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A41355	The marrow of modern divinity touching both the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace, with their use and end, both in the time of the Old Testament, and in the time of the New : wherein every one may cleerly see how far forth he bringeth the law into the case of justification, and so deserverh the name of legalist : and how far forth he rejecteth the law, in the case of sanctification, and so deserveth the name of Antinomist : with the middle path between them both, which by Iesus Christ leadeth to eternall life : in a dialogue, betwixt Evangelista, a minister of the Gospel, Nomista, a legalist, Antinomista, an Antinomian, and Neophytus, a young Christian / by the author, E.F. ; before the which there is prefixed the commendatory epistles of divers divines of great esteem in the citie of London ; whereunto is also added, the substance of a	Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655.; Hamilton, Patrick, 1504?-1528. Patricks places.	1646 (1646)	Wing F997; ESTC R1839	130,516	286

satisfied or else I will take hold on thee ●hen answer you and say O Law bee it known unto thee that I am now marryed unto Christ and so I am under cover● and therefore if thou charge me with any debt thou must enter thine action against my husband Christ for the wife is not suable at the Law but the husband But the truth is I through him am dead to thee ô Law and thou art dead to me and therefore justice hath nothing to doe with me for it judgeth according to the Law And if it yet reply and say I but good works must be done and the commandements must bee kept if thou wilt obtain salvation Then answer you and say I am already saved before thou camest therefore I have no need of thy presence for in Christ I have all things at once neither need I any thing more that is necessary to salvation hee is my righteousnesse my treasure and my work I confesse O Law that I am neither godly nor righteous but yet this am I sure of that he is godly and righteous for me and to tell thee the truth O Law I am now with him in the bride-chamber where it maketh no matter what I am or what I have done but what Christ my sweet husband is hath done and doth for me and therefore leave off Law to dispute with me for by faith I apprehend him who hath apprehended me and put me into his bosome wherefore I will be bold to bid Moses with his Tables and all Lawyers with their books and all men with their works hold their peace and give place so that I say unto thee O Law be gon and if it will not be gon then thrust it out by force And if sin offer to take hold of you as David said his did on him Psal. 40.14 then say you unto it thy strength O sin is the Law 1 Cor. 15.56 and the Law is dead to me and therefore O sin thy strength is gon and therefore be sure thou shalt never be able to prevail against me nor doe me any hurt at all And if Satan take you by the throat and by violence draw you before Gods judgement seat then call to your husband Christ and say Lord I suffer violence make answer for me and help me and by his help you shall be enabled to plead for your selfe after this manner O God the Father I am thy Sonne Christs thou gavest me unto him and thou hast given unto him all power both in heaven and in earth and hast committed all judgement to him and therefore I will-stand to his judgement who saith He came not to judge the World but to save it and therefore hee will save me according to his office and if the jury should bring in their verdict that they have found you guilty then speak to the Iudge and say in case any must be condemned for my transgressions it must needs be Christ and not I for albeit I have committed them yet hee hath undertaken and bound himselfe to answer for them and that by his consent and good will and indeed hee hath fully satisfied for them and if all this will not serve the turne to acquit you then Adde moreover and say As a woman that is conceived with childe must not suffer death because of the childe that is within her no more must I because I have conceived Christ in mine heart though I had committed all the sins in the world And if death creep upon you and attempt to devoure you then say thy sting ô death is sin and Christ my husband hath fully vanquished sin and so deprived thee of thy sting and therefore doe I not feare any hurt that thou ô death canst do unto mee And thus you may triumph with the Apostle saying Thanks be to God who hath given mee victory through my Lord Iesus Christ. And thus have I also declared unto you how Christ in the fulnesse of time performed that which God before all time purposed and in time promised touching the helping and delivering of falne mankind and so have I also done with the law of faith Nom. Then Sir I pray you proceed to speake of the law of Christ and first let us heare what the law of Christ is The law of Christ in regard of substance and matter is all one with the law of workes or covenant of workes which matter is scattered through the whole Bible