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A85829	A mistake, or misconstruction, removed. (Whereby little difference is pretended to have been acknowledged between the Antinomians and us.) And, Free grace, as it is held forth in Gods Word, as wel by the prophets in the Old Testament, as by the apostles and Christ himself in the New, shewed to be other then is by the Antinomian party in these times maintained. In way of answer to some passages in a treatise of Mr. John Saltmarsh, concerning that subject. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of Divinity and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing G323; Thomason E333_22; ESTC R200760	44,396	50

to deem and determine whether some assertions scattered here and there in this discours do not warp too much that way among the rest whereof take these for a tast 1. k Treatise p. 102. The promises belong to sinners as sinners l Pag. 104. not as repenting or humbled sinners Whereas our Saviour saith that m Mark 9.13 he came to call sinners to repentance and to save conseqently not all but penitent sinners onely for n Luke 13.3 5. ● unlesse they do repent he tels them expresly they shal perish 2. o Pag. 186. All that ever received Christ received him in a sinful condition Yet the Apostle enformes us that that faith whereby we receiv Christ for p John 1.12 to receiv him the Evangelist tels us is to believ on him is not an holy onely but q Jude 20. a most holy faith nor can a man be said to be in a sinful condition whose r Acts 15.9 26.18 heart is possessed of so holy an habite or disposition term it whether you please nor can the heart act to the receiving of Christ until it be thereof possessed For how can a man put forth an holy act while he remains stil altogether unholy ſ Pag. 17● 3. They are but weak beleevers and like melancholy people who think things far otherwise then they truly are right smoking Flax wherein there is more smoke then light more ignorance then tru discerning Which among other things t Pag. 173. think poor souls that tho God be reconciled with them and love them at some times yet he may be provoked again angry again for new sins and failings and are then much troubled how to come at any peace again as they were before u Pag. 174. they suppose they can not sin so as they do and yet not be accountable x Ibid. and think that afflictions are sent upon them for their sins Yet the Apostle telleth the Corinthians that they might and did a 1 Cor. 10 22. provoke God by som unadvised courses and carriages and that b 1 Cor. 11.30 for some such Gods afflicting hand was upon them and I suppose God called them then to account But what is this but to encourage men freely to offend and sin without feare of offending of God or provoking him to wrath or being ever called to any account or chastised at all for it making God like a fond indulgent father an other Ely if not more regardles then c 1 Sam. 2.23.25 he of his childrens cariage not affected at all with it tho it be never so scandalous and disgraceful to their Christian profession Of the same or the like stamp is that which followeth tending to beat men off from being troubled at all for their sins as d Psal 51.1 3. 2 Sam. 24 10. David or e Matth. 26.75 Peter were and from seeking to make up the breaches made between God and them by their sins and to make their peace again with him by their renewed practice of repentance 4. f Pag. 168. All worship and spirituall obedience is to run in the way of this dispensation not for procuring love or peace with God nor for pacifying 5. g Pag. 44. There is nothing but the taking in of the Law and accusings and condemnations of it that can trouble the quiet and peace of any soul for where there is no law there is no transgression and where there is no transgression there is no trouble for sin all trouble arising from the obligement of the Law which demands satisfaction of the soul for the breach of it and such a satisfaction as the soul knows it cannoe give and thereby remains unqiet as a debter that hath nothing to pay Yet David albeit h 2 Sam. 12.13 having from the mouth of God by a special expresse received a release from the condemnations of the Law was i Psal 51.3 troubled and that not a little for his sin if we may believ him or the Spirit of God speaking by him nor was that therefore the ground of his trouble for his sin nor is it the onely ground of such trouble that this Autor here affirms But proceed we 6. k Pag. 7● No sin can make one les beloved of God Had he added but or les liked he had spoken full out in plain terms after the usuall Antinomian strain but he is somewat more cautions herein then some other Yet being a scholler he need not be minded of that distinction so common in the schools of a love of benevolence and a love of complacence tho God never loved David the les in regard of wishing wel to him for