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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

he came to his owne and his owne received him not Job 1.11 and some sayd he was a good man and some said nay but he deceiveth the people some sayd this is the Christ others sayd shall Christ come out of And the Priests a ked him are thou the Christ the sonne of the blessed and Iesus said I am Mar 14.61 62. And Mattha said I beleeve that thou art Chr st the son of God which should come into the world John 11.27 Yet the Jews had decreed that if any man did corsesse that he was Christ het should be put out of the Sinagogue Job 9.22 The Centurion said truly this is the sen of God But others mocking said let Christ the King of Is rael d●scend from the crosse that wee may see and believe Mar. 15.32.39 Bu● now he is declared to be the son of God with power according to the spiret of holinesse by the resurrection from the dead Rom. 1.4 Apollos mightily convinced the Iews she wing by the Scriptures that Iesus was Christ Acts 18.28 And Paul was pressed in spirit and testified that Iesus was Christ vers 5. And he encreased in st●ength confounded the Iews proving that this is very Christ Acts 9.22 Then what a miserable shame it were for such taught Christians to dispute whether this be the true Christ Yet thus it wil be according as bee himselfe prophesied long ●gone saying many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Math. 24.5 The time when these false Christs shall arise is when you shall heare of wars famines and pestilences and earth-quakes in divers places and when Gods people are hated afflicted and killed for the name of Christ and betray and hate one another and iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold and the abhomination of desolation standing in the holy place These things have been all fulfilled since these troubles began and now the Devill hath beene very busie to sow the tares of heresies But saith the true Christ If any shall say unto you loe here is Christ or there beleeve at not For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew greas signes wonders insomuch that if it were possible they would deceive the very elect vers 23 24. Now observe the earnestnesse of Christ to prevent these subtile deceivers that the Elect can hardly escape their hands saying Behold I have told you before wherefore if they shall say unto you behold he is in the d●sart goe not forth behold he is in the secret chambers beleeve it not vers 25.26 Why must we not goe into their secret chambers nor come at their private meetings Because of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with their lusts who are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth 2 Tim. 3.6 7. Now the true Christ commeth openly Iesus answered him I speake openly to the world I ever taught in the Sinagogues and in the Temple whither the lewes alwayes resort and in secret have I said nothing John 18.20 As the lightning commeth out of the East and shmeth even unto the West so shall the comming of the son of man be Math 24.27 But before I proceed to make a further discovery of these false Christs give me leave to declare the tydings of that faithfull meslenger who was sent to try the Antinomians power in their last place of refuge being sent forth by the true Christ to maintaine against them that none are actually justified sanctified called and ●d●pted and in the love and favour of God from all eternity and so be having a 〈◊〉 of protection from his Master that the gates of hell should 〈…〉 him Math. 16. And when he went through fire and water 〈…〉 with him that it should mather burne nor drown him Isa 45.1 2. 〈…〉 it of victory went on boldly to his den and in this den hee was ser upon and now if you will attend you shall heare the true relation of the 〈…〉 in that den First there steps up a servant of the Antinominns Christ saying that hee was 〈…〉 before the act of beleeving his first argument was this Insants 〈…〉 but Infants are justified Therefore saith hee some are justified 〈…〉 leeve now his reason why Infants do not beleeve is because that saith commeth by hearing Romans the 10. vers 17. And how shall they h●are 〈◊〉 a Preacher vers 14. The messenger of the true Christ answers First that although preaching be the ordinary meanes to beget faith in men of veares in that place where it is truly preached yet God hath not so bound himselfe to that meanes that among those people that have not the word preached they cannot have saith wrought in them some other way extraordinary where that ordinary way is not to be had as also that they which live in a place where the word is truly preached If they be not able by some defect or other to heare it the messenger of the true Christ is not so cruel as to judge all the world to be damned which have not the word truly preached unto them and also all children that dye before they be able to heare it But the true Christ saith he that beleeveth not shall be damned Mar. 16.16 Then of necessity all must have it or else he shal not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Joh. 3.36 Then consider the cruelty of this censure and be informed that the spirit of God is able to help all our infirmities Rom. 8.26 But is this the honour you give to the spirit of Christ to thinke him unable to worke saith without the helpe of your owne abilities Agame faith may grow and act where we see it not as well as trees grow in the winter downwards in the root and we see it not Againe Infants are sanctified which flows from faith Ier. 1.5 Luke 1.15 Againe Infants are entered into the Covenant with God by vertue of their Fathers faith for God ingaged himselfe to be the God of their Father and his seed into which Covenant they are infolded And if they have but the seeds of faith in them their fathers actions may be accounted theirs For if the roote be holy so are the branches Rom. 11.16 And if the Parents be holy so are the children 1 Cor. 7.14 Then steps up a second servant of theirs saying he that is in Christ is justified but we must be in Christ before that we can beleeve therefore we must be justified before that we can beleeve But here the servant b●trays his Mr. to be such a Christ that any limbe of the Devill may be a reall member of his body and any strumpet whore remaining so may be his spouse But the mestinger of the Lords Christ saith If any man be in Christ he ●s a new ere ture Old things are dine away all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17