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A45121	Animadversions, being the two last books of my reverend brother Mr. Williams the one entituled A postscript to Gospel-truth, the other An end of discord : conscientiously examined, in order to a free entertainment of the truth, in some momentous points in divinity, controverted among the nonconformist brethen, occasionally here determined, for the sake of those honest among us that seek it, without trick or partiality / by John Humfrey ...	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1699 (1699)	Wing H3666; ESTC R16328	37,926	42

very distinguishable Having laid down what precedes I do as it were give instance in this Citation unto the which I do the more deliberately answer The Impetration of our Justification by Christs performing the Mediatory Law is indeed one thing and the Application of it by our performing the Law of the Gospel is another But Justification it self is one Omneens est unum and not two things or acts and consequently ought to be defined and understood as one act so that when in one place it is said we are justified by Christs Blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through his Blood and in others we are justified by Faith this makes yet but one act one Justification described in one place by the meritorious in the others by the formal cause thereof which both are to be put together in the Definition I must confess Mr. Baxter as I remember does ordinarily speak at your rate as if we were to be justified both by Law and Gospel and furthermore does not scruple to make as many Particular Justifications as there can be Charges laid against us but with the assertion that there is also a Justification Universal and which I apprehend the Gospel alone does yield us Indeed how to reconcile Mr. Baxter herein to his own Doctrine I must confess I have not yet observed from him but crave your help to find out In the mean time I must warn you that you understand him not after the manner you write for if indeed there are two Barrs at which we must be justified as well as two Righteousnesses that goes into our Justification If to be justified by Faith is one Justification and to be justified by Christs Blood be another so that the Believer must have both as one subordinate to the other unto which apprehension your way of expression leads then must Christs Righteousness be indeed ours in se and not only in the Effects as you appear to maintain against me and him for at one of these Barrs nothing less will serve and then must we return all three to the Road of the common Protestant Doctrine and grant that it is not by our own Works whether Legal or Evangelical no not by Faith as a Work not by Faith as productive of Repentance and New Obedience that is not by St. James's Faith and Works also but by Faith only and by Faith taken objective for Christs Righteousness made ours by Faith so as to be our Formal Righteousness or formally to justifie us And if so there may be an end of Controversies with Mr. Baxters Books as one of them is called which concern Justification his Practical Books may still be in credit but his Controversal Works may be all burnt for you who for maintaining one expression not well advised must forsake him and your self and all almost of weight that you have writ besides There is a Distinction therefore which that accurate Man Mr. Baxter who otherwise has so many does yet want as to this Point of Justification which is that Justification may be taken Strictly or Largely seeing the Scripture so speaks of it If we will take it strictly we consider only what respects the form and definition and Justification so taken is Gods constituting by his Law of Grace and accounting a Man righteous upon his believing for Christs sake or imputing his Faith for Righteousness When Justification largely taken may comprehend its Antecedents as Redemption and Consequents as Pardon and Life together with it See my Righteousness of God p. 55 56 57. In such a large sense of it Mr. Baxter and our Divines may take liberty to speak of it in such a manner as they or others do or as they please but there are these words in that Learned Gentleman Sir Charles Wolsley his Letter to me that are more accurate to my purpose than any that I most like in Mr. Baxter The Scripture says he that were written not with any relation to those nice and subtle Distinctions which Men have since used in interpreting them do chiefly intend to express their plain and genuine meaning of things and in an especial manner by various expressions of the same thing does set forth the amplitude of Gospel Salvation Justification is spoken of in Scripture sometimes in its Cause which is imputing Righteousness by Faith and sometimes in its Effect which is Pardon Therefore I am well pleased to say with you to adjust and comprehend that matter right that the formalis ratio of Justification is Gospel Faith and Obedience that is as imputed to us of God for Righteousness and taking Justification passively meaning as I and Pardon of sin as the necessary consequeent concomitant and effect of it He that will give any other account of it must I believe make use of some other Doctor than St. Paul One thing more I will note in this Postscript and have done and that is the particular p. 312. wherein you say you were ready to subscribe with Mr. Cole You look to your self indeed by such words that you may not lye but do you think your meaning and Mr. Coles can indeed stand in one Stable I will therefore express the truth of this sixth Particular for you with little alteration When a Man believes that very Faith and sincere Gospel Works which proceed from it is you say is not the matter of that Righteousness whereby you to save your Not before put in for which a sinner is justified and so intitled to Pardon and Glory Yet is the Righteousness of Christ alone that for which the Gospel gives the Believer a right to these and all saving blessings who in this respect is justified through Christ or through his Righteousness though by Faith Faith being indeed the Matter or Material Cause and Gods Imputing that Faith not Christs Righteousness to us for Righteousness the Form and Formal Cause of our Justification Reverend Brother What will be the issue of this present endeavour according to my small Ability I know not But I will end with this Story Luther one day being with Melancton Phillip says he I am afraid we are gone too far in that matter of the Sacrament Master says Melancton then let us amend and retract it No says Luther if we do so Phillip we shall be believed in nothing Alas what pity it was and what prejudice to the Protestants Cause that Luther had not hearkned to Melancton It must be no wonder therefore if you hearken not to me now in my farewell Admonition which is to chuse in this small matter of Difference between us not to follow Luther but St. Augustine who is so much commended by all for his Book of Retractations Your very respectful Brother JOHN HUMFREY Animadversions ON HIS End of Discord Learned and Worthy Sir I Wrote a Sheet or two in a Letter to Mr. Williams upon his Postscript to Gospel Truth before this later Book called An End of Discord came out I had no Answer to it nor my Copy

