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A90832	The vindication of Christ and his ordinances from the corrupt and false glosses made thereon by the subtil and deceivers of these times. By Christopher Pooly, minister of the word at great Missingham, in Norfolk.	Pooly, Christopher, 1575 or 6-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing P2860; Thomason E682_1; ESTC R206797	181,996	208

would think himself bound to be thankful to that friend and to love him as long as he lives otherwise he were an unworthy man Every man is bound to perform this building which is the doing of the command of God but his transgression is so much which is his debt to pay that he is not able to do any thing of the command Jesus Christ put forth himself a friend to all Believers in him he builds the house for them he hath paid all the debt of their transgression with the price of his passion blood and death and they have the whole benefit and the reward thereof Is not this a comfort to every believer will not this make them thankful and ever to love the Lord Jesus Christ Surely that man is no believer that sheweth not comfort therein yea their fulnes and love to the Lord Jesus Christ for this This made David to call out O that men would therefore praise Psal 107. 8. the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of men And What shall I give unto the Lord for all that he hath done unto mee I will take the cup of salvation and give Psal 116. 13. 1 Cor. 16. 22. thanks unto the Lord. And this made Paul to say Cursed is he that loveth not the Lord Jesus Christ. But now the words of many are stout against Christ his undertakings and performances which notwithstanding say like Hypocrites Wherein have we spoken against thee Of whom the Prophet Mal. 3. 13. fore told never so many of these as now are standing up to set up man and pull down Christ yea instead of denying themselves as Christ commandeth deny Christ in the matter I know there are many that will say O that I had assurance of Christ and his performances for me and the benefits thereof of the forgivenesse of my sins and all my debts paid to God and of life everlasting by Christ Quest But how shall I know this Answ If thou seest and findest the fruits of Christs spirit wrought up in thee mentioned and intended by the Apostle love Gal. 5. 22. joy peace faith goodnesse c. and especially this self-denyal wrought up in thee as Christ in the Text commandeth to deny thy self this is a witnesse and an assurance to thee of all thou desirest to know and to have of Christ The fruit of the Vine witness and assure that the branches that beare them do abide in the Vine and have all of the Vine behoovable for them even so where the good and true fruits of the spirit of Christ appear are born and held forth in truth and simplicity it is a certain evidence witnesse and assurance to that man that he is a living branch abiding in Christ and hath all of Christ that he hath undertaken and performed for Gods chosen ones that he hath forgivenesse of all his sins and everlasting life For these things wrought up in him are the witness and assurance to him of the Spirit of adoption received and the same spirit saith Rom. 8. 16. the Apostle witnesseth that is assureth that we are the children of God and coheirs with Christ The love and free grace of God in Christ the cause of all good unto man THe Apostle saith We love God because he loved us first And again The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the 1 Iob. 4. 19. Rom. 5 5. 1 P●● 4. 8. Rom. 13. 8 Act. 7. 28. Holy Ghost which is given unto us Love covereth a multitude of sinnes And again Love is the fulfilling of the law From hence I gather that it is the love and free grace of God in Christ to the Elect that is the root the cause and worker of all good to them and of all good called theirs as the gift of Christ to them So God loved the world that he gave his onely Son c Their Election in Christ Ioh. 3. 16. their holinesse justification righteousnes or unblameablenes before God as Paul said We were elected in Christ before the world to be holy and without blame before him in love Their Predestination Eph. 1. 4. and Ordination to eternal life their adoption through Christ their quickning in Christ their raising in Christ their love to God and men their believing and Faith their obedience repentance Eph. 2. 5 6. prayer and thanksgiving the Preaching Teaching and Exhortation of all or any of these to them as the Text saith The love of God to us causeth us to love God if we love him And I take it the love and free grace of God in his Christ to the Elect is the fulfiller and the fulfilling of the will of God his Law and commandement of all these and the rest for them as the Apostle saith Love is the fulfilling of the law But I take it the love of the Elect to God and all the performances Rom. 13. 8. of the Elect never have been are or shall be any cause or motive of Gods love and free grace to them or of any of the performances thereof or therein to them As neither of the gift of his Son Christ nor of their election in Christ their sanctification and justification before him their Predestination and Ordination to eternal life their Adoption and Glorification their Quickning or Raising up in Christ their love to God or man their Believing and Faith their Obedience Repentance Prayers and Thanksgiving Nor of the true Preaching Teaching and Exhortation of all or any of these to them And although I finde not many that say the love and performance of the Elect to God was the cause of Gods love to them before the world and of Gods performances for them and to them before the world Object Yet I finde many that say that the love of the Elect to God now in the world and their performances of the duties of love to God in the world do not cause God move and incite God to love them to do them and others good as their faith their obedience their repentance prayer and supplications their praise and thanksgiving and the like For say they God hath promised good to them that love God and do the duties of love to God and men as to shew mercy to thousands in them that love him and keep his commandements and saith To them that fear my Name the sun of Righteousnesse Exod. 20. shall arise and health shall be under his wings And He that Mal. 4. 3. believeth and is Baptized shall be saved Repent and cause others to repent and return from all your transgression so iniquity shall not be Mark 16. 16. Ezek. 18. 16. Iam. 5 16. your destruction Ask and you shall have seek and you shall finde knock and it shall be opened unto you Acknowledge your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed for the prayer of a Righteous man availeth

