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A34980	Christ exalted and Dr. Crisp vindicated in several points called antinomian, being cleared from neonomian suggestions alledged, by some remarks on Mr. A-, his rebuke to Mr. Lob shewing from Scripture and most orthodox authors the invalidity of his rebuke in taxing the doctor to be apocryphal, and his doctrine antinomian : with some observations on the Bishop of Worcester's letter concerning the great point of the change of persons between Christ and believers ... : with a table to find the heads insisted on / done by a happy, tho' unworthy branch of the said doctor.	Crisp, Samuel, 1669 or 70-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing C6917; ESTC R24787	120,659	146

of your Strength and Parts in writing against such as called forth your Antisozzo and not in calling it a Crispian Heresie to say A Believer is to work from Life and not for Life or a Crispian Heterodoxy to say Christ bore the Anomia of Sin whereas the Scripture saith He bare our Sins And if you can separate Anomia from Sin then it is not Sin and then according to you Christ did not bear Sin But I hope upon a sedate recollection my Dear Kratiste will give Glory to God and own his intemperate and unbecoming Heat against the Reporter and his Apocryphal Tobias or rather against the Truth being under the violent hurry of a Temptation to exalt his Wit and Fancy whereby he has grievously shewed his weakness in trusting too much to his Parts §. CXXXVIII Now that the Lord would please graciously to make some of these Remarks useful to some serious considering Servants of our blessed Lord Jesus as they have been refreshing to the Composer and that we may lay out all our Time and Strength all our Parts and Estate That Christ alone may be exalted That all may honour the Son as they honour the Father for which end all Judgment is committed to the Son and that thereby we may advance the Glory of the Free Grace of God to poor Sinners in Christ and in him only Our whole Salvation being of Grace and not of Works lest any Man should boast And that through Faith in Jesus we may daily duely humbly and yet with holy boldness wait with our Loins girt with the girdle of Truth for our Lord from Heaven in the ●lory of the Father in his own Glory and in the Glory of the Holy Angels and all his Saints with him is the Prayer of a very unworthy and yet in some sense a happy Branch of him whom my Dear Kratiste hath unmercifully traduced P. S. §. CXXXIX FInding the Controversie maintained concerning a Change of Persons between Christ and Believers and Dr. Crisp much reflected on in a Letter that Mr. Williams hath procured from the Reverend Bishop of W in order to justifie himself from the Charge of his denying a Change I cannot well avoid saying a word or two to the said Letter with great deference to the Author I commend Mr. Williams for fleeing for Refuge to Men of Name but all the Names and Men in the World cannot help him in this Case when he had absolutely denyed a Change Now to be thought to own a Change unless he first plainly owns his Error in his flat denying a Change he may not fairly shift it off that he owned it in a Sense but disowned it in the Doctor 's Sense when without any distinction he said plainly thus Whether there be a Change this the Doctor affirms and I deny Which is so manifest a denyal of a Change in any Sense as words can in general make it 'T is as if I should say I went into Paul's Church to hear the Organs and there was not a Man there I saw a Singing-Boy and he said there was a Man there The Boy affirmed there was a Man there This the Boy said and this I deny Can I help my self and say there was a Man in a Surplice but there was not a Bishop there or a Doctor there This is a sorry shift with an untruth into the bargain for me to say there was not a Man there and then shift it off with I owned there was a Man in a Surplice there So Mr. Williams Whether there be a Change this the Doctor affirms and I deny This a Change here must in all ordinary acceptation of the words be taken for any Change without any sort of distinction This I deny said Mr. Williams Now to help him over this stile he troubles the Bishop whom I honour as a Person of great Worth and Learning though I cannot admire that sort of Station of Lord-Bishop in the Church of the Living God which very Station might occasion the Treatise of The Mischief of Separation and produced my Dear Kratiste's Mischief of Imposition yet I make bold to say with Thanks to the Bishop How warily soever he writes as to clearness in the Point of Commutation yet he writes with wonderful Modesty and in every Tittle like a Gentleman not be-heriticking not bemonstring Dr. Crisp as the Rebuker hath unaccountably done but like a Christian Gentleman and Scholar saith mildly This I take to be Dr. Crisp 's Sense of the Change of Persons not with a ruff-hewen Pen This is Dr. Crisp's Dreggy Antinomianism This is his Heterodox Heresie This is his Wild monstrous Sense And this is his Apocryphal