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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74975	A manifest and breife discovery of some of the errours contained in a dialogue called the Marrow of moderne divinity. Wherein is shewen, especially the authors errour in the manner of the iustification of a sinner, and the truth cleared from all the falshoods contained in that booke concerning the same, with some other of his errours.	I. A.	1646 (1646)	Wing A10; Thomason E359_16; ESTC R11271	15,083	24

nothing but absolute and perfect obedience to the same is required therein It brings us not to Christ but wounds us and leaves us destitute in respect of any helpe it can afford It is the law of the Gospell that releeves us Page 7.8 I let passe your fine distinction of the law of the ten Commandements calling it the matter of the Covenant of works and not the Covenant it selfe your reason is weake for had not the Lord absolute authority to lay a command upon the Creature and man bound to obey though he gave no assent And now I come to examine whether this law of the ten Commandements was given to Adam and writ in his heart in Paradise before his fall You have affirmed that it was written in his heart before his fall page 7. and the 10. and indeed throughout your whole Booke I deny it and I demand your proofe for your opinion out of Scripture We read but of one Commandement given to Adam in Paradise But you tell us of ten more you will be wise above that which is written I acknowledge that Adam was Created a perfect Creature full of holynes purity and uprightnes But yet that it was in respect of the writing of the ten Commandements in his heart before his fall I cannot see neither find I any Scripture to lead me to beleeve it I acknowledge that assoone as ever Adam had transgressed he came to know good and evill which he did not know before And this law of the ten Commandements was then writ in his heart and he that could not keepe one Commandement had many more given him so that now by his fall the very flood gates of Sinne were set open through his transgression to the drowning of himselfe and his posterity in misery But because this opinion is so often repeated by the Author in his Booke I desire to know to what it tends and what use we may make of it doth it serve to illustrate or set forth any point of Doctrine in the Scriptures or doth the contrary which I have affirmed oppose or gain say any truth If it be so that neither is done hereby Then I say you have troubled your Readers with needles doctrine no way tending to edification but is a meere fancy of your owne Braine You tell us it is the opinion of all Authors and Interpreters that you know but you tell us none of their names nor none of the Scriptures they have so interpreted for the proofe thereof And so I take it as your owne opinion which I dare not receive untill I see better ground for it I take notice also how finely you would insinuate unto us that Adam in eating the forbidden fruit did breake all the ten Commandements and have you gone through them all doubtles you have pleased your selfe therein but what content you have given to your Reader in it I leave it to the judicious to consider of and so passe it over and come to something that remaines Page 28. and 29. You affirme that Adam fell the very same day that he was created and the ground of your opinion is Psalme 49.12 which text in the Hebrew you say is thus read Adam being in honour did not lodge a night in it you have a good art in adding to the Scripture as I shall shew hereafter And you have quoted Mr. Aynsworth in the Margent to helpe you but he doth not I have examined Mr. Aynsworth upon that Psalme but he affirmes no such thing he saith this may be minded both for the first Adam who continued not in his dignity And so for all his Children these are his owne words Now how can you gather from hence that Adam fell the same day he was created I wish you to observe that the holy Ghost in that Psalme intends no such thing as Adams fall but of mans being in honour the instability thereof and the short continuance of it And I suppose you know Adam to be the common name of man and therefore the first man Adam cannot be here meant Leave these your fained devises and keep close to the Scriptures and seeke not to know in divine things anything but what is there written To the law and to the Testimony if they speake not it is because there is no truth in them Be not wise above that which is written and doe not you publish that for truth which you have no ground for secret things belong unto God but thins revealed unto us c. So likewise is your conjecture of Adams sacrificing on the same day that he was created and that God cloathed him with the skins of those beasts which he offered in sacrifice But I leave these things as your owne imaginations yet this I say that it is not probable that he fell the same day that he was created for there were many things passed after man was created which are set downe in the second Chapter of Genesis which is not likely were done all in one day neither doe I know of what use this opinion is but I leave it to the Reader to consider off And although I freely confesse that Christ offered up himselfe the sixth day of the weeke And that Adam was created the sixth day But must it therefore needs follow that Adam fell the very same day that he was created I know no necessity thereof Page 43. I wonder you durst be so bold as to alter the words and so the fence and meaning of the Apostle Rom. 5.13 Your words are thus before the time of the law sinne was in the world yet did they not impute it to themselves because there was no law But the Apostle hath it thus for untill the law sin was in the world but sinne is not imputed where there is no law The Apostle proves plainly here that there was a law written in mens hearts before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai the breach wherof was imputed unto them for there was not any time since Adams fall wherein there was nor a law to condemne man for sinne and so their sinne was imputed unto them at all times And not as you say they did not impute it to themselves I pray you take knowledge what the same Apostle saith in the second Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans verses 14 15. For when the Gentills which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the law are alaw unto themselves which shew the worke of the law written in their hearts their conscience bearing also witnesse and their thoughts the meane while accusing or els excusing one another Take heed how you alter any text of Scripture to maintaine your owne opinions it is very daingerous to adde or to detract from Scripture And now having gone over some of those things I intended with a great deale of brevity and passing by many things which I might justly have taxed as mistakes in that booke I come now to

