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A37263	Truth and innocency vindicated against falshood & malice exprest in a late virulent pamphlet intituled, (A true account of a most horrid and dismal plague began at Rothwell, &c.) without printer's licenser's or author's name thereunto) : together with an account of the Kettering visitation / by R. Davis ... ; to which is added, Mr. Rob. Betson's answer to so much as concerns him in the said libel.	Davis, Richard, 1658-1714.; Betson, Robert. Answer to some part of that pamphlet called, A plain and just account of a plague being at Rothwell.	1692 (1692)	Wing D435; ESTC R10047	98,027	94

dependeth wholly upon our Obedience as the condition to which it is promised and therefore it puts us into a condition or State of Life Imperfect and subject to Change as Obedience it self is that we are not perfectly justified till Obedience be perfected 7. That by their Obedience Believers serve God and are fitted for Heaven and their Afflictions are Paternal Corrections to quicken them and to purge them but not inflicted as effects of the Curse 7. That Believers by their Obedience obtain continue and perfect their Right to Heaven and that their Afflictions are Fruits of the Curse of the Law Christ having purchased only that it should not Damn us but left it to the Father to Punish us for Sins in this Life as he shall think fit 8. We are made partakers of Christ's Righteousness and the Benefits thereof by Faith and that Faith is a trusting in the Promise of Life for the sake of Christ's Righteousness 8. That Faith in its whole Latitude is believing and obeying the Gospel that by this we are made partakers of the Benefits of Christ he having only purchased this Grant or Law that they which Obey him shall be Saved not that his Obedience should Save them 9. That Justification is the acceptance of a Sinner with God as Righteous through the Righteousness of Christ imputed to him whereby he hath a full right to Eternal Life 9. Justification is nothing else but the Pardon of Sin i. e. the not exacting the punishment of Sin due by the Law of Works and an acceptance of Man so far and so long as he performeth the Conditions of sincere Obedience These I unfeignedly Assent and Consent to These I Declare and protest against Rich. Davis Richard Davis BEhold the present controversie rightly Stated and tho many of the present Adversaries seem to approve of the Old Protestant Scheme and to be shie of the other yet let their Principles Doctrins and Expressions be persued close and you will catch them in the Neonomian Scheme and many of those they call Anti-Nomian flow genuinely from the Old Protestant Scheme I shall add no more but heartily Pray that the Spirit of Truth would guide us into all Truth as it is in Jesus Amen And that the World may know what my Judgment is in Matters of Faith I do heartily declare my Assent unto and Approbation of these following Articles I. Of the Scripture THE Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God and the only Rule of Faith and Life II. Of God There is but one only the living and true God who is a Spirit Infinite Eternal and unchangeable in his Being Wisdom Power Holiness Goodness and Truth There are three Persons in the God-head the Father eternally begetting the Son eternally begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son the same in Essence equal in all the incommunicable and communicable Attributes of the Divine Nature III. Of God's Decree The Decrees of God are his Eternal Purpose according to the Council of his Will whereby for his own Glory he hath fore-ordain'd whatsoever comes to pass which Decrees he executes in the Works of Creation and Providence IV. Of Creation The work of Creation is God's making all things of nothing by the word of his Power in the space of six Days and all very good and after other Creatures he Created Man Male and Female after his own Image in Knowledge Righteousness Holiness with Dominion over the Creatures V. Of Providence God's Works of Providence are his most Holy Wise and Powerful Preserving and Governing all his Creatures and all their Actions VI. The Covenant of Works When God Created Man he entred into a Covenant of Life with him as the common Head and Representative of all Mankind upon condition of perfect Obedience forbidding him to Eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil upon pain of Death which Covenant our first Parents being left to the freedom of their own Will broke and so fell from the Estate wherein they were Created by sinning against God and all Mankind descending from Adam by ordinary Generation sinn edwith him and Fell with him in his first Transgression VII Of Sin by the Fall The Sinfulness of every Man descending from Adam by an ordinary Generation consists in the Guilt of Adam's first Sin the want of Original Righteousness and the Corruption of his whole Nature which is commonly call'd Original Sin together with all Actual Sins whereby he is opposite to all Good and bent to all Evil and liable to God's Wrath the Curse of the Law Death and all Miseries Spiritual Temporal and Eternal The remainders of this Original sinful Nature acts even in the Saints when their State is changed through Grace VIII Of Christ Christ Jesus the Eternal Son of God became Man being conceived in the Womb of the Virgin Mary by the Holy-Ghost and thereby taking our Nature upon him continueth to be God and Man in two distinct Natures and one Person for ever IX Our Lord Jesus Christ both in his humbled and exalted state executeth the Office of a Prophet of a Priest and of a King to his Church X. Of the Prophetical Office of Christ Christ executes the Office of a Prophet in the times both of the Old and New Testament in revealing by his Word and Spirit the whole Mind and Will of God for Man's Salvation XI Of the Priesthood of Christ Christ executeth the Office of a Priest in once offering up himself a Sacrifice without Spot to God to be a Reconciliation for the Sins of all them that shall be Saved and in making continual Intercession for them at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High XII Of the Kingly Office of Christ Christ as our Redeemer executeth the Office of a King in calling out of the World a People to himself in Ruling and Defending them and in restraining and conquering all his and their Enemies XIII Of the Covenant of Grace The Covenant of Grace was made with Christ as the second Adam and in him with all the Elect as his Seed and was made manifest by freely providing and offering to Sinners a Mediator and Life and Salvation through him XIV Of Iustification Those whom God effectually Calleth he also freely Justifieth not by infusing Righteousness into them but by pardoning their Sins and by accounting and accepting their Persons as Righteous not for any thing wrought in them or done by them but for Christ's sake alone not by imputing Faith it self nor any other Evangelical Obedience unto them as their Righteousness but by imputing the Obedience and Satisfaction of Christ unto them They receiving and resting on him and his Righteousness by Faith which Faith they have not of themselves it is the Gift of God And this Faith is not a dead Faith but worketh by Love and is accompanied with all other saving Graces XV. Of Faith Faith in the General is a giving credit

