Christ was preached to them not only Ceremonially but also Doctrinally but yet Mystically He was called a Rod a Branch †Isa 11.1 Water Wine Milk * Ch. 55.1 a Fountain †Zec. 13.1 this was mystical Doctrine their ignorance of which is sometime bewailed Ah Lord God! they say of me Doth he not speak Parables * Ezek. 20.49 N B The Gospel to the Jews was like an inestimable treasure in a dark gay Glasse Simile overlaid with fair Flowers painted with Pictures to signifie the Substance within but they like children were apter to eye the Out-side than the Inside The Gospel to Us is like the same treasure in a Clear glasse Simile plain without gays and pictures so that we can see the inside Simile Or it 's like the same treasure in an open earthen vessel or Shell as the word signifies †2 Cor. 4.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Testa A Shell Moses put a vail over his Face and when Moses is read the vail is upon their Heart i e their minds were blinded * Ch. 3.13 Hence little Faith much Fear darknesse and dread dwell together Zion said The Lord hath forsaken me †Isa 49.14 they would conclude it from a crosse Providence e g The Lord is with thee thou mighty man of valour and Gideon said Oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all This befallen us but now the Lord hath forsaken us * Judg. 6.12 13. Thus subject were they to slavish fear and a spirit of bondage But we being under a clear Gospel have much light light and joy are joyned together †Ps 97.11 peace cometh by the knowledge of God * 2 Pet. 1.2 If a fearful child meets his father in the Dark Simile he dreads him as Death for thinks he that man will Kill me but if he meet him in the Light he runs into his Arms. Hence Christians under clear Gospel light are said to have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father †Rom. 8.15 i e Father Father child-like with much freedom from fear This is called the Spirit of the Son God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father * Gal. 4.6 The excellency of which Spirit appears in this viz it acts a Soul to own God as a Father under the most Dismal dispensation like the Spirit of the Son under the Fathers wrath crying My God my God though as forsaken in that dismal Dooms-day of his Death which made the air Dark and the earth Quake Howbeit some Persons at Times did Act faith very Nobly under the Law also e g When death is at the Door if Esther the Queen will not speak a word to the King for life Noble Acts. yet Mordecai will beleeve Deliverance shall arise for the Jews from another place †Est 4.14 David will not fear when his Sins compasse him about * Ps 49.5 nor when all Nations compasse him about like Bees †Psal 118.10 nor if the Earth be removed and the Mountains into the midst of the Sea * Ps 46.2 If Gods Zeal Strength Bowels Mercies and all are restrained yet Evangelical Isaiah will say to God Doubtlesse thou art our Father †Isa 63.15 16. Shadrach Meshach and Abed-nego will believe in their God in the very Face of the furious King and at the Mouth of the Seven-fold fiery furnace * Dan. 3.16 And Daniel will do the like in the lions den †Ch. 6. And some did Noble acts by faith a Catalogue of which we have upon record * Heb. 11. ¶ 6 The Jews were under the M L as pointing at Christ to Come to justifie by blood not then in Being e g If a man sin against any of the ten commandments of the Lord and his sin come to his knowledge by the law is this knowledge of sin and by it is the Conscience troubled he shall bring his Sin-offering a Kid of the goats a Male without blemish and kill it and his sin shall be forgiven him †Lev. 4. Thus the M L by its Scourge sent the Sinner to the C L the Sacrifice and Type of Christ and the Type pointed to Christ himself then to come for they drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them †1 Cor. 10.4 Before faith came i e faith in Christ actually crucified we were kept under the Law shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed * Gal. 3.23 i e when Christ the Object of faith should be revealed as manifest in the Flesh and So believed on in the world †1 Tim. 3.16 faith in Christ actually crucified Christ was Virtually crucified from the foundation of the World And under the Law they were Virtually redeemed from the Curse of the Law but not Actually redeemed but when the fulnesse of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law Actually to redeem them that were under the law * Gal. 4.4 5 ¶ 7 The Jews were under many and great Promises of temporal Blessings annexed to their obedience to the Law even a full land flowing with Milk and Honey the glory of all Lands †Ezek. 20 6. Thus we are not under the Law as the Jews were Of the great judgments they were under the execution of for their Disobedience to the M L I say nothing but they happened to them for Ensamples or Types and they are written for OVR admonition upon whom the Ends of the world are Come * 1 Cor. 10.11 ¶ N B A threefold Affirmation