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A50428	Sanctification by faith vindicated in a discourse on the seventh chapter of the epistle of St. Paul to the Romans : compared with the sixth and eighth chapters of the same epistle / written by Zachary Mayne ... to which is prefixt a preface by Mr. Rob. Burscough.	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.; Burscough, Robert, 1651-1709.	1693 (1693)	Wing M1487; ESTC R11086	85,470	62

the Law or the Promises of the Gospel What though they call themselves Churchmen and Sons of the Church What if they be of separate Assemblies if they walk not after the Spirit but after the Flesh they are the Devil's Slaves and Firebrands of Hell There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Isai 48.22 Without holiness no man shall see the Lord Holiness is the true end of all Religion we must attain unto Holiness or we can never please God in any Religion that we profess Cease to do evil learn to do well put away the evil of your doings Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool Esai 1.16 17 18. There is no communion with God no Fellowship or Converse with or Approach unto God for all these I take to be understood by Reasoning together without washing and cleansing ourselves Before this in the 11 12 13 14 15 Verses God renounceth all Acceptance of any thing they did in Religion To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me c. saith the Lord. Men may use some kind of honest Endeavours after Holiness and fail of attaining what they seek after Thus the Apostle witnesses of the Jews Rom. 9.31 But Israel which followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained to the law of righteousness Verse 32. Wherefore because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law Now for these the Aposile had a great deal of Pitty and Commiseration as you may see Rom. 9.1 2 3. I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh who are Israelites c. And so Rom. 10.1 2 3. Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to the knowledge For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God Now I have made these two last Quotations to prove That Men may in some sort and way have a great Zeal and Endeavour to please God and to be the Favorites of Heaven and yet lose their labour What shall become then of those that take no pains in Religion at all and indeed do not truly endeavour to become universally Holy but please themselves with some poor low ends in their Profession short of this only worthy design I shall conclude this Application with those words of the Apostle in Rom. 6.21 22. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed What real Profit or what real Comfort had ye in those sinful Pleasures and wicked Courses wherein once in the State of Unregeneracy ye indulged yourselves Wicked Men of the World take a great deal of pains to get Profits and Pleasures and Honours and what doth it afford them What comfort have they of it at the very time upon a sober Review and Consideration The Answer is None at all and besides now ye are ashamed of what ye then did then it was no matter of Comfort and now 't is a matter of Shame But what follows Ver. 22. But now being made free from sin Who is free from sin Answer Every Saint of God is free from Sin in the Apostle's sence not in the sence of a quarrelsome Scholastick and become servants to God you have your fruit unto holiness That is a present rich Fruit indeed that by turning to God and exercising ourselves unto Righteousness we attain unto an Holy Frame and Temper and Readiness to every good Work And the end everlasting Life The Law teacheth Holiness and the Gospel effects it and though some may lose their labour that are at some pains in Religion for want of diligent Enquiry after the right way as the Jews did and all that seek to be justified and sanctified by the Law will do yet they that are at no pains at all in Religion are sure to tumble into Hell Strive to enter in at the strait gate sa it our Saviour for many I say unto you shall seek to enter in but shall not be able Luke 13.21 If seeking will not do but we must also strive to enter what will become of those that do not so much as seek And now I would end this Subject Use VII Of Consolation which is grown under my hand to double the largeness that I intended it with a Use of Consolation to all the true Saints of God Are there any as I hope there are many that have been duly convinced of Sin how great an Evil it is how it hath dishonoured God and defiled and debased their Nature and Noble Soul which is God's Off-spring and endangered their sinking under the Divine Displeasure to Eternity and especially of the great Sin of not believing in Christ but rather seeking to be justified by the Works of the Law have they at last found themselves killed by the Law with a Thousand Deaths and been driven to flee from the Wrath that is certainly to come unto the Hope that is set before them in the Gospel Have they been couvinced of Righteousness because Christ is gone to the Father and we are to see him no more till his second coming and from hence conclude that he hath brought about Everlasting Righteousness by his Death for else how could he upon whom his Father laid the Iniquities of us all and did while he was punishing him upon the Cross as it were forsake him be admitted again into his Father's presence as an Advocate for us Have they been convinced of Judgment as knowing that because Christ hath died and is again gone to the Father that therefore the Prince of this World the Devil is judged and condemned and shall be cast out of his Tyranny over Men all Men that betake themselves to Christ the Captain of their Salvation who by Death destroyed him that had the power of Death that is the Devil that he might deliver them who through fear of death are all their life-time subject to bondage Heb. 2.14 15. And so have they betaken themselves to Christ as their Head and Husband and only Saviour that he may be made of God unto them Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Why unto you is the Word of this Salvation sent You are the blessed of the Lord and ye shall be blessed and the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against you You are called to resist the Devil to fight against Principalities and Powers and the Rulers of the Darkness of this World and against Spiritual Wickedness in high places

