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A30025	A short view of the Antinomian errours with a briefe and plaine answer to them, as the heads of them lye in order in the next page of this book : being a nest of cursed errors hatched by hereticks, fed and nourished by their proselites : being taken as they were flying abroad were brought as the eagle doth her young ones to see if they could endure to looke upon the sun-beams of truth with fixed eyes, the which they could not : were presently adjudged to be a bastard brood, and their necks chopt off, and their carkasses throwne to the dunghill.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1643 (1643)	Wing B537; ESTC R38704	43,620	40

World that he gave his onely begotten sonne that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3.16 He spared not his owne sonne but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him freely give us all things Rom. 8.32 then is not this of free grace and Christ gave his life a ransome for all the Elect 1 Tim. 2.6 he gave himselfe for his Church Ephe. 5.25 he gave his life a ransome for many Matt. 20 28. he gave himselfe for us to redeeme us from all iniquity and to purifie unto himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good workes Titus 2.14 saith he I lay downe my life no man taketh it from me I lay it downe of my selfe I have power to lay it downe and I have power to take it up againe John 10.17.18 and then is not this out of free grace and the spirit of God worketh where it listeth John 3.8 then if the spirit of God reach out unto us the righteousnesse of Christ is it not of free grace and out hand of faith by which we receive the righteousnesse of Christ this faith is the gift of God Ephe. 2.8 then is not this also out of free grace thus by grace ye are saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Ephe. 2.8 then let us speake of this to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloued Ephe. 1.6 And thus farre of the causes of our justification in the sight of God being all that are mentioned in the Scripture except that of workes which justifies our faith and persons in the sight of men as James speaketh James 2.24 but this we are not to speake of at this time From these caules we may easily see when we are justified in the sight of God I grant in the decree of God this righteousnesse of Christ was purchased vertually for all the Elect a● well before his coming in the flesh as afterward for he was the Lambe slain from the foundation of the World Rev. 13.8 Again I grant that this purchase was actually paid above sixteene hundred yeeres agon when Christ in our nature died actually and really on the Crosse for beleevers but to say that the righteousnesse of Christ is really ours before that the spirit of God doth reach it forth unto us or before we have any faith or calling that is before that we have either eye to see it or hand of faith to receive and take it this I say is a cursed error suggested by the father of lies into those that are led by him to beleeve lyes For was that man in the Gospell who had a legion of divels within him justified when as the presence of Christ was a torment to him and he cryed out Jesus thou sonne of God most high I beseech thee torment me not I must needs confesse in one thing he was like our Antenomeans for no bonds could hold him but when the divels were cast out the man was in another mind he that could not abide the presence of Christ before now he can beseech Christ that he might be with him Luke 8.18.38 Then shall we be so foolish to thinke that the holy spirit of Christ will dwell in that foule and filthy heart where the divell reignes and leads them captive at his will 2 Tim. 2.26 but such are all the Elect before they be recovered out of the snare of the divell shall we thinke that the holy spirit of Christ was in Mary Magdalen when those seven divels kept their randevouse within her What agreement hath Christ with the divell that he should be as an underling in that soule where the divell reignes Doth Christ come to justifie such a soule and not to sanctifie it at the same time Doth he not say come out of Babylon and be not partaker of her sinnes that ye receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 Come out from among them and be ye seperate saith the Lord touch not the uncleane thing and I will receive you and I will dwell in you 2 Cor. 6.16 17. but will Christ come into the strong mans house and not bind him nor spoile his goods is not Christ stronger then he Luke 11.21 22. Why then will Christ live in that soule that Sathan hath in possession it may be twenty or forty yeeres togther before faith or effectuall calling be truely wrought in it If ye be the Temple of God and his spirit dwell in you if any man desile the Temple of God him shall God destroy let no man deceive himselfe 1 Cor. 3.16.17 Doth Christ say this and will he himselfe live and dwell among divels especially where they rule and reigne I hope no Christian truly justified will harbour such blasphemous thoughts within him lest they should say he hath an uncleane spirit Marke 3. ●0 Secondly But will they yeeld and say God forbid that we should thinke that the holy Spirit of God should dwell and live in that soul that the divell hath in possession then I reply and say if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is for the present none of his Ye are not in the flesh but on the spirit if so be the Spirit of God dwell in you Rom. 8.9 There shall no flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3.20 but saith Paul You in times pasted were Gentles in the flesh at that time yee were without Christ and without God in the world but now in Christ Jesus yee who were sometimes afarre off are made nigh by the blood of Christ Ephe. 2.12.13 Then is the righteousnesse of Christ wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ that makes us cleane temples for his Spirit to dwell in and will not his holy Spirit live among divells in a cage together of uncleane and filthy lusts and are they for the present without Christ and without God in the world and in the flesh when as no flesh living shall be justified in the fight of God and having not the Spirit of God they for the present are none of his then how dare any man say that they are justified in the sight of God as soone as they had any being in this world O horrible and blasphemous doctrine that makes the pure and holy Spirit of God to be a companion yea a very band to cursed divells and filthy lusts else how can he live where the divells reigne but thou O blessed Spirit of God art of purer cyes then to behold evill and canst not look on iniquity with approbation Hab. 1.13 But ye in time past walked according to the course of the world and according to the prince of the ayre that ruleth in the children of disobedience saith Paul wee all had our conversation in time past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the minde and were by nature children of wrath even as others Ephe. 3 2 3. but were they