ever to be satisfying and never be able to satisfie therefore there is a necessity laid upon Sinners to look and lean upon the satisfaction Christ has given But you set up a certain imaginary Repentance or legal Horrors as terms of pardon and blessing We preach that the Law of God demands of Sinners universal constant and perfect obedience and will abate nothing if they will be justified therefore they must believe on him that has perfectly obeyed But you preach lower degrees of obedience by I know not what new Sanction as conditions of Justification We preach up the good old Law of God but you a new Law of your own invention The truth is you preach neither Law nor Gospel and that is very miserable I do affirm we are not against the Law nor the preaching of it on a right foundation We cannot offer salvation to Sinners but we must tell them that by the Law they are under they are Sinners and by the same Law accursed too 9. Consider Whether it is possibly to be supposed that that Church of Christ that has had two such Pastors successively as Mr. Beverley and Mr. Browning can so soon by a young Man be run into such execrable Errors and noisom Heresies as you are pleased to stile them And be all old and young so intoxicated that there is scarce a part lest sound for I can assure you I know neither Man nor Woman that is diseased with the Doctrine And what can a whole Church that have been reputed so judicious and so holy be swallowed up in Errors in less than 3 years time The progress of Errors hitherto have been more gradual slow and sly The sudden growth and boldness of Heresies have had always a tendency to dig their own Graves Sure Satan is not to seek for his Crop now towards the latter end of the World It is written It is impossible to deceive the Elect What is there none of the Elect in the Church at Rowel 10. Consider whether Gamaliel's prudent Counsel had not been best for you to follow If this Work or Counsel be not of God leave it alone it will fall of it self But if it be of God as I question not but it is it shall stand and you will be found Fighters against God It has been the observation of very prudent Men that Errors themselves being violently opposed have spread thereby 11. Consider whether these Carriages of yours so sinful and tumultuous have been becoming so great a mercy as this Liberty we enjoy from the Government to serve God according to our Consciences And whether they can be construed grateful Returns to God and Man for so great a Blessing 12. Consider if the righteous God should ever bring you again under the Harrow of Persecution how will you be able to lift up your heads and plead for your selves who have persecuted your poor Brother to the utmost of your power with the greatest Violence and Virulence What if you should come again to be exposed and burlesqued in scoffing Satyrs filthy Libels and Plays loaded with all manner of Calumnies Censures and Reproaches Would it not reflect bitterly upon you if you have any sense or ingenuity left you that thus you have served your poor Brother who has done you no harm nor any body else unless it be his endeavors according to his light and ability to serve his Master Must not you then be forced to make Adonibezek's Confession As I have done so God hath requited me Jud. 1. 7. I thought to have added more Considerations but I shall not for perhaps I write but to the winds I shall conclude Earnestly begging of the God and Father of Mercies if it be his blessed Will not to lay this great Iniquity to your charge but give you speedy and sincere Repentance lest you eat the fruit of your own ways and be filled with your own devices A short Account of that famed Visitation at Ketterin HAving now dispatched the Libel I think it also highly necessary since I am thus engaged to defend the Truth the Church and my self to bestow some Animadversions upon the Transactions at Ketterin because they have made such a noise in the World and I judge that Order doth require that first a brief and summary Account be given of what passed between the united Brethren and my self This cannot be well done without looking back to the first Formation of this Union and the Sentiments I had thereon I confess when others rejoyced thereat and concluded it to be of God and of great concernment to his Glory I then being filled with sadness of heart could not do so for these following Reasons First I thought it but an ill time for such an Union and that upon a threefold Account 1. It was a time of great degeneracy and deadness 2. As consequential of this a time that Professors were filled with corrupt and selfish designs and ends 3. The Spirit was not yet poured down from on high and therefore First Times of Deadness and Apostasie I could not judge to be Times for great Actions Secondly When Professors Ends are carnal and selfish thro' the corruption of the Times it is dangerous undertaking great matters then tho' the glory of God may be pretendedly aimed at yet the greatest Sacrifice is to Self Jehu could say Come see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts when it was a Crown and a Scepter he had chiefly in his eye 2 Kings 10. 16. Thirdly Such a thing as so great an Union I could not expect to be firm and lasting till we were all more of one judgment or at least our Lusts more subdued nor indeed such an Union till the Spirit was more poured down from on high and these blessed effects follow thereupon That the watchmen shall see more eye to eye they shall lift their voice and with their voice together shall they sing Isa 52. 8. Till they shall no more err in Vision nor stumble in Judgment Isa 28. 7. Till the time that Ephraim shall not envy Judah nor Judah vex Ephraim Isa 11. 13. There shall be no hurting nor destroying in all his holy mountain ver 9. All attempts of this nature without the special presence of the Spirit is like the Children of Israel's presuming under their Unbelief to go up to the top of the Hill to take the good Land when Moses and the Ark of the Covenant was not with them and it is no wonder if such Attempters return back with shame as well as the Israelites did The Union prophesied by the joining of the two Sticks Ezek. 37. 16 c. is there declared to be after such an effusion of the Holy Ghost The Promise runs thus ver 14. And shall put my Spirit in you and ye shall live c. Which also is the current of the preceding part of the Chapter then follows the Union foretold by the Prophecy of the two Sticks We read in the New Testament that the Members