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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80793	The refuter refuted. Or Doctor Hammond's Ektenesteron defended, against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Somerset-shire. By William Creed B.D. and rector of East-Codford in Wiltshire.	Creed, William, 1614 or 15-1663.	1659 (1659)	Wing C6875; Thomason E1009_1; ESTC R207939	554,570	699

is the condemnation the aggravation and heightening of it that light is come into the world but men loved darkness more then light because their deeds were evill For every one that doth evill hateth the light neither commeth to the light least his deeds by the light of the Gospel should be reproved or as our margin has it be discovered For as when the Law was added because of transgressions sin that it might appear exceeding sinfull * Rom. 7. 8. 13. took occasion by the † And the Serpent said unto the woman yea hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden Gen. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata Law to work in us all manner of concupiscence So was the second Covenant of Life and Mercy no sooner promised and promulgated but sin that it might become exceeding sinfull took occasion to aggravate our damnation by multiplying our guilt in turning this grace of God into wantonness and making that which was intended for our wellfare a Trap and our very Reprieve and new Capacity of Salvation an Instrument of more sin and consequently more death And though this for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is and in Justice ought to be so seems to me very plain yet for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ground and reason of it the contemp of Gospell-light which never shined on the people that as God knoweth yet sit in darkness and the shadow of death is not so easie to discern And though it be a high and noble disquisition whether Christ and the Gospell-Covenant in all Ages of the world have been so sufficiently published that none can justly plead Ignorance in excuse for their Contempt and well worthy our enquiry yet because it requires some time to discuss and is not necessary to our present purpose I shall least we lose our selves in a digression for the present wave it and return § 29. Since therefore by Gods fatall but just and penall decree Man is now since the fall born sinfull as well as mortall and by reason of this his Originall Corruption it is now impossible at least by the ordinary Power of Grace for any man to arrive at Legall absolute Perfection and since it is Christs sole Prerogative to be holy harmless undesiled seperate from sinners God now under the Gospell-dispensation and the New Covenant made with Man in his fallen Condition is pleased gratiously to require no more to Life and Justification then what by the assistance of Grace which the Gospel holds forth he is able to attain namely true Faith and Repentance from dead works and sincere and holy endeavours after Righteousness as much as ordinarily he can in this his lapsed condition And if man shall make use of that Grace that God bestows upon him and labour to grow in Grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ God shall then give † Mat. 13. 12. 25. 29. Luk. 8. 18. 19. 26. Revel 21. 3 4. more Grace and greater assistances towards Perfection in this life and that full and absolute Crown of Righteousness in the next and as well wipe all stains and pollution of sin from the soul as all tears from the eyes and all sorrows from the heart § 30. * Rom. 3 31. Do we then make void the Law through Faith God forbid yea we establish it rather For the Law as it is the a Psal 19. 7. Rule of Righteousness and the Measure and standard of all just and holy Actions is still b Rom. 7. 12. holy just and good and being the Transcript and Copy of Gods eternall Purity and goodness it must therefore still continue unchangeable as God is Since then that c 1 Joh. 3. 8. Christ came for no other end but to destroy the works of the Divell and d T it 2. 11 12 the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live godly righteously and soberly in this present world it must necessarily follow that believers though not under the Law as a Covenant of works yet are obliged by it as a Rule of holiness and purity and so shall continue to all eternity The same * spirituall Law as the Apostle in this sense calls it is as Rom. 7. 14. well the subject matter of the second Covenant as it was of the first But then though the Obligation in this sense be equall and our conformity to it as a Rule is and must be still the same yet in respect of the Performance there is a vast distance For the first Covenant required an absolute perfect and exact Performance of it as the Condition of mans salvation In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely Gen. 2. 17. Levit. 18. 5. Ezech. 20. 11. Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 10 11. Deut. 27. 26. Luk. 2. 74 75. dye Fac hoc vives Do this and thou shalt live Cursed is every one that continues not in every thing that is written in the book of the Law to do it And consequently allowed of no Mercy no Pardone no after-amendment But then the Gospel though it also requires That we being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of our life yet by the tenor of it it supposes Mans Fall and the Merit of a Mediator and high Priest and Faith in his blood and though it require the very Perfection of holiness and conformity to it as a Rule yet it admits of Repentance from dead works and amendment and growth in Grace and pardon of sin And therefore though the one part of the Condition of the New Covenant be as the Apostle observes out of Jeremy that God will put his Laws into our minds Heb. 8. 11 12. Jer. 31. 33. and write them in our hearts and he will be to us a God and we shall be to him a people for that all shall know him from the greatest to the least yet the reason of this abundance of purity and holinesse now under the Gospell dispensation is built upon his Mercy For as it follows saies God I will be mercifull to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more And it is observable to this purpose that the Scripture never speaks of the Abrogation of the Law but onely with respect to the Condition and fatall Curse annexed and as a Covenant and Testament and not as a Rule § 31. In short though Man by the Legall Covenant were bound to absolute sin-less perfection yet † Rom. 6. 34. believers being not under the Law but under Grace by the tenor of the Gospell-Covenant they are bound not to Legall but Evangelicall perfection to faith and repentance and sincere endeavours after holiness as absolute as their present state will admit of