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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12273	The harmonie of the lawe and the gospel Wherin is plainly shewed, that howsoeuer they differ in time and some other circumstances, yet in substance they are one & the same. And by waie of application, the pretended antiquitie of Poperie is discouered, and found to be a meere nouelty: deliuered in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, the 9. of Aug. 1607. by George Cresvvell, minister of Gods word.	Creswell, George.	1607 (1607)	STC 6038; ESTC S117450	22,951	66

men vnto a sight of their sins but the grace of the gospel hath brought vs into the kingdom of heaueÌ„ And therfore saith S. Chrysost Ego Chrysostome quaÌ„do lego EuangeliuÌ„ video ibi testimonia de lege testimonia de Prophetis soluÌ„ christum coÌ„sidero For the Gospel saith Theod. sheweth the reconciliation of God the destructioÌ„ Theodoret of the diuell the remission of sinnes the departure of death resurrection from the dead life eternall and the kingdome of heauen for the scope and ende of the Gospell is the saluation of men So that as well by the testimonies of Antiquitie as also by the scriptures we may see plainely how far more glorious the Gospell is then the lawe The second thing that the Apostle speakes concerning the lawe is that it was giuen in or by the hand of a Mediator Thus he cals Moyses who in the giuing of the law was vsed as a mediator betweene God and the people For when the people were not able to endure the voyce of God then God was willing to make him an interpreter of the lawe and God tendering the peoples infirmitie called Moses vnto himselfe to whom he did not onely declare his law by word but also writ downe the summe of the same in Tables of stone and gaue them to Moses to bee deliuered to the people That this is the true sense of this place appeares by the words of Moses himselfe which hee spake vnto the Israelites saying When ye hard the voyce out of the midst of the darknes Deut. 5. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. for the Mountaine did burne with fire then yee came to me all the chiefe of your Tribes and Elders and said Beholde the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glorie and his greatnes and wee haue heard his voyce out of the midst of the fire c. And afterward if wee heare the voice of the Lord our God any more we shal die For what flesh was there euer that harde the voice of the liuing God out of the midst of the fire as we haue and liued Goe thou therefore and heare all that the Lord our God saith declare thou vnto vs all that the Lord our God saith vnto thee and we will heare it and doe it Heere then obserue Note the infirmitie and weakenes of man and how far we are from God seeing wee are not able to endure the maiestie and brightnes of Angels Neither did the Israelites onely endure and suffer this but the like examples we finde in the parents of Samson in Daniell that man of desires in the welbeloued Disciples of Christ whom the taste of Gods maiesty shining in Angels did so terrifie that they fell to the ground and wist not what they said This onely argument then is sufficient to conuict the papists who trust vnto the streÌ„gth of their free will and the merite of their workes But to let them passe and come vnto our selues we are hereby taught to embrace the goodnesse of God who for vs miserable and vnworthy wretches so far abased himselfe that he speakes vnto vs by euerie manner of meanes This goodnes Moses doth worthily commend vnto vs teaching vs to make this vse of it namely diligently and attentiuely to heare and performe those things that God speakes vnto vs. But how much greater then this was the readinesse and mercie of God towards vs who in the ende vouchsafed to speake vnto vs by his onely begotten son least any one should pretend the ignorance of his will Being mindefull hereof let vs submit our selues to his will with all our hearts alwayes remembring the saying of the Apostle to the Hebrewes For if the Heb. 2 2. 3 10. 28. 29. word spoken by Angels was steadfast and euerie transgression and disobedience receiued a iust recompence of reward how shall we escape if we neglect so great saluation which at the first began to bee preached by the Lord and afterwarde was coÌ„firmed vnto vs by them that heard him And againe if hee that despised Moses lawe dyed without mercy vnder two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment suppose yee shall hee bee worthy which treadeth vnder foote the sonne of God and counteth the blood of the new Testament as an vnholy thing wherewith hee was sanctified and doth despight the spirite of grace But to the last part of this Text wherein because the Apostle had made mention of Moses the mediator hee now drawes an argument from the person or condition of a mediator wherewith hee confutes them who would be iustified by the lawe A mediator is not a mediator of one that is to say hee is not a mediator betweene such as are at vnitie and peace one with another but rather hee is one with them betwixt whom he doth mediate But our Fathers when the law was giuen stood in need of a mediator lest they should be compelled to endure those greeuous and terrible voices of God himselfe proclaiming the law of which their neede whereas before they were ignorant then they onely vnderstoode it when the lawe was to be giuen By this argument the Apostle euidently gathers that the lawe is not that meanes by which we are reconciled with God but rather by the lawe our miserable estate as before hath beene declared is made knowen vnto vs Namely that being separated from God we haue nothing in our selues that can defend vs before Gods tribunal seate For God indeed professed himselfe to be their God and deliuered vnto them a law but vnto the same he added such conditions which whereas they were impossible to bee performed they did terrifie rather then comfort miserable men Therefore Moses himself did send them to that great Prophet Christ Iesus of whom as touching his office of mediatorship hee did beare a type and figure But now some will obiect say Had God then broken his couenant Deut. 18. 