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A27593 A conciliatoy [sic] judgment concerning Dr. Crisp's sermons and Mr. Baxter's dissatisfactions in them by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1690 (1690) Wing B2135; ESTC R23688 8,458 13

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Righteousness of Christ in his Death and Resurrection Justification and Sanctification Flow as in an Hypostolick Vnion So the Faith that receives the one Receives the other and That Faith which hath that Specific Operation of Receiving Christ By that Operation it hath Receiv'd therein can in All other Things Act like it self and as it Receives the Righteousness of Christ so it Receives the Image of it in which All Good Works lye Treasur'd Ephes 2.10 But seeing the Apostle Paul hath once so Fully and Expresly Asserted to Faith that it Justifies in Receiving Christ and the Abundance of Grace and the Gift of Righteousness from Him It can never be dismounted from that dignity but whatever is said to Justifie must be so Personally united with Faith Receiving Christs Righteousness as to Justifie only as it is so united to Faith and Faith to Christ For as Infinite Righteousness can have no Additions of any other Righteousness So there can be nothing added to Believing in it but what must fall into the Essence of Believing or Receiving in this point of Justification For else something must be added to the Righteousness it self which cannot be if it be an Infinite Righteousness without a Contradiction And even this Faith can not be Rais'd out of our selves but is from the Beams of that Righteousness shining about the Heart the Spirit Strengthning the Inner Man and drawing it to Christ that he may dwell in it I come then to the Conclusive point the Reconciling Dr. Crisps's Sermons with Mr. Baxter In order to which I make these observations 1. God gives to the Variety of his Servants a diversified poiz of Spirit In some it comes nearest to the Sons of Thunder In others to the Sons of Oyl or Consolation Thus the Apostle James in his Epistle is as a Son of Thunder the Apostle Paul in the Doctrine of Free Grace as a Son of Consolation But in both these Two Breathed One and the same Spirit Dividing to each as it pleased Him And so I doubt not in these Two Eminent Ministers of Christ The same Spirit hath wrought wherein their way of Preaching or Writing seems to differ most abating to each Humane Infirmity and not Attributing to either the Infallible Spirit that Guided the Writers of Scripture in their writing 2. I observe in Scripture the Spirit often in the Point it is upon moves strait forward and in a Stream like a Torrent and takes notice of nothing to hinder but hath in due place Ballanc'd every Truth one with another Thus the Apostle Paul moves on in the Doctrine of Justification of the ungodly by Faith in Christ without Works Rom. c. 3. c. 4. c. 5. and then c. 6. considers and Fore-prizes the bad consequences that may be drawn from it The Apostle James dictated to by the same Spirit even derides a Confession of Faith that hath not Works that is an effective Power of doing Things like it self as utterly Impotent to Justifie or Save because it Receiving none of the mighty Influences of the Righteousness of Christ it is thence Evident it hath not Receiv'd that Righteousness it self And herein the Spirit in the Apostle James runs so high as to offer a seeming Contradiction to it self in the Apostle Paul and Leaves to the Searchers of Scripture to find the True Key of the Intrepretation But herein was no Cause to either Apostle to be offended one with Another or for the Readers of either to be offended with either of them but they are to lay both together and thereby to deduce the whole Scripture Truth In the very same matter though not with so high a Deference to either of these Two Ministers of Jesus Christ All which They both have spoken according to the Truth of Christ is to be laid together and neither part to be consider'd principally as from them but as from one and the same Spirit Guiding both in each part of Truth according to his word and the Dispensation committed to each of them One singly and Solely exalting the Righteousness of Jesus Christ as our whole Foundation and Comfort and in Cases of Great difficulty and darkness to be Rested upon alone and yet always implying and many times Expressing and never contradicting that this Righteousness of Christ Flows out with all Holiness The other more insisting upon the Righteousness of Christ in its Impress of Mortification by Conformity to his Death and of Sanctification by the Power of his Resurrection The one most necessary when Conscience hath to do with God The other necessary in the Course of a Christian Conversation But it must be Acknowledg'd the Increated Righteousness of Christ being infinite and all Inherent Righteousness consider'd as ours and distinct from Christ's from which yet it can never be separated being Created and not only so but very Scanty and imperfect the Righteousness of