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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50402	The law of God ratified by the gospel of Christ, or, The harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded, and the moral law adjusted a rule of holy living to all, though justified by faith / as it was delivered in several sermons preacht to the parochial congregation of Mayfield in Sussex by Mr. Mainard late rector thereof, publisht since his death.	Maynard, John, 1600-1665.	1674 (1674)	Wing M1450; ESTC R33505	161,259	298

of Nature consisting of those notions of good and evil which were left or new written by the Lord in the minds of men and women after that the nature of mankind was corrupted by sin which Law though it be now imperfect yet in many things it sheweth the difference between good and evil and hath power over the Conscience to inform convince excuse and accuse The other two delivered peculiarly to the people of Israel are the Law of Ordinances of Ceremonies and the Law moral And the Apostle proveth that none of these Laws can justifie the strictest observers of them all men and women being naturally corrupt and possest with principles of opposition against the purity and perfection of the moral Law and those that are renewed by grace being but imperfectly conformed to the Law As for the Law of Ceremonies it is in its own nature no perfect rule of righteousness but consisting of figures and shadows and such earthly and carnal observances as had a mystical signification of spiritual and heavenly things The Law of nature is comprehended in the moral Law delivered in the Scriptures first published to Israel and then communicated together with the Gospel to the Nations of the world So that that which is imperfectly written in the minds of men naturally is perfectly declared by the Law written by the finger of God in Tables of stone scil the ten Commandments and more fully opened in other parts of Scripture And therefore though it was expedient for the Apostle to speak distinctly of them in the former part of his discourse to convince both Israelites and Heathens of their unrighteousness and g●ilt yet in this place I conceive the Law of nature and the written Law may well be comprehended under one and so I take the Apostles meaning to be that by the doctrine of free justification through the righteousness of Christ both the Ceremonial and moral Law are established To begin with the former observe this point That the Law of Ceremonies is established by the doctrine of the Gospel Or thus The doctrine of free justification through the righteousnes of Christ apprehended by faith establisheth the Ceremonial Law For the right understanding of this we may consider First In general What these Ceremonial institutions were Secondly How they were misunderstood or abused by ignorant and carnal Israelites Thirdly How they are established by the Gospel or doctrine of justification by faith First These Ceremonial Ordinances were instituted by the Authority of God himself as parts of his outward worship and figures of heavenly and spiritual things to be observed untill the death of Christ. 1. They were instituted by the authority of God himself So Circumcision was commanded immediately by God himself to Abraham and his posterity So the Lord gave express directions to Moses and Aaron concerning the Ordinance of the Passeover and Moses being fourty days and fourty nights in the Mount received Ceremonial Laws from the Lord to be observed by the people Secondly They were parts of Gods outward worship Some of them more directly and properly as the Sacrifices which were to be offered to the Lord only so also the sweet Incense and divers others Other of them more improperly as things subservient to the worship of God as the Altar of burnt-offerings the Ark the Golden Table c. Thirdly They were figures of Heavenly and spiritual things Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the Tabernacle For see saith he that thou make all things according to the patern shewed thee in the Mount Fourthly They were to be observed until the death of Christ. Above when he said Sacrifice and offerings and burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou wouldst not neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the Law Th●● said he that is Christ Lo I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first that he may establish the second By the which Will we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Iesus Christ once for all The Ceremonies of the Law were to continue until Christ offered himself in sacrifice and then they were to be taken away and to give place to his all-sufficient Sacrifice and accordingly the Lord Christ himself manifested in the flesh and made under the Law did in his own person observe the Ceremonies of the Law But at his death the veile of the Temple wa● rent in twain from the top to the bottom which I conceive signified both the abolishing of legal Ceremonies and the opening of the way into the heavenly sanctuary by the death of Christ. Now there being great abundance and varieties of these Ceremonial institutions I conceive they may be reduced to four heads 1. Sacraments 2. Sacrifices 3. Sacred persons and things subservient to holy uses 4. Sacred observances 1. Sacraments and those ordinarily were two 1. Circumcision whereby they were solemnly admitted into the Church and visibly sealed as parties to the Covenant 2. The passeover wherein they were admitted by faith to feed upon Christ the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world slain in the eternal counsel of God before the foundation of the world and to be actually Sacrificed in the fulness of time 2. Sacrifices 1. Whole burntofferings 2. Meat-offerings 3. Sin-offerings 4. Thank-offerings or Peace-offerings and among these especially the daily burnt-offering presented to the Lord morning and evening every day in the year 3. Sacred persons and things Such were the Priests and Levites especially the High-priest The holy places 1. A Tabernacle 2. A Temple with the several parts Consecrated days and times the feasts of the passover of Pentecost of Tabernacles the new Moons the weekly Sabbaths as limited to the last day of the week c. The utensils of the Sanctuary the Altar of burntoffering the golden Altar of Incense the Loaves the Table of shew-bread the Ark Mercy-seat c. 4. Sacred observances Their divers washings and purifyings absteining from divers creatures as unclean with very many usages injoyned In the second place consider how these things were understood or abused by ignorant or carnal Israelites I conceive 1. That many of them had little or no knowledge of the mystical signification or spiritual meaning of these types and shadows they did not see Christ in them 2. That they rested in the outward work If they were outwardly Circumcised they looked not after the Circumcision of the heart mortification of sin self-denyal regeneration having fed upon the Lamb with unlevened bread in the feast of the Passeover they minded not the Lamb of God nor sought after the unleavened bread of sincerity and Truth When they offered Sacrifice they looked no farther than the beast that was slaine not minding the perfect all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ. It seemeth they were

