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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69920	The discovery of the most dangerous dead faith by John Eaton ...	Eaton, John, 1574 or 5-1641.; Eaton, John, 1574 or 5-1641. Abrahams steps of faith.; Eaton, John, 1574 or 5-1641. True treasure of the heart.	1642 (1642)	Wing E114; ESTC R23218	43,616	232

words nor deeds to the causes to the nature or to the effects of the things which they seeme to see grant and hold Because though they be great Doctors yet they know not what they speake nor whereof they affirme and even as it were confidently swear to 1 Tim. 1. 7. especially in the spirituall benefits and mysteries of the Gospell And so are Saint Iames his double-minded men tossed to and fro like a wave of the sea and are unstable in all their wayes of Religion and these obtaine nothing of the Lord Iames 1. 6 7 8. And all their seeming strong faith is indeed before God nothing else but meere unbeliefe as Christ testifieth of such saying There are some of you namely that professe by beleeving that you are my Disciples but ye beleeve not For Iesus knew from the beginning who they were that beleeved not and who should betray him John 6. 64. And this dead faith being like a dead man that cannot stay up himselfe to stand upon his owne feet nor rest upon his owne strength they goe about to set him up and to underprop this dead man that is this dead faith with the rotten staffe of their workes And hereupon giving but a flourish of praise now and then to faith in generall they being utterly ignorant and void of true justifying and saving faith doe dwell in rest upon and stay up themselves and their dead faith principally by workes And hereupon doe in their hearts dignifie and in their words magnifie extoll and extort with legal arguments a preposterous sanctification repentance mortification grace and graces Popishly and falsly understood new life holy and righteous walking universall obedience to all Gods commandements sincerity humiliation uprightnesse fastings regeneration Popishly also and falsly understood and such like workes extorted as I said with legall arguments of I hope of rewards and speedings well if wee doe them and with feare of punishments and speeding ill if we have them not which how much the more they are thus preposterously exacted and legally extorted so much the more under termes and titles of the Gospell such Preachers teach but the light of nature the pride of workes and the vain-glory of man and so do withdraw people from Christ to hang upon their owne workes and doings by resting upon the Popish rotten pillar that God accepts the will for the deed and so doe drown Christs glory free Justification doe destroy faith waste and consume the Church of Christ teach a false bastard sanctification and are those dangerous seducers of soules that the faithfull are commanded as they will continue chast Virgins to Christ and not to bee beguiled with Eve by the subtlety of the Serpent and seduced from the simplicity of their faith that is in Christ to discerne and take notice of as they are described 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. where the Apostle forewarneth and thereby sufficiently fore-armeth all the children of wisdome by thus plainly describing them They professe themselves Apostles that is sent forth of God But they are saith Paul false Apostles and they are great workers but saith hee deceitfull workers How deceitfull transforming themselves saith he into the Apostles of Christ that is as if they were the true Ministers of Christ and taught the true Gospel of Christ and no marvell for Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light and therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers transform themselves as though they were the Ministers of ' righteousnesse that is calling earnestly for all works of righteousnesse But their end shall be according to their workes and righteousnesse that is though they see me to bee the principall men that shall bee saved yet the same Apostle threatens to them certaine destruction Which he warneth of purpose that wee may not beleeve every spirit but rather try the spirits by this description whether they bee of God 1 Joh. 4. 1. Seeing these are the wolves whereof Saint Paul gave warning Acts 20 29. 30. that should arise up out of the allowed Ministry and should teach not seeming false things but onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preposterous things or true things out of order setting the cart before the horse that is caring more to call for works and a good life than they care whether the people have assurance of the sound faith of their free and perfect Justification whereby although the people beare them record and applaud them that they have the zeal of God yet it is not according to the knowledge of free Justification Because by a carnall understanding of free Justification they being ignorant of the righteousnesse of God must needs goe about to stablish and set up the golden calf of their own and the peoples own righteousnesse of their supposed sanctification works and well doings and by thinking secretly in their heart with the Papist that free Justification is easily learned and is ready to open the gate to the people to live wickedly and loosely they seldome and slightly preach free Justification and thereby shew that they have not submitted themselves to the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10. 2 3. And so are the Ministers of Satan as the true Protestants say and are white Devils that preach a secret Idolatry under the likenesse of the true Ministers of the Gospel and for darkning and giving a Iudas his kisse to free justification which onely makes the true Church of Christ and by which onely Christ reignes in his Church as a free and glorious Redeemer and Saviour doe stand ipso facto accursed of God and excommunicated by Saint Paul though in all other gifts and as they say graces they bee like Angels from heaven as Saint Paul testifieth Gal. 1. 8 9. And because the greatest multitude of holy religious ones in a cold love to Christ and a hot love to themselvs in their owne doings and vaine glory care not to try the spirits whether they bee of God or no 1 Iohn 4. 1. therefore God sends them these zealous and holy working Preachers in the dead faith as strong delusions Ezek. 14. 9. that they should beleeve lyes and bee damned because they receive not the love of the truth of the wedding garment being the onely saving truth Gal. 3. 1. to 8. that they might bee saved 2 Thes 2. 10 11 12. and that onely makes us free John 8. 32. And being freed from the bondage and servile yoke of works that the children of God in the old Testament were under Gal. 3. 23 24 25. and chapter 4. 1 7. doth make us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and not to be entangled in the said yoke of bondage againe Gal. 5. 1. whereas contrariwise such zealous legall Professours are either seeming humble proud Pharisees confident in their owne well-doings Luk. 18. 11 12. or else ever wounded in their soules distracted into sects and troubled in their consciences about their life and doings And God in just judgment for the

