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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25220	A vindication of the faithful rebuke to a false report against the rude cavils of the pretended defence	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing A2923; ESTC R8101	96,389	154

a Sinner But further Display Epist. informs us That our coming to Christ is our believing on him but come unto Christ we cannot without Faith and Repentance But then the Report leaves out Repentance wholly Name and Thing from his Substance of the Gospel either as necessary to pardon of Sin or Salvation And yet further p. 66. Prop. 1. On the Account of Christ's Sufferings in Humane Nature all Mankind in some sense is so far Redeemed from the Misery in which antecedently unto the Promise of Christ's Death they did lie that they are now in a much happier Condition than the fallen Angels not only on the Account of their receiving at least a temporary Reprieve from everlasting Flames but also because their Salvation is become possible and yet now poor D. W. shall be persecuted for an Arminian a Socinian a Baxterian for one Moiety of this Doctrine Once more p. 68. They who receive least receive one Talent and have given them sufficient for the enabling them to do more towards the saving of their Souls than they actually do and if those Men do actually improve the Common Helps vouchsafed them they may for ought any Man can prove to the contrary receive such further Assistances as may have a special influence in enabling them to turn sincerely to God through Iesus Christ. This was Arminius all over Facienti quod in se est Deus non denegat gratiam So that the Reporter if he be the Man was in those Days a downright Baxterian and an upright Williamite if common Grace could have kept him so What strange Revolutions may seventeen Years produce In half that time a Man's Interest may change and that may warp him his Dependences may change and that may pervert him New Friends and Alliances may beget new Counsels and above all this blessed Change may be the Result of an implacable Enmity against some one Man which may oblige him to alter his Principles in mere spight and to face about to the other Extream However that be it shall be no Concern of mine to compromise the Quarrel whether the Report and the Display came from the same Mint and if so the Report has wretchedly Clipt what the Display had Coyn'd and the Display is now splayed § 3. A third Thing to be removed is what will administer a pleasing Diversion to the Reader so it will discover much Malice or Ignorance in our Author In p. 72. The Defender of the Faith for divers Reasons to himself best known is pleas'd to revive the Memory of an Affair depending between the Reverend Mr. R. Baxter and a certain Author who above twenty Years ago appeared in Print with an odd Title Antisozzo This Author you must know had confidently enough asserted That never any Man in his Wits affirm'd that the Righteousness of Christ was the formal Cause of our Iustification And for ought I can yet see he had sufficient ground for his Confidence for all the Reformed Divines I have yet met withal do with one consent maintain That the Imputing of Christ's Righteousness is the formal Cause but the Righteousness of Christ it self is the Material Cause of our Justification that is it bears some good Analogy with or proportion to the Material Cause But Mr. B. treats this Assertion and the Asserter with some scorn and tells him That Dr. Davenant who was far from being a Mad-man assures us That it 's the Common Sense of all Divines that the Righteousness of Christ imputed to us is the formal Cause of our Iustification Now I appeal to all that have a small glimmering of Understanding and an equal quantity of Impartiality to use it Whether these two Propositions Christ's Righteousness is not the formal Cause and Christ's Righteousness Imputed is the formal Cause of our Iustification do carry any the least face of Contradiction The Righteousness of Christ is the Material Cause the Imputing of the Righteousness is the Formal Cause The Righteousness of Christ is the Matter or Thing to be Imputed the Imputation of the Matter or Thing is the Form The Righteousness of Christ is the result of Christ's Active and Passive Obedience which he as a Priest offer'd up to God for us but Imputation is an Act of God by which he adjudges that Righteousness to a believing Sinner and thereon accepts him as Righteous in his sight And surely Men may easily distinguish between the Act of God and the Undertaking of the Mediator I can readily conceive a difference between a Robe laid up in the Wardrobe and the putting on that Robe by the Hand that has Right to dispose on 't Christ's Righteousness is this Robe but it 's God's putting it on the believing Sinner that covers his Nakedness Let me give the Reader one Quotation from Wollebius Compend Christ. Theolog. lib. 1. cap. 30. § 11. Materia justificationis active sumptae est tota Christi Satisfactio qua peccatis nostris paenas debitas persolvit obedientiam Legi perfectam praestitit § 13. Forma ejus activè intellectae est totius satisfactionis Christi imputatio quae tota quoque nostra est non secus ac si ipsi praestitissemus So that Christs Righteousness is the Matter the Imputation of that Righteousness is the Form of our Justification Thus much has been said to clear that Author from Mr. B's Indignation but I will defeat our Authors Design to commit me with that great Mans Memory I will not contend with his Ashes but draw the Curtains softly about him and leave him to his own Everlasting Rest. Yet give me leave to Animadvert upon our Authors Confidence who calls this Assertion That Christs Righteousness is not the formal Cause of our Iustification An overbold rash and untrue Assertion Whereas nothing could be more modest wary and true But we see to what height of extravagancy interest vain-glory and the concupiscence of Cavilling with other Vanities will transport a Reporter or Defender I am Confident that these Truths Christs Righteousness is the material Cause the Imputation of that Righteousness the formal Cause of our Iustification are owned by this Author in his Heart what Temptation therefore he could have to debauch his Pen to call it or them an Untruth I cannot Conjecture unless he was resolved through Thick and Thin over Shooes and Boots through Truth and Falshood per fas aut nefas to Defame and if he had had Wit enough to ridicule that Writer or the Rebuker § 4. But now all Hands aloft our Author has brought from the Neighbourhood of the Lay-stall at Puddle-Dock to his Printers all those Ordures which will imploy all the City Scavengers I hope the Reader has his Florentine Balsom or whatever defensative may be more Potent ready to secure him against the Stench Page 84 Def. He informs us That there 's not the least pretence for his Insinuating that the Reporter is a Favourer of Dr. Crisps Notions No 'T is well an Insinuation is a small

