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A65735 D. D. An advertisement, anent the reading of the books of Antonia Borignion By George White minister at Mary-Culter near Aberdeen. White, George, d. 1724. 1700 (1700) Wing W1767; ESTC R222008 41,559 107

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by faith in Christ whereas it is manifest by the Scriptures alreadie cited and many more which could be shown that Christs suffering in our stead and thereby procuring to us remission of sin and freedom from the Punishment due to us therefore is a most true and Divine substitution and not false and Diabolical as A. B. saith 2 Cor. 5.19 GOD in Christ reconcileth the World to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and not to impute to us our trespasses is to procure a discharge of the samen A wise man should not be ridicul'd for his wisdom but this is the wisest Course that a sinner can take to confess his own frailty and believe to be saved by the free Mercy of GOD for the sake of Christs Merits We do not deny a substitution of love as he calls it that of GOD'S free love in Christ Jesus whereby we are both Justified and Sanctified but neither Penitence nor any other Grace bestowed upon us can be called our Merit nor can there be any addition made to the Sacrifice of Christ which satisfied the Justice of GOD and is the only meritorious cause of our Justification The Ap. insists saying that we carp at the words Merit and Satisfaction while we grant the thing imported thereby that Christ by his Merits hath procured to us to do penitence and to imitat himself without which non can be saved by faith in Him This is the substance of all his suppositions or imperfect sort of Argument in the foresaid place which in the Schools is called a Sorites To which I answer briefly that the Orthodox have good reason to quarrel both at the words and the thing which he understands thereby for it is simply impossible that sinners can either satisfie the Justice of GOD or merit their own Salvation because there is no commutative Justice betwixt GOD and Man as there is in Contracts between man and man so that it were injustice not to remit sin upon all the penitence or good works that we can do He being infinitly Holy and we but frail Creatures who at the best are but Unprofitable Servants Luke 17.10 We ought indeed to evidence our Faith by a good life but to call our penitence or love to GOD or imitation of Christ our own merit is but a vain gloriation and derogatory from the satisfactory Merits of Christ for which I remit him to Bellarmin who is a great Orator for humane merits but confesseth that for the uncertainty of our own Righteousness and the danger of vain Glory it is most safe to place our whole confidence in GOD'S Mercy alone and his Goodness and a few lines after he sayes that without a Revelation no man can know assuredly himself to have true Merits or that he shall persevere in them to the end Likewise because nothing is more easie in this place of tentation than pride to arise from the consideration of good works R. Bell. Card. Jesu de Justi L. 5. c. 7. p. 1266 in 80. SECTION IV. SUBS. I. N. III. Of Mans future State IN the Seventh and two last Articles of the Apostles Creed sundry great Truths are included anent Mans future State which are clearly taught in the Scriptures and are of the essentials of Religion namely that after Death neither Soul nor Body perish but they shall be joined again by the power of GOD through Jesus Christ at the Generall Resurrection and set day of Judgment when He shall pronounce a righteous Sentence upon all Mankind giving unto those who have done well Eternal Life in Heaven and to the wicked E●nal Damnation But A. B. makes a ludicrous Scene of all this writting that the World shall not be consumed by fire there shall be no judgment after Death nor a set and appointed day of Judgment nor any other sort of judgment than what is begun thirty Years agoe that good People shall not goe to Heaven but Christ coming with men and not with Angels shall dwell with them visibly for ever on Earth where they shall propagate their kinde Eternally being retired into a safe Corner of the Earth or rather to the Centre of their Soul to live in all pleasure and the Wicked to another Corner of it to be afflicted by Serpents and all evil things And she believes all this better than all the other Mysteries of our Faith L. W. pt 1. from p. 143. to 148. and from 150. to 159. and from 168. to 170. and pt 2. p. 131. 132. and pt 3. p. 146. And all the foresaid Heretical rapsodie is approved be the Ap. pt 2. p. 180. to 184. the Mysteries of Faith which she doth not so well believe as these her own whimsies are the Unity and Trinity in GOD the Incarnation and Satisfaction of Christ the efficacie of Grace with the free will of Man the Resurrection of the Dead the Day of Judgement and Mens then being mandated to Heaven or Hell These Opinions of A. B. are worse than the Old Millenar●● who yet were still condemned by the Orthodox and Catholick Church which held that the Scriptures in no place promised Christs dwelling on Earth Bodily again but rather the contrary as Acts 3.21 Tit. 1.2 GOD that cannot lie hath in his Holy word assured us of the Truths which I have rehearsed on this head which also demonstrates the falsitie of A. Bs. Tenets lastly repeated John 5.28.29 The hour is comming in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear His Voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of damnation Heb. 9.27 It is appointed unto men once to die but after this the Judgment Acts 17.31 He hath appointed a Day in which he will judge the World in Righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained 1 Cor. 15.15.16 For if the Dead rise not then is not Christ raised and if Christ be not raised your Faith is vain 2 Pet. 3.12 Hasting to the coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat there are many parallel places of Scriptures as John 14.3 Mat. 25.46 1 Thes 4.16 The Sophistical shifts that are made be A. B. and her Ap. in the fore cited places for excusing their Errours shall be easily discussed Obj. 1. First Heaven is where GOD is therefore when Christ reigns with his Saints on Earth there needs no other Heaven A. It s answered neither GOD 'S essential Immensity nor His diffused Grace takes away the nature of things or confounds distinct places so Heaven is still His Thron and the place of the Blessed and the Earth his Foot Stool Obj. 2. If Christ doe not reign with His Saints Eternally on Earth then the Earth was made only for Wicked Men and Devils A. The Earth was made for GODS People who serve Him on it now in the Land of the living tho imperfectly but