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A03392	The office and vse of the morall law of God in the dayes of the gospell iustified, and explained at large by Scriptures, Fathers, and other orthodoxe diuines, so farre as occasion was giuen by a scandalous pamphlet sent abroad of late into the hands of diuers good Christians, pretending great reason and reading for the vtter abrogating and abolishing of the whole Law of Moses since the death of Christ. By William Hinde, sometimes fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of Gods Word at Bunbury in Cheshire.	Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.	1622 (1622)	STC 13513; ESTC S116213	121,247	151

tongue and pen and that much after the same manner also as Augustine did Et u August lib. 1. cont Adversarium legis cap. 1. quoniam quoquo modo Christianum se videri cupit unde ex Euangelio ex Apostolo ponit aliqua testimonia etiam Scripturis ad Novum testamentum pertinentibus refellendus est That seeing he would seeme to be a kinde of Christian and so sets downe diuers testimonies of the new Testament and of the learned expositors of the same hee shall in like manner be encountred and confuted by them both yet I say not to the same end ut x August ibid. ostendatur in reprehensione veterum inconfideratias quam versutius insanire but that being contrarie minded he may be instructed in the spirit 20 2 Tim. 2.25 26. of meeknesse to see if God peraduenture will giue him repentance to the forsaking of his error and acknowledging of that truth which I hope he shall see is not abolished but established in and by our Sauiour 1 Mat. ● 17 Christ Iesus And so I come to looke this Aduersarie of the morall law of God in the face and to trie both the worth of his treasure whereof he 2 Reuel 3.17 boasteth not a little and the force of his armour wherein he 3 1 Sam. 17.45 trusteth too much Yet not in any confidence of my owne either power or policie but in the name of the Lord and in the power of his might whose counsell and strength I craue for this warre and who doth not only furnish his souldiers with spirituall weapons 4 2 Cor. 10.4 5. mightie through GOD to cast downe strong holds but teacheth also their 5 Psal 144.1 hands to fight and their fingers to warre and their armes to breake euen a bow of steele Thus came 6 1 Sam. 17.45 50. Dauid furnished and encouraged against Goliah thus came the poore simple 7 Ruffin Eccles Histo lib. 1. cap. 3. Confessor against the proud and wittie Philosopher and both of them preuailed against their aduersaries Dauid against his for his confusion the Confessor against his for his conuersion Aduersary of the Morall Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SIr you may well thinke me slacke in performance of my promise and not vnlike but you in respect thereof thinke that I faint in the cause but it is farre otherwise with me for the more that I consider of it the more I am confirmed in the truth of it and the more I discerne the many errors that rise out of the ignorance of the true difference betweene the Law and the Gospell Answer Sir how slacke you haue beene in performance of your promise I know not but it seemes you haue made some recompence of your slacknesse by your surenesse as you thinke that you might iustifie and make good the common prouerbe Though I be slow yet am I sure And I wish you had beene as prouident to bestow your studies well as you are confident that your cause is good or that your confidence be not greater then either your cause or your handling of it can wel afford for what is there in this your cause viz. In the Church of Christ since his death the whole law of Moses is wholly abolished and abrogated that can assure you of any warrant for the truth of it and what is there in your manner of dealing in it that can bring you any comfort or breed so great confidence in the so resolute defence of the same Had you drawne your pen and sharpened your stile either against the a August Quaest Veter Nov. Testam quaest 69. Ceremoniall Law that it is wholly vanished as a shadow because the Body is exhibited and abolished as a type because the truth is come Christ Iesus or against the b Et cont Adamant cap. 16. Iudiciall that it is abrogated also so farre as it was peculiar to the Mosaicall and Iewish policy you might peraduenture haue found some sorry c See Dana in August de Haeresib Centur. 