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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30541	Some false principles and errors discovered and refuted in a short answer to a catechism book, which is said to contain the principles of religion, put forth by a namelesse authour, but is supposed to be the work of one Samuel Eaton ... but upon true examination he is found to be teaching the traditions of men for the commandments of Christ ... / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6023A; ESTC R36303	12,581	15

will find in the day of the Lord when he comes to Judge righteously and to give every man according to his works and not according to what he may make a shew of and profess in words though all you false daubers with untempered morter heale up the hurt of the Daughter of Sion deceitfully and cry peace peace by a false applying the Promises and words of Christ when God speakes no peace and even you and your false daubed wall will be Whirle-wind of the Lord beat down and destroy utterly and this I assert contrary to thy false doctrine and principles that none are Justified but who hath Christ in them and really partakes of holiness and righteousness and are really cleansed from sin and are born of the spirit of God and is heire of the promise of eternall life And further thou saist Iustification admitteth not of any degree and if a person be Iustified from any one sin he is Iustified from all sin as well from sins to be committed as those that are already commited and who is once a Iustified person is not unjustified upon new sin committed c. 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Grace and faith and truth and Christ himself admitteth of degrees or measures which are one and there are severall measures of life of light of grace and faith of sanctification and of Justification also for according as every man hath received Christ so hath he received Sanctification and Justification and no otherwise for Christ is made wisdome and Sanctification and Salvation and every one feels his Sanctification and his Justification according to the measure of the gift of Christ given to him so that there are severall measures of Justification and also a man may be Justified from one sin or some sin and not from all sin for according to every mans Sanctification so is the witness of his Justification to him and no more and if thou knowest any thing by experience thou knowest this and no man is Justified from the evill which he is to commit for that faith gives licence to sin if any committing sin shall beleeve that that sin is long since forgiven and he is Justified from it and if he shall beleeve he is Justified though he commit sin even long before he commits his sin this will be a cause to run into sin and is a gap opened by thee unto all unrighteousnesse Why if people can believe they are justified from the sins which they have yet to commit what should restrain them from running with pleasure into all unrighteousness if new sins alwaies committed do not make persons unjustified then may the sinners rejoice in their sins and take their pleasure in ungodliness this doctrine of thine is pleasant to the wicked and it is the way and principle of liberty in all sin rather then the principles to lead from sin and so thou hast shewed whose work thou art doing by strengthning the wicked in his way so that he cannot turne from sin rather then drawing him from sin and this is the Devils work And thou saist such as are justified are regenerated and sanctified and a little before thou said to be justified is not to be cleansed nor is it to partake of real righteousnesse and persons are justified from sins which they have to commit And these are contradictions and proceed out of darknesse and not from the light and thy folly and ignorance may be read by all men for who are regenerated and sanctified are cleansed and partakes of real righteousnesse and thou further saist that sanctification is a real change from sin to the purity of the Image of God and I say none are sanctified but they are justified so none are justified but who are changed into the Image of God this the trut● saith and wherein thou hast said contrary thou hast spoken contrary to the truth and the truth will judge thee Again thou saist sanctification is not perfect in this life the new man the spirit or law of the mind is that grace or imperfect sanctification c. 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Then Christ is not perfect in this life for he is made of God unto us sanctification 1 Cor. 1. 30. but we say Christ is perfect and therefore sanctification is perfect and the new man is the Image of God and is created in righteousnesse and in true holinesse but thou saist the new man is imperfect consider of thy principles when they are compared with the scriptures and see the error and wickednesse of them and the spirit and Law in the mind is the spirit of God and the Law of God in which the Apostles served God and so doth all the Saints but thou saist the spirit and Law in the mind is imperfect and this is error in the highest degree to say or signifie that the new man the Image of God that is in righteousnesse and true holinesse and the Spirit of God and the Law of God is imperfect sanctification and grace is the salvation and is Gods sufficiencie and that thou saist is imperfect also and thus thy principles of thy religion which thou walkest in thy selfe and would teach to others are abominable corrupted principles of error and contrary to the spirit of truth and to the scriptures also and no marvel that thy name is concealed for thy work deserves not a good mans name to it much more might be said to lay open further thy folly but this is sufficient to men of understanding and contrary to thee I do assert that the new man the Image of God the Spirit and Law of God in the mind is perfect grace and perfect sanctification and thou hast said the contrary and now whether thy principles of Religion or mine be the more true and whether fals let all sober men judg with the light in their conscience And thou saist the old man the flesh the body of sin the body of death is the sin that remaines in sanctified persons Ans. Who are sanctified are ●reed from the body of sin and death and hath put it off and the Law of the Spirit of life hath freed them from the flesh and from the old man for if the old man the fl●sh the body of sin and death be in the sanctified person● then there is none sanctified at all and what are they sanctified freed and cleansed from if the old man the fl●sh the body of sin and death be yee remaining in them thou speakest like an unlearned man and one that knowes not the sanctified estate but art erring in thy mind and judgment and in thy words also for we have put off the old man and are Crucified to the flesh and made free from the body of sin and death and this is our sanctification and who are remaining in these things are not sanctified but in the degeneration and hath no part yet in the kingdom of God nor in Christ Jesus but are without him in the world And thou saist the sanctification of the first day hath put an