man or his doing to the same Mans believing is no efficient or cause thereof but God only Salvation is of the Lord saith the Prophet Our God is the Salvation of Israel There is no Salvation Jonah 2 9 Jer. 3. 23 Act 4. 12 1 Tim 4. 10 Eph. 2. 5. 6 in any other saith the Apostle speaking of Christ and his performances Christ is the Saviour of all men that is which are or shall be saved By grace ye are saved We know that all things work together for the best to them which love God even to them which are called of his purpose For those which he knew before he also predestinated to be made like to the Image of his Son And whom he predestinated them also he called and whom he called them also he justified and whom he justified them also he glorified God predestinated called justified and glorified before himself those he pleased before the World What need more testimonies of Scripture for mans salvation only to be by God his love grace decree purpose and his Christs undertakings and performances to be perfected certainly to those which God did love to be elected and predestinated to be called justified and glorified by his Christ and his performances for them undertaken and all faithfully and effectually performed by him before men in his obedience suffering cross death and resurrection But yet further the Apostle saith He dyed for our sins and rose again for our justification where the Apostle holdeth forth plainly Rom. 4. 25 that Christ justified those which he dyed for that he payd his blood for And the same Apostle saith that being justified by his blood we Rom. 5. 9 are saved from wrath Then it must needs follow if Christ redeemed all universally in paying his blood and justified all universally that he payd his blood for and saveth all from wrath that he justified by his blood None shall be damned which must needs be the Conclusion of Universal Redemption which is denyed in the whole Scripture And whereas they pretend mans believing to be the efficient cause that only maketh Christs Redemption effectual to man it is certain by the Scriptures that man hath of himself or in himself as of himself no power to believe in Christ or his Redemption as he ought to believe no more then he hath to pray as he ought to pray Now the Apostle saith no man knoweth or hath power to pray as he ought We know not to pray as we ought but the Spirit maketh Rom. 8. 26 request for us c. Yea the Apostle saith that in him dwelleth no good thing then no power to believe in Christ or his Redemption Rom. 7. 18 Yea further he saith that he found no means to perform that which is good Therefore not to believe in Christ or his Redemption And further he saith We cannot think any thing of our selves that is good if not to think to believe in Christ much less to 2 Cor. 3. 5 believe in Christ to believe his Redemption And David saith There is none that doth good no not one if no good then not to believe Psa 14. 3 in Christ for that is a great good thing It is the Spirit sent by Christ to man that hath the power to do the good work of praying and believing for man The Spirit it self that is alone maketh request for us saith the Apostle not man himself Indeed the Spirit fitteth the Soul or heart of man to be his Instrument in the work of believing as the pen is the instrument of the writer in his writing but the believing is no more mans Believing then the Writing is the Pens Writing The Spirit openeth the blinde eyes of mans soul as the Prophet Psa 146. 8 Isai 29. 18 35 5 42. 7 saith and holdeth forth Jesus Christ and his Redemption by his precious blood payd his justification and salvation by the same and other his performances and by the power of the enlightening acting and guiding of the Spirit the blinde eyes of the Soul opened are the instruments of the Spirit fitted to behold see and apprehend Jesus Christ his Redemption made by the price of his blood payd his Justification and Salvation wrought out So that the believing of Gods Elect is none of their own work but the work of the Spirit every way it is onely the manifestation and evidence of Christ c. made by the opening the blind eyes of the reason and understanding to let in Christ and to be instruments for apprehending and applying the same to the soul And so the Apostle describeth or defineth faith Faith saith he is the evidence of things that are not seen Faith is Heb. 11. 1. the fruit of the spirit saith the Apostle not of man or the flesh but of the spirit yet not before redemption and justification effected Gal. 5 22 and perfected but only brought forth and manifested after redemption justification and salvation made sure which notwithstanding are first made manifest and known to the elected believer when by grace he is made a believer These premises plainly conclude that saith is not the cause efficient or maker of the Redemption of Christ effectual to man the believer nor the antecedent to justification and assurance to salvation but only the subsequent consequent or fruit following the manifestation and evidence of the same to the elect Believer where it pleaseth God to bestow this grace upon his Elect. And charity will not suffer us to doubt but that many which die before faith is manifest in them are of Gods Elect For no doubt but that the just God giveth his Christ all those he paid for with his precious blood And that neither the Devil Hell unbelief nor any sin can take them out of Christs hands nor hinder him of those he Ioh. 17. 12. v. 28. paid for Obj. The Apostle saith We conclude that a man is justified by Faith Therefore faith is the cause of justification Answ Faith is there meant of the manifestation of justification as Rom. 8. 28 if the Apostle had said we conclude that the justification of a man which first manifested and made known to him by believing or in Heb. 11. 1. believing then a man hath the first evidence thereof faith is the evidence of things that are not seen Obj. Christ saith he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved Mark 16. 16. he that believeth not shall be damned therefore none shall be saved but those which believe none that are prevented by death which did not believe shall be saved Answ It is to be understood of those which slight despise and contemn the faith and believing in Jesus Christ the manifestation and knowing of Redemption justification and ●●ivation only by Christ Obj. The Apostle saith as many as were ordained to eternal life or salvation believed therefore all that are ordained to eternal life Acts 18 48. do believe