15. that there must be a new reconciliation and therefore a mediator But the Apostle maketh answer hereunto saying But God is one as if hee should haue said God neuer hath broken his couenant for as he is one in essence so is hee constant in himselfe and is neuer changed But because men doe not alwayes stand to those conditions which GOD prescribes vnto them he deales after another manner with them And therefore then also for matters before spoken of there was a Lawe giuen which continued for a time so long as there was vse of it But now is the time of the new Testament when the Lawe the Prophets doe yeeld vnto the Gospell that there might be a place as wel for the Gentiles as the remnant of the Iews who forceably entred into the kingdome of God I knowe that others doe expound this place otherwise and speake much of Christ the Mediatour of the vnity of God and equality of the Sonne with the Father but the whole Text of the words doth sufficiently teach vs that it is not agreeable to the purpose of the Apostle Therfore let vs ayme at the true scope of the Apostle which is to shew that righteousnesse and peace of conscience cannot be looked for from the Lawe seeing the ancient Fathers to whom the Lawe was giuen were not able to endure the giuing of the same much lesse then shall we be able to abide it if God should be willing to iudge vs according to the rigour of it Therefore as the Iewes stoode in neede of Moses to be their Mediator so we stand in need of Christ whoÌ„ God hath made the Mediator of the new Testament for vs. Let vs therefore acknowledge this so great a benefit and least wee should make the goodnes of God vnprofitable for vs let vs with a true and constant faith embrace Christ Iesus that he being truely vnited vnto vs may liue in vs and that wee may lead in him a life beseeming the profession of Christ applying alwayes vnto our selues that which Christ said vnto his Apostles vpon the Mount Oliue that Luk. 22. 39. 40. they should watch and pray Let vs therefore apply our selues vnto that vocation whereunto God hath called vs let vs watch against the deceites of the world and the diuell Let vs continually meditate in the word of God that is able to comfort vs and teach vs. Let vs giue place to the spirit which God hath made an aduocate for vs. Let vs pray continually that he will not suffer vs to faint vnder temptations Finally let all our hope bee fixed and fastned in Christ Iesus who is the good shepheard and wil suffer no man to take his sheepe which he hath redeemed with his blood out of his hands To him therfore with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory for euer Amen FINIS Vnderstand Christian Reader that part of the matter contained in the ninetenth and twentith pages aforegoing was by him that copied out this Sermon for the Presse set downe in the Margent without certaine direction for vs where to bring it into the body of the Book And consequently for want of a guide we haue somwhat failed as we vnderstand since of the due order obserued by the Authour in his originall Copy which was as followeth Symmacchus the Gloria in excelsis Deo Ierome the Epistle and Gospell Alleluia was taken out of the Church of Ierusalem the Creed in the Councell of Nice Pelagius the Commemoration of the dead Leo the third Frankincense Innocent the first the kissing of the Pax Sergius the Agnus Dei Nicolas the first the Sequences Gelasius Africanus as saith Nauclerus the Hymnes Collects Responsories Graduals and Prefaces Gregory the third to the secret of the Masse Quorum solemnitas hodie in conspectu tuae Maiestatis celebratur Domine Deus noster in toto orbe terraruÌ„ Leo the first so forward in order as it standeth in the booke Furthermore In the 3 page line 27 reade 430 page 14. line 10 reade Anablatha

all men for his crueltie seemes to giue consent to the ambition of this Boniface to the end he might haue the Romans obedient vnto him But how vnluckily and vnfortunatly this happened to the Church not onely the euent and profaning of the holy thinges and of all religion which then followed did declare but also many sad and sorrowfull prodigies terrifying the minds and harts of men did demonstrate all which are recorded in ancient histories For a burning Comet appeared a childe was borne at Bizantium hauing foure Annal. Palmer feete another without eyes and hands whose inferiour parts from the loynes downeward were like a fish bloodie speares appeared all the night God witnessing thereby that the fatall time was now at hand wherein the Popes or Bishops of Rome who ought to follow celestiall things and teach all men to lift vp their hearts and mindes vnto God were now degenerated into four footed beasts and the Church depriued of her lights and of her hands that is to say destitute of faithfull Seers trustie guides and vigilant watchmen should now as a fishe swimme and floate amongst the waues of the world and vnstable alterations of superstitions For such Bishops followed as troubled the whole world with greate warres and cruell murders and vsurped