Law of God But to what purpose was this small delight in the Law of God which had no influence upon Practice or the mortification of his Flesh for he plainly acknowledges that he saw another Law in his Members warring against the Law of his Mind Verse 23 The Law of his Mind was a Rule in his Conscience that he ought to do all good and to avoid and eschew all evil But the Question is Which Law prevails Why he tells us plainly and why should we not believe him And bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members The two Laws indeed did both war but the Law of Sin was the conqueror And of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought under bondage 2 Pet. 2.19 And then being captivated no wonder he crys out in the 24th Verse Verse 24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death or this Body of Death Now when the Law hath perfectly left him for dead in a spiritual sence a condemned Wretch strugling for life by the help of the Holy Law which yet could afford him no comfort nor help here we must imagine as I conceive that God in wonderful Mercy made a discovery of Christ and Grace to him the Law was his School-master to bring him to Christ Now Christ is precious to him as the only Saviour that was before utterly lost and undone in himself and as to all hopes from the Law Now I suppose this Verse is that which hath misled all those Interpreters and good Christians that mistook this Chapter as if St. Paul had spoken it of himself after conversion The Expression indeed is admirable and truly Evangelical but I take it as I said before as a new discovery made to him under his Bondage and Captivity under Sin by which he might attain unto true deliverance from the guilt and power of Sin I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Verse 25 Not a word of Christ before in all this struggle and agony wherein the personation is made of one under Convictions and Condemnations and Irritations unto Sin accidentally from the Law till the Man is utterly undone and crys out for deliverance I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Verse 25 So then with my mind I my self serve the law of God but with my flesh the law of sin This I take to be added in the close of this Chapter as the summa totalis or the Epitome of all the foregoing Discourse But yet even in it though there is one little word added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I my self because the Mind is indeed more principally a Man's self than his Flesh or Body is yet it is to me very insignificant to prove what Men would have for as long as the Law of the Members prevails against the Law of the Mind and brings the Man into captivity to the Law of Sin What is that Service of God with his Mind worth 'T is the predominant Party in the Man that denominates him spiritual or carnal and indeed he allows the Denomination quae sumitur a Majori in the fourteenth Verse I am carnal and I am a person sold under sin And so I dismiss the seventh Chapter and hasten out of this cold shivering Water as I called it above into the other hot Bath of the eighth Chapter which will more evidently and demonstratively clear the sence and importance of the seventh and was given us as I said above as another surety for the seventh that the seeming ill sence of that might have no evil influence upon us nor give any disparagement to our noble Gospel-Religion But I shall take along with me as Ariadnes thread that Expression which was put into the dying and otherwise despairing Man's mouth in the 23th Verse of the seventh Chapter when he had said gaspingly O miserable man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. And from that Expression I take my rise to begin to explain the first Verse of the eighth Chapter ROMANS Chap. VIII THere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus Verse 1 Now I see by this last discovery made to me when I was even giving up all for lost that to avoid condemnation which the Law inflicted and could not otherwise chuse but thunder out against a sinner we must all betake ourselves to Christ so the Illative therefore may well convert this eighth Chapter with that Expression in Verse 25. of the foregoing Chapter Therefore if you will flee from condemnation you must flee to Christ for there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Why who are they that are in Christ Jesus It follows who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Ay they are the Men indeed and none but they free from condemnation The Man in the seventh Chapter was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 carnal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the flesh Verse 5. and therefore was followed with condemnation but they that are in Christ Jesus walk after the Spirit their state is altered and therefore no wonder they are freed from their Desperations But the second Verse makes all clear For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus Verse 2 hath made me free from the law of sin and death There are several things very observable in this Verse 1. Here is the personation continued in the first person I and me hath set me free as much as to say I that before was a captive to Sin under the Law of Sin and Death am set free 2. Here is a quite different Law never before mentioned viz. The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus 3. The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus sets the person free that was captive under the Law of Sin and Death Now let it be allowed Disputandi Causa that the word or person I all along the seventh Chapter was St. Paul yet sure they will not deny that me which is but the Accusative Case of I is St. Paul also Let all then depend upon this word And then it will plainly appear that Ego non sum Ego The I in the seventh Chapter though spoken of the same person is not spoken of the same person in the same state here In the seventh Chapter he is led into Captivity to the Law of Sin and Death In this Chapter the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath set him free from the Law of Sin and Death Therefore the Man in the seventh Chapter that was led into captivity to the Law of Sin Verse 23. needed the Gospel which is here called the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus to set him at liberty from this Law of Sin Therefore he was before only a miserable Man under the convictions and condemnations of the Law and not converted which was the