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A67842	A New-Years-gift for the Antinomians particularly Mr. Malebranch Crisp, or, as he foolishly, and yet often (but truly stiles himself the unworthy branch of Dr. Crisp who hath wickedly attempted to underprop a rotten cause of his father, by notorious forgeries, concerning Mr. Baxter, Mr. How, and Dr. Bates, as justifiers of Dr. Crisp as an orthodox man, and no Antinomian: in a rhapsody, intituled, Christ exalted, and Dr. Crisp defended; against the reverend Mr. Alsop, with whom he rudely, and ignorantly plays under the name of his dear Kratiste. By Calvin Anti-Crispian.	Trepidantium Malleus.; C. A.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y83A; ESTC R221087	21,128	48

A New-Years-Gift FOR THE Antinomians PARTICULARLY Mr. Malebranch Crisp OR As he foolishly and yet often but truly stiles himself The Unworthy Branch of Dr. Crisp WHO Hath Wickedly attempted to underprop a rotten Cause of his Father by Notorious Forgeries concerning Mr. Baxter Mr. How and Dr. Bates as Justifiers of Dr. Crisp as an Orthodox Man and no Antinomian In a Rhapsody Intituled Christ Exalted and Dr. Crisp defended against the Reverend Mr. Alsop with whom he rudely and ignorantly plays under the Name of his Dear Kratiste Malus Corvus malum Ovum What shall be done to thee thou false Tongue By Calvin Anti-Crispian LONDON Printed for John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-street near Cornhil 1699. A New-Years-Gift FOR THE Antinomians PARTICULARLY KAKISTE CRISP By way of Dialogue between Antinomista and Evangelista Evang. GOod morrow Mr. Antinomista What makes you look so merry this Morning Antin Why Man I never care to look otherwise for I have more Wit and more Grace too than to be troubled about Sin But that which makes me smile on you is to think how dull you and such as you are look and must look since a prceion Book lately came out Intituled Christ Exalted and Dr. Crisp defended Have you read it over I pray Evang. No nor never will endure that Penance I know some Ministers of his own Party that are displeas'd with him That a Man of such cheap Abilities should meddle with Ministers Work Tho' the Jackdaw as in the Fable comes forth in stoln Peacocks Plumes Antin What have you I pray to charge the Book or Author with Evang. With Four things 1. With painting that Old rotten Post his Father or Book with notorious Untruths 2. With Pretences of owning or pleading the Cause of Mr. Lobb as if that learned sound Man were theirs Tho' it is well known Mr. Lobb often and truly chargeth in more Books than one Dr. Crisp's Doctrine with Blasphemy c. 3. With clapping under board the more gross black wicked Notions of Dr. Crisp and insisting on Commutation of Persons as if all the Cause or Controversie turn'd there 4. With bringing such woful Proofs for the Change of Persons between Christ and Believers that no Man half-witted would or could do Tho' I own the Phrase rightly understood yet hate to see a Cause fall into such unskilful hands No Creature is more hateful to a Man than a Monkey because so much like a Man and yet none Antin You dare not Sir say this to his Face you should if this be so have applied your self to him in a few kind Lines Evang. So I did and offer'd a friendly Meeting and Conference before his learned worthy Friend Mr. Gouge who tho' no Antinomian is too easily impos'd on by them Antin The false Stories I suppose you mean are That Mr. Baxter should say Two Days before he died That Dr. Crisp was an Orthodox Man and brought more Souls to Christ than We do c. He said this in ipsissimis verbis And that there is not the least grain of Ground to doubt it for he says I came from a faithful holy Minister p 2. And that Mr. Cole told him p. 13 14. That he heard Mr. How say If Dr. Crisp were an Antinomian I am one too and if he mistakes not Dr. Bates was there and said So am I too They are great Stories Evang. I tell you That they are great Lies for which the Publisher deserves the Stoning Doublet which as I hear he wishes for me We know to Goal all must go that oppose his Father's Notions as he as it were petitions our Senators 1. Mr. Williams and Mr. Sylvester Mr. Baxter's most intimate Friends profess they never heard such a Story which had been morally impossible if true 2. It is commonly said among these very Accusers That Mr. Baxter died rather like a Papist than Protestant and what now are we told at the end of Seven Years that he died a Crispian 3. Mr. Baxter when asked on his Death-Bed whether his Mind