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A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

Christs worke to act faith in the creature then he should be by that a respecter of persons because he acts faith in some and not in others and yet condemns them for not doing that he should do himselfe being his worke to act faith and not the creatures what a respecter of persons would he appeare to be then to leave the greatest part of the world under condemnation for his owne default because he did not act faith in them whereby they might be saved Oh what a partiall Judge would you make him by this tenent doth not the Scripture tell you that he is no respecter of persons and that he shall judge every man according to his workes Act. 10. 34. Rom. 2. 11. 7. If it be the worke of Christ to act faith in the creature then what shall the creature be condemned for at the last day shall the creature be condemned for not doing good when it was never the creatures worke to do good if it were Christs worke to act all the good in the creature and so few doe well then he did intend the rest should doe ill because you say it was his worke to act the good and not theirs and then how can he judge them for doing that hee did intend they should doe for either hee did intend they should doe well or ill But if he had intended they should have done well he would have acted good in them but he did not act faith in them and therefore hee did intend they should do ill and so by this you would make Christ the authour of all the wickednesse that is committed seeing as you say it was not in the creatures power to act good and if so then what shall the creature be condemned for for doing the will of God And thus you see how ill those repay God that hold that God or Christ acts faith in the creature 8. If it bee Christs worke to act faith in the creature then why doth he exhort them to beleeve seeing it is his work and not theirs they might have replied to him saying Why dost thou presse us so to beleeve and act faith seeing it is thy worke and not ours 9. Why doth he upbraid them for not beleeving saying Woe be to Coraisim and Bethsada if it were his worke to beleeve and obey and not theirs Why doth he threaten them if the worke were his and not theirs and lay such woes upon them 10. It is said He marvelled at their unbeleefe Mark 6. 6. And why doth he marvell at their unbeleef if it were his work to act faith and not theirs 11. It is said he could not do many great works in his own Country because of their unbeleefe And what should hinder him if it were his work to beleeve and act faith in them and not theirs could their unbeleef hinder him Mat. 13. 58. 12. It is said That the Israelites were broken off through unbeleefe Rom. 11. 20. Now how could they be broken off through unbeleef if it were not their work to beleeve if it be Christs work to beleeve and act faith in them then how could they be broken off seeing it was Christs work and not theirs 13. It is said If they abide not still in unbeleefe they shall be grafted in And how can their unbelief hinder them if it were Christs work to act faith and not theirs then how could their unbeleef hinder them 14. They entered not in because of unbeleef and how could that be if it were not their work to beleeve then how could their unbeleef hinder them Heb. 3. 19. 15. The Apostle saith Brethren take heed lest there be in any of you an evill heart of unbeleefe to depart from the living God vers 12. And how could their unbeleef hinder them if it were Christs work to act faith and not theirs 16. It is said The fearfull and unbeleeving shall have their portion in the lake Revel 21 8. And why should they be punished if it were not their work to beleeve if it were Christs work to act faith and not theirs should they be punished for Christs not acting faith And thus you see how weake this Tenet of theirs is that hold it is Christs work to act faith and not the creatures and so lay all the unbeleef in the world upon the back of Christ and so would make him stand at the Bar of Justice as the cause of all the unbeleef in the world And now in the next place I shall prove that it is the creatures work to beleeve for these reasons First because he gives the creature ability to beleeve for he makes him a reasonable creature and gives him knowledge and understanding to doe such a work as he requires of him for if he should require the creature to doe such a work as he knew the creature were not able to do it were unreasonable to require it because he knew the creature was not able to perform it but he every where condemns the creature for not doing good and therefore it doth appear he gives the creature ability to do good and that I shall prove for these reasons First because hee gives the creature free choice as in all the Scripture as I have set before you life and death chuse you which you will as you may see Deut. 30. 19. And chuse you whom you will serve for I and my house will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. And when they chose strange gods then was war in the gate Judg. 5. 8. And the Lord said unto Solomon because thou hast chosen wisdome befare riches and honour I will give thee wisdome above all that were before thee or that shall follow after thee 1 King 3. 11. And David had chosen the way of Gods commandements Psal 109. And saith the Lord they shall call but I will not answer because they hated knowledge and did not chuse the feare of the Lord as Prov. 1. 28. 29. And thus you see the Lord putteth the creature to his choice now the Lords putting the creature to chuse and the creatures chusing either good or evill doth make it appear that the creature hath ability or else if the creature had not ability why doth the Lord condemne the creature for not chusing good and Christ saith Mary hath chosen the better part and his servants you are to whom you obey whereby it doth appear they had ability to obey either good or evill for if they had not ability when they doe evill to doe good then how could they be condemned for not doing good seeing they had not ability to do otherwise 2. He gives the creature ability to beleeve because he charges the creature with rebellion for not beleeving saying to the people of Israel How often would I and you would not And ye will not come to me that ye might have life And he that beleeveth not is condemned ●already And the unbeleeving shall have their portion in the lake of fire and many Scriptures

