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A04365	A treatise concerning a Christians carefull abstinence from all appearance of evill gathered for the most part out of the schoolemen, and casuists: wherein the questions and cases of conscience belonging unto the difficult matter of scandall are briefly resolved: By Henry Jeanes, Mr of Arts, lately of Hart-Hall in Oxon, and rector of the church of Beere-Crocombe in Somerset-shire.	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1640 (1640)	STC 14480; ESTC S103351	48,005	158

locum any thing that is neere of kin unto or but bordring upon vice thinkes* Calvin Observe here the emphaticall gradation of the Apostle hate not onely the flesh but the garment spotted by the flesh not onely overspread quite covered but the garment that was but here and there a little spotted by the flesh Out of Christs garment there issued vertue which cured the woman that had the bloody fluxe but contrariwise out of this garment but spotted with the flesh Exit vis quaedam maligna there goeth a poisonous kinde of infection which soone will staine a soule with the leprofie of sinne But because as the old saying ●unnes praxis sanctorum est interpres pr●ceptorum I shall intreat you next to take notice how this precept hath beene exemplified And here in the times before Christ is very remarkable the couragious and undaunted resolution of Eleazar against but the appearance of an evill 2 Mac. c. 〈◊〉 v. 18. usque ad ●inem when he was besought to bring flesh of his owne provision such as was lawfull for him to use and but make as if hee did eate of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the King v. 21. why even this evill appearance this seeming this making as if he did eate of the flesh taken from the Sacrifice commanded by the King soe deeply disrelished him as that hee chose death before it For it becommeth not our age saith he in any wise to dissemble whereby many young persons might thinke that Eleazar being fourscore yeares old and ten was now gone to a strange religion and so they through mine hypocrisie and desire to live a little time a moment longer should be deceived by mee and I get a staine to my old age and make it abominable v. 24 25. But why mention I Eleazar Behold the example of one greater than Eleazar the example of the rule and patterne of holinesse unto the Church Christ Jesus God blessed for ever whose example in Morals matters of ordinary obedience amounts ever unto the authority of a command How exemplarie he was in this particular you may reade Mat c. 7. from v. 24. unto the end of the Chapter There you have him performing an action not for that omission of it would have beene evill but because in opinion of the Jewes it would have given shew of evill For if first you understand the words as most Interpreters doe of the tribute to be paid unto the secular Magistrate then sinfull it had not been in our Saviour to have refused payment of tribute unto Caesar For how could the Son to the living God who was King of Kings and Lord of Lords King of Heaven and Earth whose the earth all the fulnesse thereof was be justly tributary unto any mortall The Kings of the earth take tribute or custome not of their owne children however they expect obedience from them but of strangers because paying of tribute denoteth some degree or kinde of servitude The Children then are free verse 25 26. Therefore from all taxes and impositions justly was to be exempted Christ the sonne of David there was no reason hee should pay tribute unto Caesar nay more reason hee being of the blood royall should receive tribute from the Jewes than Caesar a forrainer having no title to the Crowne but that which the sword gave him not payment constant deniall of payment had not been you see morally evill in our Saviour and yet because it would have borne appearance of an evill of disloialtie and disobedience and so have drawn prejudices against and scandall upon his unspotted person holy and heavenly office and doctrine because seemingly it would have crossed a doctrine hee afterwards delivered Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesars therefore hee stands not to plead his priviledge but voluntarily parted with his right payed the tribute and to pay it wrought a miracle notwithstanding Peter least wee should offend them goe thou to the sea and cast an hooke and take up the fish that first commeth up and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt finde a peece of money that take and give unto them for mee and thee verse 27. Or if secondly with the learned Cameron you rather conceive to be here meant the halfe shekel which by prescript of the Ceremoniall Law Exod. 30 was by the Jewes to be paid for the use of the Sanctuary Why yet so also sinfull it had not been in our Saviour to have refused paying of it for first it was a ceremony and the Ceremoniall Law Christ was above Lord he was of the Sabbath Mat. c. 12. v. 8. Marke c. 2. v. 28. where it is manifest thinkes Cameron the Sabbath should Synecdochically signifie the whole Ceremoniall Law Then secondly this ceremony together with Sacrifices and all other Legall typicall ceremonies presupposed sinne in the partie to whom they were commanded and were a note or badge of the bondage contracted by sinne and therefore reach not unto Christ a man without sinne Thirdly as our Saviour well argues even as Kings of the Earth take not tribute of their owne Children so neither the King of heaven of his sonne therefore seeing this halfe shekel is a tribute to be paid to the King of Heaven for the Tabernacle of Witnesse 2 Chron. 24.6 Christ was certainly free and so might lawfully have refused to pay it● yet because the Jewes would have taken offence and at such his refusall and charg'd it with appearance of a profane contempt of the Law of Moses and the Sanctuary therefore he voluntarily paid it and so became a Jewe to the Jewes as under the Law to them that were under the law Notwithstanding lest we should offend c. And if this be the sense of the place what is said of this one ceremonie may be applyed unto all for one of the reasons ends why Christ observed the whole Ceremoniall Law was to prevent scandall to abstaine from all appearance of evill In nature saith Cameron there is appetitu● quidem unionis which causeth things to be moved and to rest often besides the proper condition of their particular nature whence sometimes light things are moved downewards heavie things upwards Unto this appetite of union in nature there is answerable in grace the desire to promote Gods glory which often inclineth and carrieth the godly beyond and besides the ordinary obligations arising out of their particular and personall conditions and relations And unto the measure of grace is proportionable the degree of the desire of Gods glory so that the holier any one is the more vehemently hee desireth the promotion thereof and if it require any thing to bee done of him why he will doe it although other wise by vertue of his particular and personall condition hee be not bound thereunto Therefore although Christ secundum specialem rationem personae suae if we eye the speciall consideration and dignitie of his person was not tied to keepe the Ceremoniall