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A41191	A sober enquiry into the nature, measure and principle of moral virtue, its distinction from gospel-holiness with reflections upon what occurs disserviceable to truth and religion in this matter : in three late books, viz. Ecclesiastical policy, Defence and continuation, and Reproof to The rehearsal transpos'd / by R.F.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1673 (1673)	Wing F760; ESTC R15565	149,850	362

W. Guthry late Minister in Scotland The virtue vigor and efficacy of the Promises displayed in their strength and glory By Tho. Henderson The History of Moderation or the Life Death and Resurrection of Moderation together with her Nativity Country Pedigree Kindred and Character Friends and also her Enemies A Guide to the true Religion or a Discourse directing to make a wise choice of that Religion Men venture their Salvation upon By John Clappam Rebukes for sin by God's burning anger by the burning of London by the burning of the world and by the burning of the wicked in Hell-fire to which is added a Discourse of Heart-fixedness By T. Dolittle Four Select Sermons upon several Texts of Scripture wherein the Will-worship and Idolatry of the Church of Rome is laid open and confuted By William Fenner The Life and Death of Dr. Ja. Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland A most Comfortable Christian Dialogue between the Lord and the Soul By W. Cooper Bishop of Galloway Mr. Ferguson on the Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians Justification only upon a satisfaction or the Necessity and Verity of the Satisfaction of Christ as the alone grounds of Remission of sin asserted and opened against the Socinians By R. Ferguson The Canons and Institutions of the Quakers agreed upon at their General Assembly at their new Theatre in Grace-Church-street A Synopsis of Quakerism or a Collection of the Fundamental Errors of the Quakers By Tho. Danson Bloud for bloud being a true Narrative of that late horted murther committed by Mary Cook upon her Child By Nath. Partridge with a Sermon on the same occasion Six several Treatises By Nich. Lockier Minister of the Gospel Bonastis Vapulans or some Castigations given to Mr. Durel for fouling himself and others in his English and Latine Book By a Country Scholar A Discourse written by Sir G. Downing the King of Great Brittain's Envoy Extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces Vindicating his Royal Master from the Insolencies of a scandalous Libel Printed under the Title of An Extract out of the Register of the States General of the United Provinces upon the Memorial of Sir Geo. Downing Envoy c. And delivered by the Agent de Heyde for such to several Publick Ministers Whereas no such Resolution was ever communicated to the said Envoy nor any answer returned at all by their Lordships to the said Memorial Whereunto is added a Relation of some Former and Latter Proceedings of the Hollanders By a meaner Hand The Assemblies works in 12º with the large and smaller Catechisms Scotch Psalms alone or with the Bible THese are to give Notice That the Psalms of David in Meeter are newly Translated and Diligently Compared with the Original Text and former Translations more smooth and agreeable to the Text than that of Tho. Sternhold John Hopkins or any other Extant in English and do run with such a fluent Sweetness That the Ministers whose Names are here-under Subscribed have thought fit to Recommend it to all with whom they are Concerned some of them having used it already with great Comfort and Satisfaction These Psalms are to be sold by Dorman Newman at the King 's A●mes in the Poultry at One shilling Four-pence Price John Owen D. D. Tho. Manton D D. William Jenkyn James Jnnes Thomas Watson Thomas Lye Mathew Poole Jo. Milward John Chester George Cockayn Mathew Meade Robert Franklin Richard Mayo Hen. Langley D.D. Thomas Doolittle Thomas Vincent Nathaniel Vincent John Ryther William Thompson Nicholas Blaky Charles Morton Edmund Callamy William Carslake James Ganeway John Hicks John Baker

of Religion then the New Covenant is nothing but a repetition of the Old Yea there is no such thing as a New Covenant with respect to the Terms of it onely it is so called with respect to the manner of its Promulgation For where the Terms and conditions vary not neither do the Covenants vary 'T is their differing in their Demands that gives them the Denomination of distinct Covenants To assert a coincidency as to the whole preceptive part betwixt the two Covenants is in effect to bid us disclaim a great part of the Bible What tendency some expressions of a late Author have this way I shall refer to the judgment of others As in the State of Innocence the whole Duty of man consisted in the practice of all those Moral Vertues that arose from his Natural Relation to God and man so all that is superinduced upon us since the fall is nothing but helps and contrivances to supply our Natural defects and restore us to better ability to discharge those duties we stand engaged to by the Law of our Nature and the design of our Creation c. def contin p. 315 316. The supposition of sin does not bring in any New Religion but only makes new circumstances and names of old things and requires new helps and advantages to improve our Powers and to