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.

§. LXXV.

My Dear Kratiste goes farther in Bontering the Phrases, of Christ's taking our Person and we his Person, and spares not to call them Apocryphal Phrases, though they are such as many Holy Men have made use of to clear up the great and comfortable Doctrine, of Christ's being our Surety, and making Satisfaction for us. Well may he call Tobias, Apocryphal, if he calls his great Teacher, under Christ, the Apostle Paul, Apocryphal; as I shall shew by and by. He is pleased to come forth in great State, in Page 49, as my Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, with his Quo Warranto, against the Commutation of Persons, and thus Harangues the World; Quo Warranto? Why must all the World be Hereticated, that dare not sub∣scribe to these Apocryphal Phrases, which neither Scripture, nor An∣tient Fathers, nor General nor Particular Councils, nor Synods, nor Assemblies, nor single Churches, ever brought into their Creeds? &c. What a scampering flourish is here over all Councils, Fathers, &c. circuating the Universe, as if our Author were the Magazine of all Learning, and had fortified himself on every side against this Change of Persons, and Christ's sustaining our Person, as if the Phrase were intollerably uncooth? I shall only attack one Fort, which is the first Out-Fort, the Scripture, and if that be taken he must yield all the rest, The Scripture is the Pillar and Ground of Truth. We will see if that doth not bring into our Creed this Term, of Christ's bearing our Person, and we his Person; or that which is plainly tantamount, doth not the Apostle say, Col. 2.6, 7. As ye have received the Lord Jesus Christ, so walk in him: Rooted and built up in him? What is this but to be in his Person by Faith, joined to the Lord, and so he coming one Spirit, as the Apostle saith, which is the same as to be one Person? But as if God would at once, by one stroke, quell all the Quarrels and Exceptions against the Truth, and calling it unintelli∣gible Nonsense, (as in Truth it is to the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Philosophers) he condescends to the very Term of our being in the person of Christ▪ and saith in 2 Cor. 2.10. by the Apostle Paul, If I forgave any thing, for your sakes forgave I it, in the Person of Christ? What thinks my Dear Kratiste now? Is this Term so novel, as never to

be brought into our Creed by Scripture, Councils or Fathers? O how good is it to be humble, and not to tower to the top of all Learning, denying this phrase to be in Scripture, Fathers or Coun∣cils, when at the very threshold we see one may fall: For here the very express Scripture uses the phrase of the Apostles being in the Person of Christ, and forgiving an offending Brother in the Person of Christ. And so I hope we shall all learn to forgive one another, and not to rebuke with immoderate strains, as our Rebuker hath very unwarrantably done, in charging the Doctor with wild monstrous Sense, and Apocryphal Phrases, when he speaks the Apostle Paul's Language.