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A77750	A faithfull messenger sent after the Antinomians: to try their power in their last place of refuge, who are fled to Gods decrees for shelter, as Ioab did to the hornes of the altar, and say that they will dye there, I Kings 2. 29.30. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B533; Thomason E40_23; ESTC R5091	47,721	42

they have that priviledge with Christ to have all things then all is yours and not before But by nature we are all dead in trespasses and sins both the Elect and the Reprobate when Christ bought this purchase for his Elect therefore of necessity we must be made alive and have the eye of Faith to see it and have the hand of Faith to take hold before we are capable to receive and take it Then your consequence is false that wee must needs be justified before faith and calling because that the purchase was payed although it was neither given by Christ nor received by us The second Tenet is that you are as perfectly righteous as Christ and that God cannot see your sin and thus you are as soone as you have a being and faith doth but declare it to you yet you say that I confesse we are justified at once this I grant that when God gives us faith and calling at the same time he actually justifies us and at once yet I deny your damnable inference that all the Elect are actually justified at the same instant of time that every one is For as one is actually justified at once ni one go of the world wherein he hath his being yet another is not justified till another age of the world wherein his being is and yet all this hinders not but that we are justified at once although spiders will gather poyson where ever they come The Scripture foresaw that God would justifie the heathen through faith Gal. 3.8 But the time was not yet come but what of his whether is this rover travelling I have proved clearly by Scripture that God sees the sin of those that are justified and that they are not so righteous as Christ and I see nothing to the contrary and sol leave this and speak something to the last clause of this Tenet which is that saith doth but declare this unto them they make it to be only an eye to see burthey deny it to be a hand or instrument whereby they become righteous by taking or receiving the righteousnesse of Christ to themselves by application thatso they may be righteous Yet I grant that faith declares to us something that was done before we had it but it is not justification nor adoption nor sanctification nor the love and favour of God nor reconciliation yet I grant that the world was made before that faith was given to us and by our faith we come to know or understand the worlds were made by the word of God And things that are seene were not made of things which did appeare Heb. 11 3. But wil our Antinomians hence conclude that faith is but a declaritive grace to shew them that they were justified adopted sanctified and in the favour of God reconciled and all this before they had it let us turne backe to the same 11. of the Hebrews and see whether all that faith mentioned there be only declarative first by faith Abel offered unto-God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain vers 4. Will those people say that his Sacrifice was offered before he had faith and when he had faith it did but declare what was done before and so by faith Enock was translated c. But was this done before he had faith and when hee had faith he came to see this and so by faith Noah prepared an Arke to the saving of his houshold but was this ark made before and by his faith only came to see it and Abraham by faith when he was called went into a strange Countrey But wil they say that he went before he had either faith or calling and when hee had faith he came to see what he had done before he had it and so by faith Sarah received strength and conceived seed and was delivered of a man childe but was all this done before she had faith and when she had it she came to see what was done before And so by faith Abraham offered up Isaac But wil they say that he was offered up before he had faith and by it he came to see what was done before And so Isaac blessed his sons by faith and Iacob blessed the sons of Ioseph wil they say that those things were done before they had faith and by it they came to see what was done before they had it And by faith Ioseph when he dyed made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and if they say these things of dying men were done before they had faith then sure their soules departed to fetch it that they might come to see what they had done before they had it but the folly of these men cannot be hid and so by faith when Moses was bome was hid by his parents but was this done before they had faith By faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God esteerning the reproach of Christ greater riches then all the treasures of Egypt and by faith he forsook Egypt and through faith he kept the Passeover but were all these done before he had faith when he had it he came to see what was done before by faith they passed through the red Sea and by their faith the walls of Ierich● fell downe after they had compassed them about seven dayes and the Harlot Rahab by faith received the spies but were all these things done before they had faith The time would faile me to speake of all who through faith subdued Kingdomes stopped the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of fire and women received their dead of life Againe no say our Antinomians they first subdued Kingdomes stopped the mouths of lyons and quenched the fire and received their dead to life and then they had faith to see it and not before and so they first receive the righteousnesse of Christ and are justified and then they have faith to see what they have done and so nothing with them is done by faith but all without it and by their faith they only come to see what they have done and with the Jewes speak against all those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming Acts 13.45 Thirdly you say the way to know your justification is from a bare testimony you say from the spirit of God when as you deny the operation or sanctifying worke of the same spirit of God to be any means whereby you may know it then you come as the false witnesses came to Christ and say that I affirme that the spirit of God beares witnesse to our spirit which is contrary to my writing and to Pauls words which faith The spirit witnesseth with our spirit Rom. 8.16 Whereas you by your sophistry deny one of the witnesses But our rejoycing is the testimony of our conscience 2 Cor 1.12 My conscience beareth witnesse in the holy Ghost Rom. 9.1 And you to great purpose say that no flesh living shall be justified as if you had