any sin committed by him yet was he not so wel pleased l 2 Sam. 11.27 14.10 with him when he committed some sins nor was he in regard of his paternall displeasure after the committing of them m Psal 32.3 5. reconciled unto him until he repented of them and humbled himself for them But his reason 7. n Pag. 80. Nothing in us can make God love us les because he loves us not for any thing in our selvs but in and through Christ Yet God doth love us also by his good leav for his own graces in us and our exercises of the same o John 6.27 The Father himself loves you saith our Savior to his Disciples because ye love me and believ that I came out from God 8. p Ibid. If he should love us more or les as we sin more or les he should be as man And in some things he is as man for q Gen. 1.27 9.4 1 Cor. 11.7 man bears God image and r Eph. 4.24 1 John 3 3. a good man resembles God God is in somethings as a natural father himself saith it ſ Psalm 103.13 As a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth those that fear him Yea in this particular he is like a discreet parent who tho he love his child deerly as wel when he doth amisse as when he doth well yet is he not so wel pleased with him nor can take that delight in him when he seeth him take some evil course as otherwise he might and should yea therefore is he then angry with him because he loves him and chastiseth him for this end to reclaim him from the same Thus the Antinomians themselves confes that God caried himself toward his in the times of the Old Testament And the like Christ himself professeth of himself in the New Testament t Revel 3.19 20 As many saith he as I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent To these may be added those other his assertions concerning Faith 1. a Pag 94. Faith is truly and simply this a being perswaded more or les of Christs love And what prophane wretch almost is not prone enough hereunto or may not nourish such a perswasion more or

matter as may give fuller satisfaction then they are as yet able to attain Nor is this a Page 29. to place them on the bottome of their own righteousnes as he injuriously chargeth it b Page 28. like the botome or point of a top as he is pleased to resemble it as if this were that which they perswaded men to rest on as that whereby the guilt of their sins were discharged and Gods justice satisfied which yet according to this mans principles was done in the the times of the old Testament when by such means as these Gods favour and pardon of sin was c Pag. 167. purchased as with a price but to give them assurance by d Rom. 8.23 the first fruits of the spirit bestowed on them and begun in them which the holy Ghost is pleased to call e 2 Cor. 1.12 5.5 Ephes 4.14 Gods earnests and the Seal of our redemption that they are of the number of those that have interest in Christ f Ephes 5.30 2 Cor. 1.22 by whom as freedom from Hel and the gvilt of sin so Heaven and happines is purchased for them But this wary man g Pag. 29. Dares not take this way for that is to take the disease for the Physitian and to give men no oyntment but blood of their own wound to heal them And so belike John did when he went this way to work as before was shewed h Ibid. Nor would be take that other way which many do that are of this legall strain too as to apply promises to them first which many times in steed of drawing the soul to Christ puts it further of bringing some conditions which the soul qestioning in themselves dares not meddle with before it be prepared by Christ and his freenes He might have said which mans corrupt and carnall heart until it be wrought upon by Gods Spirit and prepared by Christ who is said to i Acts 4.26 give as wel repentance as remission of sins yea first repentance and then remission of sins k Acts 5.21 to Israel and to bles them as wel by turning them away from their iniqities as by discharging them of the gvilt thereof is very loth to condescend unto and we therefore have invented a readier way and a shorter cut for them without all that ado But let them carry men on along so long as they please in a fools paradise unles the conditions that Gods Prophets for there is no new way to Heaven now but the same that ever was and Christs Apostles propound to all that look for salvation by Christ be performed there is little hope for any man to attain life eternall unles some other way can be discovered that the Word of God hath not But you see the man is humorous and very hard to please by any way that these Legall Teachers take tho never so consonant to Scripture And therefore altho that Peter when l Page 36. They in the Acts after he had laid open their sin of shadding the blood of Christ were prickt to the heart for it and being inwardly troubled and wounded said Men and brethren what shall we do m Acts 2.37 38 Exhorted them to repent yet these Legal Preachers when they take the like cours n Page 39. They run saith this Autor to the Law in their dealing with such souls for their thorow humiliation as they say or pretend for such sinister ends as before you heard and not to the Gospel and faith in Jesus Christ and who ever severs these and so o Ibid. bring fier and not water to quench them but kindle them the more and setting the everlasting burnings of the Law before their souls put them all into a spirituall flame and vexation And that he may not pretend that this is spoken but by way of supposition if they do so and so which yet the whole drift of his discours wil easily unmaske he telleth us a litle after in expresse terms that p Page 40. The Divinity of some former ages to these present times he knows it hath made up all their receipts for distempered souls of so much Law and so much Gospel and usually but a grain or dram of Gospel to a pound of Law not being cleer enough in judgement to unmingle things that Antichrist hath confounded and put together as the two Testaments and two Covenants and not rightly discerning Christs manner or way of preaching and the Apostles both in their holding out Law and Gospel Who belike then q Honey-comb c 7. p. 137. making a miscelan and mixture of the Law and the Gospel as Mr. Eaton saith of these Legalists preached neither good Law nor good Gospel but a miscelan and marring of both And we do no other now then they did But thus saith this Autor r Pag. 41. They would make the Law the ministery of life and of the Spirit being not of such a spiritual discerning as the Lord hath now reveiled Reveiled to whom think we but to himself and those of the Antinomian strain by some dream or enthusiasm sure it must be for not by the word which holds out that cours that the Legalists take pressing men upon repentance and sorrow for sin and humiliation which these men can not abide And I would gladly know of them whether of the two is ſ Matth. 7.13 1● the streit gate and the narrow way that leads to life and few list to take ours or theirs But saith this man t Ibid. Such put a soul upon a legall method of conversion or comming to Christ First they must be kept so long under the Law for humiliation and contrition and confession and then brought to the Gospell as many books and Teachers do Thus he describes the dealing of our Ministers with men for the bringing of them to repentance as if he were painting out some Popish Priest pressing men to shrift and putting them upon hard penance as ye shal anon heare him resembling their preaching remission of sins unto the penitent to the Popes giving out his pardons But that which follows is far wors u Pag. 37. Who like some Chirurgians that keep their Patients from healing too soon that they may make the cure the more admired do accordingly keep such souls with their wounds open and if they pour in any thing it is rather Wine then Oyl rather something of the Law then of the Gospel so as they are not onely long in healing and getting peace through Jesus Christ but they carry a scar with them still and are as it were lame in their consciences a long time after like some poor Patients that have had as much of the sound flesh cut away as the rotten and so have been healed tho but to a bodily infirmity all their life time And what is all this indeed but meer Mountebank practise to tell men that the Physitians and Chirurgeons they have formerly made use

Evangelist t Mark 1.15 Repent and believe the Gospel saith another so in sealing the Apostles his Disciples their commission he biddeth them u Mark 16 15. Go out into the wide world and preach the Gospel to every creature But what Gospel or what manner of Gospel was it that they were to preach the Gospel of life and salvation upon condition of faith and repentance and obedience that v Mark 116.16 whosoever believs and is baptised shall be saved whosoever believeth not shal be damned Yea but where have we repentance wil you say and obedience And that x Luke 24.47 repentance and remission of sins that is remission of sins upon repentance as before with John y Mark 1.4 repentance unto remission of sins be preached in his name and z Matth. 28.19 teaching them saith he to do whatsoever I command and what he commands and reqires of all his was before in part shewed And did not the Apostles think we keep to their commission or preached they any other Gospel then what Christ their Master had enjoyned them No other undoubtedly We may boldly say of them all as one of them of himself they had the grace a 1 Cor. 7.25 to be faithful but had not so been had they swarved from their charge Yea but saith this Autor b Pag. 41. What did Peter preach to Cornelius or Philip to the Eunuch or Ananias to Paul or Paul to the Jaylor but Jesus Christ onely I answer 1. It is most certain they could lay c 1 Cor. 3.11 no other foundation for man to rest and rely on d Acts 4.12 for salvation but Christ onely But it followes not hence that they preached nothing els or that they offered and tendered salvation by Christ without any condition at all or otherwise then as Christ had himself propounded it and enjoyned them to preach it 2. We have e Acts 2.40 16.32 not their whole Sermons but some brief summaries or some principall heds of them 3. In these summaries of them we have those things preached and pressed for which this Autor taxeth his brethren as legalists repentance by Peter in his f Acts 2.38 first and g Acts 3.19 second Sermon and that in the former pressed upon those that were h Acts 2.37 pricked in heart already in the latter backt with i Acts 3.