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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

some of the principall objections of the Libertines 1 OBIECT Is this our text Rom 6. 19. Ye are not under the Law but under grace Whence thus they reason To them that are not under the Law but under grace to those the Law doth not belong but it is to them abolished and void But beleevers are not under the Law c. Therefore Answ. 1. There is a twofold being under the Law First a being vnder the curse burden malediction condemnation and coaction of the Law thus no beleever is under it Secondly there is a being under the obedience rule counsell and direction of the Law and thus beleevers are under it much more than before as Christ himselfe also was For they are now by the free spirit of Christ framed to a free and voluntary obedience of it So saith August The Law made us guilty by cōmanding but not assisting but grace assisteth every beleever to be a keeper of the Law 2 This objection will be also fully satisfied by applying the former distinction of the Law Considering it 1. in the matter and substance of it And thus beleevers are still under it both for performance of all holy duties of it and forbearance of all the evills prohibited by it 2. in the manner of obedience and in the consequences and appendices of it and thus are they not vnder the rigor coaction or strict exaction of it and much lesse under the curse malediction or condemnation of it But this objection hath beene before abundantly satisfied in the 2. 3. Chapters And therefore I passe it now more breifly 2 OBIECT Gal. 3. 10. So many as are under the workes of the Law are under the curse Therefore Either the Law is utterly void to Christians or they are still under the curse of it Answ. The Apostle saith not that those to whom the Law appertaineth are under the curse but those that are under the workes of the Law 2. The workes of the Law are twofold Either workes of obedience done in humility by way of duty in testimony of thankfulnesse and of our conformity with Christ. Or 2. workes of the Law done in pride to seeke justification by the Law and the workes of it and so to promise to themselves eternall life by the observation of the law And those onely that are thus under the workes of the Law are under the curse and the meaning of the holy Apostle is no other whose scope in his whole discourse is to beate downe such as sought to set up justification by the workes of the Law and not by faith onely as appeares plainly in the next verse 11. for that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God is evident for the just shall live by faith But though no beleever can in the second respect bee under the workes of the Law for justification but he must be under the curse of it yet it follows not that hee is not under the workes of the Law for obedience and yet not under the curse of it This place is indeed an hammer and hatchet against popery who by seeking iustification by the workes of the Law thrust themselves under the curse of God for if the curse attacheth him that seeketh righteousnesse before God by Moses Law how much more accursed are they that by observation of humane Laws and traditions by humane satisfactions and impositions seeke to demerrit God obtaine without Christ what onely Christ can procure The greater is their sinne and danger who after the knowledge and profession of the truth for some politick and worldly ends runne back into recusancy and popery which is the way of perdition apparently renouncing the blessing of justification by free grace and chuse the curse of the Law which shall runne into their bowells as water of such apostacy may be said as of Iudas it had beene good for them they had never beene borne OBIECT 3. To whom the Law is not given to those it belongs not at all But the Law is not given to the righteous 1 Tim. 1. 9. Therefore it belongs not to beleevers being justified Answ. 1. The scope and intention of the Apostle is not to abolish the Law who in the words immediately going before saith that the Law is good if it be used lawfully which words clearely import and imply that among beleevers there is a good vse of the Law which true use hee shewes in the fifth verse namely to be a guide and direction to the duties of love and charity which is now the effect of faith as the words plainly show for the end of the commandement is love out of a pure heart a good conscience and faith unfained Note that the Apostle maketh that love which is the end of the commandement a fruite and effect of faith and therefore a beleever is not loosed from the love and obedience of the Law by faith but tyed unto it 2. The sence of the Apostle is not that a righteous man can be under no lawes for Adam in innocencie was a most righteous man and yet was under the Law both in generall under the whole Morall Law and in speciall under the Law concerning the forbidden tree and this Law was given to the most righteous man in the world Innocency and righteousnesse in perfection exempts no creature from the Law of his Creatour But the Apostles meaning is that the Law is not given against a righteous man that frameth his course according to the Law