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A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

thy footsteps that they shall not halt nor slide Happy is the man that feareth alway Prov. 28.14 or that is in the fear of the Lord all the day long ch 23.17 He walketh surely If the fear of God which hath alway an attemperation of love in it as was opened once begin to languish or a forgetfulness of him begins to creep upon thy Soul sin will soon invade thee and thou wilt fall into a decay Thou art already withering at the root Take heed of Relapses If you call on the father who without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans work pass the time of your sojcurning here in fear 1 Pet. 1.17 Perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 this is the whole design of the Gospel Tit. 2.11 12. hereby is God honoured Mal. 1.6 and without it the design of our blessed Saviour were frustrated in his redemption of mankind which was to retrieve and bring back the fear of God and working righteousness into the world that God might not lose the homage of all his whole Family on earth at once by the Apostacy 1 Pet. 1.18 Once more to inforce the exhortation let the Argument in the Text yet further be weighed and considered Thy acceptance with God here and hereafter is suspended thereon by the Gospel God will secure his own Glory and has done it by the same method that he hath done thy happiness Acceptance with God as was opened is a continued act and so is the condition whereon it is suspended as the Scriptures do abundantly testify It is so in the promise with which it is Connected There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus but who may assume this to themselves they who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 1. see Gen. 17.1 2. Neh. 1.5 Psal 103.18 1 Tim. 4.8 Ch. 6.18 19. Rom. 2.6 13. Rev. 22.14 so it is in the threat of the Gospel For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 8.13 i. e. your justification v. 1. shall be discontinued If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2.12 But if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him But he that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved Mar. 13.13 not only the hazard of the loss of thy inward peace but of thy soul also lies at stake in case thou declinest from the sear of God or beest again intangled and overcome of thy lusts and turnest from the way of Righteousness and neglectest the holy Commandment of God according to that of the Prophet but when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity shall he live All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his sin that he hath sinned he shall die Ezek. 18.24 that is if he be not renewed again to repentance and amendment of life or recovered from under his forfeiture Here is that fear of God called for which was spoken to in the opening of the Doctrine namely of his wrath in case of presumptuous sinning against him which David was so concerned about Psal 19.13 and for the guilt whereof he had his bones broken and consumed Psal 31.10 and 32.4 for thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore Psal 38.2 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness v. 3.5 Psal 51.8 all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me Psal 42.7 and 88.7 his sin had sprung a leak that the waters came into his Soul as he elsewhere speaks He might have ridden out any storm from without if all had been right within had not a Capital guilt lain at his door a Covenant breach 2 Sam. 11. and forfeiture of Gods complacential Love and Favour Iremembred God and was troubled Psal 77 3. here was a sad change with him who at other times could say how precious are thy thoughts unto me O God how great is the sum of them Psal 139.17 when he kept his integrity v. 24. Obj. But I have been taught that faith alone is the condition of the new Covenant and consequently that acceptance with God is not suspended on his fear or any works of righteousness to be performed by the creature besides that the argument unto holiness from the hazard of Salvation urged upon believers seems to subvert the doctrine of the Saints Perseverance in the love and favour of God The suspension of the arbitrary influences of Gods favour or the hidings of his Face a Saint may fear upon foul miscarriages but not the loss or suspension of acceptance with him as if his pardon or title to life eternal could be discontinued thereby Ans The former part of the Objection is wholly resolved into the Doctrine of Justification by Faith only as being the same thing with acceptance with God and the leading promise of the new Covenant as it imports the remission of sins and title to life everlasting What a Labyrinth art thou brought into by thy not understanding the tenor