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A40240 The royal law of God revived wherein you may see that all nations of men may keep in it a royal society ... / G.F. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1672 (1672) Wing F1892; ESTC R28007 37,382 48

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that no man is exempted but all are left without Excuse And as he saith speaking of the Tallents Mat. 25.15 c. That to every man is given a Measure according to his Ability yea to the very sloathful Servant that hid it So now if every man hath a Measure according to his Ability it is but just for him to give an Account thereof according to his Measure that answers the Lord who hath given him his Measure according to his Ability therein is his Judgment Just and God is Righteous in his Judgments who rewards every man according to his Works and his Words for which he must give account and according to his Doings Mat. 12.36 So then it may clearly be seen here that there is something of God in man to answer his Royal Laws to keep a Society in it And as the Apostle saith Rom. 1.19 20. concerning the Heathen Gentiles That that which might be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them And further saith he For the invisible things from the Creation of the World are clearly seen c. that is to say His Eternal-Power and Godhead are seen forasmuch as they are understood by the works of the Creation of the World so that they are left without Excuse because when they knew God they glorified him not as God Now mark Here you see 't is plain that here was something of God in the Heathens by which they knew God which God hath manifested to them by which they might answer the Royal Law of God But when they went from this of God in them and glorified him not as God then they set up their own Worships and Wayes and lost the course of Nature and did things against Nature so here they forsook the Lord and his Wayes and Religion and then persecuted others that would not follow them and their Wayes and Worships and so break the Royal Society which is in the Royal Law going from that of God in them which should answer it and then you may see downwards in the same Chapter what they worshipped and what they followed and how they brought the Wrath of God upon them and how they held the Truth in Unrighteousness which was filled with all manner of evil which men though they knew that the Judgment of God was upon such as commit such things yet they did not regard God but were without natural Affections So here when they erred from that of God in them they lost Natural Affections Affections of Nature to them that were of the same Blood and Mould and also going from that of God in them they went from the Royal Law of God which should have kept them in Natural Affections and in a Royal Society by the Royal Law and so thereby Indignation and Wrath and Anguish came upon every soul of them that do Evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentiles signifying thereby that there is something in the Gentiles as well as in the Jews to which if they act contrary they go from the Royal Law and so bring the Judgments of God upon them who Rewards every one according to his Works For the Jews that had the Law the outward written Law and the Gentiles that had not the outward written Law do by Nature the things contained in the written Law which shows the deeds of the Law written in their hearts so according to this the Lord shall judge the secrets of men by Christ Jesus according to the Gospel Now the Gentiles having the Law written in their Hearts and do the deeds of the Law the Jews having the outward written Law and not doing the things contained in the written Law the Gentiles were Judges over them that is The Gentiles were set over them Now here its plain that there was something in the Gentiles as also in the Jews to answer the Royal Law of God which should bring them to do if they would but obey it to all men as they would have them do unto them and to keep both the Natural Affections and Royal Society For now If they that are called Christians who have a written Gospel and are Transgressors of it as the Jews that had a written Law and were not the Keepers and the Doers of it whereby the Gentiles judged them that did not the things contained in the Law having the Law written in their hearts and were the Doers of it So likewise now in our Ag●● as is said before All Christians that have a written Gospel and do not the things contained in it these whom they call Heathens or Indians or Turks that do the things contained in the Gospel viz. The obeying of the Power and Spirit which led them to do unto all men as they would have them do unto them these are Judges of the Christians so called who say They have the Gospel and yet do it not and do to others those things that they would not have others do unto them these I say are Breakers of the Royal Law Christians in the first place are judged before the Heathen and as the Jews first and then the Gentiles so the Christians first and then the Heathen And so God is a Respecter of no mans Person who judges the World in Righteousness but is a Rewarder according to every ones Works who walk not according to his Royal Law of Liberty And so its clear that there is something of God in all Jews and Gentiles Christians and Heathens to bring them to answer that Royal Law and to follow it and not their own Imaginations through which they may come to natural Affections and do unto all men as thou wouldst have them do unto thee So God I say is no Respecter of Persons who judges the World in Righteousness For the Apostle saith If the Vncircumcision which by Nature keep the Law judge the Jews which being under the Letter of Circumcision and do transgress the Law So I say They that be under the Profession of the Letter of Christianity and do transgress the Letter of Christianity he that hath not the Letter as Christian hath and yet by Nature doth keep in the Law of Christianity judgeth the Christians and that that is set up in them And therefore as the Apostle saith He is not a Jew that is one outward neither is he a Christian that is one outward in Profession without Possession but he is a Jew that is one inward in the Spirit and not in the Letter and so he is a Christian that is one inward and not in the Letter a Letter Professor but one who is in the Heart and in the Spirit of Christ Jesus though the outward Letter Professor of Jew and Christian hath something of God in him which should lead him to obey that which he doth profess and to possess that which he doth profess for that hath the Praise of God and not of men And in Rom. 3.9 saith the Apostle Paul What better are the Jews then