2● Aduersarie else-where both of former and of latter times but the most iudicious Diuines both ancient and moderne you should haue found your surest friends Nay further had you beene of opinion that euen the Morall law as it was giuen by God to Moses and by Moses to the Church of the Iewes is now in some circumstances of time place persons tables Testament manner measure terror rigor and the like * Vide Cal. Harmo in 4. Lib. Mosis p. 442 443 444. See these Fathers Iren. aduers Haeres Lib. 4. cap. 21. c. Numquid haec decologi praecepta cessasse dicenda sunt Absit inquit Augustin Quaest Vet. Nov. Test cap. 69. in Gal. cap. 3. altered and changed in the Church of Christ since his death you would not I thinke haue found many if any at all much differing and dissenting from you But seeing you haue drawne out your sword such as it is against the whole Law of Moses not against the Ceremoniall and Iudiciall only but euen against the Morall also and that not to alter or change it in some circumstance but to abrogate and abolish the very substance of it and that not in part but wholly too I know not the man that will stand with you strike one stroake for you or bid you so much as God speed in this cause or course 1 Numb 12. When Aaron and Miriam rose against Moses in great bitternesse both of spirit and speech the Lord tooke them vp sharply with this rebuke My seruant Moses is faithfull in all my house how then were yee not afraid to speake against my seruant Moses I make no doubt but euen at this day the Lord doth reckon of the Morall Law as of his seruant yea and doth esteeme it in his vse a faithfull seruant in his Church also how then were not you afraid to speake to write to fight with all the wit and power you haue against the whole body of the Morall Law and that not onely to weaken the credit and power of it but vtterly to abolish the very substance and being of it therewithall Seemeth it a small matter in your eies absolutely to abolish both Ceremoniall and Iudiciall Law d Lex Christianis est thesaurus abscōditus c. vide Irenae advers Haer. lib. 4. cap. 43. which yet retaine a e Bulling advers Anabap. lib. 2. cap. 15. lib. 4. cap. 4. spirituall and morall equity and as they are part of Gods Word shall endure for euer but you must needs deale in like sort with the Morall Law also You are farre I hope from 2 Ester 3.5 6. Hamans minde though in this your courses be not much vnlike he thought scorne to lay hands on Mordecai alone therefore he sought to destroy the whole people of the Iewes in one day and you thinke scorne to abolish the Ceremoniall and Iudiciall law alone and therefore

abrogation of the Lawish Sabbath on the fourth Commandement And to Zanchius in loco quinto theologico ex cap. 2. ad Ephes vers 14 15 de legis Mosaicae abrogatione where he disputeth the point very fully yet he doth not plainly expound the places that seeme to contradict it of which I will giue you a taste That of Matth. 5. cannot bee vnderstood of the forme of Moses Law but of the matter of it or of the Law of Nature for it cannot be denied but that the matter of the Decalogue being the Law of nature is in force as it is the Law of nature and vnderstood philosophically but how it can be in force theologically vnderstood for that is our question in hand being we haue no warrant in Scripture for it but the contrary I cannot see For the other place Rom. 3. by the context it may be and is to be vnderstood of the whole Law as well Ceremoniall as any other and the same for the time past but how the Morall law alone can be there vnderstood I maruell what should moue any man to thinke so See Eras Parap on it In Erasmus Paraphrasts on the new Testament you may finde much vpon this point The booke though commanded to be had in Churches is too much neglected bookes of farre meaner qualitie are much esteemed Luther on the Galatians hath much for he saith in two places at the least that all Lawes are abolished by Christ page 176. b. 177. a. 223. a. Yea the 10. Commandements themselues and the like saith Beza on 2. Cor. 3.11 Others are inforced to acknowledge it though their iudgements be against it for it so stands in their way that they cannot auoid it All that any man can say against this doctrine is that the Morall law or the Decalogue is perpetuall in nature sauing the fourth Commandement no man denies it but where the perpetuitie of it in diuinitie is to be found in Scripture would I faine see For the holy Ghost in the new Testament doth not exact naturall precepts such as the Decalogue is Aug. de spirit liter cap. 14. In decem praeceptis excepta Sabbati observatione dicatur mihi quid non sit observandum à Christiano for that is fulfilled in one word Loue Gal. 5.14 But the exhortation is to the workes of the Spirit none of which are properly commanded in the Decalogue I forgot to illustrate the conclusion of my fifth section afore with a familiar Simile which here I will adde Suppose the lawes of Venice to be the same for the most part with the lawes of England And yet if in England the bookes of the Venetian lawes should be brought out and read either to condemne or acquit a man accused or to giue direction for order and gouernment here with vs I thinke few men in England would hold themselues bound by vertue of those lawes or booke in any such manner One other Simile to illustrate the generall point 2 Pet. 1.19 The Apostle likeneth the Prophets to lights shining in darke places meaning as I suppose the Moone Stars or candles in the night till a