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A87161	A glimpse of divine light, breaking through a cloud of errours. Being an explanation of certain passages exhibited by anonymus, to the commissioners of White-Hall, appointed for approbation of publick preachers, against Joseph Harrison Gospel-preacher at Lund-Chappel in Lancashire, for the supposed delivering of which, he was denied approbation. / Published by the said Joseph Harrison, and proposed to the consideration of all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.	Harrison, Joseph.	1655 (1655)	Wing H897; Thomason E841_7; ESTC R207225	67,448	83

as a description much lesse a definition of repentance but only an occasionall expression holding forth some single Act thereof Secondly I desire that they would be pleased Severally to enter into their closets and there for a while commune with their owne hearts and be still Selah And having compared their notes with what is written in their consciences tell of a truth ethice for Logicee I thinke they cannot First Whether or no they ever heard this passage delivered by mee in these very words Secondly Whether or no by the rules of Orthographie it should be closed with a period or space left for some thing Exegeticall to extend or explaine it Thirdly whether or no this Repentance or not saying in the heart doe this i. e. this or that commandment had expresse reference to any other commandment than this and that of ascending or descending mentioned in the text which being proposed at first by way of Querie by a desttessed distrustful soule came afterwards oftentimes to be imposed upon the soule it self as commandments from God though really they be the dictates of its owne tormented conscience For 1 the soul enquires who shall c. and if not stopt there by the word of grace the next Querie is shall I And then Thirdly neglecting the word of faith is too apt in the time of Temptation to turn back to the Covenant of works and look upon it self as bound by the law of God or legal Covenant either to ascend that is as Diodate to undertake by its own works to obtain a right to eternal life or to descend that is to take upon its self the pains of death and hell for satisfaction for its own sins And doubtlesse Evangelical repentance includes in it a not saying in the heart do this that is this or that commandement whether of ascending or descending which are accounted by a distressed distrustful soul to be the commandments of God or of Gods law yet in force Of the first for the attempting to do that is to bring down Christ from above And of the second for the attempting to do that is to bring up Christ again from the dead Rom. 10 6 7. And if ever such a passage as this fell from me in a publick Assembly Nisi mentis memoriae inops I am verily perswaded and speak it as in the presence of the Lord that first it was grounded upon and occasioned from that Text Rom. 10.6 7. Secondly that it was intended per dicentem by me that spake it in that sense or to that effect as is before explained Though thirdly I dare not aver but that the Dicta or the words spoken simply considered might sound harshly in such mens ears that first are accustomed to press an active obedience from the law of works secondly came filled with prejudice and thirdly never heard me preach nor expresse my thoughts upon any such a subject either before or since these passages were collected I have answered thus farre to this passage in Hypothesi though not to any of the rest because I have some special hints from the Text which containes part of it 1. To what purpose I might possibly speak 2. What might be the ground of these Informers misapprehensions and mistakes 3. That the unprejudiced reader from this to which De facto I can say a little may be directed in some measure how to judge of their dealings with me in the rest I shall now declare as if this had not been said what I conceive of the passage it self in Thesi 1 Repentance is either legal which consists chiefly in a sense of and sorrow for the transgressions of the law and a restlesse fear of the judgements threatned and deserved and this I grant is often followed nay commonly accompanied with a saying in the heart do this or that or what shall I do this commandment or that commandment to free my self thereby from fear and bondage Thus the Jaylour cries Sirs What must I do to be saved Or Evangelical which includes a Renunciation of a mans own Righteousnesse or the works The Ismaels begotten of his own flesh by the law and a turning unto Christ who is the Lord our Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption and this is that hereafter spoken of 2. By this or that commandment of God may here be meant either first those Vtopian fancied commands Deut. 30.12 to which the Apostle seems to allude Rom. 10.5 6. Or secondly some of the ten commandments which are and as they are the condition of the Covenant and Law dispensed by Moses or thirdly such scriptural commands which are and as they are given by Christ himself who hath all authority