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A77730	The antinomians Christ confovnded, and the Lords Christ exalted. In which is contained a briefe confutation of Dr. Crispe and Mr Lancaster. Also, a combat with the Antinomians Christ in his den, his arraignment; and the fainting soule built upon the true rocke, against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile, Mat. 6.18. Imprimatur James Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B527; Thomason E17_16; ESTC R11989	75,787	71

command 〈◊〉 Mat. 28.19 In the name of the Father Son and holy Ghost that being in the covenant and ingrafted into christ they may have perpetuall fellowship with him he that beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved Marke 16.16 Acts 2.38 May we baptize in no other name nor leave out any of the three persons in Trinity A. No christ is not divided nor Paul crucified for you neither were you baptized in the name of Paul I thanke God I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius least any should say that I did baptize in my own name 1 cor 13.14 15. Who are those within the covenant that are to be baptized A. They are of two forts first such as are growne in yeers and joyne themselves to the visible church testifying their faith and repentance and hold the foundation of Religion taught in the same church they are to be baptized in the Eunuch sayd to Phillip I beleeve that Christ is the sonne of God and so they went both into the water and he baptized him Acts 8.38 they were baptized of Iohn in Iordan confessing their sinnes Mat. 3.6 repent and be baptized everyone of you acts 2.38 if a stranger dwell with thee and will observe the Passover of the Lord let him circumcise all his males and then let him come and observe it and he shall be as one borne in the land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof Exod. 12.48 Who else are in in the covenant and ought to be baptized A. Infants born of christian parents the unbeleeving husband is sanctefied by the wife and the unbeleeving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean● but now they are holy 1 cor 7.14 if the first fruits be holy so is the whole lumpe if the root be holy so are the branches rom 11.16 I will establish my covenant with thee and with thy seed after thee for an everlasting covenant to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee Gen. 17.7 How are children of christian parents in the covenant A. Not as they are the sinfull off-spring of the first Adam for so they beget them in their owne likenesse nor secondly as they are by grace the sonnes of God for they are not made the sonnes of God by naturall generation but by adoption yet they may beleeve for themselves and others according to the covenant of grace Gen. 17.7 as Adam did sinne both for himselfe and others and as parents in bargaines doe covenant both for themselves and their heires after them thus the parents being the first fruits sanctifies the whole lump of their posterity rom 11.16 What is it to be baptized In the name of the father sonne and holy Ghost A. It is to be made one of Gods family which is his church and to be made partaker of the priviledges thereof as Jacob sayd the Angel which hath delivered me from all evil blesse the lads and let my name be named upon them and the name of my fathers Gen. 48.16 in that day shall seven women take hold of one man saying we will eat our owne bread and weare our owne garments onely let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach Isa 4.1 What doe we learne from hence A. We learne that in this washing of baptisme is sealed a solemne contract and covenant between God and the baptized first of God the father who vouchsafeth to receive him into favour and of God the sonne to redeem him and of God the holy Ghost to purifie and regenerate him What doth the baptized bind themselves unto A. He promiseth to acknowledge invocate and worship none other God but the true Iehovah which is the father sonne and holy Ghost VVhat is the visible or externall matter of baptisme A. It is water for the Minister may not baptize with any other liquor but only with naturall water according to those examples we have in Scripture of the primitive church What is the externall forme of baptisme A. It is the ministers washing the baptized according to the prescrpt of God Suppose it was the ancient custome to dip or dive all the body of the baptized in the water must their example of necessity be followed A. No for the word baptize signifies sprinkling as well as dipping or diving and sayth the Lord I will sprinkle cleane water upon you Ezek. 36.25 againe by reason of some cold countries and the weaknesse of young Infants necessity and charity may dispence with ceremonies and mittigate the sharpnesse of them What resemblance is there between the element of water and the thing signified thereby A. As water washeth away the filth of the body so the blood of Christ Iesus cleanseth us from all sinne 1 John 1.7 What doth the ac●●● of the Minister wa●●ing the body of the baptized signifie A. This seale● and I confirmeth a double action of God first the ingrafting or incorporating the baptized into