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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

highly favoured Luke 1.28 Being full of faith Acts 6.5 Now it is not God that changeth in his love but the change lies in us for Gods love is infinite in greatnes like himselfe so that no creature being finite is able to containe this infinite love of God it is like the Ocean Seas nothing is able to contain it but himself al the creatures are but as so many vessels of several sizes cast into this Ocean and every one receives his measure but the beasts and sowles are not able to receive so much as men nor men before conversion being dead in sin and having no hand of faith to receive it as he that hath a new life infused into him and the hand of faith given him whereby he is made more capable to receive a greater measure nor he that is but in part sanctified and having the burden of sin upon him as he that is wholly sanctified and freed from all sin and so as faith increaseth wee are more able to receive this infinite love of God and some have fiue Talents some but two now if God make some creatures more capable to receive and then bestowes more of this infinite love upon them this must needs bee agreeable to what God purposed to bestow on them from all Eternity Againe some to whom God hath purposed to bestow lesse yet they may haue it in actuall possession sooner than those to whom God hath purposed to bestow more saith Paul Andronicus and Iunia were in Christ before me Romans 16.7 Yet Paul I suppose did soon exceed them and so the last became first for hee was not behind the very chiefest Apostles he did improve his tallant more then they all yet while he was a persecutor a blasphemer and injurious then I say Andronicus and Iunia were more beloved then he because his graces lay in the purpose of God and they had it in actual possession again Christ chides some for their little faith Mat. 14.21 And others he highly commends for their great faith Mat. 8.10.15.28 Some are more carnall then spirituall yet babes in Christ 1 Cor. 3.1 Heb. 5.12 But herein is my father glorified when we bear much fruit John 15.8 Rom. 4.20 Christ himself the more he grew in strength and wisedome the more able was hee to perform the work of Mediator-ship therefore as he encreased in strength and wisedome he encreased in favour with God and men Luke 2.52 because then he was able to do more both for God and man Thus the greatest vessel being cast into this ocean recovereth the greatest measure of this infinite love of God Again the love of God is also eternall like himself and God hath made some creatures eternall to keepe their measure that they have received for ever whereas other creatures are mortall and not able to keep that measure of love which they have received for ever because the vessel wil decay and so that love which they received returns back into the ●cean where it was before the creation and for those Angels that were made eternall vessels and yet carelesse to keep their measure of love which they had received They shal suffer eternally the losse of this infinite love of God Jude 5. And the rest that did not sin were established by Christ but for man all sinned and came short of the glory of God the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that beleeve Gal. 3.22 All were under the curse and might justly have suffered eternally with the reprobate had not Christ redeemed us from the curse Gal. 3.13 And he prepared this broken vessel to make us meet for our Masters use 2 Tim. 2.20.21 For this is the wil of God even our sanctification and that we should know how to possesse our vessels in sanctification and honour 1 Thes 4.3.4 But God did not impart this infinite love into these vessels before they were and that actually from all eternity Again they alleadg that place in Ezek. 16.6 7 8 9. That the Lord saith When I passed by thee I saw thee polluted in thine own blood now when I looked upon thee behold thy time was the time of love I answer first God doth not say in that time that he looked upon that polluted sinner that he loved her but thus Behold thy time was the time of love that is thy time of effectual calling out of the state of sin into the state of grace by true faith and repentance and reformation Thus not my time when I saw thee polluted but thy time when thou art washed and cleansed that was the time of love for saith the Lord When I saw thee polluted J said unto thee live yea when thou wast in thy blood I said unto thee live vers 6. Now this was such a powerful voyce as when hee said in the creation let there be light and there was light or such a voice by which Christ raised up dead Lazarus to life Iohn 11.44 For marke I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field thou art encreased and waxen great and thou art come to excellent ornaments whereas thou wast naked and bare vers 6. This was the time of love vers 7. For those ornaments was the righteousnesse of Christ to justifie her for saith he I spread my skirt over thee to cover thy nakednesse vers 8. Yea she had the grace of faith-wrought in her wherby she was capable to enter into Covenant with God and so saith he thou becamest mine vers 8. After this she declared her self to be washed with the water of sanctification and adorned with all those graces