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A13875 A treatise of libertie from Iudaisme, or An acknowledgement of true Christian libertie, indited and published by Iohn Traske: of late stumbling, now happily running againe in the race of Christianitie Traske, John, d. ca. 1638. 1620 (1620) STC 24178; ESTC S118597 25,197 50

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fulfilled by the flesh but by Faith onely So that by Christ wee doe fulfill both the Forme and the Truth the Letter and Spirit the olde and new Couenant By Faith wee are formally righteous according to the Lawes exact rule by Loue truly righteous according to the Morall Truth of the same Law So that by this the Morall Law is confessed to be still holy iust and good if lawfully vsed 1. Tim. 1. 8 9. It serues still to conuince all men of sinne and to bring them to Christ for perfect obedience and full satisfaction yea so farre are wee from granting the Laws abolishing in part or in whole that we still affirme God will bee euer iust and transgressors shall neuer escape his terrible and powerfull hand Neither shall this Law lose its force in all sorts of men yea in the godly themselues to weaken the old-man and to humble them daily vntill it may bee triumphantly said O death where is thy sting O Hell where is thy victorie The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the Law But thankes bee vnto God who hath giuen vs the Victory through our Lord Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 15 55 56 57. And this is that by which all Enmitie is slaine and Peace made yea all that beleeue whether Iewes or Greekes Male or Female bond or free haue free accesse by one Spirit to worship the Father through the Sonnes mediation and this Liberty is part of that Glorie which the very Angels themselues desire to behold 1. Pet. 1. 22. CHAP. III. Answeres to some Obiections which seeme to be against this Libertie HAuing now expounded and testified there are some Questions to bee examined that doe concerne this Liberty that all lets being remooued the imbracing thereof may be the more boldly perswaded to all that shall acknowledge so glorious a condition and the contrarie appeare as it is an intollerable bondage too heauie for any to vndergoe Obiect And first some say If it bee so that the Law Morall is still of force why then haue wee left off the Seuenth Day Sabbath which that Law expresly inioynes our Lord obserued the Apostles were taught to keepe and did obserue after Christs death and Resurrection Resol The answere is That a Sabbath wee doe keepe and a Seuenth Day wee doe still obserue vnto the Lord yet not that Sabbath not that Seuenth Day so wee haue learned to obserue no dayes nor moneths nor times nor yeeres as that Law inioyned Gal. 4. 10. But wee haue learned to esteeme all dayes alike in respect of that Law that olde Letters seruice Rom. 14. 5. wee are not now so to serue God Rom. 7. 6. A new spirituall seruice wee are to yeeld And that a Sabbath Day we doe still acknowledge it is by vertue of the Commandement it selfe as farre as it is Morall which saith Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath Day or remember the Sabbath Day to sanctifie it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee Exod. 20. 8. Deut. 5. 12. But all the strife is what day it must be kept seeing the seuenth from the creation was blessed to that end and made holy for that purpose And what God hath blessed is blessed for euer what he hath made holy no man may pollute He is not as man that hee should repeat he hath spoken and it cannot be reuersed This is granted to be vndoubtedly true but withall the end must be considered why that day was instituted vpon the ground of creation to be also obserued in that manner And for this let vs heare the doctrine of the Lord of the Sabbath where hee saith That the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath Mat. 2. Matt. 12. If then man were not made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for man God may also dispose and change it for mans good for whom it was made as well in the day it selfe as the manner of keeping it Neither may it be said that the day remaineth any longer blessed and holy then man for whom it was made and whom it serueth can receiue holinesse and happinesse thereby Seeing man is not subiect to it but it is subiect to man by vertue of Christs Lordship which as the Sonne of man he hath of the Sabbath Mark 2. 27 28. And as it partly appeareth by some bodily labours which Christ himselfe commanded some to doe in case of necessitie as to take vp their beds and goe to their houses which some held vtterly vnlawfull at that time and by that the Priests might without scandall kill and dresse and offer the sacrifices on that day Mat 12. And Children were also circumcised on that very day Iohn 5. 8. 9. Iohn 7. 22 23. Now then as with the destruction of Israels common-wealth the holy temple which serued their vse was destroyed and the holinesse vanished and Canaans blessednesse is also gone as it stood distinguished from other lands And all mans holinesse and happinesse naturall is now vanished the Iewes prerogatiue aboue all other nations abolished So also the holinesse and blessednesse of that seuenth day is vanished and quite done away with the death and destruction of man himselfe Indeed had man to this day retained and continued in his first estate that day had retained its first blessednesse and continued its holinesse still but as little comfort as man hath left in himselfe at this day of any holinesse or blisse by vertue of creation so little benefit shall man find in that daies obseruation on that ground and in that manner as it was inioyned And in steed of blessednesse and holinesse which he may for a while fondly expect by obseruing that day he will soone find the great arerages of curses which he runs daily into by that laws transgression So that if God at this day did require that dayes obseruation in that manner no flesh could stand with any comfort before his maiestie As for their Argument à principio from the beginning Man himselfe hath beene also from the beginning yea mans creation is more ancient then that daies institution yet as that proues not mans blessednesse now by that his creation is so ancient vnlesse he seek it another way so is that no sound reason to proue that day to bee now obserued by man seeing wee haue many probabilities that it was neuer obserued resurrection Mat. 13. 34. Ioh. 16. 25. And it might parabolically denote that they should pray that they might not be vtterly extirpate and rooted out as they must be if surprized in the Winter when they cannot flie farre or on the Sabbath day when they were secure and not willing to escape or take filght at all For that if they be set vpon when they were either vnwilling or vnable to escape they must then perish and be vtterly destroyed for euermore The sum then of that Prayer is that God would lay no more vpon them then they were able to beare but giue them an issue with the triall
