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A56659	Falsehood unmaskt in answer to a book called Truth unveil'd, which vainly pretends to justify the charge of Mr. Standish against some persons in the Church of England / by a dutiful son of that church.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1676 (1676)	Wing P796; ESTC R11930	17,061	28

Christ hath done and suffered for us whose righteousness in both regards was so pure and perfect that God in consideration of it or for its merits was pleased Graciously to grant us forgiveness of sins and him a power to bestow it on all those that believe on his name which is as much as to say that we are accounted righteous for the sake of Christs merits or for the merits if you will of Christs righteousness the effects and fruits of which we are made partakers of by Faith So the Church teaches us to understand Christ's imputed righteousness which all good Christians rejoyce in For righteousness imputed is our being accounted righteous before God though we are not so in our selves and we are accounted righteous before God saith the 11 Artic. only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own works and deserving If you will trouble your self with notions beyond this you may but do not trouble others with them who profess they cannot understand how the Righteousness of Christ can be so accounted ours which is the modern notion of it as if in him we had performed perfect obedience to God He performed perfect Obedience for us that we believe and hope to be saved by the merit of it but we did not perform perfect obedience in him that is contrary I have been taught to the very principles of Christianity For if we did then by that perfect obedience performed in him we become perfectly righteous free that is not only from all punishment but from fault and then we have no need of pardon nor of any inherent righteousness and we have merited a reward For my part I believe the honest people of the Church of England who devoutly say the Litanie never think of any such thing but humbly address themselves to God for mercy through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ who hath purchased pardon for penitent sinners by the intire righteousness of his life and death They mean no more when they pray to be delivered by his wonderful condescension in being incarnate for our sake which was the beginning of his humiliation and by his bloudy death and burial in which it was finished but that they may be freed from the guilt of their sins and the punishment due to them by the merits of these and all other parts of his humiliation which they know by his exaltation into the heavens and the coming of the Holy Ghost was highly acceptable to God being the fulsilling of all his Will in what he required for our redemption and having obtained for our Saviour all power in Heaven and Earth to dispense the Blessings which he purchased And thus other Churches understand this business the French for instance who say We believe that our righteousness consists in remission of sins c. and therefore casting away all opinion of our own vertues and merits we rest only in the obedience of Christ Jesus which is imputed to us both that all our sins may be covered and also that we may obtain Grace before God Here they plainly tell us that their righteousness which is procured by Christs obedience consists in remission of sins and therefore that obedience of his is imputed only in this sense that for its sake we may obtain remission of sins and be accepted with God I beseech you Sir do not accuse me of Heterodoxy if I do not jump with your thoughts in these matters for I protest I have no inclinations to fasten a sense upon the Churches words out of my own head but would most gladly receive it from those that can inform me better about it And I have a great respect also for all good men that are of a different mind in these matters and reverence Mr. Calvin very much though I do not think my self bound to follow his opinions All I desire is that neither you nor any body else would keep a pudder and a stirr as if Christianity were in danger to be lost by I know not what new notions when Mr. Bull and all that I have heard of his way preach the Grace of God in such a manner as I have declared which makes me confident our Religion and the Church is safe if they have no worse enemies than he But I much fear they are none of the Churches friends though they may design its good who make such a noise as if all our antient most fundamental Doctrines were subverted For the love of God Sir Let as hear no more of this from your hand if you bear any good will to it Let us have no more discourses of innovations in our Doctrines no more Truths unveiled though you think your self never so well acquainted with them no more Vindications nor mention of Mr. Standish who being the only person concerned hath as became an honest and good man acknowledged his error by silence I pray Sir do not you therefore revive that which he thinks fit should dye and be no more heard of I dare say for him he will give you no thanks for your kind intentions to serve him and therefore do not study how to oblige him any further in this matter He honours several of those persons I make no doubt as true Sons of the Church of England whom you have loaded with the reproach of departing from its Doctrine You have done him a great deal of injury in endeavouring to make the world believe that he struck at Dr. Hammond Bishop Taylor or Bishop Mountague either Nothing I am confident was further from his thoughts and he wishes I am of opinion that he had been as far out of yours For it was untowardly done to bring him upon the stage again right or wrong when he had no mind to persist in making a breach among us as he had in an heat begun to do But he will take it kindly I am apt to think if you will not seek to make him any reparation for this wrong but leave him to justify himself his own way He may well forgive you all that is past for one considerable service you have done him and the only one that I can find which is that I hope you have opened his eyes to see that I was in the right when I told him in my request to him what sort of men he would gratify by those passages in his Sermon Even such as accuse our late great Archbishop of Canterbury for being an incourager of the Romish Faction as you do in express terms p. 28. i. e. betraying his Trust and this Church which he so affectionately served that it cost him his life It was not enough it seems that they brought him in his life time under the Prophets affliction as he complains to our late Martyred Soveraign in his Epistle before his admirable Book against Fisher between the mouth that speaks wickedness and the tongue that sets forth deceit and slandered him as thick as if he were

