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A30025	A short view of the Antinomian errours with a briefe and plaine answer to them, as the heads of them lye in order in the next page of this book : being a nest of cursed errors hatched by hereticks, fed and nourished by their proselites : being taken as they were flying abroad were brought as the eagle doth her young ones to see if they could endure to looke upon the sun-beams of truth with fixed eyes, the which they could not : were presently adjudged to be a bastard brood, and their necks chopt off, and their carkasses throwne to the dunghill.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1643 (1643)	Wing B537; ESTC R38704	43,620	40

inherent but by imputation Then are we freed from the law no then are we tyed faster in obedience to it forasmuch as we had no power before to do it but now through Christ we can doe all things Againe they say they have the spirit of God for their rule and they doe all by a free spirit and need not the law to rule them for they are like unto trees that bring forth fruit of themselves without any teaching But let them know that trees although they were never so rooted in the earth yet they would never bring forth fruit of themselves but by the meanes of outward helps as the Sunne and the raine and other helpes and besides the spirit of God brings them to the rule of the law to square and try all their actions by it and shewes us wherein we faile and when we doe that which is required of us But sure these men thinke that our Fathers went to Heaven by one meanes and we must goe thither by another meanes but saith the Apostle we write unto you no new commandement but the old which ye have had from the beginning then there is but one way Ier. 32.39 for them and us had they the law so have we and if we have the Gospell so had they and the law and the gospell command the same vertues and both forbid the same vices then what a cursed errour is this to thinke that God the sonne should free beleevers from all obedience to God the Father but we know that he who honours the son must needs honour the Father Iohn 5.23 the sonne speakes not of himselfe but from the Father ver 16. then he that saith he abideth in him ought himselfe also to walke even as he walked 1 John 2.6 but how was that saith he Loe I come in the volume of thy booke it is written of me to doe thy will O God then said I loe I come to doe thy will O God Heb. 10.7.9 and saith he I seeke not mine owne will but the will of the Father that sent me John 5.30 Mat. 26.39 my doctrine is not mine but his that sent me Iohn 7.16 he was subject to his Parents Luke 2.51 and saith Paul let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus Phil. 2.5 and Christ saith learne of me Mat. 11.29 I have given you an example that ye should doe as I have done to you if ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them Ioh. 13.15.17 and for suffering he left us an example that we should follow his steps 1. Pet. 2.21 then did Christ free us from the law or did he not rather by his own example shew us how to obey the law more exactly and saith David thy law endures for ever in heaven Psa 119.89 and the Angels do the commandments of God and hearken to the voice of his word Psal 10.3 and do not the Saints liev there by the same rule have they not all one charter why doth Christ teach us to pray that we may doe the will of God on earth as it is done in heaven Mat. 6. are we on earth more perfect then they or more sanctified then they or hath Christ done more for us then for them if not why then should we forsake that rule that must be for Saints and Angels for ever they boast of their justification but saith Ambrose how can they be justified that are not friends with the law of God and Luther whom they chall●nge for their own friend he rangeth them among the unjustified and by his c●nsure rejects them among the unregenerate for saith he Paul said I delight in the law of God in the inward man and I serve the law of God in my mind Rom. 7.22.25 and saith David O how I love thy law Psal 119.97 and the blessed man delights in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night Psal 1.2 then were Christ and his Apostles and the faithfull Ministers that succeed them all legall Preachers for urging the law and pressing on beleevers the obedience of the law yea to the law more strictly expounded by Christ as you shall see anon then it was by the Scribes and Pharisees Then he that neglects the Commandements and shall teach men so shall be least in the Kingdome of Heaven but he that doeth them and teacheth men so shall be called great in the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 5.19 againe how can a man teach obedience of faith but he must needs teach obedience to the law for if faith beare no fruits it is a dead faith James 2.17 18. and if those workes or fruits be not regulated by the law they are but grapes of gall