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B02482	Christ alone exalted in the perfection and encouragements of the saints, notwithstanding sins and trials. Volume III. / Being laid open in severall sermons by the late spirituall and faithfull preacher of the Gospel, Tobias Crispe, D.D.	Crisp, Tobias, 1600-1643.; Cokayn, George, 1619-1691.; Pinnell, Henry.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6959; ESTC R233167	185,508	400

longer therein The summe and substance of the objection is this Is there so much Grace that where sin hath abounded Grace aboundeth much more then it seems that the more sin a man doth commit the more will the glory of the Grace of God appear in the pardoning of these sins and so I shall glorisie God best when I commit sin most will some say So that the preaching of the abundance of grace where sin hath abounded seems to let men loose to the commission of sin as much as possibly The Apostle answers this with God forbid as if he had said God will never suffer any Believer though never so weak through any such truth reveal'd to break out into any sin because wher sin hath abounded grace hath abounded much more God will never have them to make any such abominable inference from such truths And he also gives the reason why they cannot make such use of the grace of God How shall we that are dead unto sin live any longer therein to the Apostle the inference of the objectors from this argument seems so absurd that he doth appeal to the adversaries themselves how such an inference as this can follow such a Proposition He doth not say positively that they cannot live in sin that are dead to it but he puts the question to them how it can be And whereas some may answer yea they may easily do it No saith the Apostle they that are partakers of this Grace are dead unto sin and how can they live in it when they are dead to it The glorious power of this Grace revealed strikes sinne dead in men or rather strikes men dead to sin Sinne shall not have dominion over you saith the Apostle for you are not under the Law but under Grace And as you shall heare by and by the Apostle makes the very Grace of God to have that power in it as to breake the neck of sin in the Believer This is the most certaine truth of the Text and springs directly from it There is a death unto sin where there is a revelation effectually of the Grace of God to persons to whom it doth belong It brings a dart with it to slay sin The law of the Spirit of life that is in Christ hath freed mee from the law of sin and death and what the law could not doe in that it was weake through the flesh God sent forth his Son in the simili tude of sinfull flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh so that although to reason and sense the preaching of the free Grace of God to men and to publish what the Lord hath done for them for his own sake and that before-hand may seem to be a doctrine that gives liberty to sin and so to be a licentious doctrine yet it seems to the Apostle that there is nothing that doth more establish a restraint from sin then the manifestation hereof In the 11. to the Romans towards the latter end of the Chapter the Apostle tells us that God hath concluded all men under sinne that hee might shew mercy upon all and therefore he falls out into admiration O the depth of the riches both of the Wisdome and Knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes ast finding out Now what follows Having prevealed this unsearchable Grace see how hee begins in the 12. Chapter and 1. verse I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice acceptable to God which is your reasonable service And be not conformed to this world but bee transformed by the renewing of your mindes that is I beseech you by the mercies of God that you refraine from sinne What mercy doth he meane Even the mercies of God concerning the freenesse of his Grace manifested before in all the 11. Chapter Now if the Apostle had beene of some mens mindes that the preaching of the free Grace of God were a dangerous doctrine to set men loose to sin he would never have used the mercies of God as an argument to prevail with men to refrain from sin Hee would not have published that which should have been of such dangerous consequence but he would rather have been filent so far would hee have been from revealing of it as an argument to the contrary were the revelation of it the way to bring men to loosenesse and licentiousnesse it had been the wisdome of Paul and the other Apostles to have concealed it which certainly he would have done had it been so But the Apostle was not of that judgement and therfore in 1 Corinth chap. 6. and towards the latter end he draws his argument after the same manner You are not your owne you are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your bodies and spirits for they are Gods Observe here that the injunction which the Apostle gives the Corinthians is that they should glorifie God in their bodies and spirits and what is the argument by which he would perswade them to it You are bought with a price But will some say it seems I am bought and the price is laid downe for me now I am sure enough I am safe the gates of hell cannot prevail against me I may live as I list for no danger will follow now I