we are one Body so were indeed all One the best Christians are nor which Principles are apt to make the best Let us all sincerely endeavour to excell in Vertue and be glad that any can outstrip us though they be not in all things of our mind which will be far better than contending about precedency or about any thing else whatsoever Here now we might fairly part but that I believe you will be apt to think either I have nothing to say or dare say nothing of that about which you make so many sad complaints if I should wholly pass by the points of justification by Faith and the imputed Righteousness of Christ With the same provision therefore that you will not accuse me for medling with that which did not concern me I will add a few words about those matters And I assure you I abhorr the man as much as you can do who shall teach me otherwise than our Church doth Artic. XI that we are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own Works or Deservings And therefore it is a most wholesome Doctrine and full af Comfort that we are justified by Faith only But I verily think there are none that teach otherwise but you have wholly mistaken those Persons whose Writings have given you the trouble of making this Book For though we are justified by Faith only yet you acknowledge p. 37. that all Christian Vertues are connate with that Faith Which grants all that Mr. Bull contends for whose position is that the Faith which justifies contains in it a sincere purpose of a new life O but none of those vertues you add pass into the cause of justification No nor is Faith it self any cause of it not so much as an instrumental cause and therefore you ought not to have quarrelled with Mr. Bull about this matter who detests any such thoughts as you impose on him that our good Works are required casually and antecedently to our justification p. 39. No such absurd Notion is to be found I will stand to it in his Book nor lyes I am sure in his Head He is not so weak so unstudied a Divine as to make any thing that we can do the cause of that which God alone can bestow upon us He doth not so much as require good Works antecedently to our entrance into the state or Justification but only the purpose of them which you your self acknowledge to be included together with all Christian Vertues in that Faith which justifies And indeed Bishop Davenant whom you deservedly applaud affirms as he shows that those internal good Works are necessary to our justification though not as efficient or meritorious causes yet as concurring or previous conditions There is but one clause which can bring you off and excuse you in this business which you wisely insert when you speak of Mr. Bulls Doctrine if at least say you I can understand him I know not what you can do but I am sure you do not understand him And therefore ought to have suspected also that you did not rightly understand Bishop Nicholson's Books rather than have said so confidently as you do doubtless Mr. Bull imposes very far upon the Bishop when he saith the Bishop read approved commended his Book and wish'd him to publish it This is very uncivil and hardly to be reconciled with Christian Charity which teaches us to think no evil to believe all things and to hope all things when the contrary doth not evidently appear It would have been but bare modesty in you to have thought you did not apprehend the meaning of a Writer in matters of controversie about Faith rather than have accused a Divine of no mean credit I assure you in his Countrey of falsifying so impudently in a matter of Fact which he avows to the world and to the Bishop himself to whom he dedicates his Work to be a most real Truth When you consider it you will acknowledge I hope between God and your own Soul this was too rash and peremptory to speak gently and not becoming one of the best sort of Christians Which if you and I too will both of us study to be I think verily it is best for us not to trouble our selves with nice disquisitions about these matters wherein we find Divines cannot well agree about the way I mean of Faith's justifying us It may suffice us I should think to know what our Liturgy teaches us plainly in both the Absolutions that God pardoneth and absolveth all them that truely repent and unfeignedly believe his Holy Gospel as it is in the Absolution pronounced every day having promised forgiveness of sins to all them that with hearty repentance and true Faith turn to him as it is in that at the Holy Communion Let us receive this glad tidings upon our bended knees and with most joyful hearts thankfully devoted to his service and leave those that list to dispute about the particular act of Faith that justifies and how it is instrumental as they speak in the business of Justification and whether there be such a thing as a passive Instrument and what Repentance hath to do in this matter No body shall ever perswade me but we shall have the benefit of the Absolution though we be not able to resolve these questions or though we never think of them If we truely repent and unfeignedly believe Christs Holy Gospel or which is the same With hearty Repentance and true Faith turn to him And in like manner to speak a word or two in the other point we are sufficiently instructed in our Litanie as I understand it to expect to be delivered from our sins I suppose and the punishment due to them by the whole Humiliation and exaltation of our Lord Jesus Christ when it teaches us to pray By the mystery of thy Holy Incarnation by thy Holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptisme Fasting and Temptation by thine Agony and Bloudy sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy Glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us It is plain that whosoever minds what he prays trusts to be delivered by Christ alone who impetrated this Mercy for us and bestows it on us by his Incarnation Nativity Circumcision and all the rest now mentioned But what hand each of these hath distinct from the other in procuring our deliverance and how each of them merits for us and makes us to be accounted righteous before God and wherein the merit of his life differs from that of his Death and Passion and is applied to us by his Resurrection Ascension and coming of the Holy Ghost we need not I hope very solicitously enquire For Justification is not a Blessing that belongs only to Scholars and subtil Wits but to the plainest Countreyman of us all who pray and hope to be delivered by all that