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A78551	Animadversions on Mr. William Dells book intituled The crucified and quickned Christian. By Humfry Chambers, D.D. Pastor of Pewsy in the county of Wilts. Novemb. vicessimo, 1652. Imprimatur John Owen Vicecan. Oxon.	Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing C1912; Thomason E686_3; Thomason E686_4; ESTC R206849	85,353	100

old Protestant doctrine of mortification teacheth men freely to say Amen to this prayer SECT IX Nevertheless I live EVery true Believer is as well quickned with Christ as crucified with him I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live A So that as the humanity of Christ which is the first Example and Pattern to which the whole Church is conformed being deprived of its own proper life through the Word and Spirit that dwelt in it had instead thereof the life of the Son of God communicated to it and that Son of man having parted with his own proper life out of himself did yet truly live in the same soul and body the life of the Eternal Word and was so crucified that neverthelesse he lived so also it is with all Christians And therefore Paul saith out of his own experience I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live as if he had said I am not crucified to death but to life my crucifying with Christ is my quickning for by this means I am so killed that I live the more yea now onely I do truly live being formerly dead My own proper life in my self was my death but Christs life in me is my true life For I was dead with the worst death to wit in trespasses and sins but now I live in the best life even the life of righteousnesse B Whence it is manifest that the living Word and Spirit of Christ in a Christian do so kill the life of his flesh which is a life of sin and sorrow and darknesse and death that at the same time they communicate to the same man to the same soul and body a true and spiritual and holy and heavenly and eternal life C For no man is crucified with Christ but he also lives with him seeing the same Word that kils our life communicates Christs and Christ crucifies us with himself not that he may kill us but that he may quicken us and our quickning is the end of our crucifying and our crucifying is the way to our quickening D Indeed the killing of the flesh by the sword or famine or the Law or any way else is death indeed or death unto death but the killing of the flesh by the living Word and Spirit which is its crucifying with Christ is death unto life And here again we may note this also That the true life of a Christian begins from his crucifying and dying with Christ and also the true crucifying and dying of a Christian begins from his life in Christ For both these inseparably go together to wit our crucifying and our quickening with Christ But our crucifying with Christ is named first in order because it is first in manifestation seeing after we believe Christs death is first manifested in us before Christs life though Christs life be first in us in order of nature the crucifying of our flesh flowing from the life of his Spirit This then is the sum of this matter E That the living Word dwelling in us destroyes the proper life of the flesh and takes up the flesh into the life of it self and the Spirit And so a man in union with Christ hath his own life destroyed out of him and Christs own life communicated to him So that in the true Believer the soul and body of man live in the life of the Son of God as was done in the flesh of Christ our elder Brother And thus the flesh lives a life that is not of the flesh yea thus the creature lives in it self the life of God For as that eternal life that was with the Father was manifested in the Son that is in his flesh or humanity and all Believers have seen and known it so also that very life of the Father and the Son is both communicated to the Saints and also manifest in them as faith very well knows F And this is the great mystery of the Gospel let them receive it that can receive it ANIMADVERSION 9. A IN these words Mr Dell hath couched together six strange positions to which I would say more in this place but that the matter of them is discussed and the errour of them as I conceive discovered in my Animadversions on other passages of this book 1. That the humanity of Christ was deprived of its own proper life through the word and spirit that dwelt in it 2. That in stead thereof it had the life of the Son of God communicated to it 3. That the son of man parted with his own proper life out of himself 4. That he did yet live truly in the same soul and body the life of the eternal word 5. That the whole church is conformed to the pattern of the humanity of Christ in point of living the life of the eternal word 6. That the Son of man was so crucified that neverthelesse he lived whilst he was crucified If Mr Dell can produce one Scripture in proof of any one of these Positions I am utterly unacquainted with it I think it may be truly said of them recitasse est refutasse the reciting is a sufficient refuting of them B That the spirit of Christ in a Christian doth so kil the life of his flesh that is of his body of sin that at the same time it doth communicate to the same man to the same soul and body a true spiritual holy heavenly and eternal life is a known truth acknowledged by those whose souls have not entred into Mr Dels secrets If this be all he meaneth and mindeth he should but use old plain words and he should find consent of judgement in all his brethren Me thinks the words of the Lord to Job should sound loudly in the ears of some men in our dayes who are of a deeper language in matters of Religion then that their brethren can well understand them Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge Job 38.2 It is the glory of the Ministers of the Gospel not to be vail'd like Moses but to use much plainnesse of speech in their doctrine seeing the Lord shineth in their hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ C All this in a sound sence is sound doctrine If the words be not put upon new tentors they do not outreach the old apprehensions of Gods servants amongst us D Is it the same flesh as these words import which is killed by the sword or famine and which is killed by the Law and Spirit of Christ and so crucified with him Me thinks no Christian which ever looked into the Scriptures should upon second thoughts say so The one is evidently the material body and the other the body of sin which are things vastly different E That Christ by his Spirit in believers destroyeth the proper life of the flesh understanding thereby the old man is very true but then it is utterly false that Christ takes up that flesh into the life of the Spirit of God And