been written with their owne pen yea to doe to all men as they would be done vnto and to forbeare to doe ought to any which they would be loath should bee done to themselues And thus much for some preparation to that which followeth concerning the truth of that Libertie which true Christians doe all enioy CHAP. II. A small taste of true Christian Libertie GReat was the Liberty those Senators in conceit vaunted of at the wound of that beast which yet liued though mortally wounded by Chereas Sword so that Liberty and onely Liberty is the Souldiers watch word But how great glorious costly and certaine this Libertie is no heart can conceiue nor tongue expresse much lesse any Pen describe the glory and admirable excellency it doth containe This true Christian Liberty this sonne-like freedome is that which God himselfe hath bestowed Christ Iesus purchased and the holy Spirit declared to such as truly beleeue and such Libertie it is that if the giuer bee respected it must bee greatly esteemed the cost bee valued it must bee highly prized or the commoditie thereof weighed it cannot but bee earnestly desired and zealously defended against all that in any wise would limit such boundlesse loue Wherefore seeing God the Father hath bestowed Gal. 4. 4 5 6. God the Sonne purchased it at the price of his owne bloud Iohn 8. 36. Act. 20. 28. 1. Pet. 1. 17 18. God the Holy Ghost declared it to all in whom he also vouch safeth to dwell 2. Cor. 3. 17 and seeing I am one of them that professe such freedome and haue testified before many witnesses that I doe now vnderstand more cleerely the mystery thereof I shall in a few words labour to expresse it to all that are indued but with the least beginnings of the same free spirit Psal 51. 11 12. That a Liberty there is if any were so impudent as to deny yet can none bee so ignorant as not to conceiue that such a thing must of necessitie be confessed seeing it is so often mentioned and a Law for it declared to all that vnderstand Iames 1. 25. But all the strife is what Libertie it is and who they are who may be truly said to enioy such freedome For answere to both it is affirmed that this Libertie is a freedome from the Law from Sinne and so from Hell and all feare of condemnation from sinnes accusation the Lawes condemnation and Hels anguish and that eternall separation from Gods comfortable presence for euermore We are diuorced from the flesh and so free from it yea dead thereto and so at liberty from the Law as it is written The Law hath dominion ouer a man as long as hee liueth for the woman which hath an Husband is bound by the Law to her Husband so long as hee liueth but if the Husband be dead shee is loosed from the Law of the Husband so then if while her Husband liueth shee be marryed to another man shee shall be called an Adulteresse but if her Husband bee dead shee is then free from that Law so that she is no Adulteresse though she bee marryed to another man Wherefore my Brethren ye are also become dead to the Law by the bodie of Christ that ye should bee marryed to another euen to him who is raysed from the dead that wee should bring forth fruit vnto God Rom. 7. 1 2 3 4. By this similitude is our Diuorce exemplified yea our freedome from the Law by the death of Christ and our death in Christ is most plaine to all that doe vnderstand And lest any one should yet doubt and not rest fully satisfied the Apostle a little after doth instance in himselfe and saith thus I was aliue without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin reuiued and I dyed and the Commandement which was vnto life I found to be vnto death Verse 9. 10. and then hauing put a manifest difference betweene his flesh and his faith his inward and outward man hee concludes with an exclamation thus O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this bodie of death And in another place hee saith I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might liue vnto GOD I am crucified with Christ Neuerthelesse I liue yet not I but Christ liueth in me Gal. 2. 19 20. What can be more plaine then this that being thus baptized into Christs death wee are free from the Law and it hath no more such authority to condemnation ouer vs at all By this also are wee dead to sinne Rom. 6. 1 2. That is as obey we cannot so disobey we doe not and so hath Hell nor Deuill no more to doe against vs. If sinne would stand vp to accuse God himselfe hath discharged vs by himselfe wee are esteemed iust If the Law would iudge or condemne Christ himselfe hath dyed to yeeld it the due and is risen againe being set downe at Gods right hand to make iutercession for vs. If trouble yea the powers of Hell it selfe would indeuour to separate vs from the loue of God it cannot they can neuer preuaile Rom. 8. So that a Libertie here is but none to the flesh Gal. 5. 13. None to sinne 2. Pet. 2. 18 19. No cloke for malice 1. Pet. 2. 16. But a libertie to Righteousnesse and Holinesse Luke 1. 74 75. yea to runne the way of Gods Commandements Psal 119. 32. As it may stand with faith in Iesus Christ Reu. 12. 17. But for that Libertie from sinnes power is granted and freedome from Hell defended or at least desired by all and willingly acknowledged by men of sound iudgement to all beleeuers therefore it is Libertie from the Law which is here to be proued to such as are willing to know the same we are set free from the whole Law which saith Cursed is euery one which continueth not in all things which are written in the Booke of the Law to doe them Gal. 3. 19. Free we are from that seruice in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7. 6. Free from that forme which was written in stony Tables and presented to those naturall Israelites in Moses hand 2. Cor. 3. And Christ is the Lawes end for rightousnesse to all that beleeue Rom. 10. 4. Free we are from all punishment which the Law exacteth for time past and from all rigorous and strict performance of euery part thereof for time to come The same mans nature yea flesh and bloud which transgressed and is obliged to such formall obedience and exact seruice hath now satisfied and borne the fury due to that transgression Heb. 2. 14 15 16. And wee by faith in him haue yeelded obedience and all satisfaction and are so accepted as obedient Rom. 4. 7 21. Our Libertie from sinne being nothing else but an effect of this freedome from the Law though that from sinne bee first knowne ere this from the Law can be perceiued Rom. 6. 14. For where no Law is there is no transgression Rom. 4. 15.