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A90832	The vindication of Christ and his ordinances from the corrupt and false glosses made thereon by the subtil and deceivers of these times. By Christopher Pooly, minister of the word at great Missingham, in Norfolk.	Pooly, Christopher, 1575 or 6-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing P2860; Thomason E682_1; ESTC R206797	181,996	208

have now full possession of that Life purchased and procured by Christs love and performance in your self Ans I believe that I have full possession of that eternall Life in Christ which I lost in Adams transgression purchased and procured by Christs performance And therefore I do believe that I am quite freed and discharged from that Eternall Death which I had in Adams transgression through Christs performance But I finde and feele a resemblance and shadow of that corruption and death in my selfe which came by Adams and mine as one in Adam and the more because I finde not that my eternall Life in my selfe which is hid from me in Christ as the Apostle speaketh to the believing Colossians you are dead but your life Coloff 3. 3 is hid with Christ in God And it is to be observed that Christ saith who so believeth in Joh 6. 16 me shall not perish but shall have eternall Life He saith not doth not perish or die in present and hath in present eternall life but saith shall not perish and shall have eternall life For when this corruptible hath put on incorruption and this mortall hath put on immortality Then indeed saith the Apostle Death shall be swallowed up into victory And when Christ which is our Life shall appeare 1 Cot. 25 then shall yee appeare with him in glory then shall eternall Life appeare in your selves saith the Apostle Neither doth Coloff 3 4 the Apostle say as in Adam all die so in Christ are all made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22 But saith all shall be made alive when the appointed and fulnesse of time is come then shall all the chosen of God in Christ whose Life have been hid with Christ be made alive in themselves in manifestation As all died not in themselves in manifestation which were in Adam by nature untill the appointed time of their so being in manifestation So all live not in themselves in manifestation which are by Mercy and Grace chosen of God in Christ untill their appointed time so to live in themselves in manifestation Object All men in the World are said and seeme to live here in themselves and to die in themselves The same condition saith the Preacher falleth to all to the just and wicked to him that sweareth and to him that feareth an Oath Quest Is that Life which all men live here any part of that Life Eccle● 9. 2 3 which Christ purchased to the chosen of God in him which is as the Apostle saith yet hid with Christ in God to be manifest in themselves in the appointed and fulnesse of time Ans No that Life which all men are said and do seem now to live here in themselves is not any part of that eternall Life which Christ purchased by his performance and merit for the chosen of God in him For the children of wrath reprobate and forsaken ones of God are partakers of this Life And Christ was not given of God to purchase and merit any part of eternall Life nor any of the losse in Adam for them But onely for the chosen ones of God ordained to eternall Life before the World Quest From whence is this Life of Mankinde in generall when as all died in Adam Answ All died in Adam touching eternall Life and touching the good of temporall Life all this was lost in Adams transgression But temporall uncertaine Life to man at Gods Will by his sufferance and patience naked and void of all good accompanied with corruption and misery the shadow of Death remained still to Adam and all Mankinde in generall Adam being dead according to Gods Word when thou shalt eate thou shalt die had naked temporall Life Hee having sinned in present saw himselfe naked and was ashamed So that this Life of Mankinde is Adams naked Gen. 3. 7 Life in Death a dying Life Quest Did not Christ by his undertaking and performance take away from you and discharge you and all the chosen of God from the whole curse of the Law and sinne Is there remaining any part thereof yet to them in this their miserable corruption and Dying Life Answ Yes Christ by his undertaking and performance hath taken away and discharged me and all Gods chosen People from the curse of the Law and sinne So the Prophet affirmeth God Esay 53. 6 hath layed the iniquities of us all upon Him and the Apostle saith Rom. 8. 33 who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen It is God that justifieth being chosen of God wee are justified of God nothing can be laid to our charge Yet it is the Pleasure of God and his Will That this miserable corruption and dying Life in themselves before men should remaine to all Gods chosen People for a time as to the children of wrath to these to shew his wrath and make his power to be known and to the others to declare the riches of his glory prepared for them And no man ought to question Gods Will herein as the Apostle adviseth what saith Rom. 9. hee If God would to shew his wrath and make his power known Rom. 9. 