was changed as about Justification said I have told the World my Mind about it in my Books and there I refer them See his Life there is an owning proh dolor of his Doctrine about Justification to the last Is it possible he should at the same time own Crisp his Doctrine as sound He that added Works to Faith had he now with Crisp thrown away both 4. Had therefore this Minister protested to all the World he heard Mr. Baxter thus say No Man of Brains would or could believe him who knew Mr. Baxter and how tenacious of his Opinion in that Point and what an open long and fierce oppugner he was of Crisp's worst of Doctrine in that Point Of Justification without Faith 5. He says this faithful holy Minister was desir'd by him to give this under his own hand but being prudent he refus'd Would he then had been so prudent too as not to have publish'd so idle a Story 6. Some I know have found out this Young Man who as they affirm to me denies the Truth of the Story That what Mr. Baxter said was on the coming out of Dr. Crisp his Book which I think was a Year and half before he died and that he never said he was Orthodox 7. Had Mr. Baxter so said his next words ought to have been his Confession of his Fault in opposing Orthodox Crisp and to have recall'd his last Book especially against him 8. I could say more to prove his Tale of their faithful holy Minister signifies nothing were it convenient Who ought to expose this Author being a common Adversary more than his Politicks will give him leave As for Mr. How and Dr. Bates 1. They disown this as the Author Mr. Kakiste Malebranch well knows now 2. If he design'd Honesty and Truth they are alive why had he not sent to them to know whether they would own it No doubt he believed the thing not True and fear'd right Information 3. Can any Man imagine that these Two great famous Divines who if not Baxterians are Baxterianish should so run counter to their avow'd Principles as to justifie so Corrupt a Man 4. Suppose I or another should say if denying the conditionality of the Covenant of Grace be Crispianism I am a Crispian Would it follow that I own my self to be a Crispian Well when I am dead I may be publish'd as one too tho' so great an Enemy to the Cause Antin If these Stories be not true The Devil is gone forth for a Liar For I know Men of Note believe them on the Word of honest Sam. Crisp as they call him tho' they be no Antinomians He triumphs in his Stories that God may so touch the Heart of Mr. Alsop c. But I hope you do not in the least question the other Story about Mr. Cole That he should say that if he had but One Hundred Pounds and Dr. Crisp his Book could not be had under Fifty Pounds he

Therefore it is not the Ceremonial but Moral Law by which no Man can be justified I know Mr. Baxter was much the Occasion of endangering you to run so far as you did You perhaps know what Mr. Crandon in the Censure of his Aphorisms says in the Epistle of his Book That he had his Agents sent up and down to propagate his Doctrine and to return to their Master to give an Account of the Success Because this is a Story I never heard prov'd I never charged him with it And I think the Licenser Mr. Caryl did not without cause caution the Reader against Mr. Crandon's Bitterness I declare I never so charged him as he doth whether he wanted Sincerity I leave to his Judge His comparing his Doctrine with that of Trent Bellarmine p. 215 in 7 leaves 2. Book deserves Consideration I think Mr. Crandon was a great Man except in his own Eyes as some Men never had so much Learning as they thought said and printed so he had not half so little as he thought I know you grant the Law to be a Rule in a true proper Sence not like those Nomomachists as is said Luther would sometimes call them as well as by the name Antinomians It is safe speaking after the Apostle 3. Acts 19. Repent and be converted that your Sins may be blotted out What work doth Mr. Crisp alter his Father make of the Words of Bal●●am He beheld not iniquity in Jacob nor hath seen perver seness in Israel 23 Numbers 31 Was this spoken of Elect Persons only or not of the Congregation not so Did not many of these fall short of the Land of Promise against whom God swore in his Wrath they should never enter into his Rest A Type of Heaven I grant all of them perished not for ever for Moses and Aarm fell short of the Terrestial Canaan that did not of the Heavenly one but this was the Case but of few They erred in their Hearts and had not known his ways Can any more therefore be meant That God saw not at