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A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

or regard when in it is Life Again on the other hand if thou wilt none of the fear of the Lord Prov. 1.29 to cleave to him and serve him he will be thy fear and thy dread another day whether thou wilt or no to thy confusion v. 7. when thou wouldest be glad to have a hiding place in the Rock or to lye buried in the dust for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty Isa 2.10 be thy greatness now what it will Rev. 6.15 For the great day of his wrath to come and who shall be able to stand v. 17. The sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness hath surprized the hypocrites who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings Isa 33.14 He that walketh righteously c. v. 15. None other shall dwell on high but their heart shall meditate terror Heb. 18.12 13. Nor do thou cheat thy self here in the hopes that the righteousness of Christ shall excuse thee or stand thee in stead to answer the demands of the Gospel requiring of thee the fear of God and the personal righteousness whereof we have been speaking Christ hath answered the demands of the Law of Works but where doest thou read that he was substituted in thy room or stead to Believe to Repent to Love and Fear God and work Righteousness or obey the Gospel so as to render thee capable of acceptance with God unto Life without them No it 's of thee that the Gospel requireth all this as the condition of thy interest in or title to the advantages of the purchase of Christ Heb. 5.9 Ch. 9.15 And if thou failest or fallest short of this Gospel righteousness thou art wholly left remediless for ever there is no third Covenant to relieve thee against the demands of the Gospel 2 Thes 1.7 8. Heb. 2.3 Christ came into the World to lay a foundation for the love and fear of God and obedience to him not to render it unnecessary to his favour mind therefore thy Duty and look up to God for help Hos 13.9 and forget not to have an eye unto Christ also as the Spring and Fountain of that Grace thou yet wantest Eph. 2.10 Phil. 1.11 Obj. Here it may be thou mayest after all that hath been said be objecting and reasoning thus within thy self What I must do to be accepted with God and eternally saved I know that is out of question with me But what shall I do for the Grace enjoyned me to have whereby I may serve the Lord acceptably with reverence and godly fear Heb. 12.28 How is this possible unto me Here my feet stick as in the miry clay Some Conviction of the Truth I have but like one in a Fever I know my thirst after sin and flesh-pleasing is my Disease and that if it proceeds it will prove mortal to me but for all that I can't quench it nor resist its importunity An Alienation from God and strict Godliness I find rooted in my mind and the Flesh preponderating me the other way notwithstanding my Conviction and the various Impressions I struggle under What now shall I do so far forth as Grace is possible to me so far is it possible for me to be saved and no further To say That God can change my Nature and dispose me to his Fear is true but nothing to my case whilst he doth it not Is it attainable by me in any means using so as that it must lye at my door if I have it not If it be so let me know what the Gospel saith if any Constitution there be any Treaty with lapsed man concerning it Whether there be any promise thereof on any terms ever once made or any thing that lies before me to be done in order to it ascertaining it to me in the use of means without which I may be remediless for ought that I know or is revealed without any relief by the Gospel what hope is there left Jer. 10.12 Ans To press upon the Sinner the necessity of the new Creature or change of the frame and temper of his Spirit and course of his Life without any motive of incouragement respecting the possibility of attaining to it can only perplex not at all relieve him I grant supposing it every way absolutely impossible unto him No Argument can rationally be pleaded to urge thereunto in such case nor could any mans heart reproach him for the not having of it Nor will that well-meant Distinction of a Natural and Moral Impotency or Impossibility rather help our here the meaning whereof is no more than that man notwithstanding the entrance of sin is not destitute of any natural Faculty Power or Capacity to the Reception of Grace or the Exercise of it but is morally only incapacitated unto it i e. from an insuperable Aversation thereunto and Propension to the contrary rooted in the Mind and Will Hence it 's said that since mans Impotency or Incapacity of turning unto God and working Righteousness is not such as that he cannot if he would but consists rather in this that he Wills it not he affects not to be Holy that is no excuse therefore why he is not changed for that it's what he chuses he might be better if he would He has the natural Power or possibility unto it tho not the moral This distinction has its use but it reaches not the Solution of the present Difficulty It shews indeed where the Disease lies namely in the elective Powers of the Soul not barely in its executive Power but in the first Digestion rather and imports no more but that man is yet habile subjectum a subject capable of having Grace and so he is of spotless Perfection he is not destitute of any natural Faculty that is he is man still with his faculties of vital Power Reason and Will but wants the well-disposedness only of them that for all that he can't be a good man But the Objection is of the elicit acts of the Mind and Will viz whether the unregenerate man can obtain of himself simply to sense or savour the things of God or to will and to do what is well-pleasing in his sight without the Divine help suscitating his natural Faculties healing their Distemper and new disposing and determining them towards God and Holiness This in the Objection is supposed and that truly to be immediately impossible unto him and in the Solution by the former Distinction to be morally so and why not naturally also Since the disaster is not only now congenite to fall'n man but withal according to the Institution of Nature it 's naturally impossible for the mind or will till it be first rectified and changed to exert or put forth any act in the mean while against its radicated insuperable Inclination or unto which it's destitute of any Principle Aptitude or Disposition as for the Ethiopian to change his Skin as the Prophet expresses it Jer. 13.23 And if this