comfortably and confidently say with the Apostle It is no more I. SECT XII Yet not I. ANd here I must needs note one thing more e're I conclude this matter and that is this Note A That a believer must be so much taken up into Christ by faith that as Christ must work all in him so he must attribute all Christs works unto Christ and none to himself still saying in the midst and exercise of all Graces and Vertues It is not I It is not I that live but Christ himself that lives in me this life of Grace Righteousnesse Wisdom Meeknesse Goodnesse Humility Patience Power Love c. It is not I that live it in my self but Christ that lives it in me as he saith elsewhere I laboured more abundantly then they all yet not I but the Grace of God that dwelleth in me After the same manner as every Christian must keep his Rest in Christ and must suffer Christ to work all his own works in him so he must still attribute all Christs works unto Christ and be still saying It is not I but Christ in me that hath done these works that hath endured and overcome these evils B And thus we must keep our Sabbath in Christ as Christ kept his Sabbath in God For Christ was so taken up into God and filled with him that he said of his humanity I can do nothing of my self and again the Father within me he doth the works and again the words that I speak are not mine but his that sent me and so Christ in all great works said not I but the Father in me so we in all our works that are truly spiritual must say not we but Christ in us C And this onely a mortified Christian can truely perform for others will be attributing the works of Christ to themselves rather then to Christ and be glorying in themselves more then in him It follows ANIMADVERSION 12. A A Greed agreed if as Mr Dell speaks Scripture language so he will hold to the plain Scripture meaning of the words Christ by his spirit is questionlesse the fountain of all good in his members and they must and will attribute all Christs works unto Christ and none to themselves still saying in the midst of the exercise of all graces and vertues It is not I but Christ himself that lives in me this life of grace B Though this be besides the main point now in hand yet I would see a Scripture which calleth our Saviours universal submission to his Fathers will or if Mr Dell likes not this explication then to use his own words his being taken up into God and filled with God his sabbatisme or sabbath-keeping If Mr Dell do here glance at the conscionable observation of the weekly sabbath as unnecessary as it is doubtful likewise whether he doth under the name of the sabbath Sect. 7. T and under the name of the Lords day Sect. 15. C he should do well to speak out that his minde may be known and his judgement in this point considered of by the word of God C To my certain knowledge very many who find no sweetnesse in Mr Dels new doctrine of no distinct personality in believers from the Son of God are by this mark which he makes infallible to be judged mortified Christians for they dare not attribute the works of Christ unto themselves and therefore glorie not in themselves but in Christ acknowledging that without him they can do nothing and joying in this with the Apostle that they can do all things through Christ who strengthneth them Phil. 4.13 SECT XIII But Christ lives in me A FOr least any should think that Paul had a new habit of life created in him he adds this that we must know it was Christ himself within him that was his life even that Word of life and Son of God that made the world and no created habit of life That as that Word that was with God and was God and dwelt in the humanity of Christ was that very life of his humanity So the same Word of God dwelling in us through Christ is also our life as it was his And as the body hath no habit of life in it self distinct and apart from the reasonable soul but the soul it self that dwels in the body is the life of the body and when the soul withdraws the body is dead and hath no habit of life in it self afterwards so the life of a Christian doth as immediately flow from Christ as the life of the body from the soul and if Christ should withdraw all Spiritual life would leave him and the Second death would swallow him up And as the very presence of the soul in each member is the Life of it so is Christs presence in all his Members their true and very life Wherefore saith Paul here Christ lives in me as God lived in Christ and as the Soul lives in the Body And so as Paul had affirmed before That it was not he that lived so here he shows Who it was that did live in him and that is Christ Christ lives in me B Indeed the Soul and Body were Pauls but Paul did not live in his own Soul and Body but Christ himself did live in them and so Paul lived the life of another in himself the life of Christ in his own soul and body and the soul and body of Paul were but a Temple in which Christ lived more then himself as the humanity of Christ was but a Temple in which God lived more then himself C So that it is Christ himself that lives in a true believer and he is and doth and suffers and overcomes all in him D Now that we may not mistake in this great matter we must rightly understand What this Christ is that lives in a believer now this is not the flesh of Christ for that being a Creature and in all things like unto our flesh sin excepted can be but in one place at a time but this Christ is the Eternal Word and Son of the living God the Power Wisdom and Righteousnesse of God and the true God and Eternal life This is the Christ that lived in Paul and lives in every believer ANIMADVERSION 13. A HOw Mr Dell will expound these words of his sc That as that word that was with God and was God and dwelt in the humanity of Christ was that very life of his humanity So the same word of God dwelling in us through Christ is also our life as it was his How I say he will expound these words and not confesse that the Godhead dwelleth in us as it doth in Christ and so that we are God as he is I see not Yet I am willing to hope that he doth not so apprehend although his words as far as I can judge import so much But I very much doubt that in this paragraph he puts asunder those things which God hath inseparably put together sc A new habit of life created in