may take liberty to sin Now if the Apostle had known that this consequence would justly have followed upon the preaching of this Crace he had dealt very discourteously with the people of God and absurdly by inforcing a conclusion from a ground contrary to it by revealing such a doctrine as this is Therefore surely the Apostle would never have used this expression of being bought with a price if he had knowne that this would follow but contrariwise he knew that there is no way in the world will so much prevaile with Gods people to leave their sins as by telling them before hand that their sins are forgiven them and that they are bought with a price In 2 Titus from the beginning to the 12. v. you shall finde how the Apostle urgeth Titus that hee presse a holy conversation answerable to old men and old women as also to young women and young men and also a conversation suitable to servants and especially he writes concerning them that they should not purloin from their masters but shew all faithfulnesse But what is the argument now by which the Apostle urgeth all these things upon these men See in the 12. and 13. verses and you shall finde that the argument is the same we have now in hand For the Grace of God saith he that brings salvation hath appeared teaching us to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should live righteously soberly and godly in this present world As much as to say The Lord hath made known and revealed his salvation to you and you see it before you Salvation is brought unto you and not your well-doing but the Grace of God is

that which brings this salvation to you Then may I doe what I list will some say No saith the Apostle This Grace of God that brings salvation brings this too It teacheth us to deny al ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should live godlily soberly and righteously in this present world I say it is blasphemy against the truth of the Holy Ghost in these severall passages of Scripture to say or to maintaine that this is a necessary inference from the revelation of the free Grace of God to men before-hand that thereby men will breake out into sin and uncleannesse and give up themselves thereto and that this is the way to give up the reines into the neck of vice and licentiousnesse I will give you but one passage more although I confesse I have gone further in the cleering of this businesse by Scripture then I intended because I know it sticks so in the hearts of opposers and quarrellers and cavillers that are ready to spit fire into the faces of those persons that are assertors and maintainers of the free grace of God and the publishers thereof to the people of God I will give I say but one place more in confirmation hereof namely that which the Apostle delivers in 1 John 3.9 the words are these He that is borne of God sinneth not saith hee because the seede of God abides in him and he cannot sin because hee is borne of God Hee that is borne of God What is that It is no more but this he that is received into Grace by Christ becomes one with Christ in respect of the spirituall union between Christ and such a person To bee borne of God and to be a new creature is all one To be new creatures is to be such as wee were not before More fully a new creature is a person that is translated from himselfe into Christ and he stands before God as Christ himself and not as he is in or of himselfe Now such a person saith the Apostle sinnes not because the seede of God abides in him nay he cannot sin because he is born of God There may bee some difficulty in the expression but you must know the intention of the Apostle John here is to take off the objection against the Doctrine of the free Grace of God that it is a licencious Doctrine to take off I say the reproach that is unjustly cast upon it And so the meaning of the Apostle John is this Hee that is borne of God sinnes not that is hee cannot take such liberty to sinne he cannot make such licentious uses of the Grace of God as to walk in sinfull courses though his sins shall not hurt him I say this Licentious living in sin is the thing the Apostle speakes of here Hee that is borne of God sins not And the reason is because the seed of God abide● in him that is there is an over-ruling power planted in him to over-match the propensity of the flesh that remains still in Beleevers that it should not have that liberty and power that naturally it would have by vertue of such a Principle implanted Not that the Apostle speakes absolutely of sin that a childe of God shall sinne no more for that were to make the Apostle John himselfe the lier and that by his owne words and to speak against himselfe For he saith in another place Hee that saith hee hath no sin deceives himselfe and is a lier And King Solomon also who saith that there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not Eceles 7.20 Therefore by sinne in this place he must needs mean a licentious liberty taken unto sin Beloved I know there are many objections raised against this truth I shall briefly run through some of them to you and if it be possible clear this truth unto you at this time and vindicate the Gospell from those abominable untruths cast upon it and that I will do the rather because thousands in the world turne away from the Grace of