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A03392 The office and vse of the morall law of God in the dayes of the gospell iustified, and explained at large by Scriptures, Fathers, and other orthodoxe diuines, so farre as occasion was giuen by a scandalous pamphlet sent abroad of late into the hands of diuers good Christians, pretending great reason and reading for the vtter abrogating and abolishing of the whole Law of Moses since the death of Christ. By William Hinde, sometimes fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of Gods Word at Bunbury in Cheshire. Hinde, William, 1569?-1629. 1622 (1622) STC 13513; ESTC S116213 121,247 151

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should walke in them we might haue some good helpe by the law u Rom. 12.2 Rom. 13.9 10. to proue what is the good and acceptable will of God and so viewing our faces in this x Iam 1.23 25. Glasse and in that also of the y Tit. 2.11 grace of God which hath appeared vnto vs we might learne to deny vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to liue religiously soberly and righteously in this present world Thus may you see that the testimonie which Tossanus is brought in to giue on your behalfe will not stand you in any stead to procure any credit or to adde any strength vnto your cause and as little either comfort or helpe doth that afford you which * Antinom Gualt in Gal 3. ver 20. you alledge out of Gualter to the same that is as I conceiue to as little or no purpose for in the place you cite on Gal. 3.19 20. speaking of the Law Quae duravit ad tempus quamdiu ejus usus fuit he meaneth the old Testament or Mosaicall gouernment which consisteth in the substance of the Ceremoniall and in some circumstances of the Morall Law and this we grant was but to endure for z See Tertullian ●dvers Iudaeos cap. 3.4.5 6. a time viz. vntill the comming of Christ Which to be the true sense and meaning of the words appeareth most euidently by three opposite clauses which follow in the very words which you alledge 1. At a Gualt in Gal 3.19 20. nunc novi Testamenti tempus est therefore he speaketh in the former words of the old Testament b Haec Occonomia abrogatur Bez. in Gal. 3.24 in Gal. 4.1 2. Quando lex Prophetae Euangelio cedunt therefore he speaketh of the Mosaicall gouernment the Ceremonies and Circumstances whereof were all abolished and all the Prophecies thereof accomplished at the comming of him that was the c Heb. 10.1 Ioh. 1.17 truth of those Types the substance of those d Col. 2.17 shadowes yea the aime and e Rom 10.4 end of the Law and the Prophets Christ Iesus 3. Vt tam gentibus quàm Iudaeorum reliquijs in regnum Dei vim facientibus locum dent therefore he meaneth not as you would haue him that the Morall Law is wholly abolished but only so much of Moses Law as made any difference betwixt * Ephes 2.14 15. Col. 2.14.17 Iewes and Gentiles or might proue any hinderance to their happie enterance into the kingdome of God so much only is vanished away as a cloud or mist at the rising of the f Malac. 4.2 Sunne of righteousnesse in the g Rom. 13.12 13. day of the Gospell But it may be you reckon of these whom hitherto you haue set forth as if they were but milites levis armaturae scouts or light horsemen to try the coast and to make a flourish Now you begin to plant your great Ordnance to muster your men range your Armie and to charge the enemy with a sharpe assault for the vtter abolishing of the whole Morall Law For the effecting whereof * Antinomus you are bold to say 1. That the * Fortunam Priami cantabo nobile bellum Quid dignum tanto feret hic promisser hiatu Horat. de Arte Poetica whole Epistle to the Galatians importeth so much 2. That the whole Epistle to the Hebrewes is to the same purpose 3. That the practise of the Apostles in all their Epistles confirmeth the same seeing they neuer ground any exhortation vpon Moses Law nor vse any forme of commandements much lesse make any allusion to Moses Law or the ten commandements and so you goe on with fourth and fift c. vntill you haue made vp a full dozen The mother of h Iudg. 5.28 Sisera trusting too much in her sonnes valour his chariots and his men of warre fed her fancy with a conceit nay with an assurance of a ioyous and glorious victory Why is his chariot so long a comming Why tarry the wheeles of his chariot Her i Iudg. 5.29 30. wise Ladies answered her yea she returned answer to her selfe Haue they not sped haue they not diuided the prey to euery man a Damosell or two to Sisera a prey of diuers colours But yet for all this Sisera being cut short of his life by k Iudg. 5.24 Iael the wife of Heber the mother of Sisera also came short of her hope and the successe of that warre was nothing answerable to the confidence and conceit which she had and held of it I feare me the conceit of your great preparation together with the confidence in your men and munition hath bred in you not much vnlike both spirits and speeches in this conflict and it may be some of your wise friends as her wise Ladies haue beene ready enough to soothe you vp with some answer answerable to your present humour Yea rather then faile you will returne answer to your owne words Great helps breed great hopes What Shall we not speed shall we not diuide the prey shall not this conflict end in a conquest and shall we not obtaine honours and fauours as a prey of diuers colours If your conceit be such and so high take heed both you and it doe not take a fall l Iudg. 5.26 27. A hammer and a naile in the hand of a weake woman if the Lord will giue wisdome and strength to handle them aright may quickly dispatch Sisera dash his mothers hopes and turne all his and her ioyes into sorrowes and their glory into shame And is not my word saith the Lord as an hammer m Ierem. 23.29 and are not the words of the wise that is such as speake according to this word as n Eccles 12.11 nailes fastened by the Masters of the assemblies What though there be want of wisdome in the head and of strength in the hand of him that shall vse them yet he that standeth in Gods o 2 Chron. 20.15 cause and fetcheth his p Ier. 23.22 Ephes 6.11.13 weapons out of the Lords Armory and commeth in the q 1 Sam. 17.45 name of the Lord against his aduersary may rest assured that the Lord will manifest his wisdome in foolishnesse and perfect his r 2 Cor. 12.9.10 strength in weaknesse and that he will so teach his ſ Psal 144.1 hands to fight and his fingers to warre that as the t 2 Chro. 20.15.17.20 battle is so shall the victory be the Lords also In this confidence alone I haue entred this encounter and am come forth into the field against you The mounting of your great ordnance with so great words The whole Epistle to the Galathians c. The * Parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus Horat. de Art poetica whole Epistle to the Heb. the practise of all the Apostles in all their Epistles c. doth not so much amate me as amaze me I doe not