greater light appeare And Malachi 4.2 Christ is termed the Sunne of righteousnesse so when this Sunne is risen neither Moone nor Starres are seene and candles are of no vse And Oecolampadius in Isai 2.5 saith Stultitia erit in meridie lucernis esse addictos quibus Sol si non ignavi essemus lucerer To conclude I wish that all men especially Diuines would take paines rightly to vnderstand the Doctrine of Christian libertie the difference of the Law and the Gospell and of the old and new Testament and of the Couenants of both And so the ●ight abrogation of Moses Law The studie of all which is too much neglected by ignorance whereof they run into strange questions as men in darknesse stumbling at one thing and catching hold of another thing that auailes them nothing I might a little illustrate my second section with a word or two If a man make two Testaments or Wills it is knowne to euery man that the latter and that whereupon he died is only in force and the former is not The Lord giue vs all the true knowledge of his truth THE OFFICE AND VSE OF THE MORALL LAW OF GOD IN THE DAIES OF THE GOSPELL The Preface THE counsell of the Apostle 1 1 Thess 5.21 Paul is well worth the hearing yea and the following also for all that are willing to seeke and embrace the truth Try all things and hold fast that which is good for as all is not a Interdum orichalcum magis exprimit colorem auri quam aurū ipsum Ludou Viu de Causis corruptarum Artium lib. 3. pag. 127. gold that is gilt ouer nor euery metall good siluer that giueth a good sound so neither is euery plausible opinion true doctrine nor euery colourable conceit a currant truth no though it seeme to be gilt ouer with Scripture as with pure gold or to sound as shrill as siluer by the voices and testimonies of religious and learned men This did the Spirit by which he wrote both see and foresee that as there were many then so there would be euen in our daies not a few who neither contenting themselues with nor consenting vnto 2 1 Tim. 6.3 wholsome words euen the words of our LORD IESVS CHRIST and to the doctrine which is according to godlinesse would teach otherwise and other things euen 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act 20.30 distorted and peruerse things not only besides but euen contrary to the doctrine which was deliuered vnto them and therefore not without iust cause doth the Apostle 4 1. Iohn 4.1 Iohn also speaking by the same Spirit admonish vs of the same thing to try the spirits whether they be of God or no. And both of them to this end that bringing the doctrines and opinions of men to be tried and examined by the Scriptures as the Gold-smith brings counterfeit coyne or suspected metals to his touchstone for so much the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in both 5 1 Thess 5.21 1 Iohn 4.1 See also 1 Pet. 1.7 places doth import we might vpon due triall better 6 Phil. 1.9 10. discerne of things that differ and iudge aright betwixt truth and error and so not only entertaine the truth when we finde it but 7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thess 5.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 4.14 Reu. 3.11 hold it fast as it were with all our strength and 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iud. Epist 3. maintaine it when once we are in possession of it Which course and counsell of the Apostles for triall of the truth and maintaining of it was not only in their daies of great vse and good successe to establish the Churches and children of God in the sound profession of the truth against the damnable errors which men of corrupt mindes and destitute of the truth

say for you much more take heed you call not in such to speake in your cause as are opposites and aduersaries vnto it and cannot but speake what they haue heard and seene and set both heart and hand against you Let Luther your first witnesse second my aduice and if you will suffer him to speake he will discouer your strange dealing in bringing him to giue euidence against his conscience and to speake to your minde that which he neuer meant a Luth. on Gal. 4.27 p. 223. In the very next page to the words which you alledge as his opinion that the whole Law of Moses is wholly abolished he thus cleereth himselfe We say that the Morall Law or the law of the ten Commandements hath no power to accuse and terrifie the conscience in which Christ Iesus raigneth by his grace for he hath abolished the power thereof Marke well his words What hath Christ abolished The power of the Morall Law not the Law it selfe nor the whole Law wholly but the power of it and what power not all power but the power of accusing terrifying and condemning and in whom hath it lost this power not in the wicked vnregenerate and reprobate but in that conscience in which Christ raigneth by his grace And in the page following b Luth. on Gal. 4.27 p. 223. b. he hath these words to the same purpose When our sinne is pardoned