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A41355	The marrow of modern divinity touching both the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace, with their use and end, both in the time of the Old Testament, and in the time of the New : wherein every one may cleerly see how far forth he bringeth the law into the case of justification, and so deserverh the name of legalist : and how far forth he rejecteth the law, in the case of sanctification, and so deserveth the name of Antinomist : with the middle path between them both, which by Iesus Christ leadeth to eternall life : in a dialogue, betwixt Evangelista, a minister of the Gospel, Nomista, a legalist, Antinomista, an Antinomian, and Neophytus, a young Christian / by the author, E.F. ; before the which there is prefixed the commendatory epistles of divers divines of great esteem in the citie of London ; whereunto is also added, the substance of a	Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655.; Hamilton, Patrick, 1504?-1528. Patricks places.	1646 (1646)	Wing F997; ESTC R1839	130,516	286

God out of Christ deliver the ten commandements as the law of Christ. Evan. O no! for God out of Christ stands in relation to man according to the tenour of the law as it is the covenant of works and therefore can speak to man upon no other terms then the terms of that covenant Nom. But Sir why may not believers amongst the Gentiles receive the ten commandements as a rule of life at the hands of Moses as well as the believers amongst the Jews did Evan. For answere hereunto I pray you consider that the ten commandements were the substance of the law of nature ingraven in the heart of man in innocency and the expresse Idaea or representation of Gods own Image even a beam of his own holinesse and so they were to have bin a rule of life to him and his posterity not being then the covenant of works and then after they were become the covenant of works and broken by the first Adam and kept by the second Adam then as they were not the covenant of works and were made knowne to Adam and the rest of the believing Fathers by Visions and Revelations they became a rule of life to them untill the time of Moses and as they were delivered by Moses unto the believing Jews from the Arke and so as from Christ they were a rule of life to them untill the time of Christs comming in the flesh and since Christs comming in the flesh they have been and are to be a rule of life both to believing Jews and believing Gentiles not as they are delivered by Moses but as they are delivered by Christ for when Christ the Son comes speaks himselfe then Moses the servāt must keep silence according as Moses himselfe foretold saying A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall you heare in all things which he shall say unto you and therefore when the Disciples seemed to desire to heare Moses and Elias to speak on the Mountain Tabor they were presently taken away and a voyce came out of the cloud saying This is my beloved Soune in whom I am well pleased heare him as if the Lord had said you are not now to heare either Moses or Elias but my well beloved Sonne and therefore I say unto you heare him And is it not said Heb. 1.1 That in these last dayes God hath spoken to us by his Sonne And doth not the Apostle say Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly and whatsoever you doe in word or deed doe all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ the wife must bee subject unto the husband as unto CHRIST the childe must yield obedience to his parents as unto Christ and the believing servant must doe his Masters businesse as Christs businesse for saith the Apostle ye serve the Lord Christ yea saith hee to the Galathians beare yee one anothers burden and so fulfill the Law of Christ. Ant. Sir I like it very well that you say Christ should be a Christians teacher and not Moses but yet I question whether the ten commandements may be called the Law of Christ for where can you finde them repeated either by our Sauiour or his Apostles in the whole New Testament Evan. Though we finde not that they are repeated in such a method as they are set down in Exodus and Deuteronomie yet so long as we finde that Christ and his Apostles did require command those things that are therein commanded and reprove and condemne those things that are therein forbidden and that both by their lives and doctrines it is sufficient to prove them to be the Law of Christ. Ant. I think indeed they have done so touching some of the commandements but not touching all Evan. Because you say so I intreat you to consider First whether the true knowledge of God required John 3.19 and the want of it condemned 2 Thes. 1.8 and the true love of God required Matth. 22.37 and the want of it reproved John 5.42 and the true feare of God required 1 Pet. 2.17 Heb. 12.28 and the want of it condemned Rom. 3.18 And the true trusting in God required and the trusting in the creature forbidden 2 Cor. 1.9 1 Tim. 6.17 be not the substance of the first commandement And consider secondly whether the hearing and reading of Gods word commended John 5.47 Revel 1.3 and prayer required Rom. 12.12 1 Thes. 5.17 and singing of Psalmes required Col. 3.16 James 5.13 and whether Idolatry forbidden 1 Cor. 10.14 1 John 5.21 be not the substance of the second commandement And consider thirdly whether worshipping of God in vain condemned Matth. 