God and dare not venture themselves upon it Because they fear if they should adventure themselves upon these principles of free Grace they should presently take liberty to sin and so fall away and apostatize Oh! how many have miscarried and refused their owne mercies and have not received the Gospell to this day upon such conceits that the receiving of it should make them break out into ungodlinesse I know here are many here present cannot but witnesse they are affraid to close with free Grace though never so fully proved and manifested in Scripture upon this consideration that it will make them live loosely Object 1. First some will object and say we know many Beleevers that do take liberty to themselves when once they have beene acquainted with such free Grace that hath beene preached Answ For answer to this First I say that if Beleevers from this Grace published doe take liberty they take but what God giveth them The end of Christs coming and preaching the free grace of God to men is this very thing that in it the Lord might proclaime liberty to the captives which are Christs owne people Christ came of purpose as you shall finde in Heb. 2.15 to deliver those who through feare of death are subject to bondage all their lives long And therefore saith Christ If the Son shall make you free you shall bee free in●e●d that is if the Son give you liberty then you shall have liberty indeed So that it Believers do take this liberty upon this ground they take but that which is their owne purchased unto them by the blood of Christ and given unto them freely by God their Father Object 2 But some will say It is a true Christian liberty that Christ allows and this indeed is a liberty that Christ gives men to be delivered from the captivity and bondage of sin which they were under before But many that professe this doctrine are knowne to be more slack in the performance of duties and to grow more and more cold in their zeale and carelesse in the practice of Religion and are more regardlesse of sin and in a word take more liberty to sinne since such Grace hath been revealed Answ For answer to this Beloved first you are not to expect perfection of works from Believers in this life and that they should be free from all manner of sin I know none of those that have the most indignation against this doctrine of the free grace of God to men but will yeeld that they themselves are not without failings they ought not therefore to aggravate the weaknesse of their brethren much lesse ought the truth of God to bee charged with the failings of men But suppose some do make evill uses of the free Grace of God sometimes are therby encouraged to be more bold with sin as they are not to be upheld in it nor allowed so ought not their fault to be laid upon the free Grace of

CHRIST ALONE EXALTED In the PERFECTION and ENCOURAGEMENTS of the SAINTS notwithstanding Sins and Trialls Being laid open in severall SERMONS By the late spirituall and faithfull Preacher of the Gospell Tobias Crispe D. D. Volume III. Psal 71.16 I wil go in the strength of the Lord God I wil make mention of thy righteousnesse even of thine only Isal 60.1 Arise shine for thy Light is come the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee LONDON Printed by M. S. for Henry Overton and sold at his shop in Popes-head Alley 〈◊〉 To all that live godly in CHRIST JESUS Precious Hearts IT is your honour above many Professors in the world to seale in your sufferings the most refreshing and ennobling truths of Christ Your life which is bid with Christ in God is that spark of glory which hath alwayes attracted the most venemous envies of those men who make the flesh their residence Be confident of this that did you live in your selves you should live more quietly in the world were you lower as Saints you should be higher as Creatures Never expect to build peaceably upon earth while you lay not your foundation in the dust The carnall minde cannot but bee enmity against that which is the Basis of your Principles sutable to that expression of our Saviour Joh. 17.14 The world hath hated them because they are not of the world even as I am not of the world It hath ever been the policy of usu●pers to keepe downe those which can justly prove their descent from the royal blood lest they and their ill go●●en glory fall together so those that have ●nd●●● i●vested themselves with the titles of the Saints presently co●tend for a r●om in the seat of the scornful to disparage and destroy those who can cleerly shew their communion with a higher blood than their own where Christ doth most sweetly and clearly r●ign there the flesh will most presum●tuously cruelly ty●annize However S●●●ts though it be your Fathers pleasure to al●ot you the vailey of the shadow of ●eath for your flesh to walke in whilest your condition is in its infancy yet know that your glorious union with the Son of God shall be more than enough in th● pate 〈…〉 se●●ure you The world may out run you come first to the top of their glory but su●ey 〈◊〉 the end the inheritance will be yours their first shall be lost and your last shall be first Esau out-●●●stles Jacob i● the womb and con●s first into the world and according to the signification of his name he is a great doer a cunn●●ing hunter he was but Jacob that comes forth last