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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64237	A history of the union between the Presbyterian and Congregational ministers, in and about London, and the causes of the breach of it	Taylor, Richard, 17th/18th cent.	1698 (1698)	Wing T550; ESTC R9165	24,526	48

as if themselves had done and suffered what Christ did all these I affirm Page 39 40. Can any thing saith Mr. Williams be more contrary They say I Assirm what I expresly Deny and that I Deny what I expresly Affirm In Answer to all this it may be said If this could be Proved upon the Objectors they would be Men as void of Sense as of Honesty but if Mr. Williams's own Words be narrowly Scann'd it will appear That the Objectors have not wrong'd him 1. HE says they charge him with Affirming what he expresly Denies viz. That Christ has purchased a conditional Grant He that believeth shall be saved this is that which Mr. Williams says he Denies If he would read over his own words he may then judge whether he does not affirm what he says he denies if he will not do it himself it is hoped the Unbyas'd Reader will do it for him Does he not say Christ did not only Purchase a Conditional Grant of those Effects as this implyes that he purchas'd more yet it is a plain affirmation that he purchased a conditional Grant This is that which the Objectors said he affirm'd and that he did err in it because Christ purchas'd absolutely and not conditionally he purchas'd Persons and Things and not Propositions 2. HE says they charge him with denying what he expresly affirms because they say he Teacheth That the Righteousness of Christ is Imputed only as to the Effects The Objectors did not say that he never mentioned the imputation of Christs Righteousness but that he held and Taught the Imputation of it only in the effects of it If two things be done the supposed Falshood of this Charge will vanish and it will stand good against Mr. Williams 1. IF it be consider'd what the imputation of Christ's Righteousnes is Quoad Formam as it is generally received by Protestants 2. IF Mr. Williams's words be examined 1. IF it be considered what the imputation of Christ's Righteousness is Quoad Formam as it is generally received by Protestants The imputation of Christ's Righteousness Quoad Formam in a Protestant sense is this That which Christ did and suffered as the Mediator and Surety of the Covenant in obedience to the Law in the stead and place of the Elect is imputed to them for their justification before God Christs active and passive Obedience is the material cause of the justification of Believers and the imputation of it to them is the imediate formal cause of their being justified before God This is that which is universally receiv'd by all sound Protestants and the dissent of Piscator and a few more about the active Obedience of Christ does not hinder it from being the comon Faith of Protestants It is the imputation of Christs Righteousness it self that all such plead for who have not warped from the Protestand Faith This is that which Limberg says is the Opinion of the Calvinists and he charges them with Absurdity for Teaching That Believers are Cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ even as Jacob was Cloathed with the Garments of his Elder Brother Limberg Lib. 6. Cap. 4. 2. IF Mr. Williams's words be examin'd as they are laid down in the forecited place it will be found that he does not assert the imputation of Christs Righteousness in a Protestant sense but only in the effects of it Although he says the very Righteousness of Christ is imputed to Believers yet when he comes in the following words to explain and shew how it is imputed to them he contradicts what he had said and makes the imputation of it to lye only in the Effects of it and carrys it no higher 1. IT is imputed saith he to Believers as what was always undertaken and design'd for their Salvation Will any say this is more than the imputation of Christ's Righteousness in the effects of it or as it is for the good of Believers as all his Undertakings were 2. IT is he says effectual for their actual pardon and acceptance unto life How is any thing effectual but in it 's produced effects 3. He says It is pleadable for their security and useful for their Happiness What is this still to Imputation Security and Happiness are the greatest Blessings but they are no more than the effects of Christs Righteousness as it is imputed to Believers and received by Faith Mr. Williams either understands not what Imputation is or he seeks to overthrow it in a Protestant sense The Objectors fairly gather'd up the natural sense of his words but were not bound to reconcile his Inconsistencies and Contradictions There are other places in his Writings where he speaks out his Opinion more freely about the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness only quoad Effecta but it would not agree with the Design of a History to stand upon the Examination of them AFTER all the Invitations given Mr. Williams to speak out by Mr. Humphrey whose great Integrity draws a Veneration to his Person from them who differ from him in Judgment and after all that Mr. Chancey and Mr. Lobb have said to prove That he does not hold any Imputation of Christ's Righteousness but only in the Effects of it If he will still hide himself in the Thickets of Cloudy Doubtful Expressions that he may beguile the Common People in seeming to Affirm what he Denies and if he be strengthened in this Delusive Method by the Meeting of the Ministers at Little St. Helens then there is reason to despair of the end of Controversies WHEN the Six Ministers who have been Named had complained to the Meeting of the Vnited Ministers of Mr. Williams's Book and of some Errors in it it was thought fit by the aforesaid Meeting of the Ministers to desire that some who had never Subscribed the Book together with Five of the Noted Subscribers to it might meet with Five of them who had Objected against the Book Mr. Chancey being left out to consider of some way to put a stop to the Controversie that was now begun and to give Satisfaction to the Complainers The Ministers who were of the Meeting and who never Subscribed the Book were Matth. Mead Sam. Annesley Edward Veale John James Stephen Lobb Mr. Barker was also appointed to be one but seldom met with them The Five Subscribers were Jo. How Geo. Hammond Vincent Alsop Richard Mayo and Sam. Slater The Non-Subscribers and the other Ministers did often meet together The Subscribers to the Book would never directly enter upon any Debate about it but did always as has been said before either deny that they had read the Book or refused to give any Judgment of it yet not above One or Two of them express'd any Concernment for the Book but as then appeared would readily have disown'd it if they could have done it without Impairing their own Reputation MANY Meetings were held to little or no purpose than to Demonstrate how difficult a Work Retractation is and how little Men will do either for Truth