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A28141 Biddle dispossest, or, His Scripture perverting catechism reformed by Scripture wherein those points of the Christian religion blasphemed by Biddle by wresting the Scripture to answer his heresies question-wise propounded are vindicated in several anti-questions resolving themselves by pertinent answers taken word for word out of the Scriptures without either consequents or comments ... / collected for their sakes who desire to be true Christians ... 1654 (1654) Wing B2884; ESTC R24805 42,983 158

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Scriptures truly to press us to aim at perfection and have it as a rule in our eye nay doth not the Apostle Paul press such as he cals already perfect at the same time to press on to perfection as not having yet attained perfection though called perfect let us hear himself speak of himself and others Answ Phil. 3.11 12 13 14 15. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained or were already perfect But I follow after If I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Christ Jesus Brethren I count not my self to have apprehended But this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those things which are before I press towards the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Quest When Paul was at his highest pitch through the abundance of Revelations yet was he not then far from such an estate as perfection in degree what saith he himself Answ 2 Cor. 12. Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of Revelations there was given unto me a prick in the flesh Quest. But though the degree of perfection were not attained or attainable yet there is sincerity which is perfection there is an universal general obedience to every part of the Law of God which is perfection too in Gods account so much these Scriptures compared with others declare but can they prove the compleat pitch and degree of perfection besides what is already named what say other Scriptures Answ 1 Cor. 13.9 10. For we know in part we prophesie in part Psal 19.12 13. Who can understand his Errors cleanse thou me from my secret sins keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins Mat. 6. 12. Forgive us our Trespasses Mark 9.24 Lord I believe help thou my unbelief Col. 3.5 Mortifie therefore your members which are upon the earth Psal 51.4 My sin is ever before me Quest Touching good works enough hath been said in the former chapter to evince that they have nothing to do in the business of Justification so as that God should justifie us for or because of our works yet inasmuch as here it s again insisted on as the cause of Justification repeat therefore the same Scriptures here urged which prove our Justification to be not of works but of grace Answ Eph. 8 9. 10. By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of works Rom. 11.5 And if by grace it s no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace Quest But good works are so to salvation as is the Antecedent to the Consequent to say though we may not expect to be saved for them yet we cannot expect to be saved without them what therefore the Scripture makes the proper end of good works are they not especially these and such like as these obedience to God the honour of our profession the glory of God the proof evidence and justification of our faith a tryal to the sincerity of our profession a sign of our state in grace acceptance with God and from the whole to put to silence evil men and be a comfortable ground of peace in our own s●uls What says the Scriptures to each of these Answ 1 Thes 4.3 This is the will of God even your Sanctification Titus 3.8 This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly That they which have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works These things are good and profitable unto men Eph. 4.1 I therefore the Prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation whereunto ye are called Mat. 5.16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heaven James 2.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works will faith save him if a brother be naked and destitute of daily food and one of you say unto them Depart in peace be you warmed and filled notwithstanding you give them not those things that are needful to the body what doth it profit even so faith if it hath not works is dead Was not Abraham our father justified by works Thou believest that there is one God thou dost well the Devils also believe and tremble but wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered his son Isaac upon the altar seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect 1 John 3.7 10. Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous in this the children of God are manifest and the Children of the devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Iohn 2.29 If ye know that he is righteous ye know that every one which doth righteousness is born of him Acts 10.35 He that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him Heb. 13.18 Pray for us for we trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly 1 Pet. 3.16 Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as ev l doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ 1 Pet. 2.15 For so is the will of God that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men Acts 23.1 And Paul earnestly beholding the Council said Men and brethren I have lived in all good conscience towards God untill this day Quest We are now come to that grand Question touching the perseverance of the Saints wherein we have many ●criptures brought telling us that the righteous may turn away from his righteousness and sin unto death and that for his iniquity which he hath committed he shall dye Eze. 18.24.33.13 Is there any denies a temporal death according to these Scriptures have ye not other examples agreeing with them that sickness and death are inflicted on good men under the Gospel for their miscarriages Answ 1 Cor. 13. For this cause some of you are sick and some are fallen asleep Quest But do these or other Scriptures following prove that doctrine to be false Once in Christ and ever in Christ as we have taken for granted in the question of Biddle The Scriptures are such as tell some shall depart from the faith some have made Shipwrack of faith cast off their faith erred from the faith overthrown the faith of some several exhortations in Scripture that we take heed we depart not from the living God left we be hardned thorough the deceitfulness of sin lest any man fall after the example of unbelief lest being led away by the error of the wicked fall
