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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20887	Two sermons one on the subject of justification, the other on the imputed righteousness imputation of faith to righteousness, by which we are justified : preached occaisionally at the Merchants-Lecture in Pin-makers-Hall in Broad-street : and printed by their desire / by Walter Cross ...	Cross, Walter, M.A.	1695 (1695)	Wing C7266	44,724	48

Virgins that have no Oil in their Lamps 2ly The foundations this Opinion are grounded on are not very sure As 1. They say John Baptist's Ministry was to prepare the way to Christ by the doctrine of Repentance Respon The Baptists Ministry is to be consider'd either in general with all Ministers to prepare and make meet for the inheritance Luke 17.6 To prepare his ways to give knowledge of Salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins thorough the tender mercies of our God His Work was to fit for Heaven not to make Hypocrites though he did make many 2. His Ministry was to be consider'd in relation to that peculiar dispensation which was to raise and awaken peoples minds in expectation of the Messias and fulfilment of the great promises about the incarnation of the Son of God his Birth Life Death Resurrection and Constitution of his Church which was peculiar to himself A Second Foundation of these preparatory Works is Christ's Expressions preferring one People to another as such with whom the means that others enjoy'd in vain would have prevail'd for their true Repentance Matth. 11. to this purpose Christ prefers the Tyrians and Sidonians to the People of Chorazin and Bethsaida For Answer I shall give Camero's Sense of these Expressions who counts it a popular Hyperbole to upbraid the Unbelief of these People who had seen so many of his Miracles as if one should say he is as bad or worse than the Devil and these things seem to confirm this sense 1. It would seem to reflect on the Bowels and Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would not walk two or three Miles to work a Miracle among a People who wanted nothing else to secure their Salvation and yet continue to Preach and work Miracles where he knew the event would be only the Aggravation of their Sin and Punishment 2. To attribute the Conversion of a People to any external means and not the efficacy and energy of the Holy Ghost is contrary to the sense of the Holy Ghost for Paul may plant and Apollo may water but God gives the encrease and yet these words taken litterally would imply this if in Tyre and Sidon the Miracles had been done which have been done in thee they would have repented long ago 3. The Letter of this Scripture would arrogate the power of Conversion to Miracles which certainly is not the Sense of the Scripture for Abram in the 16th of Luke is brought in saying in that Conference with the rich man that if they heard not Moses and the Prophets they would not believe one that rose from the dead 4. Such Hyperbolical Language Christ frequently us'd as Matth. 18.8 9. If thy Hand or thy Foot offend thee cut it off if any man smite thee on the right Cheek turn to him the other when thou dost Alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth And of this kind seems Moses his Wish to be who pray'd that God would rather blot him out of the Book of Life than destroy that People The import of it was only to express the earnestness of his desire A Third Foundation is Christ's commendation of the young Man Matth. 19.15 Mark 10.21 Luke 18.18 where 't is said Jesus lov'd him and that he lack'd but one thing of the Kingdom of Heaven Resp 1. The same Scripture gives no account of his coming there but rather of the impossibility of it and that 't was easier for a Camel to go through the Eye of a Needle than for such a Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and farther that 't was a thing only possible to God And in more plain terms he describes him to be one who trusted in his riches and what can more unfit Man for Heaven God and Mammon are at greatest distance As to that Expression of his loving him I think it may be best explain'd by that distinction that is us'd about Christ's Tears when he wept over a dead Lazarus or sympathiz'd with his Sisters that they were expressions of his Humanity and that tho' he had not the like Passions yet the like Affections with us and could love what 's useful and in its kind beautiful amongst men and such are all these Moral Virtues that renders a Man amiable and useful in the Society where he lives A Fourth Foundation is that an Appetite and desire is antecedent unto enjoying Christ or his Benefits Isa 55.1 Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the Waters Resp That is every one there is a great difference between a desire and the determination of it Psal 4. many say i. e. all or all unconverted Who will shew us any good but Lord lift thou up on me the light of thy countenance It is the termination of their desires on Christ on stable lasting heavenly spiritual good things the Prophet exhorts to he blames them for terminating their desires on what did not profit A 3. Argument against preparatory Works seems to be their inconsistence with the Nature of Conversion for Creation Regeneration Resurrection and Victory have no antecedent predispositions all the preparation in order to be conquer'd and overcome is to oppose with the greater force to prevent it the others imply a Divine Omnipotency working upon nothing or what 's unfit for the produc'd effect 4. It being granted that there 's no necessary Connection between preparatory Works and Pardon I see no reason why some may not be pardon'd without it as well as some have it and not pardoned 5. The design of the Gospel being to exalt pardoning Grace Ver. 15 16. It 's of Faith that it might be of Grace The less the Preparation appear the more Grace is exalted and manifested Obj. Should then a Man do nothing until he be justified Resp 1. Many are justified who know it not 2. Our Priviledges are not the Rule of our Duty but God's Command 3. That is without doubt we should do all we can few if any do what they may be always trying whether God gives ability or not 4. To all under the means of Grace at least God gives common Grace and by that they may live a sober just and honest Life among men and they may and ought to attend on Ordinances Phil. 2.12 Work in and about your own Salvation as Camero excellently translates it wait there until God works effectually he doth it of his own good pleasure where and when he will Let fear and trembling therefore accompany thy attendance lest thou miss the gale of that Wind that blows where it listeth Here is no room for Idleness to a Non converted and unpardoned Soul Faith comes by hearing be thou a diligent hearer 5. God gives Life thorough the Command of the Law he speaks a Pardon thorough the Precept it 's that makes the Law evangelical when he commands the dead to arise Lazarus come forth Lame Cripple rise and walk Bed rid man carry home thy bed thy sins are