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A67842	A New-Years-gift for the Antinomians particularly Mr. Malebranch Crisp, or, as he foolishly, and yet often (but truly stiles himself the unworthy branch of Dr. Crisp who hath wickedly attempted to underprop a rotten cause of his father, by notorious forgeries, concerning Mr. Baxter, Mr. How, and Dr. Bates, as justifiers of Dr. Crisp as an orthodox man, and no Antinomian: in a rhapsody, intituled, Christ exalted, and Dr. Crisp defended; against the reverend Mr. Alsop, with whom he rudely, and ignorantly plays under the name of his dear Kratiste. By Calvin Anti-Crispian.	Trepidantium Malleus.; C. A.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y83A; ESTC R221087	21,128	48

Doctrine and are not Impenitent but Penitent Believers I love and own as Brethren whatever Mistakes they may be guilty of Unless Men Repent they shall perish Unless they groan because of the body of Sin they belong not to Christ Antin You tell Men much of Duty and Preach not comfortably as Gospel-Preachers do Evang. Did not Christ so 5 6 7 Chapters of Matthew Preach Duty Antin Mr. Toun well observes Christ's principal if not only end was not their Obedience but that seeing they could not obey they might run to Free-Grace Evang. I know Mr. Toun's Notions had not half that Devilism in them Dr. Crisp's had But I pray read the close of all 7 Mat. 24 c He that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them mark doth them is like one building his House upon a Rock He that doth them not builds his House upon the Sand. VVhere is yours built Let our Drapers Taylors and Shooemakers Antinomian Preachers that thus Profane the Sacred Name of Christ when with their Master they cry Christ alone exalted let them consider Are the Pangs of the New Birth by which all our Divines were wont to express Repentance come to this to be Legal Sinful These never knew these Pangs these Agonies and Throws or true Compunction arising from the sight of Sin and fear of VVrath as well as Christ's Sufferings I must acquaint my Reader that some part of the Dialogue I lost More things were intended yet this may suffice To the Sober Pious Antinomians Who disown the more Gross and Damnable Doctrines before censur'd Brethren I Rejoyce to find you pleas'd with the Scripture Doctrine and Method about Repentance and Faith and plead the necessity of sorrowing for Sin even to Bitterness c. and that you have experienced Sin to be a heavy Burthen to you and Compunction to be your daily Work renewing your Sorrow as you do your Sin As for some Opinions charged on Flaccius Illyricus in the Days of Luther or on Hinckelman call'd a Lutheran I shall not trouble my self whether they had so bad a Sence as Mr. A. Burgess in his Vindiciae Legis intimates or a most soft and favourable Sence as Mr. Crandon seems to plead for as That Repentance is not to be taught from the Ten Commandments c. That to oppose that Doctrine Bona opera sunt necessaria ad salutem some said perniciosa for the latter tho' harshly exprest may be well intended Works without Faith or not built on it Good Works were granted not to be necessary by way of Merit or Efficiency but of Presence tho' I know some have said they had a kind of Efficiency so Mr. Troughton Lutherus Redivivus 1 Part. There may be the same Opinion where are variety of Expressions as I am sure there is between sound Men some that use some that refuse the Word Condition in the Covenant of Grace For they that call Condition the suspending of one thing on the doing another as Mr. Flavel and others mean no more than those that call them Necessary Antecedents others Qualifications All that I say against the Word is the Danger by it Men are in of Arminianism They use the Word in a proper Sence others in an improper and I think hard one There is no such Definition given of a Condition in Man's Covenant Why in God's The Order of things in a Testament according to the Will of the Testator is not so call'd Where he makes a free unconditional Grant or Gift to his Children c. We are to consider the Law in the hand of Christ and so it obligeth Mr. Baxter himself I remember in his Divine appointment of the Lord's-Day says I cannot remember the Page for it is Twenty Years since I borrowed it and read it As Great an Enemy as I have been accounted to the Antinomians I grant that tho' the Law of Moses materially consider'd doth oblige yet not formally not as promulgated by Moses but as now thh Law of Christ So than in this Sence the Law is done away Others take this to be a Legomachy Anthony Burgess says much about this Dispute I know Sirs you doubt not but Obedience to the Gospel are Signs and Fruits of hidden Election and Presages and Fore-runners of Eternal Salvation Whatever Noise is made about God's being said to justifie the Vngodly the usual Replies are good in the same Sence as Christ is said to make the Blind to see and the Lame to walk in sensu non composito but diviso to take Vngodly in that Sence that great Man seem'd to be inclin'd to 36 Page is unscriptural and no ways proper Vindic. Legis I know you care not to hear Men preach all Comfort little or no Duty Is not Christ's Yoak easie Are the Commands of Christ grievous Talk what Men will of Christ Exalted when they