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A27593 A conciliatoy [sic] judgment concerning Dr. Crisp's sermons and Mr. Baxter's dissatisfactions in them by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1690 (1690) Wing B2135; ESTC R23688 8,458 13

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A Conciliatoy Judgment CONCERNING Dr. Crisps's Sermons AND Mr. BAXTER'S Dissatisfactions in Them By T. Beverley London Printed and Sold by William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street where you may be supplied with the Scripture Line of Time and the other pieces of the same Authors 1690. A Conciliatory Judgment concerning Dr. Crisps's Sermons and Mr. Baxter's Dissatisfactions in them AN Interposal in this Case is Nice and Tender whether we consider the persons concern'd or the Case it self If we consider the persons They are Dr. Crisps in his Memory who being a Person Dissolv'd and as we have Great Reason to be assur'd with Christ in Spirit near these Fifty years and who being Dead yet speaketh His Memory ought to be precious to us and to be embalm'd with Honour On the other side is Mr. Baxter grown now in his excellent Ministerial Labours of all Kinds Such a one as the Aged Servant of Jesus Christ and a Father Great Estimation Reverence and Tenderest Regard are therefore due to Him If we consider the Case it self it Requires much Greater Caution For it is a seeming Controversie between the Justification and the Sanctification of the Gospel betwixt Justifying Faith and Good works Notwithstanding the Great Nicety and Caution necessary to be us'd I am yet most desirous to Contribute my utmost service to mediate betwixt a Dead and a Living Servant of Christ as also to fix the Scituation and order of Two so Great Points of Christian Religion and thereby to conciliate the Two Ministeries before us And certainly in the first place the so often calling the Righteousness of Christ by which we are Justified the Righteousness of God does without any more words determine it to be our supreme not only Righteousness but Holiness And no distinctions or Limitations can dethrone or confine it If it be divine It must be Infinite and Supreme And All Inherent Righteousness of Faith Repentance Sanctification or whatever names of Qualification of the persons who Receive it can be no more then the Wise and Holy Oeconomy of that Supreme Righteousness that so manages and fits the Person to whom it communicates it self to a Fitness and Agreeableness to so High a Communication If it be Divine and Infinite All must flow from it nothing can be Brought or Added to it Now that it is Divine is out of measure clear by Jesus Christ being styl'd Jehovah our Righteousness Jerem. 23.6 by the Apostle Paul's so often calling the Righteousness of Christ the Righteousness of God Rom. 3.21.22 2 Cor. 5.21 Phil. 3.6 This then being once declar'd fully determines the Case That this Righteousness is the Supreme Righteousness and Holyness also to whom soever it is a Righteousness And no Restrictions can be Receiv'd to the diminution of it nor can any Thing be spoken too High too Great too much of it For what is our Righteousness is also that Holiness by which we stand Accepted before God seeing Righteousness and Holiness are the same the Abundance of which we Receive by Grace and Free Gift Now that it can come to us upon us that we may be Found in Christ and have not our own but it that we are made the Righteousness of God by it that it is Imputed to us are all Scripture Expressions Assuring It may be made ours And whatever is divine where it Communicates to us it self is so Unitive that it is nearer to us then we our selves or any Thing of ours can be to our selves It nevertheless follows That this Righteousness prepares for it self by Humiliation by Faith by Repentance a Reception suitable to it self in the person who is to Receive it but so that these Things are not offered in Sacrifice to the Righteousness of Christ to encline or draw it but are wholly from it by Emanations Emissions divine Effluviums from it self winning Atracting and uniting that Spirit to it to which it is pleas'd to unite it self And where it is pleas'd so to be united it Prints and Enstamps its own Image upon the Heart and Life by Sanctification And These Things are All done by so Infallible and Inseparable an Efflux from Christ that a Thousand Times sooner may the Beams be cut off from the Sun the streams from the Fountain then the inward Holiness and Righteousness of Faith Repentance the new Creation and good works can be cut off from the Righteousness of Christ imputed to any Person But withal it is to be known that the Communication in this Life is but to such degrees and these so various and in the Best Leaving a Body of Sin and Death that as till the very Kingdom of Redemption There is not a perfect washing of the Robes of Saints in the Blood of the Lamb so there is not a perfect Communication of the Image of that Righteousness in Holiness So that That Righteousness depended upon by Faith and witness'd by the Spirit is our only Title to Righteousness and yet the Signatures of Holiness the clearer They are the Greater is the Evidence that Righteousness is ours and the more Cloudy they are the Greater Reason of doubt and fear It is not ours and therefore the more Earnest ought the Application to be that we may have the more lively Impresses of it self upon us And in that supposed Justification or Title to the Righteousness of Christ as ours made good by Faith and Holiness The Righteousness of Christ is still Supreme For the Image the Reflex or Reverse of that Righteousness imputed is Christs owning us as His and Justified by Him Hence is our humble Appeal to God in Him that it is so But Christ first owns his Servants Graces as Appears Mat. 25.35 I was an Hunger'd c. They plead His Righteousness only And even when this Righteousness is indeed communicated There is always Uprightness and Sincerity but still the Eye of a Mans Spirit is turn'd by the Spirit of God so to this Righteousness that when It is in Darkness and sees no Light It moves to it and against Hope believs in Hope and when it sees no other Light It Trusts in the Name of the Lord and Stays on its God which is certainly from the divine Witness of the Spirit of God to a Man's Spirit that He is Christs If it should be said the State of the Righteousness of Christ thus Communicating it self seems not to agree with so Great parts of Scripture insisting upon Holiness of Heart and Life And there are but some chosen places of Scripture that speak of the Righteousness of Christ Our great work therefore seems to be in minding inward and active Righteousness that we may be Righteous according to 1 John 3.7 Be not deceiv'd He that doth Righteousness is Righte●us even as He is Righteous It is very True a Greater Proportion of Scripture is taken up in Rules of Holiness Precepts Commands Promises Threatnings Exhortations Expostulations Reproofs pressing hereunto in regard of the variety of persons and of Cases herein concern'd and