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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 Imprinted at London by H. L. for WILLIAM LEAKE 1607. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Sir Thomas West Knight Lord Lawarre all peace prosperitie and happinesse RIght Honourable hauing at the request of a religious Knight an Alderman of the Cittie of London gathered this my Sermon into writing and deliuered him the Copie I was soone after desired nay importuned by others my worshipful good friends to giue consent for the printing of it Which when I could not in good manners as I thought farther put off I was at length induced to condescend vnto the rather both in regard of the benefit which by this my weake meanes may growe to the Church of God as also that by seeking shelter vnder your Ho protection I had now a fitte opportunitie long wisht-for to manifest my dutifull respect and humble affection to your Lordship This your Patronage if it please your Honour as an addition to your former fauours gratiously to vouchsafe mee I cannot but also acknowledge my selfe herein the more obliged in al boundē duties Thus humbly crauing your Lordships fauourable acceptance of my faithful endeauours I take my leaue Your Honours euer in all duty GEO. CRESWELL Dated the 8. of October 1607. Galati 3. vers 17. 18. 19. 20. 17. And this I say that the Law which was 400. and 30. yeares after cannot disannull the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ that it should make the promise of none effect 18. For if the inheritance be of the Law it is no more by promise but God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise 19. Wherefore then serueth the Lawe It was added because of the transgressions till the Seede came vnto the which the promise was made and it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator 20. Now a Mediatour is not a Mediatour of one but God is one THe Apostle right honourable right worshipfull and welbeloued Christians in all this whole Epistle doth grauely and sharply confute them that in his time mingled the Lawe with the Gospell and as if that Christ had beene insufficient for vs did teach that Circumcision and the obseruation of the Lawe was necessarie for the Gentiles that had alreadie beleeued in Christ Further he demonstrateth that the Lawe did subdue al men to the curse and therefore they did very vnwisely that hoped for any blessing frō the Lawe Yea God would haue it to bee so that all men might knowe that they should be blessed and saued in Iesus Christ in whom God had promised the same vnto Abraham Now when hee had confirmed this by the testimonies of the scripture hee vseth a similitude or example of testaments or wills wherein he teacheth vs that they were too rash that thought it lawfull for them to doe that in the couenāt of God which is vnlawful to bee done in the will of a man being once well confirmed sealed a matter worthie of our best consideration because God was willing to comprehend the whole manner of our saluation vnder the word or forme of a Will or couenant such a one as could no otherwise be fulfilled or ratified but by the ensuing death of his onely begotten sonne which was an argument of Gods goodnes and mercie full of most sweet and excellent comfort God was willing that his onely begotten sonne obedient to his decree by whom hee made and gouerneth all things should be made man and deliuered him vp to the bitter and ignominious death of the Crosse that hee might adopt vs into his children and make vs fellow inheriters of his kingdome Euen vs I say who how honorable rich or great soeuer wee bee yet are we of our selues sinners and the sonnes of wrath Therefore it is manifest that our saluatiō doth proceed and come vnto vs from the free mercie of God without any desert of ours And as this scripture doth maintaine the certaintie of it so doth it admonish vs of our dutie which is to be cōtented with Christ only remember that we owe our selues al that we haue vnto God who hath aduanced vs miserable wretches vnto the dignitie of his sons Thus much be spokē as an Introduction into the Text. Now let vs proceed in the words of the Apostle who doth more amply declare that which before he had spoken concerning the couenant of God in these words And this I say that the Lawe which was 403. yeares after c. The summe of this is that the Couenant of God was so firme and sure that it could not bee abolished by the Lawe So that the Apostles words are as much as if he should haue said It may be I may seeme vnto many to speake obscurely yet I wil speake truth as the matter is for as God touching his essence is eternall and is not changed so also his wil is constant in it selfe and his decrees are immutable For as saith the Prophet Esaie When the Lord of Hostes hath determined any Isai 14. 27 thing who shall disannull it Wherfore although God gaue a lawe afterwards to our forefathers yet notwithstanding this law which followed 400 and 30 yeares after was not able to abolish or any way to corrupt that ancient couenant that God before had made with Abraham and confirmed it by authoritie The Apostle heere draweth an argument from time in the which that wee may note this by the way appeareth with what diligence the Apostles read searched the scriptures Many other such like places we haue in the word of God Steuen the protomartyr in his Apologie in the seauenth of Acts. 7 the Acts from the succession of time draweth a reason wherby hee proues that what excellent thing soeuer our fathers had it came vnto them from the free mercie of God Our Apostle doth the like in that famous Act. 13. sermon that hee made vnto the Iewes at Antioch a Citie of Pisidia And in his Epistle to the Romans doth teach vs from Rom. 4. the circumstance of time that Abraham was Iustified by faith onely and not by circumcision it being no other but a seal of that righteousnes hee had already obtained by faith In all which is proposed a notable Instructiō for ministers to imitate this diligēce of the Apostles remembring that the holy scriptures were not written by the priuate will or motion of man but the whole scripture as said the Apostles Peter and Paul by 2. Pet. 1. 20. 21. 2. Tim. 3. 16. the inspiration of the holy Ghost who doth nothing rashly but all things with discretion and iudgement For there is nothing so small