keepe all Gods Commandements and yeelding universall obedience thereto and to hate all sinne THe Antinomeans say that they are bewitched that hold a man cannot be saved without faith and wisheth them cut off that so trouble them they say it is the envious man that hath sowed those Tares but here he cals the Spirit of God that envious man because he hath told us that without faith it is unpossible to please God Heb. 11.16 and whatsoever is not of faith is sinne Rom. 14.23 and he that beleeveth not is damned already and the wrath of God abideth on him John 3.18.36 Then what a bold blasphemer is this to call the holy Spirit of God the envious man because he contradicts their cursed Errours They say why should Christ put them upon the performance of conditions they having no life but are stone-dead in sinne so I say too but when Christ gives us a hand and life and motion in it too it is no hard condition to put it out to receive so great a Benefit He saith for God to put us upon such a worke supernaturall as faith is and to have no part in Christ without it seems very difficult and unlike his Fatherly affections toward us I answ but Gods people doe not thinke so whatever he thinkes when God hath given them faith they must use it and cannot doe otherwise they find so much profit and comfort by implying that Tallent of faith He saith to say faith is a condition without which we cannot be saved doth perplex the conscience and denies our mercies and resists the spirit of God and doth not consist with the right end for which faith was wrought in us he saith Christ died for the ungodly to purchase remission of sinnes and to reconcile them to God and so I say too so it be understood out of the number of the Elect but when he saith this was done without any condition or application on our parts we remaining ungodly still and going on in a course of sinnes is a foule errour but I have answered it already and he saith faith was given that we might see what was wrought in and upon us before we had either faith or calling that is saith he to see our remission of sinnes and reconciliation with God and how we are made righteous in the sight of God justified and saved all this as soone as we have our being in this life and faith is but a declarative grace to shew us these things that were all done before but onely we did not see them and so faith comforts us saith he and when the law clamours for obedience faith answers we are not under the law but under grace and therefore they owe no obedience to it it is true they will doe some things unrequired as to breake out into exaltations and thankfulnesse but not as any duty they owe to the Lord but upon free will and as a curtisie what they please unrequired this is their free grace but it is of the divels making to damne their soules but Paul saith Christ was revealed for the obedience of faith Rom. 16.26 and he received grace and Apostleship for the obedience of faith Rom. 1.5 they say that their love makes them doe great matters unrequired but let them take heed how they bring strange fire or any thing before they have tryed it in the ballance of the Sanctuary for God will not be served by their devisings but by his owne directions made knowne to us in his law He that looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein not being a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke this man is blessed in the deed James 1.25 we must bring that worship and service that God requires in his law for substance and in the same manner it must be done in faith and time place considered and to the same end that God hath apointed which is his glory but their faith sheweth them a Christ that requires no duty of them but what they please out of free love and curtisie for all was done before they had faith or calling and he saith children when they dye are saved without faith but I suppose that to be more then he can prove because without faith it is unpossible to please God and he that beleeveth not is damned already and ●he wrath of God abideth on him but that wrath must be removed and they must please God before they can be saved although we cannot conceive the manner how it is wrought in them therefore when Christ came to heale any ●iseases if he perceived they had faith to be healed then he cured them and commonly he said according to thy faith be it unto thee all things are possible to him that beleeveth he saith they that mix the Law and the Gospell together are false teachers and so I say too and to make redemption conditionall ●o depend on duties as causes I say the same but to say these duties are not ●equired as the way to salvation is a grosse errour that beats off all obedience ●o the law of God but they say the state of a Christian is most free in this respect because nothing at all is required of him and he saith they are deceivers that teach otherwise so that their free grace they boast so much of is nothing but a freedome from all obedience to the lavv of God I find in that book of theirs that they say legall Teachers say that repentance ●umiliation self-deniall weeping mourning fasting and praying and the use of ●he Sacraments the observing of the Sabbath and doing as one would be done ●nto and the rest must be done as duties but are palpable mistakings for they ●re made as duties by almost all Teachers But here they shew their sinne as Sodome and bewray what they meane by ●●eir free grace yet I say againe that we deny that duties are any causes of ●ur salvation but they are the way appointed by the Lord to attaine that end ●nd must be done in obedience to Gods command and not left for us to doe 〈◊〉 not to doe at our pleasure these ought to be pressed as duties so long as we ●●rry about with us daily a body of sinne which is as a heavy weight upon us ●●d being alwayes with us and makes us faile in all our duties we then had ●●ed to be stirred up daily to weeping and mourning and to repent of our fail●●gs nay although we know nothing by our selves yet are we not hereby justified 1 Cor. 4.4 because there be many secret sinnes in us that we cannot find out O Lord forgive our secret sins Psal 19. he saith feare hath torment so I say that slavish feare hath torment and is not made perfect in love 1 Joh. 4.18 but filiall feare is a companion of all joy and comfort Psal 2.11.56.6 he saith it is in vaine to bid a beleever humble himselfe for there is none so humble as he But is this