SOME False Principles AND ERRORS DISCOVERED AND REFUTED In a short Answer to a Catechism book which is said to contain The Principles of Religion put forth by a namelesse Authour But is supposed to be the work of one Samuel Eaton a professed Minister of the Gospel among the Sect of the Independants in Cheshire But upon true examination he is found to be teaching the traditions of men for the commandements of Christ and his Principles are proved to be not according but contrary to the Spirit of God and the Scriptures By E. B. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. TO THE READER THE Reason and Cause of this being sent abroad is for the better Information of all but more particularly for the good of that Assembly to whom Samuel Eaton is Minister and Pastor that they may know the truth from errour and the way of Righteousnesse from all false wayes and may turn from Idol-shepherds that destroyes the vineyard and treads it down and may come to Christ and receive him who is the chief shepherd to feed his flock with the bread of eternal life And the reason why these false principles are charged upon Samuel Eaton is this it being doubtful to some who was the Authour of that Catechism wherein these principles and doctrines was held forth John Gredley and Anne Sheeld by name was with the said Samuel Eaton and asked him if he owned that book the Catechism and he said he would maintain all in it that was his answer THe wayes of the Lord are equall and just but the wayes of the Sons of Adam are altogether corrupted and different and contrary to the wayes of Salvation And the wisedome that is of this world is foolishness with God and its end is destruction to it self and to all that walk therein And what is man that he shall prescribe a way to his Maker and who is it that will be more wise then God to set him a way how he must teach his people Therefore in vaine have men laboured and have reaped to themselves nothing but wind and confusion And in vaine have they sowen for others to reap after them whose fruit hath been emptiness and not filled the hand of the gatherer And in particular this book with which I am now dealing is the fruit of an empty Tree which cannot satisfie the hungry soul nor comfort the weary seeker for the satisfaction and comfort of the seeking hungry soul dependeth only upon the Lord and upon the bread of life that commeth down from God and the soul that eats thereof is satisfied and comforted for ever and hungers no more nor thirsts any longer but the fountaine is in him and the well springs up unto eternall life and he goes no more forth And if so be that all herein were true and sound Doctrine and were learned so as to express it over againe in words this might be and yet the soul still remaining in anguish and under sin and death though increased in the knowledg that is from below and yet in a farther ignorance of God for the wisdom of this world knows not God neither can it teach nor receive the knowledg of the things that pertaines unto life eternall but to the simple and to fools doth the Lord teach and reveal the knowledge of his kingdom and it is not received from books nor the teachings and traditions of men but by the manifestation of the eternall spirit which doth lead into all truth and reveal the mysteries of Salvation The first thing that I take notice of is this thou saist God is a Spirit and he is one in ●eing and is to be distinguished into three persons and the Father Son and holy Ghost are personall relations and if one be a person such are the other c. 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The Father Son and Spirit is one this we believe and know according to the Scriptures but as for thy word person that is carnall and too low a word to denominate God by who is infinite for God and the spirit hath no person nor cannot truely be distinguished into persons for a person hath relation to place time and change and is not in all places at all times at once and the Scriptures knowes no such distinction for God is is a spirit and hath no relation to one time place or alteration more then another but filleth heaven and earth and his presence is in all and over all who is blessed for ever and is infinite and without person or confined being and the Scripture no where in true translation doth denominate God Christ and the spirit by persons and personall beings nor doth distinguish them into three persons for persons are related to carnall as I have said and persons is to low too denominate God and Christ and the spirit by so thy principles are unsound and not agreeing to the spirit of God and the Scriptures And therefore not to be beleeved nor received Whereas thou saist That the one standing rule according to which God is to be sought worshipped and served is the holy Scriptures in which God hath revealed himself in all things which he would have believed and done c. 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It is the spirit of God that gave forth the Scriptures which spirit was and is within the saints that leadeth into all truth and teacheth to know all things and that spirit of God only is the standing rule to walk in and to walk by it was the rule to Abel Enoch Abraham and the rest of the holy Fathers that lived before any scripture was written and it was the rule to the Prophets to Christ and to the holy Apostles they all followed the spirit and walked in it and spake and wrought and acted as the spirit of God within them moved them and led them it was not the Scriptures but the sprit that gave forth the Scriptures that was the standing unchangable unerring rule of worshiping serving and obeying the Lord God and that same spirit is the standing rule to us also for the Apostle commands to walk in the spirit and that which we are to walk in is our rule and as many as are the sonns of God are led by the spirit of God and then the spirit is their rule and that guides the feet in the way of peace and in the spirit is God worshipped for they that worship him must worship him in the spirit and in the truth such he seeks to worship him for it is in the hearts of his people and within them that God reveales himself by his spirit for it is the spirit that revealeth the things of God and none knows the things of God saving by the spirit of God and that reveals God and teacheth to worship God and to serve him and the Scriptures they declare of the rule and of the revelation of God and are a declaration of all things which is to be believed and practised by the children of the