Animadversions BEING The Two Last BOOKS OF MY Reverend Brother Mr. Williams The One Entituled A Postscript to Gospel-Truth The Other An End of Discord Conscientiously Examined In Order to a Free Entertainment of the Truth in some Momentous Points in Divinity controverted among the Nonconformist Brethren occasionally here Determined for the sake of those Honest among Us that seek it without Trick or Partiality By Iohn Humfrey the Aged What thy Hand findeth to do do it with thy Might For there is no Work nor Device nor Wisdom in the Grave whither thou goest Eccles 9.10 LONDON Printed by Tho. Snowden for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1699. Animadversions on his Postscript The Introduction Mr. WIlliams having Printed his Book called Gospel Truth with many Presbyterian hands set to it there was some heat and several Exceptions raised against it by some of the Independent Brethren whereof one of the chief was this That he held the Righteousness of Christ to be imputed only in the Effects Here instead of his owning this Truth and standing to it he denies that he held it and for his proof produces this passage out of his Book That besides the Effects being made ours the very Righteousness of Christ is imputed to Believers This passage of his I took and gave him notice of in a Letter Printed in my Middle Way of Justification disliking it as receding from Mr. Baxter But Mr. Williams to uphold himself against this Accusation is unhappily engaged and sets his Wits in his Man made Righteous to from a notion that might serve him to maintain his own Doctrine which is Baxterian and yet answer the Brethren as he has by this denial and so satisfie his followers A great conceit at present I perceive he took of his Notion which shews him honest by that passage in the Sheet he called an Answer to my Letter where he complains of his being struck at by both Extreams when deeper thoughts says he would perceive the Truth stated quoting p. 77 78 79 80. of that Book against the excess of both The Brethren and common Protestant say Christ's Righteousness is imputed in se Mr. Baxter and I that it is imputed and can be made ours only quoad Effectus Either the Brethren or We are in the right But Mr. Ws. has an invention to middle the matter so as we shall both be out and in an extream and yet he hold with us both These deeper thoughts therefore of his I took into consideration in my Book called Pacification and he offering something in reply in some other after Books I took it again into consideration in my Appendix To my last book But finding this Reverend Brother keeping still his course in holding with the Hound as the Proverb is and running with the Hare I must pursue him in his Notion till I have hunted it down For it is a cloudy perplexed troublesome Notion that can serve us nothing but to entangle the understanding without any profit to others or significancy to himself As I have made my Animadversions therefore on his Books preceding I do make these on these later Books seeing he persists in his Notion which were writ in two Letters the first to himself the second to another and are as follows Reverend Brother Reading your Postscript I come in p. 525. to the Point whether the Gospel be a Law and I turned to your Defence as you bid for your sense of it where you shew in what sense you allow it and in what you do not As for the sense in which you allow it and then maintain the same with your Reasons I approve but as to the sense wherein you do not allow it though I except not against the rest I make a stand at the second to wit the sense you say our Divines fix upon the Arminians and upon that prejudice do you condemn it when if you had not miscited it you had as well yield to your Adversaries that it is no Law at all as to deny this sense of it I say therefore in opposition to you The Gospel is a Law in this sense that acts of Obedience to it that is a sincere or sound Faith working by Love which it requires is the Righteousness when perform'd by which we are justified as perfect Obedience was under the Law of Adam You do this harmless honest and right tenent open wrong in saying for which the Arminians as well as we do all know that it is Christ's Satisfaction and Merit not ours is that for which we are justified but it is our Faith it self the Faith which is the condition of the Gospel that is St. Jame's Faith and Works also is that Righteousness when perform'd which constitutes us righteous and by which we are justified Pray Mr. Williams believe it and be confirm'd that as perfect Obedience was the Condition of Life in the Law of Works and if that Condition had been performed it had been Adams Righteousness by which he had been justified so is Faith the Condition of the Law of Grace and if that Condition be fulfilled it does become a Righteousness according to this Law so as by it we are justified In the one I must add to prevent what you may alledge the reward would have been of Merit or Debt because it was for the performance sake In the other it is of Grace because it is for Christs sake that it is so accepted I was sorry at my heart that in the Letters between me and my Learned holy humble and worthy Brother Mr. Clark though no Man be more for Conditions under the Gospel than he and that the Gospel is a Law and that Law by which we shall be judged yet did he stick at yielding this which is so open and undeniably consequent to wit that whatsoever it be which is required by a Law as the Condition thereof before it is fulfilled when that Condition is fulfilled it does and must become the Righteousness of that Law and if a Man be judged thereby he must be justified It is that very Righteousness is the formalis ratio of his Justification For that there must be some Justitia wherein Justificationis forma does Constare there is no Man's Reason but must how Being a Condition it is a Righteousness as to Judicial proceedings by that Law which appoints that Condition say you p. 274. Faith Def. p. 22. is not the Justifying Righteousness but is the Condition of our being justified by Christs Righteousness By such expressions contradicting this before what mean you You pretend at least one may think so to speak as the common Protestant but do you understand as they to wit that upon our believing Christs Righteousness is so imputed as to be legally ours for our Justification If you believe not this why do you not say quite otherwise That tho' it is Christs Righteousness is the meritorious cause of our Justification and so