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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80742	Gospel-libertie in the extensions limitations of it. Wherein is laid down an exact way to end the present dissentions, and to preserve future peace among the Saints. VVhereunto is added good newes from heaven; to the worst of sinners on earth. The former in nine sermons on 1 Cor. 10. 23. All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expeaient. The latter in three sermons on Luke 2. 10. Feare not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. By Walter Cradock late preacher at All-Hallows Great in London;	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.; Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6762A; ESTC R204983	178,682	290

use for salvation A second instance is this that the Gospel holds forth to sinners all the wrong wayes that they goe and all the wrong meanes that they use to save their soules this is by the light of the Gospel Man naturally is either dead in sin or asleep or if he be a little awaked he takes a thousand wayes to goe to heaven and none of them Gods way none of them the right way Every carnall man sometime or other hath some designe in his head to save his soule one man thinks to doe it by his equity and justice in his dealing and trading another by his hospitality and charity to the poore another by hearing of Sermons and performing of duties as in the time of Poperie how many yeares did they spend spent their strength and time and their money and when all came to all all was lost all their ways were the wrong way to Heaven Now the light of the Gospel discovers all these false wayes and shewes that you will come short of the glory of God and the salvation of your soules and will convince you that There is no Name under heaven by which you can be saved but only the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ Consider is not this good newes that God should come first by the Ministery of the Gospel and shew thee thy wretched condition and then when thou hast spent thy time and strength in false wayes to be reconciled to God and to save thy soule the Gospel comes and discovers all these that thou maiest go seek the true way 3. It holds forth Gods love to sinners Thridly the Gospel holds forth to poore sinners that there is a love an eternall love an infinite love in Gods breast to poore sinners before ever the world was made You know in reason a man would think that God should hate such a one as I am God foresaw what a creature I would be when I was borne and how I have lived and reason would think that love should proceed from something amiable in the object that should produce love some beautie or bountie as wee say but God sees me to be wicked and sinfull and therefore reason would think God must damne me world without end Now the Gospel comes to such a sinner and tells him the case is otherwise it is not so poore sinfull man or woman and though God hate sin above all things in heaven or hell yet God loved thee knowing what thou wouldest be God knows the reason of it we doe not it is as it is said in Deutrenomie I loved thee because I loved thee God hath an infinite speciall love to thy poore soule yet hates thy fin from before the world was made and the Mountaines were brought forth So God loved the world that he gave his Son c. There was a love in God out of which he gave his Son Jesus Christ to die for us This the Gospel and the Spirit of God in it reveales to the poore soule that when I was an enemie to God hee was my friend when I hated him he loved me nay before I was God had thoughts of an infinite eternall love to me 4. Gods love fruitful Then fourthly the Gospel holds forth to a sinner that as God had an infinite love towards him so it was not a cold love that ended in nothing but out of this love God would send his Son Jesus Christ into the world to save sinners This is one maine principle of the Gospel that the Father out of his love sent his own Son that was the Image of his person the Son of his love and delight into this world to lay downe his life and to die for sinners Were it not for the Ministery of the Gospel we could never know this how could we know but by the Gospel that the Lord Jesus Christ did come to die to save sinners So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that hee that believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life Fiftly 5. Christ came to work redemption breifly for I doe but give you a few touches of instances it holds out to us that as the Father out of his love seat his Son so that Jesus Christ actually and really is come into the world and took our nature upon him soule and body and the infirmities of both and sanctified our nature that he took and in that nature became our Surety a Publick person for us our Advocate a second Adam That he was conceived and born of the Virgen and that he lived here and so did the will of God and fulfilled his Law and conversed many yeares among men and that therein while he did so he gave us many blessed experiments of his love and mercy to poore sinners in healing the sick in giving sight to the blinde in raising the dead And while he conversed among men he taught and discovered in a great measure the mysteryes of his Fathers counsells to us that else we could never have known and gave us a holy patterne and example of life in humility and patience and delligence and prayer and thankfulnesse All these things are good newes and glad tidings to poore sinners every part of them Then the Gospel tells us that this Lord Jesus Christ after he had walked among men for many yeares together that then as a Publicke person 6. Christ died for us and second Adam and our Surety he did lay downe his life and die for our sins But you will say Where is the good newes from that Hence it is that poore sinners are reconciled to God they are made friends with God Hence it is that poore sinners are redeemed from all their enemies sin and death and wrath and curse and hell all these by the death of the Lord Jesus are removed Then the Gospel tells you that Jesus Christ as hee died for our sins so he rose againe for our justification he rose againe from the dead the third day 7. He roase from death whereby poor sinners are assured that they are justified and freed from all their sins and whereby they shall rise to grace here and their soules and bodies shall rise to glory hereafter with Christ and whereby they shall rise out of all afflictions also in due time For the resurrection of Christ is the ground of our resurrection out of afflictions in this world and every tittle of this is glad tidings and good newes to poore sinners Then the Gospel tells you that after his resurrection he conversed with his Disciples 8. Conversed with his discipls and not with the world and that he met with his Disciples from one mountaine to another from one Towne to another for a few dayes after and there he made many precious Prayers to his Father for them and for all that should believe in him and there he gave them instructions and directions how they should order the Churches of God

