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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11923	A godly and fruitfull sermon preached at Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull minister of Gods holy Gospell	Murray, John, 1575?-1632, attributed name. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 22236; ESTC S106434	19,379	64

curse and condemnation it denounceth the justification it proposeth the rigour of obedience it requyreth ye are not under the law Rom 6 14. Ye are divided from the lawe Rom 7 6. The lawe is not given to the righteous man 1. Tim. 1.9 From the law ceremoniall the witnesser of sinne Christ hath put out the handwryting of Ordinances which was against us toke it out of the way fastened it upon the Crosse Col. 2.24 and so from the traditions and precepts of men or things indifferent whatsoever as binding the conscieÌ„ce which is coÌ„monly called the christian liberty or coÌ„moditie Rom. 14.16 Ye are bought with a price be not the servaÌ„ts of men 1. Cor. 7.23 The liberty which sanctification bringeth is that spirituall priviledge wherby Gods children are freed from the power and dominion of sinne Sathan c not perfectly but in parte yet in al the powers and faculties of the soules senses and members of the body The minde from the power of darknes the will from the power of disobedience the heart from the power of deadnes the affections from the power of pollution and corruption the body and members thereof from the power of sinne wherby they are made weapons of unrighteousnes that the renued man thus freed might at the least concerning the inner man delight in the lawe of God and in his minde serue it without constraint willingly chearfully The law of the spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus hath freed me from the law that is the power and authoritie of sinne and death Rom 8 2. This liberty of sanctification hath two degrees the one is in this life imperfect which may be called the liberty of grace the other after this life perfect the liberty of glorie Rom 8.21 the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God The same Apostle to the Col 1.13 shutteth up this twofold liberty of Iustification sanctification in a word The Father saith he hath delivered us from the power of darknes and hath translated us into the kingdome of his deare sonne Now from this internall liberty followeth that comfortable liberty which the Apostle in sundry places calls Parâ—Ãªsia wherby the soule of the freeman hath free accesse to the throne of grace to receiue mercy and finde grace to help in time of need Heb 4.16 From this springeth that peace which passeth all understanding Phil. 4.7 Rom. 5.1 That ioy which Peter calleth glorious unspeakable 1 Pet. 1.8 Without this internal liberty ther is nothing in the soule and conscience of the sinner but terrour distraction and doubting even in the smallest matters c. The externall liberty which is instrumental and defensiue in respect of the former is likewise twofold the libertie of the preaching and professing of the truth of God the true doctrin drawne out of the pure fouÌ„taine of the word The libertie of the practise of holy Discipline following from the same fountaine This may be called the liberty of the house of God wherby it is governed which is the Church of the living God the piller and ground of the truth 1. Tim 3.15 We call them instrumental because they are Gods powerfull and ordinary instruments through which by his spirit he worketh the internall liberty continueth keepeth it Take away these instruments no Iustification no sanctification 1. Pet. 1.23 We call them dcfensiue because the gard the inward which if they were not would easily vanish and Satan would soone weare it out of the soule The third word in this exhortation is that he desireth to stand in this liberty yea to stand fast as the word importeth as within a compasse or station There appeareth to be a Metaphore in the word borrowed from the custome of worldly warriours who stand stedfast in the station in the which their captaine placeth theÌ„ resolved without feare to fight never to flee but couragiously to confront their adversaries So stand ye stedfast saith the Apostle and settle the affection of your heart fast in the liberty wherin as in a statioÌ„ your graue gracious captaine Iesus hath placed you resisting by faith that spirituall adversary the Devil who wil striue by all meanes possible to drawe you out of that liberty This is the exhortatioÌ„ in the which the Apostle expresly meaÌ„eth the internall libertie froÌ„ the law morall ceremoniall sin death c. In the afore said respects and by consequence of this we inferr the externall defensiue liberties For if we should stand fast in one poynt of this spirituall liberty then we should stand fast in all The dehortation is from the contrary Be not entangled c The yoke of bondage is opposed as contrary to liberty the entaÌ„gling with this yoke to the standing in the libertie This bondage is a spirituall boÌ„dage of the soule conscieÌ„ce principally and is answerable in the opposition to this libertie in all the sorts poynts thereof the bondage under sin Sathan death the law morall ceremoniall traditions of men Antichrist the man of sinne in corrupt doctrine and Discipline We briefly passe it over because it is cleere by the contrary in the words be not entangled And now there appeares also to be a metaphore borrowed from the custom of Oxen or other beasts whose neckes being once comprehended or conteyned as the word signifieth in the yoke are forced to follow whithersoever the driver by word or by goad lusteth So faith the Apostle if you fall backe to bondage you entangle your selues with such a heavie yoke that whither soever sinne or Sathan leades you you must goe This word agayne importeth not that the Galatians had been under the Ceremoniall law for they were of the Gentills and not Iewes to whom this law was proper but that they had ben before under the yoke of bondage the law moral engraven in their hearts by nature albeit defaced by sin the yoke of sinne Idolatrie c. So that now to fall backe to this bondage or whatsoever spirituall yoke was to be entangled againe This is the dehortation in which the Apostle expresly meaneth the yoke of the law ceremoniall morall But by consequence all spirituall yokes of bondage whatsoever are forbidden for if we should not entangle our selues in a my then likewise in none The reasoÌ„ enterlaced betwixt the two branches of the admonition is drawne from the purchaser and giver and so the excellencie of this libertie which is so much the more excellent by how much the contrary bondage is dangerous If ye aske who is the purchaser giver of this libertie the Apostle Paul answereth here it is Christ If the Sonne shall make yow free ye shal be free in deed saith Christ himselfe of himselfe Ioh 8.38 If the Father be the author of this libertie the sonne is the purchaser and giver of this libertie the spirit is the worker and sealer up of this liberty in our soules If ye aske whereby Christ hath purchased this libertie the Apostle Peter answereth Not with

