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A34979	Christ alone exalted in Dr. Crisp's sermons partly confirmed in answering Mr. Daniel Williams's preface to his Gospel truth stated, by alledging testimonies from Scripture and the doctrine of the Church of England, in the Book of homilies establish'd by law and other orthodox authorities : shewing how he hath wronged as well the truth as the said doctor in the great point of justification by the Neonomian doctrine / humbly offer'd by S.C., an unworthy son of the said doctor, author of a book entituled, Christ made sin, reflected on by Mr. Williams.	Crisp, Samuel, 17th cent.	1693 (1693)	Wing C6916; ESTC R8981	77,379	52

cannot but own they believe him a holy Person and well they may if they compare his Sermons on Free Grace teaching to deny Ungodliness with his other Sermons on our sins laid upon Christ in the last side of which Vol. fol. 444. the Dr. saith For my own part I abhor nothing in the World so much as this namely a licentious undertaking to continue in any sin because that such fulness of Grace hath abounded and I shall recommend to them if any such be here the reading of the Epistle of Jude where they may see the fearful wrath of God upon such persons as abuse the Grace of God to sin O Beloved let not the love of the Lord God in Jesus Christ thus manifested be so basely requited at your hands seeing the Lord hath so freely loved you and given Christ to you that you might be to the Praise of the Glory of his Grace in a Godly and Christian Conversation whereunto you are Ordained for you are Created in Christ Jesus to good Works that you should walk in them and I beseech you always to remember that you cannot answer the free love of God toward you any other way but by shewing it in a fruitful Conversation in the World and considering that one end for which the Lord did redeem you was that you might be a peculiar people to himself zealous of good Works Titus 2.24 Thus ends the third Volume To stop the mouths of Gain-sayers especially Mr. Williams who accuses the Dr. to be for Licentious Doctrine but because our holiness must not come in to concur to our Justification this is to enervate Christs Laws But to our purpose again The Homily saith as to the respect Christs sufferings have to the Pardon of our sins though his sufferings be not a formal pardon as saith Mr. Williams as a piece of nonsense charged upon Dr. Crisp yet his Sufferings are tant-amount to a Pardon in the Account of those holy compilers of the Homilies who say in fol. 178. His Passion is the Ransom and whole amends for our sin If so then with submission I may say this whole amends for sin is in the Eye of a just and gracious God tant-amount to a Pardon for God cannot but acquit where amends is made though the Person acquitted is never the better for it as to his Conscience till he believe in the Lord Jesus no more than a Criminal in New-gate condemned for Treason is the more at peace in his mind when his Friend hath got a Pardon for him in his Pocket till he see it or believes it but will any man in his senses say this Criminal is not really benefited by the Pardon his Friend got him till he see and plead this Pardon much less may Mr. Williams say that an Elect person is not benefited by the Justification by Christs Resurrection because 't is not applyed to him till believing They go on in fol. 185. and say Christ being perfect God and the Son of God gave his Body to be bruised and broken on the Cross for our sins this Mr. Williams will grant but they go on and say our Saviour Christ hath delivered us from sin this Mr. Williams must temper with ifs and Connexions they proceed Yet not so that we shall be free from committing sin but so that it shall not be imputed to our Condemnation So they have allowed a benefit to Believers before they believe though Mr. Williams questions it and affirm Christ on the Cross delivered from sin bearing it away so as it shall not be imputed to them and whether this be not more than a bare foundation of our Pardon it being a real making amends for sin a real justification a real saving our Souls in these great mens account and in the Nations account let Mr. Williams ponder and not conclude that Dr. Crisp entertained these Opinions which dethrone Christ as he calls it by not animadverting that Christs sufferings were barely a foundation of pardon and let him muse what his vilifying this Doctrine of the Church of Englamd will amount to To proceed he saith that the sins of the Elect They are not forgiven immediately upon nor meerly by his enduring those sufferings this is directly contrary to the Doctrine in the Homily 177. which saith In this death of Christ standeth our continual Pardon I hope he will allow