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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87607	Lux & lex, or The light and the lavv of Jacobs house: held forth in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons at St Margarets Westminster March 31. 1647. being the day of publike humiliation. / By Robert Johnson, Eboraicus, one of the Assembly of Divines.	Johnson, Robert, d. 1670.	1647 (1647)	Wing J818; Thomason E383_6; ESTC R201430	43,460	44

shew that there is one God of the Jews and Gentiles Yet he saith not your Lord nor Jacobs Lord nor thy Lord as in●some other Scriptures but the Lord haply for that they having forsaken him would not with that assurance and confidence of interest goe to him as their Lord The holy Scriptures this is that Isaiah would teach them are a light to all Gods people and that it is so there are these evidences 1. The Scripture is a full and perfect light there is no defect in it no rules wanting none insufficient we cannot say as of the Oratours works desunt nonnusla nor as the Schools of P. Lombard hic Magister non tenetur No the law of the Lord is perfect it 's sine vitio it hath no faule in the least measure 2. It is a clear and shining light manifesting a sufficiency of instruction and direction in all the waies of God so as the man of God may be made perfect As it hath light in it self So doth it convey the same to others making them wise to satuation if you say there be many in darknesse and ignorance to this very hour who walk in by-waies I desire you to consider that God is pleased to clear to such as be his people all truths necessary to salvation if any of his children be in an errour against fundamentalls God who hath promised to lead his Saints into all truth will discover this unto them in due time 3. As light is pure and clean you cannot fasten any dirt or uncleannesse on it So is the word of God there is no drosse in it so thorowly is it purged saith a learned Divine Men may cast disgracefull speeches and aspertions on it as doe Papists Atheists and Enthusiasts but there you can fasten no evil The word as the light is a comfortable creature how pleasant is it to behold the light saith the wise man the expressions of Gods free-grace the promises of mercy the doctrine of the covenant in Christ made with Gods people the future glory and happinesse herein held forth and reserved to all Gods elect How doth the hearing reading meditating of the same put life into the hearts of Gods children in the midst of their hottest afflictions as David I had fainted in my trouble but thy word hath quickned me Light is smart and painfull to all blear-eyed persons who cannot endure the force and efficacie of it which comes to passe by reason of the weaknesse or imperfection of the eies So the word of God especially when powerfully preached doth exasperate and enrage ungodly men desirous to sleep in the dark dungeon of hellish sins who like Cerberus Plutoes dog drawn from hell belch and vomit at the light So were the Pharisees at Christs Sermon They were scandalized at him Lastly as the light hath its being and rise from the Sunne the fountain and originall of it there is lux and lumen as the Philosophers distinguish as cause and effect So God who is light it self and dwelleth in light in whom is no darknesse at all the father and fountain of light is the originall of this Scripture light which is a ray or beam of his sunne in heaven It is of his enspiring holy men saith the Apostle spake as moved by the Spirit the word is not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of their own interpretation but as they were moved by the holy Ghost Honourable and beloved seeing it 's the light of the Lord that hath all this day this day said I yea so many Sermon daies yea so many scores of years shined to this Nation Let us to whom of late more fully God hath vouchsafed so imparallelld a mercy our forefathers and many of our dear brethren in other countries as those in Egyptian darknesse desiring to see one of these daies of the sonne of man and cannot injoy them let us I say endeavour to walk answerable to so high a favour Oh that I were worthy to fasten on you the exhortation of the prophet Isaiah cap. 60. 1. 2. wherin is a promise also and seemes in our times to be fullfilled Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for behold the darknesse shall cover the earth and grosse darknesse the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be upon thee Take notice therefore of these rules Bring your actions to this light and make triall whether or no they be wrought in God both your private emploimen● as men and your publike undertakings in your respective ●●ions to Church and state The King as we read in Deu● 17. 18 19. When he sat upon the throne of his Kingdome was to write him a coppy of the Law in a book on t of that which is before the Priests the Levites and it was to be with him and he was to read therein all the daies of his life that he might learn the fear of the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to doe them Yea say some Hebrew Doctors he was so carefully to look to this rule that if his fathers had left him none viz no book of the law or if that be lost he is to write him two books of the law the one he is to reserve in his house for so he is commanded as every one of Israel the other is not to depart from before him if he goeth out to warre it goeth with him if he sit in judgement it is to be with him They knew of old this most certain principle as Luther calleth it that Gods word will not attemper it self or condescend to Princes and states but they are to frame themselves and imploiments unto it though never so crosse to their malignant and corrupted humours which gives me occasion to remember that worthy speech of famous Queen Elizabeth when passing in roiall state to her coronation through the streets of London the Bible being presented to her which with both hands taking she kissed and laying to her breast she said that the same had ever been her chiefest delight and should be a rule by which she meane to frame her government In this case it 's true what Casuists teach concerning the Cannon law that in materia ad acclesiam pertinento where the civill and Canon law disagree We must be ordered by the Canon So if we could be willing when laws fright and oppose one the other to sta●d to the determination of Gods Canon without prejudice or partiality suffering our selves to be directed by the light of holy Scripture it would soon put a period to the most unkindely differences 2. Beware of the pretended new lights so much sought after by these times that our holy zeal for God is almost extinct When God sets up a pillar as a direction to his people he expects that