners act upon God I answer For to pronounce a sinner just is Gods act but to take and apply that righten snesse of Christ that makes us just is our act of faith And to say that God will pronounce any just before that they have by faith put on Christ Rom 13. This were to make God an unrighteous Judge to pronounce them just which are not just For what justice hath a sinner till the justice of Christ is made over to him and accounted for his Therefore faith in Christ must needs goe before God pronounce them just Again they do not only blasphe are God as an unrighteous Judge pronouncing them just which are yet unjust When at hee will by no meanes cleare the guilty Exod. 34.7 But also by this we may see what a Christ our Antinomians boast so much of which comes sneaking a day after the fair and brings them faith when they are just before brings his righteousnesse when they need it not comes to help them when they have tryed their cause before the Judge and quitted before he comes Such a Christ is not worth seeking after But what is your meaning of Gods comming to you when you have no faith to come to him Is God come to you and yet you remaine at a distance from him or doth God moove personally to you and you sit still as a man may come to you while you are sitting I had thought God had filled all places and did not move from place to place as man doth These are but poore fig-leaves to hide your nakednesse then the trueth is Gods comming to us and our comming to him is the same thing only the cause of the motion is in God and the motion it selfe in us So then when God moves us to come to him this is his comming to us and then we cannot be asunder Now he moves us by his spirit infusing faith into us and so our faith taking hold on him we are drawn by his spirit into unity and communion with him The fourth deadly wound given to Hedra in his den is this Whatsoever is not of faith is sinne Rom. 14.23 This is terrible to him that hath no faith Therefore he being sensible that there is something in it that would bite cruelly if he should suffer it to fasten upon him therefore hee

be known by their sanctification but by a revelation only Our Christ saith whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin Joh. 3.34 But the Antinomians Christ tells them if they act any sin that he is the author of it For alas they cannot sin they are dead stones and empty trunks Alas they doe nothing but what the spirit of their Christ leads them into See the tree of knowledg of good and evill Our Christ saith we that are in him are new creatures Old things are passed away al things are new 2 Cor. 5.17 We are passed from death to life made living stones to offer a living sacrifice acceptable to God by Iesus Christ 1 Pet. 2.5 But the Antinomians Christ loves his members aswel when they were slaves and servants to sin and Sathan as when they are set free and become his children by adoption he loves them aswel when they are prophane as when they are holy Nay he gives a charge to all his members that if one sin the rest must not tell him of it But comfort him for to mourn for sin is a dishonour to their Christ Our Christ saith when God sends forth the spirit of his son into our hearts we will cry abba Father Gal. 4.5 6. It is the spirit of grace and supplication Zech 12.10 And he greatly delighteth in their prayers Prov. 15.8 Cant. 2.14 But the Antinomians Christ tells them they need not pray For saith one of them nothing grieves me so much as the time I have spent in prayer and other duties that hath held me so long from my comfort Our Christ saith When you have done all that you can you are unprofitable servants Luke 17.10 You have done but your duty But the Antinomians Christ tells them that all Christian duties are but dirty dungy duties of sanctification Our Christ saith If ye beleeve not that I am he ye shal dye in your sins John 8.24 But the Antinomians Christ saith that faith is not absolutely necessary to salvation for it is but a worke of ours Our Christ saw nothing to love in us which moved him to redeem us Till he adorned us and made us lovely there was no difference For all have sinned and come shore of the glory of God Rom. 3.22.23 Saith Peter he put no difference between us and them purifying our hearts by faith Acts 15.9 But our Antinomians Christ saw some cause of love before he came even from all eternity which moved him to redeeme them Our Christ makes us righteous by his righteousnesse when wee are in him by grace as the first Adam made us sinners when we have a being in him by nature but not before But the Antinomians are made righteous by their Christ before they be in him by grace And Adam never made them sinners for they were justified from all eternity and alwayes as righteous as Christ Our Christ tells us that God pronounceth us just and faith applyes the righteousnesse of Christ to make us just and workes declare it But our Antinomians Christ cannot direct them where to place their faith in point of justification that it may not be exalted in the place of God nor abased in the place of workes But if their Christ were able to give them true faith hee could direct them where to place it Our Christ will not have his Temple defiled For the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are 1 Cor 3.16 17. He desires truth in the inward parts Psal 51.6 But the Antinomians Christ regards not where he dwells It is all one to him if he live to a habitation of devills and the hold of every foule spirit and Cage of every unclean lust Revel 18.2 Our Christ himselfe bare the guilt and punishment of our sins and carried our sorrowes he alone trod the wine-pres of Gods wrath and there was none with him Isa 53.4.63.3 He saith I am he Therefore if ye seeke me let these goe John 18.8 But the Antinomians Christ comes sneaking a day after the faire brings them faith when they are just before and righteousnesse when they need it not and comes to helpe them when they have tryed their cause before the Judge and quitted before he comes Our Christ as God fills all places and his humane nature is in the third heaven till the restitution of all things Acts 3.21 So then as he is God he doth not move and as he is man he will not come till the day of judgement Therefore when it is spoken of his comming to us o● our comming to him it is the same thing onely the cause of this motion is us God and the motion it selfe in us for when he works faith in us by his spirit our faith takes hold againe and so we are drawn into unity and communion with him But our Antinomians Christ can come to them before that they have faith while that they are at a distance from him But how this can be themselves know not see Den's 7. arguments Our Christ saith If thou beleevest thou shalt be saved Acts 16.31 Yea hee saith only beleeve Mar. 5.36 But the Antinomians Christ t●lls them that hee will save them without any such conditions which saith he is the doctrine of legall teachers See counsell to Laodicea see Dr Crisp page 128. Our Christ tells us the only way to pacifie conscience is to exercise faith for it is the hand of the soule whereby wee receive all our mercies and comforts from Christ And it brings us into unity with christ and into obedience to the spirit of christ But our Antinomians Christ tells them that those which say we cannot be saved without faith do perplex the conscience and denies our mercies and resisteth the spirit of God and doth not consist with the right end for which faith was wrought in them see counsel to Laodicea Our Christ came preaching the Gospell of the Kingdome of God and saying repent and beleeve the Gospell Mar. 1.14 15. And he saith Doe unto all men as ye would they should do unto you even so do to them And gives a reason saying this is the law and the Prophets Math. 7.12 But the Antinomians christ will neither have them to beleeve nor repent as a duty nor do to others as we would have them do to us For say they this is legall teaching see counsel to Laodicea Our Christ saith humble your selves under the mighty hand of God Iames 4.10 And blessed are they that weep now for they shall laugh Luke 6.21 And blessed are they that mourne for they shal be comforted Math. 5.4 And our Christ said unto us The time will come that the Bridegroom shall be taken from you and then ye shall fast Luke 5.35 But our Antinomians christ teacheth them that they must neither humble themselves weepe not mourn last nor pray for sin or affliction see Crisp page 109.110.230 Our Christ gave the Sacrament the night before he suffered saying Take eate drinke do this in remembrance of