before conversion by working or acting grace in his heart or was he then led by the spirit of God into all truth Iohn 16.13 When he persecuted and made havocke and breathed out threatning and slaughter against the Saints of God was the love of God then shed into his soule or did he then love the Saints of God when he so thirsted for their blood it is true he then loved them as the wolfe doth his prey But the true love of God is the infusion of that grace of love into their soul which both knits them to God and to his people but this could not be before their conversion then sure it was not before their being When God infuseth the graces of his spirit into the soule by those graces be sanctifies it and these are not the causes of our salvation but they are a part of it as the first fruits of that harvest Rom. 8.33 Iam. 1.18 And the earnest of that bargain He hath given unto us the earnest of his spirit 2 Cor. 5.5 After that ye beleeved ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance Ephes 1.13.14 Meaning the graces of Gods spirit Mat. 7.11 Compared with Luke 11.13 Therefore the promises commonly run and are made to them that are sanctified and seldome or never to them that are justified because the perfecting of sanctification is the last work and brings us into ful happinesse to al eternity then imputed righteousnesse ceaseth and faith ceaseth aad prayer ceaseth and the intercession of Christ ceaseth but the righteousnesse of sanctification that is begun is us here being purchased by Christ also and wrought by his spirit in us that abideth with us to all eternity for it is eternal life begun in us then what a miserable delution is that which speaketh evil of that eternal life that is begun within us saying what have we to do with that dungy durty duties of sanctification we thank God through Jesus Christ we have nothing to do with them these are workes for horne-book Christians but let me tel them that the promise of heaven and happinesse is only made to holinesse Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Mat. 5. And without holinesse no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 Again Heaven is the inheritance of them that are sanctified Acts 20.32 But no unclean thing shall enter into it Rev. 21.27 Now all the persons in Trinity may be said to sanctifie us To them that are sanctified by God the Father Jude 1. I am the Lord that doth sanctifie you Exo. 31.13 Levit. 20.8.21.8 The very God of Peace sanctifie you 1 Thes 5.23 God the father sanctifies us by giving his son to purchase it for us and by sending the holy Ghost to worke it in us and by hearing and granting those petitions which are moved in us by his own spirit Rom. 8.26 Secondly God the Son is said to sanctifie us first by the purchase that he gave for it he hath washed away our sins in his owne blood Rev. 1.5 The blood of Christ doth purge your consciences from dead workes to serve the living God Heb. 9.14 Secondly by his ordinances the word and Sacraments Christ gave himself for his Church that he might sanctifie it with the washing of water by the word Ephes 5.26 First by the word in shewing us our sins by it and also our duties and begetting faith in us by it whereby wee have both knowledg of and power to do these duties and to refraine those vices discovered by it and also by the Sacraments by strengthning and encreasing faith all other graces in us Thirdly We are sanctified by the spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.11 2 Thes 2.13 Now as the Father works by the Son and the holy Ghost so the holy Ghost workes both from the Father and the Son therefore it is said Your heavenly father wil give the spirit to them that aske him Lu. 11.13 The Father shal give you another comforter John 14.16 And saith the Son If I goe not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I wil send him unto you John 16.7 Now saith the Apostle He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed on us abundantly through Iesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3.5 6. The spirit of God sanctifies by changing us into the same image from glory to glory that is From the glory of grace begun to the glory of grace perfected 2 Cor. 3.18 And by leading us into all truth John 16.13 This is done by inward motions and comforts encreasing that which he before infused into us Again it is said that faith sanctifies that they may receive forgivenesse of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith Acts 26.18 Purifying their hearts by faith Acts 15.9 When faith takes hold and receives the blood of Christ and makes it ours so it justifies us as an instrument or a hand laying hold on Christ the justifier But as faith works by love Gal. 5.6 And stirs up all other graces in their lively motion so it sanctifies us when it makes us love God unfainedly and stirs up a lively hope that maketh not ashamed and fear to offend God and care to please him and a zeal for his glory humility self denyall mortifying sin and a chearful walking with God in all holy obedience thus faith may be said to sanctifie and although other graces were infused into us by the spirit of God as wel as faith yet when faith acts them and stirres them up in their lively motion this second working may be called the fruits of faith because they are acted and encreased by it instrumentally although the graces themselves are all the fruits of Gods spirit wrought in us Gal. 5.22 But our Antinomians are strangers to this kind of working for they will have the spirit of God to do his own work and they must be as empty trunks for it and as dead stones without life or motion yea their faith they so much boost of must be but a spectator to look on their love must free them from obedience and their faith is without labour but saith Paul Remembring without ceasing your work of faith labour of love 1 Thes 1.3 Heb. 6.10 Again the Saints are not rewarded according to the righteousnesse of Christ imputed to them for then they should bee as high in glory as Christ yet I grant that to be the cause of our salvation but we are saved according to the measure of our sanctification that is wrought in us by the spirit of God neither are the reprobates rewarded according to the imputation and guilt of originall sin although that was the cause of damnation for then all should be tormented alike but they are rewarded according to their actual sins committed in their own persons For he that treasureth sin he treasureth up wrath against the day of wrath

