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A17299	The Christians bulvvarke, against Satans battery. Or, The doctrine of iustification so plainely and pithily layd out in the severall maine branches of it as the fruits thereof may be to the faithfull, as so many preservatives against the poysonous heresies and prevailing iniquities of these last times. By H.B. pastor of S. Mathevvs Friday-street.; Truth's triumph over Trent	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1632 (1632)	STC 4140; ESTC S119545	312,003	390

THE CHRISTIANS BVLWARKE AGAINST SATANS BATTERY OR The Doctrine of IVSTIFICATION So plainely and pithily layd out in the severall maine branches of it as the fruits thereof may be to the Faithfull as so many Preservatives against the poysonous Heresies and prevailing Iniquities of these last times By H. B. Pastor of S. MATHEVVS Friday-Street ROM 5. 1. Being iustified by Faith we have Peace with God through our Lord IESUS CHRIST by whom we have now received the Attonement Vers. II. Printed at London for HENRY TAVNTON and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard 1632. To the High and Excellent who inhabiteth Eternity IESVS CHRIST the Lord our Righteousnesse the faithfull witnesse the first begotten of the dead the Prince of the Kings of the earth who hath loued vs and washed vs in his owne bloud and hath made vs Kings and Priests vnto God and his Father Glory Dominion Blessing Honour Power for euermore Amen MOst High and Holy Lord Iesus to whom should a sinfull wretch and worthlesse abiect presume to approach but to thee his gracious Sauiour and mercifull Redeemer Vouchsafe then O Sun of righteousnes to stretch thy healing wings ouer my fainting and feeble soule now prostrate at thy beautifull and blessed feet and so bathe wash me in the fountain of thy precious bloud as that I may be presented spotlesse before thy Fathers Throne clad in the robes of thy perfect righteousnesse Thou art that faithfull witnesse to confirme yea that souer●igne King and supreme Iudge to maintaine the cause of thine eternall truth against all Antichristian aduersaries Vouchsafe therefore to patronize this poore labour which the weakest vnworthiest of all thy seruants is bold here to consecrate to thy Name It is but that small fruit and rivulet which hath sprung from thee the liuing Roote and Fountaine of all grace so as by iust right it is thine Let thy power protect the worke and workman from all iniury of time and thy grace blesse the worke both to the confirming of thy people in the sauing truth and to the conuincing of the gain-sayer Thou seest O Lord the presumption of Antichrist and of his seduced seducing Apostles Thou beholdest these Apostatizing luke-warme times how many looke backe to Egypt to Babylon Thou numbrest and weighest Antichristian Aduocates and Baals Pleaders and Babylons Reconcilers as if they would in despight of thee and thy blessed Word re-erect Babels Tower within the borders of thy Sion O Lord are not thine eyes vpon the truth And do not thine eyes runne to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew thy selfe strong in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfect towards thee Art not thou He that in former times hast saued vs from our enemies hast put them to confusion that hate vs But now Lord if we may dispute with thee and seeing thy seruant who is but dust and ashes hath begun to speake to my Lord wherefore hast thou cast thy people off and goest not forth with our Armies Wherefore doest thou make vs to turne our backe from the enemy that they which hate vs spoile our goods Wherfore doest thou make vs a reproach vnto our neighbours a scorne and derision to them that are round about vs Or can wee plead for our selues as once thy people by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid did Though all this be come vpon vs yet haue we not forgotten thee nor behaued ourselues falsly in thy Couenant Or can wee say Our heart is not turned backe nor our steps declined from thy way Or That wee haue not forgotten the Name of our God nor stretched out our hand to a strange God Alas O Lord our confusion is still before vs our iniquities are with vs they testifie against vs so that how can wee hold vp our heads before thee or stand before our enemies And yet O Lord all our smart and shame cannot teach vs to beleeue thy Prophets who haue often told vs The Lord is with you while ye be with him and if yee seeke him he will be found of you but if yee forsake him hee will forsake you And wherein are we conuinced of our forsaking of thee O Lord but by beholding with