for a Directory and Rule to the lives and conversations of christians 1. If by this or that commandment be meant those Vtopian fancied commands which the deceitful heart of man not being able to hear or do the word that is nigh enquires to have fetched from heaven or beyond the Sea that it may hear and do them Then doth Repentance include not only a not saying in thy heart Do this but what is not a not saying in the heart So much as who shall ascend or who shall descend to inform thee of this or that commandment For 1. This is a sinful evading of the just sentence of the Law already given by God instead of submitting to judgement and acknowledging the sin and guilt And an hypocritical arrogance enquiring for some new Law as if God knew not how farre short all men come of keeping the old Rom. 3.23.2 It s a neglecting to look up to the Brazen Serpent now when stung with the fiery and a seeking for devised remedies run for a covering but not of Gods Spirit and so an adding sinne to sinne like as Adam did when he sewed Fig-leaves Isa. 30.1 2. If by this or that commandment be meant this or that of the ten as dispensed by Moses and have their bent by him described Rom. 10.4 He that doth them shall live in them then doth repentance include a not saying in thy heart Do this that is this or that commandment of God that by doing of them thou maist live in them For thereby 1. Thou shewest thy self ignorant of Gods righteousnesse 2. Thou vainly goest about to establish thy own righteousnesse And 3. Thou rebellest against instead of submitting to the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10 3. 3. If by this or that commandment be meant the scriptural commands which are and as they are given by Christ himself according to that If ye love me keep my Commandements John 14.15 Then doth repentance include a saying in the heart Do this that is this or that commandement of God nay all the commandements of God together with a deniall of all ungodliness and worldly lusts which war against the spirit and are contrary thereunto Tit 2.12 Acts 3.36 1 Cor. 7.10 11. The fifth Passage There be two sorts of people first the uncalled to them only

Cor. 8.16 Thirdly were it not that the Gospel is and ought to be preached to persons that are uncalled why should those be damned that obey not the Gospel 2 Thes. 1.8 or how shall they be convinced of sin that believe not on Iesus Io. 16.9 Secondly if only be referred to the persons to whom we are to preach and the sense of the Quere be this Scilicet whether the Gospel is to be preached onely to the uncalled I answer negatively For 1. The Apostles in all their Epistles writing to Christians especiall Paul in the three first Chapters to the Ephesians preach the Gospel Paulus ad Romanos undecem capitibus fidem fundat quinque capitibus deinde mores superaedificat Ad Galat. Quinque fidem uno sexto mores docet Sic in aliis epist suis facit Secondly It is requisite and meet thus to preach First to prevent the bewitching of Satan Gal. 3.1 And natures continual lusting either to return again to the Covenant of Works or to be carried about with every wind of Doctrine Eph. 4.14 Secondly that christians beholding as in a Glasse the Glory of the Lord may be changed into the same Image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 Thirdly the Gospel is said to work effectually in them also that believe 1 Thes. 2.13 and christians the more they grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Iesus Christ the more they grow in a sence of their own weaknesse and unworthinesse which occasions that faithful saying still to be seasonable and worthy all acceptation That Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 Thirdly The men that are most zealous for pressing the Law of works will allow the Gospel if a conditional covenant may be called Gospel to be preached to themselves and such like godly men whom they look upon as truly called Nay in old time Christ might have been feasted at the Pharisees houses provided he would never reprove them for taking the highest roomes to themselves Luke 14.8 nor appear a friend to Publicans and sinners Luk 17.39 Thirdly if onely be referred unto the Gospel or the Doctrine to be preached and the sense of the Quere be whether only the Gospel is to be preached to the uncalled Then first Christ in commission for preaching which he gave to the Apostles mentions only the Gospel and inserts not a word touching the Law of Moses and he that in hearing that believes and is baptized no mention of other works shall be saved and he that believes not what other works soever he doth shall be damned Mar. 16.16 Secondly Paul professeth that he was made an able Minister of the New Testament not of the letter but of the Spirit 2 Cor. 3.6 and that God hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and hath given unto us the ministery of reconciliation 2 Cor. 3.7.9 not of death and condemnation 2 Cor. 3.7.9 Thirdly the Law that was given by Moses to the Israelites onely as hath been shewen and not so much