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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41726	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ...	Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1459; ESTC R3870	19,094	36

Covenants In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die That was the unrelenting Rigour of the first Law and the rigid Condition of the Law of Moses is carefully remembred by the Apostle in this Chapter Gal. 3. 10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them A very uncomfortable and frightful Sanction it is sufficient of it self to represent that Law as a Schoolmaster as it is stil'd qualified not only to bring but to drive us unto Christ Thanks be therefore to God through Jesus Christ our Lord who by the propitious Mystery of this Day and the saving Consequences of it hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law Himself being made a Curse for us who did all that could be requir'd in the greatest Rigour and yet suffer'd too the greatest that we who of our selves could do nothing as we ought to do might yet suffer nothing but being by him enabled to do all things may be made Heirs even joynt Heirs with himself of Eternal Glory And this it is that makes up our present Rejoycing The Birth of Christ was the Death of the Law For He was the End of the Law and put an end to it also as it is taken in competition with the Gospel For we well know that it is not always so and therefore can easily reconcile those different and contrary Accounts which are given of it in the New Testament As it is considered absolutely in it self without regard and subordination to our Blessed Lord who gives strength for the fulfilling of the Moral part of it and is the substance and accomplishment of the Ceremonial it is represented full of Terrors as to Man and under Characters of Disparagement and Diminution to it self Thus it is said to be abolished and disannull'd that it was but until John that it was given by Moses who was faithful but as a Servant whereas Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ who is Lord and Heir of all things That it stops every Mouth and makes all the World become guilty before God that it cannot Justifie or make Righteous It is not only reflected on as a less excellent Ministry a Covenant not faultless unprofitable decayed waxen old a Shadow and vanishing away but it is likewise severely censured as an unsupportable Yoak and that which worketh Wrath and Death It is said indeed to be weak but for all that we are told that it is the strength of Sin a Letter that killeth and the Ministration of Condemnation and Death that it is a Curse and Emnity which Christ abolished and slew the oldness of the Letter and dead that there was made of necessity a change of the Law and accordingly that we are not now under the Law but under Grace At this rate is it expos'd and vilisied when consider'd as opposite to or distinct in part or in whole from the Dispensation of the Gospel But there is another view of it and a much better prospect when it is represented as it was intended to be a Dispensation preparatory and subordinate to the Gospel A Law of Life and Manners improv'd fulfil'd and enforced by our Saviour who plentifully furnisheth out Grace and Strength to enable us to live up to the Precepts of it in an Evangelical Perfection And thus it will soon appear that the Law is not against the Promises of God according to my Text. For we find our Blessed Saviour making a solemn and very early Protestation even in his first Sermon that he came not to destroy but to fulfil the Law that not a jot of it should be unfulfill'd that it is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than one tittle of the Law to fail And St. Paul establish'd the Christian Faith by the Law of Moses as well as by the Prophets and thus now the Doers of the Law shall be justified and we read often of the Righteousness of the Law and that it is not made void through Faith God forbid saith St. Paul yea we establish the Law And thus the Law is holy and the Commandment holy and just and good Thus too it is Spiritual to be delighted in a Commandment ordain'd unto Life and a means to bring us unto Christ King David himself who composed so many Hymns on purpose to celebrate and adorn the Law and that long Alphabetical Octonary the 119th Psalm on that single Subject could not say more in honour of it than what I have already or may further be alledged for that purpose from the Scriptures of the New Testament But then the Law is understood to be a kind of Gospel a Dispensation typical and significative of Christ According to what the Great Father tells us * Quid est enim quod dicitur Testamentum Vetus nisi occultatio Novi Et quid est aliud quod dicitur Novum nisi Veteris revelatio St. Aug. de Civ Dei l. 16. f. 26. That the Law was but the Gospel mask'd and the Gospel nothing else but the Law reveal'd Indeed the whole Old Testament in a manner is a Mysterious Shadow a Prophetical and Figurative Representation of the New Which some observing and finding what excellent use our Saviour and his Apostles made of the History and Prophecies of the one Testament to confirm and illustrate the Doctrines of the other have indulged so long and unwarily to the contemptation of the Allegorical that they have quite neglected and at last utterly lost and even renounc'd the first and Literal Sence But this is an unreasonable affection of an extravagant and sottish Extreme It was the infinite Wisdom and Power of God that so contriv'd ordered and overrul'd Affairs in the first Ages of the World that they might aptly prelude typifie and represent that great Undertaking which he was to set on foot in the latter Times Hereby making the Age of the Patriarchs and the Law but a long Preface or Introduction to that of the Gospel Indeed to speak properly we are to Date the Gospel from the time of the first Publication of it which was immediately after the Fall as we all know From that happy Moment all the hopes of Heaven of a future Endless Life of Bliss depended wholly on the Birth and Death of the Messias Christianity therefore commenced about Four Thousand Years before the first Christmas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb Dem. Evang. l. 1. c. 8. Il 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I mean before the actual Incarnation and Nativity of the Son of God It is then no Novel and Upstart Doctrine not a Modern or New invented Discipline but far the most Ancient the Senior Religion of the World Almighty God for wise and weighty Purposes did not think fit to put the Gospel Dispensation presently in practice with all the Power and Demonstration all the Lustre and Advantages with which in the Fulness of time it was to appear and be recommended to the World