Christ is most Radical and the Standard by which all Inherent Righteousness must in the discourse of it be Bounded and wherever the Righteousness of Christ is Receiv'd Holiness infallibly follows whereas a seemingly good Conversation often misses that Root But far be it to suppose Mr. Baxer in all his discourses pressing Mortification and Holiness hath not so Learnt and so taught as the Truth is in Jesus that His Righteousness is our alone Justification But I am much perswaded Dr. Crisp was rais'd up on purpose by God to Break that Box of Spikenard that sent out so High and Sweet a savour of Christ And I do not perceive He attain'd that Height of his Ministery till the latter end of it so I Collect from the Additional Sermons which are not of so Rich a Savour of those Good Oyntments And speedily after He attained that Height God Took Him even early out of the World For but a little of so Great a Cordial God Allotted the World And if any say why did not Dr. Crisp Ballance that Doctrine of Christ with the Treaty of other Scriptures pressing Holiness it may very well be Answer'd The Preaching of Christ was his peculiar Ministerial Lot and Talent Assign'd him by God as in the fore-nam'd differences of Holy Writers And He is not to be consider'd as alone in the Hand of Christ or as a single Star but with all the other Stars by whom the Holy Spirit hath Abundantly written what may Ballance his preaching of Christ so singly and wholly For tho' He and They are several Men to us and their preaching several yet They are All Stars together in the Hand of Christ and the Truth taken together one Though the Truth He preach'd was certainly of the Highest Orb and it shall be Remembred to his Honour when the Everlasting Gospel is Preach'd For I am much perswaded as the Preaching these Sermons was before a notable Breaking out of Gospel Light and Truth and a Dawn of the Kingdom of Christ in his Redemption Not concerning my self in the civil differences of that Time nor the miscarriges of wild opinions So I cannot but hope The Reprinting of these Sermons is order'd by Providence as a Fore-Running of a much Clearer opening of that Kingdom of Redemption in preparation whereunto the Song of Redemption shall be as it were a New Song set to a Higher Elah even when the Fourty Two Months of the Apostasie that now clouds it shall come to an end Let us then in Conclusion of the Matter magnifie the Ministry of the Righteousness of our Lord Jesus as Excelling in Glory 2 Cor. 3.9 Great was the Ministery that gave us his Great Sermon in the Mount his other most Powerful Sermons as the Voice of Thunder and that Prayer of the Kingdom we style the Lord's Prayer together with many High Emanations of the Spirit upon Him to Preach the Jubilee of the Lord But the Beloved Disciple gave us the more constant still Voice of his most Evangelical discourses and his Mediatory Prayer spreading it self over All. John 17. Great was the Ministery of the Apostle James who when He Appear'd as a Son of Thunder against a Liveless Confession of Faith as a Dead Body yet so gives the Working Spirit of Faith that He dares not describe it as in the Appearance of Works of the Moral Law least he should establish Works contrary to the Spirit in the Apostle Paul but in the Acts of Obedience as Extraordinary to the Moral Law as Imputation of the Righteousness of Another to us is to it Nor in a whole Conversation of Evangelical Obedience least He should seem to set up that in the place of the Works of the Law but in single Acts and those Acts looking to Christ Abraham seeing and Rejoicing in Christs day in Isaac Rahab looking on the Brazen Serpent and not Perishing with them that Believed not Heb. 11.31 and shewing in A●l He did but Explorate by Works like it self for a Faith Reaching Christ in that Fundamental Operation of it as the Immanent Spirit of it * The Scripture was Fulfill'd which said long before Abraham believ'd c. And It was Imputed c. James 2.23 and therefore chooses the Operation of Abraham's Faith that God stay'd er'e it became a Full Transient Act or pass'd into Full Work that He might no way injure Infinite Righteousness And yet He who as the Chief of Forgiven Sinners Lov'd most Publish'd Free Grace more Abundantly then They All Yet not He but the Grace of God with Him Let us therefore learn with Him to Know nothing but Christ and Him Crucified Till in Robes wash'd in his Blood we sing that as it were new Song of Redemption as Kings and Priests to the Father on the Throne and to the Lamb to whom be Glory for Ever and Ever Amen FINIS Books sold by William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street THE Works of Dr. Crisp compleat in 52 Sermons some never before printed Many Works of Dr. Owen Of the nature of a Gospel Church and its Government in Answer to the Vnreasonableness of Separation Of the State of Protestant Religion lately publish'd The Catechism of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in the 1000 Years By the Author of this Conciliatory Judgment newly printed