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death_n	church_n	good_a	zion_n	21	3	8.8572	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76967	Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. And the vaine mirth of a wicked life, with the sorrovves of it. / By Zach: Bogan of C.C.C. Oxon.	Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.	1653 (1653)	Wing B3441; Thomason E1486_1; ESTC R208439	202,360	374

we have not killed it we have utterly disenabled it for killing us 'T is but kept in life to keep us in worke and to exercise our graces as the Canaanites were fuffered to live in despaire that the Israelites might not live in presumption We are freed from Sin much after the manner as we are free from the Law that which I might very well have put in the number of those masters above mentioned being of it selfe as I may say uncorrected with grace a killing letter Sin now does not so command as that it cannot be obeyed and the Law does not commād so as if it be not obeyed we must presently dye for it We are free not as we use to take the word free when we say free of such a thing for without it When we are said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom 6.18 and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is meant only that we are free from not of either Sin or the law that is from the dominion of them We are free from the law as that boy is from his Master who as oft as he comits a fault and is sorry for it hath a friend ready at hand to save him from whipping A Christian's liberty does not make him free from but free to obedience Free from slavishnesse both of condition and disposition and freely willing to be tied to obey it as an ingenuous dispositiō uses to be to be under goverment discipline For a man is nevertheles at liberty for being nay it is the way to be most at liberty to be most in God's service which is perfect * Psal 119.32 freedome The bands of Religion are never so strait as to wring I will say therefore as St. Paul sayd comparing the ministery of the Gospel with the law or if you will the ministery of the law in the time of the gospel with the same in the time of the Law 2 Co 4.1 Having recieved this ministery we faint not I delight in nothing so much as to be under the law of God so long as there is another ministery I would not be without goverment like a lambe in a large * Hos 4.16 place for all the world But what did I talke to you a while since of a godly man's liberty from when I may boast of more * Rom 8.37 then a conquest over all his enemies Satan his accuser by the counter-pleading of the Prince * Isa 9.6 of his peace will be shortly trod under his * Rom 16.20 feet Christ hath already spoyled Principalities and powers made a shew of them openly triumphing over them Colos 2 15. The world his enemy partly open and secret by Christ that overcame it first he hath overcome also Joh 16.33 So that neither by enticing nor mocking nor oppressing no nor killing shall a Christian be quite overcome rubbing out in life by strength of grace and rising from death by the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead The Flesh his familiar and friend-like and bosome enemy he hath crucified with the lusts thereof Gal 5.24 The enemy that hath the longest time to live is Death Yet that is already disarmed and made harmelesse so that it is as good as killed though it be not quite swallowed up into victory Upon the account of these things I may very well speak to the Church in the words of the Prophet Sing ô Daughter of Zion shout ô Israel be glad and rejoyce with all thy heart ô daughter of Jerusalem The Lord hath taken away thy judgments he hath cast out thine enemy The King of Israel even the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see evill any more In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem feare thou not and to Zion Let not thine hands be slack The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with joy he will rest in his love he will joy over thee with singing Zeph 3.14.15 16 17. Christian I cannot but wonder exceedingly what the matter is with thee if notwithstanding these things thou art still sad For to me it seemes cause enough why a man should be mery to have no enemies either to trouble him or with whom he may trouble himselfe viz with continuall feares of provoking them and thoughts and cares to have them reconciled which is a worse trouble then the other But for one that hath many enemies as many almost as there be creatures in the world and hath them all under his feet who can forbeare to wonder laugh and be enraged to see such a one to stand drooping as if he were beaten and overcome him selfe with his Crest downe slat upon his head and his wings about his heeles Who would not wonder to see one that hath his yoke broken off his neck to hang his head neverthelesse as bad as the Romane Souldiers did when they had been made to passe under the yoke and to walke in and out and goe to his long home with lesse cherefulnesse then the Oxe doth to his when he hath done labouring and rather look as if he were going to be yoked againe or indeed as if he were going to hanging Certainly such a one must needs be ignorant of what he is or sencelesse of what he knowes For when enemies and difficulties and sorrowes themselves are vanquished it seemes impossible if he knew his own happinesse and can a man be happy and not know it that he should not lift up his head and wash his beblubbered face and anoint it with the oyle of gladnesse For shame let him cease to shame his master whom he serves to disgrace the profession which he hath undertaken and to disparage his own judgment and choice when he undertook it with sadnesse and sighes and complaints like an over laboured servant that is hardly used Tell me whosoever thou art that art thus sad for I know it must be for feare of some thing what kind of enemie is it that thou fearest Is it such as can hurt thy soule sinne or satan or lust such thou needest not Is it such as can hurt but thy body men or any of the creatures such thou oughtest not to feare Mat 10.28 If thou art afraid then thou art afraid both without cause and so thou shewest thy selfe foolish against command so thou shewest thy selfe disobedient Rather therefore resolve to be chearfull conclude with me that thou hast nothing to feare but what thou hast cause to love and rejoyce in thine own God 'T is true wicked men like the drunken man who thinks every body else drunk because he is drunke himselfe being very slaves themselves account the condition of the godly to be slavish too and therefore though for a while they may seeme to be willing to keep themselves within the pale of the Church of Christ and to weare his yoke yet they come quickly to cry out in the Psalmist Psal