Story §. CXL But to the Bishop's Argument he saith This I take to be Dr. Crisp 's Sense of the Change of Persons It is such a Sense as implies an Actual Translation of the Personal Guilt of all the Sins of Believers on Christ and his Personal Righteousness on them But note the Doctor mentioned not Personal Guilt nor Actual Translation but kept himself firm on the Scripture Foundation of Christ being made Sin for us and we made the Righteousness of God in him From whence he infers If Christ was made Sin for us he was as sinful as we that is by Imputation and if we are made the Righteousness of God we are as Righteous as he that is as Christ God-Man with his Mediatorial Righteousness wrought out for us and imputed to us than which what can be a more clear Consequence if we are the Righteousness of God But to evade this or to reflect on the Doctor the Bishop saith Concerning the Translation of Guilt which results from the Act of Sin committed if this Guilt be translated Christ must become the very Person who committed the Sins and so he must be look'd on not only as an Actual Sinner but as the Person who committed all the Sins of those for whom he dyed Which comes near to horrid Blasphemy This is a strange Inference for one of the Bishop's Learning Could not Christ as our Surety sustaining the Persons of Sinners stand in their place and stead and as their Sponsor pay their Debts and answer for their Sins laid on him unless he become the very Person that committed the Sins This takes away all Suretyship Surely he may be in the place of David and bear the Sin of his Murder and Adultery and it being imputed to him he may bear it away and he may be reckoned as and reputed as the Murderer and yet not be the Murderer or else how could God in Justice punish him and take pleasure to bruise him as our old Protestant Divines argue all along from Isa 53 §. CXLI Well what doth the Bishop own then As far as I can see not one Tittle of our Sins being by God laid on Christ or of Christ's bearing our Sins which is the Life and Soul of the Gospel and of all Consolation to poor Sinners that flee for refuge to him

So that when the Peoples Sins were laid by God's appointment on the Beast then the Beast was by God called the Sin as Christ was called Sin or made by God Sin for us by our Sins being laid on him and yet notwithstanding that the Goat had the Sins of the People laid on him and therefore called Sin yet at the same time it is most Holy or Holiness of Holinesses Kodesh Kadashim In answer to which when God made Christ to be Sin he saith of him That he knew no Sin he being most Holy Holiness of Holinesses untainted undefiled with our Sins he was at the same time the Lamb of God without Spot in himself and need there was for it for if he had not been Holy to the Extremity of Holiness in his own Nature and Person he had not been fit to be made a Sin offering for us If he had had the least speck of Sin in him or could have been tainted with our Sin he had not then been a meet Sacrifice to take away our sin Though he was made sin yet it was our sin he was made sin for us Was the poor Beast made sin in it self or for it self when the sins of the People were laid typically on it No sure for if it were the Scape-goat could not have been led into the Wilderness but the sin would have sunk it down dead immediately The sin it was made was the Peoples sin as the sin Christ was made was our sin §. CLVII This may possibly be the better understood and the more readily assented to by seriously considering the Infinite Perfection of the Holy Nature of the Blessed Son of God which was and is the same in the Man Christ Jesus as in the Godhead of the Father he and the Father being one in Essence and in all the glorious Perfections of the Godhead This Consideration may by the Operation of the Holy Spirit reconcile our Thoughts to this Truth That though Christ was made Sin for us and a Curse for us by having our Sins laid on him and by his hanging on the Tree for us yet his Holy Immaculate Person was not in the least tainted or defiled thereby nay God so ordered it that his holy Flesh when dead should not see the least Corruption This appears clear because the Infinite Holiness of the Godhead in the Man Christ Jesus was of such Infinite Perfection in him that the Sins of Men falling on him they being but Finite must of necessity be evacuated exinanitiated expiated and purged away by Infinite Perfection As a little for Illustration Suppose a small drop of Water out of a Smith's Trough should fall on a glowing red-hot large piece of Iron Can this defile or hurt the Iron No 't is immediately evaporated in Smoak 'T is true the Humanity of our Lord Jesus might be and was affected with our sins so as to cry out My Soul is troubled but he was not in the least infected with them his Humanity being made perfectly Holy by Union and Oneness with the Divine Nature in an ineffable manner at his very first Conception his Humane Nature being called that holy thing Luke 1.35 so that he was untainted by our