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A38139	A short review of some reflections made by a nameless author upon Dr. Crisp's sermons, in a piece entituled Crispianism unmask'd with some remarks upon the union in the late agreement in doctrin among the dissenting ministers in London : subscribed the 16th of December, 1692, and that as referring unto the present debates ... / by Thomas Edwards, esq.	Edwards, Thomas, fl. 1693-1699.; Crisp, Tobias, 1600-1643.	1693 (1693)	Wing E236; ESTC R31409	64,054	46

The Lord hath laid on him the Iniquity of us all Satan knows well enough of what great consequence this Circumstance of Time is both to the Manifestation of the Glory of God's Grace and to the establishment of the Comforts of God's People and therefore he hath raised a foul Dust to misguide poor Wretches that they may not lay hold upon this Circumstance and the Comfort that will flow from it The Text saith not The Lord doth lay Iniquity on him or the Lord will lay Iniquity on him much less that the time is overslipt now and the Lord will not lay Iniquity upon him Satan is very busie with tender ignorant Hearts either to perswade them that the Work is now a doing or the Work hereafter shall be done but yet is not done or the time is overslipped it might have been done if Men had not neglected the Opportunity but now it is too late it is never to be done The last of these hath troubled the Hearts of many People whence comes these expressions I have neglected the day of my Visitation saith one I have neglected the Opportunity the Presence of the Spirit of God my fear is that was the day of God's Grace to me but I have let it slip and now there is no more Hope left for me but Beloved let the evident Word of the Lord himself be your guide and know that every thing that is spoken contrary to the Mind of the Lord revealed in his Word is but the natural Fruit of the Father of Lies who is a Lyer from the beginning The Lord hath laid Iniquity upon Christ Hath he done it already and is it now to be done Nay hath he done it already and doth he revoke it and will not suffer it to be done The point then briefly is this THIS Gracious Act of the Lord 's laying Iniquity upon Christ is not now or hereafter to be done much l●ss a thing he never wills but it is a thing the Lord hath already done EVERY School-boy will be able to tell you that this Expression hath laid imports the time past the word being in the Preter-Perfect Tense it is not in the Present Tense nor in the Future Tense the Lord will lay but in the Preter-perfect Tense the Lord hath done it it is an Act past NOW Reader be thy own Judge or desire no Clandestine or surreptatious and forced Subscriptions from thee whether Doctrins Graces and Duties are not owned by the Doctor provided they be kept within their prescribed limits out of and from which our Author would for a base self-justiciary end divert them and therefore summons us to listen to what the Infallible Scripture of Truth says Crispianism Vnmask'd p. 11 12 13 14. though for vile and infallible ends as by him produced from Prov. 28. 14. 1 Cor. 16. 13. Heb. 3. 12. Phil. 2. 12. Heb. 4 1. R●m 11. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Psal 34. 9. 76. 11. 147. 11. Luk. 12. 5. See v. 1 4. Heb. 12. 28 29. But ask him do any of these Texts tell us that a Fear and Dread of God or any other Duty or Qualification in our Souls contribute in the least to a laying of Sin upon Christ which ought first to have been proved had he dealt either in a way of reverential awe towards God or due Respect and Regard towards Man But we shall find enough of this as we go on As to the Third Charge III. THAT He hath imbib'd the Principles and Doctrin of this Author Crispianism Vnmask'd p. 15. viz. the Doctor 's says our Author cannot pray And for this quotes him p. 370. thus When People pray for any Grace omitting what Intervenes viz. that God hath passed over to Men all their Pra●er is that God would manifest c. not regarding either what goes before or after therefore I shall transcribe the substance of the same Dr. Crisp's Works Vol. II. p. 370. WELL then if you pray in Faith that your Sins are forgiven upon this Ground i. e. our Sins being already laid on Christ because God hath made this Grant and you find it upon Record then it seems your Sins were forgiven you before your Prayer was made You will say God hath granted this before and now you pray to God that he would make good that Grant to you which he hath granted before Beloved what is thi● more than to make that evident to your Understandings and to give you the knowledge of that which he hath before granted that you may have the Comfort of it I refer the Reader to the place it self for our Author's Refutation both in the matter and design of his Treacherous Charges NOW from whence he runs to his old Arminian inference that If any Man believes this it is impossible he should give himself to Prayer Crispianism V●mask'd p. 15. and be frequent and ardent in his Addresses to Heaven For what should he pray for when there is no obtaining any good at all by it And thereupon tells us that to pray for the Forgiveness of Sins is needless and to enforce his malicious Charge very wretchedly quotes several Texts of Scripture as Psal 65.2 34.17 50.15 69.33 145.18 19. Pag. 16 17. Prov. 15. 29 Exod. 32. 11 14. Josh 10. 12 13 14. 1 Sam. 7. 9. 1 Kin 17. 1. 18 28. 42. 45. 2 Chron. 20. 5 22. Isa 37. 15 37. Jonas 2. 1. 10. 2 Cor. 12. 8. The Doctor still speaking which our Author never regards in any of his Charges that our Sins are already laid on Christ therein referring unto a Gracious Act of the Father as well as compleat undertaking of the Son and that it is by Prayer we come to receive the full manifestative and applicatory Testimony of the same unto our Souls and now to put Pr●yer Graces of the Spirit or any other Duty in the room and place thereof is not only useless and unbeneficial but also derogatory unto the Glory of God Therefore he lays down hi● objections and answers in the following words in the Page whence our Author cites him Some object and say Christ puts us upon Prayer and in Prayer that God would forgive us our Trespasses How can our Iniquities ●e laid upon Christ already when we are to pray that God would forgive them to us It is a vain thing for us to pray to God to forgive them when they were long ago fo●given Dr. Crisp's Work● Vol. II. p. 369. I answer They were reckoned to Christ long before we pray for the forgiveness of our sins and yet we do well in the Pra●ing for the forgiveness of them We have a common answer known to all There is a twofold forgiveness of sins a forgiveness of sins in Heaven and forgiveness of sins in the Consciences of Men. Forgiveness of sins in Heaven is that which is acted by God alone Forgiveness of sins in the Consciences of Men is the manifestation of God's former act So

