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A77750	A faithfull messenger sent after the Antinomians: to try their power in their last place of refuge, who are fled to Gods decrees for shelter, as Ioab did to the hornes of the altar, and say that they will dye there, I Kings 2. 29.30. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B533; Thomason E40_23; ESTC R5091	47,721	42

with thy salvation that I may see the good of thy chosen and rejoyce in the gladnesse of thy nation and glory with thine inheritance Psal 106.4 5. Now this love is peculiar to Gods people neither have the elect this love from all eternity nor yet before conversion for Gods anger must be turned away and their backslidings healed and then he wil love them freely Hos 14.4 Saith Christ Hee that keepeth my commandements is he that loveth me and he that loveth me shal be loved of my father and I wil love him and if any man love me he will keepe my words and my father wil love him and I wil manifest my selfe unto him for we wil come unto him and make our abode with him John 14.21 22 23. And if ye keep my commandements ye shal abide in my love even as I kept my fathers commandements and abide in his love John 15.9 10. If ye hearken to these judgments and keep and do them then the Lord thy God shal keepe unto thee the Covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers and hee will love thee Deut. 7.12 13. But now thus saith the Lord that created thee ô Jacob and he that formed thee ô Israel feare not I have redeemed thee I have called thee by thy name thou art mine And then after all this it followes Since thou wast pretious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee Isay 43.1.4 And lest any should think Gods love was before the sending of Christ the Apostles seemes purposely to prevent it praying thus The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ putting that in the first place and then the love of God and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 Being justified by faith we have grace with God but no peace before faith in Jesus Christ but then follows many priviledges as free accesse into his presence and rejoycing in hope of the glory of God because the love of God is now shed in our hearts by the holy Ghost Rom. 5.1 2.5 So then when Gods love comes then comes saith And when faith comes then comes the holy Ghost and dwels in our hearts Ephes 3.17 Thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and bast not denyed my name then it follows They shall know that I have loved thee Rev. 3.8 9. But before the creation there was no word given to be kept not strength to keep it therefore no love before the world was Again saith the Lord Whom I love I rebuke and chasten Rev. 3.19 But did God correct any before the creation if he did let them prove it And he scourgeth every sonne that he receiveth Heb. 12.6 So then if they were adopted the sons of God before the creation they must shew that they were corrected before for the spirit of bondage goes before the spirit of adoption Suppose they say that God commended his love to us in that while we were sinners Christ dyed for us Rom. 5.8 Therefore say they Christ loved us while we were in our sins I answer it is true Christ dyed for us when we were in oursins and Christ was tendred unto us in that condition as a man may tender his love to a woman whom he would have to be his wife but this wil not hold that she therefore is his wife because hee hath tendred his love to her no she must consent to that motion and then be given to him and then she is his wife so when God tendered Christ unto us and gave us faith whereby we are capable to make a contract and so gives us to Christ then wee have right and a true title to Christ and all his benefits and not before But now because we deny that any can be actually loved or justified before Faith Suppose they like subtill Sophisters shall say that we hold that a man may have true saving Faith some space of time and yet not the man justified because we say that faith justifies by reflecting back and taking hold of the righteousnesse of Christ I answer when we sate in the state of nature we were in darknesse but when we were baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire then wee see a great light Mat. 3.10.4.16 No sooner doth the candle burne but it gives a light saith David Thou wilt lighten my candle the Lord my God will lighten my darknesse Psal 18.28 But as soone as the heart is touched and faith wrought in it by this light immediately it sees Christ then how can it chuse but take hold immediately But for us to distinguish the time betweene the infusing of Faith and the reflecting act of it is beyond our capacity as much as to distinguish whether fire or light comes first to the candle yet in order of nature sire must goe before the light and so faith must goe before the operation But for the time I cannot distinguish if not in naturall things much lesse in spirituall things Againe suppose they say doth not God love them that have faith wrought in their soules before it take hold of Christ to justifie us I answer let what faith will be wrought in the soule till it takes hold of Christ it doth not justifie and therefore for the present Gods love is not to him as to his reall child for saith Mr. Perkins the very seeds of saving faith brings forth groanings and earnest desires of the favour of God in Christ and makes us hunger and thirst after his righteousnesse Mat. 5.6 But if the seeds of faith doe this what will faith it selfe doe Is there any time for it to he idle in the soule before it take hold on Christ to justifie I know none therfore when it is wrought God loves that man as his reall childe but the more they stand upon these nice distractions the more they display their folly But they reply from those words of Ieremiah saith the Lord I have loved thee with an everlasting love Jer. 31.3 This say they being everlasting is from all eternity I answer when God loves his people he loves them for ever Jo. 13.1 His loue neuer faileth 1 Cor. 13.8 No waters can quench this loue Cant. 8.7 He will rest in his love Zeph. 3.17 So his love unto his people is eternall He will neuer leaue them nor forsake them Heb. 13.5 But all this will not prove that God loved them from everlasting although he love them unto everlasting from the time of their being and saith Mr. Perkins on his Exposition on the Creed Page 396. God neither hates them indeed nor loves them indeed before they are and concerning those two Nations that came of Iacob and Esau he saith God did purpose to love one and hate the other Page 374. as also many able Divines have well approved of this booke before it was published So then although God love his people for ever yet if we speake of the time past beyond the Creation or