which growes on the vine of Sodom and their clusters are bitter Deut. 32.32 the workes of the law and the workes of faith are the same thing they may be distinguished but not devided and saith Christ to the Lawyer what is written in the law how readest thou and he answered thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe and Christ said unto him thou hast answered right this doe and thou shalt live Luke 10.26 27 28. and doth not faith worke by love Gal. 5.6 againe how can a man beleeve that God will shew mercy to thousands of them that love him and keepe his commandements Exod. 20.6 when they shew no endeavour at all to keepe or obey them but scornfully terme them legall teachers that call for any obedience from them but what makes them to love God if the commanding power of his law doth not or if they yeeld to this command of the law why not as well to another b●t if they love God and not as a duty to his law that commands it it is bottomlesse groundlesse and in the end will be comfortlesse and why doe they beleeve in Christ but to fulfill the Fathers commandement for this is his commandement that we should beleeve on the name of his sonne Jesus Christ and love one another as he the father gave us commandement 1 Iohn 3.23 this is the vvorke of God to beleeve on him vvhom he hath sent Iohn 6.29 Then doe we make void the law through faith God forbid y●a we establish the law Rom. 3.31 being not without th● law to God but under the law to Christ 1 Cor. 9. ●1 He that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men Rom. 14.18 He th●● speaketh evill of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evill of the law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge Jam. 4.11 If ye have respect to persons ye commit sinne and are convinced of the law as transgressors whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all for he that said thou shalt not commit adultery

said also thou shalt not kill now if thou doe not commit adultery yet if thou kill thou art a transgressour of the law Jam. 2.9.10.11 Then bear one anothers burden and so fulfill the law of Christ Gal. 6.2 here Christ claimes the law to be his There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy Iam. 4.12 the Prophets came all saying Thus saith the Lord but when Christ came and cleered the law from those false glosses of the Scribes and Pharisees which say thou shalt not kill but I say whosoever is angry vvith his brother without a cause is in danger of judgement Mat. 5. and ye have heard say thou shalt not commit adultery but I say whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery already in his heart and so of the rest therefore obey it and so fulfill the law of Christ for he saith I am not come to destroy the law till Heaven and earth passe away not one tittle or jot shall in no wise passe from the law Mat. 5.17.18 now when Christ hath claimed the law to be his and cleered it from their false glosses then there comes a young man to him saying Master what good thing shall I doe to inherite eternall life then Christ answers him directly saying ●f thou wilt enter into life keepe the Commandements he saith unto him which Christ answered him thou shalt not commit adultery nor murther nor steale nor beare false witnesse honour thy father and mother and love thy neighbour as thy selfe Mat. 19.16 17. and although outwardly he had beene doing something for which Christ loved him yet there was that inward lust of covetousnesse stucke fast in his heart therefore Christ sends him backe to the law to be humbled for it this one thing thou lackest Marke 10.21 before thou art fit for faith or to have treasure in heaven goe to the law and see thy sinne for by the law is the knowledge of sinne Rom. 3.20 then is the law sinne nay I had not known sinne but by the law I had not knowne lust except the law had said thou shalt not lust Rom. 7.7 and the law shewes us our failings when we are in the state of grace for it we should cast off the law from being a rule to us we should neither know when we sin nor how to recover our selves for where no law is there is no transgression Rom. 4.15 for whosoever sinneth transgresseth the law for sinne is the transgression of the law 1 Ioh. 3.4 then it is time Lord to worke when they have made voyd thy law Psal 119.126 rivers of teares runne downe mine eyes because they keepe not thy law ver 136. so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God for the carnall mind is enmity against God it is not subject the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8.7 Then what shall we say to those sonnes of Beliall that are so weary of the law that as much as in them lyes they seeke to make it void both in the commanding duties and forbidding of vices but cursed be such tenets hath the divell so prevailed with them as to make them take counsell against the Lord and against his Anointed saying let us breake their cords and cast away