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A13024	The Christians sacrifice much better then all the legall sacrifices of the Iewes; and without the which, all the said legall sacrifices of the Iewes, euen when they were in force, were not acceptable to God. Or, a logicall and theologicall exposition of the two first verses of the twelfth to the Romanes, with all the doctrine in the said two verses, plainly laid forth, and fitly applied according as these times do require the same. Wherein also besides the orthodoxall exposition of the said words, diuers other places of Scripture by the way occurring, before somewhat obscure, are so naturally interpreted, as that the iudicious reader shall thinke his paines well bestowed in vouchsafing to reade this treatise following. With the authors postscript to his children, as it were his last will and testament vnto them.	Stoughton, Thomas.	1622 (1622)	STC 23314; ESTC S100120	224,816	288

fashions of the Shechemitish daughters and the Israelites Gen. 34. 1. 2. being inuited by the Moabites to the sacrifices of their gods that is to their idolatrous feasts became idolaters Num. 25. 2. with them and bowed downe to their gods If of necessitie we come in companie where we cannot but behold such things and if by the like necessitie we haue some dealing with the men of the world and cannot auoid it then by prayer to God let vs carrie such spiritual preseruatiues about vs against all corruption thereby as we vse to carrie about vs in times of common sicknesse so to preserue vs from all infection of such sicknesse These things must be ioyned with those afterward now to be spoken of in the meane time let none flatter themselues Sin of small beginnings and small meanes quickly groweth great and being once so growne it is hardly repressed Neither doth one sinne go alone but is accompanied with another The world also is a subtill harlot yea more subtill then that harlot whereof Salomon admonisheth his sonne and all men to beware and to take heed of Pro 6. 25. and 7. 5. c. her inticements and allurements vnto her fashions Thus much of this first part of this second verse in these words And be not conformed to this world CHAP. XIII Of the next words viz of the amplification thereof by an opposite thereto namely transformitie as also of the meanes whereby we may be transformed and of part of the second amplification of our said transforming from the end thereof that is that we may proue what is the will of God THe next words are But be ye transformed Of these Be be transformed words I will speake very brefly The first word but here and elsewhere noteth a plaine opposition betwixt that before and this now spoken betwixt that conformitie to this world and this transformitie yea such an opposition as that the one and the other cannot agree together neither may be ioyned together The like opposition of impossible agreement together is noted by the same word in the originall text elsewhere as when our Sauiour saith Mat. 16. 17. Ioh. 6. 27. Flesh and blood hath not reuealed this vnto thee but my Father which is in heauen And Labour not for the meate which perisheth but for the meate which abideth to euerlasting life By the same word also Paul noteth such an opposition betwixt fainting and being daily renewed in the inward man 2. Co● 4. 16. as that thereby he teacheth such as so faint and be discouraged by afflictions cannot all the while they so faint be renewed in their inward man The opposition also betwixt ver 17. looking on the things that are seene and the things that are not seene is exprest by the same word that is here translated but. So when Iohn saith to Gaius Follow not that which 3. Ioh. 11. is euill but that which is good he teacheth that both euill and good cannot be followed Many other the like places there are needlesse to be here alledged By this word therefore but the Apostle in this place teacheth vs that 2. Kin. 17. 33. 41 we can be no more conformed to the world and thus transformed then we can truly feare God and yet serue other gods or then we may sweare by the Lord and by Malcham Zap 1. 5. or to be short then we can follow both good and euill Secondly this word but in sinuateth something to be vnderstood after the word be transformed whereunto we must be transformed as well as before the Apostle had shewed whereunto we must not be conformed viz. to the world As therefore conforming and transforming are opposed one to another so what is to be opposed to the world but God himselfe For we haue before heard that the amitie of the world and the wisedome of the world are opposed to the loue of God and to the wisedome of God By these things therefore it is euident that when the Apostle exhorteth vs to be transformed he meaneth we should be transformed to God in being holy as he is holy as before we heard It is a turning but from the world vnto God as God himselfe saith If thou returne returne vnto me And Iam 4. 1. A 16. 18. Ephes 22. 2. Cor. 4. 4. this all one with turning from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan the Prince and god of this world vnto God This turning must be of our whole man as the former sacrificing of our selues It must be in truth and not in shew as the Apostle saith that Satan transformeth himselfe into 2. Cor. 11. 