and summed up in the Decalogue or ten commandements commonly called the Morall Law containing such things as are agreeable to the minde and will of God to wit piety towards God charity towards our Neighbour and sobriety towards our selves therefore was it given of God to be a true and eternall rule of righteousnes for all men of all Nations and at all times so that Evangelicall grace directs a man to no other obedience then that wherof the law of the ten commandements is to be the rule Nom. But yet Sir I conceive that though as you say the law of Christ in regard of substance and matter be all one with the law of works yet their forms do differ Evan. True indeed for as you have heard the law of works speaketh on this wise doe this and thou shalt live and if thou doe it not thou shalt die the death but the law of Christ speaketh on this wise And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine owne bloud I said unto thee when thou wast in thy bloud live And whosoever liveth and believeth in mee shall never die Be ye therefore followers of God as deare children and walke in love as Christ hath loved us And if ye love me keep my commandements And if they breake my statutes and keep not my commandements then will I visit their transgressions with the rod and their iniquity with stripes Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take away from him nor suffer my faithfulnesse to fail Thus you see that both these laws agree in saying doe this but here is the difference The one saith doe this and live and the other saith live and doe this the one saith doe this for life the other saith do this from life the one saith If thou do it not thou shalt die the other saith If thou doe it not I will chastise thee with the rod the one is to be delivered by God as hee is a creatour out of Christ onely to such as are out of Christ the other is to be delivered by God as he is a Redeemer in Christ onely to such as are in Christ Wherefore Neighbour Neophytus seeth that you are now in Christ beware you receive not the ten commandements at the hands of God out of Christ nor yet at the hands of Moses but onely at the hands of Christ and so shall you be sure to receive them as the law of Christ. Nom. But Sir may not

Ceremonies had a Star-light of Christ yet some of them had the light of the broad day a little before the Sun rising and did expresse him with the circumstances and vertue of his death so plainly as if his passion had been acted upon a Scaffold in so much saith he that I am fully perswaded and cannot but believe that God had shewed Moses the secrets of Christ and the very manner of his death aforehand and therefore no doubt but that they offered their sacrifices by faith in the Messiah as the Apostle testifieth of Abel I say there is no question but every spirituall believing Jew when he brought his Sacrifice to be offeroffered and according to the Lords command laid his hands upon it whilst it was yet alive he did from his heart acknowledge that he himselfe had deserved to ●ie but by the mercy of God he was saved and his desert laid upon the beast and as that beast was to die and bee off red in sacrifice for him so did hee believe that the Messiah should come and die for him upon whom hee put his hands that is laid all his iniquities by the hand of faith So that as Beza saith the Sacrifices were to them holy mysteries in which as in certain● glasses they did both see themselves to their own condemnation before God and also beheld the mercy of God in the promised Messiah in time to bee exhibited And therefore saith Calvin the sacrifices and satisfactory offerings were called Ashemoth which word properly signifieth sinne it selfe to shew that Jesus Christ was to come and performe a perfect expiation by giving his owne soule to bee an Asham that is a satisfactory oblation Wherefore you may assure your selfe that as Christ was alwayes set before the fathers in the Old Testament to whom they might direct their faith and as God never put them in hope of any grace or mercy nor never shewed himselfe good unto them without Christ even so the godly in the Old Testament knew Christ by whom they did enjoy these promises of God and were joyned to him And indeed the promise of salvation never stood firm till it came to Christ and there was their comfort in all their troubles and distresses according as it is said of Moses He endured as seeing him who is invisible esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt for he had respect to the recompence of reward And so as Ignatius saith the Prophets were Christs servants who foreseeing him in spirit both waited for him as their Master and looked for him as their Lord and Saviour saying He shall come and save us And so saith Calvin so oft as the Prophets speak of the blessednesse of the faithfull the perfect image that they have painted thereof was such as might ravish mens minds out of the earth and of necessity raise them up to the consideration of the felicity of the life to come so that we may assuredly conclude with