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A27592 A conciliatory discourse upon Dr. Crisp's sermons on the observation of Mr. William's dissatisfactions in them : in which the unsearchable riches of Christ ... / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1692 (1692) Wing B2134; ESTC R34407 34,697 34

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Suretyship and Testamentary Grace or the last Will of Jesus Christ display themselves as if all things were carryed by Intellectual Conditionalities and the Obedience and free Complyances of those who are the Election of God of those that are Called according to Purpose while in the mean time they are most Efficaciously and yet most sweetly Swayed and Influenc'd by the Power and Grace of God in Christ and by the Increated Spirit that cannot miss of the end design'd and though all be Vested in the Action of those who are thus Chosen and Called yet not under the Incertainty of a Condition but the Infallible Certainty of a Divine Disposition a Testamentary Gift of our great Testator a Discharge of our Surety for us though within us an Acquist of our Mediator by Intercession on his own Blood of the Everlasting Covenant presented in Heaven for us Heb. 9 12. III. And thus also there is a Justification of God in his Holyness and Righteousness as also in his Patience and Long Suffering towards those whom he leaves to themselves who being applyed to according to their own Nature as Creatures of Reason and Understanding according to all the Riches of the Word of God to that purpose are condemned in not receiving such every way sufficient Applications taking them so every way as such Rational Creatures and suited thereunto which could not be so gloriously Demonstrated and Illustrated if there were not such a fittedness of the Word of God and of the Overtures of Life and Salvation by way of Condition To one Mat. 13. 11. it is given to the other it is not given So vain is that Exposition of Dr. Hammond and violent a Perversion of Scripture As many as were ordain'd viz. as he speaks fitted by former Discipline to receive the Eternal Life of the Gospel Acts 2. ult believed As appears from Rom. 9. 23. For what Discipline prepared beforehand the Gentiles to Calling or Glory Head 9. Faith is not an Assurance or Inward Persuasion that Christ is ours and that our Sins are Pardon'd But it is Accepting Receiving and Resting upon Christ alone for Justification Conciliation That Faith is a Grace of a most large and spreading Nature and Action as it is represented to us in the Word of God can be by no one that considers it denyed So that there may be many Excellent and Profitable Discourses upon it that may look very distantly one upon another and yet meet in the iame Center Yet Faith as it respects Pardon of Sin and Justification cannot have a fairer and fuller Proposition given it than that saying Worthy of both Belief or full Assent of the Judgment and Acceptation of the Will viz. that Christ came to save the chief of Sinners 1 Tim. 1 15. Now this Proposition every one is to particularize to himself as the Apostles in believing and so it differs nothing from Assurance in the Root at least And that Assurance is every way most Connatural to it is evident by the Apostles speaking of the full Assurance of Knowledge Col. 2. 2. As Faith is an Intellectual Assent to Divine Revelation The full Assurance of Faith as it is an Application for Pardon to the Blood of Christ sprinkling the Heart from an evil Conscience Heb. 10. 22. and the full Assurance of Hope Heb. 6. 11. as Faith concerning our present Interests in Christ not yet appearing fully or in future Glory aides it self against present low Appearances of its pardon'd justify'd State or its future Glory Thus a Plerophory or full Assurance in relation to Faith cannot merit any Indignation as against an Error And indeed it is so essential to Faith that there never was nor can be any true Faith without the Root and Seed of it and the Letting it down in the Descriptions and Discourses of it from this full Assurance is in compassion to the low State Tempted Deserted Afflicted Doubting State of sincere Christians It was the general Doctrin of the first Reformers when the Light was purest and quickest And it is very suspitionable the Letting it down lower may have had its Ill as well as its good Effects For if Christians aim'd in all their ways at full Assurance it would engage them to higher Aims in Holyness and closer Walking It being impossible even in the Judgment of Natural Light and Reason to separate Holyness from such Assurance or that receiving Christ as Lord and King should be made to part from it but that it would flow out into all Expressions of the Warmest and Indearedst Love to him Whereas Christians Resting and thinking it a piece of Modesty and Humility it were well if it were not allyed to that Voluntary Humility spoken of Col. 2. 18. to be in doubt and only flatly and deadly to hope well in general They find not these pungent Arguments to move Accurate and Universal Obedience but poize the one to the other their Obedience to their Measure of Assurance For a rude Presumption or bold Saying Christ is ours and our Sins are pardon'd in the midst of Licentions and loose Living is worthy only to be exploded and Hissed off the very Profession of Christianity and cannot obtain the least Credit either with others or even the Rational Conscience in themselves So that were it not in Tenderness to the Weakness of Christians in general Preaching Faith so as to include Assurance in it would be undoubtedly the best and even that taken care of as well as it may be I know not whether it might not be much to the Interest and Glory of Christianity to wind it up in the most stated Discourses of Faith to the Apostles Plerophory or full A●●urance of Knowledge Faith and Hope from which Exceptions might be made and Allowances for the Weakness of Christians in particular Exigencies This sure would more ennoble Christianity It was the Illustrious State of the very Primitive Christianity which we read of in that most admirable part of Church History the five first Chapters of the Acts of the Apostles To this I doubt not it will be restor'd within few Years when in the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ and by the Proclaiming The Kingdoms of this World are the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11. 15. The Servants of God shall appear on Mount Zion with the Lamb having the Fathers Name not Sealed under Reserve as yet it is but Written in Capital Letters in splendid Characters on their Foreheads It is the dark and foul place of the Apostacy 2 Pet 1. 19. in which we are the Beasts forty two Months being though near yet not fully expired Rev. 13. 5. that brings so low the Doctrin of Faith as being not Assurance And because in the Reformation begun Christ appear'd making his Challenge of his Kingdom and the seven Thunders of highest Gospel Doctrin uttered their Voices Rev. 10. A Chapter on purpose to give us the Prophetick Landskip of the Reformation There was the high Doctrin of Faith