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A13875	A treatise of libertie from Iudaisme, or An acknowledgement of true Christian libertie, indited and published by Iohn Traske: of late stumbling, now happily running againe in the race of Christianitie	Traske, John, d. ca. 1638.	1620 (1620)	STC 24178; ESTC S118597	25,197	50

if my obedience were once fulfilled Which vengeance God auert if it be his will by giuing them hearts to raze out some vntruths out of their more then satyricall Inuectiues and forbeare reproches for time to come And desiring thy patience to reade the whole ouer passing by the quotations in reading though not in trying the truth of them all I rest Thy brother that prayeth for thee IOH TRA. May 5. 1620. A TREATISE OF LIBERTIE Against Judaisme CHAP. I. The Authors preparation of himselfe to write and helpe to some others to read profitably what followeth in this Booke AMongst the manifold fruits of the holy Spirit there is one which is often read freely acknowledged much commended yet least practised by the most that should be the greatest proficients in Christs Schoole and it is Meekenesse which is expresly required of all whether Instructors or instructed in authoritie or vnder gouernement Pastors or people men or women and hath beene euer of great price with God in the time of the Law as it is now much set by and highly valued in the Gospels peace As beneficiall it is as any other grace attended with as many pretious promises as manifest a signe of the truth of Gods grace as may be had So that though a Lyons boldnesse a Serpents wisdome a Doues simplicitie or rather innocencie be true badges of sound Christianitie yet it may be said and that truly that a Lambe-like meekenesse surmounts them all Neither is it left to euerie mans choyce to be meeke or no but the man of God is inioyned it and to all other men it is commanded in plain words as to Timothie Thou O man of God flie these things namely doting about questions strife of words peruerse disputings the loue of money and follow after righteousnesse godlinesse faith loue patience and meekenesse 1. Tim. 6. 11. And The seruant of God must not striue but be gentle to all men apt to teach patient in meeknesse instructing those that oppose themselues if God peraduenture will giue them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth 2. Tim. 2. 24 25. And to Titus the first Bishop of that Church of the Cretians he saith Put them in mind to be subiect to principalities and authorities to obey Magistrates to be readie to euerie good worke to speake euill of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meekenesse to all men Tit. 3. 1 2. So that such as set light by this duetie are no better then Rebells against God and what euer pretence they may haue Rebellion is written in all their fore-heads Besides Christ himselfe hath pronounced them blessed Math. 5. 5. They shall inherit the earth when ianglers and such as are contentious and full of strife shall be authors of their owne woe and plunge themselues into much miserie and be an occasion of rooting themselues out of their habitations meeke ones shall peaceably possesse the places where God hath graciously planted them so saith the Psalmist Yet a little while and the wicked shall not be thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be But the meeke shall inherite the earth and delight themselues in aboundance of peace Psal 37. 10 11. Neither shall meeke ones erre in iudgement but they shall be taught Gods way Psal 25. 9. Yea such is the excellencie of their condition that Gods Kingdome is their vndoubted possession seeing against them there is no Law Gal. 5. 23. And it is an euident note of election Col. 3. 12. And a notable helpe to make Gods Word a sauing Word to such as heare it Iam 1. 21. And a meeke and quiet spirit God highly prizeth 1. Pet. 3. 4. Meeke ones of all others haue a possibility of being hidden in the day of the Lords wrath Zephan 2. 2 3. Who then is he or where is he that will be slacke at all in labouring to be as meeke as a Lambe in all his conuersation And that such as are desirous may attain it the blessed Spirit hath left directions how such may be holpen thereunto As first by the due and serious view of what we our selues haue beene and at left our pronenes to the same or like euils with which others are or haue beene intangled and ouercome So Paul willing Titus to teach his Disciples to shew all Meekenesse to all men vseth this as a reason or motiue thereto We our selues also were vnwise disobedient deceiued seruing diuers lusts and pleasures liuing in malice and enuie hatefull and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. As if he should haue said Why should we behaue vs angerly or proceed bitterly or disdainfully against any seeing none are so odious but we haue beene as vile as they They be foolish and haue not wee beene vnwise they rebellious and we were disobedient they deceiued and intangled with errours and we once knew not the way of peace they serue lusts and pleasures and wee haue beene as base slaues to our owne desires they are now malicious and we haue liued in malice and enuie they deserue contempt and we haue been worthie of all manner of hatred Moreouer if we consider that which may yet befall our selues seeing we stand not by any power or strength of our owne this will much auaile vs to worke in vs Meekenesse Not onely to open prophane and such as are not yet called but to failing brethren especially as haue beene ouertaken by some subtile and strong temptations that they may bee restored againe to their former standing and that in the Spirit of Meekenesse Gal. 6. 1. If spirituall men did but weigh this duely there would not be so bitter inueighing against others in the state of lapse much lesse in the case of recouerie when men are knowne to acknowledge willingly all their failings or haue in them a good forwardnesse to confesse and forsake them as they daily perceiue them to be faults indeed And if we set before our eyes examples it may helpe much thereto Seeing it is left as Moses chiefe praise that he was a verie meeke man aboue all the men that were on the face of the earth Numb 12. 3. And our Lord proposeth his owne example in this aboue all other things where he saith Learne of mee for I am meeke and lowly in heart and addeth a promise vnto it You shall finde rest to your soules Matth. 11. 29. And if these helpe not pray for it earnestly as Zephany willeth where he saith Seek the Lord ye meek of the earth seeke righteousnesse seeke meeknesse Zeph. 2. 3. So that to shut vp all This Meeknesse is an excellent ornament to all and the proper liuery of Gods Elect whereby they may bee discerned from such as are filled with gall and wormewood By this the penne that is truely guided is kept from dropping downe any poyson of bitternesse to grieue any from all proud scorning of failing brethen and by it men are holpen to reade things written with such respect as if they had