sins being laid on him which he purged away by the offering up of himself in the Fire of God's Wrath upon him for sin §. CLVIII We will suppose again That all the Gold in the World should be put into a vast Cauldron and Ten hundred thousand load of Charcoal under it and about it melting the Gold and while this vast Fire is glowing with an unconceivable heat the Refiner should cast a small drop of Poyson into the Furnace where this boyling Gold is Would not this drop of Poyson be consumed at its first falling into the Furnace without defiling the Gold So the sins of the Elect though they deserve Hell Fire to all Eternity on the guilty Sinners yet these sins when laid on the Person of God-Man Jesus Christ who hath infinitely more Holiness than our sins have of Deliquity or Malignity in them When these sins were laid on our Lord Jesus they could no more taint our Lord Jesus than the drop of Poyson could taint all the Gold in the Furnace Wherefore it is said by the Holy Spirit when he is giving an account of the glorious Perfection of the Divine Nature of Christ in Heb. 1.3 calling him the Brightness the Effulgency of the Father's Glory the express Image of his Person the Upholder of all things by the Word of his Power The very first and next effect of all this glorious Excellency in the Person of Christ is when he had by himself purged our Sins As much as to say this great Character that is here given to Jesus Christ which mortifies the Socinians is given for this very purpose to shew us how he by himself by his own glorious Perfection as the Brightness of the Father's Glory when our sins were laid on him he by himself without any assistance or Cooperation of us or any Man or Angel he by himself saith the Holy Ghost purged our sins he made a perfect Expiation of them the glowing Holiness of the Divine Nature purged them clear away so as never to be remembred more and that without any taint to himself that being impossible he being the brightness of the Father's Glory so pure and Holy is our blessed Lord God the Lord Jesus Christ God blessed for ever to whom be glory for ever §. CLIX. By this I hope we may see that the Consideration of the most adorable Holiness in our Lord Jesus may reconcile us to such Passages as we find in the Scripture of his bearing our sins and his being made Sin and a Curse for us without any ground of charging it with such bad Consequences as the Bishop intimates That this tends to lessen our Reverence of the Divine Perfections whereas nothing can heighten our Reverence more for this shews that his Divine Perfections were so Infinite that by bearing our Sins in his Body on the Tree and by offering himself with our Sins on him a Sacrifice to God for Sin he thereby expiated and purged all the Sins of all the Elect one of which by reason of the infinitely Holy Nature and Law of God would have sunk all the Angels in Heaven to Hell if by God laid on them Therefore instead of diminishing our Esteem of the Divine Perfections because Christ hath borne away our Sins for ever freely without any Conditions or Works of ours to induce him Let us by all means endeavour to magnifie them and for the Riches of the Grace of God and our Lord Jesus therein Let us fall down and adore him that sits on the Throne and the Lamb in the midst of the Throne for that he of his free Grace hath loved us and washed us from our Sins in his Blood and sing with the four Beasts and 24 Elders with the People in the four parts of the World and with

Eph. 5.30 And he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit Is not this one Spirit one Person Is the blessed Holy Spirit the Third Person in the Trinity Is he a Person and are not Christ and his believing Members becoming one Spirit are they not become thereby one Person Why else are they called Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 Is this novel uncooth and unintelligible to my Dear Kratiste a Master in Israel Need Christ and they go into his Mothers Womb to become one Person §. XLVII As for Legal Vnion before Faith I know of none unless he means a faederal Union such as Children of believing Parents have or bare nominal Christians have Sure these may be distinguish'd without Offence from such as have a Mystical Union by Faith without any Heresie attending it Thus we conclude the 21 Antinomian Heresies which have met with a Presbyterian Lash as the Great Apostle Paul did with the like from the Jews They appear not so formidable as the Neonomians would make them but rather some of them shine forth with brighter clearness for great Gospel-Truths by their being so set forth This I am comfortably satisfied in that God hath by the late Abuse put on Evangelical Truths held out by the branded Dr. Crisp Mr. Cole and many others he hath inlightened many Souls thereby and I wait in assured hope that God will in his blessed time which is hastening make the Light of the Sun of Righteousness shining in the Gospel to be as the Light of seven Days when Men will not put Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light