that time Idolatry or any gross Sins or foul Practices among them for which he should let them fall before Balak Therefore Balaam taught him to draw them to Idolatry and Whoredoms which Josephus wonderfully tells us the manner of if we may believe him I ask did God see Iniquity in Jacob or behold Perverseness in Israel then Sure he did and plagued them severely Two and Twenty Thousand Suppose this were of the Children of God this is but a figurative or proverbial Expression I will not see or take notice God saw no Sin among them in comparison of what he saw among the Heathens round about them who committed the Mutum peccatum Sodomy and Conversing with Familiar Spirits These are my present Thoughts about it What I have read I cannot remember Whatever some among us talk of Terms Conditions they own irresistible Grace in Conversion Perseverance and the Covenant of Grace to be ordered in all things most sure And what Paul says is ever so to the Romans The Election hath obtain'd it If they fall they rise again and we perswade them not to call all in Question Much sorrow ought they to have whether much fear or no. Any hope that may encourage them to return to God we are not against but that which encourageth to lie in the Dirt is a hope that will make ashamed It is dangerous Doctrine that many of our Tradesmen who are not only indocti but indociles talk of Renew your Assurance Go not to Humiliations nor Prayers but to Christ. I pray when did Christ give those Duties a Bill of Divorce that you may not go to Christ and them too It hath been a Trouble to me I confess many a time to hear some Famous Divines talk of Terrors and that David had them and such fears about his State and Relation to God that were almost on the brink of Despair And they urge he oft says Why art thou cast down O my Soul Why art thou disquieted within me Trust in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my Countenance and my God When I declare nothing with me proves the contrary more than this Text That David doubted not If I should be sent for to a Man said to be in Despair and he should say God is my God I shall yet praise him They are the words of Assurance more than Despair Therefore Dr. Sibbs bottom'd his Excellent Book on an unfit Text to name no more David was then driven from the Place of God's Publick Worship and remembred with whom he once went there that kept Holy Days Whether he then fled from Saul or Absolom I know not I find not David calling his State God-ward in question Once Heman indeed seems to do it Thus we run on one after another without Consideration of Scripture as some that tell us that to tell a Truth on a malicious Design is a Lye and urge that of David against Doeg thou false Tongue Now they say Doeg told right to Saul that David came to Abimelech But I say he added Lyes to that Truth and Abimelech denies his Charge to Saul and that truly Did I enquire of God for him Thy Servant knew nothing more or less of this matter So how many Preachers from the Press and Pulpit Tell us thus far Men may go in the Duties of Religion and Christianity and yet fall short of Heaven from Ahab 's humbling himself before God So the Great Sanderson who was an Idolater before and after And so about Agrippa who never entred on the Profession of Christianity What are these Instances to Men making a great and credible Profession of Religion and Christianity some Twenty Years and more and not be saved What Religion did Ahab own or What Christianity Agrippa Pardon this Digression These are the result not of readding nor hearing any Man but free Thoughts Let no hatred of Mr. Baxter's Followers or their Doctrine encline you to the other Extream That our London ones are more Sober much less Popish about Justification than in some Counties where I have been I do averr Speak Honourably of the means of Grace not with Contempt as God and Scripture doth If others place too much in them that is their fault slight them not They are such in which God often meets with the worst of Men and doth that for them Means cannot nor they for themselves I know your Corrupt Notions have not corrupted your Conversation but that you yet shine in all Good Works of Piety and Charity Ad Reverendos fandi dulcissimos D. Singleton Dom. Mead Dom. Gouge Dom. R. Taylor quosdam alios vulgo vocatos Independentes QUID nunc temporis prius dicam quid posterius ego nescius Ventorum vesania procellarum impetus pulsus intemperatus sic jactant Ecclesias vestras quod cum Poeta repetendum est O Navis referent in Mare te novi Fluctus c.