of the Covenant I appeal to thy own soul whether when thou readest such Scriptures as Heb. 12.14 Eph. 5.5 thou canst shake off the fear of destruction if thou wouldest in case thou relapsest into such sins as there are threatned with death If thou canst sad is thy case It 's not every imperfection thou knowest that by the Gospel however it is by the Law is of so mortal a nature Nor dost thou any where read in the Bible that man is justified by Faith only or alone precisely taken and without any restriction but thou mayest read the direct contrary Jam. 2.24 and in other words Luke 13.3 5. However I hope thou wilt hold to the common distinction of a working Faith that it 's necessary at least to the Faith that justifieth that is worketh by sincere obedience to all Gods Commands that it 's necessary to it as Faith that it be no dead Faith tho not qua justificat as justifying To avoid controversie then in so momentous a point I will come to thee on thy own Principles if thou wilt be true to them I say that we are not justified or accepted with God nor do continue so to be through Faith only or alone on our part however we are agreed that it is by Christ alone Thou sayest that it is not by or through that Faith that is alone in the Subject as that the fear of God and working Righteousness is required immediately unto acceptance with God or continuance in his favour to qualifie the person for it Then that it is so required only to qualifie Faith or to make it perfect Jam. 2.22 that it be no dead carkass but still thou deniest not but that mediately it 's indispensibly necessary to life by the intervention of that Faith whereon alone thou sayest it is

2. That all such Texts as those forenamed belong to the Original Law of Works or of Innocency such as 1 Cor. 6.9 Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters c. shall inherit the kingdom of God And if so then no man dying impenitently in those sins can be barred Eternal Life for the Penalty of the first Covenant is not conclusive but of those whom the New Covenant doth not Relieve And it alike commandeth spotless Innocency also and threats all sin alike with damnation as well as such Or 3. That if such Texts with the threat contained in them do belong to the Gospel yet as soon as any one believeth he is priviledged with a special exemption there-from Tho he violate the precept the threat can take no place not for any time to hold him under the same The Sum of the Hypothesis or Supposal which is by those who make the objection defended or must be is viz. That the Gospel Commands or Counsels rather obedience to the whole Law of God and Obedience thereunto is necessary by Precept unto every Soul under the pain of sin But that it hath but one single Precept which is that of Faith belonging to it qua foedus as a Covenant or in Conjunction with the promise nor yet but one that belongs to it qua lex as a Law i. e. in Conjunction with its Sanction or Threat And then let a Mans Faith work or not work to his escaping of all or any the sins or pollutions enumerated still it will save him What should bar his acceptance with God when the whole condition of the Covenant is performed and kept What need of the fear mentioned if all this be true Or how can it consist That it 's more than possible for a believer to relapse into the sins mentioned which are threatned with death by the Gospel or Law of Christ is not nor can be denied Most dreadful instances we have upon Record attesting the same Neither let any one that girdeth on his harness yet boast himself as he that putteth it off What shall we now say in such case was there not cause to fear destruction To give but one instance David upon an affront given him by Nabal contrives to murder him with all his Family 1 Sam. 25.22 was he now Pardoned I ask all that while that he was upon his March with his four Hundred Men to put the same in Execution Repent him for that time he could not nor can that be true without reformation which is of its Essence either now he had forfeited his acceptance with God and lay bound under the guilt of his sin unpardoned or our Saviours Doctrine to his own Disciples could not be words of truth but a meer scarecrow Mat. 6.15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses So again expresly ch 18.35 the forgiving of others is made the indispensable condition of our obtaining pardon from God yea and a recognition thereof enjoyned us in our prayers to God for it and forgive us as we forgive them v. 12. and this David himself very well knew and feared it in cases of that Nature Psal 32.1 5. Rom. 4.6 8. And if that be not pardon in the most proper and strict Sense it 's not spoken of in all the Scriptures so 1 Joh. 1.9 To that Text alledged Psal 89. I answer It 's of the final event whereof it speaks it