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A05479	Twelue sermons viz. 1 A Christian exhortation to innocent anger. 2 The calling of Moses. ... 11 12 The sinners looking-glasse. Preached by Thomas Bastard ...	Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618.; Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618. Five sermons. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 1561; ESTC S101574	96,705	150

hinder his fulfilling of it If Christ should breake the law who could keepe it he doth not onely fulfill it in himselfe but in vs. For hee that is in Christ keepes all lawes and hee that is without Christ breakes all lawes How then can it be that he which makes peace in heauen and earth with God and man without whose comming the law of Ceremonies had been but a meere shadow and an absurd and darke figure without whose fulfilling the law morall had had no farther honour then to hang vp written in Tables of stone and neuer beene written in any heart I by whom the law iudiciall had her full force and vertue For by mee Princes raigne euen by Christ the wisedome of his Father which is God and King for euermore how can it be that hee should breake the law How can it be that God should not be God that truth should not be truth that hee which saues vs all from the curse of the law should be himselfe a transgressour of the law Nolite putare Doe not thinke so Why should wee say so why should wee beleeue so why should wee beleeue so which ought not thinke so Wee are law-breakers Know say it Let all men protest it let all the world confesse it If we had not broken the law Christ should neuer had neede to come to fulfill it Christ came to fulfill that law which wee haue broken and shall wee count him a dissolue●… of the law though many beleeue it and some say and some sweare it yet doe not you thinke it That we may not thinke so we haue two reasons 1. The negatiue nolite putare Thinke not so 〈◊〉 The affirmatilte quia veni implere I came to fulfill the law Of the negatiue First The law and Prophets are in substance the selfe fame thing wherefore the writings of the Prophets are called the law The Euangelist saith as it is written in the law they hated me ●…thout a cause Where hee speaketh not out of the law but out of the Prophet And thus wee may take the law for the whole Scripture of the olde Testament The law was a dumbe Prophecie the Prophecie a speaking law The law we resemble to Zacharias which being stricken dumbe made signes and tokens The Prophets to the same Zacharias when his mouth was opened Yet the same things which the Prophets expressed testifying more plainely in words the law witnessed though more obsourely To wit the Prophet saith of Christ that hee should be as a Lambe before the shearer not opening his mouth The law signifieth the same in the Paschall Lambe or the Sheepe going to sacrifice And although the law doe not speake of his Priesthood of his anointing with the holy Ghost of his Passion of his Baptisme of his Innocencie c. yet it doth shadow him in signes and tokens in Aarons annoynting in his royall roabes in his Priesthood and pointeth to his Passion in the daily sacrifice of the blood of beasts his Baptisme in the red Sea his innocence in the Lambe without spot The law and Prophets were one 1. Because they came from one for the same God which spake the Law spake by the Prophets putting his word in their mouthes 2. Because they were both ioynt-promisers of Christ the law in dumbe shewes the Prophets by speaking 3. Because they ended in one being as shall be shewed both fulfilled in Christ and heere I will take them both for one namely for those fiue Bookes of Moses which the Iewes call Torach because the question which is of the Ceremonies of the law and their practise is there more of purpose and principally set downe and the law hauing in it implicitly the Prophets which were her interpreters may stand for both But howsoeuer the law be to be taken by it selfe without the Prophets and if by it selfe whether iudiciall or ceremoniall or morrall of Christ it is true I came not to destroy the law Christ himselfe saith I came not to take away the law If the Law could speake it would say I was not giuen to take away Christ. But Lex soluit Christum the law tooke away Christ when he was crucified and died and was buried for to these he was a debter by the law And Christ tooke away the law when by his death it was expired and ceased I but Christ by thus dying hath attayned to his fulnesse of power and glory and spread his saluation ouer all the world And the law by thus ceasing hath her fulnesse to haue her perfection and consummation of all that was signified and written If then the law were Christs end why should not Christ be the end of the Law If he obayed the law and was vnder it why should not the law obey Christ and be vnder him Thus then are these words to be vnderstood I came not to destroy the law that is to make it voyd or of none effect But take this soluere in any sense whether of omitting any thing which was contayned in the Law or committing any thing which was contrary to the law for as it is all one to offend in one and in all so hee that omitteth the least commaundement prescribed in the Law is guilty of omitting the whole Law And therefore Christ in the words next following will haue all the Law fulfilled to the least iot or tittle and point Till heauen and earth passe away one iot or tittle of the Law shall not scape till all be fulfilled And now little should we beleeue of Christ if we should not beleeue this Many which came before Christ did breake the Law I all from our Father Adam were transgressours of the Law yet none were euer sent or came into the world to this end If then the end of Christs comming had beene to loose the Law needes must Christ in his comming haue had a worser end then any that were before him Nolite putare God forbid we should so thinke Christ was accused for a breaker of all lawes Of the Law morall when hee was termed a drunkard and a sinner Of the breach of the iudiciall Law when he was accused of mouing the people and forbidding to pay tribute Of breaking the ceremoniall Law when he was accused for violating the Sabboth And whereas in the whole decalogue there was but this one commandement ceremoniall Here they stouted and wrangled more then for all the rest The law morall was as I may tearme it Magna charta the great commandement The Law of Ceremonies was a Law of iots and titles compared The iudiciall Law was middle betweene both by which the Kings did gouerne the State yet so that the Kings did punish those which offended against the Law morall as well in breaches of the first Table as of the second as you may see the first Booke of Kings cap. 15 vers 13. Where Asa put downe his mother Maachah from her

