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A85551	Truths victory against heresie; all sorts comprehended under these ten mentioned: 1. Papists, 2. Familists, 3. Arrians, 4. Arminians, 5. Anabaptists, 6. Separatists, 7. Antinomists, 8. Monarchists. 9. Millenarists, 10. Independents. As also a description of the truth, the Church of Christ, her present suffering estate for a short time yet to come; and the glory that followeth at the generall resurrection. / By I.G. a faithfull lover and obeyer of the truth. Imprimatur, John Downame.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1597; Thomason E277_7; ESTC R200005	70,586	79

thereunto by the Gospel vers. 15. Now the Gospel as I touched before consists of two parts repentance and remission of sinnes Luke 24. 47. which comprehends the two next particulars our effectuall calling by the work of repentance and whose sinnes whosoever is remitted that soule is justified in the Apostles meaning and both these effected by the Gospel and covenant of life and therefore called in Scripture the grace of God the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the Gospel of the grace of God Acts 20. 24. the word of his grace verse 32. the word speaking peace by Jesus Christ Acts 1. the word of the Gospel Acts 15. 7. And these two effects which the Spirit of God works by his word in his elect to life and salvation are called in Scripture regeneration conversion a renewing a birth from above a new making and such like not in a naturall but a spirituall sense not as the first birth of our parents which procreated and produced us out of their bowels but by way of similitude and likenesse that as by nature we are born carnall unclean and children of wrath so by this spirituall birth we are born of God from above holy spirituall free even the sons of God as the Scripture saith for as that which is of the flesh is flesh so that which is of the spirit is spirit Now as by Adam came the offence and by Moses came the Law through which the offence abounded Rom. 5. 19 20. to mans greater misery so grace and truth came by Jesus Christ Joh. 1. 17. Adam was the authour of sin to his posteritie Moses was the Minister of the Law that condemned that sin but the grace and mercy of God the means of salvation both from sin and death that is only by Jesus Christ blessed for ever Now the manner and order the Holy Ghost taketh in working this grace in the hearts of Gods elect is plainly laid down in Scripture for him that is Christ saith St. Peter with the rest of the Apostles hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sins Act. 5. 31. And these two parts of the Gospel which is the free grace of God to man-kinde are plainly and generally observed and preached by all the Prophets and Apostles and our Lord himself I will take from you saith the Lord your stony heart and give you a heart of flesh there 's the first part and in that new heart that I shall give you saith the Lord I will write my Law that is his Statute and love mercy and forgivenesse even a new and holy Spirit and that 's the second part of the Gospel Ezek. 11. 19. Chap. 26. 36. The baptisme of John that 's the first and the baptisme of Christ that 's the second part and both parts our Lord joynes together Joh. 3. 3. Except a man be born again of water and the Spirit hee cannot see the Kingdome of God neither to mourn with the Bridegrooms friends nor rejoyce with the Bridegroom himself and for as much as these making parts of a Christian are not of our selves but both the gifts of God it doth abundantly set forth unto us this excellent doctrine of Gods free Grace as the Apostle St. James saith who of his own will begat us with the word of trub Jam. 1. 18. And the grace of God saith holy Titus that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men and teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lnsts c. Tit. 2. 11 12. Yea it is Gods free Grace and abundant compassionate goodnesse to finde out this new and living way to happinesse through Christ Jesus for hee himself is the way the truth and the life and God so loved the world that hee gave his Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternall life Joh. 3. 16. and none can so believe but hee that is regenerate John 1. 12 13. And the Lord is the spirituall bread that every one must eat of that shall be saved but none can so eat his flesh and drink his blood but by faith and none can believe but to whom it is given and it is given to comfort none but to the broken hearted and none are made penitent and humble thirsting and desiring Christians but to such as God gives repentance for this is the nature and method of this free Grace of God which the Scriptures set forth to us even that free Grace that Christ gives to him that is athirst freely to drink of Rev. 21. 7. hee gives the thirst and hee freely gives the water of life that so quenches that whosoever drinketh shall never thirst again Joh. 7. 