great ones and the eyes of the priests and people lest they should obey the glorious Gospel of Christ 2 Cor. 4. 4. and for this cause there is so few that imbrace the Gospell because men love the praise of men more then the praise of God 4 Reason Is because there is so few of the great ones believe the Gospell and this was the plea of the Scribes and Pharisees against Christ Have any of the rulers believed on him John 7. 48. The Pharisees knowing this that the multitude would follow the great ones whether right or wrong whether their way were true or false and this is as true in our dayes for if the great ones would believe and follow the Gospell then would the inferiour ones and if the Priests would imbrace the Gospell then would the people and so as Christ saith The blind lead the blind and so they both fall into the ditch for as the Apostle saith ye see your calling brethren how that not many mighty not many noble not many learned but the poore receive the Gospell 1 Cor. 1. the contemptible ones of the wor●● the great ones ●allowing in their fleshly felicity and worldly glory and therefore it ●● that so few imbrace the Gospel of Christ 5 Reason Is the high esteem of the persons of some and the dis-esteem of the persons of others and thus did the Scribes and Pharisees vilifie the Person of Christ in their saying Is not this the Carpenters son Marke 6. 3. 4. being offended at him and declaring against him saying Art thou greater then our father Abraham and the Prophets John 8. 53. and thus they undervalued the Person of Christ to make his doctrine contemptible in abasing his Person that thereby they might set up themselves saying We are Abrahams children John 8. 39. but for this fellow we know not whence he is John 9. 29. and thus did the proud Scribes and Pharisees of those times contemne Christ and his Apostles as if they were the basest men in the world and thus they do in these dayes highly esteem of the persons of so me if he be an University man and have learned the spirit as they conceive at the University with the knowledge of the humane tongues and have received his humane degrees then they admire his Person and esteem him some great man or divine person having bought the spirit at the University as the people conceive and that which he hath bought at the Schools he sels it for spirit though indeed it be nothing but a Tract of Fathers and Authors which he hath got by art compacting a Sermon out of Fathers and Authours and the like and preaches but the judgements of other men and those mens persons are esteemed as the only men in the world and all other men rejected though never so able and godly because they come not in by the doore of humane inventions their persons are despised as contemptible and so their doctrine is despised being never so holy and true because their persons are contemptible which is a main cause and reason wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell of Christ 6 Reason Wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell is this because the Lord hath been pleased in all Ages to reveale his truth to a company of contemptible ones in the worlds eye as you may see both under the Law and Gospell as under the Law the Lord called Moses a shepheard to feed his flock who was feeding the sheep of his father Exod. 3. And the Lord called him to feed his people Israel and also David a shepheard who was tending of his fathers flock And the Lord called him 〈◊〉 the ewes and made him a shepheard in Is 〈…〉 and then there was Elisha a plow-man and Amos a heards-man Amos 1. And thus you see under the Law how the Lord did reveale his truth and under the Gospell you have Christ and his Disciples who were poor contemptible men in the world and as Matthew a Publican and Peter James and John fisher-men with Paul a Tent-maker And thus you see that the Lord did reveale his truth by a company of trades-men which the Apostle Paul doth so gloriously confirm 1 Cor. 1. against the proud Rabbies of those times and justifies his poor brethren in the Ministry saying you see your calling brethren how that not many wise mighty or noble are called to the Ministry but God hath called the foolish to confound the wise and the weake to confound the mighty and things that are not in the worlds ●ye as any thing hath God chosen to bring to ●aught things that are esteemed in the world And this the Lord doth that no flesh should boast or glory in his presence and therefore the Apostle saith Where is the wise where is the Scribe and disputer of this world for the Lord hath made foolish the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 1. 20. And therefore behold saith the Lord I will do a work in your dayes saith the Lord that you will not believe though 〈◊〉 declared unto you for the wisdome of your wise men shall perish and I will make the deviners mad Esa 29. 14. Act. 23. Oh behold and wonder ye Ministers of England and ye Rabbies and Doctors ye have been exalted up to Heaven but you shall be brought down for you have sought your selves more then Jesus Christ and your own honour more then his you have sought to set up your selves and to abace Christ and have been ashamed to tonfess his Gospel before men for fear of losing your earthly honours and preferments and have denied the holy one of Israel in perverting his wayes and changing his Ordinances and have been time-servers and served your selves and not Christ and therefore the Lord hath a quarrel against you and wil confound your wisdom and make you to be despised before the people and will shake off your fleshly glorying that you may glory in the Lord and this the Lord will do by raysing up men to preach the Gospel and you shall be cast out as a contemptible thing because you have been a hinderance and not a furtherance to the Gospel of Christ for the Idolizing of your persons is a reason wherefore so few believe and obey the Gospel of Christ 7. Reason Wherefore so few imbrace and obey the Gospel is because the wayes of the Gospel are persecuted wayes for no sooner Christ the great Minister of God came to preach the Gospel to the People but the high Priest and Doctors sought to destroy him Mat 2. and how was he persecuted of the Learned Rabbies and was forst to flee from one place to another and was persecuted wheresoever he came and had not where to hide his head while the great Doctors were slourishing in their earthly glory and pompe rejoycing at the troubles of the Sonne of God and like Foxes lay lurking in their holes to watch for his ruin and nothing would serve them but his death crying his blood be upon us