Christ as many as are baptized into Christ 〈…〉 Christ Gal. 3.27 by one spirit we are all baptized into one body 〈…〉 secondly it sealeth to us our regeneration not he the worker 〈…〉 which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the 〈◊〉 king of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost ●●tus 3.5 What doth 〈…〉 water or sprinkling it upon the baptized signifie A. It doth ra●●● the shedding of the blood of Christ for the remission of all our sinne and the imputation of his righteousnesse arise and be bapti●●d and wa●● away thy sinnes calling upon the name of the Lord Acts 22.16 and it signifies mortification of sinne by the power and death of Christ know ye not that all they which have been 〈◊〉 into Christ have been baptized into his death the 〈…〉 crucified with him that the body of sinne might be destroyed rom 〈…〉 What doth the 〈◊〉 ●anc● in or under the water signifie unto us A. It signifies the buriall of sinne or a continuall encrea●● of mortification both by the power of Christ's death and buriall we are buried with him by baptisme in o●●is death rom ● 4 What doth the comming out of the water signifie unto us A. It concernes our spirituall vivification to newnesse of life in all holinesse and righteousnesse by the power of Christs resurrection for like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father so we all should walke in newnesse of life for if we be grafted together in the likenesse of his death we shall be also in the 〈…〉 of his resurrection rom 6.4 5. What doth the action of the party baptized signifie when he offers himselfe before the M●●●ter and the congregation to be baptized A. It signifies that he doth consecrate himselfe the Lord and that he utterly renounceth the flesh the world and the devill the like figure which now saveth us even baptisme not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God 1

is true he had a great portion of grace given to him into his own hands to keep but no supportance from the Lord to keep him from falling and he being a mutable creature could not but fall and nothing is immutable but God alone and Satan in the serpent beguiled them saying you shall not dye but yee shall be as Gods knowing good and evill and they saw the tree was good for food and pleasant to the eye and a tree to be desired to make one wise so they did both eat of it and fell together Gen. 3.4.6 Why did not God support them from falling A. That man might see his weaknesse and that God might make knowne what he had decreed from all eternity and for the honour of his justice and mercy in the execution of his decrees in redeeming some and leaving others in that miserable condition What is the state of all men since the fall of Adam A. We have all lost our righteousnesse so that now there is none righteous no not one Rom. 3.10 and we have lost our holinesse we are all as an uncleane thing Isa 64.6 and we have lost our knowledge so that every man now is bruitish in his knowledge Jer. 10.14 having the understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesse of their heart Ephes 4.18 and we have lost the soveraignty over the creatures here below will the Unicorne now be willing to serve thee wilt thou trust him because his strength is great wilt thou leave thy labour to him wilt thou beleeve that he will being home thy seed and gather it into thy Barn or doth the Eagle fly at thy command Job 39.9.11 12. Thus we have lost all our happinesse wherein we were created and not onely so but we are children of wrath Eph. 2.2 and slaves of Satan led captive at his will 2 Tim. 2.6 and under the curse Gal. 3.10 and lyable both to a corporal spirituall and eternall death Rom. 5.12 1 Cor. 15.22 Was that actuall sinne of Adam our actuall sinne as some would have it A. No for by one mans sinne death entred into the world and 〈◊〉 ●he offence of one many be dead by one that sinned for the judgement was by one to condemnation for by one mans offence death reigned by one and by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation and by one mans disobedience many were made sinners Rom. 5.12.15 16 17 18 19. Then how came that sinne of Adam to be ours if we did not then actually commit it A. It is ours potentially we being all then in his loynes as the fruit is in the body of the tree and also being begotten and borne by those polluted parents we receive originall defilement from them for Adam being defiled begat his children in his owne likenesse Gen. 5.3 and so his defilement spread over all men as when bondslaves had children they were all borne slaves by the law of God Ex. 21.4 and by mans law the fathers treason cuts off his posterity from his inheritance But cannot we recover our selves out of this miserable condition A. No we cannot think one good thought as of our selves all our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3.5 it is God that worketh in us both to will and to doe of his own good pleasure Phil. 2.13 we are all dead in trespasses and sinnes Eph. 2.1 none of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother nor give to God a ransome for him for the redemption of the soule is precious and ceaseth for ever Psal 49.7 8. so that man