to themselues an authoririe or power ouer Emperours and Kings Let the Popes of Rome then by their flatterers Iesuites and Seminaries boast spread abroad the antiquitie of their supremacie which all histories being considered had no being before the dayes of Boniface the thirde neither can they bring forth any other author of the same but onely Phocas then whome amongst the Emperours that professed the name of Christ none liued that was more wicked nor more cruelly minded I so speake of him because to make himselfe Emperour as he did he murdered Mauritius his Lord and Christian Emperour Is then the supremacie of the Pope so newe but newer are those things whereby superstitious men doe measure religioÌ„ in poperie amongst which the worshipping of Images is chiefest Euerie Images one knoweth that God in the olde Testament forbade Images and Christ teacheth vs that the same was ratified in the newe Testament when hee saith that hee came not to abolish the Lawe or to Mat. 5. 17 1. Io. 5. 21 breake the commandements of the Lawe but to fulfill them to whom consenteth the Apostle Iohn saying Babes keepe your selues from Idols It is manifest in the Primitiue Church there were no Images at all tolerated no not so much as of Christ Ierenaeus an auncient writer about Ire lib. 1. cap. 24. the yeare of Christ 185. maketh mention of the Gnostickes that they had the Imamages of Christ which they proposed to be worshipped with the Images of Pithagoras Plato and other Philosophers but this father condemnes and reproues the same in them Knowen is the action of Epiphanius Bishoppe of Salamina in Cipres which in an Epistle written to Iohn the Bishoppe of Ierusalem Saint Ierome being the Latin Translater thereof is thus cited When I came sayth he to a Village that was called Anablatlia and there passed-by seeing a candle burning demaunding what place it was and vnderstanding that it was a Church I went in to pray Now there I found hanging behinde the doores of the Church a vayle washed and painted and hauing an Image as it were of Christ or some other Saint for I doe not well remember whose Image it was Therefore when I sawe in the Church of Christ contrarie to the Authoritie of the scriptures the Image of a man hanging I cut it downe and gaue commaundement to the keepers of the same place that therewith they should burie some poore man And a little after in the same Epistle Precor vt iubeas presbyteros eiusdem loci deinceps praecipere in ecclesiae Christi istiusmodi vela quae contra religionem nostram veniunt non appendi These things then doe demonstrate and declare how the Fathers of auntient time vnderstood the commaundement of God concerning Images when as Epiphanius doth affirme the Images of Christ to bee against the authoritie of the scriptures and enemies to Christian religion But after the supremacie of the Popes before spoken of was confirmed Images also crept into the Church about the yeare of Christ 707 by Constantine the first for hate of the Emperour Philip. By which action grewe greate contention in the whole Empire and at the last was the occasion that the Greeke fell from the Latine Church In which schisme the Turkish Empire encreased which GOD euer from that daye hath vsed as his roddes and scourges to purge the filthinesse of Idolatrie And yet for all this foolish and superstitious men doe recken the worshipping of Images amongst the exercises of ancient and Catholicke religion oppressing and burdening vs with the name of noueltie because wee condemne this worshippe and would rid it away by the authoritie of the worde of God But now let vs come to their Masse the supporter and piller of their popish kingdome Masse inuented and encreased The author hereof they fayne Iesus Christ to be constantly affirming that all the Apostles but especially Peter and Iames celebrated the Masse Now how friuolous this is euerie man may easily knowe that doth but consider the Euanglicall history and the writings of the Apostles Christ instituted his supper in remembraunce of his death in that forme 1. Cor. 11. 23. and manner that the Apostles after deliuered it to the Church But what communion can this mysticall supper haue with the Masse wherein the sacrificing Priest doth all alone eates alone drinkes alone speakes alone behaues himselfe like a foole in a playe all the rest behoulding him as an idle spectacle Or hath Christ made any mention of a sacrifice for the quicke and the dead in the which notwithstanding they fixe the chiefest vse of their masse Christ instituted his supper in remembrance of his death hee neuer commaunded to apply it to the dead much lesse to offer his bodie and bloud dayly for their sinnes The Masse then is a newe Inuention the authors whereof are superstitious men that haue patcht it and pieced it vp at diuers times which that we may omitte other histories we wil declare out of Platina the Popes secretarie For he vpon the life of Sixtus the first thus writes In celebratione de coena domini loquitur mandauit vt sanctus sanctus sanctus dominus Deus Sabaoth cantaretur These wordes were at the first euident and did saith he touch all things as it had beene instituted by Christ Peter when hee consecrated vsed the Lords prayer Saint Iames the Bishoppe of Ierusalem encreased these mysteries Basill encreased theÌ„ others encreased them First he saith that Peter consecrated a newe worde whereof in the newe Testament vvhen there is any speech of the Supper the Apostles make no mention at all neither by it can any other thing be vnderstood but onely the reciting of the

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