through Christ who is Lord of the Law the Law being a seruant hath no more power to accuse and condemne vs for sinne and wee are now made free forasmuch as the Sonne hath deliuered vs from bondage And in this sense both he and we doe acknowledge that the Law is wholly abolished to them that beleeue in Christ Iesus notwithstanding c Prosectò illam Dei legem non solum illi tunc populo verùm etiam nunc Nobis ad instituendam rectè vitam necessariam nemo dubitaverit Aug. Lib. 3. contra duas Epistol Pel. ad Bonifac. cap. 4. lib. 4. cap. 5. it remaineth still in force for some speciall offices and vses both against the wicked and for the godly and that not only to driue them vnto Christ vpon sight and sense of their miserie to seeke for releefe in his obedience but to direct them also how to walke aright in the waies of God when they are once come vnto him Yea and further also because in many things we sinne all and there is no man that sinneth not the best of Gods children euen after their effectuall calling and conuersion stand in need of some of the d Hieron Augustino Tom. 2. p. 341. offices of the Law as 1. to know the e Rom. 7.7 nature and qualitie manner and measure of their sinne by the f Iam. 1.23.25 glasse of the law for as Paul knew that concupiscence euen without consent was sinne because the Law that is the tenth Commandement saith Thou shalt not couet so he that will finde out his sinne must discouer it by the light and measure it by the line of Gods law for sinne saith g 1 Iohn 3.4 Iohn is transgression of the Law 1 Ioh. 3.4 and Paul affirmeth that where no Law is there is no transgression Rom. 4.15.2 It serueth also to h Ad hoc lex data est ut superbo suam infirmitatem nota faceret c. vide plura apud Aug. de poenit medicina c. 1. conuince the conscience to afflict the heart to breake the spirits subdue the pride euen of godly and gratious men and all this only to humble them not to discourage them to make them to remember and consider whence and whither they are i Reu. 2.5 fallen that they may repent doe their first workes and recouer their first loue and that in the sense of their miserie when the Lord shall powre the k Zach. 12.10 spirit of Grace and supplications vpon them they may looke vpon him whom they haue pierced and mourning ouer him may seeke and sue for mercy and refreshing from him alone that hath promised to heale the l Isay 61.1 broken hearted to ease the burdened and to m Math. 11.28 refresh them that are tired with the labour or wearied in the waies of sinne Thus did the n Luk. 15.18 19. Prodigall I will goe vnto my father Thus did Adulterous o Hos 2.7 Israel I will returne vnto my first husband for then was it better with me then now Hos 2.7 And hereunto p Luth. on Gal. 3.19 fol. 154. b. Luther giueth further testimonie Gal. 3.19 The Law is as a glasse that sheweth vnto a man himselfe that he is a sinner guiltie of death and worthy of Gods euerlasting wrath and indignation To what end serueth this humbling this bruising and beating downe by this hammer the Law I meane To this end that we may haue an enterance vnto grace So then the q So also saith Aug. epist 89. ad Hilarium Iubet ideo ut facere jussa conati in nostra infirmitate sub lege fatigati adjutorium gratiae poscere noverimus vide etiā August Tract 17. in Joh. Law is a Minister that prepareth the way to Grace for God is the God of the humble the miserable the afflicted c. Can there be any more plaine pregnant euidence to conuince you of error in this your opinion That the whole Law is wholly abolished then this which is given in against you by your owne witnesse that it is not only yet continued but also for so necessarie vses offices and seruices for euer established euen so long as there shall be any need for a sinner to be humbled and of a r Veniat Medicus sanet aegrotes Medicus quis est Dominus noster Jesus Christus August in Eua. Ioh. Tract 3. Sauiour to be sought vnto And yet if all this be too little hearken to his admonition and obserue his protestation touching this particular and you shall yet haue a more ample and effectuall satisfaction and conuiction in the same ſ Luth. on Gal. 3.19 fol. 153. b. Luther on Gal. 3.19 Here I admonish saith he all such as feare God and especially such as shall become teachers of others hereafter that they diligently learne out of Paul to vnderstand the true and proper vse of the Law which I feare after our time will be trodden vnder foot and vtterly abolished by the enemies of the truth Hearken I pray you to this admonition and trie the truth of your opinion by these foure points contained in it 1. That yet there is a true and proper vse of the Law 2. That Paul the Apostle doth teach what the true and proper vse of the Law is 3. That all that feare God especially Ministers ought to learne it as he doth teach it 4. That they are enemies of the truth that goe about to tread it vnder foot and to abolish it And now obserue his protestation t Luth.