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B12273	The harmonie of the lawe and the gospel Wherin is plainly shewed, that howsoeuer they differ in time and some other circumstances, yet in substance they are one & the same. And by waie of application, the pretended antiquitie of Poperie is discouered, and found to be a meere nouelty: deliuered in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, the 9. of Aug. 1607. by George Cresvvell, minister of Gods word.	Creswell, George.	1607 (1607)	STC 6038; ESTC S117450	22,951	66

men vnto a sight of their sins but the grace of the gospel hath brought vs into the kingdom of heauē And therfore saith S. Chrysost Ego Chrysostome quādo lego Euangeliū video ibi testimonia de lege testimonia de Prophetis solū christum cōsidero For the Gospel saith Theod. sheweth the reconciliation of God the destructiō Theodoret of the diuell the remission of sinnes the departure of death resurrection from the dead life eternall and the kingdome of heauen for the scope and ende of the Gospell is the saluation of men So that as well by the testimonies of Antiquitie as also by the scriptures we may see plainely how far more glorious the Gospell is then the lawe The second thing that the Apostle speakes concerning the lawe is that it was giuen in or by the hand of a Mediator Thus he cals Moyses who in the giuing of the law was vsed as a mediator betweene God and the people For when the people were not able to endure the voyce of God then God was willing to make him an interpreter of the lawe and God tendering the peoples infirmitie called Moses vnto himselfe to whom he did not onely declare his law by word but also writ downe the summe of the same in Tables of stone and gaue them to Moses to bee deliuered to the people That this is the true sense of this place appeares by the words of Moses himselfe which hee spake vnto the Israelites saying When ye hard the voyce out of the midst of the darknes Deut. 5. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. for the Mountaine did burne with fire then yee came to me all the chiefe of your Tribes and Elders and said Beholde the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glorie and his greatnes and wee haue heard his voyce out of the midst of the fire c. And afterward if wee heare the voice of the Lord our God any more we shal die For what flesh was there euer that harde the voice of the liuing God out of the midst of the fire as we haue and liued Goe thou therefore and heare all that the Lord our God saith declare thou vnto vs all that the Lord our God saith vnto thee and we will heare it and doe it Heere then obserue Note the infirmitie and weakenes of man and how far we are from God seeing wee are not able to endure the maiestie and brightnes of Angels Neither did the Israelites onely endure and suffer this but the like examples we finde in the parents of Samson in Daniell that man of desires in the welbeloued Disciples of Christ whom the taste of Gods maiesty shining in Angels did so terrifie that they fell to the ground and wist not what they said This onely argument then is sufficient to conuict the papists who trust vnto the strēgth of their free will and the merite of their workes But to let them passe and come vnto our selues we are hereby taught to embrace the goodnesse of God who for vs miserable and vnworthy wretches so far abased himselfe that he speakes vnto vs by euerie manner of meanes This goodnes Moses doth worthily commend vnto vs teaching vs to make this vse of it namely diligently and attentiuely to heare and performe those things that God speakes vnto vs. But how much greater then this was the readinesse and mercie of God towards vs who in the ende vouchsafed to speake vnto vs by his onely begotten son least any one should pretend the ignorance of his will Being mindefull hereof let vs submit our selues to his will with all our hearts alwayes remembring the saying of the Apostle to the Hebrewes For if the Heb. 2 2. 3 10. 28. 29. word spoken by Angels was steadfast and euerie transgression and disobedience receiued a iust recompence of reward how shall we escape if we neglect so great saluation which at the first began to bee preached by the Lord and afterwarde was cōfirmed vnto vs by them that heard him And againe if hee that despised Moses lawe dyed without mercy vnder two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment suppose yee shall hee bee worthy which treadeth vnder foote the sonne of God and counteth the blood of the new Testament as an vnholy thing wherewith hee was sanctified and doth despight the spirite of grace But to the last part of this Text wherein because the Apostle had made mention of Moses the mediator hee now drawes an argument from the person or condition of a mediator wherewith hee confutes them who would be iustified by the lawe A mediator is not a mediator of one that is to say hee is not a mediator betweene such as are