22 suffer with long patience the Vessells of wrath prepared to destruction And that hee might declare the riches of his glory upon the vessells of mercy which hee hath prepared unto glory All this is done of God in wrath to the Vessels of wrath to shew his wrath and power and to the Vessels of mercy to declare his glory prepared forthem Quest Is not the corruption misery miserable and dying Life which remaine to Gods chosen People a part of the curse of Adams transgression not yet taken away of Christ Answ No it is no part of the curse for the Apostle saith Christ hath redeemed us from the curse being made a curse for us dying Gal. 3. 12 Life and Death it selfe is no part of the curse to Gods chosen People now being chosen of God but a blessing a good and a benefit to them we know saith the Apostle that all things work together for the best unto them that love God It is good for mee that I have Rom. 8. 28 Psal 119. been in trouble saith David The Apostle saith Our light affliction which is but for a moment causeth unto us a farre more excellent and an eternall weight of Glory Although the affections of the chosen 2 Cor. 4. 17 of God be heavy and grievous for the present as the Apostle saith yet they bring the quiet fruit of righteousnesse unto them that are thereby exercised and the Apostle Iohn saith Blessed are they which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours Death to them is advantagious And againe David saith of himselfe as one of Gods chosen yet in this miserable Life Thy Rod and thy Staffe they comfort me in the midest of my troubles thy comforts have refreshed Rev. 14. 13 my Soule and the Apostle saith of himselfe and the rest We

Christ saith in earnest of himselfe and all Believers In many things we sin all and all the evill Jam. 3. 2 which I would not that I do meaning in the body And againe by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified by no works done in the body Rom. 7. 15 And againe the Law maketh nothing perfect meaning holy and righteous in the sight of God And again If perfection had been by the Rom. 3. 20 Law what need had there been of Christ saith the Apostle And so Heb. 7. 19. because from hence with the other forecited Scriptures It must necessarily follow that no man neither Believers nor Unbelievers Heb. 7. 11 shall be justified saved and inherit the Kingdome of Heaven Therefore they adde that God hath his Book wherein he hath the number of all the sins and good deeds of men as Job speakes Thou hast numbred my steps and dost not delay my sins And God hath the Job 14. 16. Ballance of his Sanctuary wherein he shall weigh the sins of men as he commanded the Prophet to cut off the numberlesse haires of his head signifying the sinnes of the People and weigh them in the Ballance And God charged Moses that hee should do justly in judgement Ezek. 5. 1. according to line weight and measure which no doubt he doth Lev. 19. 35 and will ever doe himself And God cried woe to the Scribes and Pharises for omitting the weighty matters of the Law whereby it appeareth that God weigheth and will weigh the workes of his Law done by Mat. 23. 23 men And as God shall finde at the time of his judgement the sinnes of men Believers or Unbelievers to be in his arithmeticall account more or lesse then his righteous and good deeds and in his geometricall account as he shall find his good deeds weighty or lighter then his evill done in the body so he shall give to every man as his worke shall be every man shall receive according to that he hath done in the body whether it be good or evill Yet say they It is the Justice of God which is alwayes mixt with mercy That to the man whose good deeds overcome his bad the good reward should be given unto him and that hee should receive the same which the Apostle proveth in plaine words say they To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradice of God See more Rev. 2. 17. and Rev. 2● 7 3. 21. And therefore say they the Apostle adviseth Believers to provide that they may overcome when they are judged and to overcome evill with that goodnesse And this say they is according to Rom. 3. 4 Rom. 12. 2● the proportion of Justice shewed of God to men and practized of the wisest To give the Crown and reward according to the greater voyce And likewise that the reward of evill should be given accordingly unto him whose evill deeds overcome his good in Gods said account And yet further they adde because the Apostle saith the unjust shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven That the man which overcometh in the number and weight of his good deeds because Rev. 14. 