that Christ did put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself because God saith it without any Trope or Ifs or Connexions Heb. 9.26 Also he will allow that before Christ sat on the right hand of God he purged our sins by himself Heb. 1.3 And that at the end of seventy Weeks he made an end of sin and brought in everlasting righteousness Dan. 9.24 and bare our sins in his Body and was the Lamb of God that took away the sins of the World John 1.29 If so that sins be satisfyed for and if put away and if purged and made an end of and born away and took away then what will remain to be forgiven even nothing and yet still neither the Dr. or any I know of hold that the Conscience of a sinner is acquitted hereby or at all by Christs death till Christ be applyed by Faith with all his Benefits to the Soul so that though with Mr. Williams our sins be not forgiven immediately upon Christs death as pertaining to the Conscience of the Elect sinner dyed for yet by Mr. Williams leave God is not so hard a Creditor to keep the Debt upon Record when he is satisfied for it and when 't is blotted out by the Blood of Christ sure he will allow that in the Court of Heaven the Book is crost and no debt appears against the Elect after Christ made payment sure this will not be gainsaid but by those who deny Christs satisfaction which many will nibble at tho' 't is too plain Popery to say downright that Christ did not make full satisfaction to God by his Death for the sins of all the Elect. Sins are not forgiven meerly by his enduring Sufferings W. What is our Gospel Holiness to help our Faith Holiness c. Yes for saith he There were to intervene a Gospel Promise of pardon the work of the Spirit for a Conformity to the rule of the Promise in the person to be pardoned and a Judicial act of Pardon by that promise on the Person thus conformed to the Rule thereof here 's a tedious lesson for a poor terrified Soul to get by heart when the Spirit of God hath convinced him of his miserable condition by sin when he cries to a Gospel Minister good Sir for the Lords sake tell me how I may get a pardon into my Bosom I have heard may he say God saith there is forgiveness with him 't is now ready by him that he may be feared I have heard that when the Jaylor cryed out What shall I do to be saved The Apostle bid him only believe in the Lord Jesus and thou

we had never heard of the Gospel What Riches of grace is this in Mr. Williams's gospel the sum whereof is It hath made a difference between Faith and Unbelief Holiness and Profaneness Love and Enmity Duty and Rebellion O what Encomiums must the World raise to such a Discoverer of that which Nature without either Law or Gospel teaches every man But some hidden Treasure must lye under this Rubbish of Divinity 't is not for nothing that Gospel grace is dignified with procuring these four Blessings therefore Mr. W. must mean that Conformity to the Rule of the Promise is in our imperfect Faith sincere Holiness love of God and spiritual Duties and these are the Conditions on which the gospel promiseth pardon now how correspondent Mr. Williams gospel is to the Prophet Isaiah's Account the world may judge from Isaiah 43.25 I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own sake This is the Rule for Pardon in the sense of Doctor Crisp and of all that love the Lord Jesus for obtaining this gospel grace and for those that differ I beseech the Lord to open their Eyes and subdue their Hearts to the simplicity of the gospel that they may lay down their strong Reasonings which indeed are foolishness not only with God but to every Child of seven Years old that hath learnt his Assemblies Catechism But now I think on 't Mr. Williams hath slur'd that by his new unsound one come we next to his Conclusion of his great point of our Conformity to the Rule in order to obtain pardon wherein he saith thus God in dispensing of gospel promised Blessings doth judicially determine a conformity to THIS Rule of the Promise We must observe that decisive word this Rule no gospel Blessing without a Conformity to this Rule that is the four Pillars of his Babel to build Pardon upon our imperfect Faith our sincere Holiness our love of God our spiritual Duties which include every Precept Counsel and Direction in the Bible as much as to say Stand by blessed Jesus I have heard of thy pretious Blood a Ransom I have heard of thy saving to the uttermost all that come to God by thee I have heard of thy passing by when poor Sinners lay in their Blood dead in Sins and saying Live I have heard thou didst say Publicans and Harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you Pharisees that justify your selves M●●h 21 3● But there is risen up in this last Age a Generation of strong