takes the game Esau was the first-born but Jacob goe● away possessect of the birth right and blessing also Thus doth your Father deal with you to make your latter end in brightness to out-shine your beginning Neither will your God deny you bread here in the middest of famine Heaven rains Manna in a wildernesse the Rock gives water in the heat of drought Believe it you Gospel-Christians your beloved shal be all to you in the want of all that possession which he hath in you will for ever entitle you A Spring shut up and a Fountain sealed he will be in you an everlasting head for your supply to all expences in all conditions when the moisture of every thing below him shal he exhousted by the creatures which suck all they have from thence even then and so to eternity shall Jesus Christ be to you in the height of his fulnes I know nothing you have that is long-lived but Jesus Christ Earth more grosly carnall and Heaven more re●inedly ●crnall shall passe away even the Kingdom of Heaven so far as it is made up of forms and administrations shall wither and die but the Kingdome of God within you shall never be shaken That divine nature which hath swallowed you up shall for ever fatisfie you with variety of contentments Let not therfore your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in Christ you are satisfied that the fulness of all things dwels in God be also ●onvinced that Jesus Christ by his Fathers appointment is made partaker of the same fulnesse For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Now what ever Jesus Christ hath as Mediatour you in your measure enjoy it for it is the great ordinance of God that all the Saints should be sharers and partners with Jesus Christ we are fellow citizens with him and so interessed in the immunities and priviledges of the same Charter with him that as in our first state wee had all which Adam had so also in our second we have all which Christ hath Why then doth palenesse appear in your faces and trembling sit upon your lips as if in the frowns of the creature all your felicity was buried Oh remember you are one spirit with him whose presence is a constant spring in a vision of whose glory your beauty will be alwayes lovely I leave it as my humble request to you tha● you would not forget your resting place For the least ignorance of that will make you apprehend every condition full of anxietie this was that which was the bottome of Israels misery Jer. 50.6 They have saith the Text forgotten their resting place Or their place to lye down in as the originall will bear it If you make the creatures or your ordinance priviledges your duties or your own righteousnesse to be your resting places the least disturbance in the pursuit of all or any of these will be very grievous and distracting but if the Spirit helps you to remember him to be your rest who is the rest of God trouble upon any of your enjoyments below himselfe will not have an us comely i● fluence upon you To see a man tre●ting and vexing that whilest hee was riding his journey noises did keep him waking would easily evince our reason to believe that this man had forgotten that his resting place was somewhere else So to see you whilest you were in your travell discontented at that unquietness wherewith you are infested would-bring you under this suspition that you had sergotten your resling place Israel expected beds in the wildernesse when God had appointed Canaan to be their rest his was the ground of all their murmurings against Gods dispensations Oh that the Spirit therefore would alwayes in the middest of sin and miserie lead you to the rocke that is higher than your selves or any thing you esteeme above your selves Many as they create troubles so also create remedies even such which God never sealed many times we sin and then endeavour to make use of sin for a cure we break a command of God and then cal upon some duty or other b●low Christ to make up that breach and thus we bring a double pain and vexation upon our selves When a wound is made by a weapon a contrary plaister applied makes it more uncapable of cure then it

wa● before So it is with all ●istempers in your soules by reason of sin if you look upon any beside the brazen Serpent your distemper will returne with double vigour upon you But certainly one vision of Jesus Christ will hid defiance to the stoutest of your lusts and all the powers of darknesse combined with them and in an encounter wilmore than conquer them The Host of Israel was very great well prepared for the battel but if ever the day be won David must come into the field Our fastings and prayers appeare a huge Host but they will rather gaze upon than ingage against an enemie if Jesus Chris● be not in the field but the very c●●nte nance of Jesus Christ doth soon ●ill the enemie the avenger and makes all the● issue of sia in the soul to orove abortive The marrow of al this you have clearly laia open in the demonstration o● the Spirit in the following Sermons which I am confident to all that are led by the ●perit wil● be a ful vindication of the truth of Christ and of the worthy Author from those bas● aspersions cast upon both by pride ignorance You shall sinde the sum●ne of this Work to be the sole exaltation of the Lord Jesus in Saints and duties and the debasing and