37 38. And the Lord saith Come and drink but this coming is by repentance and this drinking is by faith Whosoever saith the Lord believeth in mee as the Scripture saith out of his belly shall flow rivers of the water of life yea to set forth the excellency of this doctrine of free Grace the Spirit of God takes upon him the office of a cryer in a court of Records Ho every one that thirsteth come yee to the waters come yee buy and eat yea the third time he cries come buy wine and milk without money and without price Isa. 55. 1. Heare now you Antinomians if any of you have an eare to heare the wisdome of God in the truth of the free Grace purchased and preached by Jesus Christ that it is not phantasticall as you have exprest it but that reall and substantiall grace that gives being to the new and spirituall man the very regeneration of the elect of God and as they are born of the Spirit so they are taught led and guided anointed and sanctified by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in none of the bodies of the elected ones but where he hath wrought this heavenly work of grace there he dwells there he witnesseth there is but three that bear witnesse for God to the truth in the whole world and the Apostle tells us 1 Joh. 5. 8. it is the Spirit that 's the Spirit of God water that 's his first work and beginning of regeneration and blood that 's the finishing and accomplishing the new birth the sanctifying the binding up the broken heart by faith wherefore blush and be ashamed of your blasphemy against the truth in calling repentance a work of the Law and the preparation to faith a Popish doctrine and for ever hereafter take notice that the way of Christs free Grace is by water and blood 1 Joh. 5. 6. And that repentance is the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Mark 1. 1 2. Now I should have spoke of the fourth particular of free Grace which is glorification but of that hereafter Heresie I beare you witnesse you have a zeale but it is not according to knowledge for if you did understand that excellent doctrine of justification before beleeving you would not speak so much of

By I. G. A faithfull lover and obeyer of the Truth Now I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them Rom. 16. 17. Imprimatur JOHN DOWNAME TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFULL Sir BENJAMIN RUDYARD Knight one of the Honourable House of COMMONS SIR AS formerly I have acquainted you with two small Treatises which were dedicated to his MAJESTIE and the Right Honorable the High Court of Parliament so now I have presumed on Christian affection to dedicate this victory of Truth to your religious view and meditation The odds in the conflict was much ten to one and every one of them being roots of a thousand branches even so many in number and so grosse in nature that if I should speak all I know of them it might seeme incredulous to your exercised and experienced judgement and prejudicious unto many that want the like knowledge and discernment so that for this time I thought thus briefly to disarme the Leaders that so the following multitude of the Army may have premonition before the time come that all the enemies of Christ shall be slaine before him and the secrets of all manner of hearts discovered And for my own particular Sir finding the boldnesse and impudency of error as well as the multiplicitie whereby the whole Citie is in every part and place infected and from thence as from a fountain the Countryes also I could rest no longer silent for as much as God of his own goodnesse and infinite mercy hath been pleased to communicate and impart the knowledge of the mystery of his Word unto me in some measure notwithstanding my own unworthinesse and weaknesse this truth received in my heart hath been as a fire which I could no wayes hinder from burning into a flame through the light whereof by the means of your grave and prudent countenance he that reads it may have information of the evill and error without prefigured and within this Treatise manifestly revealed as also the good and happinesse of truth the old path and straight way of the Lord in some measure opened and declared to which all that are not of the houshold of faith are strangers and most of them perverters And Sir I pray of one thing take notice in the figure that he that is most obscure in his person is most dangerously subtill and mysterious in his doctrine and at this very time in which you sit in Parliament with the whole Counsell of the Kingdome he doth more hurt in one houre then in ten heretofore his badge is F. Wherefore Right Wor be pleased to take notice of the Churches enemies and let the despised and persecuted wife of Christ and her little children have your love helpe and assistance These are all that are intreated for to be granted by you most vertuous and noble Senator to him that is your faithfull and humble servant JOHN GRAUNT Truths Victory against Heresie TRVTH NOw all you Heresies new and old that have mustered up your powers and forces against me that am the Truth of God and have drawne out your Companies into Regiments and your Brigades into an Army of strong armed fighting cruell men whom all this world long have plotted devised and waged