belongs to Gods Will of Purpose or his Decree which speaks not the Tenour of Gods Covenant with us It 's spoken of Christ v. 19. and of his Seed v. 29. and belongs to the Doctrine of Gods Decrees wherein the perseverance of the Elect is founded not to his legal Constitution with man There it runs v. 30 if his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgments if they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments Here directly contrary If thy Children will keep my Covenant and my Testimony Psal 132.12 So it ran with David and so it does with us Psal 103.17 18. Rom. 8.11 13. The meaning of the former is no more but that he will secure a seed unto Christ Isa 53.10 who they are belongs to his secret purpose only to know whilst they are out of his way But whoever they be if they belong to him such Prophesies or Promises do evermore include in them Gods Will or Purpose to recover them from their sin or sore relapses and that sometimes by their sufferings too in pursuance of his decree Phil. 1.6 to the end that they may not perish by his Law 1 Cor. 11.32 34. in the mean while they are to fear Heb. 4.3 and to take heed Heb. 12.15 17. 2 Pet. 1.5.9 yea the best of Gods People For destruction from God was a terror to me Job 31.23 that is to awe him from sin v. 24.26 28. so it was with David Psal 119.120 so with St. Paul 1 Cor. 9.27 neither is it inconsistent with Faith Nay it is the genuine product of it By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith Heb. 11.7 Nor yet is it inconsistent with a filial free obedience to be governed by a Law and to be influenced by the fear of it whilst there is a love to the duty prescribed by it 1 Pet. 1.17 nor yet with true Gospel Consolation and security whilst man keeps within the Bounds of Gods Covenant not to violate the same 1 John 3.21 and to others it belongs not No man holds his Estate by a Title so Indefeazible but that by the Guilt of any Capital Crime it may be forfeited yet an honest Man may remain comfortably secure for all that in his possession The law is not made for a righteous man saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 1.9 he saith not for a Believer only but for a Godly man in his walk against such there is no law Gal. 5.23 that is it cannot hurt him continuing such it hath nothing against him Yet will not God for the sake of any mans peace reverse his law the Law of Christ now I am speaking of 1 Cor. 9.21 nor yet invalidate it by severing the Precept from the Sanction or threat of it so to render his Government meerly Precarious Nor can any Believer make it good that the Law of Christ abiding his Relation thereunto is altered that it hath nothing to say to him if he break it So much for the second instance of the fear due unto God which yet remains unshaken as belonging to the Character of a true fearer of him namely the Awe and Reverence of his Majesty and dread of Offending him 3. Yet further the Fear of God here Importeth an Habitual Inclination of Heart and Soul unto a regard to God with a due respect to all his Commands Hence the fear of

suspended Accordingly then if thou hast no other standard of Righteousness to measure thy living Faith by than I have before insisted on to measure and delineate the fear of God and true Piety in any person by the issue at last is brought to the same Now then to come to the business suppose thou shouldest neglect the fear of God and not bring forth the fruits of Righteousness mentioned or relapse into any one of those gross wickednesses enumerated by the Apostle Gal. 5.19 With a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such like v. 21. that the flesh carrieth it in the combate against the Spirit which was none of Paul's own case Rom. 7. he speaks not there of the perpetration of any gross sin the thief can't say when he takes a purse that it is no more he that what he would not do that he doth c. v. 17.20 Suppose I say the government protempore of Grace to be suspended and sin to usurp the rule and dominion for any time notwithstanding the vanquished dissent of thy mind to the presumptuous conrtivement and harbouring of some notorious impiety which yet is no impossible supposition if thou lookest not to it as I might give instances once and again were it a thing grateful to stay upon What now wouldest thou think of thy condition in such case Thou must say either 1. That the Faith which is alone whether it worketh or not worketh if it be not lost doth continue to justifie thee or that through it rather to speak in the Scripture dialect thou continuest still justified accepted and meet for eternal life tho it be no operative Faith which is to eat thy own words Or 2. that such works of Righteousness as have been insisted on or thy being cleansed from such sins as the Apostle gives a catalogue of