following vers 9.10.11.12.13.14 Then was she actually loved of Christ but this will not prove that the elect are actually loved of God from all eternity For when God actually loves a man He draws that man by those cords and bands of love to him againe Hos 11.4 We love God because he first loved us 1 John 4.19 Love is a bond of perfectnesse Colos 3.14 But this could not draw us before we were the love of God is shed abroad in your hearts by the holy Ghost Rem 5.5 But he that hath no bowels of compassion toward his brother how dwelleth the love of God in him Ioh. 3.17 Now keep your selves in the love of God thus of some have compassion and others save with feare pulling them out of the fire Jude 21 22 23. But was Paul such a one before his conversion when he made havock of the Church of God and breathed out threatning and slaughter against the Desciples of the Lord did this love of God dwel in him then our heavenly Father wil give his spirit to them that aske him Lu. 11.13 But can they aske him before they were While Peter was yet speaking the holy Ghost fel on them which heard the word Acts 10.44 Then was this actually done in Gods decree or did the holy Ghost dwel in Paul before conversion by working or acting grace in his heart or was he then led by the spirit of

they have that priviledge with Christ to have all things then all is yours and not before But by nature we are all dead in trespasses and sins both the Elect and the Reprobate when Christ bought this purchase for his Elect therefore of necessity we must be made alive and have the eye of Faith to see it and have the hand of Faith to take hold before we are capable to receive and take it Then your consequence is false that wee must needs be justified before faith and calling because that the purchase was payed although it was neither given by Christ nor received by us The second Tenet is that you are as perfectly righteous as Christ and that God cannot see your sin and thus you are as soone as you have a being and faith doth but declare it to you yet you say that I confesse we are justified at once this I grant that when God gives us faith and calling at the same time he actually justifies us and at once yet I deny your damnable inference that all the Elect are actually justified at the same instant of time that every one is For as one is actually justified at once ni one go of the world wherein he hath his being yet another is not justified till another age of the world wherein his being is and yet all this hinders not but that we are justified at once although spiders will gather poyson where ever they come The Scripture foresaw that God would justifie the heathen through faith Gal. 3.8 But the time was not yet come but what of his whether is this rover travelling I have proved clearly by Scripture that God sees the sin of those that are justified and that they are not so righteous as Christ and I see nothing to the contrary and sol leave this and speak something to the last clause of this Tenet which is that saith doth but declare this unto them they make it to be only an eye to see burthey deny it to be a hand or instrument whereby they become righteous by taking or receiving the righteousnesse of Christ to themselves by application thatso they may be righteous Yet I grant that faith declares to us something that was done before we had it but it is not justification nor adoption nor sanctification nor the love and favour of God nor reconciliation yet I grant that the world was made before that faith was given to us and by our faith we come to know or understand the worlds were made by the word of God And things that are seene were not made of things which did appeare Heb. 11 3. But wil our Antinomians hence conclude that faith is but a declaritive grace to shew them that they were justified adopted sanctified and in the favour of God reconciled and all this before they had it let us turne backe to the same 11. of the Hebrews and see whether all that faith mentioned there be only declarative first by faith Abel offered unto-God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain vers 4. Will those people say that his Sacrifice was offered before he had faith and when he had faith it did but declare what was done before and so by faith Enock was translated c. But was this done before he had faith and when hee had faith he came to see this and so by faith Noah prepared an Arke to the saving of his houshold but was this ark made before and by his faith only came to see it and Abraham by faith when he was called went into a strange Countrey But wil they say that he went before he had either faith or calling and when hee had faith he came to see what he had done before he had it and so by faith Sarah received strength and conceived seed and was delivered of a man childe but was all this done before she had faith and when she had it she came to see what was done before And so by faith Abraham offered up Isaac But wil they say that he was offered up before he had faith and by it he came to see what was done before And so Isaac blessed his sons by faith and Iacob blessed the sons of Ioseph wil they say that those things were done before they had faith and by it they came to see what was done before they had it And by faith Ioseph when he dyed made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and