15.9 and using vain repetitions in prayer forbidden Matth. 6.7 and hearing of the word onely and not doing forbidden James 1.22 and whether worshipping God in spirit and truth commanded John 4.24 and praying with the spirit and with understanding also and singing with the spirit and with understanding also commended 1 Cor. 14.15 and taking heed what wee heare commanded Mark 4 24. be not the substance of the third commandement Consider fourthly whether Christs rising ●rom the dead the first day of the week Mar. 6.2.9 the Disciples assembling and Christs ●ppearing unto them two severall first days of ●he week John 20.19 26. And the Disciples ●omming together and breaking bread and ●reaching afterwards on that day Acts 20.7 ● Cor. 16.2 and Johns being in the spirit on ●he Lords day I say consider whether these ●hings do not prove that the first day of the weeke is to be kept as the Christians Sab●ath Consider fifthly whether the Apostles saying Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right Honour thy Father ●nd thy Mother which is the first comman●ement with the promise Ephes. 6.12 And ●ll those other exhortations given by him ●nd the Apostle Peter both to inferiours and ●uperiours to doe their duties either to other Ephes. 5.22 25. Ephes. 6.4 5 9. Col. 3.18.19 ●0 21 22 Titus 3.1 1 Pet. 3.1 1 Pet. 2.18 ● say consider whether all these places doe not prove that the duties of the fifth commandement are required in the new Testament Here you see are five of the ten commandements and as for the other five the Apostle reckons them up all together saying Thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steal thou shalt not beare false witnesse thou shalt not covet now judge you whether the ten commandements be not repeated in the new Testamenr and so consequently whether they be not the law of Christ and whether a believer be not under the law to Christ or in the law through Christ as the Apostles phrase is 1 Cor. 9.21 Ant. But yet Sir as I remember both Luther and Calvin doe speake as though a believer were so quite freed from the law by Christ as that hee need not make any conscience at all of yielding obedience to it Evan. I know

wils and desires it in whom thou hast sayd thou art well pleased yea here is the person that hath paid the debt and discharged the bond for all my sins and therefore ô Lord now it standeth with thy justice to forgive me and thus if you doe why then you may bee assured that Christ executes his Priestly office in you Neo. I pray you Sir in the third place shew me how a man may know that Christ executes his kingly office in him Evan. Why so far forth as any man hears and knows That all prwer is given unto Christ both in heaven and in earth both to vanquish and overcome all the lusts and corruptions of believers and to write his law in their hearts hereupon takes occasion to goe unto Christ for the doing of both in him I say so far forth as he doth this why Christ executes his kingly office in him Neo. Why then Sir it seems that the place where Christ executes his kingly office is in the hearts of believers Evan. It is true indeed for Christs Kingdome is not temporall or secular over the naturall lives or civill negotiations of men but his Kingdome is spirituall and heavenly over the souls of men to awe and over-rule the hearts to captivate the affections to bring into obedience the thoughts and to subdue and pul down strong holds for when our father Adam transgressed he and we all of us forsooke God and chose the devill for ou● lord king so that every mothers child of 〈◊〉 are by nature under the government of Satan and he rules over us till Christ come into our hearts and disposseseth him according to the saying of Christ himself Luk. 11.21 22. When a strong man armed keeps the Palace his goods are in peace that is sayth Calvin Satan holdeth them that are in subjection to him in such bonds and quiet possession that he rules over them without resistance But when Christ comes to dwell in any mans heart by faith according to the measure nf faith hee dispossesseth him seats himself in the heart and roots out and puls down all that withstands his government there and as a valiant Captain he stands upon his guard enables the soule to gather together all its forces and powers to resist and withstand all its and his enemies and to set it selfe in good earnest against them when they at any time offer to return again and he doth especially enable the soule to resist and set it selfe against the principall enemie even that which doth most oppose Christ in his government so that whatsoever lust or corruption is in a believers heart or soule as most predominant CHRIST doth inable him to take that into his minde and to have most revengefull thoughts against it and to make complaints to him