hath neither power nor will to help himselfe but is dead in sinne O Israel thou hast destroyed thy selfe but in me is thy help Hosea 13.9 What meanes hath God appointed and decreed to help us out of this damnable estate A. By Jesus Christ the eternall Sonne of God he tooke our nature upon him that so he might be a fit mediator between God and man the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us Ioh. 1.14 he took not on him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham wherefore it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a mercifull and a faithfull high Priest in all things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Heb. 2.16 Wherefore must our Redeemer be both God and man A. He was man to dye and suffer in that nature that had sinned and he was God that he might overcome death and rise againe which none could doe but God alone againe he must be God and man to sanctifie that nature that had sinned and was defiled with it and he was God that so by the worthinesse of his person he may bring a satisfaction sufficient to reconcile an offended God for in that he dyed for us it was a thousand times more in value then if all men and Angels had dyed eternally for one poore sinner for it is unpossible that creatures should bring a satisfaction worthy of the acceptation and sufficient to appease the wrath of their Creator But if our Mediator was both God and man then he must be two persons but how can that be A. Although he be both God and man yet he is not two but one Christ as one body and soule make but one man neither are they one by turning the God-head into flesh but by taking the man-hood into God as the misletow lives in the Oake without any rooting so is the humarity in the God-head by a hupastacicall union unconceiveable unto us neither may we without danger search too farre into this holy mistery In what manner did God the father make that new covenant with God the sonne touching our salvation A. The Father promised to give unto christ his Son all the elect as they fall in the severall ages of the world upon condition that the Sonne will give him a full satisfaction for their ransome hereupon sayth the Sonne O father deliver them from going downe into the pit for I have found a ransome Iob 33.24 upon this they concluded and the sonne of man came not to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his life a ransome for many Mat. 20.28 for sayth Iohn thou hast given him power over all flesh to give eternall life to as many as thou hast given him Ioh. 17.2 so the father set the sonne a day to pay the ransome and took his word to performe it and gave him all the elect that fell in the times before his comming in the flesh in the time of their being and now christ hath actually payd the ransome he takes his fathers word for all the rest of the elect that fall in the severall ages of the world since the debt was actually payed Then hath Christ payed this ransome and in his humanity dyed for his people A. Yes he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised

for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed Isa 52.5 christ hath once suffered the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickned by the spirit 1 Pet. 3.18 who did no sinne neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himselfe to him that judgeth righteously who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the tree that we being dead to sinne should live unto righteousnesse by whose stripes ye are healed 1 Pet. 2.22 23 24. thus christ hath passively suffered all the penalty of the law to free us from the curse and penalty of it and to sanctifie both afflictions and death unto us O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sinne but thankes be to God which hath given us victory through our Lord Iesus christ 1 cor 15.55 56. To what use serveth the active obedience of christ to the law of God A. It serveth to sanctifie all our disobedience and failings in the performance of holy duties so that now a willing mind is accepted according to that a man hath 2 cor 8.12 row Christ takes notice when the spirit is willing although the flesh be weak Mat. 26.41 for our Saviour hath performed perfect obedience to the law of Gad for us it was his meat and drinke to doe his Fathers will Iohn 4.32.34 he sayth I doe alwayes those things that please him Iohn 8.29 I seeke not mine owne will but the will of him that sent me Iohn 4.30.7.16 as by the disobedience of one many were made sinners so by the obedience of one many were made righteous Romans 5.19 But did Christ obey or suffer for himselfe as some would have it A. No for although his humane nature was a creaturne yet being united to the second person and so making one Christ there was no obedience due from himselfe to the law neither came he by the ordinary way of mankind into the world therefore free from that law that Adam was bound unto with all his posterity But did we actually doe all that which christ did in our nature as well as he as some would have it A. No the gift by grace is by one man Iesus Christ and by him hath abounded to many and righteousnesse shall reigne in life by one Iesus christ even