care not to hear his Precepts Laws and Commandments preach'd and say all was done for them long agoe by Christ their Elder Brother They deal with him as Joab by Amasa to salute him with a How is it my Brother and smite him through the Ribs The Reverend and truly Pious and Ortholox Dr. Singleton said well lately That it was langerous for Men to talk of one Grace only is if they were to be known or described by it lone as said he Some are always talking of Faith and their getting of Faith when as he truly observes the Children of God are as often described by their Love Love to God and one another and some that talk always of Faith talk little or nothing of this Grace That he that renewed not Godly Sorrow every Day as he renewed his Sins had gotten to great Obdura●on not Faith I know Sirs it cannot be said of you as of them against whom I write principally Their Voice is Jacob 's Voice but their Hands are the Hands of an Esau These are not Christ Exalters but Sathan's exalters who can Lie Cheat c. 3. Rom. 3. I beseech you bless God you are of Paul's mind What then do we by Faith make void the Law nay God forbid we establish the Law which by the way was not the Pharisaical Laws for Christ condemns their Traditions when the fear of God was taught by the Precepts of Men Neither was it the Ceremonial Law for that was nail'd at Christ's Cross and so abrogated but it was the Moral Law It was that Law by the breach of which the whole World became guilty before God Now the Ceremonial Law did not oblige the Gentiles or the whole World it was design'd only for the Jewish Oeconomy And where no Law is there can be no Transgression for Sin as St. James says is the Transgression of a Law Then Obiter may I lay down this Argument which I humbly conceive to be irrefragable That Law by which no Man can be justified was establish'd by Paul among the Gentiles But it was not the Ceremonial but Moral Law Paul establish'd among the Gentiles

A New-Years-Gift FOR THE Antinomians PARTICULARLY Mr. Malebranch Crisp OR As he foolishly and yet often but truly stiles himself The Unworthy Branch of Dr. Crisp WHO Hath Wickedly attempted to underprop a rotten Cause of his Father by Notorious Forgeries concerning Mr. Baxter Mr. How and Dr. Bates as Justifiers of Dr. Crisp as an Orthodox Man and no Antinomian In a Rhapsody Intituled Christ Exalted and Dr. Crisp defended against the Reverend Mr. Alsop with whom he rudely and ignorantly plays under the Name of his Dear Kratiste Malus Corvus malum Ovum What shall be done to thee thou false Tongue By Calvin Anti-Crispian LONDON Printed for John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-street near Cornhil 1699. A New-Years-Gift FOR THE Antinomians PARTICULARLY KAKISTE CRISP By way of Dialogue between Antinomista and Evangelista Evang. GOod morrow Mr. Antinomista What makes you look so merry this Morning Antin Why Man I never care to look otherwise for I have more Wit and more Grace too than to be troubled about Sin But that which makes me smile on you is to think how dull you and such as you are look and must look since a prceion Book lately came out Intituled Christ Exalted and Dr. Crisp defended Have you read it over I pray Evang. No nor never will endure that Penance I know some Ministers of his own Party that are displeas'd with him That a Man of such cheap Abilities should meddle with Ministers Work Tho' the Jackdaw as in the Fable comes forth in stoln Peacocks Plumes Antin What have you I pray to charge the Book or Author with Evang. With Four things 1. With painting that Old rotten Post his Father or Book with notorious Untruths 2. With Pretences of owning or pleading the Cause of Mr. Lobb as if that learned sound Man were theirs Tho' it is well known Mr. Lobb often and truly chargeth in more Books than one Dr. Crisp's Doctrine with Blasphemy c. 3. With clapping under board the more gross black wicked Notions of Dr. Crisp and insisting on Commutation of Persons as if all the Cause or Controversie turn'd there 4. With bringing such woful Proofs for the Change of Persons between Christ and Believers that no Man half-witted would or could do Tho' I own the Phrase rightly understood yet hate to see a Cause fall into such unskilful hands No Creature is more hateful to a Man than a Monkey because so much like a Man and yet none Antin You dare not Sir say this to his Face you should if this be so have applied your self to him in a few kind Lines Evang. So I did and offer'd a friendly Meeting and Conference before his learned worthy Friend Mr. Gouge who tho' no Antinomian is too easily impos'd on by them Antin The false Stories I suppose you mean are That Mr. Baxter should say Two Days before he died That Dr. Crisp was an Orthodox Man and brought more Souls to Christ than We do c. He said this in ipsissimis verbis And that there is not the least grain of Ground to doubt it for he says I came from a faithful holy Minister p 2. And that Mr. Cole told him p. 13 14. That he heard Mr. How say If Dr. Crisp were an Antinomian I am one too and if he mistakes not Dr. Bates was there and said So am I too They are great Stories Evang. I tell you That they are great Lies for which the Publisher deserves the Stoning Doublet which as I hear he wishes for me We know to Goal all