Under the Ministry of the Gospel the C W requires as perfect obedience of them that are under it as it did under the ministry of the Law 2 Under the ministry of the Gospel there is as high a degree of Holiness required of justified Persons as there was under the ministry of the Law It 's a Mad mistake to think the Law requires obedience to the law A mad mistake but the Gospel requires no obedience to the law 3 Under the Ministry of the Gospel the Law is to be preached to prick the Heart and prepare for Christ as Peter did by charging the Jews with the Murder of Jesus †Act. 2.36 37. They that say Nay in effect say Peter Paul Jesus himself James and John whom he Surnamed the sons of Thunder * Mar. 3.17 were all a company of Dunces in their Doctrine Therefore to say Before Christs death the Jews were all by nature under the law as a C W A 3 fold Folly but we are all freed from it since Christs death under the Gospel Or 2 They in a State of nature or in a justified State were under the law for a rule of life but not we Or 3 They were under the law to humble and prepare them for Christ but not we these are false foolish
no New Heart Soul and Body will shortly be in Hell and Both Black in Everlasting Burnings Mans Sins are Debts of which God keeps account Sinner canst Tell to what thy Debts amount Thy Debts thou art encreasing Every hour Into his Vials God doth also pour Pain for thy Pleasure though thou wilt not Stop As certain as thy Death there 's Drop for Drop God's Cup is almost Full as well as Thine When both are Full OH then the Dreadfull Time Sixt. Doc. 6. Teach them to KInow and cause them to be Well acquainted with the Ten Commandments Of the Ten Commands for they are the Pure Precious Precepts of the Holy Lord God And with the rest Remember Well the Sabbath Day I hope I need not forbid You to convert the Commands into Prayers for your Children according to the Course of Carnal Ignorant People Learn them to know they are Gods Laws to Rule mans Life And that they are to be Obey'd in Deed Word and Thought And whatever is contrary to any one of these Commands that is Sin against GOD. Learn them to know the Necessity of these Laws being written in their Hearts according to the Promise And let your Tongue be the Pen in gods Hand to write them There if the Lord Please Seventh Doc 7. Of Mans Obedience Teach them to know the Utter IOnsufficiency of Mans Obedience to the Law to Save And that the most Excellent Moralist hath as Absolute a Necessity of Jesus Christs Righteousness to Justifie him and that without it he will as Certainly be Damned as the most Prophane Person that ever pissed against a wall in the Whole World Eight Doc 8. Of the Gospel Teach them to know the Gospel The knowledge of the Law is in Order to the Acceptation of the Gospel By the Law is the knowledge of Sin †Ro. 3.20 without which Who will regard the Gospel What cares a Person for a Pardon who knows not that he is Condemned In this Lesson eye three things ¶ 1 The Declaration of the Gospel viz That GOD hath chosen an innumerable company of Mankind And hath given them to CHRIST And sent him into the World to Redeem them from the Curse of the Law by fulfilling the Law N B. He was GOD and Man in One Person Man to Suffer and Die God cannot Die GOD to Satisfie in bearing Wrath Infinitely which Man could not do This GOD-man did Personate Man and in Mans Stead for Man did Actively and Passively obey the Law Perfectly And so hath procured Eternal Life And this is Freely offered to all Dead Sinners by the Declaration of the Gospel And Christs desire that Sinnersshould obtain this Eternal Life is expressed with Longing Sighing Sweating Weeping and Dying ¶ 2 The Condition of the Gospel on our part by which Eternal life is made Ours by which we have Right to the Tree of Life That is FAITH Men are Dead God hath made a Law viz He that Believes shall Live He that believes Not shall Never Live but Die for Ever A Condemned Sinner is to be Justified by Faith Without the deeds of the Law †Ro. 3.27 28. by the Law of a Just GOD who thus Justifies the Vngodly * Ch. 5.4 By which Law of Faith without Works boasting in Works is excluded Isa 55. Come buy Wine Christ is bought by Believing Buy without Money i e Part with Something worth Nothing i e Sin Self Righteousness Self and all Sin as to the Practice and Pleasure of it Self Righteousness as to any Confidence in it Self by giving up Body and Soul to Christ †1 Cor. 6.20 ¶ 3 The Duties of the Gospel viz Good Works as fruits of Faith Faith which alone Justifies before GOD accompanied with such a Holy Conversation as will Justifie before Men That is the Conversation which becomes the Gospel BUT let Justification by Faith without Works be kept Clear e g. Suppose a Man Famous for Wickednesse who never did any thing else but serve Satan by Whole Sale should come under a Sermon And be convinced of his Sin Sick of Sin Sick for a Saviour and Believe on Jesus Christ H E is Justified Christs Perfect