been written with their owne pen yea to doe to all men as they would be done vnto and to forbeare to doe ought to any which they would be loath should bee done to themselues And thus much for some preparation to that which followeth concerning the truth of that Libertie which true Christians doe all enioy CHAP. II. A small taste of true Christian Libertie GReat was the Liberty those Senators in conceit vaunted of at the wound of that beast which yet liued though mortally wounded by Chereas Sword so that Liberty and onely Liberty is the Souldiers watch word But how great glorious costly and certaine this Libertie is no heart can conceiue nor tongue expresse much lesse any Pen describe the glory and admirable excellency it doth containe This true Christian Liberty this sonne-like freedome is that which God himselfe hath bestowed Christ Iesus purchased and the holy Spirit declared to such as truly beleeue and such Libertie it is that if the giuer bee respected it must bee greatly esteemed the cost bee valued it must bee highly prized or the commoditie thereof weighed it cannot but bee earnestly desired and zealously defended against all that in any wise would limit such boundlesse loue Wherefore seeing God the Father hath bestowed Gal. 4. 4 5 6. God the Sonne purchased it at the price of his owne bloud Iohn 8. 36. Act. 20. 28. 1. Pet. 1. 17 18. God the Holy Ghost declared it to all in whom he also vouch safeth to dwell 2. Cor. 3. 17 and seeing I am one of them that professe such freedome and haue testified before many witnesses that I doe now vnderstand more cleerely the mystery thereof I shall in a few words labour to expresse it to all that are indued but with the least beginnings of the same free spirit Psal 51. 11 12. That a Liberty there is if any were so impudent as to deny yet can none bee so ignorant as not to conceiue that such a thing must of necessitie be confessed seeing it is so often mentioned and a Law for it declared to all that vnderstand Iames 1. 25. But all the strife is what Libertie it is and who they are who may be truly said to enioy such freedome For answere to both it is affirmed that this Libertie is a freedome from the Law from Sinne and so from Hell and all feare of condemnation from sinnes accusation the Lawes condemnation and Hels anguish and that eternall separation from Gods comfortable presence for euermore We are diuorced from the flesh and so free from it yea dead thereto and so at liberty from the Law as it is written The Law hath dominion ouer a man as long as hee liueth for the woman which hath an Husband is bound by the Law to her Husband so long as hee liueth but if the Husband be dead shee is loosed from the Law of the Husband so then if while her Husband liueth shee be marryed to another man shee shall be called an Adulteresse but if her Husband bee dead shee is then free from that Law so that she is no Adulteresse though she bee marryed to another man Wherefore my Brethren ye are also become dead to the Law by the bodie of Christ that ye should bee marryed to another euen to him who is raysed from the dead that wee should bring forth fruit vnto God Rom. 7. 1 2 3 4. By this similitude is our Diuorce exemplified yea our freedome from the Law by the death of Christ and our death in Christ is most plaine to all that doe vnderstand And lest any one should yet doubt and not rest fully satisfied the Apostle a little after doth instance in himselfe and saith thus I was aliue without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin reuiued and I dyed and the Commandement which was vnto life I found to be vnto death Verse 9. 10. and then hauing put a manifest difference betweene his flesh and his faith his inward and outward man hee concludes with an exclamation thus O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this bodie of death And in another place hee saith I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might liue vnto GOD I am crucified with Christ Neuerthelesse I liue yet not I but Christ liueth in me Gal. 2. 19 20. What can be more plaine then this that being thus baptized into Christs death wee are free from the Law and it hath no more such authority to condemnation ouer vs at all By this also are wee dead to sinne Rom. 6. 1 2. That is as obey we cannot so disobey we doe not and so hath Hell nor Deuill no more to doe against vs. If sinne would stand vp to accuse God himselfe hath discharged vs by himselfe wee are esteemed iust If the Law would iudge or condemne Christ himselfe hath dyed to yeeld it the due and is risen againe being set downe at Gods right hand to make iutercession for vs. If trouble yea the powers of Hell it selfe would indeuour to separate vs from the loue of God it cannot they can neuer preuaile Rom. 8. So that a Libertie here is but none to the flesh Gal. 5. 13. None to sinne 2. Pet. 2. 18 19. No cloke for malice 1. Pet. 2. 16. But a libertie to Righteousnesse and Holinesse Luke 1. 74 75. yea to runne the way of Gods Commandements Psal 119. 32. As it may stand with faith in Iesus Christ Reu. 12. 17. But for that Libertie from sinnes power is granted and freedome from Hell defended or at least desired by all and willingly acknowledged by men of sound iudgement to all beleeuers therefore it is Libertie from the Law which is here to be proued to such as are willing to know the same we are set free from the whole Law which saith Cursed is euery one which continueth not in all things which are written in the Booke of the Law to doe them Gal. 3. 19. Free we are from that seruice in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7. 6. Free from that forme which was written in stony Tables and presented to those naturall Israelites in Moses hand 2. Cor. 3. And Christ is the Lawes end for rightousnesse to all that beleeue Rom. 10. 4. Free we are from all punishment which the Law exacteth for time past and from all rigorous and strict performance of euery part thereof for time to come The same mans nature yea flesh and bloud which transgressed and is obliged to such formall obedience and exact seruice hath now satisfied and borne the fury due to that transgression Heb. 2. 14 15 16. And wee by faith in him haue yeelded obedience and all satisfaction and are so accepted as obedient Rom. 4. 7 21. Our Libertie from sinne being nothing else but an effect of this freedome from the Law though that from sinne bee first knowne ere this from the Law can be perceiued Rom. 6. 14. For where no Law is there is no transgression Rom. 4. 15.