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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08318	The nevv Gospel, not the true Gospel. Or, A discovery of the life and death, doctrin, and doings of Mr. Iohn Traske, and the effects of all, in his followers Wherein a mysterie of iniquity is briefly disclosed, a seducer unmasked, and all warned to beware of imposters. As also a confutation of the uncomfortable error, of Mr. Boye, concerning the plague, out of Psal. 91. By Edvv. Norice.	Norris, Edward, 1584-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 18645; ESTC S113242	39,058	60

directions against it but why doth hee not name who they were that did so or why doth he not handle the point as other godly men have done but thus break out against the Law it selfe calling it a rule of the flesh to make it vile but all this is nothing else than meere deceit and collusion pretending a cause that never was in any of them at whom he aimeth no not to a thought upon which false supposition also it is that he reproacheth all other Ministers that make any use of the Law for Legalists and Iustitiaries as if they taught righteousnesse by works because they make the Law a rule of obedience which is common and I doubt wilfull calumny of all his followers who know well enough how farre they are from such doctrines and drifts whom they disclaime and decline 2. ASSERTION The Law is not to be preached to beleevers by Gospell Ministers Explication HIs meaning is that the Law is not to be preached at all in the Church of God neither to beleevers nor unbeleevers either for repentance or obedience and that his meaning is so his words declare which are these And why may it not be affirmed In his confirmation that seeing there is no Commission to preach the Law at all now under the Gospell and seeing the Gospell containes the whole mind and will of God and that the Apostles did never preach the Law at all but as subordinate to the Gospell and doth enjoyne Timothy to charge some that they teach no other Doctrine but the faith A clause added against the rest c. why may we not say that the Gospell only is to bee preached to all aswell as to beleevers except any can shew a larger Commission than Christ himselfe c. pag. 50. These words are plaine enough There is no Commission to preach the Law at all the Gospell is only to bee preached to all Generall and peremptory assertions without exception yet neverthelesse to hide his flat Antinomisme in his explanation he tells us that the Law as law is not to be preached to beleevers and afterwards demands Who ever denyed the Lawes use or excellency to discover sinne convict such as the Gospell shines not unto to be a ground for all humane Lawes the very rule of love a meanes to shew the greatnesse of sinne of very plentifull use to beleevers c. One would think that the same man could not own both these assertions at once and set them down both in the same Chapter What hath the Law so many excellentuses to beleevers and unbeleevers and yet is there no Commission at all to preach it doth it containe so many excellent truths and of that necessity in the Church and yet is it no part of the mind and will of God to bee revealed unto men Doctor Taylor his Regula vitae is very usefull for all these points how to make all this accord in any good construction I acknowledge to be past my skill or I suppose any mans else for take it according to his first words the Law as Law is not to bee preached but as subordinate to the Gospell yet then it must be preached howsoever and is within the Commission of a Gospell Minister which before he denyed either the Seducer wanted wit to see his own contradictions or else he was very wicked to speak against the truth and his own conscience together the later is most to be suspected but then they are men to be admired that will see neither of them 3. ASSERTION If repentance and faith bee wrought only by the Gospell then what doth the Law work in any mans conversion to God or conformity to Christ Explication THis demand hee acknowledgeth to be truly inferr'd by him upon the premisses of one of his then disciples according to the doctrin he had first taught him and yet lest he should lose his habit of rayling hee keeps the word * This is his Keax Slanderer on foot still although it be the truth under his own hand Concerning which point I will say no more but if the Law serve to discover sinne and to convince men as before he hath acknowledged and that this discovery and convincing bee necessary to bring men to repentance seeing they cannot repent of what they know not how then is the Law wholly excluded from having any hand in the same at all was it not that and matter of that kind which S. Peter used to convince the Iewes withall Acts 2.37 and is it not that which discovers unto all men their own unrighteousnesse and misery that they may seek unto Christ for righteousnesse and mercy Rom. 3.19 doth not that regulate our love and so our conformity to Christ and his requirings John 13.34 but these matters of repentance humiliation for sin godly sorrow sanctification of spirit feare of God care of obedience and such like are all in too low a sphere for his sublimity and not in the compasse of his mounted speculations only faith and joy are the matters he is conversant in the other serve for poore Legalists to feed upon that know no better but it followes 4. ASSERTION The law did once discover sin it doth so no more nor yet for direction love herein transcends the law as far as life doth death Explication HIs meaning is that now in time of the Gospell the Law doth neither serve to discover sin nor yet to be a rule of obedience for it was alleadged by him in way of Answer to that of the Apostle By the law is the knowledge of finne Rom. 3.20 and Chap. 7. 7. to which he replyed that though it did so heretofore yet it doth not so now those times and that use of the Law are past and gone and so out of date the Gospell now doth all without the Law which is his spirituall sense and the mystery of his way but to colour the matter being foule in appearance hee tells us in his explanation that the Sacrifice of Christ doth better set forth the odiousnesse of sinne than the terrors of the Law which is no part of the point what doth most set out the odiousnesse of sinne Ignoratio ele nchis but what doth discover the sinnes themselves in their kinds and severall branches which must needs be the Law according to the Apostles testimony the very definition of sin being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the transgression of the Law 1. John 3.4 then is it to be preached with the Gospell for repentance Concerning the other branch about the directing use of the Law to justifie his deny all he gives us to understand as if none knew it before that the inward principle from which all true obedience proceeds is love which inward grace doth farre transcend the letter without as if that were the question from what inward principle true obedience proceeded and not rather by what Rule the same is regulated and ordered which is the Law of God discovering good and