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repent and return a return that is alteration of cours of life 4. In some they needed not to pres much what they found them wrought unto already Ananias needed not to pres Paul to prayer as k Acts 8.21 Peter doth Simon the sorcerer because he was l Acts 9.11 by God informed beforehand that he prayed nor Peter to pres holinesse of life upon Cornelius whom he found m Acts 10.2 moulded and wrought in that regard to his hand but to n Acts 10.38 acqaint him with the particularity of the Messias his person whom yet he had beleeved on and expected before and yet he preached more then Jesus Christ onely to him when in that Sermon he assured him that o Acts 10.35 in every Nation whosoever he were that feared God and lived righteously he was accepted with God 5. It is as absurd to imagine that “ Acts 16.31 Paul preached not as wel repentance as faith to the Jayler because there is no expres mention of repentance in the Text as to suppose that Peter preached not as wel faith as repentance to the Jews because in his Sermon there is no expresse mention of it or that our Saviour preached not faith but repentance onely in his first Sermons because * Matth. 4.17 Matthew makes mention of this latter alone what if I should ad or that the twelv preached not faith as wel as repentance because Mark saith no more but that p Mark 6.12 they went out preaching that men should repent Such negative arguments proov nothing 6. If we shall demand of Paul what his constant cours of teaching was in his preaching of the Gospel and publishing the covenant of grace he wil tel us that it was the very same both for matter and method that his master began with and not one way to some and another way to others as this Autor seems q Pag. 42. sometime to imply but the same for substance both to Jew and Gentile r Acts 20.21 Testifying faith he both to Jews and Gentiles ſ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 penitent á sive resipiscentiam ad D●um●● qa ad Deum acceditar sicut Heb. 6.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rescipiscentiam d mortu●s operibus ī qa ab istirrenditur Repentance towards God and t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fidem in Christum q● Christo filitur sive fiducia in christo collocatur Faith on Christ and he putteth repentance therein following u Mark 1.15 his Masters method in the front And yet more fully relating both his commission from Christ and his putting of it in execution for the former he saith that x Acts 26.17 18. Christ sent him to the Gentiles to open their eyes and to turn them from darknes to light and from the power of Satan to God that they might receiv remission of sins and a share among those that are sanctified by faith on Christ and for the latter that y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verse 19. out of obedience to Christs command and in pursuance of this his commission which I suppose he understood as wel as this Autor and kept as close to it as any Antinomian of these times yea as any that ever preached Christ z Acts 16.10 he preached or published both to the Jews and to the Gentiles that they should repent and turn to God doing works beseeming repentance such as might shew them to be truly penitent and their repentance to be sound and sincere And thus Pauls preaching to the last comes home to John Baptists preaching at first and is the very same you see with that which this Autor makes to be the very character of a Legall Teacher Oh but the pressing of these things as a Pag. 17. duties without which a man can have no interest in Christ that is it that argues a legal Teacher I might for warrant hereof alledge that of our Saviour as b John 8.24 Vnlesse you believ that I am he you shal die in your sins so c Luke 13.3 unlesse ye also repent ye shall perish and that of the Autor to the Hebrews d Heb. 12 14. without holines no man shal ever see God but that Mr. Eaton e Honey-comb ubi sup p. 85. tels us that that of our Saviour f Matth. 5.8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shal see God is not Gospel but Law tho therein I beleeve him not and that of John g 1. John 2.6 He that saith he is in Christ is