not the light of his word and his Law written in the Scriptures to many Nations yet he giveth to them all the light and Law of Nature and therefore the transgressions of the Law of Nature are sins against God The Apostle saith until the Law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed where there is no Law nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after tbe similitude of Adams transgression Sin was in the world before the Law was given on mount Sinai But how can it be just to charge sin upon them who had no Law against which to sin Nevertheless death raigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression Who are they Some seem to understand Infants only who sinned not actually in their own persons as Adam did yet dying in their infancy were guilty of original sin Others take it for all that lived between the time of Adam and Moses who sinned not after the similitude of Adams transgression because they sinned not against an express Law given by revelation from Heaven as Adam did who sinned against that express prohibition of God forbidding him to eat of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil under the pain of certain death and destruction I conceive this latter sense more probable because of that special limitation of time from Adam to Moses for the case of those that dye in their Infancy for ought I know is the same whether before or after the time of Moses before and after the Law written but the condition of those that lived between Adams time and that of Moses differed from those that lived after Now the Apostle sheweth that death the punishment of sin fell upon them so did many other judgements the flood destroying the old world the showr of fire and brimstone upon Sodom fell within the compass of that time and therefore certainly they were guilty of sin and justly punished because these calamities were the just judgements of God who is the righteous judge of all the world and therefore although these sinned not against any positive Law of God delivered to them either by word or writing yet they sinned against the light and Law of Nature which God had given them Secondly This may shew us the reason and the justice of those severe executions of God upon Heathen Nations who had no Scripture nor written Law to sin against They sinned against the Light and Law of Nature for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them c. The Judgements and Calamities publick national private personal brought upon any of mankind in several ages are evidences of Gods wrath and displeasure against them and therefore proofs of their sin and guiltiness against God otherwise the Lord who is perfectly righteous would not bring these evils upon them and among the rest the death of the body is a universal declaration of the wrath of God against mankind for sin If any should be free from all other evils yet this alone would be a sufficient proof of their sinfulness and therefore the Lord said unto Adam and in him to each particular person of his posterity soon after he had sinned and they had sinned in him Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Euery dead Corps every Funeral that ye see or hear of all the persons that have died from the beginning of the world unto this day have by their death manifested the wrath of God against sin and mens guiltiness before the Lord for though through the grace and mercy of God in Christ the death of a true believer is turned into a blessing and made an inlet or entrance into everlasting life yet in its own Nature it is a consequent of sin and sin was the original of it In special the Heathens who had not the mind of God so fully revealed to them as those within the Church yet had the Light and Law of Nature and in sinning against that Light and Law were justly punished for they held the Truth in unrighteousness This common Light and Law of Nature was the Truth of God und they by opposing their wills and lusts against it and so not following the guidance of it were found guilty of fighting against God and crossing that Light which the Lord had given them and therefore the Lord dealt with them as Enemies So the Lord punished Sodom and the Cities adjoynning with fire and brimstone So the Canaanites and Amorites were destroyed for their sins against the Light and Law of Nature and Israel was planted in their Land The Lord told Abraham that his seed should possess it but not until after four hundred years Why Because the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full so that it was the fullness of their iniquity which was the cause of their destruction it was because their sin was come to its full height that they were rooted out So the Lord having forbidden Israel the practice of divers great sins saith Defile not your selves in any of these things for in all these things the Nations are defiled which I cast out before you And the Land is defiled therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the Land it self vomiteth out the Inhabitants The Lord threatned divers grievous Judgements by the Prophet Amos against many Heathen Nations Syria the Philistines Tyrus Edom Ammon Moab All the miseries of war brought upon Heathen Nations what were they but revelations and reall demonstrations of the wrath of God from Heaven for their sins against the Law and Light of Nature The ruining of the Babylonish Monarchy by the Medes and Persians of the Persian by the Macedonians and Grecians the Macedonians by the Romans of the Roman by the Saracens and Turks on the one side and divers Northern Nations on the other these and the like were just Judgements of God upon Heathens for sins against the Light and Law of Nature So I conceive the cruel Spaniards were unjust executioners of the righteous Judgements of God upon the poor Indians or Americans for their sins against the same common Light and Law of Nature for the Lord executeth just Judgements by wicked men yea by Divels who aime not at all at the Lords end but either delight to exercise their malice and cruelty or act thus to make a ful conquest and utterly disable a people to make head again Thirdly This may clearly convince us that the sins of Christians are far more heinous then the sins of Infidels and Heathens because they sin against the same Law