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A85988	A soveraign antidote against sinful errors, the epidemical plague of these latter dayes. Extracted out of divine records, the dispensatory of Christianity: for the prevention and cure of our spiritual distempers. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G704; Thomason E939_4; ESTC R202212	152,383	185

said in the Old This Point was so clear then without opposition that a little sufficed The Believing Jewes would not have been quiet if their children had been shut out of Gods House that made such stirs at lesser matters Christ when a child was Head of the Church children then may be members thereof He cals them his Children Disciples Saints servants in the same Relation given to their Parents When Families of old joyned to the Lord children were not excluded no more were they in Apostolical dayes They that will deny Scripture-Consequence must deny all Duties of Christianity none whereof can be performed without such Reasoning Reason and Religion they must at once gainsay that gainsay Inferences orderly drawn from thence The Condition of this Covenant is sufficiently cleared by the Knowledge of Christ both for Entrance and continuance both Internally and Externally Christ invites sinners to come by Faith to him for all needful Grace None can come to him except the Father draw them He gives to his Elect peculiarly what he requires from all indefinitely As far as that Condition is performed either Externally or Internally so far reaches the Covenant priviledge before God and men The profession and outward Priviledge may be utterly lost by carnal hypocrites but the distinguishing Grace and internal priviledge thereof cannot be totally nor finally lost by the Regenerate though they may be ecclipsed for a time 18. The Church of Christ suffers much also First By all the former Secondly By rigid Separatists of divers sorts Thirdly By the Popish Apostacy and Usurpations assuming to themselves alone the Title of Catholicks and unchurching all that jump not with them Fourthly By Quakers and Notionists who slight and abuse the communion of Saints multipliciously and nefariously AGainst such Disorders the gracious knowledge of Christ affords meet help Improve it to a right Union and Communion both with the Head Christ and with his Body His Church is his House that cherishes Concord among Brethren of different sizes There is but one God and Mediator there there also should be but one mind and heart There are divers Chambers and Stories therein yet it s one house Though different flocks under various Shepherds yet are they all under one great shepherd They that own Christ as Head should be owned of his Members They that agree in the main may bear with each other in the means Schism is a sinfull separation that breeds a Convulsion in the Body of Christ Shame and Sorrow are the genuine fruits thereof as Pride and Ignorance the Parents of it They bear most with others that know Christ and themselves best Paul would have them both marked and shun'd that make divisions as selfish Christians that know little of Christ and themselves He would have us separate from evil but not from good as himself doth Christians and Churches must purifie themselves as he is pure They should therefore labor more for verity and Unity in the way to purity They need all mutual help Orderly Union affords much Beauty strength and usefulness It makes Gods people like an Army with Banners such an Arch-Building is choice and sure All convulsions are painfull and direfull Scripture represents this harmonious composure by that which excels in all frams natural civil and artificial We should all labor then for things that tend to Peace for mutual edification Variety of helps he affords to that end The Popish pretence is as injurious as its ridiculous They make a particular Universal a Roman Cathotholick They first disown Christ in effect and then must they disown and be disowned of his friends The Quakers follow them too closely in this as in other things casting Odiums upon our reformed Churches and rejecting them It s sad to see any of Christ friends who seem more sober and serious through mis-interpretations and mis-applications of Scripture to imitate them in such dividing ways To divide and destroy is Satans Motto it s his Method We see it we feel it by woful experience We must learn of Christ Prudent moderation in our zeal for Truth Both his Body and Garment should be so tendered as not to rend the one by favouring the other Peace is to be pursued after as far as possible in consistency with Holiness Much labor and care must often be used in over-taking and preserving Peace still endangered by many enemies 19. The Grace of Christ nearly concerns his Church and meets with the contradiction of sinners His Electing Grace is much slandred by many First By most of the forenamed Errors Secondly By Pelagians Socinians and others denying it to be eternal Thirdly Papists and Arminians agreeing with the Semi-Palagians in making it conditional not absolute upon faith foreseen or on Good work not of Gods free pleasure Fourthly By many of our Notionists following of those blind Guides in following the false Lights which Paracelsus and Behmen Swenkfield and Wigelius the Rose-Crucians and Enthusiastical Recluses have racked out of old Dung-hils and dressed anew AGainst such deceits improve the knowledge of Christ that you may consider him in a double capacity 1. As God the Son jointly with the Father and the Spirit chusing his people from eternity divina opera ad intra sunt indivisa Secondly As Mediator in Gods eternal purpose in whom in all the vessels of Mercy were absolutely elected without any respect to any thing in them but according to the good pleasure of his Will having predestinated us to the adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to himself before the foundation of the world There is a double Election also mentioned in Scripture 1. Eternal which is to Glory 2. Temporal which is to office By eternal Election the Lords chosen flock alone were fore-ordained to Glory through Grace By temporal Election reprobates as Judas may be chosen to office as he was to the Apostleship Gods electing Grace is called sometimes his fore-knowledge by an Hebraism verbs of sence with them importing both affect and effect Thus Christ is said never to have known the wicked because he never owned them for his This foreknowing Grace is called his Pleasure his good Will his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amor Bonevolentiae chiefly looking at the end Gods Glorifying himself by glorifying them in Christ Predestination or fore-ordaining Grace pre-determining those Elect Persons so freely pitched upon by God regards the means leading to that end therefore it fore-appointed them to Redemption and Adoption in Christ by Grace towards Glory Some being thus chosen others were passed by and are therefore called Reprobates and Gods purpose or councel about them is called Praeterition Non-election and non-predestination God was not bound to any and did chuse and pass by of his own Will independently eternally distinctly individually certainly Those persons so passed by considered in massa nuda he did fore-ordain