so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came upon all to justification of life by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous rom 5.15 16 17 18 19. hence I conclude that we did not act in Christs person as well as himselfe saying it was a common lumpe of all mankind that christ obeyed and suffered in we for him as well as he for us and he for himselfe as well as for us This is Antinomian blasphemy But if we did not act as well as christ how comes his righteousnesse to be ours A. By imputation for as he is a blessed man to whom the Lord will not impute sinne rom 4.8 so he is a blessed man unto whom God will impute righteousnesse without workes rom 4 6. now as Adams sinne is imputed to all in Adams nature so the second Adams righteousnesse is imputed to all that are in him by greace to him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly by faith instrumentally it is countrd for righteousnesse rom 4.5 Then did christ alone in his owne person doe all the workes of our redemption A. Yes he looked and saw there was none to helpe therefore his owne arme brought salvation and his righteousnesse it sustained him Isaiah 59 16.6●.5 neither is there salvation in any other there is none other other name given under Heaven among men whereby we must be saved Acts 4.12 he trod the Wine-presse alone and there was none with him Isaiah 63.3 he by himselfe purged our sinnes Hebr. 1.3 and he washed away our sinnes in his owne blood revel 1.7 he is the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the word Iohn 1.29 Did Christ dye for all men without exception A. No for Christ would not so much as pray for the world much lesse would he spill his blood for them but the first is true therefore not the second Joh. 17.9 againe if Christ had dyed for them and they not saved either the Father brake Covenant and did not give him all that he bought of him or else the world and the divell and sinne were too strong both for the father that have them and the sonne that bought them which were no other then blasphemy to think How doe you know that Christ dyed for you A. The good Sbe●heard gave his life for the sheep Joh. 10.11 and I know my selfe to be one of his sheep for I know his voyce Joh. 10.4 both the secret voyce of his spirit and the publike voyce of his word when I am charged to let the word of Christ dwell in me richly Col. 3.16 when I turne aside to the right hand or to the left I still heare his voyce saying unto me this is the way walk in it Isa 30.21 and I know it is the voyce of my beloved that knocketh saying open to me my sister cant 5.2 because he leadeth me into al truth makes me see an excellency in him above all other Cant. 5.9.10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Psal 45.2 then sayth Christ I know my sheep and I am knowne of mine Joh. 10.14 and they will esteeme of all things else but as dung aad drosse and losse for the excellent knowledge of Christ Phil. 3.78 By what other mark doe you know that you are one of the sheep of Christ for which he dyed A. The sheep of Christ doe not onely know his voyce and delight in hearing of it but in obeying it and follownig him Joh. 10.4.27 they will walke as Christ walked 1 Joh. 2.6 and they will learne of him that is meek and lowly in heart and they shall find rest for their soules Mat. 11.29 and as he sayd it as my meat and drink to doe the will of him that sent me and to sinish his worke and he did alwaies those things that pleased him Joh. 4.34.8.29 and concerning his surferings he sayd I lay downe my life no man taketh it from me Joh. 10.17 18 the cup that my father hath given me shall I not drinke it Iohn 18.4.11 Christ suffered leaveng us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 to you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but to suffer for his sake Phil. 1.29 they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth these were redeemed from among men Rev. 14.4 What other reasons have you to prove that Christ dyed for you A. Christ loved the church and gave himselfe for it that he might sanctisie

his mercifull promise lets the poore sinner feele the assurance of his love wherewith he loveth him in christ see Mat. 7.7 Isa 65.24 Job 33.26 this assurance is a lively evidence of faith Are there divers degrees and measures of faith A. Yes the least measure of faith that any man can have is this when a man of an humbled spirit by reason of the littlenesse of his faith doth not yet feele the assurance of the forgivenesse of his sinnes and yet he is perswaded that they are pardonable and therefore he desireth they should be pardoned and with his heart prayeth to God for pardon and though he see no light yet he will stay upon his God Isa 50.19 this may be called smoaking flax or a bruised reed Isa 42.4 or the graine of mustard-seed Mat. 17.20 How doe you know that such a man hath faith A. These desires and prayers are testimonies of the spirit rom 8.23.26 gal 4.6 whose propesty it is to stirre up longings after heavenly things with sighes and groanes for Gods favour and mercy in christ now where the spirit of God is there is christ dwelling Eph. 3.17 and where christ dwelleth there is true