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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65908	The doctrine of perfection vindicated by way of answer to some objecting reasons frequently used by them that plead for sin in this life ... with some wholesome exhortation ... shewing plainly how it is agreeable with what is signified in the Scripture and the light within ... : something likeways expressed concerning bread and wine : also some wholsome directions to stir up young people to seek after their Creator in the days of their youth / written by one who breathes to God for the redemption of the seed that lies yet in the house of bondage bound by the cords of iniquity, J.W.	Whitehouse, John, fl. 1662-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1984; ESTC R33637	36,477	48

Christ So it 's certain we must be of the one for we cannot be of both And now also who is it that be ever learning and never comes to know the Truth but those that never knew a freedom from sin neither do believe they ever shall in this life for Christ said if you continue in my Doctrine then shall you know the Truth Joh. 8.31 32 33 34. and the Truth shall make you free But the Jews replied saying We were never in bondage to any man But said Christ He that commits sin is the servant of sin So it appears that they who are overcome with sin and led away with divers lusts are not come to know Christ the Truth who sets free from sin and they are the creepers into houses who lead silly people in blindness laden with sin and tells them they can never be eased of the burden thereof in this life yet promises them liberty and freedom in the life to come whilst they are the servants of corruption in this life Are not these the filthy dreamers that defile the flesh who are sensual and devilish Jude 10 11. knowing nothing but what they know naturally in which they corrupt themselves which is to say in their outward learning which though it be Hebrew Greek and Latine yet it is all but natural even as English is which a child may learn of its parents so likewise all other tongues are learned of men but the true knowledge of God is onely learned in and by the Spirit Are not these also those who with fair words and smooth speeches deceive the hearts of the simple by their great swelling words of vanity which they invent to please such who have itching ears that cannot away with sound Doctrine but love to be daubed up slightly who cannot endure to hear of coming out of sin in this life and yet would have Heaven in that which is to come I say such Teachers as these are of Antichrist whom Jude saith were clouds without water Jude 12. which is to have a shew of Godliness but have not his Life abiding in them but their hearts are exercised with covetous practices and for self-ends admire some mens persons for their own advantage who themselves could not cease from sin these are the murmurers and complainers Phil. 3.19 who walk after their own ungodly lusts minding earthly things whose god is their belly This was the fruit of the spirit of Antichrist that the Apostles said should come and was come in their dayes by which we know that those who bring forth such fruits are of the same spirit in these our dayes the consideration of which I shall leave to the Witness of God in all people that they thereby might come to see whether those that deny the Doctrine of Perfection and plead for sin term of life do not in all or many of these things agree with the Antichrists and false Prophets that are mentioned in Scriptures and so the conclusion unavoidably will be this They are not of God but of the world which lieth in wickedness and therefore the world heareth and followeth them Yea Object but saith the world though we do not believe we can be perfectly freed from all sin in this life yet we do not believe that we must or may live in sin wilfully neither do our Teachers tell us we shall be saved if we do but they tell us we must strive against it what we can and then we shall be accepted through Christ for he hath tasted death for us and so hath made a way for all that can believe he died for their sin and rose again for their Justification to be accepted through his Righteousness which shall be imputed for ours and though we live in some sin which is condemned by the Law yet hath he by his Death delivered us from the condemning power of sin and the Law the force of which he hath taken away for we are not under the Law but under Grace To this I answer Answ Although they teach you to abstain from wilful sinning yet in teaching that you can never be free from all causeth many to give up to temptations and to give place to the Devil and then if the Witness of God reprove them for so doing they flie back in their minds from it and strengthen themselves in their unclean faith against it and so reject the Light and Power of God which is it onely that saves from sin and so though you strive against it what you can in this state all your striving is in vain being onely in your own wills and altogether of your selves having rejected through disobedience the Power of God which in his mercy is freely offered unto all in the Light of his Son to redeem them from that wherein they are held in bondage which is sin I say denying it and counting it an uncertain and insufficient thing you are never able to overcome the Enemy in your own striving for if you could then you had no need of a Saviour to destroy the works of the Devil for you which is sin and to save you therefrom which was and is the end of his coming in the flesh even in the hearts of all people to condemn sin there and also for this end he died to the flesh once and was made an Offering to put an end to all the Types Rom. 3.25 Sacrifices and Shadows of the first Law and Priesthood and so took away all the hand writing of Ordinances making an Atonement for sins past that forgiveness might be preached to and in all that receive him and walk in his Light which was not to be found in nor by the outward Law for it being once transgressed there remains nothing but condemnation So mercy and forgiveness came by Jesus the Saviour and not by the Law without whom none could be saved because all had and have transgressed and come short of fulfilling the Law therefore all your striving whilst you reject Christ the Light which makes sin manifest in whom the Law of the Spirit of Life is witnessed which sets free the soul through the administring of death unto and condemning that in man which warreth against it by bringing it into captivity unto sin through which comes death I say though you may strive with all your might which indeed is but weakness you will never get dominion over sin because you in denying the Light miss of the Power which only redeems out of the bondage thereof which Power doth accompany that which reproves for and condemns sin in the flesh to which except you become subjects unto neither freedom from sin nor the righteousness of the Law which is Perfection you will never come to witness and so though you believe he died for your sin yet unless you come to know him to arise in you to destroy it and take it away inwardly and thereby to fulfil the Law of Righteousness in you and so to mortifie the