it dealeth not with him as an enemy that assenteth unto it that is delighteth in it in the inner man that is ruled and ordered by it it can pronounce no sentence of damnation against him it neither can justifie him who is already justified by faith nor yet can condemne him And that this is the true meaning of the Apostle appeareth by 2 arguments in the text 1. In the originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which implieth an action or plea of God against a man and that the Law is not Gods action or plea against a righteous man to bring him under judgement or subdue him under the sentence of it for Christ hath freed such a one from the curse by his merit and obedience as also by his spirit made him a lover of the Law And this is the same in sence with that of the Apostle Gal 5. 23. Against such namely as expresse those recited fruites of the spirit there is no Law for the Law is so farre from condemning such as it is a witnesse rather of their conformity to it selfe and consequently of their love and obedience unto God and of their similitude with Iesus Christ. 2 Argument in the text is in that the lawlesse and disobedient are said to be wrapped up in the full damnatory power of the Law against all whom it is Gods plea and action yea the bill of inditement to their condemnation 3. Neither is the Law given to the just to

in the second ground of this opposition CHAP. 5. Containing foure more pernicious and erronious opinions 5 ERROR That no action of the beleever after justification is sinne for unto faith there is no sinne for all sinne past present and to come is taken away by the blood of Christ and no sinne remaineth in the kingdome where faith reigneth and sitteth judge it is out of the Lawes element to judge of this blessed condition Neither can God allow any worke that is defective in the beleever Answ. Here is the ghost of H. N. in this peece of new Gospell which tels us a dream of an absolute reigne of faith where is still remaining sinne True it is that faith deposeth the reigne of sinne that it rule not but so as that it selfe never reigneth in this life without the presence and assault of sin for such as say they have no sinne with their faith deceive themselves 2. It is enough for the state of this life that faith frame the heart to willing and sincere obedience though not to perfect and absolute 3. It argues their grosse ignorance in the Scriptures which affirme that both persons and duties of beleevers though imperfect defective are yet pleasing 1. For their persons God looketh upon them in Christ pronounceth of them that though they be blacke yet they are comely Prov. 12. 22. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that feare him Psal. 147. 11. The Lord taketh pleasure in his people Acts 10. 35. In every Nation he that feareth him is accepted of him 2. For their duties though they be imperfect yet they please him because their persons doe Mal. 3. 4. Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem be pleasing unto thee Phil. 4. 18. An odour of sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing unto God speaking of the almes and charity of that Church Col. 3. 20. Children obey your parents for this is wel-pleasing to the Lord. And our comfort and happines is that he pleaseth to accept from us that which is sincere though weake and imperfect 6 ERROR That our Preachers teach Popery in persuading good works to further mens owne salvation Answ. Our doctrine and practise herein agreeth with the doctrine of the Scriptures and with the practise of Christ and his Apostles and because the Sectaries cast this imputation upon godly Ministers to weaken their authority among their people it will not be amisse in few words to cleare it and that in these positions 1. Wee teach according to Scripture That every good worke must rise from a good worker for the tree must first be good and men gather not figges of thistles So as a good worke is proper to a justified person and the use of it cannot be to justifie because he is justified already 2. We teach the necessity of the duties of the Law to salvatiō not as causes or merits of our salvation or justification which were to dethrone Christ and preach Popery but as a way and meanes appointed by God to walke into heaven and so the Apostle preached them necessary Tit 3. 14. Let ours also learne to maintaine good workes for necessary uses and every simple man knoweth that the holding of the way must needes further the journey and conduce to the place intended 3. Wee carefully alwayes distinguish betweene the justice of workes which conduceth nothing to salvation and the presence of workes without which there is no expectation of salvation for without their presence all faith is dead and all religion vaine 4. Wee distinguish in this doctrine the principall efficient cause of righteousnesse and salvation from the instrumentall Is it a good reason that because Christ is the principall efficient and the onely meritorious cause of our salvation that therefore all the instrumentall and adjuvant causes and means of salvation must be cut off and cast away True it is that God alone decreeth our salvation Christ alone meriteth it the spirit alone sealeth it but yet the Gospell revealeth it and that saveth faith apprehendeth it and that saveth the Ministers they preach it and they save namely ministerially 1 Tim 4. 