as for the use of the Gentiles while such but suppositively and secondarily in case they became Proselites and were by circumcision incorporated into the body of the Iewes And for the Covenant of Works made with Adam Mr. Baxter himself to use his own words doth now maintain that there is no such thing as a Covenant of works now in being to any on earth However the work thereof is indelebly and undeniably written in the heart the conscience bearing witnesse and the thoughts in the mean while excusing and accusing one another Fourthly I distinguish Inter praedicare legem praedicare de lege betwixt Preaching Law and preaching of the Law Praedicare de lege or to preach of the Law is to declare first what the Law in its own nature requires and what it behoveth them to do or die that think to become righteous or to get life by conformity thereunto as Luke 10.25.28 Rom. 10. 5. Mat. 5.22.28 Secondly that none were ever able to perform it all having sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3.23 Thirdly that the Gentiles which had not the Law of Moses sinned against the Law of Nature Rom. 1.32 Rom. 2.12.14 15. And the Iewes who were under the law of Moses became guilty thereby before God Rom. 3.13 No flesh could ever be justified by the deeds of either law {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for by each law whether of nature or Scripture to the conscience appealing comes an acknowledgement of sin Rom. 3.20 Fourthly that what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likenesse of sinful flesh and for sin hath condemned sin in the flesh and fulfilled the righteousnesse of the Law in us or is the end of the Law for righteousnesse Rom. 8.3 4. Rom. 10.4 Fifthly that though De facto the Law without seconded by the Law within accuse terrify and condemn yet De jure it hath nothing to do either to charge or condemn the elect of God Rom. 8.33 Rom. 8.1 Gal. 3.13 Rom. 6.14 Sixtly to tell to whom for what use and untill what time the Law was given and what great and precious priviledges we enjoy who are freed from the bondage of it Rom 3.19.5.20.6.14 Gal. 3.19.4 5. Seventhly and lastly to declare that love is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the fulfilling summe and even the whole of the Law which is now the new commandment of our Husband Christ and not simply required of us as formerly by our old Husband but freely begotten in us by the immortal seed of the Word as fruit acceptable to God the Father All which are plentifully done by the Apostle Paul in his Epistles to the Romans and Galatians and should now be done by Gospel-Ministers as occasion is given either by the pride of the Pharisees the poverty of the Publicans or the rising of such contentious disputes about the Law as did in the dayes of the Apostles and are likely to continue till the end of the world But as for preaching the Law whether given to Adam or by Moses as a Covenant of life and death according as the Scriptures describe them Gen. 2 17. Rom. 10.5 Gal. 3.10 which is truly Praedicare legem or to preach the Law indeed as yet alive an abrogated repealed fulfilled satisfied Law being no otherwise a Law then a dead man a man as it was never commanded by Christ so was it never that we read of practised by the Apostles and by consequence not now to be revived by the Ministers of the Gospel And yet fifthly This excludes not all preaching that is minatory for those that manifest themselves to be positively uncalled especially and all sorts occasionally should be taught that he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Iohn

quando ipsius potiùs intelliguntur esse quam nostra tunc nobis ad hoc Sabbatum adipiscendum imputantur dum vacamus ad videndum quod ipse est Deus quia si nobis ea tribuerimus servilia erunt quum de Sabbato dicatur omne opus servile in eo non facietis Cal. Harm. Exod. Levit. c. pag. 354. And that to a Christian the spiritual internal Sabbath or Sabbatisme is a ceasing or to cease from his own works is as evident For first The Apostle saith there remaines therefore a rest or keeping of the Sabbath to the people of God Heb. 4.9 And he that is entred into his rest and we which have believed not only shall but do enter into Rest Heb. 4.3 hath ceased from his own works as God from his verse 10. Secondly Christians are exhorted to enter in Let us labour to enter into that rest verse 11. Let us therefore fear least a promise being left to us of entering into his rest any of you seem to come short of it verse 1. And not only so but thirdly It remaineth that some must enter therein And they to whom it was first preached entred not in because of unbeleefe verse 6 and then by consequence those who believe the word preached do enter in by faith It profiteth for that end when mixed with faith in them that hear it verse 2. for as Beza Si infidelitas arcet ab aditu fides certè introducit Fourthly Christ invites {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} All those that labour and are heavie laden to come unto him and promiseth to give them