faith how weak soever it be Eph. 3.17 What is the greatest measure of f●●i●h A. When a mans faith encreaseth daily and at length he is fully perswaded of Gods love to himself in particular and that his owne sinnes are fully pardoned and forgiven for the merits of christ I am perswaded that nothing is able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord rom 8.33 ●9 this 〈…〉 ve●y evidence of a strong faith Hath a christian this full assurance of faith at the first A. No● the righteousnesse of God is revealed from faith to faith rom 1.17 and they must pray the Lord to encrease their faith Luke 17.5 and they must with all diligence adde to their faith vertue 2 Pet. 1.5 and fight the good sight of faith 2 Tim. 4.7 but they a estro●g who are of fullage and by reason of use have their s●nses exercised to discerne both good and evill Heb. 5.14 such are not weake in faith they will not stagger at the promise of God through unbeliefe but being streng in faith they will give glory to God being fully perswaded that what God ●●oneised he was able also to performe rom 4.19.20 21. Is this justifying faith commanded in the law A. No not by the law of works but by the law of faith rom 3.27 the law doth not reveale it and th●●fore it doth not command it but the law is so far from revealing justifying saith that it never knew it and Adam had the morall law written in his heart and yet he had no justifying faith which apprehendeth Christ as a Saviour and Redeemer this saith Adaem knew not by the law of works till the law of faith came in the promised seed Gen. 3.15 What benefits come by this faith in Christ A. Hereby we are both justified and sanctified being justified by faith rom 5.1 and sanctified by faith in me Acts 26.18 purifying their hearts by faith Acts 15.9 then our persons are accepted with God Gen. 4.4 What is it to be justified before God A. It comprehendeth two things first to be cleered from the guiltinesse and punishment of sinne who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God that justifieth rom 8.33 there is no condemnat on to them which are in Christ Jesus who is he that condemneth it is Christ that dyed ye rather that he is risen againe rom 8.1.34 secondly we are accepted as perfectly righteous before God by him all that beleeve are iustified from all things from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses Acts 13.39 What other benefits comes along with iustifying faith A. Then all our prayers and and services are acceptable with the Lord Gen. 4.4 Prov. 15.8 Rom. 5.2 and it makes us to escape all the dangers threatned against the wicked at the day of judgement Luke 21.36 and it makes us worthy of the Kingdome of God Luke 20.35 2 Thes 1.5 Yea Christ is yours and all is yours both things tresent and things to come 1 Cor. 3.21 22. How may a man know that he is justified before God A. He need not to search the secret counsell of Gods decrees nor seeke for revelations or an Angell from heaven to tell him but this is the way for any that would truly find it we must search to see whither we in heart and life be sanctified and if we find this we may safely conclude our selves to be justified What is sanctification A. It is a renewed holinesse which fits and prepares the creature for the Lords use goe yee out of the middest of her be ye ●eane that beare the vessels of the Lord Isa 52.11 for he will be sanctified in all that come nigh him Levit. 10.3 if any man purge himselfe he shall be a ●essell unto honour sanctified and meet for the Masters use and prepared unto every good worke 2 Tim. 2.21 But may not a man have faith and be justified without sanctification A. No for faith as an instrument both justifies and sanctifies for as it receives and applies Christ and his merits to us in particular so it justifies and as it workes by love and acts all other graces in their lively motion so it sanctifies But Infants may be justified are they also sanctified A. Yes before I formed thee in the belley I knew thee here is Gods decree but as yet not brought forth Zeth 2.2 the man is not formed therefore as yet neither justified nor sanctified but sayth the Lord before thou camest out of the wombe I sanctified thee Ier. 1.5 many shall rejoyce at the birth of John because he shall be silled with the holy Ghost enen from his mothers wombe Luke 1.14 15. Proceed What be the parts of sanctification A. Two mortification and vivification mortification is that power whereby sin is abated and crucified in the faithfull how shall we that are dead to sin l●ve any longer therein rom 6.2 they which are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 By what meanes is mortification wrought in us A. By the death and buriall of Christ we are buried with him by baptisme into his death rom 6.4 our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed ●o 6.6 What is the other part of sanctification A. It is vivisication whereby inherent holinesse is begun and increased in us we receive the first fruits of the spirits be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Eph. 4.23 24. you hath he quickned that were dead in trespasses and sinnes I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by