16. Thou shalt save thy selfe and them that heare thee Did the Apostle write popery or derogate frō Christ in saying that Timothy did save himselfe and others or is it such a peece of popery to say that the use of the meanes doth further the end 5. What will you say of St. Paul who commands us to worke out our salvation with feare and trembling It seemeth he thought that men must doe something toward their owne salvation as that Father did who saith that though God made us without our selves yet hee saveth us not without our selves And Phil 4. 17. when he calleth duties of beneficence and charity a fruit furthering our reckoning that is as a meanes not as a merit I would know how they should further our reckoning and not further our salvation True it is that mercy accepteth that for a furthering of our reckoning which in strict justice would not goe for payment but yet seeing the same mercy takes us into the worke we may per●wade also with the Apostle that Christians would be still thus furthering their owne reckoning The same Apostle speaking of the same duties 2 Cor 9. 6. calleth them a sowing and saith He that soweth liberally shall reape liberally Whether doe not these men thinke that sowing is a furtherance to the harvest Surely S. Paul thought so yet minded not to strengthen popery for neither is he that soweth any thing neither he that reapeth any thing but God that giveth the promise and increase The same Apostle speaking of the duties of Christian suffering saith not onely that they turne to the salvation of the Saints Phil 1. 9. but also that our light and momentany afflictions cause unto us an eternall weight of glory do they not then further our salvation and what doth the Apostle Peter say lesse when he saith that by addition and exercise of graces an entrance is ministred abundantly into the kingdome of Christ. And why doth the Apostle excite Christians every day to further themselves in the way of salvation as runners by speed and strength get nearer the goale if we may not urge the doctrine of good workes and Christian duties in pretence of the Lawes abolition which certainly was as much abolished in the Apostles dayes as now 7 ERROR That not as much as any outward worship of God required in the Law is to be performed by true beleevers since the comming of Christ because all the worship of the new Testament is inward and spirituall Ioh 4. 23. The houre commeth c. and to receive the doctrine of the Gospel by faith is to worship the Father Neither hath any other good worke done in obedience to the Morall Law any reward because all is the free gift of God Answ. 1. Here is a bundle of errours

punishment of sinne and you can bring no such place out of the new Testament Answ. Hath Christ done lesse for beleevers in the old Testament than in the new did they beare more wrath for their sin than we or did not Christ carry as much wrath from thē as from us was not his death as vertuous to the first ages of the world as to the last or did the vertue of it begin at the time of his passion or is not the faith of Messiah to come alike precio●s as the faith of him come already 2. But have we no place in the new Testament to shew beleevers corrected for sinne What is that 1 Cor. 11. For this cause many are weake and are sicke and many die It is too rash to say as one that these were carnall and hypocrites unlesse they be carnall and hypocrites that must not be condemned with the world 1 Pet. 4. 17. Iudgement must begin at Gods house Heb. 12. 6. He scourgeth every sonne whom hee receiveth Why because they are sonnes or because they have sinnes Object Ioh. 9. 3. Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents therfore afflictions are not for sinne and Iobs afflictions were all for tryall not for sinne Answ. 1. In generall The difference of the judgements of the godly and the wicked is not either 1. in the meriting cause for both are merited by sinne 2. Nor in their matter being materially both one the same sword the same plague the same famine the same blindnesse sicknesse and death 3. Nor in the ground of them for both are threatned and inflicted by the same Law 4. Nor in their sence and feeling for there is no difference between the smart of sonnes and slaves But the difference is in 1. the person inflicting 2. in the persons bearing and suffering 3. in the end of God which is not the same 4. in the fruit and issue which are much different in different persons the serious consideration of these grounds would let them see wherein their errour lurketh if they will not be willingly ignorant 2. For the instances First of the blinde man I answer that the position of one cause is not the remotion of another where many concurre neither doth the affirming of the principall cause deny the lesse principall God in this judgement principally intended his owne glory in the honouring of his Sonne and not principally the sinne either of the parents or sonne 2. Christ speaketh not of the meritorious cause of this judgement but of the finall cause and so the