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A34980	Christ exalted and Dr. Crisp vindicated in several points called antinomian, being cleared from neonomian suggestions alledged, by some remarks on Mr. A-, his rebuke to Mr. Lob shewing from Scripture and most orthodox authors the invalidity of his rebuke in taxing the doctor to be apocryphal, and his doctrine antinomian : with some observations on the Bishop of Worcester's letter concerning the great point of the change of persons between Christ and believers ... : with a table to find the heads insisted on / done by a happy, tho' unworthy branch of the said doctor.	Crisp, Samuel, 1669 or 70-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing C6917; ESTC R24787	120,659	146

into which his Posterity should be sub-divided If it was not I conceive the Fault was theirs not God's as if it would have been a Fault in God if he did not give means for all to be Saved when they had Damned themselves Thus Antisozzo has in a manner laid Salvation open in common to Elect and Non-elect to Vessels before of old ordained to Condemnation Jude 4. as well as to Vessels of Mercy for whom the Kingdom was prepared from the Foundation of the World Matt. 25 directly contrary to the Confession of the Assembly which they both have Subscribed though I find not that they ever recanted this Expression The Assembly say on the Point of God's Decree directly that none but the Elect can be Saved thus These Angels and Men their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be increased or diminished neither are any other redeemed by Christ effectually Called Justified Adopted Sanctified and Saved but the Elect only For the proof of which they quote 2 Tim. 2.19 John 13.18 17.9 6.64 65. 10.26 Rom. 8.28 I lay down my Life for the sheep and ye Pharisees ye believe not because ye are not my sheep Thus these great Men have asserted and this our Neonomians subscribe to in order to deceive the Simple to believe they are Orthodox when here 't is visible how Heterodox these two great Contenders for the New Law are plainly deviating from the Assembly in allowing a Possibility for the Non elect to be Saved But I beg for them the Mercy of God to give them the Eye-salve of his Spirit to shew them their Mistake §. XXXIV The Ninth and Tenth Heresies are scarce worth mentioning they being only some curtailed Expressions that the Antagonists to the Free Grace of God in his eternal Love to poor Sinners in Christ do take from the Writings of some of the Asserters of our Sins being fully done away by the Death of our Lord Jesus and from thence this Pharisaical Spirit quarrels at them and charges them for laying a ninth Heresie It is denied that God requires Faith as an indispensible Qualification in them whom he will Justifie by Christ's Merits How this is worded by his Antinomians he mentions not whether they deny Faith indispensibly in Infants or Lunaticks or no So that this Quarrel needs little answer seeing they know that we are as much for Faith as themselves if not more as it excludes Works in the Point of Justification but not for Faith to take the Crown off from the Head of Jesus and it self to wear the Honour of Saving us in whole or in part §. XXXV Such another is his Tenth Heresie All that a Believer can pray for is the farther Manifestation of Pardon for he knows that all his Sins are pardoned This is a manifest Breach of Charity for he knows they pray for more and though they may at some Seasons have full Assurance of being accepted in the Beloved Jesus wherein they see all their Sins were done away in his Blood when he to Sanctifie the People Suffered without the Gate Whereupon they upon Believing cry Glory to him who hath loved them and washed them from their Sins with his Blood Yet they daily pray for fresh Discoveries of the same which as to their Consciences is a Fresh Pardon or renewing of Pardon I hope my Dear Kratiste will not deny That by one Offering he hath for ever perfected those that are Sanctified and that he Sanctified the People with his own Blood when he Suffered without the Gate If so then all successive Pardons upon fresh Acts of Faith are only the Clearing up of Pardon to the Conscience that there should be no more Conscience of Sin Whereas the Grand Pardon in the Court of Heaven was as Mr. Pemble says when Christ was delivered for our Offences and raised for our Justification which is not manifest to the Conscience till Faith comes And thus this Heresie vanishes having only left us a Testimony that the Neonomians do Boggle in the point of Pardon and would hook in our Faith to be a Joynt-Saviour with Christ by being a procurer of Pardon rather than a Manifestation of it §. XXXVI It is an Amazement his 11th Heresie which is this A Believer is to work from Life and not for Life For answer If a Man be a Believer he is a Living Member of Christ and so he Works from Life in Christ Sure then this cannot be the Heresie intended here to say he works from Life Then this is his Heresie That a Believer works not for Life But how can that be Heresie to say A Believer