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A42733	An assize sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Glyn and Mr. Serjeant Earle, judges of Assize at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, July the 2d, 1657 / by Thomas Gilbert ...	Gilbert, Thomas, 1613-1694.	1657 (1657)	Wing G719; ESTC R18734	21,943	35

of Judgment at the last day Rom. 2 16. In that day when God shall judg the secrets of men by Jes●s Christ according to my Gospel God who delegates Christ the Judg appoints the Rule of Judgment the same as of mans Obedience Pauls Gospel Not any fifth Gospel written by Paul as some of the Papists fondly imagine nor yet the Gospel written by St Luke as Pauls Amanuensis But the Gospel saith Austin a contain'd Propheticis Apostolicis Libris in the Books of the Apostles and Prophets called PAVLS because he is the Preacher of it by much better right then I call JAMES MINE APOSTLE when Preaching upon a T●xt of his Epistle Rev. 20.12 The last Proof I shall offer ye have a solemn representation made to John by Vision of the last general Assize the Throne set Books open'd and dead judg'd b Origen and c Ambrose interpret the Books there said to be open'd the Books o● mens Conscience and Gods omniscience d Austin and our old Countrey-man Bede the Bo●ks o● the Old and New Testament Why may not these Antients divide the truth between them When it 's said the Books were opened I conceive both may be taken in When it 's said t●e dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books according their works I conceive both must be taken in Origens Books the Books of mens conscience and Gods omniscience as Records of Fact Austins Books the Books of the Old and New Testament as Records of Law That in these as Austin saies might be seen what Laws God hath commanded to be observed in those Not as Austin in that of life how men had or had not observed them The Point thus proved I shall now in the second place make some Queres for the better learning of the Doctrine QUERE I. How the same Law of God is the Rule of mans Obedience and Gods Judgment Answ. The same Law in different respects The Rule of Mans Obedience in the Precepts and Prohibitions Gods Judgment in the Promises and Thre●tnings 1. The Law of God is t●e Rule of mans Obedience in the Precepts and Prohibitions For as where no Law is there is no Transgression no sins of Commission where no Negative Laws or Prohibitions No sinnes of Omission where no Affirmative Laws or Precepts So where no Law is there 's no Obedience neither Man might and must have been subject to God as supreme Lord without any Laws He could not without Laws be obedient to God as Rector 2. The Law of God is the Rule of Gods Judgment in the Promises and Threatnings annexed to the Precepts and Prohibitions For as the Precepts and Prohibitions determine mans duty and sinne what shall be his duty and what his sinne so the annexed Promises and Threatnings determin Gods Rewards and Punishments The Promises what shall be Gods reward of mans duty the Threatnings what shall be mans demerit of Gods punishment for his sin So that had no Promise been annexed to the Precepts and Prohibitions man obeying both had indeed been capable of reward but God is not bound ●o conferre it and had no Threatning been annexed to the Precepts and Prohibitions man disobeying both had indeed been capable of Punishment but not bound to suffer it much less God to inflict it For the very Threatning annexed in the meer nature of a Threatning if it be not a denunciation also b●nds not God to inflict but man only to suffer if God inflict I have been the more brief in this first Quere because to be more large in the second QUERE II. What Law of God it is that is the Rule of mans Obedience and Gods Judgment Answ. Not one and the same Law to all but different according to the different state and condition of the persons to be ruled and judged by it yet so that the same persons have still the same Law the Rule of their Obedience and Gods Judgment Now there 's a three-fold different state and condition of persons to be rul'd and judged by the Law of God Some 1. Who never had Christ or not sufficiently discovered and proposed to them 2. Who having had Christ sufficiently proposed to them have not by saving Faith received and clos'd with him 3. Who having had Christ sufficiently proposed to them have by saving Faith received and clos'd with him 1. That Law of God which is the Rule of their obedience to God and Gods judging of them who never had Christ or not sufficiently discovered and proposed to them as the Law of nature under the formality of a Covenant of works written in their hearts if Gentiles or in Tables also if Jews None of these whether J●ws or G●n●●les are requir●d Obedience according to the Law of Gospel-Faith never pub●ished among them neither shall they be saved by that Gospel-Faith they never had in them nor be condemn'd for want of that Gospel-Faith never required of them in a Mediatour never or not sufficiently held forth to them For Credibile sufficienter proposi●um ad sidem obligat Now Christ ●s only sufficiently proposed where himself the end for which and Termes on which he is proposed are sufficiently made known Where this is not done there 's no obligation of duty to Believe and therefore There can be no obligation of guilt for not so believing So that here the Gospel can neither be the rule of mans Obedience nor of Gods Judgment But 1. If they be Gentiles in this condition their obedience or disobedience shall be scan'd according to the Law of nature written in their hearts and this Law of nature written in mens hearts being as capable of sanction by Promises and Threats as written in Tables judgment accordingly passed on them See both these Rom. 2. v. 14. this Law their rule of ●bedience These having not the Law are a Law unto themselves Ver. 12. this Law Gods Rule of Judgment They shall perish without Law Gods judgment of all such a judgment of condemnation for their disobedience to the Law For though some of them may do as the Apostle saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the things contained in the Law he meaneth but some things And of those some things for the matter which they do contain'd in the Law they do nothing for the manner and measure of doing required by the Law Now D●ut. 6.25 it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these Commandements before the Lord of God As he hath commanded us not only All commanded for matter but As commanded for manner or measure or no Legall Righteousness And if it be here Objected That the same essentials of the moral creature according to that of the Apostle are a Law unto themselves are at once mans both Rule and Principle of obedience and therefore The one cannot be more perfect or imperfect than the other and an imperfect principle may come up to perfect obedience