deeds of the flesh which breaks the Law by his powerful Spirit that you may follow it and your fruits may be unto Righteousness and you dead to the fruits of the flesh which is sin all your belief will avail you no more than the Jews unbelief did them which rather added to their condemnation than otherwise Therefore all come down to that of God made manifest in you and receive it with a willing mind and then you will feel it giving you that power which by all your own willing and striving out of it you could never obtain even to become the Sons of God and to know his Seed brought forth in dominion in you to abide and then you will come to know what that state was in which they were that could not sin 1 John 3.9 because they were born of God and his Seed remains in them by which they were kept so that the wicked one toucheth them not because greater was he that was in them than he that was in the world So unless you feel this wrought in you by him all your talk of him and his Righteousness will do you no good for as long as you commit sin the filth will follow it and the condemning of that which condemns sin in the flesh will follow you to the end of your race by which a fire will be kindled where the worm will never die neither goes it out and the Law against sin you will find to have its full force then because you rejected the Light through disobedience which would have destroyed for you that which transgressed the Law in you and as you had yeelded in obedience to it it would have fulfilled the Law in you by bringing forth fruits of holiness which the Law requireth and all your thoughts of being from under the Law will prove vain for it is said to be a Schoolmaster to bring unto Christ the Light and Lamb of God who takes away sin the which Gal. 3.24 except you are brought to and by him cleansed you will find the Law to stand in full force over you you being out of him who ends that which transgresseth it Jam. 2.10 even by slaying it upon the Cross which is the Power of God which over-comes or rather comes over and so brings under the power of the Devil which keeps man in bondage in sin so when you come to know this you will cease remembring his death at Jerusalem and will come to see how he hath been crucified in you and what it is that hath crucified him Rom. 6.10 and not onely so but will know a dying with him to the flesh and the fruits thereof and then shall you be quickened with him in the Spirit of Life in which you will live unto God which you will truly know when he comes to arise from the dead in you and to lead that captive which hath held him in captivity and oppressed him as a cart with sheaves who while you go astray bears the iniquity of you all and is crucified in that place which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt reade within and feel what I say then will you come to mourn over him whom you have pierced Rev. 1.7 And this verily I say unto you except you know his Crucifixion and Resurrection nearer you than Jerusalem even in you and arising with him out of the grave of sin and death and a living to God in the Spirit of Holiness which sets free from sin all your talking of his dying for your sin and arising for your justification while you have lived in sinning against his Light in your Consciences will never profit you any thing Ephes 5.14 Therefore arise thou that sleepest in sin and stand up to Judgment and hearken to that which calls out of sin which is the Spirit of Truth and it will give thee life if through death thou wilt follow it for no other way is there to come to life but thorow death to that which leads thee from God Gal. 3.19 therefore take up the Cross and kiss the Rod and it will whip thee out of sin and a new work in thee will begin Those that know this death are not under the Law but under Grace for the Law was added because of transgression in which if a man live and it live in him then is he under the Law for it takes hold on a man so long as he lives in sin which is the transgression thereof Tit. 2.11 but he that is dead to sin is not under it but is come to the Grace of God which leads him out of sin and teacheth him to live godly and righteously in this present evil world so then by Grace sin is done away and the Law fulfilled which requires a holy life which is brought forth in and through all that receive the Power of God which in Christ the Light is offered freely to all that he might be all in all both to will and to do that which man of himself could in no wayes do he having lost his first estate in which he had power over all things being fain into the bondage of the Devil and captivated by him at his will therefore God in his endless Love to lost man Rom. 8.3 4. sent his Son a Light into the world who for sin condemneth sin in the flesh which the Law without was too weak to do that the Righteousness of it might be fulfilled in all that obey and follow him Now such can truly witness he comes not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it in and for them which Law requires Perfection and Holiness without which a man shall never see God But saith the World Object Yea perfect in part so are accepted a● wholly perfect through Christ Nay Answ not in part say I but wholly even entire wanting nothing for the Law requires not a part but the whole and it is not a Perfection inferiour to what the Law requires but even the same if not a better that we are to be brought to by the power of the Lamb of God who takes away the imperfection of all that walk in his Light or else it cannot be said he fulfills it but leaves it unfulfilled and hath made a way by which man shal escape the condemnation of it though he live in transgression thereof which was not the end of his coming in the flesh that man should be accepted perfect because he lived in perfection but that the same perfect innocent harmless life might be brought forth by the operation of his Life which is the Light of men in our mortal bodies herein lies the acceptance if he come thus to live in us to make our sinful bodies conformable to that Body of his 2 Cor. 5.17 which was the perfect pattern then are we in him according as it is said He that is in Christ is a non creature old things are passed away and all is become new and all things