their bonds from us Psal 2.2 3. How dare they say that Christ hath freed them from all duty and that they owe the Lord no obedience at all so that what they doe is out of their free love and curtesie and not from any duty or obedience to his law which is no rule for beleevers But doe they make void the law God forbid Rom. 3.31 faith should be imployed to fetch power from Christ to enable us to obey the law vve are not sufficient of our selves to thinke any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3.5 but vve can doe all things through Christ strengthening us Phil. 4.13 then faith doth not free us of our duty but makes us more able to performe our duty to the law of God and therefore it is called the obedience of faith Rom. 1.5 it stands not with true faith to call them legall divines by way of scorne and dirision that call upon us and put us in mind of our duty to the Lord because say they we owe him none but let them know and be sure that their sinnes will find them out Numb 32.23 let them take heed how they say that God is like to themselves lest he reprove them and set their sinnes in order before them now consider this ye that forget God lest he teare you in peeces and there be none to deliver you Psal 50.21.22 certainly that man was never justified from his sinne that thinkes it not his duty to mortifie it and doth not grieve and mourne for want of strength to subdue it and his duty to pray against it which our Antinomeans renounce saying this is legall teaching and they will try their condition onely from a bare testimony as I said before although it be a suggestion of the divell it may serve their turne well enough while they despise the operation of the spirit of God sanctifying and changing them and setting up his owne Image in them giving them grace for grace with Christ they say if we looke upon these markes and signes to know our condition this is legall this vvill not stand with their free grace vvhich frees them of that labour vvhich should search and try them they take all from a testimony vvithout examination but this building vvill not endure the storme of persecution Then they say that they love God terribly and this frees them from their duty they say the love of Christ constraines them but they vvill not tell us to what for they flatly deny all duty to the Law of God but saith Christ when ye have done all that ye can you have but done your duty Luke 17.10 and saith Christ ye call me Lord and Master and ye say well for so I am but then ye ought to wash one anothers feet for the servant is not above the Master if ye knovv these things happy are ye if ye doe them John 13.15.16 if the yong man call him Master presently he sends him to his worke and duty of obedience Mat. 19.17 if I be your Master vvhere is my feare Mat. 1.6 It is not enough to call him Lord and Master and then to deny all duty of obedience to him this was the love of Judas who cryed Hale Master when he betrayed him so these men say that they love him dearely but they defie all duty to him for they owe him none but time will come when they that say Lord Lord shall not come to heaven but he that doth the vvill of my Father which is in heaven Mat. 7.21 But their true love frees them from all duty but what love they have I know not for this is the law of God that we keepe his Commandements

mans law but by Christ-alone so I say too but will it follow hence that because the law doth not justifie a sinner therefore it is void it is like as if a man should say that because he cannot heare with his eyes nor see with his eares therefore they are all void and of no use to him this is Antinomean divinity And so because the terrours and torments of the law are taken off to beleevers therefore the law is void to Antinomeans if this be so then if the sting of death be taken off to beleevers by their divinity they must not dye nor be ●courged for their sinne but as the sting of death and afflictions is taken away to beleevers and so they are sweetned unto them but not taken away so the ●urse or sting of the law is taken away yet the law is not made void and so ●ne of Luthers Schollers saith the Regenerate are not under the law in respect ●f justification accusation condemnation or coaction but he affirmeth a ●●reefold use of the law to the Regenerate First as a doctrine to direct in du●es Secondly as a glasse to see the defects of them Thirdly to restrain cor●●ption that is in them And Master Calvin in his second book of Institutions ●●ap 7. sect 12. speakes of the morall law as it concernes the faithfull how ●●ey should use it namely to know the will of God and by the fervent meditation of it they should be excited to the obedience of it and strengthened in their obedience of it and restrained from the offences of it in the 13. sect Libertines deny the law because it is the ministration of death but farre be it from us saith hee to hold such a prophane opinion he saith it hath an