worketh good glory Rom. 2. 10. There is a glory in the Law Rom. 12. 23. and the Gospel is called glory 2 Cor. 4. 4. And there is a vaine glory Gal. 5. 26. There is a glory of the Saints Ephes 3. 13. and a glory in affliction and then there is a glory of the Church Ephes 5. 21. and there is a glory in their shame Phil. 3. 19. the Saints were the glory of the Apostles 2 Thes 1. 20. There is a glory of the Whoore Revel 18. 7. and there is a glory of the Gentiles Revel 22. 24. for the Gentiles shall bring their glory to the Saints Revel 1. 26. also there is an earthly glory and there is a heavenly glory a glory in Grace and a glory in Glory and that is the glory of all glories CHAP. VIII Of Faith NOw the Text saith The just shall live by his faith and therefore I shall endeavour to speake a word or two of Faith it is that whereby we live in Grace and it is that whereby we are carried on to Glory now there is a faith of the History and there is a faith of the Mystery there is a faith of Miracles and there is a legall faith there is a temporary faith and an Evangelicall faith and the last is most excellent being the faith of the Gospell that carries us on to Salvation and in the next place I shall shew you what faith is Now faith or beleefe is an obedience to or a living in all the commands of the Gospell to Salvation now it doth appeare that faith or beleefe is obedience because unbeleefe is counted rebellion or disobedience for such as beleeve and obey are justified John 3. 36. for he giveth the Holy Ghost to those that obey him Act. 5. 32. And know you not that to whom you yeeld your selves servants to obey his servants yee are to whom you obey whether of sinne unto death or of obedience to life Rom. 6. 16. and ye have purified your soules in obeying the truth 2 Pet. 1. 22. and thus you see faith or obedience justifieth the creature for thereby he is justified and such as are unbeleevers and disobedient are condemned when Christ shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance to those that obey not the Gospel 2 Thess 1. 8. for to those that are disobedient Christ is a stone to stumble at and a rock to be offended at to such as stumble at the Word being disobedient and obey not that whereon they were set 1 Pet. 2. 7 8. that all those might be damned which obey not the truth but obey unrighteousnesse 1 Thess 2. 10. 12. and thus you see that faith or beleefe is obedience and rebellion or unbeleefe is disobedience now the great controversie will be whether it is Christs worke or the Creatures worke to act faith now the greatest part hold that it is Christs worke to act faith and some few hold that it is the Creatures worke to act faith now the greatest part can never be in the best way and therefore I shall side with the lesser part for they say the fault is in the Creature that he doth not beleeve and the greatest Party say it is not the Creatures worke to beleeve it is Christs worke to act faith and so they lay all the unbeleefe upon Christ and therefore I shal prove that it is the Creatures work and not Christs to act faith And first it is the Creatures worke to beleeve because Christ hath done his work for Christs worke was to obey the Commands of his Father and to set forth such a way to the world as they were to stand to and to establish that way for life and death and this was his worke enjoyned him from the Father which he did in setting downe the minde of the Father in all things that were necessary to salvation which he did and sealed the Doctrine of the Father with his blood and did his worke and therefore he saith If you keepe my Commandements yee shall abide in my love as I have kept my Fathers Commandements and abide in his love John 15. 10. Christs worke was to obey the Commands of the Father and our worke is to obey the Commands of the Sonne and therefore it is our worke to beleeve and not Christs 2. That Christ hath done his worke will appeare because Christ is entred into his rest and sure he did not enter before he had done his worke for he said He had finished his course and done all things that the Father commanded him by perfecting the way of Salvation to all the world and giving Commandement unto his Apostles to establish that Gospel to the whole earth and all things as he had commanded them as you may see Mat. 28. Act. 1. 2. and when he had finished his whole worke he ascended to the Father and is entred into his rest Heb. 4. saying To him that over cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in his throne Revel 3. 21. and therefore it doth appeare that it is not Christs worke to act faith in the Creature except you will call him in question from his rest which I thinke you dare not 3. If it be Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then the fault will lye in Christ that the Creature doth not beleeve and then the Father may question the Sonne for all the unbeleefe in the world seeing you say it was Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then all the fault will lye upon him for if he had acted faith the Creature should have beleeved and so the Father might call the Son to an account for all the unbeleefe of the Creature and what is this thinke you but to pluck Christ out of his throne and to take him from his rest 4. If it be Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then the Creature hath a good excuse and may say there is no cause wherefore he should be condemned for not beleeving seeing it was not his worke to beleeve but the fault was in Christ who did not act faith in him and therefore he was not to blame because it was not his worke to beleeve but Christs worke and therefore no reason he should be condemned for anothers fault and so you would excuse the Creature and condemne Christ 5. Christ doth not act faith in the Creature because he shall judge the Creature for not beleeving for it were improper that he should be the Judge that were in the fault and condemne the creature for not beleeving when it was never his worke to beleeve and so the creature might reply unto the Judge that he did condemne him falsely to condemne the creature for not beleeving when it was Christs work to act faith and not the creatures and thus you see what sad effects would follow this Tenent that it is Christs worke to act faith in the creature 6. If it be