and loose and if you come in to Christ to day you shall goe out to the devill to morrow but it is a figurative speech That Christ is not a doore that pens men up but there is the liberty of a field there is spaciousnes and comfort and libertie thou shalt not be tied and bound up as thou and I a long while were under Hell Consider this you that have hard thoughts of the wayes of God and have been flow in comming to Christ But to open this a little Some man may say You say Sir that the wayes of Jesus Christ if they be rightly presented to me The wayes of Christ easie they are easie and sweet and comfortable and there is no such hardnesse in them how doth that appeare It will appeare by these foure things breifly First thou that art a drunkard o● a s●e●rer The maine work done aheady or a poore carnall blinde man or woman if thou wilt come this day to Jesus Christ I say it is easie for all the maine work is done alreadie I call thee not if thou wilt come to Christ and tel thee that thou must weepe and pray and fast it our and worke thine owne salvation No but understand mee well that thy everlasting salvation is done fully by Jesus Christ alreadie saith Christ it is finished that is there is nothing in the world for thee to doe if thou wilt come into Christ there is nothing for thee to doe for thy salvation to speake properly Christ hath done that he hath procured the favour of God and everlasting life for thee hee hath found out a way to doe away all thy sins the maine is done to thy hand Therefore we are sent to preach to Gospel that is to tell you glad tydings that all is done to your hands to invite you to a feast see what feast Mat. 22 to tell you that the fatlings are slayne and dinner is readie and all things are prepared being neither bottle nor basket If you will come to Christ rightly Christ doth not accept that thou shouldest doe the least thing to save thy soule he hath died and saved it and he bids us tell thee so O therefore Who would be a drunkard and a wretch and stand as a sot mopeing all the yeare and not come to Christ The Gospel is like the sheet Act. 10. that was full of foules and of all kind of meat and there comes a voyce arise Peter and eat there was nothing else to be done So thou must not come and we set thee in a way to get Heaven and life but the sheet is let down here is life and salvation and spirituall blessings in Christ only arise and eat only love the Father and Christ for it Here it is true as Christ said One soweth and another reapeth Christ hath sowed everlasting happinesse only come thou into the harvest and reape But you will say for some of you are apt to stumble are not duties of Religion Preaching Hearing and Praying meanes of everlasting salvation and yet you say if wee will come to Christ there is nothing to be done for salvation but all is done by Christ Beloved that you may understand this Duties meanes of salvation and not stumble know that duties may be said to be meanes two wayes Properly or Improperly That is thus Prayer and Hearing and Fasting and all those things are meanes that is they doe not immediately and properly procure everlasting life and salvation for that is false they are not meanes so the Papists make them so If you should heare a Jesuite he would say that peregrinations and Fastings and these things are the way to save your souls this is Poperie But duties and religious performances are meanes improperly that is thus they doe not procure salvation but only the blood of Christ doth that if we mix any thing else with it we make it vaine But they are meanes that is they are conduit pipes through which the comfort and benefit of all that Christ hath done for thee comes to thy soule so they are meanes if thou come in thou shalt have them as conduit pipes to reveale and convey those things every day but in a proper sense they are not meanes of salvation for that to speake properly is only the death and merit of Christ Therfore this is one thing to incourage thee that if thou now heare the Preacher inviting thee to come to Christ learne one thing more then thou diddest before there is not a jot for thee to doe for thy salvation but take it as done to thy hands beleive it and love God and Christ that gave it there is nothing else to be done world without end in that sense Secondly thou wilt say is there nothing to be done Yes for other ends that the Gospel specifies that thou maiest adorne thy profession and be like Christ and serve him in thy generation and honnor him in this world But marke Those things that are left for us to doe are few easie even those things they are but very few in comparison of other things they are not so many nor so great and greivous The commandments of Christ are not greivous saith John But to open this briefly Christs way easie compared If you paralell and compare them with foure sorts of people or foure sorts of wayes you shall see the easieness of Christs commands As first 1. With the service of the Jews in the old Testament If wee paralell the service of God I mean under the Gospel with the service of the Jews the Saints under the old Testament I told you what abundance of services and paines and cost they were at you know what paines and cost there was in the building of the Tabernacle and the Temple if you looke upon particulars and what cost it was to offer sacrifices twice a day what a charge it was to bring Oxen and sheep and what a drudgerie to goe up to Jerusalem and how they were crossed in their time and their meat and their clothes It was a burthen that neither wee nor our fathers could bears say the Apostles Elders Act. 10.15 Not only in respect of mans corruption but the thing it self was exceeding heavier but the most of those things are done away in the Gospel Secondly if we paralell it with the Papists religion 2. With the service of Papists when thou commest to Poperie if thou be a Papist there are endlesse commands thou must fast so oft in a weeke thou must observe so many holy-dayes and eves and whipp and scourge thy self and goe in peregrinations There is none of this trash in the service of Christ Then paralell it with the service of naturall men 3. With the service of naturall men that goe as it were by their own righteousnesse to save themselves It is a hard labour and a rough way they must keep every commandment of God if they miss one they are damned