then to pray for the forgiveness of our sins is no more but to pray that God would manifest to us that God hath forgiven our sins and that it may be clear that God hath forgiven our sins before we do pray for the forgiveness of them And that Prayer is grounded upon God's act before hand made Consider this one thing I would ask this of you you that pray for forgiveness of your sins do you pray in Faith or do you not If you pray not in Faith mark what the Apostle James saith He that prayeth let him pray in Faith nothing doubting He that wavereth let him not think he shall obtain any thing at the hands of the Lord Beloved your Prayers stink and are abominable in the Nostrils of God if you do not pray in Faith Well you pray in Faith you will say if you pray in Faith if you pray for the forgiveness of sin in Faith what is the ground of your Faith If you do believe you have a ground for your Faith You will say the Grant and Word of God is Page 370. the ground of your Faith Well if the Grant of God be the ground of your believing then the Grant hath a being before your Faith and so consequently before your prayer is made And do we not know that we ought to pray for the Fall of Babylon and that from this ground That she is fallen already in the irreversible determination of God Rev. 14. 8. And though she be not yet actually fallen must we not therefore pray for her fall Unless we can bring God's Decrees and irrevocable Purposes actually to depend upon our own Duties and Prayers This is our Author 's constant practice That he would assign more to our Duties and Graces nay so displa●e them that they are neit●er Duties indeed nor Graces for the obtaining of this or the other benefit and mercy than unto God himself as the express and fixedly donor of them even before we ask them upon which it is indeed that both our requesting d●sposition receptive and improving ability wholly depends Hence it is under which he betakes himself as unto a forlorn refuge p. 16. That if so how can we pray for the hallowing of God's Name or that his Kingdom should come whereas if both of the same had not been absolutely determined of God the matter of Prayer as enjoyned of Christ upon his Disciples would have been wholly in vain so the same as to the forgiveness of sins or trespasses he quotes p. 369. out of the Dr's Treatise which I cannot find though the substance of the place has been cited already And further proceeds in his quotation from p. 561. That the Dr. is an enemy to Prayer whose citation and the Dr's end therein I shall lay before thee Thus much he quotes out of him and annexes it barely unto an act of duty not regarding wherefore or for what ends the same was spoken which take as follows Beloved Christ became our Surety God accepted of him for our Debt he cl●●'d Christ in Goal as I may so say for the debt God Dr. Crisp's Works Vol. 3. p. 560. took every Farthing that he could demand of us he is now reconciled unto us he hath acknowledged satisfaction it is upon Record And now shall he come upon them again with fresh wrath for whom Christ hath done all this Shall he charge the debt upon them again He hath forgotten the Death of Christ it seems if this be true Therefore know thus much that it is against the Death of Christ it is the making of it of none effect it makes the coming of Christ to be in vain to say that the wrath of God will break out upon Believers mark the word if they commit such and such sins And for this that I have said Now our Proctoring Author comes in if any man can produce one Scripture against it if any man can shew in all the Book of God that it is any otherwise than I have delivered for my part I shall be of another mind and willingly recant my opinion But leaves out what follows But I see the Scripture runs wholly in this strain and is so full in no●hing as in this that God hath generally discharged the sins of Believers Oh then take heed of falling into that error of the Papists that say that God hath taken away the p. 561. sin but not the wrath of God due to sin that he hath forgiven our sins but not the punishment of sin But I beseech you consider that as our sins were then upon Christ he was so bruised for our iniquity that by his stripes we are healed and the chastisement of our peace was so upon him that he being chastised for our sins there is nothing else but peace belongs to us And the chastisement of our sins was so upon him that he beheld the travel of his Soul and was satisfied NOW Reader thou mayst see who this Author is and what also his design is and his false representation of the Doctor meerly because he abhors Duties and Graces in a Popish and meritorious sense This is the plain Grammar as latently radical of all his virulency against him As to the Fourth Charge IV. HE tells us that The Doctrin contained in these Sermons strikes at all Godly Sorrow Contrition Humiliation Confession and Lamenting of sin and Repenting of it and renders them useless and insignificant in the Life of a Christian Now what Warrant he hath had for this his bold assertion Crispi unmask'd p. 18. a plain unminced and uncurtailed quotation of the Dr. will fully satisfie and also discover unto thee and therein not only our Author 's false and disingenious proceedings with the Dr. but the ends for which he doth so as also the Principles by which he is acted in the same I must confess unto thee Reader before we go any further That unless this Author according to the complex account that this his Treatise gives of him be a ROGERVS L'ESTRANGE REDIVIVVS or as genuine a Spawn dropt from him in one sense or another as possibly can be imagined I am wholly at a loss to find him out And for this observe p. 19. where he cites the Dr. p. 317 319 320. where he never regards in any one of them the distinct yea verbally expressed ends of the Dr. therein Suppose there be a sin committed it may be more scandalous than ordinary which sin peradventure to sense wounds the Spirit the Question now is What it is that must or doth aid the Spirit of such an one of the sting Dr. Crisp 's Works Vol. II. Serm. 6. Page 317 318. and of the guilt of this or such like transgressio●s committed What doth discharge the soul of such a sin Now our Author ●●mes in Usually it is taught amongst us by those which would be accounted the greatest Protestants and the greatest haters 〈…〉 that the proportion of Repentance and Tears and Sorrow