A GODLY AND FRVITFVLL SERMON PREACHED AT LIETH IN Scotland by a faithfull Minister of Gods holy Gospell Psalme 74 10. O God how long shall the adversary reproch thee shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever 22 Arise O God maintaine thine owne cause remember thy dayly reproch by the folish man Printed 1607. To the godly and Christian Reader IT every where goeth heard with Christs true Church as I heare and feare Neither doe men make that use of the miseries of it that were fit but even in affliction eyther fall away or become faint harted and careles In Scotland the Hierarchy prevaileth much and then Christes Discipline must needs be thrust to the walles Yet see notwithstanding how God stirreth up some to make opposition against that triple-headed Cerberus This Sermon is one playne proofe of it which was both preached and written there and came to my handes by good meanes I haue caused it more plainely to speake English then the Scottish phrase yeelded And yet God is witnes to my soule that I haue done it as neere as I could without any diminution of or addition to either matter or manner Such as it is I present it to thee ayming only at thy benefite and pleasure specially spirituall Farewell and the Lord giue thee grace to use it to all good purposes A GODLY AND FRVITFVL SERMON PREACHED AT Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull Minister of Gods holy Gospell Gal 5.1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made vs free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage SEeing upon us the endes of the world are come saith Paul 1 Cor. 10.11 and now the end of all thinges is at hand saith Peter 1 Pet 4.7 and that day of the Lord is comming like a theefe in the night in the which the heavens shall passe away with a noyse and the elements shall melt with heat and the earth with the works that are therin shal be burnt up 2 Pet 3.10 and therfore seeing Sathan that great redde dragon knowing that he hath but a short time is upon his long chayne ranging and raging drawing downe froÌ„ the heaveÌ„s even some of the starres who should giue light in Gods Church casting theÌ„ to the earth Revel 12. and raysing up false Christs and false Apostles so that if it were possible the very elect should be deceaved Math. 24.24 For these causes we haue made choise of this portioÌ„ of holy scripture whereby we may be put in minde and our heartes may be stirred vp to fasten our affections fast upon that gratious liberty wherewith the Sonne of God hath made us free from every spirituall thraldome standing stedfast through faith not entaÌ„gling our selues againe with any yoke of bondage untill the crowne of that free kingdom be put upon our heads in the great day of the glorious appearing of our Saviour Iesus Christ The chiefe butte the Apostle Paul shoteth at in this epistle is to establish his doctrine concerning true Iustification by the righteousnes of Iesus onely through faith without any mixture of the works of the lawe whatsoever morall or Ceremoniall against those false Apostles who had crept in amoÌ„g the Galathians studying to deceiue bewitch them that they should not beleeue the truth to whom the Apostle before had described Iesus Christ in their sight and as it were crucified him amongst them by the playne and powerful preaching of the gospell cap. 3.1 For the lawe is excluded and debarred in the matter of Iustification faith onely having place apprehending and applying the imputed righteousnes of Iesus Christ But the lawe in the matter of sanctification is admitted as the rule to which the christian maÌ„ should square this conversation and as the lanterne that should lead him in the pathes of the Lords coÌ„mandements The Apostle insisteth in this purpose from the beginning of the 3 chap. to the second parte of this fift and after that he hath throughly reasoned and in the end coÌ„cluded in the last verse of the chap going before that they were not the children of the bondwoman Hagar as Ishmael that is servants and slaues under the law through workes and so lying under the curse thereof but sonnes of the free woeman Sara as Isaac that is heires of the promise through faith in Iesus In these wordes which we haue read he inferreth by way of a second conclusion of the premises a graue powerfull admonitioÌ„ that seeing they were free and freed from all the bonds bondage of the law morall and Ceremonial their geeat care should be to keepe themselues so The admonition hath 2 branches The one an exhortation to stand fast in the libertie The other a dehortatioÌ„ from the contrary not to intangle c. Between these two is interlaced a reason or argument to perswade to the one disswade from the other taken from the purchaser and giver of this libertie who is Christ and so from the excellency thereof This is the libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free therefore stand fast in it This is the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free therfore be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage In the exhortation we begin at this word therefore which is a particle of illation relatiue of the last verse of the chapt going before upon the which this whole admonition is inforced as a necessary consequent and by a necessary consequent we are the children of the free woeman Sara c. Let us stand fast therfore in this liberty We are not the children of the servant let us not therefore be entangled c. we are the children of the fre woman and not of the servant let us therfore staÌ„d fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage The second word is liberty There are sundry sorts of liberty a naturall liberty a civill liberty a bodily liberty a spirituall liberty The first three sorts we overpasse as not pertinent to this text and purpose The liberty of which the Apostle speaketh here is a supernatural spirituall and a heavenly liberty which is generally divided thus into a spiritual internal liberty and a spiritual external liberty The internall liberty is the purchase and gift of Christ to his owne children whereby he setts them at fredome both in soule body immediately from the spirituall thraldome of sinne Sathan c And this is twofold the liberty of Iustification and the libertie of sanctification The liberty which justification brings consisteth in these poynts in perfect freedom from sinne both originall and actuall in respect of meere imputation Now ye are freed froÌ„ sinne Rom. 6.22 From the guiltines therof Who will lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen Rom. 8.33 From the punishment thereof death and condemnation There is no condemnation to theÌ„ which are in Christ Iesus Rom 8.1 From the law morall the revealer of sinne death in regard of the

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