Reasoners that say Our formal Pardon is not in thy Blood but we must get it as it were by the VVorks of the Law by Faith Holiness Perseverance Love Spiritual Duties and this Doctrine O Jesus I must adhere to or I shall be accounted a Dethroner of thee and an enervater of thy Laws though there is not one word either in the Law or Gospel that enjoyns these as Conditions to obtain Pardon But thy Righteousness is by them interpreted to be our gospel Holiness and upon this they ground our obtaining Pardon not by the one work of the Law Thou shalt love the Lord with all thine heart but by the many works of the gospel O that ever mens Learning and Parts should be so vitiated as to decry the simplicity of the Truth as it is in Jesus Believe in the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved set up their Scheme of a gospel Promise of Pardon upon a Conformity to this prescribed Rule of Duties innumerable besides Repentance Faith Love sincere Holiness Perseverance Obedience and when all this is mentioned there comes in a boundless c. O to the Law and to the Testimonies let t is say which directs us plainly Look to me and be ye saved all the ends of the Earth come unto me and ye shalt find rest for your Souls After all this Pudder Mr. Williams comes to himself and also Doctor Crisp and though he had been setting up his Connexions and Conformity in Faith Holiness Obedience c. At last he comes to Bellarmins's Tutissimum to the Sheet Anchor To the alone true Gospel way of Salvation true uniting Faith in Christ I was in an Amazement to find that God extorted this Confession from him after his long Deviation That true uniting Faith was the Wedding Garment This is like a Minister of the gospel of our Lord Jesus if he can stay here but alas the next Page throws this good Mist down however we will make much of this for here he Centers with the choicest Christians when he saith thus God upon a View of his guests he cast out him that had not on the Wedding Garment viz. true uniting Faith Then I quaere What 's become of the Long Bed-Roll of Spiritual Duties Faith Love Repentance Holiness Obedience c. If true uniting Faith be the Wedding garment sure this Wedding garment was not worn without Pardon of Sins through the Blood of Christ washing them off from this guest if this were by true uniting Faith and nothing else was lookt after by the Master of the Feast but that his Guests owned him by wearing him their Righteousness by Faith then avoid the Scheme of our holy Performances from having any thing to do in our being admitted to fit with the King at his round Table But what shall we say unstable as water Reuben was no sooner hath Mr. Williams writ clear gospel that nothing but true uniting Faith kept a Man from being cast out but the next Clause brings in persevering Holiness with the Train of all spiritual Duties to give admittance to the wise Virgins so that one while we are justified by Faith another while by persevering Holiness If you are to go to the Wedding Feast you are to put on true uniting Faith If you are to enter with the Bridegroom to the Marriage then 't is the Spirit of grace and persevering Holiness gains you admittance these are his words As by keeping out the foolish Virgins for not having Oyl in their Lamps viz. the Spirit of grace and persevering Holiness so by admitting the wise Virgins he judicially declared they had a Spirit of grace and persevering Holiness Here 's not one word of Faith or of Christ or of his Righteousness for these poor Virgins to get into the Wedding House by not one syllable of being justified by Faith But according to his sense they said to Christ Lord we have the Spirit of grace and persevering Holiness we have prophesied in thy Name against too much exalting Free Grace we have done many wonderful Works we have persevered in our Holiness till thy coming But will Christ give them admission on this Plea of a Spirit of grace and holiness without a word of Faith in our Lord Jesus No sure he will say I know you not you would not know me to be your Righteousness You come in your gospel Holiness I know you not This is to make the gospel yea and nay 'T is yea to day true uniting