doth not work for Life when the word saith The Gift of God is Eternal Life Rom. 6.23 If it be Gift then it is not Work'd for by us do Men call that a Gift that is wrought for that is Wages Death indeed is wrought for by Sin for the Wages of Sin which is in our best Works is Death but Life is the Free Gift of God How then can it be called Heresie to say A Believer works not for Life Antisozzo was once of another Mind I find but the Rebuker does well to conceal his Name for to call this Heresie must needs cast a sad Reflection What more substantial Truth is there than that a Believer works from Life and not to gain Life by his Works Whither shall we run if we do not maintain this for Truth That a Believer works not that he by his good Works might procure to himself Eternal Life No but he works from a Divine Principle of Life in him that he may glorifie God for the Gift of Eternal Life through his Son Jesus Christ O! how true is that of Luther Every Man hath a Pope in his Belly and how ready are we to run into the Dregs of Popery to Work for Life §. XXXVII The Twelfth is 'T is Heresie to say It 's a great Truth that God sees no Sin in a Believer I hope it is a great Truth and no Heresie that God saith I have blotted out as a thick Cloud thy Transgressions and as a Cloud thy Sins Isa 44.22 And if blotted out it is to shew that God doth not see them And if God saith He has cast them into the Depth of the Sea and he has cast them behind his Back and he will remember them no more Is it not the same thing as not to see them And doth he not say He hath not beheld Iniquity in Jacob not but that they had Iniquity enough but when their Sins are covered with the Robe the fine white Linnen of Christ's Righteousness then it may be said without Imputation of Heresie 't is a great Truth and a Blessed one that God sees no Sin in a Believer Sure my Dear Kratiste had strangely forgot himself to call this glorious Truth a Heresie §. XXXVIII The Thirteenth Sin can do no real hurt to a Believer Answer If as Sin abounds Grace much more abounds which

Christ Exalted AND Dr. CRISP Vindicated IN Several Points called Antinomian being Cleared From Neonomian Suggestions Alledged By some Remarks on Mr. A his Rebuke to Mr. Lob. Shewing from Scripture and most Orthodox Authors the Invalidity of his Rebuke in taxing the Doctor to be Apocryphal and his Doctrine Antinomian WITH Some Observations on the Bishop of Worcester's Letter concerning the great Point of the Change of Persons between Christ and Believers wherein he differs from the Doctor but yet mildly and genteely treats him though he comes short of the Truth as contained in the Doctrine of the Church of England With a Table to find the Heads insisted on Done by a Happy tho' Vnworthy Branch of the said Doctor It was needful for me to write to you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. And once profest by the Church of England His Neighbour cometh after him and searcheth him Prov. 18.17 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be had at Mr. John Marshall's at the Bible in Grace-church-street 1698. ERRATA PAge 11 Line 22 for thereof read there of 25. l. 6. r. Arminian 34. l. 22. r. Arminian 36. l. 1. r. as Believers 45. l. last r. She. 46. l. 1. of r. our 47. l. 22. r. by the Power 48. l. 20. r. laid 65. l. 5. 6. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 68. l. 37. r. Racovia 81. l. 24. make the stop at allowed 83. l. 9. r. he bare 27. r. and act 96. l. 27. r. Reporter 97. l. 5. the stop at for 98. l. last r. zanachta 100. l. 5. r. reprobavit 10. r. kareu 103. l. 15. r. perfection 109. l. 5. for them r. him 111. l. 15. r. chattathi 115. l. 27. r. with a Passage 31. make the stop at doing 116. l. 10. for as to say r. by saying To his several Particular Friends of the late House of Commons Assembled in Parliament Gentlemen and Right Honourable Patriots MANY Daughters have done Vertuously and thou excellest them all was a Motto on the Memorial of Q. Elizabeth hung up in most Churches for the good Laws she made against Popery What high Encomiums of Praise and great Retributions of Thanks then are due to you right Christian Senators for your warm Addressing His Majesty to suppress the Blasphemy and Debauchery which the Nation abounds with And upon His wise referring back so great a Work to your selves to effect it by an Act of Parliament for your thereupon forming the late good Act wherein it is to your great Honour Enacted That if any Person ........ shall by Writing Printing Teaching or advised Speaking deny any One of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be God or shall assert or maintain there are more Gods than One or shall deny the Christian Religion to be True or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority shall suffer so and so Although there be no Reward to the Prosecutor it is hoped you have thereby in a good measure put a stop to the carriere of the Prophane Tongues and Pens of a debauched Crew of this Age that Impiously deny the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead that mock at all Revealed Religion as contained in the Scriptures that call the Scriptures an Inken Divinity and the Blood of our Lord Jesus as the Blood of another good Man and make his dreadful Agony and Sufferings but Facile Representations of what Christ doth in us and that could Print That when God hath glutted himself c. as in the Book For your Zeal to God's Glory in which may you have an Eternal Reward above and many good days of God's Blessing here is my Supplication to the Throne of Grace But besides these Dragons against the Christian Religion which you have been quelling we have the Foxes running about that spoil the Vines those that under the fair Species of Man's Holiness would undermine God's Righteousness in our Justification For going about to establish their own Righteousness they have not submitted to the Righteousness of God Rom. 10.3 That is they are against being justified freely by his Grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus against having his Righteousness imputed to them to be unto and upon all that believe though the Scripture is clear herein But besides the pure Word of God which is the Sheet-Anchor of our Religion it is a great Mercy that in Disputes with Men of corrupt Minds that we have the Fundamentals of Christianity contained in the Doctrines established by Law in the Book of the Homilies wherewith to incounter such Foxes as would spoil our tender Grapes by denying our very Sins to be born by Christ and bringing in some degrees of our Obedience though imperfect to joyn as it were with Christ's Righteousness for our Justification and to make such our Obedience pass currant by bringing in God making a Law that in effect allows of Sin which are excepted against in the ensuing Treatise which I put forth to vindicate according to my poor Talent not so much Dr. Crisp but the Doctrine of God our Saviour delivered by the Doctor consonantly to the Sacred Scriptures and to the said Homilies as you may perceive upon perusal of these my Collections from Scripture and sound Authors Which I humbly recommend to your leisurely serious Considerations hoping you will think it necessary in this degenerate Age to contend for the Faith delivered to the Saints and that your selves so many of you as shall be chosen for the next Parliament which I suppose will not be a few that you will think it worthy your Pains and Labour to indeavour to suppress all Socinian and Arminian Tenets that to uphold Man's Free Will to do good strike at our being saved freely by God's Grace contrary to God's Word We are saved by Grace through Faith and that not of our selves it is the Gift of God Not of Works lest any boast Our Holy Fore-Fathers in the Nations shaking off the Popish Yoke spake plainly We in Christ paid the Debt We in him are fulfillers of the Law He on his Cross made a perfect cleansing of thy Sins But this will not go down with Arminianizers of this day that bring in our Gospel-Holiness to concur with Christ's Righteousness in our Justification This I address to your Pious Thoughts and I suppose not improperly to you as expected Members of the House of Commons hoping the next Parliament may begin where the last left off in taking Care of the True Christian Religion And that you may be the better fortified I quote a Vote of a former House of Commons March 2. 1628. Whosoever shall bring in Innovation of Religion or by Favour or Countenance seem to extend Popery or Arminianism or other Opinion disagreeing from the Truth and Orthodox Church shall be reputed a Capital Enemy to the Kingdom and Common-Wealth VVhich Spirit against Popery

Eph. 5.30 And he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit Is not this one Spirit one Person Is the blessed Holy Spirit the Third Person in the Trinity Is he a Person and are not Christ and his believing Members becoming one Spirit are they not become thereby one Person Why else are they called Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 Is this novel uncooth and unintelligible to my Dear Kratiste a Master in Israel Need Christ and they go into his Mothers Womb to become one Person §. XLVII As for Legal Vnion before Faith I know of none unless he means a faederal Union such as Children of believing Parents have or bare nominal Christians have Sure these may be distinguish'd without Offence from such as have a Mystical Union by Faith without any Heresie attending it Thus we conclude the 21 Antinomian Heresies which have met with a Presbyterian Lash as the Great Apostle Paul did with the like from the Jews They appear not so formidable as the Neonomians would make them but rather some of them shine forth with brighter clearness for great Gospel-Truths by their being so set forth This I am comfortably satisfied in that God hath by the late Abuse put on Evangelical Truths held out by the branded Dr. Crisp Mr. Cole and many others he hath inlightened many Souls thereby and I wait in assured hope that God will in his blessed time which is hastening make the Light of the Sun of Righteousness shining in the Gospel to be as the Light of seven Days when Men will not put Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light Which the Good Lord for the sake of thy dying and interceding Son our Lord Jesus do thou hasten §. XLVIII In the mean time to our grave Rebuker I say Kratiste Theophile most excellent Sir take heed you be not a Theomaikos a Fighter against God while you design to justifie a Man whom you cannot vindicate with Honour till he renounce some Expressions in his Books which fight directly against the Gospel especially that Soul-endangering one in his Preface to Gospel-Truth stated which is this I affirm that the Righteousness of God Phil. 3.9 principally intends the Gospel-Holiness of a Person justified by Christ's Righteousness Which is an Interpretation that is directly opposite to all sound Protestants Judgments From such Interpreters of a Gospel-Truth the Lord in Mercy deliver all his People and from being a Champion for such an Interpreter the Lord deliver the Rebuker and all his 49 Vouchers §. XLIX In Page 27 he bewails the Case and saith And thus the Breach became beyond the Vnited Brethrens making up He means I suppose beyond their Power of making up that is because these Antinomian Heresies were not recanted And no wonder that it was beyond their Power to make up the breach that these Points made for how can Truth and Error coalesce If the Poor Presbyterians as he calls them do insist on the renouncing these 21 Doctrines as Heresies which have much of the Marrow of the Gospel in them as appears from plain Scripture and sound Authors already quoted they may enjoy their Repose in their own benighted Sentiments but may not imagine that they who are clearlyer inlightened in the Mysteries of the Gospel having tasted the good old Wine of God's Everlasting Love of Electing them in Christ that they will come to the new Wine of a pretended New Law given them by Christ That we performing Gospel-Obedience with our sincere indeavours to fulfil that New Law of Faith Love Repentance Holiness and perseverance therein this though imperfect in its self shall be accepted instead of perfect by Vertue of the Righteousness and Merits of our Lord Jesus Which in effect is to say that we are not saved by Grace but Christ hath merited that we should save our selves §. L. That this is their meaning appears by what Mr. Williams who seems to be their general Mouth has said in his Preface to Man made Righteous by Christ's Obedience Where he rebukes his Antinomians for owning no Law of God that admitted of faulty Obedience and by way of Contempt to Mr. Cole c. he saith They own no Law but the Law of Works which admitted nothing short of perfect sinless Obedience So that he looks on it as an horrid Error to hold that no Law is given by God that admitted of Obedience that had Sin in it Which shews plainly that they hold that God has set up a Law in the room of the Moral Law and that this their New Law which they have invented for God and wretchedly impute to God it doth admit of Sin in the Obedience to it than which there cannot be a more horrid Affront offered to the Holy God viz. That God should set up a Law that allows Sin Now if contradicting such Doctrine as this is accounted Antinomianism then to be freed from their Slanders we must rob God of his Honour nay deny him to be God to comply with their Doctrine of charging on God his making a Law that allows Sin in our Obedience to it For I dare be bold to say in Contradiction to such an Assertion and in Zeal to the pure Holy Nature of God God never did nay never can and that 's a bold word but true if God be God and Holiness his Nature he never can make a Law that admits of any thing but Sinless Obedience For God saith he cannot behold Iniquity and for any Man or number of Men or for any Angels of Heaven to talk at that rate for God to make a Law that admits of Sin let him be accursed To talk of a Law that admits of Sin is to make the Maker of such a wooden Law to be little better than a wooden God It is enough to make ones Flesh to tremble and Spirit rise into a rage against the bold strokes of some Ungodly Pens that corrupt the Gospel and Minds of Men to talk of a Law of the Holy God that admits any thing of Sin Mr. Williams and his Justifiers have subscribed to the Assemblies Confession of Faith and they say upon the Head of Repentance There is no Sin so small but it deserves Damnation and they justifie it by that Scripture The Wages of Sin is Death But our Neonomians our New-Law Men bring in God making a Law that admits of Faulty Obedience or Obedience that is not Sinless which is all one with Faulty Obedience Now my Dear Kratiste this Man's Champion pray where is this accounted for And if not how can it be expected that the Breach between the Orthodox and these should be made up Offences will come but woe to that Man by whom they come To such a Man as would impose a Law allowing Sinning Obedience And if Sinning then it hath Sin in it and if so and that the Assembly say right from the Wages of Sin being Death the least Sin never so small deserves Damnation then they will bring in God making a Law in complying with