against it and to desire power and strength from him against it and all because it most withstands the government of Christ and is the rankest traitor to Christ so that hee useth all the means he can to bring it before the judgement seat of Christ and there hee calls for justice against it saying O Lord Jesus Christ here is a rebell and a traitor that doth withstand thy government in me wherfore I pray thee come and execute thy Kingly office in me and subdue it yea vanquish and overcome it whereupon Christ gives the same answer that he did to the Centurion goe thy way and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee And as Christ doth thus suppresse all other governours but himselfe in the heart of a believer so doth he race out and deface all other laws and writes his own there according to his promise Jer. 31.33 and makes them plyable and willing to doe and suffer his will and that because it is his will so that the minde and will of Christ laid down in his Word and manifested in his Works is not onely the rule of a believers obedience but also the reason of it As I once heard a godly Minister say in the Pulpit So that he doth not onely doe that which is Christs will but he doth it because it is his will O that man which hath the law of Christ written in his heart according to the measure of it he reads he hears he prayes and receives the Sacrament and doth all the duties required in the first table of the Law and that because he knows it is the minde and will of Christ he should doe so yea he doth not onely doe the duty of the first table but of the second also by vertue of Christs command ô that husband parent master or Magistrate that hath the Law of Christ written in his heart hee doth his duty to his wife childe servant and subject and that because Christ commands it and so that wife childe servant or subject that hath the law of Christ written in their hearts doe their duties to their husband parent master or governour and that because Christ requires it And now when you finde these things in your heart why answerably you may conclude that Christ executes his kingly office in you Neo. Well Sir now I doe plainly see that it is no marvail though my heart hath been hitherto restlesse sith I have sought rest for it where it is not to be found Evan. My occasions doe now begin to call me away from you neverthelesse you having begun to speake of the hearts rest I shall by the Lords assistance now at our parting as a conclusion of this our discourse speake somwhat of the soules rest if you will be pleased to heare me Neo. Withall my heart Sir but first I would intreat you to tell me why you call the hearts rest the soules rest Evan. Because heart and soule are put oftentimes the one for the other for indeed the heart is the soules chare of state wherein it keeps it residencie But to come to the point I would intreat you to consider with me that when God at first gave man an elementish body he did also infuse into him an immortall soule of a spirituall substance and though he gave his soule a locall being in his body yet he gave it a spirituall wel-being in himselfe so that the soule was in the body by location and at rest in God by union and communication and this being of the soule in God at first was mans true being and his true happinesse now man falling from God God in his justice left man so that the actuall union and communion that the soule of man had with God at first is broken off God and mans soule are parted and it is in a restlesse condition howbeit the Lord having seated in mans soule a certain character of himselfe the soule is thereby made to re-aspire towards that summum bonum that chief good even God himselfe and can finde no rest no where till it come to him Nom. But stay Sir I pray you how can it be sayd that

justified by faith it is a very needless thing for him to endevour to keep the law and to do good works Evan. I remember Luther sayth that in his time there were some that did reason after the like manner if faith say they do accomplish all things and if faith be onely and alone sufficient unto righteousnesse to what end then are wee commanded to doe good deeds we may go play us then and work no working at all to whom hee makes an answer saying not so ye ungodly not so And there were others that said If the law do not justifie then is it in vaine and of none effect yet is it not therefore true saith he for like as this consequence is nothing worth money doth not justifie or make a man righteous therefore it is unprofitable the eyes doe not justifie therefore they must be plucked out the hands make not a man righteous therefore they must be cut off so is this nought also the law doth not justifie therefore it is unprofitable we do not therefore destroy and condemne the law because wee say it doth not justifie but we say with Paul the law is good if a man do rightly use it and that this is a faithfull saying That they which have believed in God might be carefull to mayntaine good works these things are good and profitable unto men Neo. Truly Sir for mine own part I do much marvell