Posterity be blasted as to this World But if this Charge look like sublimated malice every candid Reader will say Mr. Williams for charging falsely with High Treason a great admirer and advancer of the Lord Jesus Christ with dethroning him deserves not a stab no nor an outragious word from his Posterity or the lovers of the Doctor 's memory But the Answer of the Angel to the Devil The Lord rebuke thee Satan is not this a Brand pluckt out of the Fire Zech. 3.2 How can any thing but that which looks like Canker'd Venom against Free Grace Charge him or his Doctrine point blank with no less than Dethroning Christ when every Sermon tends chiefly to the Exalting Christ and Christ alone under the Father in opposition to the grand Idol or Christ of self Justitiaries setting up mans righteousness If the whole stream and almost every Page of his Book flows with mighty zeal for Christ and jealousie of Joyning any thing with Christ in our salvation for f●ar of robbing Christ of any of the honour and Glory due to him If this be dethroning Christ I wish Mr. Williams would so dethrone him in every Sermon and that all that name the dear and blessed name of Christ would so dethrone him Then we should not have the righteousness of Christ by faith called our Gospel Holiness I would ask the greatest Enemy that is to Justification only by the blood of Jesus who is the dethroner of Christ Dr. Crisp who in all his Sermons is for Christ alone exalted Crying out none but Christ none but Christ to the ravishing the Hearts of thousands of lovers of Christ Or Mr. Williams who sets up a rectoral Government for the Lord for saving sinners in a sapiential way joyning our Gospel Holiness with Christ's imputed Righteousness nay in plain terms boldly affirming that the righteousness of God by Faith which the Apostle just before had called the Righteousness of Christ Phil. 3.9 That this is a Believers Gospel Holiness Mr. Williams cannot have the confidence to say Dr. Crisp was for dethroning the Christ the Son of the most high the Christ the eternal Son of God made man But in truth he was for dethroning Mr. Williams Christ of Phil. 3 9. that is Mans Gospel Holiness from getting in the Throne of the true Christ the ever blessed Son of God for justification of a sinner or to have any thing to do therein he was for Gospel holiness in Doctrine and practice as much as any Person living keeping it in its due place a Friend of the Bridegroom but not a Co-partner with the Bridegroom and as eminent Mr. Christopher Fowler said twenty and twenty times so in effect say the Doctors Sremons I would not for this Room full of Gold open my mouth against Evangelical holiness or true holiness one grain of it being more worth than all the World but hold it must not sit on the Throne with Christ It is a good Hand-maid to wait on the Queen but it is not to lye in Bed with the Queen or in effect our Gospel Holiness must not affront the Lord Jesus Christ to take his Crown and dignity from him Now in any impartial mind it may easily be judged who is the Dethroner of Christ O whether will Passion and Prejudice lead men and how will it blind them when their Conscience cannot but tell them that they themselves come short of him in Exalting Christ they cry out against others that are of a far more elevated strain in the honouring the Lord Jesus O you dethrone Christ because you do too much magnifie him in opposition to Gospel Holiness coming in for any share in our salvation This is his first link in the Chain dethroning Christ as much as to say I 'll lay load enough but the first stroak shall do his business the Dr. Opinions have been to the dethroning Christ would any one but such as Solomon speaks of who casteth about Firebrands Arrows and Death Prov. 26.18 have uttered such language without one tittle of proof without saying I have proved his Opinions Dethrone Christ or I am of Opinion his Notions tend to dethrone Christ none of this softness is in his Iron strain but point blank all his Opinions follow in a Chain to the Dethroning Christ his preaching that Christ is the only way is dethroning Christ his Preaching Man's Righteousness is the grand Idol is dethroning Christ Any one may guess 't is the rubbing that Sore makes such out-cry O you dethrone Christ when you unhorse Men from their own righteousness But if for every idle word that men shall speak they shall give an Account can they think they shall not also for every false uncharitable charge they give in accusing a grand Asserter of the Alone Rights of the Lord Jesus in the matter of our Salvation to be in that very thing a Dethroner of the Lord Jesus What shall be done to thee thou false Tongue Psal 120.3 I hope the Lord will incline such Arguers not to adhere to their own Arguments but fling down their strong Reasonings and submit to the alone righteousness of God for Salvation without our Gospel Holiness sharing in it being overcome by the Almighty overpowering sweet drawing of the Spirit and cry before it be too late as Julian did Vicisti Galilae thou hast overcome me O Galilean by thy Blood and Spirit freely given to me for my righteousness and Life to ascribe all the glory to thee none to my Gospel Holiness this is all the harm I wish and pray for the uncharitable censurer of Dr. C. for for that he had by his Opinions dethroned