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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	ephes_n	parent_n	1,205	5	9.1418	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13556	Regula vitæ the rule of the law vnder the Gospel. Containing a discovery of the pestiferous sect of libertines, antinomians, and sonnes of Belial, lately sprung up both to destroy the law, and disturbe the faith of the Gospell: wherein is manifestly proved, that God seeth sinne in iustified persons. By Thomas Taylor Dr. of Divinity, and pastour of S. Mary Aldermanbury, London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1631 (1631)	STC 23851; ESTC S118279	80,247	284

doe have rather commended the Pharises for weakning it by their glosses than have vindicated it and restored to the full strength and power of it 2. Our Lord not onely confirmes it in it selfe by his doctrine and life but also in the conscience of every Christian. Matth. 5. 19. He that breaketh the least of these commandements and teacheth men so to doe shall be least in the kingdome of heaven but he that shall teach and observe them shall be called great in the kingdome of heaven that is shall be honoured and counted a worthy member in the Church of God No saith the Libertine we must not teach the Law in the Church and those that doe are legall Preachers that lead men into a dead faith we must doe nothing because God commands us nay we not onely reverse the least of them but all at once and teach others so to doe See now if fire be more contrary to water or Christ to Belial than Christ to these sonnes of Belial that will be under no yoke of the Law no rule no obedience 3. The Apostles after Christ bring converted Christians every where to the rule of the Law and frequently alledge the Law to urge the duties of it and therefore the Law ceaseth not to be the rule in the new Testament for if it had they would not have pressed exhortations by the Law Rom. 12. 19. Dearely beloved avenge not your selves Why For it is written Vengeance is mine Rom. 13. 8 9. pressing the duty of love the onely debt beseeming a Christian he urgeth it by this argument because love is the fulfilling of the Law and repeateth all the commandements of the second Table not to repeale or reverse any of them but to confirme them as the rule still and comprehendeth them all in this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe Ephes 6. 1. Children obey your parents and presseth the duty from the Law for this is the first commandement with promise Heb. 12. 28. Let us have grace to serve God acceptably with reverence and feare Why For our God is even a consuming fire Did not now the Apostles come as well with a rod as with the spirit of meeknesse did not they perswade men as knowing the terrour of the Lord did not they call mens eyes not onely to behold the goodnesse of God but also to behold his severity Rom. 11. 22. Dare now an audacious Libertine step out and tell the Apostles as they tell us that they were legall Preachers that they taught men popery and justification by workes and that they made men onely morall Christians because they held the Law before them as the rule of all duties both of piety and charity If Christ came not to abolish the Law but to fulfill it then the Law is not abolished for either Christ abolished it or none and either by his comming or not at all But Christ chargeth us not to thinke that hee came to abolish it Matth. 5. 17. For what is it to destroy the Law but to take from it that vertue and power whereby it is a Law and to make it of none effect And that Christ came not to destroy the Law is manifest because 1. It is his owne Law which must endure for ever in heaven Psal. 119. 2. Because it is holy just and spirituall Rom. 7. 13. Which words imply 1. That there is in it a supernaturall divine and unperishing vertue resembling God himselfe who shall as easily be destroyed as his Law 2. That it serveth to be a divine direction of all men in all holy just and spirituall duties 3. That it is an holy instrument of the spirit by which he leadeth out the faithfull into the practise of those duties 4. That whosoever have the spirit sent to dwell and rule and to write the Law in their hearts they cannot detract from the Law but the more spirituall themselves are the more doe they discerne the spirituall power of it and frame to the spirituall observance of it so did the Apostle in this place so David Psal. 19. 7 8. and 119. 39. Nay Christ came to fulfill it in himselfe and in his members 1. By preaching illustrating and inforcing the Law by vindicating it from false glosses and restoring to the full and first strength of it by all which he sheweth it to bee immutable and eternall 2. By plenary and full satisfaction of it and by his perfect and personall obedience both active and passive so as he fulfilled all the righteousnesse of it and left not one iota of it unfulfilled 3. By donation of his spirit writing the Law in the hearts of the elect and inciting them to new and cheerfull obedience of it for to this end the Saints receive the law of the spirit of life that they may not walke after the flesh any more but after the spirit If the Apostles after Christ did not abrogate the Law but establish it then it is not abolished to beleevers in the new Testament But they by the doctrine of faith did not Rom. 3. 31. Doe we abrogate the Law by faith God forbid nay wee establish it Where the Apostle cryes downe that grosse conceit of the contrariety of the Law and Gospell so as one of them must needs devoure the other as Moses rod did the rods of the inchanters True it is they are a distinct and divers doctrine but in God and his word is no contrariety And true it is the Law and Gospell will never stand together in the justification of a sinner before God yet they friendly concur and agree in Christian conversation wherein they are inseperable as also they are in Christian institution yea here they helpe one another as one hand doth another Whēce the holy Apostles who knew that the Gospell was not properly and substantially the Law yet usually in the publication of the Gospell confirme the authority of the Law See some instances Rom. 1. 18. The Gospel is the power of God to salvation and by it not onely the righteousnes of God is revealed from faith to faith but the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlines not that the Gospell is a ministery of wrath but a witnesse that wrath hangs over the heads of wicked men rejecting the Gospell Rom. 2. 16. Christ shall judge the secrets of men according to my Gospell that is according to the witnesse of the Gospell preached by me 1 Iohn 2. 1. Brethren I write these things to you that you sinne not and what did he write else but the sweet tidings of the Gospell that is any confesse his sinnes God is faithfull and just to forgive them and that if any sinne wee have an advocate with the Father c For as no man can teach any duty of the Law but therin calls to faith for call to the love of God the substance of the first Table must not he be first beleeved and then