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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56659	Falsehood unmaskt in answer to a book called Truth unveil'd, which vainly pretends to justify the charge of Mr. Standish against some persons in the Church of England / by a dutiful son of that church.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1676 (1676)	Wing P796; ESTC R11930	17,061	28

Christ hath done and suffered for us whose righteousness in both regards was so pure and perfect that God in consideration of it or for its merits was pleased Graciously to grant us forgiveness of sins and him a power to bestow it on all those that believe on his name which is as much as to say that we are accounted righteous for the sake of Christs merits or for the merits if you will of Christs righteousness the effects and fruits of which we are made partakers of by Faith So the Church teaches us to understand Christ's imputed righteousness which all good Christians rejoyce in For righteousness imputed is our being accounted righteous before God though we are not so in our selves and we are accounted righteous before God saith the 11 Artic. only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own works and deserving If you will trouble your self with notions beyond this you may but do not trouble others with them who profess they cannot understand how the Righteousness of Christ can be so accounted ours which is the modern notion of it as if in him we had performed perfect obedience to God He performed perfect Obedience for us that we believe and hope to be saved by the merit of it but we did not perform perfect obedience in him that is contrary I have been taught to the very principles of Christianity For if we did then by that perfect obedience performed in him we become perfectly righteous free that is not only from all punishment but from fault and then we have no need of pardon nor of any inherent righteousness and we have merited a reward For my part I believe the honest people of the Church of England who devoutly say the Litanie never think of any such thing but humbly address themselves to God for mercy through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ who hath purchased pardon for penitent sinners by the intire righteousness of his life and death They mean no more when they pray to be delivered by his wonderful condescension in being incarnate for our sake which was the beginning of his humiliation and by his bloudy death and burial in which it was finished but that they may be freed from the guilt of their sins and the punishment due to them by the merits of these and all other parts of his humiliation which they know by his exaltation into the heavens and the coming of the Holy Ghost was highly acceptable to God being the fulsilling of all his Will in what he required for our redemption and having obtained for our Saviour all power in Heaven and Earth to dispense the Blessings which he purchased And thus other Churches understand this business the French for instance who say We believe that our righteousness consists in remission of sins c. and therefore casting away all opinion of our own vertues and merits we rest only in the obedience of Christ Jesus which is imputed to us both that all our sins may be covered and also that we may obtain Grace before God Here they plainly tell us that their righteousness which is procured by Christs obedience consists in remission of sins and therefore that obedience of his is imputed only in this sense that for its sake we may obtain remission of sins and be accepted with God I beseech you Sir do not accuse me of Heterodoxy if I do not jump with your thoughts in these matters for I protest I have no inclinations to fasten a sense upon the Churches words out of my own head but would most gladly receive it from those that can inform me better about it And I have a great respect also for all good men that are of a different mind in these matters and reverence Mr. Calvin very much though I do not think my self bound to follow his opinions All I desire is that neither you nor any body else would keep a pudder and a stirr as if Christianity were in danger to be lost by I know not what new notions when Mr. Bull and all that I have heard of his way preach the Grace of God in such a manner as I have declared which makes me confident our Religion and the Church is safe if they have no worse enemies than he But I much fear they are none of the Churches friends though they may design its good who make such a noise as if all our antient most fundamental Doctrines were subverted For the love of God Sir Let as hear no more of this from your hand if you bear any good will to it Let us have no more discourses of innovations in our Doctrines no more Truths unveiled though you think your self never so well acquainted with them no more Vindications nor mention of Mr. Standish who being the only person concerned hath as became an honest and good man acknowledged his error by silence I pray Sir do not you therefore revive that which he thinks fit should dye and be no more heard of I dare say for him he will give you no thanks for your kind intentions to serve him and therefore do not study how to oblige him any further in this matter He honours several of those persons I make no doubt as true Sons of the Church of England whom you have loaded with the reproach of departing from its Doctrine You have done him a great deal of injury in endeavouring to make the world believe that he struck at Dr. Hammond Bishop Taylor or Bishop Mountague either Nothing I am confident was further from his thoughts and he wishes I am of opinion that he had been as far out of yours For it was untowardly done to bring him upon the stage again right or wrong when he had no mind to persist in making a breach among us as he had in an heat begun to do But he will take it kindly I am apt to think if you will not seek to make him any reparation for this wrong but leave him to justify himself his own way He may well forgive you all that is past for one considerable service you have done him and the only one that I can find which is that I hope you have opened his eyes to see that I was in the right when I told him in my request to him what sort of men he would gratify by those passages in his Sermon Even such as accuse our late great Archbishop of Canterbury for being an incourager of the Romish Faction as you do in express terms p. 28. i. e. betraying his Trust and this Church which he so affectionately served that it cost him his life It was not enough it seems that they brought him in his life time under the Prophets affliction as he complains to our late Martyred Soveraign in his Epistle before his admirable Book against Fisher between the mouth that speaks wickedness and the tongue that sets forth deceit and slandered him as thick as if he were