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A26316	Actual justification rightly stated containing a true narrative of a sad schism made in a church of Christ, at Kilby in Leicester-shire, proving, none of the elect are actually justified before faith.		1696 (1696)	Wing A459; ESTC R3827	24,143	28

and Preach the Gospel to every Creature Mark 16. 15. Fourthly When you Preached from Jer. 2. 4. 14. Jerusalem wash thy Heart from wickedness that thou mayest be saved Your whole Discourse tended to put the Creature upon doing for Life and not from Life and a principle of Love you quoted those verses in the First of Isaiah Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine Eyes you Exhorted the Creature to do his part and then no doubt but God would do his part Fifthly You said the Law ought to be Preached before the Gospel to convince Sinners of their Sins Which is contrary to that that is said The Spirit shall convince the World of Sin Sixthly You affirm their is no Union before Faith but that Vnion is the effect of Faith and not Faith the effect of Vnion Seventhly You affirmed That what Christ did upon the Cross his Death and Sufferings was not the Elects nor that they have any right to it until they Believe Eighthly You said That we were not Sinners till we had Acted Sin and if no Sinners then no Objects of Christ's Love nor Justified Persons any wayes For you said They must be Sinners before they can be Pardoned which to us was the overthrowing of Original Sin the Representive-Ship of our Lord for us as Elect. And as for Discipline there is many who walk disorderly as some for Drunkenness others neglecting the Ordinances Mr. Henry Colman's Answer to their Charge in which he hath Cleared himself of those pretended Errors Charged against him THese things following are the Just Defence of the Innocency of Henry Coleman Minister and Chosen Elder by the Church at Kilby in which it appears under their Hands and 〈…〉 Unjustly many of them have departed from him and the Said Church And the better to Colour over their Schism have Written 〈…〉 Sent forth a Paper they to whom Please and Say what they Please 〈…〉 purpose to Impair his Reputation amongst other Christians and to 〈…〉 ke their bad Cause appear Good and Plausible And sent one of 〈…〉 ir Papers to Coventrey where by the Providence of God it came 〈…〉 the Hands of him the said Henry Coleman who never before 〈…〉 ld get a Copy though they have been required thereto 〈…〉 himself and Messengers and Letter So Unjust and Inju 〈…〉 us was they towards him Though their Paper was Written near 〈…〉 years since and was the Fruits and Effects of a Fast-Day which Circumstances aforesaid do make it appear That they Fasted for Strife and Debate to Fight with the Fists of Wickedness And by which Unjust dealing he the said Henry Coleman hath been 〈…〉 capable of either Confessing his Mistakes if there were any or of making his Just Defence but now having the Paper of their Exceptions which they call Errors Providentially come to his Hand doth make 〈…〉 Defence as followeth I. In your Preamble you Say That you Vnfeignedly gave in your Dissatisfaction against your Brother Coleman and the rest of the Members of the Church aforesaid that walk Disorderly Ans You do not tell me in your Paper In what we are Disorderly but such is your Conceited Confidence you think that all you say 〈…〉 Write must be believ'd to be True If you mean what you Write 〈…〉 your long Answers to our Queries about one Grinding on the Lord's-Day it appears more Excusable by Christ's excusing the Disciples who plucked the Ears of Corn on the Sabbath-Day than Selling Shop Goods on the Lord's-Day Saith Christ ye Hypocrites pluck first the Beam out of your own Eye and then you may see clearly to pluck the Mote out of your Brother's Eye You instanced in Drunkenness I know of none that were Charged with that Sin but William Tharp who was Suspended in Mr. Farmer 's time and by a Confession of his sin he was Charged with it prevented an Excommunication And if you know of any others the Sin lies at your Door But is it not an apparent and great Evil for some of the chief of you to set your Hands to the Church-Book for Union and then to go off from us without ever showing us a Reason for your so doing And is it not a Disorder to choose an Elder whose Habitation is about thirty miles