encourage our Endeavours And thus is the Law of Grace nothing but a Restitution of the Law of Nature ibid. p. 324. Secondly there are several duties incumbent now upon us which also constitute the chief part of our Christian Obedience that the Decalogue as ' its a transcript of the Law of right Reason or of Nature is perfectly a stranger to For proof of this I shall only insist on Repentance towards God and Faith towards Jesus Christ. I suppose it will be granted by most that Repentance in all the parts and branches of it viz. conviction of sin Contrition for it and conversion to God from it are Duties we are all under the obligation of I said by most because of some expressions in a late Author which I can hardly reconcile with the account which the Scripture gives us of Repentance or with that modesty which we ought to exercise in the things of God The Fathers first preachers of the Christian Faith did not fill peoples heads with scruples about the due degrees of Godly sorrow and the certain symptoms of a through-Humiliation def contin p. 306 307. And a little after They says he meaning the Noncomformists examine the truth and reality of mens conversion by their orderly passage through all the stages of conviction And unless a man be able to give an account of having observed and experienced in himself all their imaginary Rules Methods of Regeneration i. e. conviction and contrition c. they immediately call into question his being a Child of God and affright him with sad stories of having miscarried of Grace and the New-Creature And he is lost and undone for ever unless he begin all the work of conversion anew and he must as it were re-enter into the Womb again pass through all the scenes workings of conviction in which state of formation all new converts must continue the appointed time and when the days are accomplished they may then proceed to the next operation of the Spirit i. e. to get a longing panting and breathing frame of soul upon which follows the proper season of delivery and they may then break loose from the Enclosures of the Spirit of Bondage and creep out from those dark Retirements wherein the Law detain'd them into the light of the Gospel and the liberty of the Spirit of Adoption p. 309 310. However I can justifie the forementioned steps and degrees of Repentance both by Scripture and Reason Now this the Moral Law as 't is a meer summary of the Law of Nature neither know's nor allow's I confess the Law of Creation obliging us to love God with all our Heart Soul and Strength and in all things to approve our selves perfect before him doth by consequence in case of the least faileur oblige us to sorrow And thus men wholly strangers to the renueing grace of the Covenant may repent witness among others Judas as to the act of betraying Christ. But to encourage us thereunto by any promise of acceptance without which no man will ever be found in the due practice of it Heb. 11.6 Or administer help for the performance of it this it neither doth promiseth nor can do or promise For being once violated it know's no other language but the thundring of wrath against the transgressour Now one and the same Covenant can not be capable of two such contrary clauses as denouncing an inevitable curse on whosoever shall not observe the Law in all points and promising mercy to those that repent of the transgressions which the do commit They like may be said of Faith This is the great condition of the Gospel Gal. 3.22 Act. 13.29 Rom. 10.9 One of the principal Duties we are now obliged to 1 Joh. 3.23 Joh. 6.29 Now this as 't is the condition of Gospel-pardon the Law is utterly unacquainted with know's nothing at all of it It is true there is a general Faith terminating on the Existence Authority and Veracity of God which comes under the Sanction of the Law of Creation But Faith as respecting a Mediator and Gods treating with us through him the Law is both ignorant of and at enmity with Gal. 3.12 The Law is not of Faith Rom. 9.32 33. Israel which followed after the Law of Righteousness hath not attained to the Law of Righteousness wherefore because they sought it not by Faith but as it were by the Works of the Law I know not whether it be upon this account because Faith comes not smoothly enough within the compass of being a Moral Vertue that a late Author is pleas'd to scoff at Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ not only by stiling it in mockage the dear darling Article of the Religion of Sinners Def. Contin p. 322. but by representing what the Scripture every-where ascribes to it in such terms of Drollery Scorn and Contempt that I tremble to transcribe them They make says he a grievous noise of the LORD CHRIST tell fine Romances of the secret amours betwixt the believing Soul and the LORD CHRIST and prodigious stories of the miraculous feats of FAITH in the LORD CHRIST Reproof to the Rehears Transpros p. 69. See also Def. Contin p. 135· 140. But while men believe their Bibles they are not to be jeered out of their Duty and Happiness And this is all I shall discourse of the first Instrument of Morality viz. the measure of it and I hope it appears by what hath been offered that the Law of Creation which is the Alon● Rule of Moral Vertue whether we take it subjectively as it is in Man since the Fall or objectively as it is in the Decalogue