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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78421	The account audited and discounted: or, a vindication of the three-fold diatribee, of [brace] 1. Supersition, 2. Will-worship, 3. Christmas festivall. Against Doctor Hammonds manifold paradiatribees. / By D.C. preacher of the Word at Billing-Magn. in Northamptonshire.	Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing C1621; Thomason E1850_1; ESTC R209720	293,077	450

Hence the Apostle Rom. 12.2 laies it on all as a command Be ye transform'd in the renewing of your mind that you may prove what that perfect will of God is And Eph. 4.23 24. Be renewed in the spirit of your minde and put on that new man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. which after God was created in righteousness and true holiness Which in Col. 3.10 he expresses thus Which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him Implying that what is short of that Image that knowledge is short of that which the Gospel calls us to and consequently a sin contrary to the Doctor who says Though he arrive not at the highest degree The Law is satisfied with the lowest n. 6. n. 3. he is free from sin His latitude gives his disciples elbow-room enough in Religion and takes off their care of aspiring to higher degrees when the lowest is without sin But hear more in the second part of his distinction No man is bound now to be as prudent as Adam in his Integrity any more then to be as healthy any more then to be born in the state of innocency and perfection c. Strange confidence this 1. Is there no difference between a meer punishment and that which may be a sin as well as a punishment Does not he that sins did not Adam so deface the Image of God whereof prudence was a part as he that defiles himself defaces the Image of God that consisted in true Holiness and is not that a sin and is not that man bound to make reparation of that wrong in defacing the Image of God But sickness and diseases are meer punishments and so no man is bound to be as healthy as Adam was created And for innocence and perfection as well as prudence a man is bound to be as innocent and perfect as Adam though he cannot be born so being begotten of impure and defiled parents and for want thereof is born by nature the childe of wrath which supposes him sinful But this and the like assertions of mine p. 204. n. 4. he says Are nothing but an heap of paralogismes no one of the proofs belonging to the highest degree of mercy which should be inferred from them I had thought that perfection which Law and Gospel call for had intended the highest degree of piety and mercy but the Doctor hath found out a new kinde of perfection which hath a large latitude of degrees n. 5. of which more ere long Hear what he says here 1. The perfection of Holiness which the Law required was but either sincere and upright or at most but unsinning obedience and neither of these includes the highest degree of Piety which is possible The first part of this answer confounds Law Gospel The Law required not only sincerity and uprightness but also exact perfection of of parts and degrees Do this all this and do it well or die The Gospel is satisfied indeed with sincerity and uprightness pardoning what is not exactly done and accepting through Christ what is done but the Law knows no such Indulgence This he misdoubting helps it with another or at most but unfinning obedience But unfinning obedience includes both a conformity of nature to the Holiness of the Law and also the highest degree of piety possible He that comes short in a degree of Holiness which the Law requireth his Holiness is sinful and without mercy damnable Cursed is he that continueth not in all things c. Yea the highest degree of Piety if possible in a nature corrupted and inconformable to the Law is finning obedience and needs pardon This answer afore satisfies him not therefore he addes n. 6. If by the Law be meant the Covenant made with Adam in innocency then it 's true that the perfection which that required was unfinning obedience and if Adam had performed that yet he had been capable of higher degrees of Piety then that law required there being in unfinning obedience a latitude c. The Doctor is much beholden to his latitude and degrees of perfection c. But it 's proved already that unsinning obedience reaches to the least title of the Law and to the highest degree of Piety and then the cause is mine And as for Adams being capable of higher degrees of Piety upon his unfinning obedience that is that his state was a state of proficiency it comes presently to be considered in the next But I pray was not the sum of that Law To love and to serve the Lord with all his heart soul minde strength that is to the utmost of his possibility and then must he not needs sin if he came short or remitted his love in any of those circumstances Yet he says upon his former mistake That to those highest degrees the Law cannot be thought to binde when it is satisfied with the lowest all the superiour degrees being additions Which is certainly false For if Adam might have satisfied the Law with the lowest degrees of Piety he might have remitted of his love in the service of God contrary to that Law and besides might have merited as Papists say by going to those highest degrees beyond unfinning obedience and above what the Law did binde him to But this suits well with the Doctors uncommanded Worship and works of perfection above all commands Yet this the Doctor must gain or he loses his cause he therefore instances in frequency of prayer Adam says he might have exceeded any proportion which Gods Law required of him p. 7. p. 204. But what if I should say Adam needed not to pray at all as wanting nothing unless he would pray for perseverance but the Angels in Heaven need perseverance yet we read not that they pray for it But this may seem a paradox but not so unlikely as some of the Doctors I shall therefore wave it and desire to know of him what proportion of frequency in Prayer the Law required of him How many times a day c. this must be resolved before he could exceed that proportion I leave it with him and proceed 2. If Adam had never finned yet might his state he a state of proficiency and then the perfection required was not the highest degree of Piety c. The Antecedent is very uncertain that his state was a state of proficiency he was as perfect and complete in his kinde as his nature could hold as the Angels were it's probable as full of holiness at their creation as they are now and so the Saints after the day of Judgement as perfectly holy as to eternity no proficiency in grace that 's for viatores not for comprehensores And hence it 's evident that the highest degree of Piety was required of him and he had sinned by any lower contrary to the Doctors consequence 3. That Adam and his posterity should have been rewarded according to their works the Doctors third argument is true but that they should have had