off Thus your Complaint is justly turned upon your own Heads and the Charge not True to say no worse But to Proceed You say You sate a long time under my MINISTRY and could not be Profitted Ans No wonder when your minds were so Corrupted and your Judgments so Perverted that no Sound Doctrin could be Believed by you that Persons are not Profitted by the means of Grace when they are given up to Delusions and Errors You say you found no Reformation in my Judgment DOCTRIN Ans You think meet to enter your Dislike to the Doctrines following which you say I delivered If you had put in Deformation instead of Reformation you had spoke more Truth If you had said I Refused to be Deformed according to your Deformed Doctrin or rather Nonsensical Doctrin you had said True for I can neither Reform nor Conform to that which has neither Truth nor Sense in it But I shall come to Examin your Charging my Doctrines in which I shall do these three Things 1. Examin in what you have Wronged me in wresting my Words and setting down my Doctrnes in Words contrary to my own Judgement and Sense 2. Ingeniously Confess my mistakes if I have Committed any 3. In Justifying my Doctrines against your false Charge and these things I shall do upon every Head as I go on 1. Upon Isa 25 6 You say I strain'd the Words farther than to the ELECT And so doth the Prophet for it was a Feast of Fat Things to all People I hope the Elect are not all People except you will say the rest of the World are Beasts and not Men. I hope you will Grant That this Feast of Fat Things is meant of Christ and his Benefits He is the Bread of Life and Water of Life and He is to be 〈…〉 dered to more than the Elect For he is to be offered to every Creature Mark 16. 15. He is to be tendered to all Nay and those are Invited to partake of this Feast that make light of it and Refuse to come and partake of this Feast as well as those that come and partake of it For the Proof of which I cited Matth. 22. 1. to the 8th Lake 14. 16. 17. 18. If you call this Straining of it farther than to the Elect I will stand by it and Justify it against all your Exceptions 2 Upon Coloss 3. You say I said Be ye Christs and he will 〈…〉 yours If you make him your All and in All then he will make 〈…〉 his All and in All. These Words I do not Remember but 〈…〉 nce you bring these Words into your Charge as a Crime you should have shewed in what the Crime consisted

Law to be Preached then there are no Sinners and then also there is no need of Repentance nor no need of a Mediator Therefore the Law must first be Preached to Sinners to make them sensible of Sin and of their Undone Estate by reason of Sin that they may Know the Want Worth and Necessity of a Saviour for the Law all Grant is not to be Preached to Believers for any such End because they are not under the Law but under Grace Rom 6. 14. Therefore I Conclude That the Law ought to be Preached first to sinners for the Conviction of Sin and 2. I prove that the Law ought to be Preached first to Sinners for the Conviction of Sin from the Practice of the Prophets and Apostles and for this I shall give some Instances see the 2 Sam. 12. Nathan Convinceth David of his Sin in the matter of Vriah by a Parable of one that had broken the Law by Covetting and taking of another's Ewe-Lamb and when David was Convinced he said I have Sinned ver 13. Then the Prophet Preached the Gospel to him saying The Lord hath put away thy Sin thou shalt not Dye The Law admits of no Remission but That Soul that Sins shall Die So in Joel 2. The Prophet Preached Law and Wrath to the People in the former part of the Chapter and then afterwards Preacheth the Gospel Ver. 12 13 14. So in Jeremiah 41. 18. When they were under Conviction of Sin by the Law then the Gospel was Preached to them v. 20. Moreover the Apostle Peter Preached first the Law to the Jews Acts 2. 23. Compared with Verse 36. And when they were Convinced of their Murder which was the Breach of the Law then he Preached the Gospel to them Verse 38 39. I might give you many more Instances also I might ask you To whom do you Preach the Gospel if not to Sinners and if the Gospel is Preached to Sinners it Implyes the Law for how can they be Sinners if the Law be Destroyed Where there is no Law there is no Transgression Destroy the Law and Christ is dead in Vain For Christ came to Redeem those that were under the Law Gal. 4. 