Righteousness is Imputed And if he should drop down Dead where he Stands before he have any time to Pray or do any good Work He is Certainly Saved Now Sir A Caution for the Mother though your Wife does not Object but learn in Silence * 1 Tim. 2.11 as best becomes her with an intent to ask her Husband at home †1 cor 14.35 Yet least she say in her Heart What is it the part of a Mother to play the Preacher I will give her an Instance of one who taught her Son both Law and Gospel The words of King Lemuel * Pro. 31.1 Lemuels Lesson Bathsheba's Catechism Lemuel she calls him because God owned him I will be his Father and he shall be my Son †2 Sa. 7.14 Lemuel God with him The Prophesie that his Mother taught him The word Prophesie in the Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A burden of the Root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To bear the same word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Englished A burden * Na 1.1 This shews what a heavy charge lyes upon Mothers which she Thus discharges What my SON and what the Son of my WOMB and what the Son of my VOWS †Ver. 2. Give not thy strength to Women * Ver. 3. Here she teaches him Law viz Thou shalt not commit Adultery It is not for KINGS O Lemuel it is not for KINGS to drink Wine †Ver. 4. Lest they drink and forget the LAW * Ver. 5. See how she Schools him N B. The King of Israel was to keep the Law †Deu. 17.19 King Solomon who was in twenty things a Type of Christ was in his Obedience to the Law a Type of Christs Fulfilling the Law to free us from the Curse from whence comes the Comfort of the Gospel Give strong drink to him that is ready to Perish * ver 6. Parallel The great Trumpet shall be blown and they which are ready to Perish shall come †Isa 27.13 And Wine to those that be of heavy Heart Parallel Come buy wine without Mony * Isa 55. Open thy mouth for the Dumb †Ver. 8. This Phrase respects Solomon as a Type of Christ in his Intercession who is to Pray for Them that cannot Pray for Themselves Who are swallowed up in Silence and Shame under a Sight and Sence of Sin At or After convertion Or can say Nothing For but All Against themselves Christ Will speak a Good Word for such which Shall be answer'd with Good and Comfortable Words †Zech. 1.13 Thus as Bathsheba teaches her Son Solomon to officiate as a Type of Christ she teaches him both Law and Gospel And see how Solomon approves of the Mothers Ministry as well as
Fopperies to be fanned away and Burned as not deserving to be otherwise Answered Yea such sottish doltish Deep Dreams damnable Dreams that I could hazard my heart Blood to bear witnesse against them Fath. You say Peter and Paul preached the law Object 10 Paul saith they were Ministers of the N T not of the Letter i e the Law which saith he killeth and he calls it a Ministration of death †2 Cor. 3.6 7. Min. There is a threefold killing by the law 1 By applying the Curse to a Prophane person and leaving him under it in despair 2 By condemning a Precise person for his imperfect obedience Thus many are killed and yet secure but they will find themselves killed at Last let them do their Best Thus the Law is a Ministry of death 3 To kill self-confidence in self-righteousnesse To make a Sinner sensible of the sentence of Condemnation he is under as one dead in Law Simile at stake to be Burned at pits brink to be damned so as to be set a seeking life by Free Grace Thus the law is a Ministry of death too but this is the way to life Thus Paul was killed saith he I was alive i e I thought so I seemed so without the law i e without the knowledge of the law or killing condition of the C W but when the commandment came i e the knowledge of it sin revived and I died * Ro. 7.9 For without the law sin was dead †Ver. 8. Simile i e Seemingly as a Ban-dog in a deep sleep but wake him and he will fly in your face to pull out your throat Simile So sin when the commandment comes as a messenger to tell a Prisoner he is condemned at Court to die Obedience to the law for life is in no wise to be preached up so Paul was not a Minister of the law But to preach the law to convince Sinners and counsel Saints is the part of a Minister of the N T and he that refuses so to preach the law is no Minister for me nor do I value him above them Popish Priests who having heard the letter killeth cast off the law and all good literature Mr T. lest they should be killed with the letter Fath. I will no longer hinder you in your Twelve Notes promised as yet there is but Two delivered I pray proceed and let me hear the Rest Min. That is well if our strife be at an end and will you also attend Fath. Yes I desire to hear the end Min. Third As a Minister when he hath preached a Sermon gives it in writing to one of a weak Memory Note 3. Simile The M L given as a Sermon or puts it in Print for Publick profit so when God had preached this Sermon on Mount Sinai he gave it to Moses for the use of Israel on two Tables of Stone written with the Finger of God * Exo. 31.18 The first Table containeth the First four commandments which declare mans duty to GOD obedience to which is properly called Piety The second Table containeth the Last six commandments which declare mans duty to Man obedience to which is properly called Equity Christ is pleased to contract these Ten into Two Christ's contraction viz 1 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart c †Mat. 22.37 2 Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy Self This contraction of ten into two is to teach us these Lessons 1 That God is to be loved Before and More than all men thou shalt love the Lord c this is the First and Great commandment †Ver. 38. 