Luther that all the Fathers Prophets and holy Kings were righteous and saved by faith in Christ to come and so indeed as Calvin saith were partakers of all one salvation with us Ant. But Sir the Scripture seemes to hold forth as though they were saved one way and we another way for you know the Prophet Jeremie mak●s mention of a twofold Covenant therefore it is somewhat strange to me that they should be partakers of one way of salvation with us Evan. Indeed it is true the Lord did bequeath unto the Fathers Righteousnesse Life and eternall Salvation in and through Christ the Mediator being not yet come in the flesh but promised And unto us in the New Testament he gives and bequeaths them to us in and through Christ being already come and having actually purchased them for us and the Covenant of grace was before the comming of Christ sealed by his blood in types h●d figures and at his death in his fl●sh it was fully sealed and ratified by his very blood actually and in very deed shed for our sins And the old Covenant in respect of the outward forme and manner of sealing was temporary and changeable and therefore the types ceased and only the substance remaines firme but the seals of the new are unchangeable being commemorative and shall shew the Lords death untill his comming againe And their Covenant did first and chiefly promise earthly blessings and in and under these it did signifie and promise all spirituall blessings and salvation but our Covenant promiseth Christ and his blessings in the first place and after them earhly blessings These and some other circumstantiall differences in regard of administration there was betwixt their way of salvation or covenant of grace and ours which moved the Author to the Hebrews to call theirs old and ours new but in regard of substance they were all one and the very same for in all Covenants this is a certain rule if the subject matter the fruit and the conditions be the same then is the Covenant the same but in these Covenants Jesus Christ is the subject matter of both salvation the fruit of both and faith the condition of both therefore I say though they be called two yet are they but one the which is confirmed by two faithfull witnesses The one is the Apostle Peter who saith Acts 15.11 We believe through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that we shall be saved even as they did meaning the Fathers in the old Testament as is evident in the verse next before The other is the Apostle Paul who saith Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousnesse know yee therefore that they which are of the faith the same are the children of Abraham by which testimonie saith Luther wee may see that the faith of our Fathers in the old Testament and ours in the new ●s all one in substance Ant. But could they that lived so long before Christ apprehend his righteousnesse by faith for their Justification and salvation Evan. Yea indeed for as Master Forbes truely saith It is as e●sie for faith to apprehend righteousnesse to come as it is to apprehend righteousnesse that is past wherefore as Christs birth obedience and death were in the old Testament as effectuall to save sinners as now they are so all the faithfull forefathers from the beginning did partake of the same grace with us by believing in the same Iesus Christ and so were justified by his righteousnesse and saved eternally by faith in him it was by vertue of the death of Christ that Enoch was translated that he should not see death and Elias was taken up into heaven by vertue of Christs Resurrection and Ascension so that from the worlds beginning to the end thereof the salvation of sinners is onely by Jesus Christ as it is written Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever

by the body of CHRIST Now by the body of CHRIST is ment the passion of CHRIST upon the Crosse or which is all one the suffering of CHRIST in his humane nature and therefore certainely wee may conclude with godly Tindall that all such are dead concerning the Law as are by faith crucified with Christ. Nom. But I pray you Sir how doe you prove that the Law is dead to a believer Evan. Why as I conceive the Apostle affirmes it Romams 7.1 6. Nom. Surely Sir you doe mistake for I remember the words of the first verse are how that tbe Law hath dominion over a man as long as hee liveth and the words of the sixth verse are But now we are delivered from the Law that being dead wherein wee were holden c. Evan. I know right well that in our last Translation the words are so rendred but godly and learned Tindall renders it thus Remember yee not brethren that the Law hath dominion over a man as long as it endureth and B. Hall paraphraseth upon it thus Know yee not brethren that the Mosaicall Law hath dominion over a man that is subject unto it so long as the said Law is in force So likewise Origen Ambrose and Erasmus doe all agree that by these words while Hee or it liveth wee are to understand as long as the Law remayneth And Peter Martyr is of opinion that these wordes while Hee or it