4 5. And the Apostle saith That 〈…〉 y were so far from Destroying the Law that they Established it 〈…〉 3. 31. And whereas you say To Preach the Law first is contrary 〈…〉 that in the 16th of John The Spirit convinceth of Sin I would have 〈…〉 know That the Law of it self is a dead Letter but it is the Spirit 〈…〉 t sets in with the Law by which means the Law is set home with 〈…〉 wer on the Hearts and Consciences of Sinners and makes them Cry 〈…〉 t Men and Brethren what shall we do when prickt to the Heart 〈…〉 is the Law that Wounds the Gospel Heals But it appears You 〈…〉 re not able to Distinguish between Law Conviction and Gospel Conviction which is the Ground of your Mistake That Text John 16. 〈…〉 9. Hath this Text no relation to Law Conviction but a Gospel-Conviction He shall Reprove the World of Sin True the next part 〈…〉 ly refers to the Gospel viz. of Sin because they Believe not 〈…〉 me The Law saith nothing of Faith neither is it of Faith Galat. 3. 〈…〉 The Law convinceth of Sins relating to it self and its Precepts 〈…〉 is the Spirit in the Gospel that Condemns the Sinner for the Sin of Unbelief John 3. 18 36. Mark 16. 16. So that I have prov'd that 〈…〉 take Offence at Truth in this Point 6. You say that I affirmed That there is no Vnion before Faith I have Answered this Point in a Letter to Mrs. Farmer and therefore if you had not been Prejudiced you would have put this out of your Paper except I had received an Answer from her who was Silent about it and since she hath set her Hand to Mr. Knollys's Words 〈…〉 o Positively saith That by Faith the Soul in it's Conversion 〈…〉 is United to Christ So I hope she will be so Faithful as to Vindicate this Truth against you For if Actual Union be by ●aith it cannot be without Faith nor before it But if she neglect or refuseth to Vindicate what she hath set her Hand to let the Blame for ever be upon her own Head One should have thought Mr. Rich. Adams ' s letter might have Satisfied you which answered the Charge of False Doctrin you laid to my Charge on this Point we told you that it was the Opinion of Dr. Owen c. and also of all the Baptised Churches of our Way That Actual Union in order of Nature is not before Faith unless any of late are Deluded into Antenomian Notions 〈…〉 t because this our Answer is now made Publick I shall give you the same Answer I gave to Mrs. Farmer and by that show your Weakness or Mistakes and that is by Enquiring into two Things 1. By Enquiring into what we were while in Unbelief And 2. By Enquiring into the Nature of Union it self 1. We and all Men while in Uubelief are in the Flesh and cannot please God Rom. 8. 8. Heb. 11. 6. What in Union with Christ and yet at the same time cannot please God Whilst we are in Unbelief we are all Children of Wrath our Natures being Corrupted by the Sin of our first Parents Ephes 2. 3. Condemed John 3. 18. And the Wrath of God abiding on all John 3. 36. And yet for all this United to Christ 3. Whilst in Unbelief we are in a state of Enmity being in the Carnal Mind Rom. 8. 7. Aliens Enemies in our Minds by wicked Works Colloss 1. 21. Haters of God Rom. 1. 30. What cannot we please God What under a state of Wrath Aliens and Enemies against God and yet in Union with and United to Christ at the same time What Strange Doctrin is this and how contrary to the Scriptures Thus I come to make enquiry into the Nature of Union 1. A Conjugal Union is an Agreement of two Persons together by which they Twain become One Flesh and as Conjugal Union must arise first from one Party which commonly is the Man his Affections goes out after the Woman he seeks to make his Wife he Sues for her Love by Arguments and Gifts yet here is no Union till she Consents and is Actually United to him in her Affection and is Joined to him and he to her by God's Appointment and Ordinance This is the true state of Union The Application is easie God and Christ have a Love of good Will and Affection for the Elect whilst they are Enemies and from that Love they Invite Woo and Beseech poor Sinners to be Reconciled and United 2. Cor. 5. 20. by their Ministers verse 18. And this is looked upon as done by the Father and the Son Luke 10. 16. And to the end they may be Reconciled he gives to them the Gift of Repentance Acts 5. 31. and the 11. 18. And the Gift of Faith Ephes 2.