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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38139	A short review of some reflections made by a nameless author upon Dr. Crisp's sermons, in a piece entituled Crispianism unmask'd with some remarks upon the union in the late agreement in doctrin among the dissenting ministers in London : subscribed the 16th of December, 1692, and that as referring unto the present debates ... / by Thomas Edwards, esq.	Edwards, Thomas, fl. 1693-1699.; Crisp, Tobias, 1600-1643.	1693 (1693)	Wing E236; ESTC R31409	64,054	46

during their state of total unbelief are Aliens and Strangers unto these great Mysteries that therefore God should not know them as being in Christ as a publick Person and as such through him be reconciled unto them 2 Tim. 2. 19. Or have any of the Elect any more by Faith in their actual possession than what they had through Grace an irreversible Title unto from all Eter●ity Tit. 1. 1 2. But our Author tells us of which he seems to be very fond by his bandying of it backwards and forwards against the Dr. That Because whilst even the Elect are in a state of Nature they are the Children of Wrath and also that they that believe not the wrath of God abideth on them therefore they cannot be as much the Favourites of Heaven as the Saints now in Glory are I beseech thee Reader mark it well and a very ordinary capacity will introduce thee not only into the fallacy of his proceedings but the Arminian rottenness of his Hypothesis lu●king under the same From whence is it that they come to be translated out of a state of Nature into that of Grace or to be actually removed from an obnoxiousness unto and an eternal abiding under the Wrath spoken of which indeed is the portion of Reprobates amongst which Hypocrites and Double-Dealers especially if Professors and those of them with a witness indeed who would under a pretence of Holiness carry on their sinister ends by those ways and means which are absolutely inconsistent with the same I say is it from themselves or from God If the former then we are not deceived in these our Adversaries but know where they are if they say the latter then it is evident that their own Concessions must give their Assertions the Lie for it is either in the ability of the Elect to discern into and also change both the state of their Persons and frame of their Natures or it wholly lies in God and that both as to his Will and Power therein But in our Author's sense there is nothing but wrath in God against them all whilst in unbelief what then in God must be the motive to remove this unbelief for a justly provoked wrath in my apprehension would scarcely be moved to step one step to work that in man which must remove and annihilate it self and indeed it were unreasonable to expect it Therefore certainly it appears to me That this Vnbelief which in it self exposes to the wrath of God must be removed by its contrary which is Faith and this is wrought by the mighty operation of God Now whether this proceeds from Love even the very same the Saints in Glory are undisturbedly filled with and consequently Reconciliation in all the fruits of the same the former being the root-cause of the latter let the Learned Athenian Club determine in the next of their most admirably unintelligible Debates Observe Reader that Scripture Exod. 34. 6 7. And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth Keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children and upon the Childrens Children unto the third and to the ●ourth Generation Where the Lord proclaiming his Name to be The Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering c. yet declares That he will by ●o means clear the guilty Now one would think according to our Neonomian Scheme That this is highly incongruous for who can be more properly the object of this grace than the guilty And yet the Lord will not pardon these though he pronounces himself to be a God forgiving iniquity transgression and sin who then will he pardon Why the Text infers those that are clear from guilt but where shall he find them since the most holy that ever was or shall be on Earth never yet was without sin nay he charges even his Angels with folly It is only his Elect and Redeemed ones that he will pardon and that because he hath provided for them such a righteousness and price to cover their nakedness and pay off their scores That though they be guilty in themselves and that as considered in their natural state and Covenant-relation unto Adam together with the corrupt defilements of their Natures thereupon and so lies obnoxious unto Divine Wrath and Vengeance yet he freely of his grace justifies pardons and acquits them as being in Christ though ungodly in themselves and thereupon effectually renews and sanctifies them Rom. 3. 24 25 26. chap. 4. 5. John 17. 6. compar'd with v. 17. Ezek. 16. 8 9. Mal. 4. 2. And hence it is that he sees no spot in his Spouse nor iniquity in Jacob. Hence it is also that the Lord before he makes thus known himself unto Moses in this his gracious and yet mysterious Proclamation doth not only change his covenant station by putting him upon a rock but also covers him with a compleat unspotted and yet external Righteousness by his putting of him into a Clift of the said Rock as not willing that Christ who indeed was figured out by that Rock should become a pedestal for Moses to stand upon before God in his own inherent righteousness of Faith Repentance and Sincerity but he must be clothed with or put on Christ in his own Righteousness even his actual obedience unto the preceptive and sanction-part of the Law and that in the solid matter and not meritorious or consequential effects of the same Phil. 3. 9. Let me further tell thee Reader and by then thou hast thoroughly search'd into the consonancy of Scripture thou wilt certainly find it so That as on the one hand no one's holiness though of the right kind can or ever did produce the least dram or particle of the Love of God so neither will i● in the perfection of it's degree in Glory it self when without all spot or blemish prove or appear to be the matter wherein their justified estate doth consist Nay take the very merits of Christ themselves properly and distinctly as such and they will not subserve so unscriptur●l an end for though the King's Daughter be all glorious within in the real and true renovation of her Nature here whilst upon Earth and unspotted perfection thereof in Glory yet that which gives her admittance into and an eternal standing before God is her clothing or covering nor the former which is indeed but a result of the latter and that not in a remote meritorious sense but material and substantial interesting of her in and investing of her with that Gold of Ophir or Garment wrought of Gold which is the Righteousness of the Saints Psa 45. 9 13. Rev. 19. 8. THIS appears from the nature and manner of Christ's proceedings on his juridical Throne at the day of Judgment Matth. 25. 31 c. A Text out Adversaries so impertinently urge to prove that