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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11923	A godly and fruitfull sermon preached at Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull minister of Gods holy Gospell	Murray, John, 1575?-1632, attributed name. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 22236; ESTC S106434	19,379	64

A GODLY AND FRVITFVLL SERMON PREACHED AT LIETH IN Scotland by a faithfull Minister of Gods holy Gospell Psalme 74 10. O God how long shall the adversary reproch thee shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever 22 Arise O God maintaine thine owne cause remember thy dayly reproch by the folish man Printed 1607. To the godly and Christian Reader IT every where goeth heard with Christs true Church as I heare and feare Neither doe men make that use of the miseries of it that were fit but even in affliction eyther fall away or become faint harted and careles In Scotland the Hierarchy prevaileth much and then Christes Discipline must needs be thrust to the walles Yet see notwithstanding how God stirreth up some to make opposition against that triple-headed Cerberus This Sermon is one playne proofe of it which was both preached and written there and came to my handes by good meanes I haue caused it more plainely to speake English then the Scottish phrase yeelded And yet God is witnes to my soule that I haue done it as neere as I could without any diminution of or addition to either matter or manner Such as it is I present it to thee ayming only at thy benefite and pleasure specially spirituall Farewell and the Lord giue thee grace to use it to all good purposes A GODLY AND FRVITFVL SERMON PREACHED AT Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull Minister of Gods holy Gospell Gal 5.1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made vs free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage SEeing upon us the endes of the world are come saith Paul 1 Cor. 10.11 and now the end of all thinges is at hand saith Peter 1 Pet 4.7 and that day of the Lord is comming like a theefe in the night in the which the heavens shall passe away with a noyse and the elements shall melt with heat and the earth with the works that are therin shal be burnt up 2 Pet 3.10 and therfore seeing Sathan that great redde dragon knowing that he hath but a short time is upon his long chayne ranging and raging drawing downe froÌ„ the heaveÌ„s even some of the starres who should giue light in Gods Church casting theÌ„ to the earth Revel 12. and raysing up false Christs and false Apostles so that if it were possible the very elect should be deceaved Math. 24.24 For these causes we haue made choise of this portioÌ„ of holy scripture whereby we may be put in minde and our heartes may be stirred vp to fasten our affections fast upon that gratious liberty wherewith the Sonne of God hath made us free from every spirituall thraldome standing stedfast through faith not entaÌ„gling our selues againe with any yoke of bondage untill the crowne of that free kingdom be put upon our heads in the great day of the glorious appearing of our Saviour Iesus Christ The chiefe butte the Apostle Paul shoteth at in this epistle is to establish his doctrine concerning true Iustification by the righteousnes of Iesus onely through faith without any mixture of the works of the lawe whatsoever morall or Ceremoniall against those false Apostles who had crept in amoÌ„g the Galathians studying to deceiue bewitch them that they should not beleeue the truth to whom the Apostle before had described Iesus Christ in their sight and as it were crucified him amongst them by the playne and powerful preaching of the gospell cap. 3.1 For the lawe is excluded and debarred in the matter of Iustification faith onely having place apprehending and applying the imputed righteousnes of Iesus Christ But the lawe in the matter of sanctification is admitted as the rule to which the christian maÌ„ should square this conversation and as the lanterne that should lead him in the pathes of the Lords coÌ„mandements The Apostle insisteth in this purpose from the beginning of the 3 chap. to the second parte of this fift and after that he hath throughly reasoned and in the end coÌ„cluded in the last verse of the chap going before that they were not the children of the bondwoman Hagar as Ishmael that is servants and slaues under the law through workes and so lying under the curse thereof but sonnes of the free woeman Sara as Isaac that is heires of the promise through faith in Iesus In these wordes which we haue read he inferreth by way of a second conclusion of the premises a graue powerfull admonitioÌ„ that seeing they were free and freed from all the bonds bondage of the law morall and Ceremonial their geeat care should be to keepe themselues so The admonition hath 2 branches The one an exhortation to stand fast in the libertie The other a dehortatioÌ„ from the contrary not to intangle c. Between these two is interlaced a reason or argument to perswade to the one disswade from the other taken from the purchaser and giver of this libertie who is Christ and so from the excellency thereof This is the libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free therefore stand fast in it This is the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free therfore be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage In the exhortation we begin at this word therefore which is a particle of illation relatiue of the last verse of the chapt going before upon the which this whole admonition is inforced as a necessary consequent and by a necessary consequent we are the children of the free woeman Sara c. Let us stand fast therfore in this liberty We are not the children of the servant let us not therefore be entangled c. we are the children of the fre woman and not of the servant let us therfore staÌ„d fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage The second word is liberty There are sundry sorts of liberty a naturall liberty a civill liberty a bodily liberty a spirituall liberty The first three sorts we overpasse as not pertinent to this text and purpose The liberty of which the Apostle speaketh here is a supernatural spirituall and a heavenly liberty which is generally divided thus into a spiritual internal liberty and a spiritual external liberty The internall liberty is the purchase and gift of Christ to his owne children whereby he setts them at fredome both in soule body immediately from the spirituall thraldome of sinne Sathan c And this is twofold the liberty of Iustification and the libertie of sanctification The liberty which justification brings consisteth in these poynts in perfect freedom from sinne both originall and actuall in respect of meere imputation Now ye are freed froÌ„ sinne Rom. 6.22 From the guiltines therof Who will lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen Rom. 8.33 From the punishment thereof death and condemnation There is no condemnation to theÌ„ which are in Christ Iesus Rom 8.1 From the law morall the revealer of sinne death in regard of the

