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A27029	The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1690 (1690)	Wing B1397; ESTC R20024	135,131	242

worketh Righteousness is accepted of him Rev. 22.14 Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they ●ay have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in by the Gate into the City John 3.18 He that believeth not is condemned already because c. Rom. 8.9 If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his See also verse 4.5.7.14 2 Cor. 13.15 Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates Col. 1.27 Christ in you the hope of glory See Eph. 2. What the Elect are before Conversion 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators And such were some of you But ye are washed ye are Sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Thes 6.10 God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of Love Phil. 2.13 Work out your Salvation with fear and trembling For it is God that worketh c. Rev. 2 3. Read the promises to him that overcometh Mat. 6.19 20. Lay up for your selves a treasure in heaven Luke 16.9 Make you friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when you fa●l they may receive you into the everl●sting habitations Gen. 4.7 If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted But if thou c. Luke 13.3.5 Except ye repent ye shall all perish Mat. 18.3 Except ye be converted and become as little Children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Heb. 5.9 He is become the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Luke 19.27 These mine Enemies that would not I should reign over them Heb. 10.33 Cast not away your confidence which hath great recompense of reward 39. We are not of them that draw back to perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the Soul Mat. 18.32 35. O thou wicked Servant I forgave thee all that d●bt because c. so shall my heavenly Father do also to you if you from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses The Answer to all this by the Adversaries I. By the Infidels The Scripture is not the Word of God II. By the Mahometans in special The followers of Christ altered it III. By Papists Scripture is to us but what the Church declareth of it 1. The reading of it and rejecting supplemental Tradition by the Vulgar causeth heresies IV. By the Quaker It is the light within us that is our Rule V. The Enthusiasts or Fanaticks We must try Scripture by the Spirit and not the Spirit by the Scripture the Apostles Spirit by ours and not our low measure by theirs VI. The seekers The Scripture must first be recovered by a true Ministry VII The Cabbalist and Familist It is not to be understood Literally but Mystically VIII The Antinomian Libertine The written word or at least all that prescribeth duty and hath conditional promises is but a Covenant of works The Covenant of Grace is only the Spirits Effectual work I will and you shall A Breviate of the Doctrine of Justification Dilivered in many Books By RICHARD BAXTER In many Propositions And the Solution of 50 Controversies about it Written 1. To end such Controversies 2. To confute Rash Censurers and Errours 3. To inform the Ignorant 4. To procure Correction from wiser men if I mistake Occasioned by some mens Accusation of me to others that will not vouchsafe their Instruction to my self And by the Erroneous and dangerous Writings and Preachings of some well-meaning men such as Mr. Troughton c. who at once mistake and misreport God's Word and ours and fight in the dark against Christian Faith and Love LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside 1690. The Preface long ago written Reader IT was the Army and Sectarian Antinomians more fitly called Libertines who first called me in the year 1645. and 1646. to study better than I had done the Doctrine of the Covenants and Laws of God of Redemption and Justification I fetcht my first resolving thoughts from no Book but the Bible specially Mat. 5 and 6 and 25. Grotius de Satisfactione next gave me more light While I was considering many mens friendly Animadversions on my Ap●orisms and answering some that more differed from each other than from me it increased light especially the Animadversions of Mr. George Lawson My Writings against the Antinomians had success beyond my expec●ations though some good men of the Party called Independent having more heat than light deceived by the notions of some that had spoken injudiciously before them cast out suspicions and contradictions in a jealousie that I encroached on the honour of Free Grace I mean such men as prefaced the Book called The Marrow of Modern Divinity which on pretence of Moderation is Antinomian or Libertine and very injudicious and unsound And others Books such as Paul Hobsons Mr. Saltmarshes Bunyan on the Covenants c. which ignorantly subverted the Gospel of Christ came out on the same business and revealed mens mistakes on pretence of revealing the Mystery of Free Grace John Goodwin was then and before publishing his Judgment of Justification and Mr. Walker and Mr. Roborough wrote against him with great disparity of light and strength But because J.G. turned to the Arminians prejudice cryed down his Doctrine of Justification and it was not all to be approved Mr. Gataker published many things to the like purpose and among the rest the Narrative of Mr. Wottons Case referred to many London Divines and decided by them Of my suspension of my Aphorisms and of my Contests with Mr. Craudon Mr. Eyres Mr. Warner and afterwards with Dr. Tully I need not here make particular mention The most that I converst with seemed of my Judgment The rest beside the Animadverters on my Aphorisms who freeliest spake of me beh●●d my back would none of them speak to me Vavasor Powel and Mr. Ed. Bagshaw were two of the chief Many worthy men published the same Doctrine which I ass●rted especially Mr. Gibbons of Black-fryars in his Sermon in the Morning Lectures at St. Gi●●s Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge Mr. Hotchk●● Mr. Thomas Warren Mr. Graile and Mr. Je●●op laboured to prove that Dr. Twisse meant the same who seems to speak for Eternal Immanent Justification And Mr. Truman and Lud. Le Blankes Theses at last came out after the The●es Salmurienses and the Breme Divines Lud. Crocius Conrad Bergius and the Berlin Johan Bergius as clear as any But the practice of some who wanted the humility and ●ili●ence which were necessary to learn the Truths which they knew not was just the same with that of the Prelates in Councils for a thousand years even to put it to the Vote of m●n of their own mind or to lean on the names of some of their Predecessors who were men of note and especially to cry down those that heard them not