13 the works of every man followeth as the Apostle saith his works follow him They and their workes must before they shall inherit Heaven go through Purgatory The evill of the workes must be burnt and themselves purged with the fire of purgatory which 1 Cor. 3. 13. 15 they confirmed by the words of the Apostle It shall be revealed by fire The fire shall try every mans worke of what sort it is but hee shall be safe himselfe yet as it were by fire And they adde further that whereas some of the sinnes of Believers are not unto death called veniall sinnes which are to be prayed and offer pardon for upon repentance and for repentance thereof as the Apostle saith there is a sin which is not unto death for which let him aske and God shall give him Life for the sinnes which 1 Joh. 5. 16 are not unto death And there is a sinne unto death called mortall sinne I say not that thou shouldst pray for it for pardon or repentance All unrighteousnesse is sin but there is a sin not unto death They are For the veniall sins sins not unto death of Believers which they or other have prayed for and repented of Life is given already as purged those sinnes are done away and come not to account of number and weight But onely the mortall sinnes and the veniall sinnes of Believers unprayed for and unrepented of But I take it such as these erre not knowing the Scriptures unto whom the Gospell is hid For although all shall appeare before the judgement Seat give account and receive according to their workes done in the body good or evill yet all shall not appeare alike give account alike c. The Gospell is that believers shall appeare by and with their advocate 1 Joh. 2. 2. Jesus Christ the righteous we have an Advocate with the Father 1 Joh. 2. 1. 2 Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins The Believers shall appeare as vessells of honour The Believers shall appeare in glory when Christ shall appeare wee shall also appeare in Rom. 9. 21 glory Collos 3. 4 Believers shall appeare with boldnesse as Lyons The righteous shall be bold as Lyons Pro. 28. 1. Christ is their Judge and Advocate and Mediator for their sinnes Eph. 3. 12 as he was the Sacrifice and Sacrifices None shall lay any thing to their charge for it is Christ their Judge that justifieth them 1 Joh. 2. 1. 2 But Unbelievers and Reprobates shall appeare naked clothed Rom 8. 33 with nothing but the Fig Leaves or the unavailable workes of the Law by themselves without any advocate to plead for them or Rev. 3. 17. maketheir peace As vessells of dishonour with shame and reproofe In feare and trembling having sinne the Law the Divell death and Isa 53. 6 Hell all against them laying those which they have done in the body to their charge So Believers shall give account by their undertaker their advocate Jesus Christ the righteous which is the propitiation for their Collos 2. 14 sinnes upon whom God hath laid all their iniquities and which hath taken their infirmities upon him which hath put out the hand writing of Ordinances that was against them he even tooke it out of the way and fastened it upon his Crosse of whose Soule God did see the travell and Esa 53. 11 was satisfied with it for their sins of his Elect to their justification for he shall beare their iniquities saith the Prophet is discharged and satisfied and nothing is to be ●aid 〈◊〉 the charge of Gods Elect Christ is the Account and the Accounter for Believers But infidels and reprobates must and shall account

unto death and there is sin unto death and so forth That both the sin not unto death and the sin unto death are 1 Joh. 9. 16. 17 the sins of the Elect Believers They utterly mistake the meaning of the Apostle for all sin which is sin before God is manifested in the Scriptures to be sin unto death The soule that sinneth shall die saith the Prophet The reward of sin is death saith the Apostle But Ezech. 18. ● Rom. 6. 23 it is made cleer before that the elect after they were elected in Christ the holy and without blame before God in love which they cannot be if God seeth sin in them if they had the fulnes of sin in them 〈◊〉 God still which is alwayes loathsome blamefull and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to God The sin that i● not unto death is the sin of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transgression of the Law before men in the est●●ation of men whose sin before God Christ hath taken away And the sin u●●o death is the sin of reprobates and unbelievers whose sin is all unto death and alwayes sin before God Of the Law THe Law of God to man was for mans performance of righteousnes upon eternall penalty before God The failing wherof soreknown Christ undertooke to performe the Law of Christ to man is for performance of righteousnesse before men upon temporall penalty Of the Law remaining and the Law 〈◊〉 in Christ to the Elect. Because the Apostle of Christ saith Christ is the end of the Law Rom. 10 4 for righteousnes unto every man that believeth and that he againe saith couching Believers yee are no more under the Law but under grace Rom 6. 