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A77750	A faithfull messenger sent after the Antinomians: to try their power in their last place of refuge, who are fled to Gods decrees for shelter, as Ioab did to the hornes of the altar, and say that they will dye there, I Kings 2. 29.30. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B533; Thomason E40_23; ESTC R5091	47,721	42

before conversion by working or acting grace in his heart or was he then led by the spirit of God into all truth Iohn 16.13 When he persecuted and made havocke and breathed out threatning and slaughter against the Saints of God was the love of God then shed into his soule or did he then love the Saints of God when he so thirsted for their blood it is true he then loved them as the wolfe doth his prey But the true love of God is the infusion of that grace of love into their soul which both knits them to God and to his people but this could not be before their conversion then sure it was not before their being When God infuseth the graces of his spirit into the soule by those graces be sanctifies it and these are not the causes of our salvation but they are a part of it as the first fruits of that harvest Rom. 8.33 Iam. 1.18 And the earnest of that bargain He hath given unto us the earnest of his spirit 2 Cor. 5.5 After that ye beleeved ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance Ephes 1.13.14 Meaning the graces of Gods spirit Mat. 7.11 Compared with Luke 11.13 Therefore the promises commonly run and are made to them that are sanctified and seldome or never to them that are justified because the perfecting of sanctification is the last work and brings us into ful happinesse to al eternity then imputed righteousnesse ceaseth and faith ceaseth aad prayer ceaseth and the intercession of Christ ceaseth but the righteousnesse of sanctification that is begun is us here being purchased by Christ also and wrought by his spirit in us that abideth with us to all eternity for it is eternal life begun in us then what a miserable delution is that which speaketh evil of that eternal life that is begun within us saying what have we to do with that dungy durty duties of sanctification we thank God through Jesus Christ we have nothing to do with them these are workes for horne-book Christians but let me tel them that the promise of heaven and happinesse is only made to holinesse Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Mat. 5. And without holinesse no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 Again Heaven is the inheritance of them that are sanctified Acts 20.32 But no unclean thing shall enter into it Rev. 21.27 Now all the persons in Trinity may be said to sanctifie us To them that are sanctified by God the Father Jude 1. I am the Lord that doth sanctifie you Exo. 31.13 Levit. 20.8.21.8 The very God of Peace sanctifie you 1 Thes 5.23 God the father sanctifies us by giving his son to purchase it for us and by sending the holy Ghost to worke it in us and by hearing and granting those petitions which are moved in us by his own spirit Rom. 8.26 Secondly God the Son is said to sanctifie us first by the purchase that he gave for it he hath washed away our sins in his owne blood Rev. 1.5 The blood of Christ doth purge your consciences from dead workes to serve the living God Heb. 9.14 Secondly by his ordinances the word and Sacraments Christ gave himself for his Church that he might sanctifie it with the washing of water by the word Ephes 5.26 First by the word in shewing us our sins by it and also our duties and begetting faith in us by it whereby wee have both knowledg of and power to do these duties and to refraine those vices discovered by it and also by the Sacraments by strengthning and encreasing faith all other graces in us Thirdly We are sanctified by the spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.11 2 Thes 2.13 Now as the Father works by the Son and the holy Ghost so the holy Ghost workes both from the Father and the Son therefore it is said Your heavenly father wil give the spirit to them that aske him Lu. 11.13 The Father shal give you another comforter John 14.16 And saith the Son If I goe not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I wil send him unto you John 16.7 Now saith the Apostle He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed on us abundantly through Iesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3.5 6. The spirit of God sanctifies by changing us into the same image from glory to glory that is From the glory of grace begun to the glory of grace perfected 2 Cor. 3.18 And by leading us into all truth John 16.13 This is done by inward motions and comforts encreasing that which he before infused into us Again it is said that faith sanctifies that they may receive forgivenesse of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith Acts 26.18 Purifying their hearts by faith Acts 15.9 When faith takes hold and receives the blood of Christ and makes it ours so it justifies us as an instrument or a hand laying hold on Christ the justifier But as faith works by love Gal. 5.6 And stirs up all other graces in their lively motion so it sanctifies us when it makes us love God unfainedly and stirs up a lively hope that maketh not ashamed and fear to offend God and care to please him and a zeal for his glory humility self denyall mortifying sin and a chearful walking with God in all holy obedience thus faith may be said to sanctifie and although other graces were infused into us by the spirit of God as wel as faith yet when faith acts them and stirres them up in their lively motion this second working may be called the fruits of faith because they are acted and encreased by it instrumentally although the graces themselves are all the fruits of Gods spirit wrought in us Gal. 5.22 But our Antinomians are strangers to this kind of working for they will have the spirit of God to do his own work and they must be as empty trunks for it and as dead stones without life or motion yea their faith they so much boost of must be but a spectator to look on their love must free them from obedience and their faith is without labour but saith Paul Remembring without ceasing your work of faith labour of love 1 Thes 1.3 Heb. 6.10 Again the Saints are not rewarded according to the righteousnesse of Christ imputed to them for then they should bee as high in glory as Christ yet I grant that to be the cause of our salvation but we are saved according to the measure of our sanctification that is wrought in us by the spirit of God neither are the reprobates rewarded according to the imputation and guilt of originall sin although that was the cause of damnation for then all should be tormented alike but they are rewarded according to their actual sins committed in their own persons For he that treasureth sin he treasureth up wrath against the day of wrath