that this my friend Antinomista should be so confident of his faith in Christ and yet so little regard holinesse of life and keeping of Christs commandements as it seemes hee doth for I give the Lord thanks I doe now in some small measure believe that I am by Christ freely and fully justified and acquitted from all my sins and therefore have no need eyther to eschew evill or do good for feare of punishment or hope of reward and yet me thinks I finde my heart more willing and desirous to doe what the Lord commands and to avoid what hee forbids then ever it was before I did thus believe surely Sir I doe perceive that faith in Christ is no hinderance to holinesse of life as I once thought it was Evan. Neighbour Neophytus if our friend Antinomista do content himself with a meere Gospell knowledge in a notionary way and have run out to fetch in notions from Christ and yet is not fetcht in by the power of Christ let us pitty him pray for him and in the mean time I pray you know that true faith in Christ is so far from being a hinderance from holinesse of life and good works that it is the onely furtherance for onely by faith in Christ a man is enabled to exercise all Christian graces a-right and to performe all Christian duties a-right which before he could not As for example before a man believe Gods love to him in Christ though he may have a kind of love to God as he is his creatour and preserver and gives him many good things for this present life yet if God do but open his eyes to see what condition his soul is in that is if he do but let him see that relation that is betwixt God and him according to the tenour of the conant of works then he conceives of him as an angry Judge armed with justice against him and must be pacified by the works of the law whereunto he finds his nature opposite and contrary and therefore hee hates both God and his law and doth secretly wish and desire there were neyther God nor law and though God should now give unto him never so many temporall blessings yet could hee not love him for what malefactour could love that Judge or his law from whom he expects the sentence of condemnation though he should feast him at his table with never so many dainties But after that the kindnesse and love of God his Saviour hath appeared not by works of righteousnesse that he hath done but according to his mercy hee saved him that is when as by the eye of faith he sees himselfe to stand in relation to God according to the tenour of the covenant of grace then he conceives of God as a most mercifull and loving Father to him in Christ that hath freely pardoned ●nd forgiven him all his sins and quite released him from the covenant of works and by this means the love of God is shed abroad in his hart through the Holy Ghost which is given to him and then he loves God because he first loved him for as a man seeth and feeleth by faith the love and favour of God towards him in Christ his Son so doth he love again both God and his law and indeed it is impossible for any man to love God till by faith hee know himself loved of God Secondly though a man before he believe Gods love to him in Christ may have a great measure of legall humiliation compunction sorrow and griefe and be brought down as it were to the very gate of hell and feele the very flashings of hell fire in his conscience for his sins yet is it not because hee hath thereby offended God but rather because he hath thereby offended himself that is because hee hath thereby brought himselfe into the danger of eternal death and condemnation but when once he believes the love of God to him in Christ in pardoning his iniquity and passing by his transgression then he sorrows grieves for the offence of God by the sin reasoning thus with himselfe and is it so indeed hath the Lord given his own Sonne to death for me who hath been such a vile sinfull wretch and hath Christ borne all my sins and was hee wounded for my transgressions ô then the working of his bowels the stirring of his affections the melting and relenting of his repenting heart then he remembers his own evill ways and his doings that were not good and loaths himselfe in his own eyes for all his abominations and looking upon Christ whom he hath pierced he mournes bitterly for him as one mourneth for his onely sonne thus when faith hath bathed a mans heart in the bloud of Christ it is so mollified that it quickly dissolues into the teares of godly sorrow so that if Christ doe but turn and look upon him ô then with Peter hee goes out and weeps bitterly and this is true gospel mourning and this is right evangelicall repenting Thirdly Though before a man doe truly believe in Christ he may so reforme his life and amend his ways that as touching the righteousnesse which is of the Law he may be with the Apostle blamelesse yet being under the covenant of works all the obedience that he yields to the Law all his leaving of sin and performance of duties all his avoyding of what the law forbids and all his doing of what the law commands is begotten by the law of works of Hagar the bond-woman by the force of self-love