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A66408	The perfection of the evangelical revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 6, 1695/6, being the first of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2717; ESTC R38655	14,734	36

The Perfection of the Evangelical Revelation A SERMON Preached at St. Martins in the Fields Jan. 6. 1695 6. BEING THE First of the LECTURE For this Present YEAR Founded by the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE Esquire By JOHN WILLIAMS D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty LONDON Printed for Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill Sen r Jun r At the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey MDCXCVI GAL. I. 8 9. Though we or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed As we said before so say I now again If any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed THE People of the Jews having been all along trained up under the Law of Moses and by virtue of it possess'd of peculiar Advantages beyond any other Nation were apt to think it as lasting in its Obligation as Divine in its Original and that it was no more in the intention of Almighty God to have it abolished than it could be disproved to have come immediately from him This made them slow and backward to receive the Gospel by which their ancient Constitution would be disannulled and after they had believed it made them inclinable to hearken to such Sophisters as pretended to compound the Controversy and to join Moses and Christ the Law and the Gospel together so as to be both alike necessary to Salvation Which is in effect to set up another Gospel than what the Apostle had taught and they had received from him and therefore he expresses his resentment and indignation against it with the highest aggravations Verses 6 7 8. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel Which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ But though we or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed c. In discoursing upon which words I shall consider 1. What is understood by the Gospel which the Apostle had preached and they had received 2. What by another Gospel against which and the Preachers of it the Apostle so sharply inveighs and pronounces an Anathema 3. I shall shew that the Gospel is the only Revelation from God and that there is not another nor is any other to be expected 1. The Gospel is here opposed to the Law of Moses which there were some in the Churches of Galatia as well as in other places that would maintain to be necessary to Salvation if not alone yet in conjunction with the Gospel as aforesaid These two indeed were so far consistent that the Law was a prefiguration a Shadow and Type of the Gospel But being thus a Shadow and a Type of it That in reason and from the nature of the thing was to give way when the Substance came on and the Types were fulfilled And therefore though the Law was established at the first by Divine Authority yet in course was it to cease in its obligation when the reason of it ceased And consequently to plead for its Authority and Obligation whether in conjunction with or opposition to the Gospel was to say that the substance of those Shadows the completion of those Types was not accomplished that Jesus was not the Messiah nor the Gospel true In this sense these two that in a state of subordination were consistent by this means were made to be opposites to each other So the Apostle Chap. 5. 2. If ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing V. 4. Ye are fallen from grace ye at the same time deny what you seem to confess it is a perverting the Gospel of Christ and establishing another Gospel But this is only a kind of a negative account of the Gospel therefore we are to proceed further in the consideration of it and then we are to understand by the Gospel the Christian Religion and more especially that part of it which is called Christian and for which the Professors of it are called Christians as distinguished from all Religons besides All mankind are not more of the same common Nature than they generally agree in the common Principles of Nature And that which is natural to all cannot be a Character by which one man is distinguished from another But when a Man or Institution is called Christian it is for somewhat peculiar and distinct from that which is common to all And therefore though the Law of Nature be a branch of the Christian Religion as it was of the Mosaical and is also in it self of a never failing obligation yet there is a supervenient Institution and somewhat besides that which denominates us to be Christians without the belief and practice of which we can no more be entitled to to that Character than that can be called a Natural Religion which excludes or is contradictory to the Laws of Nature and the just Reason of Mankind And of the number of such Principles which are necessary to the Constitution of Christianity and consequently to the Character of a Christian and are the Articles of his Faith are the Incarnation and Nativity the Death and Resurrection and Glorification of our Saviour 1. His Nativity and Incarnation So 1 John 4. 2 3. He that denieth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God 2. His Death as he died for Mankind and was a Sacrifice for Sin So St. Paul 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3. I declare unto you the Gospel which also ye have heard and wherein ye stand by which also ye are saved For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures So that to believe in Jesus as the Messiah and as a Suffering Messiah was according to the Scriptures and by the belief of which we are to be saved 3. His Resurrection and what was consequent upon it his Glorification the reward of his Humiliation In which state he is constituted our Mediator From the connexion betwixt which two his Death and Intercession it is that we seldom read in Scripture of the one without the other These are constituent and essential Articles of Christianity and if these or any of these are omitted as it is not Christianity which is left and it would be another Gospel so it is what the Apostle's Anathema will be applicable to From whence we may be able to answer the next Question 2. What is to be understood by another Gospel When the Apostle speaks here of another Gospel he thereby means somewhat that is added to it and with it made necessary to Salvation as it was when the observation of the Law of Moses was maintained to be as obligatory to the Christians as ever it had been to the Jews