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A10393	The necessitie of righteousnes. Or A profitable and fruitfull sermon vpon the fift chapter of the Gospell of S. Mathew. vers. 20. Preached and penned by that famous, learned, iudicious, orthodoxall, holy, wise, and skilfull preacher and servant of God, now deceased, and with his God triumphing in Heaven, Iohn Randall, Batchelour of Divinitie, pastour of St Andrewes Hubbart in little East-cheape London, sometimes fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford. And now published, to the glory of God, the edification of his Church, and the honourable memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the Word of God in the church aforesaid	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1622 (1622)	STC 20675; ESTC S115634	15,134	32

his ground of white or black or any such colour when afterward he staines it againe in sundry places with sundry other colours to fashion his worke cannot be sayd to destroy or quite deface his ground but rather to garnish it and fill it vp and make it perfect even so our Saviour comming to teach vs the right sense and vse and end of the Law cannot be sayd to destroy the Law but rather garnishes as it were the ground of the Law with his true Interpretations and right vses supplying all the imperfections thereof and filling it vp in every poynt so that as it is in the 18. verse not one iot or title thereof should escape vnfulfilled And whereas the Law was before depraved and so the people seduced and deluded by the Scribes and Pharisees therefore in this his Sermon he examines their false glosses from point to point and reformes all their depravation of the Law laying this Verse which I haue read vnto you as the ground of that which followeth wherein he disswades and brings his Disciples out of conceit with their former Teachers he seekes to purge them of the old leaven of the Pharisees and would not haue them retaine the least smatch or relish thereof the very righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees must become odious to Christs Disciples Text. Your righteousnesse sayth he must exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees Neither was this onely a counsell or exhortation as though it onely were a thing meete and convenient for his Disciples to be better then the Pharisees and he would faine haue them so to be but this is an absolute Precept of great waight and importance it is as much as their soules are worth Text. for except this be so they shall never enter into the Kingdome of heaven And that they might consider the better of it and beleeue it more certainely he tells them that this Doctrine is not from earth but from heaven it comes not from man but from God Text. I say vnto you sayth our Saviour that it is so indeed For I say vnto you except your righteousnesse c. So then this Scripture is a kind of Intermination or Threatning which our Saviour makes to his Disciples Wherein we may obserue First the Asseverant manner of speech here vsed Christ sayth I say vnto you Why all this Chapter is spoken by Christ for it is a Sermon that he Preached to his Disciples but he would haue this Doctrine sticke more closely to their hearts and throughly considered aboue all other poynts therefore he layes it before them nay he fastens it vpon them with speciall termes of Asseveration I say vnto you Secondly the Dutie which here is required of them and in them of vs their righteousnesse must exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees Thirdly the Penaltie here threatned them vpon default of the performance of that Dutie even the losse of Heaven it selfe you shall not enter into the Kingdome of Heaven First of the Asseveration I say vnto you As if our Saviour should thus haue spoken to his Disciples 1. I. The Scribes and Pharisees haue seduced you and taught you all this while erronious Doctrine they were blind Leaders of the blind but I that am the light of the World I teach you better Doctrine I say vnto you otherwise then they did The Scribes and Pharisees taught you that externall and outward righteousnesse was sufficient to salvation they are lyers but I that am the Truth I say vnto you otherwise The Scribes and Pharisees taught you that the Law goeth no farther then to the outward man it speakes nothing to the inward motions and affections of the heart they are destroyers and corrupters of the Law but I that came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it I that was present at the making of the Law I that was an agent in the publishing of the Law I that came out of the bosome of my Father to teach the right sense and the true vse of the Law I say vnto you otherwise that except your righteousnesse exceed c. Or as if our Saviour should thus haue spoken to his Disciples See that you make no doubt of the truth of this Doctrine for it is I that speake it therefore beleeue it certainely I say You need not suspect any danger in it for it is I that speake it therefore receiue it ioyfully I say Let it not slip you without due meditation for it is I that speake it therefore remember it carefully I say See that you faile not to yeeld present obedience to this Doctrine for it is I that speake it therefore practise it dutifully I say vnto you I say Very fitly doth this word Say agree with the person of him that speaks it He sayth here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Say I say who is indeed properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verbum the Substantiall Word himselfe This is peculiar to Iesus Christ the Sonne of God the second person in the ever-blessed Trinitie to reveale vnto vs the secrecies of God and by the words of his mouth to teach vs the way of our salvation At sundry times and in divers manners saith the Apostle God spake in old time to our Fathers by the Prophets but in these dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by his owne Sonne Heb. cap. I. ver 1 2. He hath spoken sayth the Text not onely by his Messengers but even mouth to mouth and face to face as we see in this place I say vnto you Many things our Saviour knew within himselfe which were not meete to be imparted to his Disciples but this was a matter that concerned them very neere and therefore he telles them of it I say vnto you Many things our Saviour was to tell his Disciples but they must first be growne to some better perfection according to that Ioh. 16.12 I haue many things to say vnto you but you cannot beare them as yet but this was a principall ground-worke of that holy Religion which he was afterward to build vp in his Disciples hearts and therefore it is one of the first lessons he teaches them one of the first things that he sayth vnto them Many things our Saviour would haue his Disciples acquainted withall even whilest they were novices in the Faith whereof he giues them but onely as it were an inkling to whet on their witts by some Parables and darke speeches leaving it to be found out by their owne industrie but this was a mayne poynt of their salvation and therefore without any Parable without any circumlocution without any trope or figure at all he telles them of it openly and plainely in very expresse termes I say vnto you Vnto you I speake not to the Scribes and Pharisees they are ignorant You. and let them be ignorant still but it is you that I desire to instruct and therefore I say vnto you You that looke for a portion in my