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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

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

And he takes it for blasphemy to say any such remaining so are members of his body what a member of Christ and a member of a harlot God forbid he that is joyned to the Lord to one spirit 1 Cor. 6.15.17 That is one spirit acts all the members of Christ as one spirit acts all our members Now here you will be put to your shists for either you must be forced to say all those abhominations which are done before gonver on are the actings of Gods spirit in them or else you must deny that the spirit of God acts them by his grace But if you say the spitit of God is not in them then saith the Apostle they are none of his Rom. 8.9 And so not justified But you play the sophister to prove that all our sinfull actions are moved by the spirit of God before conversion saying the act of beleeving is the fruit of the spirit Gal. 5.22 But this will not cover your naked nesse for that is the grace of faith yet all other graces are the fruits of Gods spirit because hee wrought them in us but the actings of those graces are partly from Gods spirit and partly from ours and cannot so properly be called the fruits of his spirit Againe what a damuable stuggard is the spirit of the Antinomians Christ to lye as a drone in their soules twenty or forty yeares and doe nothing well may they pull their shoulder from the law of God and from all workes of sanctification being led by such an idle spirit But the true Christ hath no idle members nor the true Vine no barren dead branches But you say if faith be a good fruit men must be good trees else we may gather grapes of thornes and sigs on thistles I answer Faith is the fruit of Gods spirit which is a good tree and cannot beare evill fruits But what a faith have these Antinomians that will not make the tree of their body good Againe you say he that hath the spirit of Christ hath Christ so I say too but you say you have the spirit before you beleeve and therefore have Christ before you beleeve but have what spirit you will you are no childe of God by adoption till you receive Christ by faith Iohn 1.12 And have what spirit you will it is not the spirit of adoption unlesse it make you cry Abba Father Galat. 4.5 6. He is called the spirit of grace and supplication Zech. 12.10 Which none can have before conversion But here I smell an empty trunck for their Christ to move in personally and he must move them as we move a stone according to their tenets But the true Christ makes us living stones to offer a living sacrifice aceptable to God 1 Pet. 2.5 But they will not come to him that they may have life Iohn 5.4 He that hath the sonke hath life and he that hath not the sonne hath not life 1 John 5.12 Then here is the cause why they still remaine dead stones and empty trun●ks A third stands up saying the Elect are justified therefore some that do not beleeve are justified before they beleeve your argument they that cannot be charged with any thing are justified but who can lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifies who shall condemne It is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen againe Rom. 8.33 But will it follow because some of the elect are justified called and glorified that therefore all the elect are so Saith the true Christ Other sheepe I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring in John 10.16 Neither let them bring in their common divellish evasion saying that is meant of their owne apprehension but is it the voyce of the sheepe or the voyce of the shepheard that spake this Christ saith that they are not of this sold but I hope Christ was not mistaken through misapprehension saith the holy Ghost He that beleeveth not the sonne shall not seelife but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3.36 Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Acts 9.4 Was not this chosen vessell here taxed with sinne And such were some of you saith the Apostle being mooved by the Holy Ghost and ye were carried after dumb Idols 1 Cor. 6.11 12.2 And saith Paul he that wrong●t effectually in Peter the same spirit was mighty in me Now by the same spirit he withstood Peter to his face because he was to be blamed Gal. 2.8.11 see 13 14. And saith the Angell thou shalt be dumb because thou beleevest not my words Luke 1.20.22 And sinne and death is passed upon all men Rom. 5.12 Then are the elect charged with nothing He that committeth sinns the servant of sin John 8.34 Till the Sonne of God make him free and then they are free indeed vers 36. A fourth stands up saying they that have their sinnes taken a way are justified but the elect have their sins taken away before they beleeve Ergo the elect are justified before they beleeve Your first part you say is proved that sins are taken away because David saith they are covered Psal 32.1 And the minor you say is proved because Christ is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world Iohn 1.29 And because the Lord laid on him the in quities of us all Isa 53.6 Himselfe bare our sinnes in his own body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2.24 Our old man is crucified with him that the body of sinne might be destroyed Rom 6.6 But is cove●ing a thing the taking away the being of it Sin is compared to things most loath some but when such a thing may be covered yet it hath a being under that covering Deut 23.13 Gen. 9.23 And is Christ come hath begun to take away our sins Yet we are not free from sinne till death Rom. 6.7 Againe our sinnes were not taken from us and lofused into Christ no more then we have stript him of his righteousnesse bu●by imputation they are accounted to be his although they remaine in us and his righteousnesse is accounted to bee ours although it remaine in him still and for what was laid on Christ was nothing but the guilt and punish nent He was woanded for our transgressions bruised for ur in quities and the chastisement of our peace 〈◊〉 on him and by his strepes●ve a●e b●aled Isa 53 5. But if our 〈◊〉 had beene infused into him they had been his and not ou●s and if his rig●te● suesse had beene infused into us it were ou●s and not his for sinne and punishment they goe together so that often he one is named for the other if thou dost ●ot well sinne lyeth at the doore that is punishment lyeth at the doo● for sin 〈◊〉 lay then within him ●en 4.7 see 13. Nay further although the ●●g●ing power of none b● taken away yet the being of sinne is not taken away no not in the justified Thus hee runs into one ertour 〈◊〉