lamentable experience how thou seemest now of long time to haue forsaken vs For else if thou Lord wert with vs how should so many calamities and disasters fall vpon vs and vpon thy people round about vs How should England formerly a terrour to her neighbours become now their scorne and derision The truth is O Lord we must needs confesse to our great shame that with the Church of Ephesus wee haue declined from our first loue O teach vs to remember from whence we are fallen and to repent and do the first works lest thou come against vs quickly and remoue our Candlesticke out of his place except we repent And hast thou not at least a few things against vs that the woman Iezebel which calleth her selfe a Prophetesse is suffered to teach and to seduce thy seruants to commit fornication with Idols For this thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud that our prayer should not passe through For this thou hast made vs as the refuse in the midst of the people For this all our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs yea thy fierce windes haue fought against vs wasted and wracked our forces Yet doe not O Lord cast vs off for euer Thy people put their mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope O teach vs to search and trie our waies and turne again to thee our God O pleade for vs to thy Father when in thy name wee lift vp our heart with our hands to God in the heauens And lest our praiers be turned into sin O strengthen our hearts and hands from the highest to the lowest to cast out from among vs our Idol-sins and sinfull Idols the abominations and prouocations of thy iealousie O blesse thy seruant our gracious Soueraigne King CHARLES double vpon his royall person the spirit of vpright Dauid and of zealous Iosiah to purge and repaire thy Temple that vpon himselfe his Crown may long flourish his righteous Scepter may cherish and support thy people his victorious Sword may suppress and vanquish thine and his enemies Showre down thy grace into the heart of his royall Queene that shee comming to partake with him in the onely and blessed means of saluation thy Word Sacraments may become also a ioyfull fruitful nurcing Mother to thine Israel Multiply the Spirit of wisdome counsel vpon his Maiesties Honorable Counsellers that taking all their counsel at thee thy word all their consultations and resolutions may prosper and procure peace and prosperity to these Kingdomes and thy Churches therein and abroad Double the Spirit of zeale and piety vpon all the Ministers of thy Word and Sacraments especially vpon the reuerend Arch-Bishops Bishops that standing in the place of Pillars in thy Temple of the salt of

but beleeueth c. Secondly in respect of their opposite conditions The condition of the Law is Doe this and liue but the law of Faith is Beleeue and liue as the Apostle declares at large Rom. 10. 4. c. Now all this opposition between the Law and Faith is mainely in the point of Iustification There is a Iustification by the Law a Iustification by Faith but so opposite and incompatible as they can in no wise bee reconciled together the one doth necessarily exclude the other Oyle and vineger cannot bee mingled together but the one will euer floate aboue the other and admit of no mixture so the oyle of grace and of faith can abide no mixture with the sharpe vineger of that killing letter the Law in the worke of iustification in Gods sight vnlesse where the Law is entirely and exactly kept in all points But otherwise the Law and Faith the Law and the Gospell doe sweetly conspire together For as for the Ceremonies of the Law in as much as they were types all answering to the patterne of heauenly things shewed to Moses in the Mount which patterne was Christ as the Apostle to the Hebrewes most diuinely sheweth those Ceremonies those Types are now all swallowed vp and for euer fulfilled in the substance and truth which is Christ And as for the morall Law it is made subordinate to the Faith of the Gospell so that in euery beleeuer it is the rule of Christian obedience and holy conuersation And therefore when the Law was giuen in Mount Sinai Iesus Christ stands at the top saying I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me c. Now what deliuerance was this A temporall deliuerance only No it was a liuely type of our spirituall freedome from the Egyptian seruitude of sinne and Sathan witnesse the Pascall Lambe which slaine the blood sprinkled saued the Israelites which was a type of the Lambe of God that taketh away the sins of the world And the Sea diuided a type of Baptisme sauing the soule and drowning