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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

the firmament that is clothed with the glorious robes of Christs perfect righteousnesse making her wheresoever she sitteth or walketh to shine as glorious in Gods eyes as the sunne shineth glorious in our eyes when shee shineth in her brightest hue Thus hath Christ made his Church to himselfe a glorious Church Ephes 5. 27. And hath the moone under her feet that is the righteousnesse of the Law directing the feet of her walking and conversation here before men and shining by sanctification declaratively to man-ward Matth. 5. 16. as the moone shineth and giveth light that is man walking in the dark night of this world and yet hath this moone of sanctification on under her feet as of small esteeme in comparison of the glorious sunne of Christs perfect righteousnesse with which she is clothed Phil. 3. 8 9. And hath a Crowne of twelve stars upon her head that is hath the doctrine of the Gospel taught by the twelve Apostles and all faithfull Ministers likened to stars Rev. 1. 16 20. in highest esteem as her chiefest ornament or crowne And thus we see how Christ who knew no sin was made sinne for us that we might be made the righteousnesse of God by true faith in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. And thus much bee briefly spoken of the excellency of the two parts of free iustification 4. Fourthly and lastly for the right understanding and powerfull laying forth of the excellency of free Justification we must deeply consider and diligently lay forth the excellent effects and precious fruits of free Justification which are briefly all needfull blessings both temporall and eternall but chiefly and especially these sixe following 1. First that by this free Justification we are reconciled to God and so restored into his love and favour again that all anger and displeasure of God being ceased and abolished towards us God is well pleased and at peace with us as it was notably prophesied by the Prophet saying I will heale their backslidings and I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him Hosea 14. 4. But how came wee to bee thus healed why Christ was wounded for our transgressions Christ was broken or bruised for our iniquity The chastisement of our peace was laid upon him and with his stripes we are healed Esay 53. 5. Therefore saith the Apostle being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 5. 1. 2 The second excellent effect is that by the very hearing meditating and reading to search into the truth and learning of this benefit of free Justification the holy Ghost is freely and experimentally given unto us to dwell in us and to take up our souls and bodies to be his blessed temples to dwell in us as these and such like Scriptures teach Received ye the spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith that is of free Justification preached Gal. 3. 2. For whilst Peter was preaching of the death and resurrection of Christ justifying and freely saving Gods people even whilst he was speaking the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word Acts 10. 44. Therefore saith S. Paul Know you not that your bodies are the temples of the holy Ghost which is in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. and 6. 19. For if any man have not the spirit of Christ the same is none of his Rom. 8. 9. For when Paul preached the resurrection of Christ that from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses by Christs resurrection every one that beleeveth is justified Then the beleevers were filled with joy and with the holy Ghost Acts 13. 39. 52. 3. The third excellent effect of Free Justification is that the justified person is by the holy Ghost thus dwelling in him so united and truly married as a glorious Bride and Queene so effectually unto Christ that he is made a very member of Christ flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone Therefore did the Apostle say Know yee not that your bodies are the members of Christ Yea he that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 6. 15 17. For saith Paul As the body is one and hath many members and all the members of the body though they be many yet are but one body even so is Christ for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be bond or free and have beene all made to drink into one spirit 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. Now therefore ye are the body of Christ and members for your part vers 27. Yea I say so truly and effectually that wee are members of his body and of his flesh and of his bones Ephes 5. 30. Oh how truly doth the Apostle call these benefits thus freely wrought upon us by the blood of Christ unsearchable riches Eph. 3. 8. God make us to search into them deeper 4 The fourth excellent effect of our free Justification is that hereby we are adopted and made the true children even sonnes and daughters of the living God Therefore doth St. Iohn say As many as received him namely to justifie them by his blood and death to them he gave the prerogative or dignity to bee the sonnes of God For Christ hath redeemed us from under the Law that wee might receive the adoption of sonnes And because we are sonnes God hath sent forth the spirit of his sonne into our hearts to cry Abba father Gal. 4. 5 6. And therefore S. Iohn crying out in admiration of this great dignity said Behold what love the Father hath shewed toward us that wee things of nothing Psal 144. 4. should be called the sonnes of God And now we are the sonnes of God but it is not made manifest what wee shall be but wee know that when he which is the son shall appeare we shall be like him 1 Iohn 3. 1 2. 5 The fifth excellent effect of this free Justification is that by it wee are made assured heires of eternall glory For so saith S. Paul That we being justified by his free grace are made heires of eternall life Tit. 3. 7. For if we bee children we are also heires even heires of God and joint heires with Christ Rom. 8. 17. For whom God justifieth them he also glorifieth Rom. 8. 30. And therefore is free Justification called the justification of life Rom. 5. 18. Wherefore Paul testifieth thus I reckon that the sufferings of this life are not worthy to bee compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Rom. 8. 18. 6. The sixth excellent effect of free justification is that by it we are made as the upshot and fulnesse of all that our hearts can wish truly blessed For saith Saint Paul David pronounceth that man or that woman to be a blessed man or a blessed woman to whom the Lord imputeth righteousnesse without works Rom. 4. 6. whereof hee testifieth further to the Galathians saying The Scripture that is the Spirit of God speaking