for the fruits of the flesh in its regency belong not to the works thou meanest or the holiness or obedience which thou takest for necessary to qualifie or inform thy working faith as not belonging to its essential Character In the point of duty thou holdest them required but that if they be wanting and the flesh prevail yet that at the same instant of time it 's no dead Faith which thou hast tho it worketh not as it should do yet it doth so far as is necessary to thy Justification and acceptance with God If so here then thou speakest out Or 3. If thou hast any misgiving that such fruits of Righteousness brought forth in the fear of God and abstinence from the contrary fruits of the flesh do belong to the Character of a living working Faith thou must grant that if it be otherwise with thee or should be thy case thy Faith can't be it that will save thee but that at such time being alone thy title to acceptance with God will be suspended and discontinued which is that I have been urging upon thee to consider that thy Soul lies at stake upon thy obedience as well now as before thy reception to favour with God but to the continuance I have proved that they are which as yet remains unshaken and it therefore behoveth thee to look to it As for the other foot of the Objection respecting the Saints Perseverance that belongs to the Doctrine of Election or the Decrees which can never run cross to the standing Law of God neither Know then 1. That such is the connexion between continuation in the fear of God and working Righteousness and continuance in his favour and title to blessedness that he has not decreed to preserve any one in the latter without the former 2 Thes 2.13 1 Pet. 1.2 and so runs his Law Job 15.10 1 Joh. 1.7 of which before So that perseverance in the favour of God and his love of acceptance and perseverance in holiness run parallel and there can be no pretence to the one without the other 2. We have a law or establishment which God hath made with his people touching their preservation and progress in grace which is to be attended unto The dispensation of more grace and help in time of need is conditional unto them in and by the Gospel There is no promise no provision made in the Covenant of Grace struck with man the administration whereof is absolute to preserve any one from the greatest and most enormous sins nor yet from Apostacy it self if he attends not to the duty prescribed in order to it nor hath God promised that he shall so do Grace is in its own nature loseable the best of men are mutable or defectible here it 's actuation and conservation depends on new supplies from him that gave it 2 Cor. 12.9 which God communicates through Christ who is become the head of influence John 15.4 5. Gal. 2. ●0 But the dispensation thereof is connected in the promise with a diligent heeding and attending on the duties prescribed in order to it which man through the talents received and help availing him is in an immediate capacity unto such are watching 1 Cor. 16.13 Prayer unto God Mark 14.28 Unite my heart to fear thy name faith David Psal 86.11 and take not thy holy spirit from me Psal 51.11 12. To shake off sloth and use diligence Heb. 6.11 12. not to cater or provide for the flesh Rom. 13.14 to avoid the occasions of evil and abstain from the appearance of it and resist its first motions 1 Thes 5.22 to put on and keep in use the whole armour of God Eph. 6.11 and in exercising his Grace received Joh. 5.2 adding thereby Grace to Grace with all diligence 2 Pet. 1.5 If ye do these things ye shall never fall saith the Apostle v. 10. i. e. into your old sins v. 9. which will blur your evidence for life or stain your acceptance with God Hence it is that the faithful are cautioned to take heed of falling 1 Cor. 10.12 Heb. 3.13 and of Apostacy from God Heb. 10.25 38 viz. in the diligent use of the means Connected with the promise of their preservation the which while some have attended they have been in a flourishing posture God-ward Cant. 7.12 John 3.2 whilst other some have pined away grace in them hath languished and been ready to die Rev. 3.2 and they if in a saved state yet saved so as by fire hardly and not without loss 1 Cor. 3.15 and who might they thank but themselves all is not to be resolved into the inevitable consequent of the Lapse or first transgression They might have helpt it Nor doth the prerogative of God here also reserved for the recovery of any one after Relapses or preventing the same in pursuance of his hidden purpose derogate at all from this his standing law No promise has God made on any other terms than as afore mentioned Jude 20.21 23 24. Jam 4 5 6. 3. If then through any mans wilful neglect as before the precept of the law of grace becomes violated I say again the Sanction or Threat takes place without all