6. It confoundeth Law and Gospel, it overthroweth all the Laws & Precepts of Christ, by removing their end, it contradicteth the whole scope of the Scripture, which telleth us, That Christ was made under the Law, (& not under the Gospel,) fulfilled the Law, (but not the Gospel Covenant) bore the curse of the ⟨p. 74⟩(but not of the Gospel,) and which imposeth a necessity of fulfilling the conditions of the Gospel themselves upon all that will be justified and saved. To quote the Scriptures that assert this, would be to transcribe almost all the doctrinal part of the New Testament. What unsavoury stuff then is that of Mr. Saltmarsh, of free Grace, pag. 83. 84. Who directeth those that doubt of their Gospel sincerity to see it in Christ, because Christ hath believed perfectly, he hath sorrowed for sin perfectly, he hath repented perfectly, he hath obeyed perfectly, he hath mortified sin perfectly, and all is ours, &c. If this be meant of Gospel-believing, repenting, sorrowing, obeying and mortifying, then it is no uncharitable language to say, It is blasphemy in its clear consequence; as if Christ had a Saviour to believe in for pardon and life, or sin to repent of, and sorrow for, and mortify: But if he meant it of legal believing in God, or repenting sorrowing for, mortifying of sin in us, and not in himself; then is it no more to the business he hath in hand then a Harp to a Harrow, as they say, It is not legal believing, which is the evidence doubted of, or enquired after; and sure Christs repenting and sorrowing for our sin, is no clearing to us, that we repent of our own, nor any acquitting of us for not doing it: And for his mortifying sin in us, that is the doubt, whether it be done in the ⟨p. 75⟩doubting soul or not? If he mean it of destroying the guilt of sin meritoriously on the Cross, that is but a strange evidence of the death of it in a particular soul: except he think (as divers that I met with in Gloucestershire, and Wilt-shire,) That Christ took our natural pravity and corruption together with our flesh. But I let go this sort of men, as being fitter first to learn the grounds of Religion in a Catechism, then to a manage those Disputes wherewith they trouble the World.
6. It confoundeth Law and Gospel, it overthroweth all the Laws & Precepts of Christ, by removing their end, it contradicteth the whole scope of the Scripture, which telleth us, That Christ was made under the Law, (& not under the Gospel,) fulfilled the Law, (but not the Gospel Covenant) bore the curse of the ⟨p. 74⟩(but not of the Gospel,) and which imposeth a necessity of fulfilling the conditions of the Gospel themselves upon all that will be justified and saved. To quote the Scriptures that assert this, would be to transcribe almost all the doctrinall part of the New Testament. What unsavory stuff then is that of Mr. Saltmarsh, of free Grace, pag. 83. 84. Who directeth those that doubt of their Gospel sincerity to see it in Christ, because Christ hath beleeved perfectly, he hath sorrowed for sin perfectly, he hath repented perfectly, he hath obeyed perfectly, he hath mortisied sin perfectly, and all is ours, &c. If this be meant of Gospel-beleeving, repenting, sorrowing, obeying and mortifying, then it is no uncharitable language to say, It is blasphemy in its clear consequence; as if Christ had a Saviour to beleeve in for pardon and life, or sin to repent of, and sorrow for, and mortifie: But if he meant it of legall beleeving in God, or repenting sorrowing for, mortifying of sin in us, and not in himself; then is it no more to the business he hath in hand then a Harp to a Harrow, as they say, It is not legall beleeving, which is the evidence doubted of, or enquired after; and sure Christs repenting and sorrowing for our sin, is no clearing to us, that we repent of our own, nor any acquitting of us for not doing it: And for his mortifying sin in us, that is the doubt, whether it be done in the ⟨p. 75⟩doubting soul or not? If he mean it of destroying the guilt of sin meritoriously on the Cross, that is but a strange evidence of the death of it in a particular soul: except he think (as divers that I met with in Glocestershire, and Wilt-shire,) That Christ took our naturall pravity and corruption together with our flesh. But I let go this sort of men, as being fitter first to learn the grounds of Religion in a Cathechism, then to a manage those Disputes wherewith they trouble the World.