being empty trunks for the spirit of God to move in personally as they say without any change of the man therefore after conversion they are as dead as before and only those works that the spirit of God doth alone by himself in them are good but for those that the spirit of God doth by us those they say are as bad as the works of the Divell as for example Suppose the spirit of God shal move us to the duty of prayer or any other duty according to his wil this motion they grant to be good but when we receive this motion by faith and perform this duty that we are moved to doe this say they is as bad as the work of the Devil And when the spirit of God moves us and drawes us this is goed But when we run after him as the Spouse saith Cant. 1.4 This is no better then the work of the divel and when the spirit of God perswades us that our sins are forgiven and that we are in Covenant with God reconciled in Christ this they say is good but when we receive take this by our faith This say they is as bad as the work of the divel and so when the spirit of God pronounceth us just that is good but sanctification wherby we declare our selves just that is as bad as the work of the Divell Again I answer if it were possible to separate the works of faith in a beleever from the works of corrupted nature then this might be true Yet I grant that their failings and sinful actions as Davids adultery Peters denying of his Mr. these were the works of corrupted nature because the divel was the Author of them But there repentance and reformation was not the workes of corrupted nature then it appears to me that all their actions were not so bad as the works of the devill neither was Pauls preaching so bad as his persecuting and blaspheming before conversion For when a child of God is in the way of obedience although his actions are not perfectly good yet they are not without some goodnesse in them being acted by faith and regulated by the word of God and tend to his glory Such actions cannot be before conversion neither are they to be found in devils nay the very sins of Gods people are not so bad as they were before conversion as the works of the divel For the spirit lusteth against the flesh that they cannot sin as they would Gal. 5.17 Again The life of a beleever is by faith in the son of God Gal. 2.20 The just do live by their faith Hab 2.4 Neither can they live without it So then they cannot sin as before because the seed of God remaineth in them 1 John 3.6.9 And the spirit of God leadeth them into all truth John 16.13 And the spirit of God dwelleth in them so that if the Divel tempt them to sin greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world 1 John 4.4 And if the world tempt us saith Christ be of good cheare I have overcome the world John 16.33 And we are borne of God and we have faith and this is the victory by which wee overcome the world even our faith 1 John 5.4 And if the flesh would sin the spirit lusteth against the flesh that we cannot doe those things we would Gal. 5.17 Then are Gods people as dead as before and all their works as bad as the works of the Divell Againe we are made living stones and built up into a spirituall house and we are an holy Priest-hood to offer up spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ 1 Pet. 2.5 But the sacrifice of the wicked is abhomination Pro. 15. And their praier also Pro. 28.9 And we are made new creatures and cast into a new mould of Doctrine and led by another Principle which made Peter say Wee cannot but speake the things that we have heard and seen Acts 4.20 We doe not obey by constraint but willingly Phil. 14. Thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power Psal 110.3 So that although wee bee changed and our heart set upon another object yet wee goe on freely the will being changed wheels all parts of body and soule as a willing instrument in the hand of Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith Heb. 12.3 Then although we had no hand in the first infusion of grace but were meere passives in the worke yet when the new life of faith is put into us and we made living stones then we are labourers together with God that salvation which he hath begun we worke it out with feare and trembling and increase our talent of faith by trading and so shal be our salvation hereafter in greater glory as I shewed before For it is our onely busines here to improve our Talent Luke 19.13 And to grow in grace 2 Pet. 3.13 And the strongest Christians must say with the Apostles Lord increase our faith Luke 17.3 Then sure our workes are not so bad as the works of the Divel neither are we as dead as a stone if we sin after grace is given it is either through some weaknes or in some passion or through the violence of some temptation for there is an inward principle flat against it Then eat thy bread with joy and drinke thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works Eccles 9.7 And so I leave the reader to judge whether the actions of Gods people be as bad as the works of the Divell and themselves as dead as a stone Againe my Opposite at that time maintained against me that God was the Author of sin for saith he murder is a sin yet God commanded Abraham to slay his Son and deceit and robbery are sins yet God gave way to Israel to rob the Egiptians Exod. 3.21 And who gave Iacob for a spoile and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord Isa 42.24 And lying is a sin that shuts out of heaven yet God sends the Divel to be a lying spirit in the mouth of Ahab's Prophets and the Lord stird up David to number the people 2 Sam. 24.1 And wee pray that Christ may not lead us into temptation To these I answer that God is above his Lawes and doth whatsoever hee pleaseth I know that the Lord is great our Lord is above all Gods whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the sea and in all deepe places Psal 135.5.6 If he adde a new commandement upon some speciall occasion or if he take away who can hinder him or who will say unto him what dost thou Job 9 12. Why dost thou strive with him he giveth no account of his matters Job 33.13 Then how dare these men call God to give account to them Nay but o●●man who art thou that repliest against God Rom. 9.20 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he that reproveth God let him