must go that oppose his Father's Notions as he as it were petitions our Senators 1. Mr. Williams and Mr. Sylvester Mr. Baxter's most intimate Friends profess they never heard such a Story which had been morally impossible if true 2. It is commonly said among these very Accusers That Mr. Baxter died rather like a Papist than Protestant and what now are we told at the end of Seven Years that he died a Crispian 3. Mr. Baxter when asked on his Death-Bed whether his Mind was changed as about Justification said I have told the World my Mind about it in my Books and there I refer them See his Life there is an owning proh dolor of his Doctrine about Justification to the last Is it possible he should at the same time own Crisp his Doctrine as sound He that added Works to Faith had he now with Crisp thrown away both 4. Had therefore this Minister protested to all the World he heard Mr. Baxter thus say No Man of Brains would or could believe him who knew Mr. Baxter and how tenacious of his Opinion in that Point and what an open long and fierce oppugner he was of Crisp's worst of Doctrine in that Point Of Justification without Faith 5. He says this faithful holy Minister was desir'd by him to give this under his own hand but being prudent he refus'd Would he then had been so prudent too as not to have publish'd so idle a Story 6. Some I know have found out this Young Man who as they affirm to me denies the Truth of the Story That what Mr. Baxter said was on the coming out of Dr. Crisp his Book which I think was a Year and half before he died and that he never said he was Orthodox 7. Had Mr. Baxter so said his next words ought to have been his Confession of his Fault in opposing Orthodox Crisp and to have recall'd his last Book especially against him 8. I could say more to prove his Tale of their faithful holy Minister signifies nothing were it convenient Who ought to expose this Author being a common Adversary more than his Politicks will give him leave As for Mr. How and Dr. Bates 1. They disown this as the Author Mr. Kakiste Malebranch well knows now 2. If he design'd Honesty and Truth they are alive why had he not sent to them to know whether they would own it No doubt he believed the thing not True and fear'd right Information 3. Can any Man imagine that these Two great famous Divines who if not Baxterians are Baxterianish should so run counter to their avow'd Principles as to justifie so Corrupt a Man 4. Suppose I or another should say if denying the conditionality of the Covenant of Grace be Crispianism I am a Crispian Would it follow that I own my self to be a Crispian Well when I am dead I may be publish'd as one too tho' so great an Enemy to the Cause Antin If these Stories be not true The Devil is gone forth for a Liar For I know Men of Note believe them on the Word of honest Sam. Crisp as they call him tho' they be no Antinomians He triumphs in his Stories that God may so touch the Heart of Mr. Alsop c. But I hope you do not in the least question the other Story about Mr. Cole That he should say that if he had but One Hundred Pounds and Dr. Crisp his Book could not be had under Fifty Pounds he

put in practice his own Doctrine against Repentance sorrowing for Sin Compunction Blind Charity What! That made it his Work from the Pulpit the Press and in common Conversation to Ridicule these and make all Legal Yet I see no necessity for any to judge of Mens final woful State when dead the Scripture give us no Precedent but modestly says of Judas He is gone to his Place Go on Antinomista I doubt not if Sin be never a burden to thee here and to thy Followers it shall be a burden to you all in a woful Eternity All that ever I heard or read against the Doctor made me not so to loath him as the reading the Two Hundred Ninety Eight Two Hundred Ninety Ninth and Three Hundreth pages of that worst of Books next to the Alcoran and the Mass-Book of which I have given an Account in other Books and therefore shall not do it now I have brought the Book before wise serious Men who could not believe till their Eyes saw Never never believe Christ ever was ever is ever can be made sweet where Sin is not made bitter I shall never forget that of Austin in his Confessions I read when young Confiteor Peccata mea in amaritudine cordis mei ut tu dulcescas mihi Antin Now I will deal plainly with you and tell you Mr. Antinomista what they say of you Evang. Pray do and spare not for I have lately bought the best Cordial in the World against fainting Fits under any Calumnies or Slanders Antin What did your Cordial cost you I pray and what is it Evang. It cost Two Shillings and it is Socks and Buskins So that I can now wade through thick and thin wherein Mr. Alsop is made a Dunce Madman Graceless Person c. tho' known by his Adversaries as well as Friends to be an excellent Scholar and Preacher a Great Man and Good-One that hath a Library in his Head Antin Did not J. F. one of the greatest Quakers in the City charge you for coming home Drunk from a Tavern at Eleven of the Clock at Night and abusing a Soldier you met with who knock'd you down in Moor-fields then flung a Stone at your Head when at last all was laid on him for his Threat Ten Days before That a Church Friend of theirs vow'd your Head should be broken Did he not to your Face averr when you demanded Proof That you Confest this to him Evang. 