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A77730	The antinomians Christ confovnded, and the Lords Christ exalted. In which is contained a briefe confutation of Dr. Crispe and Mr Lancaster. Also, a combat with the Antinomians Christ in his den, his arraignment; and the fainting soule built upon the true rocke, against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile, Mat. 6.18. Imprimatur James Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B527; Thomason E17_16; ESTC R11989	75,787	71

the way of Gods proceeding thus First Elect then holy and then beloved Coloss 3.12 Then I conclude that we are neither beloved nor justified before faith see Pet. 3.17 Thus the faithfull messenger of the Lord Christ defended himselfe with the sword of the spirit which is the Word of God against this seven-headed Hidra in be Dan. Now I 〈◊〉 shew you those five incurable wounds that this faithfull messenger gave him that cut so deepe that a man might see the very bone perished In this wound was written that we are justified by faith therefore not before faith this was harsh to him that had none But the servant of the Antinomians Christ thought to salve it up saying that he spake of the act of beleeving as though that faith in the true Christ could be in the soule and no act of beleeving But this shewes what a faith theirs is The Apostle of the true Christ saith Faith without workes is dead James 2.17 Now if their faith be no better I grant that they may be justified aswel without it as with it But it seemes he hath gotten some old heretick of his side which said that it was a wresting of the Scripture to say that we are justified by faith but he is ashamed to name him and therefore I suppose his conscience is convinced and hath checked him for speaking of it but he said a man may be both justified with faith and without it in a different sense First to be reputed and accounted just I answer but this is Gods worke alone But then secondly It may be taken to declare or manifest us to be just as workes Justifie I answer as faith is a worke it declares yet not to others but to our selves Hast thou faith have it to thy selfe before God Rom. 4.22 But faith it selfe is many times as hard to be known as our justification I meane that act of it that justifies us which is to take and apply Christ and his benefits unto us Thus it justifies is very hard to be known but as it workes by love and acts all other graces so it sanctifies and may easily be known and by this meanes we come to know that we are justified I hose fruits of faith justifie the trueth of our faith that it is living and not a dead faith when it bringeth forth fruits But faith is the hand of the soule taking hold of Christ the Iustifier and so it is counted for righteousnesse Rom. 4.5 So then God justifies by forgiving and pronouncing a sinner to be just and our works justifie by declaring to others that God hath justified us but faith justifies by receiving and applying Christ and his merits and so makes us just If you did but know what true faith was you might soone know where to place it in point of Justification so should you not exalt it into Gods place nor abase it into the place of workes The second deadly wound that was given to Hidra in his Den was this He that beleeueth not shall be damned Mar. 16.16 And this cut so deepe that he almost despaired of help For saith he if it be finall it is a note of damnation Now this is all that we require for we do not say that every man shall be damned that is in the state of unbeleife for then all should be damned but we say that finall unbeliefe damnes the soule and this you grant and yet you said that Infants are justified before they have faith Now if they should dye being justified are they damned because they do not beleeve or are they saved and yet dye in unbeliefe How will you get out of this circle This den may be called the land of darknesse without order Iob 10.22 Being full of Theeves and without government dashing and splitting themselves one against another A third deadly wound the faithfull messenger gave him in his den was this Without faith it is impossible to please God Therefore wee cannot bee justified without it Now a man pleaseth God when he doth those things that God requires and in that manner that he requires and to that end as he requires Now these he approves to be well done because they are grounded upon his Word acted by a justified person and tend to his glory Now this you grant saying we cannot come to God without faith and therefore cannot please him but you being sensible that your faith is nought if you have any and therefore you seeke another way to cure it saying although wee cannot come to God before wee beleeve yet God can come to us and Justification is Gods act upon a sinner and not a sinners act upon God I answer For to pronounce a sinner just is Gods act but to take and apply that righten snesse of Christ that makes us just is our act of faith And to say that God will pronounce any just before that they have by faith put on Christ Rom 13. This were to make God an unrighteous Judge to pronounce them just which are not just For what justice hath a sinner till the justice of Christ is made over to him and accounted for his Therefore faith in Christ must needs goe before God pronounce them just Again they do not only blasphe are God as an unrighteous Judge pronouncing them just which are yet unjust When at hee will by no meanes cleare the guilty Exod. 34.7 But also by this we may see what a Christ our Antinomians boast so much of which comes sneaking a day after the fair and brings them faith when they are just before brings his righteousnesse when they need it not comes to help them when they have tryed their cause before the Judge and quitted before he comes Such a Christ is not worth seeking after But what is your meaning of Gods comming to you when you have no faith to come to him Is God come to you and yet you remaine at a distance from him or doth God moove personally to you and you sit still as a man may come to you while you are sitting I had thought God had filled all places and did not move from place to place as man doth These are but poore fig-leaves to hide your nakednesse then the trueth is Gods comming to us and our comming to him is the same thing only the cause of the motion is in God and the motion it selfe in us So then when God moves us to come to him this is his comming to us and then we cannot be asunder Now he moves us by his spirit infusing faith into us and so our faith taking hold on him we are drawn by his spirit into unity and communion with him The fourth deadly wound given to Hedra in his den is this Whatsoever is not of faith is sinne Rom. 14.23 This is terrible to him that hath no faith Therefore he being sensible that there is something in it that would bite cruelly if he should suffer it to fasten upon him therefore hee