death was the complement and utmost His whole life was a continual passion and he was most active in his most passive Obedience He laid down his Life of himself-freely and shewed his active Power in his giving up the Ghost That perfection of his Merits excludes the least Ingrediency of mans Merits Our Obedience is required indeed and rewarded of Grace not for its worth or proportion The Childs duty is required not to merit his Inheritance by but to shew his Ingenuity The Beggars reaching of his hand is a condition yet no merit of the Gift 8. His Prophetical Charge is undermined First By the Errors forenamed Secondly By the Popish pretences of Infallibility in their Church Pope or Councel Thirdly By the immediate Revelations and infallible Oracles of Enthusiasts Quakers Behmenists pretending extraordinary acquaintance with God and Spirits besides above and against his Word Fourthly By the Perfectionists of divers sorts who pretend to a sinless state wherein they need no further teaching Fifthly By such as despise Christs Prophets and Apostles Pastors and Teachers extraordinary and ordinary Messengers of his AGainst such a disease improve this Antidote to vindicate the Lords Infallibleness and to detect the cheats of all Impostors pretending thereto You will see thereby that Christs Spirit alone is the supream infallible Judge speaking to us by his written word è Cathedra coeli That we need no other infallible Judge on earth That every Christian in his place whether private or publique Civil or Ecclesiastical hath a Judgement of discretion to regulate him in his own Acts by the Scripture Rule That Churches and Counsels have an Authoritative Judgement of direction to the several members under their respective Charges still in subordination to Christs writen Word That yet there is no need of any Infallible immediate and sinless assistance or spirit in any mortal man now since the Canon of Scripture our perfect Rule was compleated by John the Beloved Apostle That all pretenders to such infallibility since the Apostles days have successively bewrayed their notorious Impostures and contradictions both notionally and practically That Popish Bishops and Councils Enthusiastical Behmenists and Quakers have hitherto been found guilty of such absurd falshoods and blasphemous extravagancies that they sufficiently confute themselves That Paul himself after all his Raptures knew but in part complaining stil of his own and others weakness and insufficiency That Peter himself failed and was reproved by him openly That there is indeed a perfection of sincerity and Truth begun below in the Regenerate and a perfection of Growth which is comparative progressive But that a sinless perfection of fulness is reserved for the Glory of Heaven not enjoyed before mans dissolution That Christ therefore is the grand Prophet who teaches his people stil by his Word and Spirit the Will of God for their Salvation gradually That being taught all needful things by his Anointing who writes his Law upon their heart they need not to be taught by any Sect-master in a Pharisaical way so as to pin their faith upon any mans sleeve upon his own credit but must attend Christ who teaches from Heaven by men and Means That no meer mans word is to be believed upon his own credit but that all Doctrines must be examined by the Scriptural Teachings of Christ That those spirits and persons who pretend to bring Infallible Oracles and a new Gospel are cursed of the Apostle for shaking off Christ and his Gospel That all Christs servants are to be heard so far as they keep to his scriptural Commission but no further That Christ himself is received or rejected so far as his Embassadors following his Instruction are owned or slighted It s the common and ominous Symptom of Error to despise the Ministers of Christ though Godly and Learned and prefer their own Imaginations before the plain Word of God The Gospel is to us the only Glass of Heaven wherein the Glorious Revelations of Gods Image are made out to transform us into the likeness thereof gradually through his Spirit 9. The Kingship of Christ is much abused 1. by the Errors forenamed 2. By Libertines and Ranters of all sorts 3. By the Pontifician Supremacy pretended to be over all things and persons in the Pope as Peters Successor 4. By Quakers and others slighting the Christ above under pretence of a Christ within 5. By sensual pretenders and abusers of a fifth Monarchy Against these Rebellious Tenets the Grace and Knowledge of Christ will satisfie us that Christ Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who must Reign even in the midst of all enemies till they be made his footstool That he will destroy all such who refuse to stoop to his Golden Scepter but chuse to live in the kingdom of Darkness under the Rule of sin and Satan That Conscience is his seat Royal in mans soul which is by Sin Satan and self usurped from him That he will surely recover his Right if not in mercy yet in his just wrath That pretence of conscience to shake off his Rule is the highest Treason under his Pavilion That to shelter any sin or Error under that covert is but to cloath Traytors in his robes of state That he will not save where he doth not Rule and will not be our Priest if he be not our King That to desire or plead Liberty to sin is to set up Hell in Rule among men under the habit of Heaven That the more of Christ is in any soul the more obedience in true faith and Love is given to him That to set up a Pope or any other meer man for a supream Head over the conscience is to set up a sinful wretch in the Throne of Christ That his Jealousie will not endure long such a Rebellion That Peter never had any Supremacy of Power or Authority what ever priority of Order and Age may be granted by some That Peters being at Rome is very uncertain and yet to be proved though many affirm it That if his being there were fully granted yet his fixed charge and continuance there shall need as much proof That upon supposal of his setling there yet must it be shewed that he acted there such a Supremacy That if that also were clear it must be shewed also that his full power was made over to his successors there more then to any other Minister of Christ at Antioch or elsewhere That in case that should be proved likewise they must demonstrate a clear succession from that time till now which is impossible And if that could be yet they must evince their succession in Doctrine also else all the former will only prove Papacy to be the Man of Sin got into Gods Temple the grand Antichrist and the scarlet Whore riding on