been slumbring For what of this I am not here speaking of the causes of our justification but of the witnesses which is the spirit of God and our spirit or conserence But one of these you have lost which is your conscience many of you which I can make to appeare by your dealings with men and you with me at this time The fourth tenet you hold that God cannot correct you for s●n and yet you say that I confesse that God doth not punish and plague his people in wrath sury but what of this Will it hold therefore that God doth not correct them at all for sin saith David There is no rest in my bones by reason of my sin Psalms 38. But if thou be made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5.14 Thou shalt be dumbe saith the Angel because thou beleevest not my words Luke 1.20 But if you be not satisfied read my book better and answer those Scriptures alleadged to prove it or else for shame leave cavilling The fist Tenet and so here you own them all although you say that they are in my trimming but here your naturall conscience flyes in your face saying tongue thou liest but for this Tenet which is that the free grace of Christ hath freed you from the commanding power of the law of God and yet you say that I confesse that the Judiciall law was not made for us and that the Ceremoniall Law was ended in Christ and that we obey the morrall law freely without the lashing or constraining power of it but what of this we obey the law and so escape a whipipng but the best of us may be whipped againe if we be negligent in our obedience to it but this is not our controvercy about the manner of our obedience to the law of God whether it be love or whether it be fear that moves us to obey it but whether the commanding power of the law of God be abrogated or made void to beleevers so that they wil not be moved by love nor feare to obey the law for say they it is no rule for them Thus Mr. Simpson expressed himselfe to me and confested the same before the Assembly of Divines if you would leave your sophistay and desire satisfaction I would entreate you to read my book better In the next place you say I must not call you Aypocrites and sons of Belial and rejecters of the law of God just like theeves and whores who love those sins and as a sweet morsell can hide them under their tongue yet they would not be called theeves and whores by no meanes but it is my disposition you must bear with me for I shal cal a spade a spade and I am the more bold now the baudy Courts are down yet I must needs confesse it is not very toothsome to them that are guilty and if you say that I take upon me to be both witnesse and Judge I have answered you already that your hereste hath been condemned by all good men ever since Luthers time and you tax me for slandering accusing you but you need not except you could cleare your selves better and for rash anger but I being angry at your sins and not at your persons I may be angry and yet not sin And then you tax me with contradictions but in the mean time you can prove none Then you say that I storme against those that have inherent holinesse when I only bring it in for distinction betweene the imputed righteousnesse of Christ and our inherent righteousnesse or sanctification Page 1. But marke here who they be you know not for stil you are but dead stones and empty trunks Again because I say that the imputed righteousnesse of Christ abides in him and not in us although our faith receives and makes it ours but you say faith abides in me and faith is imputed for righteousnesse I answer faith for the goodnesse or worthinesse of it as a grace is not imputed but as a hand or instrument taking hold of Christs righteousnesse and thus faith hath a long arme which can reach from earth to heaven and take hold of Christs righteousnesse and yet not bring it into the soule by infusion A Beggar can take a suit of cloaths with his hand and cloath himself although he doe not put it into his belly then take heed how you say that it is a lame faith that brings not the righteousnesse of Christ into the soule by infusion that justifies you but leaves it without but he is the blessed man whose sins are covered for the being of sin is there still You say that I affirme that the sinnes of Gods people lay on Christ upon the Crosse and yet you say that I affirme we are in a damnable estate before we beleeve as if it was not Christ but our saith that takes away our sins but this I have answered in the first Tenet Againe you say that I say God is of purer eyes then to behold sin but here you mistake my words again leave out with approbation for the very next words of the Prophet are these Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously Hab. 1.13 This was the divels practise to Christ and his children will follow their example Againe you say that I confesse that the children of God have sins and that God sees them I answer God sees them as mortally wounded and as dying daily yet we are not freed from sin till death Rom. 6.7 But yet God sees them read my book better Againe you say that I affirme that Gods spirit wil not dwel where sins are yet that I should say that sin is where the spirit of God dwels the last of these I grant but the first of these is a manifest lye as if by sophistry you would make me to be ignorant of what I have written it is true I say that the spirit of God wil not dwel in that foule and filthy heart where the divels reigne page 4. line 3.8.15.20 Christ wil not be an underling in that soule where the Divel reignes in ful possession but there is no such word in my book that Christ wil not dwel where sin is the Divell may come sometimes where Gods spirit dwels as an intruder where he hath nothing to do but to trouble and molest the best of Gods people Againe you say that I affirme some things that are doubtful as where I charge you to hold that you must neither repent nor be sorry nor pray for the pardon of any sin past present or to come neither must we heare of it any more I answer I shewed you my author wher it was written by some of your own gang I suppose you have seen it the author was be that made the answer to Dr. Taylors book I doubt but that you know him and besides your doubt is of my proofe but you deny not the thing which shewes that you are or may be ashamed