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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76380	Christ above all exalted, as in justification so in sanctification. Wherein severall passages in Dr. Crisps sermons are answered. / Delivered in a sermon at Rye, in the county of Sussex: by John Benbrigge minister of Gods Word at Ashburnham, in the same county:.	Benbrigge, John.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1865; Thomason E300_7; ESTC R200254	39,729	48

nothing Paul knew this very well if his Epistles be seriously scanned if the matter of them be sifted well into the two maine parts thereof justification and sanctification by Christ Jesus and each part weighed by it selfe the greatest quantity of them would be in sanctifications scale True indeed in his Epistle to the Romans and Galatians he is much on free grace in justification against Jewish confidence in Pharisaicall performances but in those and in all his other Epistles he is as much and sometimes more insisting on Gods free grace in sanctification and exhorting thereunto against that loosnesse and carelesnesse of walking which he saw in many Christians truely to me his greatest care seems to be for the maintainance of good works both in himselfe and others In others as appeares by Titus 3.8 and many other places in himself Rom. 7. ch if there were no more testimonies makes it evident now his example should herein be a leading rule to us Ministers his successors both for practice to our selves and for doctrine unto others wherefore having as you know yeelded to importunity to speak a word of exhortation to my native Towne the holy spirit directed me to pitch on such a portion of Scripture as led me to the maintainance of sanctification and setting forth of the necessity of Gods free grace in Christ therefore to be as great as in matter of justification a poynt directly crossing those mishapen opinions of those new-fashioned Christians for so they be to us that are called Antinomians and therefore a poynt most fit for Rye wherein many of that sect were voted to be by reason of those frequent loud and bitter exclamations against them by name in the Pulpit joyned with as earnest and vehement exhortations to take heed of them and dehortations from their society as most dangerous infectious persons I thought now with my self being to come into that place it would be my duty to fight against the doctrine as others had done against the name of the Antinomians and so I did and I hope my labour was not in vaine to the Auditory I am sure it is not in vaine in the Lords account whose truth it was that I delivered and I delivered it as his and none of mine and would not a man conceive this would have been very acceptable to him who seems such a professed enemy to the Antinomians but the contrary appeared to the weakest of his Auditors Whereupon who can but think that either he mistooke the persons he so called or that he did not understand what the Lord delivered by me for mine owne part I must needs say it seems to me as cleere as the Sunne at noon-day that he hath mistaken both them me so abused both with that scandalous name of Antinomian the Lord open his eyes to see the great wrong he hath done me and them hereby that he may repent thereof and have his pardon sealed before he goe hence in the meane time it is more then probable that he which durst snarle at the truth of Christ before my face will behind my back take more liberty to himselfe to let the reines loose to his unruly tongue a fit interpreter to his passionate mind both to bark louder and bite deeper by altering the phrase and corrupting the sense of my words wherefore I thought it necessary in Christian wisdome by way if not of prevention yet of answering to such envious and malicious dealing to communicate the notes of my discourse under mine own hand and into whose hand could I more fitly put them then into yours not only in regard of the outward relation I have to you but also because you have been accused falsly as farre as I can conceive to be one of them that are looked at as Antinomians so that mine intent in publishing this my labour under your name is not so much to manifest my due respects of you as to let the credulous world which is ready to embrace any reports that may scandalize the servants of Christ see how it hath been mis-informed concerning you and such others as with you lye at this present clouded with that black aspersion of Antinomianisme for instead of crying downe the Law Sanctification and Duty I found you upon diligent enquiry both in opinion and practice chiefe pillars thereof The Lord comfort your hearts more and more with his free grace and stablish you in every good word and work 2 Thel 2.17 2 Cor. 7.1 that you may thereby perfect holinesse in his feare here and hereafter be perfected in happinesse Amen Your younger Brother in Christ and affectionate Nephew in the Flesh JOHN BENBRIGGE CHRIST ABOVE ALL EXALTED PHILIPPIANS 3. 7. But what things were gaine to me those I counted losse for Christ 8. Yea doubtlesse and I count all things but losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and doe count them but dung that I may win Christ 9. And be found in him Not having mine owne righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by Faith 10 That I may know him and the power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of his Sufferings being made conformable unto his Death IN these words we have Saul compared with Paul the great Apostle of the Gentiles doth herein compare himself with himself seting forth to us both what he was and what he is what he was when he was Saul and what he is now he is Paul what he was before Conversion what he is since his Calling and this description of himselfe then and and now is delineated by the difference of his judgement now and then For men are according to their judgements and in the sight of the Al seeing eye as these change and alter so doe they to be carnall or spirituall the Apostle in 1 Cor. 2.14 15. doth distinguish of other men as he did of himselfe by their judgement of things A carnall man judgeth carnally of all things but a spirituall man spiritually Thus carnall Saul had a carnall opinion of things he had an high esteem of his owne righteousnesse which was by the Law his Pharisaicall performances of duty and of his Jewish priviledges yea these were his gaine he did not onely esteem of them but also confide in them he hoped to gaine Heaven by them but as for Christ then he was a poore Christ to him worth nothing yea worse then nothing in his account then and therefore he persecuted then this dispised Christ in his Members But now he is spirituall Paul he is quite of another mind for now he looks at his owne righteousnesse Pharisaicall works and fleshly Prerogatives yea all things of this world as losse and dung and poor Christ is now most rich and the true yea onely gaine and therefore he had lost to himselfe all things that he might in their