Christ cujus contrarium The next is Enervating his Laws and Pleadings This flows from the other if Christ be dethroned his Laws must be enervated But if Christ alone is exalted his Holy and Pure word is established as the Dr. often asserts from the Apostle do we make void the Law by Faith nay we establish it by bringing in Christ fulfilling the Law for us and writing it in our Hearts as holy just and good teaching us by his Spirit to deny all ungodliness as in the Sermons on that Text. Dr. Crisp shews 't is not the exalting the Blood of Christ that Enervates the Laws of God and Christ but 't is the making our Righteousness which is every jot defiled to stand in the place of the abrogated Moral Law to say that in regard we are not able to fulfill the moral Law God accepts of our Evangelical Righteousness that is our own Gospel Holiness and so making it in some sense a Co-partner with Christs Righteousness denying it in words but establishing it in deed this is the real enervating Christs Laws else how comes the righteousness of God by Faith Phil. 3.9 to be called Gospel Holiness I am sure the Righteousness of God by Faith justifies a Believer and if this Righteousness of God be our Gospel Holiness then our Gospel Holiness justifies a Believer and this

benefits of his Righteousness Where is the Drs. enervating Christs Laws if this was his judgment Doth not this Correspond with that of the Apostle Eph. 1. He raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus do●h not this evince that all the Elect were raised up with Christ and do now sit with him in Heaven being in his Heart as the twelve Tribes were upon Arons Breast-Plate when he went into the Holy of Holies Are they not in the Heart of Christ and doth he not pray for those that God gave to him if so then all saving Blessings belong to them only the Doctor had not the happiness to word it to please Mr. W. therefore is quarrell'd at But next he sweetens all and having broken the Doctors Head gives him a Plaister thus I have carefully avoided any Reflection on Revere●d Dr. Crisp whom I believe a Holy Man For which respect I return many thanks and bless God for fulfilling his word that when a mans ways please the Lord he makes his Enemies at peace with him But may I not wonder that those that have uttered so great Invectives that he was for dethroning Christ should yet be convinc'd from the strain of his writings that he was a Holy Man This is agreeable to what treatment he met with in the Heat of Peoples flocking by thousands to hear him which he was much maligned for yet there was not a man of all his detractors that ever charged him with the least immorality or indecency or neglect of exactest holiness though there was scarce ever seen a wrinkle in his Brow he being chearful in Conversation even to admiration yet as solemnly devout in the Worship of God on Lords days and Fast days as the greatest legalist so that his Enemies gave him his due Character for exact holiness But now for Mr. W. to say Dr. C. was holy and Reverend Dr. C. and but a few Lines before to say all the rest of his Opinions follow in a Chain to the dethroning of Christ c. seems strange but without doubt it is from a mighty over-ruling Providence of God not only out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings the unlearned to perfect praise to his Name but to still the Enemy and Avenger Mat. 11. Ps 8. Not only do the simple Celebrate the Praises of God for the opening the Rich Mercies of Free-Grace by the Dr. but the Learned that seem to be his Enemies and come out against him with Vengeance God doth still them nay after high reproach he engages them to acknowledge this Dethroner of Christ I believe was a holy Man this is like Bellarming propter incertitudinem tutissimum est c. 'T is absolute Sovereign grace in Christ nothing in us that saves us when all is done Before I leave Mr. W. in this good temper I hope it may be useful as well for setling the wavering as confirming the sound To quote a passage or two I met with occasionally out of unquestionable Authority for Orthodoxy in the Faith for a suffrage to Dr. Crisp in what he is opposed by Mr. W. and that is out of the Reverend Dr. Harris of Hanwell an eminent member of the famous Assembly of Divines Anno 1652. I begin with his asserting That Christ sustained the Person of a sinner This is a grand charge against Dr. C. that Christ was a reputed sinner but this eminent Dr. H. makes no scruple to Assert it roundly without any ambiguity and saith directly in his Sermon called Absaloms Funeral in fol. 215 Christ he stood in our room and sustained the Person of a sinner though in himself sinless could not he though he was the Heir and first born escape until his Blood was shed and