1. Had all been true as I can call God Angels and Men to record all is false can any Man be so sensless or take me to be so that I should so confess to him when I at that time charged him with his Threat 2. Mr. George Keith the Reformed Quaker is my Witness I came from his House that Lord's Day Night about Nine of the Clock 3. I challenge all the World to charge me with this Sin Drunkenness once in my Life-time in the University or out of it Can Friend F. or others say it 4. I call'd Witness when he thus said I so Confest to him and profest I would prosecute him if he stood to it But he eat his Words Ioffer again Five Pounds to any Man that shall to my Face prove this Charge Antin But you are highly censur'd for belying Dr. Hicks in your Friendly Epistle to Mr. Keith c. To say he was maintain'd by his Brother John and some Devonshire Presbyterians when a Poor Scholar in Oxford Evang. All is true I was bred up in the same School he was was his Fellow Collegiate for a time and could say more were it convenient Whether when a Poor Scholar he was of St. John's College or Magdalen is not material This Gentleman is not like Dr. Prideaux who all his Days would shew his Leathern Breeches in which he went to the University to all great Persons that visited him Some in this City can testifie they heard his Brother John say it Tho' they train'd up a Bird to pick out their Eyes I would upon many common Considerations and one peculiar one have conceal'd this could I have done it without prejudicing the Cause I then espous'd I say to my Comfort No Lie is found in my Mouth and all that know me know I hated that Sin from a Child and I hope shall to Old Age. This Character Dr. Hicks himself as well as others was once forced to give me Antin Oh! But one thing you can never never get of Mr. Non vos latet The great K. bid all his Pupils report every where from him that you wrote false Latin in a late Printed Latin Epistle to Mr. Lobb Mr. Alsop It should be saith that great Man the Dative Case Vobis He is such a Critick that Grevius the great Grammarian in Holland made a Speech and Dr. K. said there was false Latin in it Evang. It is true he so did Charge me and it is as true he since denies it as I knew he would to save his Credit All the Learned in the City stand by me against him and say He can be no great Man that says Non vos latet is false Latin A Boy of mine but in Aesop's Fables out of that Book confuted an ignorant Sophister of his who pointed at me There goes Vos latet when going into the Pulpit Aesop Lib. 2. Fab. 1. Me fur quidem latet Grevius said of him long since Optime commendat sua To do him right I take him to be no mean Man but a great Man and greater would he be had he learned one thing Ne tua jactato ne aliena despicito I and others thought Me latet had been a Phrase known to most Boys pretending any thing to Learning Can no Englishman speak good Latin Antin Answer me to one thing more and if you can Answer me there as you do in other things it is but in vain to tell you of other Stories Evang. What is that Antin Have you not lately said That you taught a Child not Nine Years old with others to learn to read Greek indifferently well according to Spirits and Accents too and also to learn Article and the first second third and fifth Declension without Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and also to read construe parse and say Memoriter the two First Verses of the First Chapter of St. John's Gospel in Greek and all in the space of Four Hours The three days story the Year before was indeed at last believed tho' at first denyed because openly proved Evang. This story is as true as that Many Witnesses were present The Father of the Child for one I doubt not but to do the like again before the Faces of my Accusers but for such as censure and revile and when entreated refuse to come to my House where many that come Scoffers go away satisfied they are Beasts in the shape of Men. To take Boys in a Corner and on a covetous Design to deny or affirm as the Company

would have them is a Trick I have a Trick for to discover their Design Antin I crave leave to ask you a little Question not of the Nature of the former ones I and others wonder what makes you of late to Print only Groat Books when you know Socks and Buskins cost two Shillings Christ Exalted and Dr. Crisp defended is of the same Price Dr. Crisp's Works cost 8 s. and you censured that in a Book of such small Price Evang. 