1● Some collect from thence that the Law of God called the Law of nature and of workes given manifested to Adam in Paradice in the time of his innocency and power and the same Law expounded and manifested by Moses to the Church or people of God the Israelites in Mount Sinay called the Morall Law and also the Leviticall and ceremoniall Law And all Law of God for righteousnesse is ended in Christ to believers no Law for righteousnesse requiring performance by the Elect hath any thing to do with them nor they with the Law And some say that these words of the Apostle do not hold forth That Christ is the end of the Morall Law for righteousnes before God to Believers Believers are still under the command power and obligation o● the Morall Law for righteousnes before God that is to do the workes of righteousnes before God that onely the penalty and condemnation of the Morall Law for omission of doing the righteous workes of the Law and for their doings of unrighteousnes and sin against and contrary to the Morall Law is ended and taken away by Christ And that the ceremoniall Law the Lev●c●ll Rom. 6. Law and the Judiciall given or manifested by Moses 〈◊〉 people o● Church of the Israelites which ●●d the Figure and relation to Christ to come in the flesh and his performances in the flesh and to that notion of people 〈◊〉 were only ended in Christ to believers unto which the words of the Apostle Christ i● the end of the Law for righteousnes to all Believers have the reference only say they Sol. But I take it both these have defection and error The former holding forth that all Law of God given to man for righteousnes is ended in Christ to all Believers which is only truth thus That all Law of God given to man for righteousnes before God in Gods sight righteousnesse is ended and fulfilled in Christ for the Elect For that was the matter of Christs undertaking for his Elect Believers I came saith Christ not to destroy the Law but to Mat. 5. 1● fulfill it 〈◊〉 ●e said to Iohn Baptist wher● he refused mo 〈…〉 Mat. 3. 1● to Baptize him as if hee should have said I have undertaken to fulfull all righteousnes of the Law before God for the Elect of God it behoveth mee so to do hinder not me therefore to Mal. 3. 1. do it in the lest let me be Baptised of thee Thou art the messenger I have sent And to that purpose the Apostle saith As by one mans Gal. 2. 2● disobedience many were made sinners So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous we are made righteous by Christ saith the Apostle Christ is our righteousnes all which is meant before God So that though there was a Law of God made to man that charged all men upon paine to do their workes in righteousnesse before God which they had power also given them to doe but by their own fault had lost it utterly yet the Christ of God having undertaken to pay the transgression of the same Law and to performe the full righteousnesse thereof before God for the Elect Believers God delivered up that Law binding the Elect to righteousnesse before God which now had no power to do the same and which his Christ had undertaken to do and had performed For the Elect Believers before God being therewith satisfied Isa 53. 12 as the Prophet speaketh yea God delivered that binging Law touching the Elect of God into the hand power disposition of his Christ the Mediator And therefore the Apostle saith Christ is the end of the Gal. 〈◊〉 19. Law for righteousnes to all believers And that Believers are not under the Law but under grace For there is no reason that when the Son hath paid the full debt the bond shall lie still against the principall Yet I take it that the Apostle did not intend in his words where he said Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to all Believers That is the end of the Law for right●ousnsse before God and also before men to all Believers God did not intend in his first giving of Law to men his own honour service and duty to himselfe only but also the mutuall service duty and good of men one to another as Christ plainly sheweth in his answer to the man that asked him which was the great Commandement in the Law Jesus said to him Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde This is the first and the great Commandement And the second is like unto this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Mat. 22. 37 38 39. On these two Commandements dependeth the whole Law and the Prophet And therfore Christ saith Let your light so shine before men Mat. 5. 16. Wee see God intended in his Law not onely duty to himselfe but also to men And that unto both upon penalty answerable and proportionable to the breach and offence of both as the Law speaketh Breach for breach Eye for Eye and Tooth for Tooth And although man in his now corrupt nature can doe neither of the duties of these great Commandements of the Law righteously before God in Gods sight and estimation Because