sinne together with the power of darkenesse Pharaoh and his Hoast So that howsoeuer the giuing of the Law was with much terrour in regard of the manner yet in regard of the matter being well vnderstood it must needes bee most comfortable to all the faithfull who beleeue in Iesus Christ the Deliuerer from Egypt who hath freed vs from the curse of the Law and will worke in vs both to will and to doe the duties of the Law as fruits of faith euen of his good pleasure Indeed that notable and excellent Preface to the Morall law I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt c. to the common carnall and vnbeleeuing Iewes was a Riddle but to the Eagle-ey'd Beleeuer Iew or Gentile it is a most cleere Gospell setting forth what Iesus Christ hath done for vs and consequently what wee should doe for him that as wee beleeue in him who hath saued and redeemed vs out of the house of bondage and from the seruitude of the spirituall Pharaoh so wee should testifie this our faith in louing fearing seruing and obeying him in keeping those commandements of Loue written not with pen and inke but with the finger of Gods spirit not in tables of stone but in the fleshie tables of our hearts As it is in the Song of Zachary That wee being deliuered from the hands of our enemies should serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life Therefore seruants were called à seruando as being saued by those to whom therefore they did owe their seruice In this respect the Law and Faith the Law and the Gospell are not opposite but sweetely subordinate the one vnto the other that as Christ hath saued vs from the curse of the Law so he propounds himselfe to be serued of vs by conformity to the Law in a Christian conuersation So that the Tree of life sweetning these waters of Marah Iesus Christ sweetning and sanctifying the Law vnto vs wee drinke thereof with comfort to strengthen vs in our way to Canaan through this wearisome Wildernesse As Dauid saith I will runne the way of thy Commandements when thou hast enlarged my heart So that Faith and the Law to wit the obedience of Gods will are sweete yea inseparable companions and goe hand in hand together throughout the whole Pilgrimage of this life but in the worke of our Iustification in the sight of God they are meere strangers one vnto the other yea sworne opposites that can neuer be reconciled though the Pontificians would neuer so faine ioyne together Faith Gods Arke and their owne worke Dagon in their Temple to stand as copartners in their iustification But Dagon fals downe where the Arke standeth yea hee loseth his head all deuices to pleade for himselfe and his hands too that hee cannot doe one good deede towards his Iustification but remaines a meere trunck and senslesse blocke And as the Philistims while they boasted they had gotten the Arke of God to their Dagon were not free but the more followed with diuine vengeance So the Pontificians while they bragge of faith and good workes as concurring in iustification they are so farre from being saued from Gods wrath as that they doe the more incense him against themselues Nor shall they euer bee free from feeling and fearing Gods plagues till with the Philistims they send home the Lords Arke with a sinne-offring that is vntil they repent of this their profanation of the Faith of Christ which is that onely wherein Israel must be saued renouncing their own workes as hauing no more hands than Dagon left them for to worke their iustification in the sight of God CHAP. X. A plausible obiection of the Pontificians for the confirmation of their Iustification by inherent righteousnesse answered and diuers reasons added to shew the absurdities of Iustification by inherencie BVt the Pontificians in the behalfe of their iustification by inherent righteousnesse obiect What difference is there say they betweene Gods pardoning our debts and giuing vs money to pay them A pretty deuice indeede For so long as they can colour and varnish ouer their hypocrisie by seeming to ascribe the glory of their inherent iustification to God they thinke all is well enough and if probability might stand for proofe our penny of inherent righteousnesse might proue as good siluer to satisfie for our debts to God as the price of Christs bloud payde for vs and imputed to vs. But let Baal pleade for himselfe seeing he is a God And for the deciding of this doubt we haue a leading case in the Gospell that will easily stint the strife The case is betweene the Pharisee and the Publican both went vp to the Temple to pray The Pharisee prayed thus Lord I thanke thee I am not as other