did see me when I was without form for in thy book were all things written which in continuance were fashioned when there was none of them before Joh. 21.27 Peter said unto him Lord thou knowest all things and Jesus said when thou wast young thou girdedst thy self and walkedst wither thou pleasedst but when thou shalt be old another shall girde thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not and this he spake signifying by what death he should glorifie God Psal 147. Great is our Lord his wisdom is infinite Isa 40.28 there is no searching of his understanding Acts. 2.3 The determined counsel and fore knowledge of God 1 Pet. 1.2 Elect according to the fore knowledge of God the Father Psal 94.9 10 11. He that planted the ear shall not he hear and the eye shall he not see he that teacheth men knowledge shall not he know the Lord knoweth the thoughts of a man Jer. 17.9 10. The heart is deceitful and wicked above all things who can know it I the Lord search the heart and try the reins Eph. 1. He hath chosen us in him ere the foundationn of the world that we should be holy that in the dispensation of the fulness of time he might gather together in one all things according to his purpose who ruleth all things after the counsel of his own will 2. Tim. 2.19 The foundation of God stands sure having this seal the Lord knows who are his James 1.17 With God is no variableness or shaddow of change Prov 19.21 Many devices are in mans heart but the Lords counsel shall stand CHAP. III. QVest Whereas we read in Gen. 3. the curse denounced by God upon our Parents first sin to be sorrow in conception a curse on the ground and mans labour in this life is that the full extent of the curse or in the question of Gods enemies did not their sin bring on them and us the guilt of hel-f re deface the Image of God in us darken our understandings enslave our wills deprive us of power to do good and cause mortality did it or did it not what saith the Scriptures Answ Gen. 2.17 in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dying dye Rom. 5.12 By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death went over all men vers 14. but death raigned from Adam to Moses Verse 15. Through the offence of one many be dead 16. The fault came of one man to condemnation 17. By the offence of one death raigned 18. By the offence of one the fault came on all men to condemnation 21. Sin raigned unto death Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them Rom. 3.9 We have proved both Jews and Gentiles to be all under sin vers 12. They are altogether become unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one Iohn 8.34 Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin Rom. 6.17.20 Servants to sin Rom. 7.14 Sold under sin 15. What I would that I do not but what I hate that I do 18. In me that is in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing 19. For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do 23. But I see another Law in my members bringing me into captivity of the Law of sin which is in my members 24. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death 2 Pet. 2.19 While they promise liberty themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage Eph. 2.1 Dead in trespasses and sins Iohn 8.41 You do the deeds of your Father ye are of your Father the Devil and his deeds will ye do James 1.14 Every man is tempted of his own lust and enticed Rom. 8.7 They that are in the flesh cannot please God Gal. 3.22 The Scripture hath concluded all under sin unless ye be born from above you cannot enter into the kingdom of God Titus 3.5 He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the holy Ghost Psal 54.5 Behold I was born in iniquity and in sin hath my mother conceived me Gen. 6.5 The Lord faw all that all the imaginations of mans heart are evil continually Quest What saith the Scripture concerning the understanding 1 Cor. 2.4 For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned Eph. 4.17 18. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind having their understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesss of their hearts Rom. 8 5 They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh 7. The carnal mind is enmity with God Luke 24.45 Then opened he their understandings that they might understand the Scripture Isaiah 44.18 They have not known nor understood God hath shut their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand 19. None considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge nor understanding 10. A seduced heart hath deceived him Quest What of the Will Answ Phil. 2.18 It s said God worketh in us to will and to do Rom. 7.23 But I see another Law in my members bringing me into captivity into the Law of sin Rom. 6.20 Being servants to sin we are free from Righteousness Rom. 8.7 8. The carnal mind is enmity with God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God Eph. 4.19 Have given themselves over to lasciviousness CHAP. IV. QVest Whereas we find in the Catechism of Gods enemies and ours an endeavour to prove Christ the Lord by way of distinction from the one God as he blasphemes to that end several Scriptures quoted and many Questions stated as that Jesus is the Lord born of his Mother Mary that he dyed to be Lord over quick and dead that God raised him up from the dead that he was approved of God by miracles which God did by him that the Son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father do that he abode in his Fathers house because he abode in his Fathers commandments that he is the Son of God that the Father is greater then he that he shall deliver up his kingdom to his father that at the same time Thomas cals him and the Scriptures call him God himself and the Scripture confess him to have a god by these doth that wretched Creature prove what he intends to wit that the Lord Jesus Christ is so our Lord as not our God very God with the Father or doth he prove that which we shall never deny him the humanity of our