2 That the main Spring of mans obedience to both Tables must be LOVE viz Love to God Love to man 3 A summary account of the large Extent of both Tables on these two hang All the law and the Prophets * Ver. 40. 4 The impossibility of such perfect obedience as the law requires considered as a C W that consequently it may become our School master to Christ to be justified by his obedience to the law and not rest in our Own to our Ruine Fourth Note 4. A Second Edition The law thus written on Tables of Stone was a Second Edition and Impression of the primitive perfect law written on the Table of Adam's heart in Innocency By his Fall he brake this Table in pieces And man having but a poor imperfect knowledge of God's law left God did graciously make known his law by making it audible to the Ear at Mount Sinai and visible to the Eye on Tables of Stone Since which God hath by his good Providence put it upon Paper and written a Book responsible to Job's wish †Job 31.35 The Book of Books viz the Blessed Bible The O T in Hebrew the language of Gods people of Old The N T in Greek which when written was more generally known among the Nations Since both are Translated into the Native language of the Nations who do enjoy them and Happy are they that Well use them Fist The M L which is an Epitomy Note 5. The M L given in few words or Breviary and the Sum of the Will of God and Whole duty of man God hath delivered in few Words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ten words * Exo. 34.28 a Command for it's Concisenesse called a Word No more Commands than a man hath fingers on his Hands that he may easily carry them in his Head and get acquainted with them and not plead Largeness to excuse Ignorance which probably would be his Plea if God had delivered his mind in a multiplicity of Precepts A Plea prevented and Words Sixt. God hath by his Servants the Prophets Apostles and by the Son himself Expounded and Branched out in the Bible Note 6. The M L branched by 10000. words these Ten words with more than Ten thousand words to prevent this Pretence also for Ignorance viz This Brevity is Obscurity this Shortnesse is Darknesse a Word is for the Wise we are Weak if God would have Us understand his Mind he should have explained it with more Words It is Done God hath SO spake as to speak all men Speechlesse Prudence prevents pretences So as to stop every mouth and make All the world guilty before God †Ro. 3.19 Seventh Note 7. Eight Negatives in Ten. All the ten commandments but two i e the fourth and fift are delivered Negatively i e by way of Denying and Forbidding of sin to signifie that the Right way to be Religious or Practically obedient is to be first Negatively so e g Depart from Evil and do Good †Psal 34.14 cease to do Evil learn to do Well * Isa 1.16 17. If a man flee not Sinfull Vices it is in vain to follow Religious Courses N B A precept for Faith is included in the First Commandment which will appear before we part And it is in the Preface to
are of kinne to that cursed King who cut the Roll and cast it into the fire * Jer. 36.23 but it was rescribed and many like words added †Ver. 32. if man will diminish the Preceptive part God will adde to the Penal part of his Precept There were desperate Antinomians in Job's dayes e g He stretcheth out his hand against God * Job 15.25 Take this literally and so did Julian the Apostate when wounded in battell and bleeding to death he stretched out his hand to throw his blood up to Heaven Julian against Jesus saying in indignation to Jesus Theod l 3. Cap. 20. O Galilean thou hast overcome me And the Amalekites who when they could catch a Jew and kill him would cut off the part that received the Seal of the Covenant and with an out-stretched hand throw it up towards Heaven Jerom. with indignation against God for that institution Take it metaphorically and so doth he stretch out his hand against God who useth his Wits and Words against God as the Antinomian when he argueth against Gods law A man should not lift up hand word or thought against God but hand heart tongue and all For God but he strengthens himself against the Almighty †Job 15.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shaddai Omnipotency it self who can do all things and yet what can the Almighty do for them yet he silled their houses with good things * Chap. 22. 