A VINDICATION OF THE Faithful Rebuke TO A False Report AGAINST The RUDE CAVILS of The Pretended Defence Titus 1. 13 Rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the Faith Tum si quis est qui Dictum in se inclementius Existimavit esse sie existimet Responsum non Dictum esse quia laesit priùs Terent. Eunuch Prolog 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist. Rhet. 3. LONDON Printed for Iohn Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey 1698. To the Author of the Defence to the Late Report SIR 'T IS somewhat a hard Case that having just cause to complain I must complain to your Self of your Self and make your own Conscience Chancellor in your Cause placing you upon the Bench who in Justice ought to stand and Plead at the Bar. But my Appeal will lie from your Self in the height and heat of Passion to your Self when the ferment is a little dasht with due Reflection From your Self as Laccar'd all over with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to your Self when you shall think fit to reassume your innate Ingenuity of which benign Moments I can not wholly Dispair because you must needs have some good Nature yet to spare having spent so little of it in your Defence Now when I have done this I have nothing more to do but to repose my Self in the Comfort of my own Innocency committing the Concerns of that Truth which I espouse and vindicate to Him who has the greatest Interest in it § 1. And first I must seriously and sadly Complain that having given us Rep. p. 5. The Substance of the Gospel of Christ the Ground and Foundation of our Faith for which you received a faithful Rebuke that yet when you pretended a Defence of your Report you should not bestow one Word in Defence of your own Gospel Who will ever believe your Report in Matters of Fact when you believe not your own Gospel in Matters of Faith And I assure you Sir They who knew your excellent skill at Fencing and Defencing did expect you should have been the Defender of your own Faith and wondered you should no better fortifie your own Frontiers when you invaded anothers Territories But such was the Method of your Great Friend religiously pursued two Years ago 1. You cannot but remember that the Rebuke Charged you that out of the Substance of your Gospel you had quite expunged Regeneration Conversion Repentance Holiness Sanctification a new Heart new Obedience and good Works And would not the Gospel look Meagre Lean and Consumptive had our Lord Jesus Christ left them out of his Gospel as you have out of Yours And are these great Matters grown so inconsiderable with you now a Days that they must first be left out of your Religion and then left to shift for themselves as they can to sink or swim without your least Care to Defend them 2. It was charg'd upon that Scheme of yours that it gave great and just Cause of Suspicion to those who were of no Jealous Inclinations that you had utterly discarded Faith from any concern in the Iustification of a Sinner made it unnecessary to our Union with Christ that so we might have an Interest in his Righteousness and only gave it a place in our escaping Wrath to come and having Everlasting Life Whoever pretends to give us the Substance of the Gospel is obliged to give us all the Essentials that Constitute it and if you Cashier Faith from any Part or Lot in Justification which Christ and his Gospel make so necessary to it your Draught is defective in an Essential Part and then I may leave it you to Judge whether it can be any Religion at all I have ever thought this Point to contain the Venime and Poison of all Antinomianism That a Sinner may be justified without Faith in Jesus Christ for if this be so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tell us where we may safely fix How far we must go back for the precise Moment of Justification some send us as far as the Decree of Election Others are Content to bring it down as low as Christs making actual Satisfaction And some will abate us three Days and date it from Christs Resurrection and others will reduce it yet lower to the Minute of our Conception and Formation in the Womb but take the rise where and fix the Moment when you please if you conceive of Justification one Moment before our Union with Christ by Faith you may as well make it bear Date from any of the other Epocha's which the Teeming Imaginations of Antinomian Brains have invented I know not therefore how to believe you in what you say Defence p. 85. That the Reporter about seventeen Years ago wrote against Antinomianism For most certain it is that either the Reporter is not the same Man that wrote that Book or is not the same Man he was when he wrote the Book Either you was not the Author or you are Metamorphosed into a Reporter Heu quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore What a lamentable Commutation of Persons is here made from a Hyperaspistes of Truth into a Hector for the Antinomian Errors So easie is the Conversion of a Hector into a Ranter I will therefore charitably undeceive you and plainly Convince you that you was not whatever you Fancy no you was not the Author of that honest Book Display Epist. The first Work of a Minister of the Gospel is to Preach up Repentance towards God and then Faith in our Lord Iesus Christ Your Gospel Minister was then to Preach up Repentance but now he must Preach it down then he must Preach it first but now he must Preach it neither first nor last Then it was in the Ministers Commission now it s left out of the Gospel Again Every Elect Soul while under the Power of Unbelief and other Lusts is Unpardoned and in a State of Condemnation whence notwithstanding your Election if you would receive actual Pardon you must go to God through Christ for it Nay you must receive Christ in your Heart by Faith and that you may we must beseech you as in Christs stead that you come unto Christ but come unto Christ you cannot without Faith and Repentance Now Sir I appeal to your own Conscience do you can you believe that you wrote the Display when you read your own Report That you were the Author of these two inconsistent Pieces Is it possible you should know your own Face when you see it in such different Glasses I hope I may use your own Words and say O Blessed Change Repentance is necessary to Pardon Faith to Justification in the one but no News to be heard of either of them for those Ends in the other So that you fall under the Censure of Origen Ubi bene Nemo melius Ubi male Nemo pejus 3. You cannot but remember Sir That in your Substance of the Gospel you affirmed that it was our State and Condition by