07-Appendix My Reservations about Tobias Crisp

I do not agree, for instance, with Crisp's views on eternal
justification, eternal union, and the nature of saving faith, and his
lack of distinction between God's desire and decree.1 For example,
I disagree absolutely with Crisp when he said: 'There is no person
under heaven, reconciled to God, justified by him through the
righteousness of Christ, but he is justified and reconciled before he
believes. And therefore faith is not the instrument radically to unite
Christ and the soul together, but rather is the fruit that follows and
flows from Christ'.2 This is wrong.3 Saving faith, according to
Crisp, is the evidence of justification, not the way to receive it.4 In
saying such things, Crisp was mistaken. But this did not make him
an antinomian! Rather, he was a hyper-Calvinist at these points.