new doctrine is this Mark 1. 27. Yea they count the same stark naught and meer foolishnesse as Saint Paul saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the naturall man or the man of a meere humane soul perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God but they are foolishnesse unto him neither can be perceive them 1 Cor. 2. 14. And because they are not truly humbled to tremble at every word of God to beleeve the same according as it is spoken agreeable to the greatnesse and majesty of God the speaker Rom. 4. 18. And because their foresaid legall zeale of their holy working is void of Christian love and charity therefore their feet are swift to picke quarrels to make a man an offender for a word and to turn aside the just for a thing of nought Esay 29. 21. And feeling their dead faith and corrupt worship of God to be as I said but touched then their blinde zeale calumniating as I said before the faith words and workes of true beleevers boyleth forth into our-cries of errours heresies and blasphemies And most innocent Christ himselfe shall among these not escape the black censure of being counted a seducer of the people and a blasphemer and troubler of the Church thus vilely speaking evill and blaspheming the things they know not as Iude saith verse 10. And being by their corrupt light of nature naturally born subtle sophisters against the light of grace and faith hereby out of the sweet flowers where the Bee sucketh honey they by the cunning art of malice do suck poyson And then cast the imputation thereof upon the truth with out-cries of errours heresies and blasphemies when all the heresie and blasphemie is the unbeliefe in their own hearts And thus being those truth-biting dogs mentioned in the Scripture Phil. 3. 2. that bark in the day-time at true men they stick not to charge the truth that it breaketh the peace of the Church and troubleth all Israel when it is not he as Gods word and the established doctrine of our Church largely teach that maintaineth the truth and holdeth fast the faithfull word Tit. 1. 9. But the unbeleevers in the dead faith that cavill and sophistrate and resist the truth These are they that trouble the Church that is make tumults because they can never with Nicodemus leave wrangling tumultuating deriding and scoffing at the truth of Christs mysteries as seeming errour and foolishnesse unto them untill their false bloody holy zeal of Gods glory proceed to the last marke of hypocrites even to smite Micaiah on the cheek saying When went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speake unto thee 1 King 22. 24. And so they run with speed to bitter accusations and bloody persecutions except they be either with Nicodemus and Paul truely enlightened and converted to the true faith or this seed of the serpent be for nibling at the heels of Gods faithfull children of God crushed in the head by the wise and godly Magistrate or as Cains brood be cast out of the house and Church of God as Ismaelites and so cut off by God himself as he saith Gal. 4. 30 Cast out the bond-woman and her sonne for the sonne of the bond-woman shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman And then and not till then they cease to trouble the Church God at the last thus plainly manifesting to the world that although their foresaid holy and bloody blind zeale of Gods glory seem very beautifull and be highly esteemed before men and in their own account yet that it is most vile and horrible abomination in the sight of God as Christ himself testifieth of such saying ye are they that justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God Luk. 16. 15. All this description and discovery of this dead faith gilt over with the blind zeal and confidence of an universall obedience to all Gods commandements is as pithily as briefly expressed by the established doctrine of our Church saying thus That such men as make a goodly shew of all good works and many holy and godly ordinances whereby they appear to the world the most religious and holy of all men yet being blind and void of true justifying faith that onely makes the inside of the vessell clean and pure Act. 15. 9 Christ that saw their hearts knew that they were inwardly in the sight of God most unholy most abominable and farthest from God of all men Against which Sects and their pretended holinesse Christ cryeth out more vehemently than he did against any other persons But why are such holy and godly men so abominable before God Because saith the established doctrine of our Church although they seeme to the world most perfect men marke I pray both in life and doctrine why what can be wished more yet is their judgement preposterous their doctrine sowre leaven and their life hypocrisie Serm. of mans misery Sermon of free Iustification and Sermon of good works And thus much of the markes to discerne who be in this dead faith which as none can discern and discover but he that is in the true faith because such an one onely hath the mind of Christ by which he discerneth all things but is judged of no man 1 Cor. 2. 15 16. So is the matter so weighty and worthy to bee discovered that I heartily wish that some man of a farre greater measure and gift of faith than my self would so point out and plainly lay forth the vilenesse of the same as that the uglinesse of it might appear unto all men as it is in it self yea I wish that every Christian were a Preacher and writer against this most dangerous dead faith 3. Now thirdly on the contrary side Because contraria inter se opposit a magis elucent that is Contraries set one against another doe shine forth the brighter Let us therefore consider the parts likewise of the true lively and saving faith which are these three First the true humble spirituall knowledge for the true knowledge is an humble knowledge feeling through a true sight yet but a weak sight the things of the kingdome of heaven being ever ready and willing to learne further and more even of our inferiours that bring the true word of God and pure Gospel of Christ to the further edifiing of us in our most holy faith Iude 20. As learned Apollos that was mighty in the Scriptures being a zealous preacher was willing to admit conference with Aquila and Prescilla a woman being instructed by them in the way of the Lord more perfectly hee preached Christ with great efficacy Act. 18. 24. to 28. Yea this true humble knowledge is ever crying out with David O open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law Psal 119. 18. For which cause Paul prayed fervently for the Ephesians and all other Christians whom hee had converted That God the father of glory