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A15726 The ground of a Christians life Deliuered in a sermon at Harwood in Lancashire, the first day of December 1618. By Robert Worthington minister of Gods word at Acceington. Worthington, Robert, minister of Gods word at Acceington. 1620 (1620) STC 25999; ESTC S103650 35,929 86

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as necessary to saluation or equalized with the law of God neither may they by their multitude obscure the glory of Christ in his ordinances but such lawes as are made vniustly or command vnlawfull things do binde neither in generall nor particular neither in themselues nor accidentally and therefore cannot be of faith Now the Church of Rome maketh Great difference betwixt the Church of Rome and the Church of England lawes and ordaineth constitutions not onely Extrafidem without faith but also contrafidem against faith and to bind the conscience in paine of mortall sinne laying grieuous burthens vpon mens shoulders heauie to be borne And thus farre in the third vse proceed we in order to the fourth Vse 4 In the fourth place it teacheth Gods Ministers to preach the Scriptures as in Gods ministers must preach Gods word 2. Tim. 4. 1. 2. respect of the necessity thereof all our actions being to be done of faith so also from the direction of the Apostle who saith to Timothy Preach the word Nay we haue the example of Christ who preached Moses and the Prophets himselfe The Scribe demanding the way to life Christ answereth by interrogation What Luke ●● ●6 is written in the law how readest thou Againe he entring into a Synagogue at Nazareth vpō the Sabboth it being his Luke 4. 17. ordinary custome by the testimony of the Euangelist and a booke of the Prophet Esaiah being deliuered him he openeth the booke and findeth it written thus The Spirit of the Lord is vpon me because he hath anointed me that I shold preach the Gospell to the poore c. The which he expoundeth and applyeth as plainly appeareth in the verses following yea he vrgeth it as a duty vpon the people for to heare Moses and the Prophets They haue Moses and the Prophets saith he Luke 16. 29. let them heare them Now what made way for Antichrist but leauing of the Scriptures From whence ariseth schisme heresie together with grosse idolatry The casting aside of the word is the high way to schisme heresie and grosse Idolatry but from ignorance in the Scriptures For opinion and sense may faile and erre when faith rightly grounded vpon the word cannot What hath caused so many sects to spring vp in the bosome of the Church as Donatists Familists Brownists Anabaptists but want of comparing Scripture with Scripture When men want indifferent ●ares and hearts their affections rather inclining to courses of security and liberty and their iudgements blinded through pride and selfe-loue how soone I say are such seduced drawne away and corrupted Therefore as it is a duty to search the Scriptures they being the ground of faith and pillar of truth so it behoueth the Lords embassadors to come to the people with not Thus say I but Thus saith the Lord. For what wise man will The word of God vpholdeth a ministers office and authority credit euery heare-say or what subiect wi●l yeeld respect to such an one as coūterfeiteth the kings Embassador hauing neither his Maiesties Armes nor Seale I will not deny but it is a blessed thing to teach Gods truth from a sanctified spirit for who is able to direct in that mysticall doctrine of regeneration so well as he that is regenerate himselfe or what art is able to describe and teach like experience It was an infallible truth and grounded certenty sufficiently perswading the wise men that in Bethleem Mich. 5. 2. Matth 2. 9. was borne Christ the king of the Iewes when the prophecy of the Prophets and the conducting starre paralleled both directing vnto one and the same place As sure and credible will it be when Gods sacred Spirit in vs shall sympathise with Gods word and his Spirit make a sweet harmony in his Ministers his reuealed truth But if sense preposterously faile without the guide of faith then beware of ship wracke for Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne We see then as in a glasse the duty of all Gods embassadors for as we may not preach our selues but Christ Iesus the Lord so may we not deliuer a parcell of the Scriptures or diuulge them partially The true treasure and diuine Oracles of the Almighty require faithfulnesse for so ought stewards to be found faithfull Cor. 4. 2. Gods truth as it is so it must be taught The word of truth deserueth true diuision The whole word of God must be taught as also right application whereby the whole counsel of God may be reuealed to the Saints For oftentimes the want of comparing Scripture with Scripture and distinguishing of times produceth an Ataxie or confusion in the Churches of God To instance in some particulars and lamentable presidents The cauils and innouations of that Anabaptisticall Sect who say that the New Testament is sufficient to saluation therfore the Old vnnecessary and vnprofitable and they ground themselues vpon these Scriptures 2. Cor. 3. 6. and 14. Who 2. Cor. 3. 6. 14 16. hath made vs able Ministers of the New Testament not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter killeth but the Spirit giueth life Moses say they had a couering Anabaptists very proud and grosly ignorant which in Christ is taken away But the Apostle saith not that Moses is taken away but the veile is taken away For the Apostle speaketh of the illumination and conuersion of the Iewes to Christ as appeareth in the sixteenth verse Neuerthelesse when their hearts shall be turned to the Lord the veile shall be taken away Indeed the shadows and ceremonies must needes be taken away when the substance is come but Christ was not shadowed or typified in the moral law therfore that cannot vtterly be taken away Matt. 5. 17. 18. for his comming was not to abolish it but to fulfill it therefore the Old Testament is both necessary and profitable Furthermore what although the Apostle teach that the letter killeth but the There remaines good vse of the morall law both for repentāce and life spirit giueth life doth he thereby any thing else but shew the difference betwixt the Law and the Gospel namely that the one is able to do nothing without the other For the orgā of the quickning Spirit cannot be properly said to be the Law but the Gospell since the Law hath no power to regenerate but the Gospell yet in regeneration and conuersation the Law hath it worke and vse and therefore cannot be abolished Another ground they haue in Matth. 17. 5. Christ say they by the command Matth. 17. 5. of the Father is onely to be heard but to heare Moses the Prophets of Christ is to heare Christ Besides it is the command of the Sonne himselfe who was equall with the Father They haue Moses Luke 16. 39. and the Prophets let them heare them Yea he telleth the Iewes that If they had beleeued Iohn 5. 47. Moses they would haue beleeued him for he wrote of him Againe