objection is not to the purpose Secondly The like we may say of Iob the principall end of his affliction was for tryall and not for correction but this excludeth not the meritorious cause nor proves that there was no correction in it at least might not be Object But Christ was extremely punished but not for sinne and therefore there are afflictions without sinne Answ. This is as impertinent a cavill as the case is singular Christ had no sinne in him but had sinne on him he had none inherent but had enough imputed he had none of his owne but the infinite burden of all the sinnes of all his members lay upon him for which he was plagued of God because he stood before God as the greatest malefactour that ever was not because he had proper sinne but appropriated not because he did any sinne but was made a sinne for us ●hat we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him Gods justice could not have punished him if he had not stood before him as a sinner So the objection turneth quite against themselves Object But Christ by his Kingly power reigneth to maintaine in the conscience the peace procured both against the Law and sinne and the Divell and the world and worldly reason Answ. Peace without disturbance neither within nor without the Apostle knew not Rom. 7. nor yet Christ himselfe who so left his legacy of peace of his Disciples as that notwithstanding in the world they must have affliction 2. It is enough that Christ reigneth to maintain our peace by weakening and subduing the power of sinne daily although he totally and wholly abolish it not here below and fatherly and loving correction rather furthers and strengtheneth his reigne than hinder or weaken it in us 10 ERROR That justified persons have no more to doe with repentance and to repent of every particular sinne is to beleeve that a man is not perfectly justified or at once but by peece-meale as sinne is committed yea it is to undervalue the sufferings of Christ as not ha●ing sufficiently satisfied for all sinnes past present and to come Answ. A desperate principle as much abolishing the Gospell as any of the former doth the Law and indeed no enemy to the Law can be a friend to the Gospell But we must know 1. That never can man be free from repentance till he be free from sinne to be repented of which can never be shaken off in this world The whole life is but one day of repentance and repentance is the work of that whole day and who but a profane libertine would not have his Master find him so doing We sweepe our houses every day and wash our hands every day because one contracteth dust and the other soyle every day much more have we need to cleanse daily the houses of our hearts See my treatise in●ituled The practise of Repentance Cap. 10. and therein many reasons for con●inuance of repe●tance 2. They forget that David and Peter repented after saith That the Church of Pergamus that kept the name of Christ and had not denied the faith must yet repent her selfe else Christ will come against her Rev. 2. 12. and 16. And how much cause have the best men to repent of their daily sinnes that must repent daily of their best duties which they must confesse are as a filthy clout 3. Although the spirit by faith assureth the beleever that all his sinnes are satisfied by the death of Christ yet the spirit also perswadeth the heart that in this way of humiliation and repentance we shall receive assurance of remission of daily sinnes and particular infirmities for else the spirit should faile in his office which is to bring even the house of David and the inhabitants of Ierusalem that is true beleevers to the fountaine of grace and stir up in them deepe sorrow and earnest lamentation in seeking pardon for daily sinnes and speciall provocations against the Lord whom by their sins they have pierced 4. Prayer for forgivenesse of daily sinnes is an act of repentance enjoyned by Christ on him that hath formerly repented is justified and calleth God Father as in that petition of his most holy prayer Forgive us our trespasses 5. They that overflow with love and outboast all others in their pretence of love which is so strong and active as they need no other mover forget that increase of love to God must

reverses sinne when we are come to Christ wee must by it be brought to Christ still And it is false that they say that the Law is indeede a scoolemaster to bring us once unto Christ but then wee have done with it and it with us for it must ever bring us to Christ so long as by sinne wee estrange our selves from him or him from us That place in Galat. 3. 24 25. nothing contrarieth our doctrine After faith came we were no longer under a schoolmaster that is such a schoolemaster as it was The place is notably opened by learned Pareus to whom for brevity sake I remit the Reader Eighthly Wee must conceiue the Law in the substance of it the image of God written in the heart of Adam in innocency and by the finger of the same spirit written in the hearts of all the elect and consequently must feare tremble to sin against this Law which floweth from the righteous nature of God and the impugning of which is the violating of his owne image and nature so farre as wee can reach it A man may breake the Princes Law and not violate his Person but not Gods for God and his image in his Law are so straitly united as one cannot wrong the one and not the other Ninthly Wee must frame our selves to love this righteous Law for this image of God ingraven upon it yea and the more that wicked men hate and resist it the more that sonnes of Belial rise up against it wee must love it the more obey it so much the more maintain and defend the power and honour of it with so much the more zeale and earn estnesse so did holy David Ps. 119. 