battel against me and my generation and by your subtile discipline in the artillery of error iniquity and deceit have made your selves so skilfull and artificiall that you have alwayes boldly and scornfully given mee many alarmes summons onsets skirmishes underminings stormings killings firings poysonings murthering of my Children and Witnesses denying us quarter or any mercy although we have cryed out for pity and compassion above these four thousand yeeres I pray you take notice therefore that I do now in these last dayes of the world even now in this little time to come that makes an end of sins and finisheth transgressions and which also accomplisheth my injuries and sufferings my teares and sorrowes my lamentation and weeping Now I say even in this day in which you are so much increased and grown so innumerable I challenge you all even all your multitudes and gatherings of what degree and condition Sect or Religion sex age tongue or nation soever you are of for that you have usurped my names and titles my house and children my birth my birth-right and inheritance my priviledges and my dignities my honour and authority my kingdome and Throne it self and that you all have robbed oppressed spoyled reproached belied persecuted beaten wounded and killed me in my truth and innocency at all times and in all places with despite and scorne contemptuously have cast me out from amongst you and defam'd my sincerity with heresie my purity with iniquity my fruitfulnesse you have call'd barrennesse and my faithfull fervency you call hypocrisie HERESIE What strange voyce is this that wee heare Truth saith shee what is that were you made to reprove our thoughts we tell you you are grievous unto us to behold let us therefore examine her with despitefulnesse and torture and let us condemn her with a shamefull death Truth Thus hath ever been your dealing with mee and mine from the beginning for your Cain kill'd my childe Abel and so your Ishmael mockt and persecuted Isaac my son of promise and my Lord of life was slain by your children of death and as alwayes you have been at enmity and sworn adversaries so from the beginning of this world to this very day you have had power and authority in your own hands to work your will and pleasure against us even the greatnesse of the pomp and glory of temporall dignity majesty in and by whom you have wrought your malice and implacable anger and wrath upon us The great Image consisting of the four Metalls which the Prophet Daniel described to be the four great powerfull Monarchs which should rule and govern in this world the golden head the silver breasts and arms the brazen belly and thighs the iron legs and the feet and toes they consisted part of iron and part of clay Dan. 2. 31 32 33 42. And all you my old sworn enemies have in and by them all even in all and every part of this terrible and great Images power and strength you I say again have wrought and effected under and in a seeming bright and excellent way your own wicked spleen and indignation against me your father the Devill exercising his false accusation and lies his enmity and cruelty in the Monarchie of the Babylonians which was the head of gold and after him he stirr'd up the Assyrian Monarchy to the self-same purpose deciphered by the breasts and arms of silver and when that power grew old weak and so failed him then hee stirred up the Grecian Monarchy who exceeded for strength though not for wealth whereby my children were cruelly oppressed to their great destruction for as their nature so is their operation declared by the Prophet to be a belly and thighs of brasse

is justified before hee believes I will asswage the hardnesse of the question by the mildness of a comparison that which acquits and frees a malefactor is the sealed pardon of the King so likewise that which comforts and assures the penitent heart of mercy and forgiveness is the sealing witness which Gods Spirit beareth to or assureth the humble heart of the free Grace and love of God through Jesus Christ so that justifying faith to the sorrowfull sinner is as the sealed pardon to the malefactor and to this agrees the Scriptures Acts 10. 43. To him that is to Jesus Christ give all the Prophets witnesse that through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins thus speaks Gods Word and not as you speak so that it cannot truly be said neither ought any dare so to preach that a man is justified before he believes nor that he believes before he be justified but that it is the same gift of Gods Spirit at one and the same time even then to believe our justification when he accepts us just in him that justifieth the ungodly and as it is given by the Holy Ghost to believe so it is continued maintained and increased by the same Spirit as the other spirituall gifts as hope love joy and patience are and whosoever doth receive the Spirit of adoption he hath with it the testimony of it which is justifying faith let us take heed wee do not separate that which God hath joyned together for that is directly against the commandment Matth. 9. 