A faithfull MESSENGER Sent after the ANTINOMIANS To try their power in their last place of refuge who are fled to Gods Decrees for shelter as Ioab did to the hornes of the Altar and say that they will dye there 1 Kings 2.29.30 Imprimatur Ja. Cranford You that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked workes yet now hath he reconciled Col. 1.21 The Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Heathen through faith Galat. 3.8 If ye hearken to these judgments and keep and do them then the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the Covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy Fathers and he wil love thee Deut. 7.12.13 But as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sons of God even to them that beleeve on his name John 1.12 LONDON Printed by M. Okes for T. Bankes and are to be sold in Black-fryers on the top of Bridewelstairs 1644 To the READER CHristian Reader the Apostle saith there must be heresies among you that they which are approved may be manifest among you 1 Cor. 11.19 And Christ saith It mast needs be that offences come but woe be to that man by whom the offence commeth Math. 18.7 Then rouze up thy selfe as against all sects and schismes so against this one heresie trimd up with some additions by our Antinomians in which they confound Gods Decrees and his worke● together and also his prom●ses and performances and they cast a cloud over the omissience of God and so would perswade us that he doth not see his creatures perfectly as they are and where they are but as if he saw a man in one kingdome when hee is in another because he was there or as if he saw them on earth when they are gone to heaven or hell because they were there or as if he saw them in many places at once or as if he s●w mans birth and death all at once as if he saw Angels very good and yet cursed Devills at the same time and as if he saw man in innocency and falne all at once and that he should blesse all his Creatures here before and curse them all at once But here we may safely make these conclusions First that it is against the nature of God to see all his creatures created and yet not created all at once Secondly it is against the nature of God to see a creature in one place when he is in ather or in many places all at once Thirdly it is against the nature of God to see his changeable creatures in severall conditions all at once as to be in their bloud and yet justified all at once and to see them in their innocency and faln all at once but these men would make the God of order to be the author of all confusion for when all the creatures under heaven were corrupted by the sin of man and lay under a curse then these men say that they were in the favour of God justified sanctified called and adopted the sons of God but can a fountaine send forth salt water and fresh Iam. 3. If not how shall the fountain of living water do so Doth God say that al his creatures were made very good Gen. 1.31 yet at the same time so great part of them cursed divells and reprobates what blasphemy is this to charge the God of truth that cannot ly with lying and desembling or else with blindnesse as if he did not see them cleerely and so call them good through mistakes as Isaac blessed Jacob so because the heathen shall hereafter be justif●ed through faith Gal. 3.8 These men would make God uncapable of the passage of time here with us and so have them just before their time But the times and seasons the Father hath kept in his own power Acts 1.7 Then doth not he know he can keep his promise to a thousand generations Psal 105.8 And performe it the same day Exod. 12.41 Then although he knew when his creatures were made very good that some of them would not long continue in that condition but by sin become devils and reprobates yet it wil not follow that God saw them so soone as they were made neither on the contrary wil it follow that when the Lord saw the earth corrupt that God saw all things at that instant very good because they were so at first but when he said they were good they were so indeed although he know that man would fall that so his purposes might be brought forth in their severall ages and times wherein they were appointed for there is a time before the decrees bring forth Zeph. 2.1.2 And till that time the elect are children of wrath Even as others all that time they were without God and without Christ Ephe. 2.3.12 And without his spirit and therefore none of his Rom. 8.9 There was no difference till our hearts be purified by faith Acts 15.9 The Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might be given to them that beleeve Gal. 3.22 God saw his people before conversion to be enemies and alienated in their minds and after conversion he sees them now reconciled Colos 1.21 Yet God doth not change Neither is there shadow of changing in him Iames 1.17 But the Creatures change daily evill and waxe worse and worse 2 Tim. 3.13 And Gods people grow in grace as new borne babes 2 Pet. 2.2 Then sure the Lord sees all their changes before the Creation God loved nothing but himselfe because there was no other object and this love to himselfe was the moving cause why he made all the creatures to set forth his owne glory and those that glorifie him most are the most beloved of him then a man that is wholly sanctified is more beloved than he that is but in part sanctified and he that is but in part sanctified more beloved than he that is not sanctified at all and he that hath a being hath something in him that God loves when as he that hath no being hath nothing to be beloved Then what a folly is it to say the child of God is actually beloved of God Iustified Sanctified called Adopted before they have any being these things are more largely answered in this Booke which here I have written for thy better information read it and if thou receive any benefit or satisfaction herein give God the praise and me remember in thy prayers And so I commend thee to God and to the Word of his grace Which is able to build thee up and to give thee an Inheritance among all them that are sanctified Acts 20 32. Thine in the Lord Iesus Thomas Bakewell A faithful messenger sent after the Antinomians to their last refuge who are fled to Gods decrees for SHELTER THe occasion of this addition to my former discourse against the Autinomians tenets is their flying for shelter to Gods decrees which I had thought I had sufficiently barrd