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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13024	The Christians sacrifice much better then all the legall sacrifices of the Iewes; and without the which, all the said legall sacrifices of the Iewes, euen when they were in force, were not acceptable to God. Or, a logicall and theologicall exposition of the two first verses of the twelfth to the Romanes, with all the doctrine in the said two verses, plainly laid forth, and fitly applied according as these times do require the same. Wherein also besides the orthodoxall exposition of the said words, diuers other places of Scripture by the way occurring, before somewhat obscure, are so naturally interpreted, as that the iudicious reader shall thinke his paines well bestowed in vouchsafing to reade this treatise following. With the authors postscript to his children, as it were his last will and testament vnto them.	Stoughton, Thomas.	1622 (1622)	STC 23314; ESTC S100120	224,816	288

write how learned how godly soeuer he be yet that which he shall speake or write though neuer so well agreeing with the word written shall not be taken so to be the word of God as that any may make the same a touchstone for triall of any mens doctrine as we may and must make the Scriptures of the old and new Testament Oh what an euidence is this of the perfection of the new will and testament of God aboue the old No booke of the old Testament was so singularly the will of God but that other bookes after written were as well to be accounted of neither the whole old Testament so but that the New was likewise neither any part of the new written before the other so but that the other written afterward was of equall authoritie with the former So may it not be said of any other bookes written since by any other whatsoeuer Last of all this word perfect doth not onely import such a will and testament as whereto there shall neuer be any thing added as it were a codicill to be thereunto annexed but also such a will and testament as shall continue for euer to the end of the world and neuer be abolished or abrogated in the whole or in any part thereof as the other was and this the word here vsed and translated perfect in the Greeke and Latin tongue seemeth to import Then is a thing said to be perfected in Latin when it is finished and brought to the end It is as plaine in the Greeke because the substantiue of the adiectiue here vsed signifieth the end and the aduerb deriued from both signifieth to the end as when it is said Hope perfectly the 1. Pet. 1. 13. meaning is Hope to the end as it is translated in our new translation The same is also manifest by reason touching the will of a man For the last will and testament of a man cannot be altered after the death of the testator so cannot the will and testament of God made by his Sonne in the name of God and by the authoritie of God be now altered the Sonne that made it being now dead and his will being proued in the great and high Court of heauen by God himselfe the Iudge of all the world from whom there is no appeale to any other Where a testament is saith Heb. 9. 16. the Apostle there must also be the death of the testator for a testament is of force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all whiles the testator liueth If it be obiected that albeit Christ died yet he now liueth Reu. 1. 18. for euermore I answer that yet his death was so effectuall for confirmation of this his Will that his said Will cannot by his present life for euermore be cancelled or made of no force For that his once death though raised againe was more then if all the men in the world yea also if all the Angels in heauen had died neuer to be againe restored to life And by that his death he hath freed all his elect from euerlasting death most iustly deserued by them Againe though he now liue in heauen yet he is so dead vnto men as that he shall neuer againe liue with men in this world to eate and drinke to be hungrie and thirstie and wearie in his owne person as he was To conclude all before written of these three adiuncts The vses of the former three adiuncts of the will of God 1. Reprehension of the Papists of this will of God with the vses thereof the more excellent we haue heard the same to be by the said ad●uncts the greater is the wickednesse of all Papists that denying the same to be so good so well pleasing so perfect and therefore do yet adde the doctrines of men and the daily decrees of that man of sinne the child of perdition the Antichrist of Rome not only as equall to this wil neither to make y● same better the acceptabler the more perfect but also to abrogate it and to dispense with any thing done contrary thereunto as with breach of oathes the loyaltie of subiects vnto their Soueraignes the murder also of such Princes giuing their kingdomes to whom they list so also with mariages within the degrees of kindred forbidden mariage by God himselfe It maketh also for reprehension of Anabaptists Familists Reprehension of the Annabaptists and all other that either reiect this will of God altogether or thinke it not so good so well pleasing and so perfect but that there must be reuelations and visions whereby to be made the better the more pleasing and perfect I might likewise here speake of the contempt of the Reprehension of some among vs. word amongst our selues yea by them that would not be accounted profane persons as Esau but professors and such as will shew faire countenances to Ministers and to other that do indeed regard the word But oh who can so speake as to reforme it Not Paul himselfe not Christ as he was man and as in his humane nature did once speake vnto men If the word be preached to some in the morning somewhat sooner then other men preach or in the afternoone somewhat later then other men though vpon neuer so good reason yea vpon some necessitie oh then it is preached out of season What then Hath not the Apostle commanded it so to be preached Hath he 2. Tim. 4. 2. commanded it so to be preached and hath he not commanded it so to be heard Yea but in the morning we shall heare it in our owne Churches afterward and in the afternoone we haue heard it there already and therefore what need we to heare it againe it is euen to glut vs with hearing So the Israelites loathed Manna But alas what Num. 11. 67. followed They lusted for flesh they had it of the daintiest Psal 78. 24. but they had little pleasure in it Whiles it was between their teeth and ere it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled Num. 11. 33. against them and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague to the slaying of the fattest of them c. Againe if Psa 78. 31. such men as so excuse themselues might haue siluer or gold or both or any other commodity offered vnto them either very cheape or especially for nothing without any I●ay 55. 1. mony and without any price would they make such excuses would they be so nice in taking paines to fetch it As for some daintie Dames euen sprugd vp of nothing that are so long in dressing and attiring themselues in the morning that they can scarce come to their owne Churches how neare soeuer till it be ten of the clock when all are come together and they may be seene of all and that after their owne Sermon or perhaps Seruice onely read in the afternoone they cannot take the paines to go heare the word preached