Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	exceed_v	glorious_a	ministration_n	2,427	5	13.0061	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93367	The heads and substance of a discourse; first private, and afterwards publike; held in Axbridge, in the county of Somerset, about the 6th of March, 1650. Between Iohn Smith of Badgworth, and Charls Carlile of Bitsham, &c. on the one part; and Thomas Collier of Westbury on the other. Things they are of weight and highest concernment. / Published by the said Tho. Collier of Westbury.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Smith, John, of Badgworth.; Carlile, Charles.	1651 (1651)	Wing S4091; Thomason E1368_2; ESTC R209287	11,613	29

Christ Law and grace I produced Rom. 7. the woman is bound to the law of her husband so long as he liveth but when her husband is dead she is free from that Law ver. 4. wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another that as a woman is dead to the law of her husband so are believers dead to the Law and as a woman is at liberty to marry with another and then is subject to the Law of that husband even so believers being married to Christ live to him are subject to him that so they might bring forth fruit unto God At this Scripture he was at a stand I prest him to answer the Scripture he refused saying I brought Scriptures which were not to the purpose nor have any tendency to the thing in hand and would not answer it thus thinking to shift out when he could not answer But I desired him then that he would give the meaning of that Scripture to the people that so they might be satisfied in the truth of it if I did misapply it he endeavouring to wind out refused but being earnestly pressed to it he answered that notwithstanding believers were made partakers of Christ yet the Law was holy and just and good I told him it was a truth but nothing to the truth intended in that Scripture and desired him earnestly to speak to that Scripture he then answered that believers were freed from the rigor of the Law I answered again that in substance he granted what I affirmed for if believers be not under the rigor then they are not under the command for its the command which occasions the rigor the transgression of the Law occasions the rigor I farther produced 2 Cor. 3. where it is said the Law is done away and abolished ver. 11. and 13. and it s the Moral Law that 's there intended as appears verse 7. It was that which was written and ingraven in stone He answered that it was true that the ministry of the Law was done away but not the Law it is the ministration of it that is there intended I asked him then why he did preach the Law plead for it if the ministration of it was done away the truth is that as the ministration of it as it is death so the ministry of it is to work up souls into its righteousnes for deliverance from death so in the Gospel though a Gospel of grace and peace yet those who reject it shall be damned therefore is the ministry accompanied with it for the working up of souls into its grace and peace If it be objected that the Law was never given that men might seek or obtain life in it but Christ was life then as well as now I answer its truth the Law was in it self a ministration of death and not of life yet under that dispensation the wisdome and way of God was such to his people as that they first looking into that Law seeing how far short of life they came in their not performing of it might look above unto that righteousness which was presented in it much like unto the fiery and brasen serpent the one bites the other cures and this was the constant way and course of the Lords communicating himself unto his people but now the manner of the dispensation is changed and all things are made new the way of God to his people is first to bring them into view of his goodness and to possess them with his love and then from the same principle and power of love gives forth a Law within a Law without which is a Law of love in which there is no condemnation to them who walk not after the Law of Moses but the Law of Christ not the Moral Law in the hand of Moses but the Law of grace in the hand of Christ who serve not after the Law of a carnal command but after the power of an endless life not in the oldness of the letter but in the newness of the spirit But to return he asked me what was the difference then between the Law in the hand of Moses and the the Law in the hand of Christ I answered as much as between life and death in the one the ministration of death in the other the ministration of life if the ministration of death was glorious how much more shall the ministration of the Spirit exceed in glory Thus my noble friends have I given some brief hints of the substance of the Discourse passing by those many vain and antick behaviours which would be a shame to repeat in persons pretending for truth and honesty and this I leave with you as my apprehensions in the things declared Let those who have the spirit of light and truth judge for the spiritual man judgeth all things though he himself be judged of no man FINIS