trampling upon all flesh that sha● aspire to the seat of Christ the reviving and encouraging of drooping hearts by presenting Christ not themselves in al● his accomplishments to them Now if the world shall haptize this doctrine Antinomianisme the Lord grant that all the doctrine preached throughout the world may deservedly he caled by that name Ye tha● know Christ be not afraid notwithstanding all the censures of the world to reade the book and receive the truth be assured it is not presented to thee as a bait which is an 〈◊〉 troduction to a snare but if the Spirit of Jesus accompany it thou wilt certainly say as Christ did I have meate to eat which ye know not of I should rather cloud the work then honour it if I should proceed to a further commendation of it I leave it therefore to the Spirit to make out the worth of it to the spirits of the Saints and am concluded under this faith that all the malice and carnall wisdome of this generation shall never be able to interrupt the course of it As for the Author though hee was never known to me yet those works of his which I have perused do encourage me to believe that whilst he lived in the world he lived in God and now his earthly tabernacle being dissolved he is taken up into that fulnesse which hee only saw in part whilst he lived here and though whilst he was upon earth it might he his portion with his Lord and Master to bee mocked and buffeted in the High Priests hall yet now sits with him 〈◊〉 fruition of that glory for which ●e was the● a susserer what ●ow re●eatins but that ye● which through the Spirit have tasted th● sweetness of 〈◊〉 Ministry in the same spirit look up to your Father and neg of 〈◊〉 that those who survive in the worke of the Gospel may goe on where he left in the plentifull effusion of the Spirit the glorious truths of Christ may bee amongst th● Saints as the Sun in his height and amongst the rest forget not him though unworthy to be numbred with them who i● ambitious of nothing else but to he All in Christ and nothing in self Geo. Cokain To the impartial READER READER TRUTH needs no shield to shelter it her o●●n bare breasts are armor of proof against all daring darts of ignorance and pride and therefore walks fearlesse in the midst of all those vollies of bitter words who ever vaunts in putting on his harness Truth only triumphs in putting it off this never quits the field without the Garland God that calleth to the combat carrieth on with a conquering hand the gates of hell assaolt but prevail not wee can do nothing against the truth but for the truth The Prince of the air musters up his forces and retreats his blacke guard falls on with him and are shamefully bea●e back kings with their armies flie before it the powers of darkness like Jebu march against it suriously they attempt storm but a the brightness that is before this Sun the thick clouds remove one of truth subverts the tents of darkness● What is stronger then truth wh●●e going out is as the morning ●●eth up to a glo●●ious day That ancient Em●●eme is a true Image of truth a candle in a lanthorn upon 〈◊〉 bill beleaguered 〈…〉 blasts 〈…〉 the flag of defi●●ce with this Morto Frusi à. It is bu● lost labour to dig a trouch about that city for which the Lord ●ath app●●ted salvation for walls and bulwach● but though it be secured from subve●sion yet it is not protected frō opposition You know how it went with Christ was not his cradle cut out of the same wood of which his crosse was made His first entrance upon the stage of this world portended a black day at his departing his sudden flight into Egypt from Herods barbarou● jealousie was but the Prologue to that sad T●agedy which he ended on M●unt-Calvary nor may his children or servants expect better antertainm●nt bonds or afflictions or both abide them that are faithfull they have called the Master an impostor 〈◊〉 Beelzebub Is the servant above his 〈◊〉 I know this s●●vant of tru●h hath had 〈◊〉 in suffering for it ●n●●●●s men pursue those that out-go● them a P●●●s●e will frone any even Christ that shall 〈◊〉 to teach them beyond their old divi●●y Much dirty geer hath been cast upon the Author of this book which if it could have fastned on him I were by speciall ingagements bound to wipe it off but a false tongue cannot make a guilty person Rabsheka's railing made no breach in Jerusalems wals Christ alone must be exalted and all fl●sh made his foot-stool But there bee some that seeke to darken the wisdome of God with the words of man and draw a specious vail over divine mysteries that so it may be not intentionally understanding is hid from the simple these make a fair shew in the flesh But I had rather see the King in his plainest cloaths then his fool in a painted coat Where is the Scribe where is the wise where is the disputer of this world The loftinesse of man must be laid low his glory buried in the dust all his perfections come to an end but if thou desirest to see truth in a comely dresse cleer complexion thou maist have a full view thereof in this ensuing Discourse Say not the Treasise is too smal to contain so vast a subject but rather admire his skill that discovers so much of heaven through so smal a prospective Wee applaud their art that contract the wide world into the narrow compasse of a slender Map What a deal of worth