for the pardon of his sinne is like a man afrighted with sinne and at the same time giving thankes for the r●mision of sinne and of a man that is afraid of the sinnes of his present prayers and of one that hath victory over sinne death and hell I answer although our sinnes be pardoned and the guilt taken away yet the being of sinne is not taken away and although we are justified from all sinne yet we are not sanctified from all sinne so that we ought to be humbled for our filthinesse for want of sanctification when we come into the presence of God and because that sinne is in us we may well feare that we shall not carry our selves so holy as becometh such a presence as the men of Beth-shemish said Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6.20 and yet not so despaire as to leave off the duty but to pray still and as sanctification increaseth we come into the presence of God with more cheerfulnesse and as our assurance increaseth we shall be lesse in our petitions and more in thanksgiving and praising God for his mercies to us He saith we present a man that is delivered from the law into the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God and yet puts himselfe under the law I answer we are delivered from the curses of the law and the threatnings of the lavv and from the condemning povver of it and from the constraining povver of it but vve are not delivered from the commanding povver of it the free grace of Christ did not deliver us from our obedience to the lavv of God but in giving us the eye of faith vve see our duty more cleerly that is vvritten in the lavv of God and by our hand of faith vve fetch more strength from Christ to enable us to performe our duty to the lavv of God I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Phil. 4.13 but if our eye of faith vvere never so cleere to see our duty yet if vve vvill not looke upon the lavv of God but count it as a strange thing Hosea 8.12 it is all one to them as if the book of the law were sealed up and he that hath no faith is like a man to whom the booke of the law is open but the man cannot read for he is not learned Isa 29.11 12. so then the eye of faith is the Organ and our duty is the object and the written law of God is the Medium by which we see our duty but when the law is taken from us or if we cast away the commanding power of it which is all one we can see our duty no more then a man can see in a dungeon then well may the Antinomians be so blind concerning their duty when as they cast away that light that should shew it unto them thy law is a lanterne to my feet and a light unto my pathes Psal 119.105 But then faith hath another property when it sees the greatnesse of the work to be done and the weaknesse of the doer of it that it seeth helpe in another which is Christ and presently fetcheth it to helpe him this honour have all the Saints Psal 149.9 He saith we need not to tell a healthfull man that it is his duty to feed himself even so is it needfull to tell a beleever that it is his duty to heare Sermons read the Scripture and frequent the Lords Table these are his proper and his naturall food by which his faith is strengthened and increased yet saith he in what a sad and fearfull manner are these pressed upon mens consciences upon paine of having no part in Christ and of everlasting damnation in hell for ever I answer first if one should tell a healthfull man that it is his duty to feed himselfe I hope it would not make him leave feeding and goe about to starve himselfe because he is told that he must doe it as a duty and so for spirituall duties to be told of them is rather an encouragement to goe on still because it is their duty and what if he know it before he need not be offended at the love of his friend for telling him that which he knew before but I smell wherein lieth the venome of this man he hath free grace bestowed on him which hath freed him from all duties of obedience to the Lord so that what he doth is onely out of free love for he thinkes to be tyed by way of duty will not stand with his free grace but I say againe we trust in no duty as causes of our salvation but we obey and doe these duties as the way to salvation neither did they ever heare those worthy Divines whom they villefie with the termes of legall Teachers presse any duties to merit salvation for the doing of them but let the sonnes of Belial know that if they slight their duties to the law of God they may purchase damnation by it neither can there be any salvation for that man till he humble himselfe and freely yeeld to the commanding power of the law of God and count it his duty to give all the power of body and soule in obedience to it but this yoke is too heavy for the sonnes of Belial they will be tyed to nothing but upon free love and currisie that they may leave it when they list they have gotten free grace He saith they put us upon these duties to try and to prove our selves by the performance of them as by markes and signes of grace within I answer if Christ be in the soule there must needs be fignes of his presence we need not goe by heare-say or from a bare Testimony or suggestion they told Jacob that Joseph was alive but that did not satisfie him till he saw the Wagons Gen. 45.27.28 so now if the eyes of the soule be opened to see our duty written in the law it is Christ that hath done it Acts 16.14 whose heart the Lord opened Doe ye aske whence he is and yet he hath opened mine eyes John 9.30 Acts 26.17 18. Secondly the worke must arise from a true justifying faith that knits them to Christ and makes their person accepted Rom. 5.1 Gen. 4.4 this faith must take hold of that promise that is made to them that doe this duty Exod. 20.6 Thirdly in our duties we must aime at Gods glory 1 Cor. 10.31 thus by any duty we may try our selves whether we doe it by vertue of Gods command without us and whether it be acted by an inward principle of faith within us and whether it tend to Gods glory as the utmost end of it he that hath thesemarkes and signes the Spirit of God is in him this faith worketh by love and obedience Rom. 1.5.1 John 5.3 neither can he say what a fearfull thing it is to presse these things as duties upon our consciences that belongs to the sons of Belial that cannot abide the yoke of Gods saw