6. Let no man put asunder that which God hath joyned together and in vain doth that man argue to prove which is first in the Sun the heat or the light so vain it is in you to argue whether justification or faith be first for when or to whomsover God gives one he gives them both Rom. 3. 26. wherefore I retort your arguments thus If God give remission of sins to the penitent elect then the impenitent elect are not justified but hee gives remission of sins to the penitent elect Acts 2. 38. therefore none of Gods elect are justified before they are called and their sins remitted wherefore never hereafter teach your disciples that the elect of God are justified before they believe but learn to teach them to repent that their sins may be done away as the Apostle teacheth to life and salvation Act. 3. 19. and so St. John saith of the Jewes they did not repent that they might believe and consider our Lords doctrine to Nicodemus hee tells him not of his election although our Lord knew well that secret but hee preaches to him conversion Except a man be borne again he cannot see the kingdome of God Joh. 3. Regeneration must be sought for by the elect and by these effects and operations of the Holy Ghost to make sure to themselves their election this is Gods way prescribed in his Word And lest I fall into your error as I have briefly disproved your doctrine and discovered the falshood and mistie sophistrie of your arguments so now by the help of God I will lay down and confirm the truth it self how the Scriptures do speak of justifying and believing that so you may come to know that which hitherto I perceive you are very ignorant of Wherefore thus saith the Scriptures concerning justification We are justified freely by his grace saith the Apostle Rom. 3 24. Titus 3. 11. likewise that wee are justified by his blood that is by the blood of Christ Rom. 5. 9. and also that wee are justified by saith Rom. 3. 28. so then these three terms are to be considered in our justification the blood of Christ purchasing the grace and favour of God and an assurance of it given to the lost the dead the broken penitent mourning heart whereby though it be dead yet it is made to live the broken is healed the emptinesse is filled the thirstinesse is quenched comforted and refreshed with the favour and love of God in and through Jesus Christ justification then is the imputed righteousnesse of Christ assured and made known to the elect by faith and this doctrine is cleared by the Apostle beyond the least exception speaking of holy Abrahams justification and being fully assured saith hee Rom. 4. 21 24. that what God had promised hee was able to perform therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse Now it was not imputed for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if wee believe Observe first that the Apostle affirmeth justifying faith a full assurance for wee shall have occasion by and by to make use of this and secondly that the righteousnesse of Christ which is our justification is not given to us but by faith in these words to whom it shall be imputed if wee believe so that justification and justifying faith can no more be severed parted or divided then the light and the heat from the fire and to this purpose St. Paul calls Christ the just one and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Rom. 3. 26. so that it is proved against all the Antinomians in the world that then and not before when God justifies his elect then and at that time he gives justifying faith Act. 13. 38 39. And as I promised before so I will here briefly shew the divers acceptations and distinctions of faith and three particulars do comprehend all other sorts and distinctions whatsoever Historicall faith to believe Gods Word the faith of miracles by which it is given to a Saint or a sinner to work this or that miracle so also in the third place the Scriptures speak of justifying faith of which it is said wee live by wee are comforted by through which wee are purified and justified and this sort of faith is called in Scriptures the faith of God the faith of Jesus the faith of Abraham the faith of Gods elect the faith that worketh by love the faith in the blood of Christ the faith accounted for righteousnesse the faith of the operation of God the most holy faith and may be thus defined that it is a full firm and certain trust or confidence written by the power and Spirit of God in the low humble penitent and broken-heart whereby it is given assuredly to believe that all his sins are forgiven and thus he is made one with God by reconciliation and atonement in and through the eternall and everlasting love of Jesus Christ the materiall cause of this justifying faith thus defined is a full sure and undoubted trust or confidence the formall cause is the free grace and favour of God the Father and of his Sonne Jesus Christ the efficient cause is the alone work of the holy Ghost thereby imprinting in and assuring of the hearts of the elect of this confidence of this grace and mercie the principall and finall cause is the glory of God and our Lord Jesus Christ and the end