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A20729	The Christians freedome wherein is fully expressed the doctrine of Christian libertie. By the rt. reuerend father in God, George Downeham, Doctor of Diuinity and Ld. Bp. of Derry.	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 7111; ESTC S102215	96,431	253

wicked because the Apostle Peter saith that they who vnder pretence of Christian liberty deny obedience to the Magistrate in lawfull things doe vse their liberty for a cloake to couer their wickednesse Againe the inward liberty is either a carnall or spirituall libertie The carnall libertie is that whereby the soule of man is free from righteousnesse which indeed is a voluntary seruice of sin For when men be free from righteousnesse they are seruants of sinne and contrariwise as the Apostle sheweth But our Sauiour speaketh of a liberty which as it freeth men from the seruitude of sinne and all the spirituall yokes of bondage which accompany the same so it maketh them the seruants of righteousnesse For whē we are made free from sinne wee are made the seruants of righteousnes Wherefore as in respect of the former we say with the Apostle Hee that is called being a seruant is the freeman of Christ so in respect of this latter he that is called being free is the seruant of Christ. Diuellish therefore is the Doctrine of the Libertines who vnder pretence of Christian liberty discharge Christians from all obedience to the law of God setting them free to do whatsoeuer themselues thinke good And such is the slander of the Papists laying that doctrine to our charge who notwithstāding are further from it then themselues For by the Popes indulgences and pardons and the Priests absolutions setting men free from sinne for small and oft times for ridiculous penances what doe they else but teach men to make but a sport of sinne Of such Libertines the Apostle Peter speaketh that whilest they promise liberty to others themselues are the seruants of corruption It remaineth therefore that Christian liberty is a spirituall liberty freeing the true Christian from the seruitude of sinne and from all other yokes of spirituall bondage wherewith sinne had intangled vs. Neither is Christian liberty onely priuatiue as being a freedome and immunity from bondage as though this were all that by it we are not seruants but as appeareth by this Scripture it is also positiue as being a liberty power right and interest to the priuileges of Gods children who are also heires of God and coheires with Christ. For when hee had said that seruants abide not in the house for euer but that such as bee sonnes abide in the house of God for euer hee inferreth If therefore the sonne shall make you free you shall bee free indeed Giuing vs to vnderstand that those whom hee freeth hee doth not onely make them not seruants viz. of sinne but also sonnes and heires of God and citizens of heauen Euen as they who are made freemen of London or any other terrestriall Citie are not only exempted from being seruants or apprentises but also are indowed with the liberties and priuileges of free Burgesses and Citizens So saith the Apostle Gal. 4. 5. that Christ hath redeemed those who were vnder the law that wee might receiue the adoption of sonnes c. Christian liberty therefore is a spirituall liberty which as the Apostlo speaketh the faithfull haue in Christ Iesus That is the definition The essentiall parts wherof generally it consisteth are two For partly it is priuatiue as being an immunity from all spirituall bondage in which respect it is called in the Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is redemption and is sometimes expressed by the verbes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying deliuerance and partly it is positiue as being a right title and interest to the priuiledges and prerogatiues of Gods adopted children in Christ the citiziens of the Celestiall Ierusalem and in this respect it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ioh. 1. 12. to those that receiue Christ by faith hee hath giuen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 libertie right or power to bee the sons of God 1. Cor. 8. 9. Take heed lest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your liberty right or power bee not an offence to the weake Thus you see what this libertie is and wherein generally it doth consist The author of this libertie is Christ the Sonne of God as it is heere said If the Sonne therefore shall make you free c. so the Apostle calleth it the libertie with wee haue in and by Christ and againe the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free For hee is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Deliuerer which should come out of Sion who deliuereth vs from the wrath of God from the tyrannie of Satan dissoluing the works of the diuell binding the strong man and casting him out spoiling principalities and powers and leading captiuitie captiue from the bondage of sinne for hee is the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world whose blood doth cleanse vs both from the guilt of sinne and also from the corruption for therefore hee gaue himselfe for vs that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie and might purge vs to bee a peculiar people to himself Zealous of good workes And he is that perfect Sauiour out of whose side did issue both blood and water the blood of redemption to free vs from the guilt of sinne and the water of ablution to cleanse vs from the corruption From the law for therefore was he borne of a woman and made vnder the law that hee might redeeme them that were vnder the law From death and damnation for therfore hee became a curse that wee might bee freed from the curse therefore hee died that through death hee might vanquish him who had the power of death that is the diuell and that hee might deliuer them who through feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage But this needeth no proofe for in that wee professe him to bee our redeemer by whom wee haue redemption wee all acknowledge him to bee the author of our libertie Let vs rather consider how hee procureth this libertie vnto vs. This he doth two waies both meritoriously and effectually By his merit in giuing himselfe to bee a price of ransome for vs. For as Peter saith we are redeemed not with any corruptible things as siluer and gold but with the precious blood of Christ by which blood hee is entred once into the holy place hauing procured an eternall redemption for vs. Secondly by the efficacie of his spirit for wee are not to imagine that Christ hath only merited and purchased this libertie for vs but that also hee doth confer applie and bestow it vpon vs which he doth by giuing vnto vs his Spirit For as in the naturall bodie the animall spirit which causeth sense and motion is from the head sent into all the members of the bodie so in the mysticall bodie of Christ the Spirit of libertie is communicated to all his members by which spirit hee