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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42457	An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errours by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.; Gataker, Charles, 1614 or 15-1680. Way of truth and peace.	1679 (1679)	Wing G311; ESTC R6785	56,240	74

AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST ERROUR Concerning JUSTIFICATION OR The True Notion of JUSTIFICATION and of JUSTIFYING FAITH CLEARED By the light of Scripture and solid Reason from several Mistakes of the words which Misapprehensions prove the seeds of Dangerous Errours By the late Reverend and Learned Divine THOMAS GATAKER of Pious Memory In a Discourse on Rom. 3. 28. too precious to be buried in Obscurity To which is added The Way of Truth and Peace OR A Reconciliation of the holy Apostles S. PAVL and S. JAMES CONCERNING Justification By Faith without works Rom. 3. 28. By Works and not by Faith only Jam. 2. 21 24. By Charles Gataker Rector of Hoggeston in the County of Bucks LONDON Printed by J. C. for Henry Brome at the Gun neer the west-end of S. Pauls 1670. Imprimatur Dec. 6. 1669. Rob. Grove R. P. D no Episc. Lond. à Sacris Domest To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Carnarvon Lord Dormer Viscount Ascot Baron of Wing and Master of his Majesties Hawks My Lord THe whole Designe of this Dedication as to the Ground and End of it is so clearly transparent to those who know how Gods Providence hath set me a weak Labourer in the Lords Vineyard to work under the shadow of your Lordships protection that it is a superfluous waste of words and time to defend the presumption of this Address which without mine Apologie may be reasonably taken for a just expression of my duty It were moreover an unpardonable trespass against your Lordships quick Apprehension whose vigorous spirit is active and piercing in the observing of Occurrents if I should make a tedious Harangue to discover mine intentions in thus testifying the sense I have both of the common benefit which I enjoy together with other sons of the Prophets who dwell in safety under the sheltring and refreshing shade of your Lordships Patronage and also of those peculiar obligations laid upon me by your Lordships singular favour the repetition whereof in particular were impertinent but my publick acknowledgement in general is as decent as my private remembrance of them is perpetually and indispensably requisite I have onely a minde to wish that the product of my own Soyl which I pay as tribute unto your Lordship were as agreeable for the workmanship to the divine matter which I handle as the discourse it self is proper and as I humbly conceive suitable to your Lordships pious inclination For I cannot with silence pass by what I have seen with huge satisfaction that as your Lordship hath had a share in Timothy's happiness in knowing the holy Scriptures from a childe which are able to make Thee wise unto salvation so It hath grown in knowledge by the advantage of Gods special endowment a capacious and tenacious Memory It is also a blessed and pleasing Rarity that in an Age of men sadly degenerate into Atheism who endeavour to forget that they are Gods off-spring and would fain be taken for the Mushrooms of Chance and are not onely sunk below Beasts in enormous sensuality but also fallen beyond the apostasie of the Devils in absurd Incredulity with a perverse ingratitude denying the Lord that bought them and with a sottish insolencie denying the God that made them your Lordship in the midst of this corrupt and crooked generation hath continued stedfast and unmoveable in the belief and profession of the general Principles of Religion upon which as a sure Basis all Justice and Civility are founded and particularly of the Doctrine declared and established by the Church of England with an equal aversion from Atheistical profaneness and from new-fangled pretensions to Religion Some have observed of us Islanders that we are very apt to vary our Fashions and have ascribed our Inconstancie to the changeable temper of our Air and the unstable complexion of our Climate I wish our Country-men were not as vainly and that more dangerously fickle in altering the Opinions of their Religion as they are mutable in the habit and mode of their Apparel I am sure the fault of this flitting and shifting humour is not chargeable upon the Stars Skie Air or other Elements which are all the innocent creatures of a good God and uneffective upon the wills of men But the shame and misery will light heavie at last upon these unballasted mindes unstable souls unwary followers of cunning seducers or itching affecters of novelty who delight to wander but forsake their own mercy while they trust in lying vanities To prevent the going astray or being misled from the way of Truth and peace of conscience which depends thereon in one main point of Christian Religion I have published a Piece of my Father of pious memory which tho imperfect because a mortal disease cut off the thred of his meditation first and shortly after of his life drawn forth to fourscore years within a few weeks yet is as I suppose a very useful Foundation on which any Christian exercised in the study of Scripture may build the same superstructure which the Author would have raised if God had granted him a little longer use of light To this I have subjoyned a short Discourse of mine own composure tending to the explication of S. Paul and S. James their doctrine concerning Justification for the removal of a stone of offence the seeming contrariety between the blessed Apostles which some weak Christians have stumbled at and some scoffing enemies of Christianity have taken up to cast at the head and wound if it were possible the credit of the Gospel And I hope that the precious Relick premised will adde weight and value to mine Offering which I tender in all humility first as a Peace-offering to the Church of God and I present it to your Lordship as a cluster of that Vineyard whereof I am an unworthy Dresser devoutly praying that your Lordships benign influence on the Lords inheritance may be recompensed from on high with the plentiful distillation of all blessings upon your Lordship and your Lordships whole Family most worthy of Honour to which I am resolved as well as engaged to remain in all faithful observance My Lord Your Honours most devout Orator and most humble Servant CHARLES GATAKER THE PREFACE To the Christian Reader BEcause I stand accountble for the increase of Books when the world seems to be overcharged already with the number and bulk of them even to the wearying of the Readers flesh and spirit I desire thee with candour to receive this brief Account of my publication of these ensuing Treatises The God of truth and of peace which two Titles are the most resplendent Gems in the Crown of Gods glorious Attributes hath commanded us to embrace and maintain with equal love and zeal the Truth and Peace Since also both these are the Legacies of our blessed Saviour bequeathed to his Church by his Testament sealed with his bloud certainly every sincere Christian is concerned in both but the stevvards of the mysteries of God are yet more