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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35120	The counterfeit convert discovered, or, William Haworth's book, entituled (The Quaker converted to Christianity re-established) refuted wherein his absurd assertion, viz. that our (own) righteousness consists in the gifts and vertues which the spirit of God works in our minds &c. is manifested ... / by John Crook and William Bayley ; also an answer to the postscript at the end of William Haworth's wicked pamphlet called An Antidote &c. by C.T.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Bayly, William, d. 1675.; Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing C7199; ESTC R24285	95,721	143

a natural Light and so by this means they do what in them lieth to escape Judgment altogether by imagining themselves Christians and Believers in a State of Sin but we say that Light which you scorn and blaspheme and undervalue and set at nought will one Day bring the Flames of God upon you and be as a Thousand Witnesses against you because of your Hypoerisie and Self-Righteousness except ye repent All the Scriptures thou bringst against us are perverted by thee and they do not in the least prove what thou sayest viz. How that the Inward Work of the Spirit of the Lord in man or the Work of Regeneration is a man 's own Righteousness Legal Righteousness for if the Happiness and Blessedness of man consist not in the Work of Regeneration and the Work of the Spirit wherein doth it consist What will thy Ramble of Non-Sense and Perversion of Scripture and vain Profession of Christ avail thee saying Abraham 's Works done in the Spirit were not sufficient contrary to James 2.21 Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works when he had offered Isaac his Son upon the Altar Read also the next verse Seest thou how Faith wrought with his Works and by Works was Faith made perfect so that it is plain that in the Spirit he performed a Faithful Work and acceptable to God And so this blessed inward Work was of Faith and through Faith as all Works performed by the Spirit of Christ within are then this Righteousness and Obedience so performed is not Legal Righteousness or a man 's own Righteousness opposed to the Righteousness of Christ as that Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees was but is true real Righteousness in Unity of the same Nature with that blessed and heavenly Obedience of Christ in his own Person proceeding from the same Root viz. The Spirit and Life of Christ manifest in us and the matter of our Justification alwayes was and is the same not divided nor separated for he is the Head of his Body the Church inseparable and his Power and Grace which unites is the same and his Righteousness in all and through all is the same Real Righteousness and there is not another in the Head but the same that is in the Church his Body which is of his Flesh and of his Bone and whom God hath joyned together let not vain man put assunder as W. H. doth by calling that living Righteousness of Christ in his Church which is in God Legal Righteousness and A man 's own Righteousness Oh absurd and base did I not say well in mine to thee upon this Account viz. What a Traytor i● this man to God and his Gospel who hath seemed in Words and Profession thus far to love and to hugg Christ and the Scriptures and with his feigned Lips to betray him into the hands of the vilest of men and call this his most blessed work of Regeneration Legal Righteousness and A man 's own Righteousness thus betraying his most blessed Image into the Hands of Sinners to be trampled upon and vilified and abused under the Name of Legal Righteousness and a man 's own Righteousness and so as filthy Rags Isa 64.6 and so consequently Christ to be no more a Saviour upon this Account then the Jews accounted him who only reckoned him the Carpenter's Son and a Deceiver for indeed Man is meerly cheated of his Salvation if this Work of Christ be no more but Legal Righteousness and Christ's Coming by this means made of no more sufficiency then to bring forth Legal Righteousness but this man bears salfe Witness by his Lyes and Blasphemies as any who are truly Christians may easily perceive As for thy quoting Rom. 4.6 where thou sayest Even as David also discribeth the Blessedness of the Man unto whom God imputed Righteousness without Works what Works sayst thou done by the Spirit surely for such were David 's Works c. Unto which I answer That David's Blessedness consisted in that the Lord God forgave him his Sins and pardoned his Iniquities freely upon his unfeigned Repentance and so he was received in Mercy so read Psal 32. to the 6th verse and there it is plain that Forgiveness and Remission and Non-imputation of Sin was to that Man in whose Spirit there was no Guile which Guileless State was effected by the Spirit of the Lord which he calls Legal Righteousness and a Man 's Own Righteousness and so this Perverter of Scripture goes about to prove that the Works of the Spirit of the Lord even the best of them are sinful and blasphemes the Gospel-Power and Spirit and may as well and as confidently call Christ an ●…ctual Sinner in the best of his Actions for all his Actions were done by the very same Spirit that enables true Believers truly now to perform their acceptable Duty to God and this is perfect that is done by the Spirit of the Lord and according to his heavenly Will and To be spiritually-minded is Life and Peace Rom. 8.6 and so there is no Condemnation to such as walk after the Spirit of the Lord Rom. 8. and he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting Gal 6.8 If ye through the Spirit do mortifie the Deeds of the Body ye shall live Rom. 8.13 But according to this Man's Doctrine these Scriptures must be read thus There is Condemnation to such as walk after the Spirit of the Lord and they are in this Work and Exercise chargeable with Iniquity because their best Works performed by the Spirit of God are sinful and as rotten Rags and a Man 's own Righteousness and Legal Righteousness And again He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Condemnation and ●ins in his best spiritual Works And again Through the Spirit ye cannot mortifie the Deeds of the Body that you may live for this is but Legal Righteousness and a Man 's Own Righteousness c. So Reader observe that he goes about to prove that the Works of the Spirit and Power of the Lord are Legal and a Man 's Own Righteousness and effect nothing but Self-righteousness and sinful Obedience in a man's best Works where they are wrought and done by this Spirit of the Lord. And again he brings Isaiah 64.6 to prove it where the Prophet there saith in the Person of the Wicked Nation for which Wickedness and Hypocrisie God had brought would bring his severe Judgments upon them saith he We are all as an unclean thing and all our Righteousness are as Filthy Rags and we all do fade as a Leaf and our Iniquities like the Wind have taken us away Mark W. H. goes about from this Scripture to prove that this Righteousness the Prophet calls as Filthy Rags was Spiritual Righteousness or wrought by the Spirit of the Lord for he saith Did not Isaiah observe Moses 's Law in the spirit and yet in that place of Isaiah calls it filthy Rags as to Justification This Man