17 18. and yet what can the Almighty do for them Reason will tell a man the Almighty can do All things Reason differs the spirit of a Man from the spirit of a Beast what unreasonable blind beast is this then that thus argues If the Almighty can do nothing For he can do nothing Against a man and that I presume is their hope viz the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil * Zeph. 1.12 He runs upon the bosses of his bucklers †Job 15.26 alluding to the fierce assault of a Souldier The buckler is Defensive armour the bosse Offensive i e a Sharp Spike if a man come close it kills him God's Buckler is the Preceptive part of his law by which he defends his honour his Bosse is the Curse threat or Penal part by which he kills them that break his command e g Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge there is the Buckler in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die * Gen. 2.17 there is the Bosse Adam runs upon it and dies for it Thus Job's Antinomian or ours his Cousin German He will offer violence to God and his Law with Gospel in his mouth He runs upon him even on his neck †Job 15.26 He will try a twich with God He would pull God out of Heaven and throw the world out at Window A Saint playes the man against Satan but he playes the Devil against God who makes his Law void Here is sin of a Size what blows big enough for sin So big it will puzzle an Apostle and a Philosopher too to define it Fath. What may be the Reason of our Antimian aversnesse to the Law of God Min. 1 Because of its Antiquity 1 R. and their Novelty They have an evil eye upon the O T for its Names-sake Upon this account they may slight God himself who is the Ancient of dayes †Dan. 7.9 And on this account they may slight the Gospel for that is as old as the Law as no doubt they will do when a New one comes up And on the same account they may slight their Own opinion for it 's as old as Adam's fall Adam was an Antinomian when he brake the Law It 's older than Adam's fall the Devil was an Antinomian when he tempted Adam to be of the like Religion ¶ 2 Because of its Purity 2 R. It is a sacred divine perfect pur * Ps 19.8 holy spiritual Law †Rom. 7.12 14. It binds hands feet tongue heart and All to holinesse Antinomians are Libertine who love not to be bound by the bonds of Gods holy commands but a David loves the law upon this account thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it * Ps 119.140 ¶ 3 Because of their own Obscurity 3 R. and ignorance of its excellency That excellent office of the law viz to wound for Sin and send to a Saviour they are Strangers to They never saw their own sins in Gods Looking-glasse but other mens sins in the Devils Prospecitive-glasse Simile The young Blackmoor Simile and so are like the Black boy that fled from his Black father to his White mother not considering his Own blacknesse Antinomians slight the law as the Indians did their Gold when they knew not its worth And as a Natural man doth Gods gold i e Simile grace which is to him as drosse And as the Jews did Jesus not discerning his Beauty though altogether lovely †Cant. 5.10 The very Name of Jesus was hatefull to the Jews they could not call him by it but this fellow * M. 26.61 that deceiver †Ch. 27.63 and the Carpenter * Mar. 6.3 so is the very word Law contemptible to our Antinomians But this is madnesse with a Witnesse for without law what right hath a man to any good viz Temporal Spiritual or Eternal What right to house goods land without law or what Safety are lands or life in without law what right to Christ Heaven eternal life without law It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse IS righteousnesse i e by the law of Works It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse is a Christians righteousnesse i e by the law of Grace †Jer. 23.6 It is by Law that Christians are Saved i e the law of Faith and it 's by Law that sinners are Damned i e by the law of Works God imputeth righteousnesse by law and Saveth and God imputeth sin by law and Damneth and is LAW to be slighted He that breaks one breaks all * Ja. 2.10 Break one break all the breach of the ten commandments brings a man 10000 Talents into Gods debt by Law and is LAW to be slighted Little England hath a great deal of Rome in it and seeing darknesse is now a dayes so desirable it's to be wished these persons wish not for Popery and Tyranny who do so disgust this good word LAW for if a man would have laws against Theft nulled no doubt that man desires to be a Thief and so of any other such like desire to destroy Law It is no wonder these persons are in darknesse for they will shut their eyes against Scripture-light if it be contrary to their own conceptions Simile They are like the Elephant who makes the water Muddy that he may not see his Deformity They will search Scripture for what seems to suit with their sinfull minds but would bury the opposite truth in