liveth or indifferently referred eyther to the law are to the man for sayth hee The man is said to bee dead Verse the fourth and the law is said to bee dead Verse the sixth even so because the word He or it mentioned Verse the first doth signifie both sexes in the Greek Chrysostome thinketh that the death both of the law and the man is insinuated And Theophylact Erasmus Bucer and Calvin doe all understand the sixth Verse of the law being dead And as the death of a believer to the law was accomplished by the death of Christ even so also was the laws death to him Even as M. Fox in his Sermon of Christ crucified testifieth saying Here have wee upon one Crosse two Crucifixes two the most excellent Potentates that ever were the Sonne of God and the Law of God wrastling together about mans salvation both cast downe and both slaine upon one Crosse howbeit not after a like sort first the Sonne of God was cast downe and took the fall not for any weaknesse in himselfe but was content to take it for our victory by this fall the law of God in casting him downe was caught in his one trip and so was fast nayled hand and foot to the Crosse according as we read in S. Pauls words 1 Col. 2.14 And so Luther speaking to the same point sayth this was a wonderfull combate where the law being a creature giveth such an assault to his Creatour in practizing his whole tyranny upon the Sonne of God now therefore because the law did so horribly and cursedly sinne against his God it is cursed and arraigned and as a thiefe and cursed murderer of the Son of God looseth all his right and deserveth to be condemned the law therefore is bound dead and crucified to mee it is not only overcome condemned and slaine unto Christ but also to mee believing in him unto whom hee hath freely given this victory now then although according to the Apostles intimation Romans the seventh at the beginning though the Covenant of workes and man by nature bee mutually engaged each to other so long as they both live yet if when the wife bee dead the husband bee free then much more when he is dead also Nom. But I pray Sir what are wee to understand by this double death or wherein doth this freedome from the law consist Evan. Death is nothing else but a dissolution or an untying of a compound or a separation between matter and forme and therefore when the soule and body of man is separated wee say hee is dead so that by this double death wee are to understand nothing else but that the bargaine or covenant which was made betweene GOD and man at first is dissolved or untyed or that the matter and forme of the Covenant of works is separated to a believer so that the Law of the ten Commandements doth neyther promise eternall life nor threaten eternall death to a believer upon condition of his obedience or disobedience to it neyther doth a believer as hee is a believer eyther hope for eternall life or feare eternall death upon any such termes no wee may assure our selves that whatsoever the Law sayth on any such tearmes it sayth to them who are under the Law But believers are not under the Law but under Grace and so have escaped eternall death and obtained eternall life onely by faith in Jesus Christ For by him all that believe are justified from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses For God so loved the World that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life And this is that Covenant of Grace which as I told you was made with the Fathers by way of promise and so but darkly but now the fulnesse of time being come it was more fully opened and promulgated Ant. Well Sir now I doe perceive there was little difference betwixt the Jews Covenant of Grace and ours Evan. Truly the opposition betwixt the Jews Covenant of Grace and ours was chiefly of their owne making they should have been driven to Christ by the Law but they expected life in obedience to it and this was their great errour and mistake Ant. And truly Sir it is no great marvell though they in this point did so much erre and mistake who had the Covenant of Grace made known to them so darkly when many amongst us who have it more cleerly manifest do the like Evan. And truly it is no marvell though all men naturally do so for man naturally doth apprehend God to be the great master of heaven and himselfe to be his servant and that therefore he must do his work before hee can have his wages and the more work he doth the better wages he shall have And hence it it was that when Aristotle came to speak of blessednes to pitch upon the next means to that end he said it was operation working with whom also agreeth Pythagoras when he saith It is mans felicity to be like unto God as how by becoming righteous and holy and let us not marvell that these men did so erre who never heard of Christ nor of the Covenant of grace when those to whom it was made known by the Apostles of Christ did the like witnesse those to whom the Apostle Paul wrote his Epistles and especially the Galathians for although hee had by his preaching when he was present with them made