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A13836	The three questions of free iustification. Christian liberty. The use of the Law Explicated in a briefe comment on St. Paul to the Galatians, from the 16. ver. of the second chapter, to the 26. of the third. By Sam. Torshell pastor of Bunbury in Cheshire.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1632 (1632)	STC 24143; ESTC S101743	73,396	324

teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and no l●e 1 Ioh. 2.27 That is not for them the Apostle there entends but to plead for the Apostolike Doctrine that they needed no other Doctrine but what God had delivered unto them He gives himselfe explained in the former verse that hee would arme them against seducement Iran l 4. cap 43. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you The Apostolike Church it selfe had the Spirit the Holy Ghost came downe upon them yet they had Preaching likewise witnesse their Sermons frequently recorded in the Acts. But how dare they so much dishonour the wisedome of Christ seeing he pleased to Institute them to call the Sacraments needelesse Would that onely wise God institute things to no purpose But though wee have the Spirit already yet wee may use the Sacraments Christ had the Spirit and yet hee was baptized Mat. 3.15 Non ratio ne sui sed spectantiū Qu●a vita mea morū disciplina Glos Ord. Hee then received the Spirit in the form of a Dove for our sakes not his owne Cornelius had the Spirit before he was baptized Wee must examine whether we be in the Faith and so wee must eate And what though no other thing bee in the Seale than in the Promise yet though I trust a man well I have more ground for my trust when I have his Bond so the Sacraments are intended for the strengthening of our Faith I 'le not longer pursue these Io. Sleid. Hist lib 10. Lamb. Hortensi lib. Tumult Anab Henr. Dorpius Edit 1536. they have beene strange Pitches to which many of these Enthusiasts have beene lifted They called David Georg their singular prophet and himselfe was blasphemously bold to call himselfe The Christ the Messiah 'T is enough to name such horrible blasphemies now let others enter to their part and acting 4. Against Anti vetera testamentaries 4. Against such as receive not the Testimony of the old Testament They say the face of Moses is vailed we neither can nor may see him They urge that of the Apostle to the Hebrewes In that he saith A new Covenant hee hath made the first old Heb. 8.13 But while they destroy the old they destroy the new together with the old That very quotation of their owne is urged by the Apostle from the old Testament Christ made use of it when hee Preached upon the Booke of the Prophet Esaiah Luk. 4.17 And after his resurrection beginning at Moses and all the Prophets hee expounded unto them the Scriptures Luk 24.27 And Peters Sermon Act. 2. hath much from that Tes●ament But if they say This was for the Iewes sake wee have to oppose that example of Philip to the Eunuch a Gentile an Aethiopian at that time a Christian to him Philip expounded Esaiah And how often are such Scriptures urged by Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles But Moses is vailed What will they inferre Most of the Antients understood it onely of his darke way of delivery Longe aliter nos Evangel●um promulga mus quam Moses veterem legem ●llo p lam ac apertè loqui non ●usus est ed velo faciem obduxit nos vero nihil patimur esse opertum aut oc●u●tum Chry in loc Tert. lib de Resur c. 55 Id●m lib. 5. A●vers Mar ca 1 Israel●tae rudes non potuerunt videre quod finem hahe ret lex quodque abroganda for●t Th●ophil Cyril in Io. lib. 3. cap 34. Orig. hom 12. in exod He gave things obscurely by the Gospell they are more Theophilact indeed speakes a little to what they seeme to meane The rude Israelites could not see that the Law should have an end and should bee abrogated But hee speakes soundly enough in that and not to their purpose But the Apostle hath best interpreted the mystery We use great plainnesse of speech and not as Moses which put a veile over his face that the children of Is●ael could not stedfastly looke to the end of those things but their mindes were blinded for unto this day remaineth the same veile untaken away in the reading of the old Testament which veile is done away in Christ But even unto this day when Moses is read the veile is upon their heart 2 Cor. 3.12 13 14 15. 'T is Anselms note There is a double veyle one of Obscurity in those Typicall things another of want of faith in our hearts neither of these will be plea for them to deny acqua●ntance with old Scriptures I shall deale but with one other adversary but a dangerous 5. Against Pure Sinlesse Anabaptists 5. Against pure Anabaptists such as were the Novatians and Catharists of old They say They are pure without sinne the glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing Eph 5.27 Yea that they cannot sinne Hee that committeth sinne is of the Divell Whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sinne and he cannot sinne because he is born of God 1 Ioh 3.8 9. But we may answer Saint Iohn by Saint Iohn If wee say we have no sinne wee deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 1 Ioh. 18 Wee must therefore Reconcile him to an answer Interpreters are not agreed 1 Ambrose Aug. l 4 ad Boni● c. 7. as Augustin relates his opinion Aug de nat et grat c. 14 understands it of the state of future glory But he speakes of this life 2. Others as the same Augustine relates not de facto that they doe not sinne but de iure that they ought not Electos adver●t quasi nunquam pec●asse quoniam et si qua deliq●isset in tempore vid ntur non apparent in aeternitate quia charitas patris ipsorum operet multitudinem peccatorū Be●n serm ●● in Cant. Bern serm 1. Septuag But thus they are not differenced from unregenerate for they also ought not to sinne 3. Bernard yet more straines it to that covering love in Gods praedestination But 't is not meant of imputation for that phrase he cannot sin it cannot bee meant God cannot impute sinne 4. Augustine in one place seemes to understand it of the different condition of man that the Regenerate in this li●● Renatos in hac 〈◊〉 partim esse filios Dei ratione generationis et inchoatae renovationis partim filios huius seculi respectu vetustatis in caern● vel huc reliquae quod ergo dicuntur non peccare id de illis dici quatenus sunt Dei fisii quod verò iuben tur fateri se adhuc habere peccatum id ●●ill● dici quaetenus sunt filii huius seculi Aug. lib. 2. De pecs mer et Remis cap 8. Aug. Tract 5. in Io. Hier. l●b 1. adven Pelag Idem lib 2. adven Iovin Gernard D●sp 1. cont Fanat Thesibus 53 59. ad 70. are partly the sonnes of God in regard of generation and inchoate renovation partly the children of this