excellent use namely to be a perperuall rule of life and so in the 14. and 15. sect and in the third booke 19. chap. sect 2. he saith although Christians must lift themselves above the law and forget the righteousnesse of the law yet saith he we must not conclude the law as needlesse for it doth not cease to teach to exhort and to incite to good though before Gods Tribunall it hath no place in our consciences the law therefore by Master Calvins doctrine and determination abideth by Christ an unviolable doctrine I might mention many famous Divines that have confuted this cursed heresie in their several ages but I will only here mention one more to these two of famous memory in the Church of God because their bookes are all extant and easie to be had without much trouble to the Reader it is that judicious Mr. Perkins in his fruitfull writings appeareth every where as in his Golden-cheyn chap. 31. having set downe the use of the morall law in the unregenerate he concludeth that the use of the law in the Regenerate is farre otherwise for it guideth them to new obedience which may be acceptable to God through Christ and in his Commentary on the Gall. page 172. line 6. he sheweth that still the Lord repeateth his law in his old tenure First to teach us that the law is of a constant and unchangeable nature Secondly to advertise us of our weaknesse and to shew us what we cannot doe Thirdly to put us in mind still to humble us after we have begun by grace to obey the law because even then we came farre short in doing the things which the law requireth a● our hands and on page 119. line 35. he enquireth now faith is come what i● the guard whereby we are now kept from sinne he answereth the morall law which is as stakes and nailes fastened to range men in the compasse of thei● owne duties Eccles 12.11 and upon page 201. line ●4 he puts forth this question how farre the morall law is abrogated his answer is three wayes First in respect of justification Secondly of maladiction Thirdly in respect ●● rigour for them that are in Christ God accepteth their endeavours to obe● for obedience it selfe neverthelesse saith he the law as it is a rule of good li●● is unchangeable and admitteth no abrogation and Christ in this regard did 〈◊〉 his death establish it Rom. 3.31 and page 253. li. 35. he saith the law must 〈◊〉 considered two wayes First as a rule of life thus Angels are under the la● and Adam before his fall and the Saints in Heaven and none yeeld more ●●●jection to the law then they and this subjection is their liberty but wh●● did the Antinomeans learne this divinity that Christ came to abrogate ●●● law of Innoce●cy which Adam had before his fall or the eternall law of Sai●●● and Angels glorified also in his Treatise of conscience chap. 2. he saith 〈◊〉 morall law bindeth the consciences of all men and at all times to obedience Now good Reader get these bookes Calvins Institutions and Luther and Perkins on the Galla. and see these things that thou maiest be satisfied and shake off these seducers as Paul shook off the Viper Acts 28.5 lest thou perish eternally by them Well thus we have driven them from their strong holds the Scripture is against them and good men forsake them for they have made lyes their refuge and under falshood have they hid themselves but the haile shall sweep away their refuge of lyes and the waters shall overflow their hiding place Isa 28.15.17 But when thou art spoyled what wilt thou doe though thou cloathest thy selfe with Crimson though thou deckest thy selfe with Ornaments of gold though thou paintest thy face with painting in vaine shalt thou make thy selfe faire thy lovers will despise thee Jer. 4.30 Thou art called to give an account of thy Stewardship art thou resolved what to doe that when thou art put out thy Antinomean proselites may receive thee into their houses Luke 16.2.4 thou hast but one shift more that when thy Masters debters are called to deny half their debt to take their bill and presently discharge them of all their debt written in the old Testament and if this will not please them to receive thee when God and good men have cast thee off then take thy bill and write presently scriptum est any thing is scripture and of an equall vallue with it if it be but written in a play booke or ballad if this will not doe to be maintained privately amongst them tell them that thou knowest no word of God but Christ and this word is in thee and therefore thou needest no other helpe without thou art so full of light within these things comes next to be answered They deny utterly the authority of the old Testament yet this need not to trouble us when as it is so abundantly confirmed both by Christ and his Apostles in the new not onely by coating of it but giving it the name and title of Scripture Paul speaking of Genesis saith What saith the scripture Abraham beleeved God Rom. 4.3 and of Exodus The Scripture saith unto Pharaoh Rom. 9.17 and of Numbers