flesh rent and Soul poured forth as an Offering Then make good that thou art in Christ and so a new Creature or else take thy leave of all hope and comfort I add if this were not true that Christ sustained the Person of a sinner how could God punish him or how could the Apostle say to the seven Churches He loved us and washed us from our sins in his Blood sure those us were in Christ when he shed his Blood and i● his own Person as head he sustained them and all other sinners that he shed his Blood for else how were they Crucified with him and raised with him and made sit with him in Heavenly places now because Reason and Philosophy cannot fathom this shall we reject plain Scripture and say that the Elect have no interest in Christ till they believe though God say plainly grace was given them in Christ before the World was and they were chosen in him before the World Dr. H. gives his Testimony against the new sort of Divinity which may look better from him than Dr. Crisp and may reconcile to his Doctrine or rather Christs that nothing must come in of ours to joyn with Christ for Justification and saith in fol. 36. from Rom. 8.1 No Condemnation to those in Christ the Doctrines of later Editions Arminians drive mostly at this to wrest you from your Estate in Christ hence the superadding of our Righteousness to Christs ad Corroborandum look to your standing find all your Hopes Joys Life in him alone owe to him all Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification Redemption and Salvation This is far from the New Scheme of Gospel Ordination of Christs purchasing that Faith Holiness c. have their use in Gospel Benefits from their Conformity to the Rule of the Promise not of the Precept this taking us off from our superadded Righteousness ad corroborandum to strengthen our Title clearly evinces that he was not for Faith and holiness giving a Title no Faith can only receive it and Holiness Evidence it Dr. H. answers for Dr. C. as being charged that if God acts us in beleiving and God beleives and God repents and saith in fol. 64. Not only the power but the Act too is from God Phil. 2. He works in us to will and to do if it be thus say the Jesuits and others then Man shall not be master of his own Acts then God shall be said to repent and believe Man shall do nothing but all shall be resolved unto God Answ May not Man be said to understand though God do powerfully inlighten so also to hate love c. They the Jesuits yield that God worketh upon the Vnderstanding and the Affections and yet man understands and affects and why should not the same be true of the Will Secondly God first works all things in us and then by us he prevents and acts us and then we work under God Object This takes off all endeavour nay this quickens our Care and endeavour if St. Paul may be heard Phil 2.13 Therefore we must work out all because we depend on God for all saith the Apostle neither doth God only work in his People a power of willing but the very Act also and indeed the acting of the will of man is more than giving him a power only to will The Covenant of grace is this be content to accept of anothers Obedience and to lay hold of the Righteousness of Christ for Justification he soars as high as Dr. C. and saith there is nothing required of us more than this to disclaim our selves and to make Christ alone our Teacher our head and all-sufficient Saviour nay in fol. 35. he is clear and saith What can we do toward the getting of a new Heart Answ Man cannot concur to the renewing of himself as a Cause or an Agent If this be good Divinity in Dr. H. and the Assembly of Divines why should it be quarrel'd at in Dr. C. Would it not be more becoming the greatness of Mr. W's Spirit to have encountred the Assembly in these particulars than Dr. C. yea doubtless But there was a new Scheme to be erected and this would more easily obtain against a single Person than the established Religion of the Nation which in the chiefest points objected against Dr. C. concurs with him yea after all when Mr. W. finds by the strong Proofs brought against him that his Scheme will not take he betakes himself to the Substance of what he Objects against the Dr. as in time may be made evident in the mean time I humbly conceive I have made it appear that his Preface hath not only wronged the Dr. but the truth which I doubt not but in a great measure he sees Thus begging of the Lord that some glory may rise to his Name by some few hours investigating the Truth I conclude as well for Mr. W. and all that desire the Truth as it is in Jesus may take place as for my self let the Words of my Mouth and the Meditation of my Heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord Tzuri ve Goeli my Rock and my Redeemer Amen FINIS