sealed Booke of which none was found worthy in Heauen or Earth to open the seales but you may see the Lambe take the booke and open the Seales when he saith This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares When first the seales of ceremonies were put to the law written the finger of God was seene So Pharaohs wise men confessed when they said Digitus Dei hic est the finger of God is here After when God sent his onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ into the world the same finger of God was seene If I in the finger of God doe east out Diuels and then did the Lambe of God pull open the whole booke of the law when the fire of his passion melted like waxe his flesh and bloud that we might see in him ouery least impression of those figures and signes and characters to the least shadow and all their contents So now the least we can imagine of Christ is to haue but fulfilled the Law and the Prophets which for the law of signes hath not onely in truth and fulnesse of satisfaction exhibited all but more then the ceremonies did or could signifie and for the predictions of the Prophets hath not onely made good all things whatsoeuer the Prophets spake of him but more then they were able to speake for the ceremonies which did require to be fulfilled in spirit and truth they were all contayned in lesse then fiue bookes but if it should be written what Christ was made and spake and wrought and suffered and testified in their fulfillings The Euangelist saith The a whole world were not able to contayne the bookes As for the Prophets we must consider they spake of Christs birth miracles teaching of his death and passion of his Priesthood his righteousnesse glory kingdome c. Yet were they but poore and niggardly interpretours of that which Iesus Christ in his owne person did represent They did tell vs of this Sunnes rising to the world but how farre inferiour was their relation to this Suns rising No meruaile for how could such a bottomlesse Ocean empt it selfe out of those narrow conduits of the lips of men Therefore they spake of the light but darkely for when we saw the face of that glorious one how rude was their draught Little things increase by fame but of the onely begotten sonne of God we may say as the Queene of Saba said of Sal●…mon It was a true word that I heard in mine owne land of thy sayings and wisedome Howbeit I beleeued not this report till I came and had seene it with mine eyes but loe the one halfe was not told mee for thou hast more wisedome and prosperity then I haue heard by report Right so may we say it was true O Christ Iesus which wee heard by the Prophets of thy wisedome and power and maiesty and glory but we beleeued not their report but when we saw thee come and shew thy selfe to the world loe the one halfe was not told vs. What could the Prophet Isaas say more then yee heauens send the dew from aboue and let the clouds drop downe righteousnesse But how bare and poore is the conception of the dew in the ayerie cloud to the incarnation of the Sonne of God in the Virgins wombe and what comparison with Canaan to Heauen the drowning of Pharaoh with the vanquishing of the Diuell what is their red Sea to the bloud of Iesus Christ what Iosuahs Sunne standing in Heauen to the Sonne of Gods descending into the world and dwelling with men To this purpose did the holy Prophet pray Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderfull things of thy law He did not desire to haue his eyes open to see the Passeouer eaten or the bloud of Goats and Rammes sprinkled or sprinkling with Water or Sabbaths or Feasts for to these his eyes were opened he saw them well The wonder of the law is lesus Christ signed and sealed to the world vnder those egene and poore signes which is Vere admirabilis Deus his name is Wonderfull Counseller the mightie God c. and in him onely we wonder at the Counsell of God which hath by him vnclasped that darke booke of Ceremonies and Riddels of the law and opened the contents of saluation in the light of-the Gospell giuing vs for the Letter the Spirit for shadowes the body truth for figures fulnesse for emptinesse for darkenesse light for bondage freedome for death life for Moses for Eliah for Prophets for Men for Angels One Iesus Christ which raigneth in Heauen But I most conclude onely I will alledge two places which the Apostle hath to shew Christs fulfilling of the law for we will giue the Ceremonies leaue not onely to demand impletion of their greatest and most important signes let them racke themselues to their least shadow and demaund satisfaction for euery tittle and poynt And in like sort wee will not onely make euen with the Law morall to mens vnderstanding but to satisfie the vtmost demaund of GODS iustice in rigour stretching the Law to punish not onely the act and deede but the entent and thought as Christ doth in this Chapter till sinne be shaken as I may say out of the wombe of concupiscence and that first cradle in which it was rocked S. Paul saith of Christ Who hath put out the hand-writing of ordinances which was against vs and contrarie to vs hee tooke it out of the way and fastned it to his crosse Ergo hee hath satisfied the condition of the law for hee could not cancell the band till hee had paid the debt For the law when it stood vnfulfilled was in her whole strength and vertue but now by Christ his death the law is made voyd and of none effect Then the lawes demaund hath beene fully satisfied Now euery obligation doth witnesse against it selfe that when the condition is performed it is voyd though it it be not actually cancelled it mattereth not then though Christ did not actually naile the law of ordinances to the Crosse this was enough to disanull the lawes whole vertue and power when to all the lawes demaund hee made in himselfe full tender vpon the Crosse before so many witnesses God and Angels and Men. Here then wee must conceaue the band is cancelled where the debt is discharged Againe the same Apostle that which was vnpossible to the law c. God sending his owne Sonne in the similitude of sinfull flesh and for sinne condemned sinne in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in vs. Then it is too little to say Christ hath fulfilled the law or that by satisfying he hath freed himselfe for he hath done it for vs and in vs and our faith in Christ doth not take away the law but establish it when all these things are spiritually performed in vs which the lawes signes and figures did protend So wee haue for the law a law legem