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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49230	Vindiciæ Evangelii, or, A vindication of the Gospel, with the establishment of the law being a reply to Mr. Steven Geree's treatise entituled, The doctrine of the Antinomians confuted : wherein he pretends to charge divers dangerous doctrines on Dr. Crisp's sermons, as anti-evangelical and antinomical / by Robert Lancaster ...	Lancaster, Robert, b. 1603 or 4.	1694 (1694)	Wing L313; ESTC R5714	69,011	72

the simple enlightens the eyes But here he hath deceived himself with the ambiguity of the word Law which any smatterer in Divinity knows sometimes to be taken 1. Generally for the whole word of God as Psal 1.2 And most frequently all the Psalms through 2. Particularly and properly for the Decalogue or covenant of works given from the beginning but renewed upon Mount-Sinai Rom. 10.3,4,5 3. For the Gospel Isa 2.3 where it is said the Law shall go out of Sion So then as the Law in its primacy and proper signification doth signifie a doctrine and secondarily but most usually the doctrine of God so in Psal 19. it signifies the whole word of God which is in reference to that part of it only which holds forth Christ and Salvation gives life and light and wisdom that is the Gospel which is the power of God unto Salvation to the believer Rom. 1.17 So saith Calvin upon the place David here commends the whole doctrine of the Law as comprehending the Gospel and therefore including Christ in it So saith Mr. G. the ministers are said to open mens eyes by Preaching the word Act. 26.18 True but it is the word of the Gospel which is the ministration of the spirit Gal. 3.2 Which is the joyful news of the grace of God Act. 20.24 Whereby alone we are partakers of the promise Eph. 3.6 In which spiritual eyes are contained Isa 42.6 Faith cometh by hearing Rom. 10.14 By hearing of what or of whom The next ver will shew you As it is written how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of peace For the Law is not of faith Gal. 3.12 Sect. 13. The Dr. saith that the giving of Repentance is meerly the work of Christ here Mr. G. begins what shall I call it but to boast himself If I miscall it let the Reader judg We teach Repentance more and better than they Hereunto I shall say nothing but desire the Lord to open the mouths of all the Ministers of Christ that they may more abundantly preach true christian Repentance to a full and serious self-denial in all things That man may be taught to own the shame of his own doings that God may have the full glory of his free grace in Christ But Mr. G. suspects this word meerly when it is said that it is meerly the work of Christ to give Repentance Here I confess he hath picht upon the very point of all our differences All our controversies in a manner ly in this word meerly or onely That Christ onely and meerly Saves that he onely and meerly gives Repentance and Faith If we could but dispence to leave out this word the world would be at peace with us That it might be lawfull for them to say Christ and we Save Christ and we give Repentance and Faith Christ and we pacifie Gods Anger But utterly to thrust out man that he may have no finger in these matters makes him storm and fume and devise all manner of reproaches against us This word onely Faith i. e. onely Christ was the Apple of contention among the first reforming publishers of the Gospel What said one of the Worthies of former times Fulk de Christo gratis justificante do we seek after in Preaching in Writing in Labouring what do we else but that Christ only and meerly may be received by all as the Saviour and Redeemer of all Contrariwise your Popish opinions what do they breath what do they beat upon whither do they tend but to this one thing that Christ onely may not Reign alone in his Church That he onely may not Save and Redeem us by his self alone That he only and meerly may not be our high Priest who both made Satisfaction for our sins with one onely Sacrifice once made c. Though God hath established a ministry to preach Repentance yet hath he established none to give Repentance That is the peculiar prerogative of Christ After the Minister hath done his office by instructing in meekness those that are contrary-minded it remains still to be expected if God will give them Repentance to the acknowledgment of the Truth 2 Tim. 2.25 Sect. 14. Of Faith I have spoken before in Sect. 12. how it comes by hearing Mr. G. demands further How he will make this good that Faith is the root of all gifts of grace seeing he saith Knowledg is wrought first Why did he put Repentance before Faith unless it went before it Or else doth he make Repentance and Faith the same To the first Question I Answer that the knowledg the Dr. speaks of is nothing else but the beginnings of Faith Neither doth the Scripture make such an accurate distinction between them Joh. 3.15 It is said that he that believeth on Christ hath Eternal Life Joh. 17.3 It is said that to know him is Life Eternal where Believing and Knowing are words of the same signification By his knowledg shall my Righteous Servant justifie many Isa 53.11 That is by Faith in him Also where Faith is called the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 This Evidence must needs include a knowledg So then knowledg as the beginning of Faith may be said to be wrought first and yet no gift precede Faith To the second why Repentance is mentioned before Faith I Answer as before that although Repentance go not before Faith yet hath it reference to that state which goes before Faith But that in nature nor time it doth not go before Faith I have partly manifested before And surely whatsoever is not Faith is Sin To his third Question whether we make Faith and Repentance all one I Answer no not adaequately Yet we say there is no Repentance truely acceptable unto God in whose difinition Faith is not And if Mr. G's observation be true we may call Repentance Faith and Faith Repentance and that by the Authority of the Scriptures Pag. 73. in marg Surely this is putting a less difference between them 4. 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