1. There is no need of many words where few will serve turn 2. I doubt not many wise Men that read those Books repent their lost Money as well as lost Time and think a Groat enough if not too much for any of them 3. They have laden their Books with the same things over and over so Dr. Crisp I not so in new Books Mr. Crisp tells us Christ made Sin how many Sons and Daughters Dr. Crisp had what were their Names and who eldest He Subscribes himself Serviteur de Dieu It may be that was all the French the poor Man had as before and they that have least Money gingle it most 4. It may be Antinomista you and others that thus talk can badly spare that one Groat perhaps the Good Woman in the Kitchen grudgeth that if of late when Money is so scarce we grow Frugal in other respects why not in this 5. Whatever Money you and the Objecters may have in your Purses you best know but others know you have but little Wit in your Heads Your Understanding will not reach large Discourses well if this though so short Antin But what I pray you makes you think Dr. Crisp would have read the Book of Sports had occasion been Is there any thing in his Book that induceth you thus to think Evang. In the Sermon for the Fast he calls King Charles the First The Physician of the Churches and State What Physician he was in the State is well known he gave the same Physick his Agents did in Ireland And what Physician he was in the Church is well known too when all Protestantism and Piety was almost gone I hope the Doctor was not so Squeamish as to refuse the Physick if offer'd that this Physician gave him What ailed thee Tobie Canst thou see nothing not in Scripture that expoundest that Text of Services coming from a pure Heart Your New Moons and Sabbaths I cannot away with it is an Abomination every one sees it spoken not of the Services of God's Faithful Servants but of Profane or Hypocritical Jews But of these things I have said enough in my Apology and Three Contending Brethren Let others do what they please I care not to write the same things twice My Citations are true only I find what I cite pag. 15. the Doctor said of the Wise Man was a mistake I shall not trouble the Reader with what occasion'd it but now Correct it Did the Sparrows mute in Tobies Eyes when he thus read Scripture If they did Naughty Birds they Then may his Writings stand as Apocryphal ones between the Old Testament and the New in the middle not of Participation indeed but Negation may I so allude Antin Some talk of what betides some Preachers of Free-Grace and they what betides you Opposers You lately were left almost dead Evang. Yes some are thus too conclusive without cause When Whitehall was burnt no doubt but many took it to be a Testimony from Heaven against the King in a time of Peace to fire his Palace who as an Usurper took it from a Lawful King as before he was perplex'd in War For my part I think ray Construction of that Providence was better than theirs when I said God had given us a chast good King and lov'd him too well to let him live in an Old Bawdy-House Lying will be found to be an Omen bad enough of it self of the Divine Displeasure What if the Baxterians had reported and printed Seven Years after Dr. Crisp died that two days before his Death he said Mr. Baxter was an Orthodox Man and turn'd more Souls to Christ than he Would not this have been notorious Villany Not greater than this tho' we are told there 's no grain of doubting Well put it in the Gazette and New sLetters Mr. Baxter died a Crispian But no wonder from Men who mutato nomine tell us Luther lived and died one Calvin and Crisp were agreed What in Justification without Faith That the Church of England in her Homilies about Doctrine is theirs and therefore Mr. Kakiste often cites them Some of them say They own all in the Assembly's Confessions of Faith Any thing Dr. Owen is theirs Dr. Manton so and at last O wonderful Conversion Mr. Baxter himself Good Man there is now some hope left for him If his Tutissimum with Bellarmine's last words be not too late tho' by the way they are Bellarmine's last Thesis in his Dispute of Justification he had certainly gone to the Devil had it not been for this Blessed Change Words I know no Man ever us'd of him but this Tribe Mr. Alsop thinks so contemptible of Mr. Kakiste's Book that when we with other Ministers last Week waited on His Majesty at Kensington to Congratulate his Safe Return he told me he never saw the Book nor knew not what was in it and I suppose the Book hath been out too long to begin now I have one Request Mr. Antinomista to make to you as on my bended Knees Antin What is that I pray Evang. That you and your Brethren would never meddle with the Controversie now on foot Mr. Lobb is a Workman and neither needs your help nor I believe desires it but rather fears it For you spoil all by Ignorance and Falshood and Corrupt Principles If any of ours accept of your help in my Mind they do as foolishly as if any of us writing against the Church of England should call for or accept of the help of the Quakers You make such work as the Ape that imitated the Cobler in mending Shooes c. What woful work Mr. Malebraach hath made he that hath but half an Eye may see and what Work that Ingenious Gentleman now in the Press with his Baxterianism unmask'd will make who can tell He hath written for Dr. Crisp against his Name-sake of Cambridge that excellent sound Book Crispianism unmask'd Who hath not confuted Error by Error but by Truth in the Old Calvinistical Protestant strain Tell Untruths as fast as you will on me as That I should some Months since stand up in one of the greatest Congregational Meetings in the City and say aloud That they were all a Company of Antinomians I care not I am always at VVar with your Opinions I mean those of you that say David sinned in having Sin a Burden to him or charging it on himself but never with your Persons nor the Persons of any others for those called Crispians that understand not the depth of the wickedness of his