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A45147	Pacification touching the doctrinal dissent among our united brethren in London being an answer to Mr. Williams and Mr. Lobb both, who have appealed in one point (collected for an error) to this author, for his determination about it : together with some other more necessary points falling in, as also that case of non-resistance, which hath always been a case of that grand concern to the state, and now more especially, in regard to our loyalty to King William, and association to him, resolved, on that occasion / by Mr. John Humfrey.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3697; ESTC R16468	49,303	49

as near as they can to the Arminian but either of them carefully avoiding the Danger of both Errors Under the first sort I must rank Mr. Cole and Mr. Mather and such as will say here with Mr. Rutherford that this Promise is part of the Covenant of Grace not the whole Covenant and that this Promise of Faith or the first Grace being part of the Covenant-Blessings and the Fruit of Christ's Purchase for the Elect the Covenant in this respect is without any Antecedent Condition But the first Grace being given in order to obtain farther Blessings that first Grace I suppose in their account is a Consequent Condition in regard to the Connexion between them to those Benefits and so save they themselves from Antinomianism Under the Latter sort I had thought I might have ranked Mr. W. with my self but I will name one more worthy than we for his most acute and strong parts Mr. Woodbridge who does deny this Promise to be part of the Covenant of Grace made with Fallen Man But that it is either an indefinite Promise which God will make good on whom he pleases in their use of means or a Promise in regard to the Elect not made to them but made to Christ in the Covenant of Redemption if we may frame such a thing in God's Decrees as it is distinguished from that made with Man or Gospel-Covenant which requires Faith and Repentance wrought in us by God's first Grace as the Condition and upon that Condition and that as performed by us though through that Grace does grant us Remission and Eternal Life And this first Grace God gives to this end that his Elect may in their time enter this Covenant and so have the benefits of it I signified this to Mr. W. in my Sheet but he in his is so full of himself as he will take his Friends by the halves I never wrote says he that Faith and Repentance are not Covenant-Blessings But Mr. Lobb I perceive thought and so do I that this is consonant to what he should write No Man can have any Benefit of the Covenant that is not in Covenant That which is given of God to his Elect as pre-requisite to enter Covenant is given them before they are in Covenant and therefore is not any of the Benefits of it This is what I meant and I for my part therefore do say that Faith and Repentance are the Conditions and not the Benefits of the Gospel-Covenant For if they be granted Blessings thereof then is there no Condition to its Benefits and so the Covenant is not Conditional according to the sense of those that oppose us The Benefits of the Covenant are God's part to perform and if Faith and Repentance were part of those Benefits it were well indeed for us for then must all within the Church be saved The Minister does on God's part declare the Covenant in his Preaching the Word and Seals it in delivery of the Sacraments and that to every one If every one therefore hath not this Faith and Repentance given him either this Faith and Repentance is not indeed one of the Benefits or God is not Faithful in Covenant this Universal Gospel-Covenant which cannot be argued but with a reverential Aversation He hath one thing a little higher to the same effect Sir you omit one part of the Objection that I should say the Conditions are Legal I never called them so I give five Instances of the difference between the Condition of the Covenant of Works and Grace Here is our Cause yielding still but I must beg his Pardon for he says in this he knows not what The Instances he mentions are nothing to the purpose And as he said before he never wrote that Faith and Repentance are not Benefits of the Covenant when he should have wrote so So he says here he never called them Legal Conditions when he needed not scruple it Mr. Lobb put in the word Legal in opposition only to Testamentary and when he grants a Testamentary Condition he does I count under a more soft word ingenuously grant us our Point It is in Mr. Lobb's Peaceable Enquiry which Mr. W. it seems knows not To Mr. Lobb then I say If I have an Estate given me by Will or Testament upon a certain Condition I must perform that Condition or else I cannot have that Estate though it be Gift But the Condition being performed it gives me Right to that Estate by that Testament and the Law will make it good It is so as to a Promise and as to the Covenant The Performance gives us Right by not its own Merit but vertue of that Promise that Covenant This I affirm says Mr. W. himself the Promise conveighs the Title as soon as the Terms of the Grant are answered Gospel Truth p. 61. That thing which being performed gives Right to the Benefit is a true legal Condition in Mr. Lobb's sense There is nothing else to be understood by it Legal is not opposed here to Evangelical but to Not rightful As I said therefore but now that Faith and Repentance are not the Benefits but the Conditions of the Gospel-Covenant So say I they are Antecedent legal Evangelically legal legal in the sense of Mr. Lobb's seeming denial thereof Conditions of those Benefits And this I did not omit as Mr. W. thinks but did de industria own it in my Sheet in these words If we do not make Faith such a Condition as Antecedes the Benefits and that being performed gives right to them that we may not mince the matter whereby I meant the aforesaid distinction it is but trifling to maintain that the Covenant hath any Conditions If we confess our Sins God is Just and Faithful to forgive them They have right to the Tree of Life that keep his Commandments To return then now to the new Heart promised in the Prophets to the House of Israel when the days come that they may enter this Covenant so as to break it no more I have one thing to offer here to publick consideration Our Divines interpret these Texts to belong to the Elect to them only all the Elect with whom this Covenant is made from Eternity in Christ say some supposing This and the Covenant of Redemption to be one Now it is to me a question whether they be not quite out because it is manifest in all the places in the Prophets and that to the Hebrews that this Promise and Covenant to be made is peculiar still to the Jews and that confined to a certain time Behold the days come saith the Lord which is expressed over and over after their scattering and recollection Let us look the Scripture The first Text that we have wherein this Absolute Promise is to be found is in Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy Seed Well but when will the Lord do this They were almost all uncircumcised in Heart at present and continued so during