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

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 1 Kings 2.29.30 Imprimatur Ja. Cranford You that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked workes yet now hath he reconciled Col. 1.21 The Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Heathen through faith Galat. 3.8 If ye hearken to these judgments and keep and do them then the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the Covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy Fathers and he wil love thee Deut. 7.12.13 But as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sons of God even to them that beleeve on his name John 1.12 LONDON Printed by M. Okes for T. Bankes and are to be sold in Black-fryers on the top of Bridewelstairs 1644 To the READER CHristian Reader the Apostle saith there must be heresies among you that they which are approved may be manifest among you 1 Cor. 11.19 And Christ saith It mast needs be that offences come but woe be to that man by whom the offence commeth Math. 18.7 Then rouze up thy selfe as against all sects and schismes so against this one heresie trimd up with some additions by our Antinomians in which they confound Gods Decrees and his worke● together and also his prom●ses and performances and they cast a cloud over the omissience of God and so would perswade us that he doth not see his creatures perfectly as they are and where they are but as if he saw a man in one kingdome when hee is in another because he was there or as if he saw them on earth when they are gone to heaven or hell because they were there or as if he saw them in many places at once or as if he s●w mans birth and death all at once as if he saw Angels very good and yet cursed Devills at the same time and as if he saw man in innocency and falne all at once and that he should blesse all his Creatures here before and curse them all at once But here we may safely make these conclusions First that it is against the nature of God to see all his creatures created and yet not created all at once Secondly it is against the nature of God to see a creature in one place when he is in ather or in many places all at once Thirdly it is against the nature of God to see his changeable creatures in severall conditions all at once as to be in their bloud and yet justified all at once and to see them in their innocency and faln all at once but these men would make the God of order to be the author of all confusion for when all the creatures under heaven were corrupted by the sin of man and lay under a curse then these men say that they were in the favour of God justified sanctified called and adopted the sons of God but can a fountaine send forth salt water and fresh Iam. 3. If not how shall the fountain of living water do so Doth God say that al his creatures were made very good Gen. 1.31 yet at the same time so great part of them cursed divells and reprobates what blasphemy is this to charge the God of truth that cannot ly with lying and desembling or else with blindnesse as if he did not see them cleerely and so call them good through mistakes as Isaac blessed Jacob so because the heathen shall hereafter be justif●ed through faith Gal. 3.8 These men would make God uncapable of the passage of time here with us and so have them just before their time But the times and seasons the Father hath kept in his own power Acts 1.7 Then doth not he know he can keep his promise to a thousand generations Psal 105.8 And performe it the same day Exod. 12.41 Then although he knew when his creatures were made very good that some of them would not long continue in that condition but by sin become devils and reprobates yet it wil not follow that God saw them so soone as they were made neither on the contrary wil it follow that when the Lord saw the earth corrupt that God saw all things at that instant very good because they were so at first but when he said they were good they were so indeed although he know that man would fall that so his purposes might be brought forth in their severall ages and times wherein they were appointed for there is a time before the decrees bring forth Zeph. 2.1.2 And till that time the elect are children of wrath Even as others all that time they were without God and without Christ Ephe. 2.3.12 And without his spirit and therefore none of his Rom. 8.9 There was no difference till our hearts be purified by faith Acts 15.9 The Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might be given to them that beleeve Gal. 3.22 God saw his people before conversion to be enemies and alienated in their minds and after conversion he sees them now reconciled Colos 1.21 Yet God doth not change Neither is there shadow of changing in him Iames 1.17 But the Creatures change daily evill and waxe worse and worse 2 Tim. 3.13 And Gods people grow in grace as new borne babes 2 Pet. 2.2 Then sure the Lord sees all their changes before the Creation God loved nothing but himselfe because there was no other object and this love to himselfe was the moving cause why he made all the creatures to set forth his owne glory and those that glorifie him most are the most beloved of him then a man that is wholly sanctified is more beloved than he that is but in part sanctified and he that is but in part sanctified more beloved than he that is not sanctified at all and he that hath a being hath something in him that God loves when as he that hath no being hath nothing to be beloved Then what a folly is it to say the child of God is actually beloved of God Iustified Sanctified called Adopted before they have any being these things are more largely answered in this Booke which here I have written for thy better information read it and if thou receive any benefit or satisfaction herein give God the praise and me remember in thy prayers And so I commend thee to God and to the Word of his grace Which is able to build thee up and to give thee an Inheritance among all them that are sanctified Acts 20 32. Thine in the Lord Iesus Thomas Bakewell A faithful messenger sent after the Antinomians to their last refuge who are fled to Gods decrees for SHELTER THe occasion of this addition to my former discourse against the Autinomians tenets is their flying for shelter to Gods decrees which I had thought I had sufficiently barrd

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