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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61026	Free grace, or, The flowings of Christs blood free to sinners being an experiment of Jesus Christ upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled conscience ... / by John Saltmarsh.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1646 (1646)	Wing S485; ESTC R28122	77,906	222

FREE-GRACE OR THE FLOWINGS OF CHRISTs Blood free ' to Sinners Being an Experiment o●Jesus Christ upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled Conscience at times for the space of about twel●● yeers till now upon a clearer discovery of Jesus Christ and the Gospel Wherein divers secrets of the se●●● of sin and temptations are experimenta●●●●●ed and by way of Observation con●●●●ing a natural condition and a mixed conditio● of Law and Gospel With a further revealing of the Gospel in its glory liberty freenesse andsimplicity for Salvation By John Saltmarsh Preacher of the Gospel at Brasteed in Kent The second Edition corrected London Printed for Giles Calvert dwelling at the black Stred-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1646. TO My Honorable Friends Sir John Wray Knight and Baronet Sir William Strickland Knight and Baronet Both Members of the Honorable House of Commons HONORABLE IKnow ye both well to have loved the acquaintance of Truth long and in those times when truth was an errour and light darknesse in the account of most therefore I hope the same Lord will not cease to reveal to ye more of himself till ye come to know as ye shall be known The truths if I mistake them not I here present you are of Free-grace such things as if cleared to the World would enlighten us more in the mystery of iniquity then any other There is one thing appears to us in the discovery of this which is love God loving us freely and sending out his Spirit of love into our hearts this should be that onely principle of power in beleevers now under the Gospel love began all the work of salvation in God and love should carry on this work of salvation in men· This is a way of service which none know but those whom the Son hath made free indeed The Lord fill ye with this love that ye may obey as gloriously as ye are commanded in the Gospel and that the experiences of Free-grace may dwell richly in ye that ye may spiritually judge of the siner and more subtile parts of Antichrist All is not in that grosse Idolatry which is seen and felt there is more of mystery then so in it I could not but thus publikely acknowledge ye who are such publike Assertors of that Liberty we of this Kingdom enjoy at this day and because ye have acknowledged me in many favours to my self formerly for which I am Your Servant in the Lord JOH. SALTMARSH AN Occasional Word IT would be matter of much peace amongst beleevers if the names of Antinomian and legal Teacher and the rest might be laid down and no mark or name to know one another by but that of beleevers that hold thus and thus for distinction Surely carnal suspitions and jealousie do much encrease our differences Some hearing the doctrine of Free-grace think presently there will follow nothing but loosenesse and libertinism and the other hearing of holinesse of duties and obedience think there will follow nothing but legalnesse and bondage and self-righteousnesse and upon these jealousies each party over-suspecting the others doctrine bends against one another in expressions something too uncomely for both and there are some unwarrantable notions to be found on all sides But let us consider Can the Free-grace of Jesus Christ tempt any one to sin of it self Can a good Tree bring forth evil fruit And shall we call every one Antinomian that speaks Free-grace or a little more freely then we do If any man sin more freely because of forgivenesse of sins that man may suspect himself to be forgiven for in all Scriptures and Scripture-examples the more forgivenesse the more holinesse Mary loved much because much was forgiven to her and righteous and holinesse blood and water Jesus and Lord and Christ called and justified are still to be found together in the Word There are some too of another sort who make some noise of Free-grace but if all were well observed it is not so free as it seems I have heard of a Gentleman that because he would seem very free to his Neighbours bid fill out Wine freely but he had commanded the servants beforehand to burn it that it should be too hot for any of them to drink I wish the Wine in the Gospel by some be not over-much heated by the Law and conditions and qualifications that poor souls cannot taste of it freely and yet seem to fill it out freely too Free-grace may be there in the notion of it yet not in the truth of it The Arminians boast themselves to be as great Patrons of Free-grace as others And why Because they teach that all that is still given to man is for Christ and in Christ and though by Faith and works yet all that is free-gift So the Papists boast of Free-grace That Christ is given freely from the Father for sinners and it is of Free-grace that we are accepted though of works too So as surely there is some other way of carrying Free-grace then by joyning men so into the work for else it is but a Popish an Arminian Free-grace Jesus Christ hath appeared more of late and his glory hath been more abroad then this Kingdom ever saw before and indeed Antichrist goes never rightly down but when Christ is lifted up and if Jesus Christ had been more in the divinity of these latter times and in their Preachings for Reformation and Moses lesse we had not onely had more of his grace but more of his glory then we yet see Yet I do not see that the power of Christ crucified is so abroad among beleevers as it should be but some several Ordinances are rather the businesse of this age Yet thus it hath been alwayes whenever there were any shadows or carnal Ordinances beleevers went more after them then Christ himself Under the Law it was so and under the Gospel it is so some outward truths of Christ are sought after more then Christ himself and we make more of the beams then the Sun of righteousnesse and rather warm our selves by the sparks then the fire like those Souldiers who cast lots for his Garments but let his Body alone upon the Crosse not but that every thing of Christ is precious yet nothing so precious as himself So as These things ought we to have done and not to leave the other undone I hope by this time Free-grace is no Antinomianism amongst beleevers yet it hath been ever Satans policy and the Lords providence to manage a truth sometimes through a whole age yea and ages too in another name then its own and some other age have seen it for a truth which God would not reveal to those unthankful times Light hath walked abroad in a vail of darknesse and Truth in the likenesse of errour and Christ hath been crucified by those who after knew him for their Lord of glory and were wounded for him whom they had wounded themselves O that the times we live in had not too many