subscribed Sworne Looke the Confession of faith Wherby By the great name of the Lord our God Whereto To continue in obedience of the Doctrine and Discipline of this reformed Church and to defend the same How long All the dayes of our liues Vnder what payne Vnder the payne conteyned in the law and danger both of body and soule in the day of Gods fearefull iudgment How haue all sworne and subscribed Not secretly but solemnely agayne not ignorantly or rashly but saith the wordes after long and due examination being perswaded in coÌ„science through knowledge wrought by the holy spirit and not moved for worldly respects in a through resolution willingly beleeving confessing subscribing affirming before God and the whole world that it is the onely true religion pleasing God and bringing salvation to man and promising to mainteine it both in the Doctrine and Discipline So that if any will alledge that now they may alter because they see greater light surely it may well be greater livyng thou seest but greater light thou canst not see to make thee alter This is a strong reason to bynde the loosest heart and make stedfast the most waÌ„dring soule unles in the sight of God his Angels and the world we would be manifestly perjured make open Apostasy to the high blaspheming of that Gospell of grace which we preach and professe 7. And lastly we know not how long our God shal graÌ„t to vs the liberty of this present life If while we enjoye it we likewise keep fast this pretious liberty purchased to us by Christ and so long possessed of vs in peace the certeinly in weale in wo in life in death we shall find the fruit and comfort thereof But if we forsake this liberty and God come and cut of the liberty of this present life with what assurance shall we looke for the liberty of that better life Therefore let us stand fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free and not be entangled agayne with the yoke of bondage Now it may be that some wil be reasonyng within themselues after this manner What needes all this a-doe of this liberty the keeping of it and standing in it Wherein is it hurt And by whom I answer to the first If ye will compare the state of our Church as it was within these few yeares with that which now is the graces and faces of â—aithfull men zealous for the house of God their vnity and amity the order comelines of their meetings the coÌ„curreÌ„ce to the Lords worke which theÌ„ was with that which now we looke vpon with our eyes disorder confusioÌ„ division your question wil easily be resolved The time hath been wheÌ„ our Church liberties haue been as a defensed cittie or house but now doores and windowes are partly cast open partly broken up enemies entered so that the faithfull keepers wil be forced eyther to yeld or to suffer but to suffer is farr better for if either our liberties through craft be undermined or through reward be given out of our handes it is likely the Lord will never honor us with them agayne But if by violence they be throwne out of our hands then possesse we a good conscience in our Gods great mercy they shal be repossessed wheÌ„ he thinks time Was not the glorious liberty of Doctrine and Discipline exercised in this land sometime to it that which the Arke of God was to Israel the glory and prayse of it which now is departing there is none like Phinehas wife to mourne for it Was not Scotland albeit the meanest among many Nations yet renowned through the world because Christ in his Gospell of grace was so clearely borne out before our eyes in it And as Bethleem Ephrathah albeit litle among the thousands of Iuda yet renowned because Iesus was borne in it But now we are beating him downe putting him in baÌ„ds covering his face as though we were of purpose now to bury him agayne with the Iewes The Lord be mercifull to us I need not insist in these thinges which are more then evident whereof every one of us talketh privily albeit we speake noâ— much of them publikely I answer to the second question that is by whom our liberties are hurt As concerning our Soveraigne the Kings Majestie he promised at his departure out of this Country and protested as we heare at that meeting late at Liethâ—oe by his CoÌ„missioner that it was no way his highnes intention to alter our government or to hurt our liberties And to testifie our entier and sincere loue reverence and dutifull obedieÌ„ce to him we preach with Christ Math 22.21 Giue unto Caesar our christian Caesar that which is his and unto God those things which are his With Paul Rom 13.1 Let every soule be subiect unto the higher power which is of God and ordayned by him With Peter 1. Pet 2 17. Feare God honor the King We pray for him that his throne may be established with the Sunne and the Moone in his owne person and Royall ofspring till the Sonne of God sett downe his throne in the cloudes to judge the quicke the dead And we will giue to him more honor then Saule requyred of Samuel wheÌ„ he desired that he would but honor him before his people 1. Sam. 15.30 Not only wil we honor him before his people but also before the Lord in sincerity Well then let us search out this hurt among our selues The Lord hath appoynted us to be the lightes of the land holding out his light before this darkened generation to be the eyes for the body of his Church to guide her forward in the way of grace but we haue been in a great measure blinde and darknes our selues The Lord appoynted us to be the watchmen set on the walles of his Sion to see foresee blowe the trumpet and giue warning to his people in time of danger but we haue been blynde and haue not seene and as dombe doges who haue not barked The Lord appoynted us to be builders of his house the ground corner and headstone whereof is Iesus Christ but we haue been breakers downe of that which our worthy predicessors and we our selues haue builded up before and so haue made our selues transgressors saith the Apostle Paul Gal. 2.18 The Lord appoynted us to be the keepers and dressers of his vineyard but we by our sloath and silence haue suffered the hedges therof to be brokeÌ„ downe and many wylde grapes to growe therin The Lord appoynted us to be the sheephards of his flocke to feed them lead them out to the greene pastures of his word and Sacraments but we in a great measure haue been idle sheepheards feading our selues and forgetting the flocke which Christ hath purchased with his pretious bloud Here is the cause of our wounded hurt liberties This we confesse in the sight of God and his Angels for this we cry God mercy for Christs sake O that our heads were

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