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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

joyned to Idols let him alone Hosea 4.14.17 so when the L●●d smote Uzzah for his errour that he dyed David was afraid of the Lord t●●t day 2 Sam. 6.7.8 when Christ said to his Apostles one of you shall betray me every one suspected his owne heart saying Lord is it I Mat. 26. then let not us say God cannot correct us nor any other for our sinnes which is one maine cause why they refuse the covenant but let them know if God have forgiven them yet he will take vengeance on their inventions Psal 99.8 then if God send Jonah to cry against the wickednesse of Niniveh and he goe to Tarshesh from the presence of the Lord God will send a great and mighty wind and tempest so that the ship was like to be broken and Jonah forced to confesse and say for my sake this great tempest is come upon you Ionah 1.2.12 the judge of all the earth will doe right Gen. 18. and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done saith the Lord God Ezek. 14.23 and when some received the Sacrament unworthily for this cause many were sicke and weake and many dead 1 Cor. 11. then doth not God correct his people for sinne or will they say they dye onely for ●ryall for these men were some of them Gods people which shall not be condemned with the world ver 32. judgement beginneth at the house of God 1 Pet. 4.17 which makes David say my flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements Psal 119.120 Hab. 3.15 but these people are so full of mirth from those following grounds that they brake out into laughter saying they cannot sinne being in Christ and if they should yet God cannot see it or if he should chance to see it he cannot be displeased with it or if he should be displea●ed his hands are bound that he cannot correct them for it then they must neither repent nor be sorry nor pray for the pardon of any sinne neither past present nor to come neither must they heare of their sinnes any more this fils their faces full of comfort when their hearts have cause enough to be heavy saith Salomon he is the happy man that feareth alwayes Prov. 28.14 when this feare stirres up watchfulnesse and diligence to please God with reverence and godly feare H●b 12.28 a child may feare his fathers rod although he feare not to be disinherited even the reghteous shall see and feare Psal 52.6 legall threatnings cannot hurt the righteous saith David let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindnesse and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent oyle which shall not breake mine head Psal 141.6 these lower hearbs will make us relish promises the better and stick faster to them and it will inflame our love to God more deeper for saving us from those dangers threatned and it will stirre up compassion in us towards our brethren to helpe them out of those dangers and to worke out our owne salvation with feare and trembling Phil. 2.11 Thus they being justified as soone as they are borne and then as righteous as Christ this they know from a bare testimony or revelation or suggeestion then God cannot correct nor punish them for sin now it followes that they are freed from the commanding power of the law of God by their free grace they are discharged from all duty or obedience to it now the law of God is no rule for them but wh●● they doe is onely out of love and curtesie for they owe God nothing at all Here I grant that the Juditiall law was not made for us and the ceremoniall law was ended in Christ but the morrall law abides for ever I meane the commanding and discovering power of it remaines as a glasse to beleevers and as a rule or a bridle to keep them in continuall obedience to the Lord. And whereas it is said If ye be led by the Spirit ye are not vnder the law but under grace Gal. 5.18 it is to be understood you do obey the law freely without the lashing or constraining power of the law and where it is said sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace Rom. 3.13 this is plain that if sinne have dominion over you you are under the curse and condemning power of the law but from the raigne of sinne and from the curse of the law you are freed by Christ Rom. 8.1 Gal. 3.13 This curse and condemning power of the law is not made for a righteous man but for the ungodly for sinners and unholy for murtherers and whoremongers theeves and lyars and perjured persons or any other sinne that is contrary to sound doctrine 1. Tim. 1.9.10 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandement holy just and good Rom. 7.12 but they will have the commanding power of the law to last but till John the Batpist because it is said the law and the Prophets were untill John Luke 16.16 and the law was added for transgressors till the seed should come Gal. 3.19 I answer they prophesied of Christ till John Mat. 11.13 but when John shewed them the Messiah and poynted to him with his finger saying Behold the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world John 1.29 then they ceased to prophesie or to foretell of his coming when they saw him but to say that the law should la●● but till John is yet to prove and cannot be gathered from this place For til● the law sinne was in the world Rom. 5.13 but will they gather from hence that there was no sinne in the world after that the law was given if Mical be childlesse till her death she must needs be so for ever and Paul saith to Timothie Till I come give attendance to reading exhortation and doctrine neglect not the gift that is in thee 1. Tim. 4.13.14 but after that Paul is come must he neglect these duties because it is said do them till I come thus they force the Scriptures to favour their errours Then they say Christ is the end of the law for righteousnesse so I say too for he hath put an end to all types and shadowes of the Ceremoniall law and he hath put an end to the curse and bondage of the morall law Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us Gal. 3.13 and from the condemning power of it Rom. 8.1 but if we speak of obedience to the commanding power of the law Christ is the scop and end to which all our obedience tends and he is the end for whose sake all the promises are made good unto us and not for our obedience and he alone gives being and performance to them all 2 Cor. 1.20 and he is the end of the law for righteousnesse that is the law brings us to Christ for righteousnesse and in him we have righteousnesse ●● fulfil the laws not

grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1.12 I have lived in all good conscience before God to this day Act. 23.1 I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience beareth me witnes in the Holy-ghost Ro. 9.1 Thus you see that we must not content our selves with a bare testimony but we must labour to see the work wrought in us let but thy conscience bring thee to thy tryall and thou shalt easily see how it is with thee and doe not say that this is legall teaching lest thou be filled with fancies and no reall worke of grace be wrought as yet in thee and doe not thinke that the spirit of God will worke when thou liest still and remainest an empty trunke or a dead stone no thou must be made a living stone and must worke actively by the movings of the spirit of God in thee draw me and we will runne after thee Cant. 1.3 I shall runne the wayes of thy Commandements when thou doest inlarge my heart Psal 119.32 but this they condemne as legall teaching because spirituall sloathfulnesse hath so possessed them that they will make no other triall but rest upon a bare idle perswasion or testimony but whether it came from God or the divell they know not Well they say they are justified as soone as they were borne and then as righteous as Christ and this they know from a bare testimony now it followes say they that God cannot correct them neither doth he correct for their sinne but onely to exercise their faith I grant that God doth not punish his children in wrath and fury with plagues and vengeance but as gentle corrections from a loving father for their good yet still sinne was the cause of it saith David there is no soundnesse in my flesh nor rest in my bones because of my sinne Psal 38.3 4 5. why doth the living man complaine man is punished for his sinne Lam. 3.39 then art thou made whole sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5.14 if David a man after Gods owne heart sinne scandalously the sword shall never depart from his house 2 Sam. 12 10. God is not partiall in his corrections though Coniah were as the signet upon my right hand yet would I plucks him thence Ier. 22.24 that soule that sinneth it shall dye Ezek. 18. all things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked Eccles 9.2 the wages of sinne is death Rom. 6.23 And every sicknesse or inward griese or sorrow or outward hurts or maladies all are but parts and parcels of this wages that we receive from the service of sinne and we receive this wages by parts and parsels daily for as Adam in the day that he sinned he began to dye he received some part of that wages of sinne death seized upon him and slew him by degrees and so we as soon as we were borne began to dye and all those afflictions and sorrowes that doe befall us doe but hallen us to our end but who is freed from these things what man is he that liveth and shall not see death Ps 89.41 our Prophets are dead and our fathers are fallen asleep wise men dye as well as fooles for all must dye and be as water spile upon the ground 2 Sam. 14.14 then God doth correct and that heavily for sinne yet his corrections are sweetned to his people the sting or bitternesse of them is tak●n out yet we shall not be freed from corrections nor death so long as we carry a body of sinne daily about with us death is passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 but will they say that death is not a correction it is the king of terrours Iob 18.14 will they say death is but to exercise their faith but suppose one of them were shot with a bullet how would he exercise his faith or can they exercise their faith to prevent a sinne when they are corrected for their sinne already committed saith David before J was afflicted J went astray Psal 119.67 and Manasseh was converted in the furnace of afflictions which was the meanes to beget his faith and not to exercise it before he had it it is manifest enough that God doth correct his people for sinne if thy children forsake my law and if they breake my statutes then J will visit their transgressions with a rod and their iniquity with stripes neverthelesse J will not take away my mercy from him Psal 89.30 then let not the Antonomeans forsake Gods law lest they feele the weight of his correcting hand you have I knowne of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for your iniquities Amos 3.2 then let them take heed how they say when they sinne tush God sees not God is not like to themselves he will reprove them and set their sinnes in order before them consider th●● ye that forget God lest he teare you in ●●eces and there be none to deliver you Psal 50.21 God will correct Jacob in measure and will not leave him altogethen unpunished Jer. 10.24.20.11 for the transgression of Jacob is all this Micah 1.5 Zachariah and Elizabeth are as famous as any in all the Scripture for being both just and righteous before God and walking in all the Commandements and Ordinances of the Lord blamelesse yet saith the Angell to him thou shalt be dumb and not able to speake which was a sore correction because thou beleevest not my words Luke 1.6.20 and Jehosaohat was a good man yet if he helpe the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord there shall wrath from the Lord be upon him nevertheles there are good things found in him 2 Chr. 19.23 Miriam was a good woman yet if she speake against Moses the anger of the Lord is kindled and behold Miriam became leprous white as snow Num. 12.1.9 10. for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every sonne that he receiveth if ye endnre chastening whereof all are partakers then are ye sonnes and not bastards Heb. 12.6 7 8. Ephraim bemoaned himselfe thus Thou hast chast●sed me yet saith the Lord Ephraim is my deare sonne he is a pleasant child I doe earnestly remember him still my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord Jer. 31.18.20 it is a signe of a humble heart when the Land is scourged for sinne to acknowledge our sinnes to be the cause of it as David did saying to the Lord I even I onely have sinned and done evill indeed but as for these sheep what have they done 1 Chron. 21.17 see 2 Sam. 24.10 Againe when Nathan came to him he said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12.13 Againe it is the brand of a reprobate when God ceaseth to correct him for his sinne I will no more punish your daughters when they commit whoredome nor your spouses when they commit adultery Ephraim is

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