this very rest or Sabbath and that doubtlesse not only from their passive being burthened under guilt vanity but their own active fruitlesse labouring to free themselves from it they shall rest as well qua {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Mat. 11.28 Fifthly Faith in the very nature of it hot only implyeth a resting on Christ by way of remembrance for some good and happinesse to come by him but a resting {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in Christ by way of satisfaction and complacencie as our present good and happinesse In him all fulnesse dwells Col. 1.19 In {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ye are compleat of filled full through faith in him we have the substance of things hoped for Heb. 11.1 Sixthly Mr. Shepherd as he doth most learnedly argue for an external Sabbath to be observed at certain times and on special dayes so doth he acknowledge an internal Sabbath from Isa. 66.3 Heb. 4.1 2. which ought continually or every day to be observed it resting from all sin and resting in God by Jesus Christ Thes. 77.80 And yet I do not hold that Christians in this life can perfectly keep the Sabbath For first the flesh is against the Spirit Gal. 5. They find a law in their members warring against the law of their minds they cannot do the things that they would when to will is present with them how to do that which is good they find not Rom. 7. Secondly Paul pressed towards the mark trying if by any means he might attain unto the resurrection from the Dead and yet confesseth that he had not yet already attained neither was already perfect He followed after and was perfectly apprehended of Christ Iesus but could not perfectly apprehend Phil. 3.11 12 13 14. And hereupon as a wretched man crieth for deliverance from the body of this death Rom. 7.24 Desireth to depart and to be with Christ which he reputed gain and farre better Phil. 1.21 23. And that Paul not attain to a perfect conquest over the flesh till death or his departure hence and so no to a parfect sabbatising from sinne and in Christ seemeth evident First from the time in which he maketh this acknowledgement of his not having attained which was doubtlesse not long before his death This Epistle being writ by Eupaphraditus from Rome where he was then imprisoned and as some vinculis secundis Chapter 1. verse 13. he had writ if we credit either the Histories of others or what is evident from his own writings ten of his Epistles fulfilled the greatest part of the course of his ministery being a Professor and a Preacher at least thirty years and pressed still toward the mark trying if by any means he might attain And if after all this he acknowledged that he had not attained shall we professe our selves actually to have attained that which he could not Secondly After he had been caught into Paradise or the third heaven and heard unspeakable words not possible for man to utter There was given to him a Thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet him and that upon this ground because after that he was imperfect and in danger to be exalted above measure through the abundance or Revelations 2 Cor. 12.7 And for this thing he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from him verse 8. But it was denied as inconsistent either with his safety or the advancement of Gods Grace Power and Glory vers. 9. and fourteen years after this he confesseth himself the same man to stand in need of the same pricks and buffettings and that therefore most gladly will he rather glory in his infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon him vers. 2.9 10. Thirdly there is no such thing mentioned either in any of his own or the Epistles of others that bear a latter date and it is his own rule 1 Cor. 4.6 not to think of men above that which is written Thirdly the life that we live in the flesh is not a life of sence or of the flesh as if we did not die daily through the strength of sin or had not matter of confession 1 John 1.8 6. Of contrition 2. Cor. 7.10 and self-condemnation 1 Cor. 11.31 But the life that we live in the flesh is by the faith of the Son of God Gal. 2.20 we walk by faith and not by sight 2 Cor. 5.7 The God of hope filleth our hearts with peace and joy not in seeing but in believing Rom 15.13 And hence I do assert with Calvin That Nostram in illo beatam quietem hic inchoamus c. in it we here begin our blessed rest in it we do daily proceed in profiting more and more But because we have still a continual warre with the flesh it shall not be consummated untill that saying of Isaiah 66.23 be fulfilled concerning the continuing of new Moon with new Moon of Sabbath with Sabbath Even then when God shall be all in all Here is indeed had here perfection of the object but not of the subject Christ whom we enjoy is perfect and can admit of no addition But our manner of enjoying him is not so That then which we Christians hope for is not to enjoy a more perfect rest than now we do but more perfectly to enjoy the self-same rest The same yesterday to