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A40368 King Jesvs is the beleevers prince, priest, and law-giver, in things appertaining to the conscience, Isai. 55.4. Heb. 7.17. Jam. 4. 12. Or, The loyall spouse of Christ hath no head, nor husband, but royall King Jesvs. Written by Francis Cornwell, a minister of Jesus Christ, out of the learned workes of Mr. John Fox in his book of Martyrs, excepting onely some explanations of his owne, for the benefit of the reader. Cornwell, Francis.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments. 1645 (1645) Wing F2041; ESTC R208105 18,659 46

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promise of God in Christ Jesus our Lord Therefore wicked and impious is the Doctrine of them First which seek any other cause of remission of sins save in the bloud of Christ our Saviour onely 1 Iohn 1. 7. Ephes. 1.7 Heb. 9.14 10.4 Act. 4.12 Secondly which assigne any other meanes to apply the bloud-shedding of Christ unto us besides onely faith Iohn 3. 16. God so loved the world that hee gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Thirdly and especially which so limit and restraine the eternall priviledges of Christs passion as though it served but only for sins done without and before faith and that the rest after baptisme committed must be done away by confessions pardons and satisfactory deeds or as the writer addeth but not Mr. Fox some qualifications of our owne And all this ariseth because the true nature of the Law and the Gospel is not knowne nor the difference rightly considered between the times of the one and of the other as before hath been by Mr. Fox largely discussed Neither againe doe they make any distinction between the malediction of the Law and the true use of the Law thus far Mr. Fox but the Writer inserteth these words as it is enjoyned a beleever by his Law-giver King Jesus Iam. 4. 12. There is but one Law-giver to the beleever for to such St. Iames wrote his Epistle that is able to save and destroy which is Iesus who is become a beleevers Head and Husband who doth not onely shew a beleever what is his will but giveth him strength to doe his will and in case there be defects as who transgresseth not his bloud pardons all and his love covers all Rom. 7.4 Phil. 4.13 1 Ioh. 2. 1 2. Therefore whensoever they hear us speak of the Law of Moses that whole rigid yoke that bound us over to death and damnation for every trespasse and transgression done against it to bee to a beleever abolished though we hold it in force at this day with all his strength sting and curses to the unbeleever to wit to the lawlesse and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and profane for murtherers of fathers and murtherers of mothers for man-slayers For whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for men-stealers for liars for perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. they maliciously slander us as though wee gave liberty to the flesh and carnall men to live as they list whereas we teach that though Christ by his death hath freed us from the first husband the Law Rom. 7.4 Yee are my brethren become dead to the Law what Law was this the Ceremoniall Law no for that was the remedy against the rigid yoke of the Law in case there were sinnes of ignorance committed Numb. 15. from the 22. Verse to the 29. Verse which typified out a Christ which is the onely sacrifice for sinne Heb. 10. 14. but the Morall Law which onely discovereth to man his sinne Rom. 3. 20. By the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the Law cometh the knowledge of sinne That Law which bindeth the soule over to the curse for the transgressions against it is the Morall Law Gal. 3.10 For as many as are of the workes of the Law are under the curse for it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to doe them Quest How are wee freed from this curse the Morall Law bindeth us over to Answ. By the body of Christ Rom. 7.4 to wit crucified Quest How prove you it Answ. Gal. 3. 13 14. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us for it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on the tree That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Iesus Christ that wee might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith Yet the end why Christ hath freed us by his death from the first and our cruell husband the Law was not to live as flesh and nature lusteth but that wee should be married to another even to the Lord Jesus that was raised againe from the dead that he should be our Head Lord and Husband who hath not taken away the equity and true use of the Law as it is a rule of holinesse for all his justified ones to walke in so it remaineth in force to this day and shall for ever as Christ testifieth Mat. 5. 21 22. Yee have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not kill But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement c. So that Christ sheweth there are more wayes to breake the sixth commandement then by laying violent hands upon thy brother And so forward Christ teacheth his justified ones the spirituality of the Law from the 21. Verse to the latter end of the Chapter As Christ now sheweth us what is his Law and will wee should walke in so hee commandeth us in love to doe them Ioh. 14. 15. If yee love mee keep my commandements and in case there be defects his bloud pardons all our trespasses and his love covers all Tell mee then thou beleeving soule dost thou desire to live under thy first husband the Law which shewed thee onely what to doe and gave thee no strength to doe it as thy second husband Christ Jesus doth and in case thou failest but in one title of thine obedience in thought word or deed thou must perish for ever But by the Law cometh the knowledge of sinne for Saint Paul saith I had not known lust to be sin except the Law had said Thou shalt not lust Rom. 7.7 therefore the Morall Law is not abrogated First As the Law is the rule of holinesse to discover to justified man how to walke holily toward God and man the equity of that Law remaineth but the power by which a beleever walketh according to that rule of holinesse is Jesus Christ Gal. 2.20 Neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me So that a beleever doth not now worke for life and for heaven and salvation as hee did when hee was under the Law but from life that is to say from that principle of grace received Col. 2.6 7. As yee have received Iesus Christ the Lord so walke in him Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as yee have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving Hence Paul saith 1 Cor. 15. 10. I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with mee Secondly The rigidnesse of the yoke that bindeth every observer of the Law under the curse is taken away by Christ Gal. 3.13 so that the power and