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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86586	An exercitation concerning the nature of forgivenesse of sin. Very necessary (as the author humbly conceiveth) to a right informaion [sic], and well grounded decision of sundry controversal points in divinity now depending. Directly intended as an antidote for preventing the danger of antinomian doctrine. And consequently subservient for promoting the true faith of Christ and fear of God, in a godly righteous, and sober life. / By Thomas Hotchkis, Master of Arts of C.C.C.C. and minister of Gods word at Stanton by Highworth in the county of Wilts. To which is prefixed Mr. Richard Baxters preface.	Hotchkis, Thomas.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing H2891; Thomason E1518_1; Thomason E1632_1; ESTC R208563	133,342	405

us Ministers neverthelesse I shall not go about at this time to enumerate all the differences betwixt them but shall content my self to name only this one as being sufficient for my present purpose viz The conditions which God requires of man in both these Covenants are very different the condition of the Covenant of Works being perfection of obedience or the perfect fulfilling of the whole Law but the condition of the Covenant of Grace is Faith in Christ Repentance and Sincerity of Obedience Now as Adam was to do or perform the former condition or the condition of the former Covenant for life so are we to perform the latter condition or the condition of the latter Covenant for life also Should we go about to set up the perfect fulfilling of the whole Law as the condition of salvation and in such sort work for salvation this indeed were legal working and to work as Legalists or should we expect salvation as merited wages for our work this were to work legally but to labour by his strength to perform the conditions of the Covenant of Grace to believe repent to return unto and to keep with God in the duties of New Obedience that so we may live and to expect from Gods free grace and mercy that in so doing we shall live this is to work as a Christian and as becomes the Gospel of Christ Object But is it not the ready way to make people trust unto or to rest in their own good works or duties to tell them that they may do them for salvation Answ 1. I shall in the next place answer this Question with two or three other Questions 1 Is it not the ready way to make people to cast off the doing of all good duties and good works to tell them that they may not ought not need not to do them for salvation 2 Is not the danger as common and great this way as that Or is it not as dangerous to think to go to heaven without the doing of good as by resting on the good we do Is it not as ordinary for people to perish for barrenness as for bringing forth fruit to themselves 3 Whether is it not fitter for a Minister to instruct people how far forth they may and how far forth they may not trust in and rest upon their own Duties Graces works or holinesse for salvation then to tell them that they ought not to do any good duty for salvation As this latter is a thing unlawful so the former is a thing I am well assured not only lawful but also expedient and necessary in order therefore thereunto bee it knowne 1. In general That we are not to trust unto or rest upon our own good Works Duties or Graces for salvation in any such sort as Christ alone and his Righteousnesse is to be trusted unto or rested upon 2. More particularly bee it known 1. That we may not trust unto or rest in them as our legal Righteousnesse i. e. such as for which the Law of Works will pronounce us righteous or as any part of our legal Righteousnesse in conjunction with Christs 2. Consequently hereupon we may not rest in them as things that are absolutely perfect and exactly commensurate or answerable to the rigour of the Law 3. Not as things by which Gods Justice is satisfied his wrath pacified or by which we make him an amends for breach of the first Covenant 4. Consequently hereupon not as things whereby in any strict or proper sense we do merit salvation we having indeed no works formally ours which do make the reward to be of debt and not of Grace In these respects we are to disclaim all our own Works Duties Graces Holiness and to trust unto or rest upon Christ and his Righteousnesse wholely and solely 2 But in the second place be it knowne 1 In general That because Christ alone is to be rested upon for salvation in the foresaid respects we have no more reason to conclude from thence that we may can or ought in no sense to rest in our own good works or duties for salvation then we can conclude that because Christ alone doth save us therefore it may not can not ought not to be said in any sense that we do save our selves which notwithstanding is the frequent language of Scripture 2 More particularly be it known 1. That we may rest in or trust unto our own good Works Duties and Holinesse for salvation in subordination to the free grace and mercy of God in Christ Jesus accepting them and pardoning the sinfulness of them 2 We may rest on them as things which do assure us of our title unto or actual interest in the satisfaction and Righteousness of Jesus Christ there being a personal or evangelical righteousnesse necessary to salvation as well as a legal righteousness i. e. it being not sufficient for our actual enjoyment of salvation that Christ was righteous or did fulfil all righteousnesse of the Law unless we in our own persons do labour to bee righteous as he was righteous 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom ●f God be not deceived neither Fornicators nor 3 We may rest in them as the wayes wherein or which is to the same purpose as was said in the particular foregoing as the conditions without which Christ Jesus will not save us for without holinesse no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12 14. neither is Christ the Authour of salvation actually enjoyed unto any other then such as do obey him Heb. 5.9 1 Tim. 4.16 Neither is the resting upon our own holinesse in these senses any whit against the glory of Christ this being in effect and in deed neither more nor lesse but this viz. To rest upon Christ and Christ alone for salvation in Christs own way i e. the way of holinesse and righteousness I do not mean perfect holinesse and righteousnesse according to the Covenant of Works but such as is expected and required from us as necessary to salvation according to the tenour of the Covenant of Grace I doubt not but the most self denying servants of Christ did in this sort rest upon their own holinesse for salvation in special Hezekiah praying to the Lord That he would remember how he had walked before him with a perfect heart 2 King 20. beg and Nehemiah praying to the like purpose with subordination to the mercy of God pardoning his defects chap. 13.22 and David praying and saying Lord save me for I am holy Psal 86.2 and Saint Paul saying I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith hence forward is laid up for me a Crawn of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4.7 8. To rest upon our own holinesse for salvation in the sense immediately aforesaid is no more then for a man who doth use the creatures moderately as meat drink sleep recreation in or upon the use of them to depend on God the only Authour