When Words are used in diverse Sences he that denyeth them in one Sence denyeth them not in another And he that mistaketh the meaning of a Word may deny the Word and yet hold fast the matter signifyed by it And he that speaketh the greatest Errour in Terms not understood may mean and hold the truth 2. And Consequences not dis●erned will n●● prove a man to be a real Heretick or one that holdeth not the truth which by such consequences he subverteth Therefore all Pa●i●ic●t●●s conclude that Consequences are not to be charged too far when not understood Ortho. Who k●oweth mens minds but ●y th●i● Words What ev●r they be to God who searcheth the heart they are damnab●e Hereticks in foro Ecclesiastico Reco●cil I excuse not the Words which I have largely accused I would save others from them I confess it is W●rds that the Church must judge of and judge by But it must be Words as signif●cant of the M●tter and of the Mind of the speaker And therefore the Church must try the speakers meaning by informing and convincing questions and explications I pray you tell me when you are Catechizing your Parishioners young or old do you me●t none that in ignorance speak words that subvert the Foundation And yet when you better search their meaning you may find that they mean better than they speak I write against all their dangerous words especially to save others from being drawn by them to errour and to Prevent the errour that the Church and Gospel may receive thereby Ortho. But if they defend them they are Hereticks For how else shall we know whether they deny not Fundamentals Rec●ncil I will tell you how Ask him first whether he believe the Fundamental Truth If he say yea Ask him whether if he knew that his Consequence contradicted or subverted it which of the two he would let go And by that you may know which it is that he holdeth fastest For Instance Ask such a one as Dr. Crispe whether he would hold that Christ was really a sinner and God made him such and the Essence of all our sins were his and none of ours if he knew that this were inconsistent with the perfection and Office of Christ and the truth of the Gospel Ask him whether he would hold that the sin of the Elect cannot possibly do them any hurt nor any Duty that they do be any means or help to their Good or Salvation if he knew that this were contrary to the Gospel and Free Grace and tended to mens damnation Ask him whether he would hold that our inherent and acted Righteousness did not make us so far Righteous and no whit furthered our Justification or Salvation if he knew this were a contradiction and against Christ Ortho. By this Rule we shall judge none Hereticks but Infidels f●r who will ●xpresly renounce Christianity but they Reconcil The Word Hereticks is variously used as men are inclined 1. Of all that are stiff in any hurtful Errour against sound Doctrine and so all or most Christians are Hereticks For all have many Errours and all men are too stiff in their own conceits 2. For those that consequentially subvert Essentials Amesius is not singular who saith in Cas Consc that Theology is so concatenated that every Errour by consequence near or remote subverteth the Foundation I would except only Genealogies Chronologies Topography Grammar some Prophecies Positives But of meer morals it is not improbable 3. For all that Schismatically separate from the Apostolical Churches and their Commmunion and gather Sects to themselves for the promoting of their Errors I provoke you to name to me any Text of Scripture that calleth any by the reproved Name of Hereticks that did not separate from the Catholick Church Though all Schismaticks be not Hereticks for some cause divisions in the Church and yet depart not from it Yet all Hereticks in ●cripture-sence were Schismaticks for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signfieth ●ot only the choosing of a new Doctrine but also a new separated Sect and Church for the promoting of it Ortho. Th●se Libertines are generally Separatists Reconcil You are historically mistaken Dr. Crispe was a Conformist himself and so have been many hundreds who have held some of the forementioned mistakes Have you read Luther on the Galathians And Aepinus and Gallus and Am●s●●rphi●s and S●hlusseloergius and abundance such Lut●erans who damn George Major for saying That Good works are necessary to Salvation and that maintained that they were hurtful to Salvation tho' no doubt they meant that confidence in them was hurtful Have you read Islebius that turned from Antinomianism to be a Papist Bishop and helpt to rectifie Luther's Phrase by calling him to oppose him Have you read Learned Beza himself and many and many such excellent men both Calvinists and Lutherans of imputed Righteousness and against Imputing Faith for Righteousness and of the definition of Faith Till Camero Pla●eus Amyraldas Capellus Testardus Codurcus Bloudel Dallaeus Drelincourt stopt them and before them Melanchthon Bucer and after Cargius Olevian Vrsine Parcus Scultenus Wendeline Ludovicus Crocius Conradus Bergius Johannes Bergius Martinius and such other great Divines stopt them in Germany How many speak indesensibly How many Bishops and Conformists in England have held and written unjustifiable words about Justification Was Dr. Tully a Non-conformist No nor Mr. Ro●orough Mr. Walker and many such before the Assemblies times Though Dr. Gell Mr. Thorndike and many such did ill in inveighing against imputed Righteous●●ss in undistinguishing words yet too many by a very ill sence and sort of it gave them too much occasion which put so many Learned Judicious Divines to explain it of whom in England the chief were Ant. Wotton Mr. William Bradshaw Mr. Tho. Gataker Bishop Davenant Bishop Ro●ert Abbot Mr. William Fenner and other Zealous Converting Preachers such as Jo●n Rogers Tho. Hooker Tho. Shephard and the New-England Churches against Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr Wheeler that by Mr. Weld published the Narrative ●f the Antinomian Errors and of the strange Monsters from Mrs. Dyer and Mrs. Hutchinson and her death and of late Mr. Benj. Woodbridge Mr. Tho. Hot●hkis Mr. Tho. Warren Mr. Graile Mr. Jessop but especially Mr. Truman Mr. Gibbons of Blackfryers and Dr. Stilling fleet It is not a thing unknown that it was not only such as you call Separatists but many Bishops and Conformists that in opposition to Popery for want of distinguishing have such words about Imputation as encouraged the Antinomians Therefore you cannot take all as Hereticks in the Scripture-sence who hold the same Errors Ortho. Then we shall not know what H●resie is i● men d● not segregate themselves to propagat● it Reconcil You may know what opinions are pernicious or if you will Heretical when you know not whether the man be a Heretick that owneth them Even the Heretick Hereticating Papists say there must be an obstinacy against sufficient light of evidence And all ten●tiousness through prejudice