at vnitie and peace one with another but rather hee is one with them betwixt whom he doth mediate But our Fathers when the law was giuen stood in need of a mediator lest they should be compelled to endure those greeuous and terrible voices of God himselfe proclaiming the law of which their neede whereas before they were ignorant then they onely vnderstoode it when the lawe was to be giuen By this argument the Apostle euidently gathers that the lawe is not that meanes by which we are reconciled with God but rather by the lawe our miserable estate as before hath beene declared is made knowen vnto vs Namely that being separated from God we haue nothing in our selues that can defend vs before Gods tribunal seate For God indeed professed himselfe to be their God and deliuered vnto them a law but vnto the same he added such conditions which whereas they were impossible to bee performed they did terrifie rather then comfort miserable men Therefore Moses himself did send them to that great Prophet Christ Iesus of whom as touching his office of mediatorship hee did beare a type and figure But now some will obiect say Had God then broken his couenant Deut. 18. 15. that there must be a new reconciliation and therefore a mediator But the Apostle maketh answer hereunto saying But God is one as if hee should haue said God neuer hath broken his couenant for as he is one in essence so is hee constant in himselfe and is neuer changed But because men doe not alwayes stand to those conditions which GOD prescribes vnto them he deales after another manner with them And therefore then also for matters before spoken of there was a Lawe giuen which continued for a time so long as there was vse of it But now is the time of the new Testament when the Lawe the Prophets doe yeeld vnto the Gospell that there might be a place as wel for the Gentiles as the remnant of the Iews who forceably entred into the kingdome of God I knowe that others doe expound this place otherwise and speake much of Christ the Mediatour of the vnity of God and equality of the Sonne with the Father but the whole Text of the words doth sufficiently teach vs that it is not agreeable to the purpose of the Apostle Therfore let vs ayme at the true scope of the Apostle which is to shew that righteousnesse and peace of conscience cannot be looked for from the Lawe seeing the ancient Fathers to whom the Lawe was giuen were not able to endure the giuing of the same much lesse then shall we be able to abide it if God should be willing to iudge vs according to the rigour of it Therefore as the Iewes stoode in neede of Moses to be their Mediator so we stand in need of Christ whō God hath made the Mediator of the new Testament for vs. Let vs therefore acknowledge this so great a benefit and least wee should make the goodnes of God vnprofitable for vs let vs with a true and constant faith embrace Christ Iesus that he being truely vnited vnto vs may liue in vs and that wee may lead in him a life beseeming the profession of Christ applying alwayes vnto our selues that which Christ said vnto his Apostles vpon the Mount Oliue that Luk. 22. 39. 40. they should watch and pray Let vs therefore apply our selues vnto that vocation whereunto God hath called vs let vs watch against the deceites of the world and the diuell Let vs continually meditate in the word of God that is able to comfort vs and teach vs. Let vs giue place to the spirit which God hath made an aduocate for vs. Let vs pray continually that he will not suffer vs to faint vnder temptations Finally let all our hope bee fixed and fastned in Christ Iesus who is the good shepheard and wil suffer no man to take his sheepe which he hath redeemed with his blood out of his hands To him therfore with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory for euer Amen FINIS Vnderstand Christian Reader that part of the matter contained in the ninetenth and twentith pages aforegoing was by him that copied out this Sermon for the Presse set downe in the Margent without certaine direction for vs where to bring it into the body of the Book And consequently for want of a guide we haue somwhat failed as we vnderstand since of the due order obserued by the Authour in his originall Copy which was as followeth Symmacchus the Gloria in excelsis Deo Ierome the Epistle and Gospell Alleluia was taken out of the Church of Ierusalem the Creed in the Councell of Nice Pelagius the Commemoration of the dead Leo the third Frankincense Innocent the first the kissing of the Pax Sergius the Agnus Dei Nicolas the first the Sequences Gelasius Africanus as saith Nauclerus the Hymnes Collects Responsories Graduals and Prefaces Gregory the third to the secret of the Masse Quorum solemnitas hodie in conspectu tuae Maiestatis celebratur Domine Deus noster in toto orbe terrarū Leo the first so forward in order as it standeth in the booke Furthermore In the 3 page line 27 reade 430 page 14. line 10 reade Anablatha