Which the Good Lord for the sake of thy dying and interceding Son our Lord Jesus do thou hasten §. XLVIII In the mean time to our grave Rebuker I say Kratiste Theophile most excellent Sir take heed you be not a Theomaikos a Fighter against God while you design to justifie a Man whom you cannot vindicate with Honour till he renounce some Expressions in his Books which fight directly against the Gospel especially that Soul-endangering one in his Preface to Gospel-Truth stated which is this I affirm that the Righteousness of God Phil. 3.9 principally intends the Gospel-Holiness of a Person justified by Christ's Righteousness Which is an Interpretation that is directly opposite to all sound Protestants Judgments From such Interpreters of a Gospel-Truth the Lord in Mercy deliver all his People and from being a Champion for such an Interpreter the Lord deliver the Rebuker and all his 49 Vouchers §. XLIX In Page 27 he bewails the Case and saith And thus the Breach became beyond the Vnited Brethrens making up He means I suppose beyond their Power of making up that is because these Antinomian Heresies were not recanted And no wonder that it was beyond their Power to make up the breach that these Points made for how can Truth and Error coalesce If the Poor Presbyterians as he calls them do insist on the renouncing these 21 Doctrines as Heresies which have much of the Marrow of the Gospel in them as appears from plain Scripture and sound Authors already quoted they may enjoy their Repose in their own benighted Sentiments but may not imagine that they who are clearlyer inlightened in the Mysteries of the Gospel having tasted the good old Wine of God's Everlasting Love of Electing them in Christ that they will come to the new Wine of a pretended New Law given them by Christ That we performing Gospel-Obedience with our sincere indeavours to fulfil that New Law of Faith Love Repentance Holiness and perseverance therein this though imperfect in its self shall be accepted instead of perfect by Vertue of the Righteousness and Merits of our Lord Jesus Which in effect is to say that we are not saved by Grace but Christ hath merited that we should save our selves §. L. That this is their meaning appears by what Mr. Williams who seems to be their general Mouth has said in his Preface to Man made Righteous by Christ's Obedience Where he rebukes his Antinomians for owning no Law of God that admitted of faulty Obedience and by way of Contempt to Mr. Cole c. he saith They own no Law but the Law of Works which admitted nothing short of perfect sinless Obedience So that he looks on it as an horrid Error to hold that no Law is given by God that admitted of Obedience that had Sin in it Which shews plainly that they hold that God has set up a Law in the room of the Moral Law and that this their New Law which they have invented for God and wretchedly impute to God it doth admit of Sin in the Obedience to it than which there cannot be a more horrid Affront offered to the Holy God viz. That God should set up a Law that allows Sin Now if contradicting such Doctrine as this is accounted Antinomianism then to be freed from their Slanders we must rob God of his Honour nay deny him to be God to comply with their Doctrine of charging on God his making a Law that allows Sin in our Obedience to it For I dare be bold to say in Contradiction to such an Assertion and in Zeal to the pure Holy Nature of God God never did nay never can and that 's a bold word but true if God be God and Holiness his Nature he never can make a Law that admits of any thing but Sinless Obedience For God saith he cannot behold Iniquity and for any Man or number of Men or for any Angels of Heaven to talk at that rate for God to make a Law that admits of Sin let him be accursed To talk of a Law that admits of Sin is to make the Maker of such a wooden Law to be little better than a wooden God It is enough to make ones Flesh to tremble and Spirit rise into a rage against the bold strokes of some Ungodly Pens that corrupt the Gospel and Minds of Men to talk of a Law of the Holy God that admits any thing of Sin Mr. Williams and his Justifiers have subscribed to the Assemblies Confession of Faith and they say upon the Head of Repentance There is no Sin so small but it deserves Damnation and they justifie it by that Scripture The Wages of Sin is Death But our Neonomians our New-Law Men bring in God making a Law that admits of Faulty Obedience or Obedience that is not Sinless which is all one with Faulty Obedience Now my Dear Kratiste this Man's Champion pray where is this accounted for And if not how can it be expected that the Breach between the Orthodox and these should be made up Offences will come but woe to that Man by whom they come To such a Man as would impose a Law allowing Sinning Obedience And if Sinning then it hath Sin in it and if so and that the Assembly say right from the Wages of Sin being Death the least Sin never so small deserves Damnation then they will bring in God making a Law in complying with