will not deny thee any advantage that God will account with thee for But God is no respecter of persons meerly on that score to accept thee Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Christian first and also of the Jew Mahometan and Pagan Infidel World Rom. 2.9 For there is no respect of persons with God v. 11. Again They were nigh to God and had more hope and helps for Eternal Life than others that were strangers to the covenant of advantages peculiar to them had Rom. 3.1 they had the custody of Gods Oracles which was more than to be within the sound of them v. 2. And this is now thy priviledge with others and all the World comparatively are in a hopeless condition besides if not absolutely lost But God respects thee not for this thou maist perish by thy own neglect for all that without escape Heb. 2.3 as well as they Again They were Circumcised and took upon them to be debtors to the whole Law And thou art Baptized and become a debtor to the whole Gospel and hast the badge of Gods Covenant upon thee as they had Acts 7.8 But as Circumcision profited not unless they kept the Law but was made uncircumcision Rom. 2.25 so neither can Baptism now save without the answer of a good Conscience towards God 1 Pet. 3.21 it shall no more be accounted to thee than if thou were unbaptized They had the Law and the Service of God Rom. 9. The Temple of the Lord are these Jer. 4 7. so do the Ordinances and Service of the Gospel belong to and oblige thee thou art of the Church and all the institutions of the Gospel belong to it If thou beest secluded it 's for thy own prophaness or contempt and thou art not thereby neither broken off the Olive-tree I grant 2 Thes 3.15 but however this is not to be trusted to God respects no mans person for that The Israelites partook of Sacraments with Gods Warrant with whom many of them God was not well pleased 1 Cor. 10.4 5. Thou maist have eaten and drunk in Christ's presence and yet he not own thee Luk. 13.26 To come yet nearer In the point of Belief Thou believest that there is one God so did they when they worshipped the golden Calf which they had made Exod. 32.5 and so do the Devils also believe and tremble Jam. 2.19 Again The Jews did believe the Scriptures of the Old Testament to be the word of God a divine Record in the whole some understanding less some more of it they admitted it for the Standard of Doctrines Acts 18.28 ch 26.27 We are Moses Disciples say they We know that God spake unto him Joh. 9.29 in him they trusted For in them ye think ye have eternal Life Chap. 5.39 so thou believest of both Testaments thou ownest the Revelation of the Gospel but what is this to acceptance with God Who have received the Law by the disposition of Angels and have not kept it Acts 7.53 Out of thy own mouth upon the Gospel will God take issue in his final Judgment against thee Rom. 2.16 1 Tim. 1.9 11. The Bible which thou carriest to the Church with thee if thou fearest not God even it shall condemn thee as now it judgeth thee Yet farther They also call themselves the holy City and stay themselves upon the God of Israel Isal 48.2 They leaned upon the Lord and said Is not the Lord among us Mic. 3.11 this was their National claim but what was all that whilst they built up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity v. 10. In the general also they looked for the Messias Unto which promise our twelve Tribes instantly serving God day and night hope to come Acts 26.7 Tho their apprehensions of him were indeed very confused and now being come to the most of them he was a Stone of stumbling Acts 4.11 In like manner thou leanest on God and thou callest thy self a Christian some scarce knowing at all what Christ was others more distinctly understanding and believing the Truth of him thou art a Disciple of his Acts 9.26 Cha. 11.26 a Believer not almost but altogether a Christian in Belief and Religion tho not such a one as Paul was Acts 26.28 But a Believer thou art not ore tenus or nominally only but really in its kind the stile may truely belong to thee as heretofore it did to all that were of the Christian belief and is frequently denominated of them 1 Cor. 6.1 Chap. 14.22 1 Tim. 6.2 Who believed not to the saving of their Souls Heb. 10.39 nor were influenced any more by it than others by their belief of the Deity Rom. 1.21 of which no question could be made nor doubt were not men deficient to themselves Suppose then this to be thy plea for respect unto thy person with God that thou art no Jew nor Gentile but of the Church of God 1 Cor. 10.32 built on Peters Confession that Jesus is the Christ the son of the living God Matt. 16.18 This thou believest that there is no other name under Heaven given whereby thou must be saved but so did the Devils believe of him most expresly Mark 5.7 Luke 4.41 so the Damsel cried concerning Paul and Silas These men are the servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of salvation Acts 16.17 whilst the Anticipation of Education Laws and Customs prevailed with a great part of mankind to disbelieve and reject the same and do to this day 1 Cor. 1.23 Acts 25.19 which is not thy case Thy Faith is sound and Orthodox so far forth Moreover possibly thou art so far true to thy Conviction herein that thou renouncest thy own Righteousness which is of the Law and all other Pleas and betakest thy self in thy way wholly to Christ for Salvation So do all with us generally recognize in the preamble of their last Will and Testament and do mean no question as they say Flesh and Blood hath nothing in a bred Christian against it that is no Heretick whilst Christ is looked unto as a Saviour only Thou thinkest it may be that the fear of God and working Righteousness enter not the terms of acceptance with him nor is supposed to a regular belief on or particular trust to or hope in Christ for thy Salvation Or that thou art a fearer of God when there is no such thing and hereupon thou believest in his Name as they did John 2.23 24. and the Rulers Chap. 12. Who believed on him v. 42. but did not confess him loving the praise of men more than of God and there split themselves rendring that their Faith a meer Presumption being deficient in that which was to come between their assent and such reliance Rom. 10.10 so did Simon the Magician Acts 8.13 23. so Luke 8.13 John 8.30 31. or it may be thou renouncest the Plea of the Pharisee as Heretical Luk. 18.11 neither indeed canst thou say that thou art no