for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed Isa 52.5 christ hath once suffered the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickned by the spirit 1 Pet. 3.18 who did no sinne neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himselfe to him that judgeth righteously who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the tree that we being dead to sinne should live unto righteousnesse by whose stripes ye are healed 1 Pet. 2.22 23 24. thus christ hath passively suffered all the penalty of the law to free us from the curse and penalty of it and to sanctifie both afflictions and death unto us O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sinne but thankes be to God which hath given us victory through our Lord Iesus christ 1 cor 15.55 56. To what use serveth the active obedience of christ to the law of God A. It serveth to sanctifie all our disobedience and failings in the performance of holy duties so that now a willing mind is accepted according to that a man hath 2 cor 8.12 row Christ takes notice when the spirit is willing although the flesh be weak Mat. 26.41 for our Saviour hath performed perfect obedience to the law of Gad for us it was his meat and drinke to doe his Fathers will Iohn 4.32.34 he sayth I doe alwayes those things that please him Iohn 8.29 I seeke not mine owne will but the will of him that sent me Iohn 4.30.7.16 as by the disobedience of one many were made sinners so by the obedience of one many were made righteous Romans 5.19 But did Christ obey or suffer for himselfe as some would have it A. No for although his humane nature was a creaturne yet being united to the second person and so making one Christ there was no obedience due from himselfe to the law neither came he by the ordinary way of mankind into the world therefore free from that law that Adam was bound unto with all his posterity But did we actually doe all that which christ did in our nature as well as he as some would have it A. No the gift by grace is by one man Iesus Christ and by him hath abounded to many and righteousnesse shall reigne in life by one Iesus christ even so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came upon all to justification of life by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous rom 5.15 16 17 18 19. hence I conclude that we did not act in Christs person as well as himselfe saying it was a common lumpe of all mankind that christ obeyed and suffered in we for him as well as he for us and he for himselfe as well as for us This is Antinomian blasphemy But if we did not act as well as christ how comes his righteousnesse to be ours A. By imputation for as he is a blessed man to whom the Lord will not impute sinne rom 4.8 so he is a blessed man unto whom God will impute righteousnesse without workes rom 4 6. now as Adams sinne is imputed to all in Adams nature so the second Adams righteousnesse is imputed to all that are in him by greace to him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly by faith instrumentally it is countrd for righteousnesse rom 4.5 Then did christ alone in his owne person doe all the workes of our redemption A. Yes he looked and saw there was none to helpe therefore his owne arme brought salvation and his righteousnesse it sustained him Isaiah 59 16.6●.5 neither is there salvation in any other there is none other other name given under Heaven among men whereby we must be saved Acts 4.12 he trod the Wine-presse alone and there was none with him Isaiah 63.3 he by himselfe purged our sinnes Hebr. 1.3 and he washed away our sinnes in his owne blood revel 1.7 he is the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the word Iohn 1.29 Did Christ dye for all men without exception A. No for Christ would not so much as pray for the world much lesse would he spill his blood for them but the first is true therefore not the second Joh. 17.9 againe if Christ had dyed for them and they not saved either the Father brake Covenant and did not give him all that he bought of him or else the world and the divell and sinne were too strong both for the father that have them and the sonne that bought them which were no other then blasphemy to think How doe you know that Christ dyed for you A. The good Sbe●heard gave his life for the sheep Joh. 10.11 and I know my selfe to be one of his sheep for I know his voyce Joh. 10.4 both the secret voyce of his spirit and the publike voyce of his word when I am charged to let the word of Christ dwell in me richly Col. 3.16 when I turne aside to the right hand or to the left I still heare his voyce saying unto me this is the way walk in it Isa 30.21 and I know it is the voyce of my beloved that knocketh saying open to me my sister cant 5.2 because he leadeth me into al truth makes me see an excellency in him above all other Cant. 5.9.10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Psal 45.2 then sayth Christ I know my sheep and I am knowne of mine Joh. 10.14 and they will esteeme of all things else but as dung aad drosse and losse for the excellent knowledge of Christ Phil. 3.78 By what other mark doe you know that you are one of the sheep of Christ for which he dyed A. The sheep of Christ doe not onely know his voyce and delight in hearing of it but in obeying it and follownig him Joh. 10.4.27 they will walke as Christ walked 1 Joh. 2.6 and they will learne of him that is meek and lowly in heart and they shall find rest for their soules Mat. 11.29 and as he sayd it as my meat and drink to doe the will of him that sent me and to sinish his worke and he did alwaies those things that pleased him Joh. 4.34.8.29 and concerning his surferings he sayd I lay downe my life no man taketh it from me Joh. 10.17 18 the cup that my father hath given me shall I not drinke it Iohn 18.4.11 Christ suffered leaveng us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 to you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but to suffer for his sake Phil. 1.29 they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth these were redeemed from among men Rev. 14.4 What other reasons have you to prove that Christ dyed for you A. Christ loved the church and gave himselfe for it that he might sanctisie