if they say these things of dying men were done before they had faith then sure their soules departed to fetch it that they might come to see what they had done before they had it but the folly of these men cannot be hid and so by faith when Moses was bome was hid by his parents but was this done before they had faith By faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God esteerning the reproach of Christ greater riches then all the treasures of Egypt and by faith he forsook Egypt and through faith he kept the Passeover but were all these done before he had faith when he had it he came to see what was done before by faith they passed through the red Sea and by their faith the walls of Ierich● fell downe after they had compassed them about seven dayes and the Harlot Rahab by faith received the spies but were all these things done before they had faith The time would faile me to speake of all who through faith subdued Kingdomes stopped the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of fire and women received their dead of life Againe no say our Antinomians they first subdued Kingdomes stopped the mouths of lyons and quenched the fire and received their dead to life and then they had faith to see it and not before and so they first receive the righteousnesse of Christ and are justified and then they have faith to see what they have done and so nothing with them is done by faith but all without it and by their faith they only come to see what they have done and with the Jewes speak against all those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming Acts 13.45 Thirdly you say the way to know your justification is from a bare testimony you say from the spirit of God when as you deny the operation or sanctifying worke of the same spirit of God to be any means whereby you may know it then you come as the false witnesses came to Christ and say that I affirme that the spirit of God beares witnesse to our spirit which is contrary to my writing and to Pauls words which faith The spirit witnesseth with our spirit Rom. 8.16 Whereas you by your sophistry deny one of the witnesses But our rejoycing is the testimony of our conscience 2 Cor 1.12 My conscience beareth witnesse in the holy Ghost Rom. 9.1 And you to great purpose say that no flesh living shall be justified as if you had been slumbring For what of this I am not here speaking of the causes of our justification but of the witnesses which is 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

your other letter yet you afresh master up your affections to fight against your owne conscience and will maintaine against it that you were justified before you had either faith or calling your reason is because the purchase of it was paid 1600 yeares agon although no surrender of that righteousnesse was ever made unto you by Christ the purchaser of it nor ever yet received by you but to confirme this you say That Christ was made sin for us that wee might be made the righteousnes of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 And so the just suffered for the u●just 1 Pet. 3.18 But is Christ made sinne in the abstract how then was he just when he suffered for the unjust and if he was a lump of sin by moulding or infusing our sin into him or if Christ tooke away the being of sin as Simon the Cyrenian tooke the substance and being of the Crosse clearly from his shoulders and laid it upon his owne then we should be just before he suffered and so by consequence hee died not for us but for himselfe being made a lump of sin in the abstract But if Christ were made sin it selfe how then could God love him before he suffered and say This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased my beloved in whom my soule is well pleased this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased heare him Mat. 3.17.12 18.15 Doth God love sin Oh damnable blasphemy Againe if Christ were made sin how came he into Heaven where no uncleane thing shall enter Revel 21.27 And how came he to Gods right hand Surely God hath no pleasure in wickednes neither shall evill dwell with him Ps 5.4 5. To say that Christ was made sin in the abstract is to make him worse than the Divell or any reprobate for they are the creatures of God and some good things are in them but so is not sin then you must be constrained to say Christ is not in Heaven or forced to say that although our sins were imputed to him yet was he the Lambe without spot of sin 1 Pet. 1.19 If the least sin had entred into his righteous soule the whole worke of Redemption had miscarried Then Iesus was onely made a surety for our sins Heb. 7.22 But still they remaine in us and are not in hi● as I have told you in my Booke Page 2 neither did Christ part with that righteousnes whereby we are justified and leave himselfe nothing but sin that righteousnes that makes us just remaines in him still else if you had stripped him and gotten all his righteousnes from him and left him to be nothing but a lump of sin how then could he be saved But is this your love to Christ you boast so much of to reproach and villefie him thus to be nothing but a lump of sin and so unjustly take the righteousnesse of the righteous from him and as Iob did so doe you condemne God that you may be righteous Job 40.8 In so doing yee degrade Christ of his God-Head and of his righteousnesse and all this to deifie your selves and then you say God sees no sin in you because that all your sins are put into Christ and so you have none for he is made sin for you in the abstract and you have gotten his righteousnesse and so you are righteousnes it selfe in the abstract oh cursed and hellish blasphemy you might have observed my Booke better and been convinced of this your errour for although Christ hath given to believers his righteousnes yet it remaines in him still and not in us and although our fins are given or charged upon him yet they remain in us still not in him Page 2. Then you would father so●e of your abhominable lies upon me in saying it were a foolish thing to think that the holy spirit of God should dwell where the Divel ●eignes and leads them Captive at his will yet that I should say such are all the Elect mincing my words as the Divell did when he tempted Christ leaving out a sentence and so doe you for you leave out till they are recovered out of the snare of the Divell 2 Tim. 2.26 But not afterwards God be thanked Yee were the servants of sin but now yee are the servants of righteousnesse Rom. 6.17.18 Then you belch out another damnable lie saying that I should affirme that all the Elect are made the righteousnes of God in Christ 1600 yeares agon although they were not borne but you are ashamed to name the page because you cannot yet such is your Sophistry to make contradictions where none is and double dealing in the sincerest heart and because that I say the guilt of originall sin is done away by Christ page 2 line 4 from this the spider sucks poyson and saith that I affirme that the being of sin is taken away when I onely say that the guilt is taken away but you not onely belie me but you belye David a man after Gods owne heart and Moses who was faithfull in all his house when they say I have sinned in the sight of God and my foolishnesse is not hid from thee all our iniquities are in the light of thy countenance Psal 51.4 69.5 90.8 Although they speake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.21 Yet you say them that say God sees the sin of his people such belie the spirit of God but take heed how you give up your selfe to lying and blaspheaning the holy spirit of God lest your sin bee found unpardonable Then you say that you are not corrected for sin but this I have answered already in my other letter and that you know your condition from a bare testimony of the spirit of God this also I have answered already and to my Booke I refer you if you be not satisfied onely you say when two witnesses come together you must heare but one of them like some partiall Judge although God bid you to try all spirits aswell his owne as any other 1 John 4.1 Yet you like that branded reprobate King Ahaz you will not tempt the Lord to aske a signe this you say is to mistrust him but in this that you despise markes and signes you doe not onely weary men but you saith the Prophet weary my God also Isa 7.11 12 13. But if you weary him He wil ease him of his adversaries and avenge him of his enemies Isa 1 24. see Amos 2.13 14. Then you say that I affirme that the judiciall Law was ended in Christ which is another abominable lie see page 14. And because I say from the curse of the Law and from the reigne of sin wee are freed by Christ Rom. 8.1 Gal. 3.13 From this the spider sucks poyson and saith that I affirme that we are not under the commanding power of the Law of God but under grace but read page 14 a little better Then you conclude saying if you could speake with me which is no extraordinary matter to doe then you could shew me some downe-right lies and nothing but contradictions and Scriptures most barborously racked and misapplied but not so much as one of them is named no not so much as that one that was brought in stead of forty in your other letter but it seemes that your conscience hath whipped you for setching that one that now you dare write none at all yet you encourage your self as the Syrians did when they were beaten by the God of Israel on the hills but they thought to beat him in the vallies but they were mistaken 1 Kings 20.23.28 So your conscience beats you now in your writing that you dare not set down those down-right lies but you think to be too hard for conscience and in spight of it you will tell me them when you come to speak with me But if your conscience condemne you God is greater than your conscience and knowes all things 1 John 3.20 Take heed of the judgment of God upon lyars 2 Kings 5.25.27 Acts 5.4.5.8.9 Revel 21.8 22.15 Then knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men but we are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manisest in your consciences 2 Cor. 5.11.12 If they may but freely speake The Errata P. 1. l. 9. for the r. this p. 3 l. 9. for his r. and his p. 6. l. 20. for us r. as p. 9. l. 19. for low r. not l. 36. for as r. or p. 12. l. 2. for grace r. peace p. 13. l. 9. for distractions r. distinctions p. 14. l. 21 for people r. Prophet p 16 l. 15. for recovereth r. receiveth p 18. l 8. for tho r. the. p. ●2 l. 31. for proves r. grows p. 27. l. 10. for did mercy r. did it in mercy p. ●● l 14. for every r. any l. 15. for ni r. ●n for ge r. age l. 20. for his r. this p. 32. l. 31 for Aypoc● it● ● Hipocrites FINIS