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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66342	An answer to Mr. J. Humphrey's second printed letter wherein he publisheth Mr. Lob's objections against Mr. W's books.	Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing W2644A; ESTC R30208	9,049	10

An Answer to Mr. J. Humphrey ' s Second Printed Letter wherein he publisheth Mr. Lob ' s Objections against Mr. W' s. Books SIR YOUR First Letter misrepresents my Judgment in many things as if you little considered my Books whence you pretend your Objections This Letter I suffer to pass without further Animadversion than to inform you that my Adversaries have boldly assured the World that I say The Righteousness of Christ is imputed only as to Effects whereas you truly represent my words that besides the Effects the Righteousness of Christ it self is imputed to us It 's true you had prevented your Plea against it had you consulted Man made Righteous p. 77 78 79 80. Yet have I no reason to complain of my Treatment whilst struck at by both Extreams when deeper thoughts would perceive the truth stated against the excess of both But your Second Letter necessitates a Vindication of my self from the Falshoods imposed on you the Publication whereof is poorly excused by saying You have not my Books now to examine the Quotations Will your Experience allow you to be a Tool to a Man you call learned because Industrious to divide Brethren under a pretence of Reconciling a Breach which is made and maintained to serve a turn against all the self-denying Methods that were possible on our part This Sheet allows not arguing any Point my Concern is to shew how unjustly I am represented by the Objections offered by your Author 1. Obj. Christ where he is called a Surety was a Surety of a better Covenant and therefore not of the Law of Works It was not a Covenant that obliged us to dye for sin or perfectly obey in a way of Merit that he is called a Surety of Man made Righteous p. 102. Ans 1. He leaves out the word here and so changeth the sense My words are That the Covenant he is called a Surety of here viz. Heb. 7. 22. Ans 2. In stating the Question that leads to these words I declared what I affirmed concerning Christ's Surety-ship and what I did deny 1. I granted that Christ hath undertaken in the Covenant of Redemption that he would make Satisfaction to Justice for us and obey the whole Will of God c. He was a real Sponsor engaging to do all that belonged to him Christ accordingly died in our Nature and that not only for our good but in our stead nostro loco We were liable to dye he stept in and died that we might not dye who otherwise must have dyed but now live by his dying for us He was a proper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He gave his Life for ours yea and this to vindicate the Glory of God in exempting us from Death c. Then I proved that Christ did suffer properly in our stead was a Sacrifice for us c. And concluded Thus far the Word of God directs us to call Christ either Surety Sponsor Representative c. p. 90 91 92. 2. The thing that I did deny was That Christ by his Obedience made Atonement or merited for us as a proper Pecuniary Surety in the Law of Works This I confuted by several Arguments and the words objected are the sixth Argument viz. that in Heb. 7. 22. where Christ is called a Surety it is of the better Covenant which is not the Covenant of Works Sir judge you whether I affirm not Christ to be a Surety Name and Thing though I affirm that it 's the better Covenant he is called Surety of in Heb. 7. 22. And deny him to be a Money Surety 2. Obj. Christ can be bound by the Covenant of which he is surety to no more than what we are engaged to do and suffer by the Gospel-Covenant Man made Righteous p. 105. Ans My words are The Covenant Christ is Surety of in this place viz. Heb. 7. 22. is the Gospel-Covenant and if so he can even as a Money Surety hereby be bound with us to no more than what we are engaged to do and Suffer by this Gospel-Covenant It 's true by the Covenant of Redemption he was engaged to suffer Death in the Humane Nature for Satisfaction and this in our place and also to obey the whole Law Sir can you not see that the Objector leaves out in this place Money and hereby And he also makes that to be my Assertion what I only infer from a Supposition which I denyed and leaves out if so He would suggest me to say Christ is to Repent and Believe for us which as I expresly deny p. 91. So I oft declare that his Surety-ship as to the Gospel-Covenant consists in his undertaking that the Covenant shall be performed on God's and on the Believers part And lastly he stops just at the words which confute his whole Imputation viz. That Christ was engaged by the Covenant of Redemption to Suffer c. 3. Obj. Though in Gal. 4. 4 5. it 's said that Christ was made under the Law it is not meant of the Moral Law but Ceremonial Law Ans I was proving that though the Righteousness of Christ for which we are justified be a Righteousness adequate to the Law yea Supra legal as well as in substance truly Legal yet that Righteousness is not a Surety-ship Righteousness that can infer us equally Righteous as Christ Pursuant hereto I propose Gal. 4. 4 5. as an Objection to which I made these four Answers 1. I might shew how the Context confines to the following sense viz. That Christ was made under the Jewish Law delivered Four Hundred Years after the Promise c. And in this sense it is not the Law of Innocency as a Proper Covenant of Works c. The Objection is pretended hence but I said the Jewish Law not the Ceremonial Law which is but part of it The Moral Law was also a part thereof though not delivered to them as a proper Covenant of Innocency 2. My next Answer and in the very same Page was I grant that Christ in taking our Nature became a Servant and subject to the Law of Innocency to its Precepts and its Punishments as a Mediator according to the terms adjusted in the Covenant of Redemption Here I affirmed what he saith I deny My Fourth Answer was Christ did not then become a Surety or Undertaker to dye for us by being made under the Law but he was made under the Law because he had undertaken to dye for us His very being made under the Law of Works was but a performance of a Previous Engagement to the Law-giver this being one Article in the Covenant of Redemption that he should take our Nature be a Servant under the Law and make his Soul an Offering for Sin Ubi sup p. 110 111. 4. Obj. Calling God Creditor and Sin Debts is Metaphorical and using such words as proper hath given Advantage to the Socinians Ans I acknowledge it and such as understand the way of Confuting the Socinians are of the same mind And therefore grant