this Christ is Ours whatsoever he is and that he hath loved Vs and given himself for Vs And this Revelation all the Faithful have together with Paul Vse 1. B And thus having answered this Objection we shall proceed to make some Use of this Point also And first we may observe what an excellent apprehension and vision of Christ true faith hath namely it looks on Christ not as a Severe Judge or Law-giver but as one who hath truly loved us and given himself for us And such a Discovery and Vision of Christ as this will uphold our souls mightily in all our saddest and darkest hours and will preserve us that we be not swallowed up of Despair Yea when we see Christ thus nothing is so sweet lovely and desirable to us as He is Now Satan and our evil Consciences will ever be representing Christ otherwise to us to make him Dreadful and Terrible to our Souls as Luther reports of a certain Doctor in his time who apprehended that Christ stood at the right hand of his Father accusing him for his sins and with the very horror and agony of this apprehension he pined away and died Wherfore let us not see Christ as Satan and our evil Consciences represent him in the hour of Temptation but as the Gospel holds him forth and then we shall see him to be such an one who hath loved us and given himself for us And such a knowledge of Christ will support and establish us again in the worst assaults that sin and death and hell can make against us Vse 2. 2. We may learn That faith carries nothing to Christ of its own but it goes empty and naked to him and expects to receive all things from him Faith saith Christ loved me and gave himself for me when I did not love him nor give my self for him yea when I was an Eenemy to him and Crucified him Faith saith I have no righteousnesse nor wisdom nor goodnesse nor any worth at all to carry to Christ but I expect all from him being in my self poor and miserable and blind and naked Vnbelief is altogether looking at what we have done for Christ but faith is altogether beholding what Christ hath done for us Vnbelief would fain bring something to Christ for which Christ might accept it but faith brings us unto Christ destitute of all good and full of all evil and even then casts us with confidence and assurance on his free love and mercy Vnbelief when it finds no good in it self dares not go to Christ nor trust in him but faith can trust in Christ in the midst of all sin and evil as well as in the midst of all graces and vertues for else no flesh could be saved And thus unbelief makes void the Gospel but faith establishes it For when a man would first find in himself a love to Christ and readiness to give himself for him e●re he can conceive any hope that Christ did love him and gave himself for him this man abolishes the Gospel and makes Christ void who came to save sinners and to justifie the ungodly But now he that feels nothing but sin and death and hell in himself and all manner of evil and enmity against God and yet notwithstanding all this can go to Christ by faith and can believe that Christ hath loved him even in this condition and given himself for him this is the man that magnifies the Gospel and hath the right understanding and knowledge of Christ Yes this is the man that gives God the greatest glory that any creature on earth can give him yea greater then all the Angels in Heaven can give him for they being full of the righteousness of their first Creation believe the Love of God to them but for men that have lost all that righteousnesse and are besides filled with all manner of sin even then to believe the love of God in Christ this is the precious faith of the Gospel and the greatest glorification of God that can be Wherefore Paul saith here he loved me and gave himself for me as if he had said he found in me no Free-will or Natural abilities no good desires affections or ends but he saw me wholly estrayed from God wicked abominable and the captive of the Devil and yet such was his goodness that notwithstanding all this he loved me and gave himself for me And this was the victory and triumph of Pauls faith Now by this that hath been last said we may perceive that every man naturally would find something in himself to bring to Christ to make him acceptable unto him and that very few can believe That he loves Vs whilst we are sinners and that whilst we are yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly Vse 3. 3. In that Christ loved us and gave himself for us we may hereby come to understand how strong mighty and unconquerable our sin was even so mighty that the whole world and all the creatures were unable and unsufficient to take it away but the Son of God must give himself for it and must become a Sacrifice for it or it had remained upon us for ever Wherefore let us know that our Free-will and Natural abilitise and works and duties were of no force at all to take away our sin but Christ must do that by giving himself for them And insomuch as Christ the Son of the living God hath given himself for them we rest assured that they are done away for ever and that none can lay any thing to our charge if do we believe in him Vse 4. 4. Let us labour for this particular faith and assurance in our hearts that Christ hath loved us and given himself for us There is nothing that the Devil does more labour to hinder us from then this particular application For he well knows that if we once truly believe that Christ hath loved us and given himself for us then we cannot chuse but forthwith love him again and give our selves for him and also be most ready and resolved to do or to suffer any thing for Christ the Spiritual sense of this special love is so constraining Wherefore as it is the great policy of the Devil to labour to hinder us from the sense of Christs special Love so it must be our especial care to endeavour to attain unto it For the true and Spiritual attainment hereof will be of great concernment to ut in all things For first the Spiritual taste of this Special Love will make us forward to do any thing for Christ as I said it will make us fruitful and abundant in his work and we can never be Idle when we shall comprehend with all Saints what is the height and breadth and length and depth and shall know this Love of Christ which passeth knowledge 2. It will make us ready and forward to suffer any thing for Christ any reproches slanders oppositions persecutions prisons torments nothing being bitter or grievous to that soul