126. Wicked men have destroyed the Law therefore I love it above fine gold where the Prophet concludeth them enemies to God that are enemies to the Law And 2. that then is the time to pleade for God and his Law when wicked men most oppose and oppresse it Now then is the time when the godly must awaken themselves not onely to observe but also to preserve it FINIS Contra Legis adversarios Adversus furiosam sectam Libertinorum Nemo miretur aut consternetur cum tam insolitos ab omni ratione alienos errores cernas Calv. 2 Thes 2. Quod hostis machinatur in perniciem convertit Deus in adiutorium Aug Epist ad Sextum 105. Deus ecce furentibus obstat Optimus portus poenitentiae mutatio consilii Cic Philip Etiam loquendum cum Ecclesia recte sentiente Cyprian Sublime et tumidum dicendi genus pere grino quodam idiomate loquuntur ut qui ipsos audiunt prima facie stupefiant Calv advers Libert c 2. Quemadmodum circulatores aliique errones c peculiari sermonis genere utuntur● Vide cap 7 eiusdem libri 2 Cor 4. 2 Non est humano aut seculi sensu in Dei rebus loquendū Hilar. lib. 8 de Trinit Sequamur loquendi regulam quam tradit Scriptura neque extra illos fines evagemur Calv. cap 7. 1 Cor 14. 9 It is the priviledge of beleevers not to be under the Law 4 Reasons Gal. 3. 10. The danger of being under the Law in 4 things How a man may get from under this dangerous state Habak 2. 4. Sixe notes of tryall to know one gotten frō under the danger of the Law Ephes. 2. 10 The substance of the Law in 5 things Psal. 119. 89. The beleever is under the whole substance of the Law Seven appendices of the Law in none of which the beleever is under the Law Rom. 8. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In which regard it I● called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quod non lic●t acrius urit Gens humana ruit in vet●tum ●e●as Regenerat are not without a Law 1 Tim. 1. 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nor under the Law in 5 respects But under that is within the compasse of the Law Psal. 2. 2 3 Iudg. 16. 9 1 Reason All the same sins are forbidden after faith as before Rom. 7. 7. 1 Ioh. 3. 4. The Saints are perfect not perfectists Psal. 119. 120. Rom. 7. 15. 19. 23. Hypocratis magis fomentis quam monitis nostris indigent Non dicit non peccat sed non dat operam peccato Beza Qui ambulant in viis Domini non operantur peccatum et tamen non sunt sine peccato August in Psa. 118 conc 2. Non peccare Dei iustitia est hominis iustitia indulgentia Dei Bern. ser. 23 in Cantic Nunc bene vivitur si sine crimine sine peccato autem qui se vivere existimat nō id agit ut peccatum non habeat sed ut veniam non accipiat Aug. Enchirid. Haec est regeneratorum perfectio si se imperfectos esse agnoscant August 2 Reas. The same duties are required after faith as before Quod accuratius Christus exposuit magis pertinere ad Christianos creditur 1 Cor. 4. 21 2 Cor. 5. 11 3 Reas Christ cam not to abolish the Law and therefore it is not abolished Christ cam not to destroy the Law why But to fulfil it how Rom. 8. 2. 4 Reas. Nor the Apostles abolished the Law Lex et fides mutuo se iuvant mutuo sibi dant manus P. Mart. But confirme the authority of it 1 Ioh. 1. 9. Dicatur mihi in decem praeceptis quid non fit a Christiano observandum Cant. Faust. lib. 3. Fides impetrat gratiam qu● Lex impletur Quia quae in Lege dicta sunt facienda per fidem ostenduntur facta Ambros. 5 Res Every beleever is bound to strive to conformity with the Law 1. In his inner man Iustificati amici Legis efficiuntur Ambr. in Rom. 8. Qui dicit se diligere Legem mentitur tam enim amamus Legem quam homicida carc●rem 2. In his outward man 3. In his whole man Nisi dum Scriptu●ae bon●e intelliguntur ō● bene quod in ijs non ben● intelligitur etiam temere audacter asseritur Aug. expos in Ioh. trac 18. Habent ●crip●uras● a● sp●ciem non a● salutem De● Baptis contra Donat. lib. 4 The first maine ground of this schism Ignorance Hi quidem hom●nes indocti sunt ac idiotae qui non usque adeo evolvendis chartis sunt exercitati ut exijs de●●ria sua addisc●re potuerint Instruct. advers Libert cap. 1. Alter cubicularius alter hostiarius libenter fieri sustinuer●t Cap 4. c●usdem libri Iune 12. Ignorance of the end of Christs comming 2. Of the nature of the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 1. 5. 3. Of the nature of faith Godly life is nothing but keeping commandements Hab. 2. 4. Wee are meere patients in the causes of blessednesse but not in the conditions of it Christs righteousnesse onely gives right to heaven but our sanctification gives a fitnesse and aptitude to it Rev 21. 27 Iustification freeth the beleever from the condemnation of sinne but not