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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67842	A New-Years-gift for the Antinomians particularly Mr. Malebranch Crisp, or, as he foolishly, and yet often (but truly stiles himself the unworthy branch of Dr. Crisp who hath wickedly attempted to underprop a rotten cause of his father, by notorious forgeries, concerning Mr. Baxter, Mr. How, and Dr. Bates, as justifiers of Dr. Crisp as an orthodox man, and no Antinomian: in a rhapsody, intituled, Christ exalted, and Dr. Crisp defended; against the reverend Mr. Alsop, with whom he rudely, and ignorantly plays under the name of his dear Kratiste. By Calvin Anti-Crispian.	Trepidantium Malleus.; C. A.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y83A; ESTC R221087	21,128	48

Doctrine and are not Impenitent but Penitent Believers I love and own as Brethren whatever Mistakes they may be guilty of Unless Men Repent they shall perish Unless they groan because of the body of Sin they belong not to Christ Antin You tell Men much of Duty and Preach not comfortably as Gospel-Preachers do Evang. Did not Christ so 5 6 7 Chapters of Matthew Preach Duty Antin Mr. Toun well observes Christ's principal if not only end was not their Obedience but that seeing they could not obey they might run to Free-Grace Evang. I know Mr. Toun's Notions had not half that Devilism in them Dr. Crisp's had But I pray read the close of all 7 Mat. 24 c He that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them mark doth them is like one building his House upon a Rock He that doth them not builds his House upon the Sand. VVhere is yours built Let our Drapers Taylors and Shooemakers Antinomian Preachers that thus Profane the Sacred Name of Christ when with their Master they cry Christ alone exalted let them consider Are the Pangs of the New Birth by which all our Divines were wont to express Repentance come to this to be Legal Sinful These never knew these Pangs these Agonies and Throws or true Compunction arising from the sight of Sin and fear of VVrath as well as Christ's Sufferings I must acquaint my Reader that some part of the Dialogue I lost More things were intended yet this may suffice To the Sober Pious Antinomians Who disown the more Gross and Damnable Doctrines before censur'd Brethren I Rejoyce to find you pleas'd with the Scripture Doctrine and Method about Repentance and Faith and plead the necessity of sorrowing for Sin even to Bitterness c. and that you have experienced Sin to be a heavy Burthen to you and Compunction to be your daily Work renewing your Sorrow as you do your Sin As for some Opinions charged on Flaccius Illyricus in the Days of Luther or on Hinckelman call'd a Lutheran I shall not trouble my self whether they had so bad a Sence as Mr. A. Burgess in his Vindiciae Legis intimates or a most soft and favourable Sence as Mr. Crandon seems to plead for as That Repentance is not to be taught from the Ten Commandments c. That to oppose that Doctrine Bona opera sunt necessaria ad salutem some said perniciosa for the latter tho' harshly exprest may be well intended Works without Faith or not built on it Good Works were granted not to be necessary by way of Merit or Efficiency but of Presence tho' I know some have said they had a kind of Efficiency so Mr. Troughton Lutherus Redivivus 1 Part. There may be the same Opinion where are variety of Expressions as I am sure there is between sound Men some that use some that refuse the Word Condition in the Covenant of Grace For they that call Condition the suspending of one thing on the doing another as Mr. Flavel and others mean no more than those that call them Necessary Antecedents others Qualifications All that I say against the Word is the Danger by it Men are in of Arminianism They use the Word in a proper Sence others in an improper and I think hard one There is no such Definition given of a Condition in Man's Covenant Why in God's The Order of things in a Testament according to the Will of the Testator is not so call'd Where he makes a free unconditional Grant or Gift to his Children c. We are to consider the Law in the hand of Christ and so it obligeth Mr. Baxter himself I remember in his Divine appointment of the Lord's-Day says I cannot remember the Page for it is Twenty Years since I borrowed it and read it As Great an Enemy as I have been accounted to the Antinomians I grant that tho' the Law of Moses materially consider'd doth oblige yet not formally not as promulgated by Moses but as now thh Law of Christ So than in this Sence the Law is done away Others take this to be a Legomachy Anthony Burgess says much about this Dispute I know Sirs you doubt not but Obedience to the Gospel are Signs and Fruits of hidden Election and Presages and Fore-runners of Eternal Salvation Whatever Noise is made about God's being said to justifie the Vngodly the usual Replies are good in the same Sence as Christ is said to make the Blind to see and the Lame to walk in sensu non composito but diviso to take Vngodly in that Sence that great Man seem'd to be inclin'd to 36 Page is unscriptural and no ways proper Vindic. Legis I know you care not to hear Men preach all Comfort little or no Duty Is not Christ's Yoak easie Are the Commands of Christ grievous Talk what Men will of Christ Exalted when they care not to hear his Precepts Laws and Commandments preach'd and say all was done for them long agoe by Christ their Elder Brother They deal with him as Joab by Amasa to salute him with a How is it my Brother and smite him through the Ribs The Reverend and truly Pious and Ortholox Dr. Singleton said well lately That it was langerous for Men to talk of one Grace only is if they were to be known or described by it lone as said he Some are always talking of Faith and their getting of Faith when as he truly observes the Children of God are as often described by their Love Love to God and one another and some that talk always of Faith talk little or nothing of this Grace That he that renewed not Godly Sorrow every Day as he renewed his Sins had gotten to great Obdura●on not Faith I know Sirs it cannot be said of you as of them against whom I write principally Their Voice is Jacob 's Voice but their Hands are the Hands of an Esau These are not Christ Exalters but Sathan's exalters who can Lie Cheat c. 3. Rom. 3. I beseech you bless God you are of Paul's mind What then do we by Faith make void the Law nay God forbid we establish the Law which by the way was not the Pharisaical Laws for Christ condemns their Traditions when the fear of God was taught by the Precepts of Men Neither was it the Ceremonial Law for that was nail'd at Christ's Cross and so abrogated but it was the Moral Law It was that Law by the breach of which the whole World became guilty before God Now the Ceremonial Law did not oblige the Gentiles or the whole World it was design'd only for the Jewish Oeconomy And where no Law is there can be no Transgression for Sin as St. James says is the Transgression of a Law Then Obiter may I lay down this Argument which I humbly conceive to be irrefragable That Law by which no Man can be justified was establish'd by Paul among the Gentiles But it was not the Ceremonial but Moral Law Paul establish'd among the Gentiles