A MANIFEST AND BREIFE DISCOVERY Of some of the Errours contained in a Dialogue called the Marrow of Moderne Divinity Wherein is shewen especially the Authors errour in the manner of the Iustification of a Sinner and the Truth cleared from all the falshoods contained in that Booke concerning the same with some other of his Errours Iude the 3. Contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints 2. Epistle of John verse 9. whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the Doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Sonne LONDON Printed by T. W. for Joshua Kirton and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the White Horse in Pauls Church-yard 1646. To the Christian Reader that desires to know the wayes of God in the Gospell touching the way that he hath set forth to bring Poore Sinners to Christ to be justifyed by him and desires to walke therein Grace and Peace c. CHristian Reader there came lately to my sight a Booke called the marrow of moderne divinity which when I had read the title page my heart rejoyced within me hoping that now God had stirred up some man to compose the differences that are betweene the legalist and the Antinomist they both erring from the truth which was the thing I exceedingly desired But after I had read it over two or three times and considered well of it I found I was much deceived in my expectation And then I began to wonder that this Booke should come to the third Edition and be received so generally I finding so many mistakes in it especially in the manner of the Iustification of a Sinner wherein be hath gone the direct way with the Antinomist Therefore I could not chuse but set my selfe to worke to vindicate the truth of God seeing others are silent herein and according to my poore ability to set forth the truth which I have beene taught of God I doe not intend to write of all his mistakes for that were too great worke for me but only of some of them and breifly also except one which I cheifly intend I know not the Author but by his Booke nor ever heard so much as his name Therefore I cannot doe this in any spleene towards him nay this I will say for him he hath set downe many excellent truths and hath shewed himselfe a painfull and laborious man in collecting the opinions of so many Divines yet if he erre from the truth I hold my selfe bound to let him and others know his errour and I deale no otherwise by him then I desire to be dealt withall my selfe If I erre from the truth for it is the glory of God and his truth that I seeke above all if my heart deceive me not Christian Reader I beseech the seriously to consider of the exceptions here taken by me and weigh them by the Scriptures and if there be truth in them receive them with meekenes of Spirit I shall be breife in the examination of the Booke for my ability of body will not serve me to be so large as otherwise I would the Lord give thee wisdome to understand his truth and a willing heart to obey and yeild unto it And so now I direct my selfe to the Author of the Booke commending thee to the Grace of God I remaine Thy Poore servant in the Lord Jesus Christ I. A. A manifest and breife discovery of some of the errours contained in a dialogue called the marrow of moderne divinity HAving of late read over your Booke called the marrow of moderne divinity and by often perusall thereof found many things in it which I conceive is not truth I have presumed in the defence of the truth which I have learned out of the Scriptures to examine some things delivered by you in your Booke not doubting but you will be ready to hearken to the truth from any that shall make it appeare unto you I shall take some small exceptions at divers things therein because I intend one speciall thing which is the greatest matter of all and wherein any one being deceived the greatest damage consists But before I come to that which I cheifly intend I take notice of some things in the fourth page of your Booke you say the new Testament mentions a threefold law you might have added more if you had pleased what say you to the law of the Spirit of life Rom. 8.2 It is very necessary for us to consider how you have distinguisht the law of workes and the law of Christ for you say the ten Commandements may be said to be the matter of the law of workes or the matter of the law of Christ You have here made a distinction that neither the Scriptures set forth nor any Authour that ever I heard of But to answer you directly the law of the ten Commandements is all one and the same not differing in it selfe but is a holy just and perfect law proceeding from a holy God and binds all men to the obedience of it and condemns every transgression against it yea the most holyest man and he that is in greatest favour with God if he transgresse it condemns him as justly as the most ungodly wretch living But the difference lyes in this That the one namely true beleevers are justified by Christ from the Curse and penalty of the law and unbeleevers lye under the condemning power penalty and curse of the law But you and I differ only in your distinction for I doe not find throughout all the New Testament that the law of the ten Commandements are called the law of Christ There are other lawes of Christ as the law of grace the law of Faith or beleiving in him and many other Commandements or lawes of Christ which are not contained in the law of the ten Commandements and so are none of the matter thereof As for the text Gallat 6.2 It is set downe by the Apostle as one speciall law of Christ to beare one anothers burden But this will not prove your assertion that the law of the ten Commandements is the matter of the law of Christ I meane as he is the Mediator of the New Covenant Yet doe I not deny but that the law of the ten Commandements may be a rule and direction to true beleivers to walke by yet beleevers doe not worke by any compulsion of that law but after a more free way of love unto God and Christ arising from the love of God in Christ unto them the love of God constraine them to holinesse of life to labour to honour God And the Apostles generally doe urge and presse beleevers to holinesse from the free grace of God and from the mercies of God extended towards them in Iesus Christ as we may see Titus 2.11.12 Romans 12.1 The law of the ten Commandements is an absolute perfect holy and just law yet it setts not forth Christ neither is faith required therein