in the Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the heathen through faith preached before this joyfull newes of the Gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all the Gentiles bee blessed So that they that bee of this faith of free justification are blessed with faithfull Abraham Gal. 3. 8 9. And can our hearts wish or desire any more This is the royalty of having on the wedding garment of Christs perfect righteousnesse freely given us to cleanse us from our secret sinnes and breaches of the tenth commandement unknown unto our selves Psal 19. 12. And to make us and all our works both naturall civill and religious pure clean perfectly holy and righteous from all spot of sinne in the sight of God freely without workes or our perfect working of them as Saint Paul testifieth saying to the pure all things that is our naturall works and our civill works and our religious workes and all things are pure Tit. 1. 15. Thus onely by free justification hath Christ delivered us from this present evill world according to the will of God even our father Gal. 1. 4. Thus hath God made us meet to bee partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Because he hath thus delivered us from the power or kingdome of darknesse and hath translated us into the Kingdome of his deare sonne Col. 1. 12 13. Thus our righteousnesse exceeding the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees we are entred into the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 20. which kingdome of heaven is within us Luk. 17. 21. For the kingdome of heaven is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Rom. 14. 17. And thus if any man either Preacher or private Christian have some true touch first of the horrible filthinesse of the least sin in Gods sight and then of this glorious excellency of free justification thus perfectly healing us of it it will make us to say with Saint Paul Yea doubtlesse I count all things but losse for the excellency of the knowledg sake of Christ Iesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and doe count them but dung that I may make my gain of Christ and be found in him not having mine owne righteousnesse which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousnesse which is of God through faith Phil. 3. 8 9. which one Scripture I have now divers times alledged because it so fully describeth the markes or rather the very nature and essence of the true saving faith That whosoever doth in any measure of truth feele the same with Paul in his heart let him certainely know that he hath escaped out of the most dangerous dead Faith and hath Pauls faith that is the true lively and justifying faith which onely most certainly saveth him and glorifieth him For whom God justifieth them also hee glorifieth Rom. 8. 30. And thus much be spoken of the two main points of religion which being thus thorowly looked into and deeply considered are the effectuall means to deliver us out of the dead faith and to translate us into the true lively justifying and saving faith Now out of these two points thus thorowly looked into and deeply considered will infallibly flow a third thing which as St. Iohn teacheth in all his three Epistles is Love which Paul also very resolutely testifieth saying For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which is effectuall operative or workfull by love For the true beleever having by this true faith a feeling of the true love of Christ toward him it onely and infallibly inflames his heart with the true love of Christ againe and of God in Christ and of his whole Church of every child of God in particular which true love constraineth the beleever 2 Cor. 5. 14. Not onely to doe his vocation diligently and so with David to serve his generation faithfully Act. 13. 36. as S. Paul likewise teacheth Gal. 5. 13. saying Brethren ye have been called unto liberty that is Now after that faith is come ye are no longer under the whipping Schoole-master Gal. 3. 25. Wherein though ye were heires yet being as little children ye differed nothing from servants Gal. 4. 1. Onely use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another but also it constraineth him to break off from and to mortifie all sinne and ungodly conversation and to walke freely cheerfully sincerely and zealously in all Gods will and commandements declaratively to manward which is true sanctification And thus it is most true which the established doctrine of our Church largely teacheth saying That this true faith of free justification is a thing of perfect vertue and wonderfull operation strength and power to bring forth all good motions and good works or else it is not the true lively justifying faith but the blind dead faith that leaves men in sin death and double damnation as these and such like Scriptures teach Titus 2. 11. to 15. For that grace of God namely of free justification bringeth salvation for nothing brings salvation upon men but onely the grace of free justification and therefore it is called the iustification of life Rom. 5. 18. hath appeared to all men and teacheth us dictamine charitatis by the instructing power and force of love to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world What is the moving or effecting cause hereof Because Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all our iniquities and purge or purifie or make us clean to be a peculiar people to himself zealous of good works vers 14. Thus Paul pithily expresseth also to the Ephesians chap. 2. 10. saying For wee are Gods workmanship namely by free justification created in Christ Iesus that is made by free Justification new creatures to Godward 2 Cor. 5. 17. 21. that is formed anew in Christ Jesus Gal. 4. 19. unto good workes that is to Sanctification Repentance Mortification Sincerity and Vniversall declarative obedience to all Gods will and commandements declaratively to man-ward Which God hath fore-ordained that we should walk in them Hence it is that Saint Iohn also so vehemently testifieth 1 Iohn 3. 6 9. saying whosoever is borne of God that is whosoever is iustified sinneth not that is sinneth not wittingly and willingly with free stream running to sinne as before his free iustification For Gods seed that is some true sight of Gods pure and righteous nature infinitely hating the creature defiled with the least sinne in his sight and some feeling of the infinite love of Christ bleeding out his bloud and life to iustifie him this seed remaineth in him and hee cannot sinne that is hee cannot lead so dissolute a conversation in sinne as he did before Because he is born of God that is Because of a wilde crab-tree he by free iustification is made a perfect good tree to