his mercifull promise lets the poore sinner feele the assurance of his love wherewith he loveth him in christ see Mat. 7.7 Isa 65.24 Job 33.26 this assurance is a lively evidence of faith Are there divers degrees and measures of faith A. Yes the least measure of faith that any man can have is this when a man of an humbled spirit by reason of the littlenesse of his faith doth not yet feele the assurance of the forgivenesse of his sinnes and yet he is perswaded that they are pardonable and therefore he desireth they should be pardoned and with his heart prayeth to God for pardon and though he see no light yet he will stay upon his God Isa 50.19 this may be called smoaking flax or a bruised reed Isa 42.4 or the graine of mustard-seed Mat. 17.20 How doe you know that such a man hath faith A. These desires and prayers are testimonies of the spirit rom 8.23.26 gal 4.6 whose propesty it is to stirre up longings after heavenly things with sighes and groanes for Gods favour and mercy in christ now where the spirit of God is there is christ dwelling Eph. 3.17 and where christ dwelleth there is true faith how weak soever it be Eph. 3.17 What is the greatest measure of f●●i●h A. When a mans faith encreaseth daily and at length he is fully perswaded of Gods love to himself in particular and that his owne sinnes are fully pardoned and forgiven for the merits of christ I am perswaded that nothing is able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord rom 8.33 ●9 this 〈…〉 ve●y evidence of a strong faith Hath a christian this full assurance of faith at the first A. No● the righteousnesse of God is revealed from faith to faith rom 1.17 and they must pray the Lord to encrease their faith Luke 17.5 and they must with all diligence adde to their faith vertue 2 Pet. 1.5 and fight the good sight of faith 2 Tim. 4.7 but they a estro●g who are of fullage and by reason of use have their s●nses exercised to discerne both good and evill Heb. 5.14 such are not weake in faith they will not stagger at the promise of God through unbeliefe but being streng in faith they will give glory to God being fully perswaded that what God ●●oneised he was able also to performe rom 4.19.20 21. Is this justifying faith commanded in the law A. No not by the law of works but by the law of faith rom 3.27 the law doth not reveale it and th●●fore it doth not command it but the law is so far from revealing justifying saith that it never knew it and Adam had the morall law written in his heart and yet he had no justifying faith which apprehendeth Christ as a Saviour and Redeemer this saith Adaem knew not by the law of works till the law of faith came in the promised seed Gen. 3.15 What benefits come by this faith in Christ A. Hereby we are both justified and sanctified being justified by faith rom 5.1 and sanctified by faith in me Acts 26.18 purifying their hearts by faith Acts 15.9 then our persons are accepted with God Gen. 4.4 What is it to be justified before God A. It comprehendeth two things first to be cleered from the guiltinesse and punishment of sinne who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God that justifieth rom 8.33 there is no condemnat on to them which are in Christ Jesus who is he that condemneth it is Christ that dyed ye rather that he is risen againe rom 8.1.34 secondly we are accepted as perfectly righteous before God by him all that beleeve are iustified from all things from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses Acts 13.39 What other benefits comes along with iustifying faith A. Then all our prayers and and services are acceptable with the Lord Gen. 4.4 Prov. 15.8 Rom. 5.2 and it makes us to escape all the dangers threatned against the wicked at the day of judgement Luke 21.36 and it makes us worthy of the Kingdome of God Luke 20.35 2 Thes 1.5 Yea Christ is yours and all is yours both things tresent and things to come 1 Cor. 3.21 22. How may a man know that he is justified before God A. He need not to search the secret counsell of Gods decrees nor seeke for revelations or an Angell from heaven to tell him but this is the way for any that would truly find it we must search to see whither we in heart and life be sanctified and if we find this we may safely conclude our selves to be justified What is sanctification A. It is a renewed holinesse which fits and prepares the creature for the Lords use goe yee out of the middest of her be ye ●eane that beare the vessels of the Lord Isa 52.11 for he will be sanctified in all that come nigh him Levit. 10.3 if any man purge himselfe he shall be a ●essell unto honour sanctified and meet for the Masters use and prepared unto every good worke 2 Tim. 2.21 But may not a man have faith and be justified without sanctification A. No for faith as an instrument both justifies and sanctifies for as it receives and applies Christ and his merits to us in particular so it justifies and as it workes by love and acts all other graces in their lively motion so it sanctifies But Infants may be justified are they also sanctified A. Yes before I formed thee in the belley I knew thee here is Gods decree but as yet not brought forth Zeth 2.2 the man is not formed therefore as yet neither justified nor sanctified but sayth the Lord before thou camest out of the wombe I sanctified thee Ier. 1.5 many shall rejoyce at the birth of John because he shall be silled with the holy Ghost enen from his mothers wombe Luke 1.14 15. Proceed What be the parts of sanctification A. Two mortification and vivification mortification is that power whereby sin is abated and crucified in the faithfull how shall we that are dead to sin l●ve any longer therein rom 6.2 they which are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 By what meanes is mortification wrought in us A. By the death and buriall of Christ we are buried with him by baptisme into his death rom 6.4 our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed ●o 6.6 What is the other part of sanctification A. It is vivisication whereby inherent holinesse is begun and increased in us we receive the first fruits of the spirits be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Eph. 4.23 24. you hath he quickned that were dead in trespasses and sinnes I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by