13. 14 an Angell of light For the word there vsed is not that that is here in the second place but that that is before vsed and translated be not conformed to this world whereby the distinction before noted out of Chrysostome and his difference betwixt the two originall words here translated conformed and transformed seemeth to be the more authenticall because as Satans transforming himselfe into an Angell of light is not reall and permanent but superficiall and therefore suddenly vanisheth he quickly appearing in his colours againe so all conformitie to the world is superficiall and doth quickly vanish like a morning mist or dew or rain-bow in a cloud But transformitie and turning to God is that that continueth and abideth for euer Once wrought it is done for euer For as it is vnto God so it is of God who is not like to that vnwise man that taketh in hand the building of a tower neuer counting before Luk. 14. 28. what it will cost him and is therefore forced to leaue before he haue finished it as not being able to go through with it but God is wise and able to go through stitch with whatsoeuer he beginneth for who can hinder him Notwithstanding because no man is here so transformed and turned to God but that stil there remaineth in them some corruptions and some dregs and as it were stumps of the old man in respect whereof he may still crie out as Paul himselfe did O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me Rom. 7. 24. from this bodie of death Therefore the Apostle here exhorteth these worthy Romanes to transforme themselues that is more and more to turne vnto God as before he had exhorted them to present themselues a sacrifice to God liuing c. though they had bin such a sacrifice long before Now both our first and our second and our daily turning vnto God is the worke onely of God according Psal 80. 7. 19. to the Prophets prayer Turne vs againe O Lord God of hoasts c. and that because our said first turning is as great a worke as the first creation of the world and our second and daily turning is as great a worke as Gods daily gouernment of the world yet for all that we haue all need of daily exhortations so to

warre against the time of warre are the fitter for warre whensoeuer the same shall come In the time of warre also by little skirmishes men are the better flesht for the great and maine battell So is it so it will be with men for the time of persecution The more they skirmish with their affections c. and subdue the same the more they labour in the actiue sacrificing themselues as also the more patiently they can beare priuate wrongs and iniuries and other pettie afflictions the fitter they shall be for the day of greater triall He that cannot beare a light burden how shall he beare an heauie Herein also to speake of one particular branch of the former actiue sacrificing of our selues let vs consider how franke and forward we haue bin with our purses both in our almes and giuing to the poore as also in any worke requiring cost and charge for the maintenance of the Gospell For certainly he that in such causes is sparing of his purse and pinching of his mony how shall he not but be much more sparing of his blood He also that hath bin cold and not bold to speake for Christ when occasion hath required that he should haue spoken how shall his heart faile and faint to lay downe his life for Christs sake In all the sacrificing of our selues before spoken of actiue and passiue let vs alwayes remember to do all and to suffer all onely to God and for God Herein God will be alone or none We must not so sacrifice our selues partly to God and partly to some other but all must be onely to God and for God We must not be like to men-seruants of Serieants at Law for the first yeare whose Liueries are parti-coloured blacke on the one side tawnie on the other as though they serued two masters but our Liuerie must be all of one colour because No man can serue two Mat. 6. 24. masters c. All sacrifices must be offered onely to God We must not be like vnto them that are said to haue feared 2. Kin. 17. 33. 41. the Lord and yet to haue serued their owne gods and their owne grauen images neither must we worship and sweare by the Lord and by Malcham but as in other things we Zeph. 1. 5. must serue the Lord onely so must we in this sacrificing of Mat. 4. 10. our selues He that but in part sacrificeth himselfe to the Lord sacrificeth himselfe wholy to the diuell Let euery man therefore giue all that is without him and within him to the Lord if he do not he giueth nothing to the Lord but as I said all to the diuell Ananias and Saphira Act. 5. 1. c. his wife are worthy remembrance herein they sold a possession and kept backe a part of the price thereof making shew for all that of giuing all to the poore oh that they that are niggardly in their sacrifice of almes before mentioned did well consider hereof but because they gaue not all all men know the fearfull iudgement of God vpon them both vpon Ananias as the principall offender vpon Sapphira as accessarie to his offence consenting and keeping counsell That that is done to the poore is done Pro. 19. 17. Mat. 25 40. 45. to the Lord. That that is withheld from the poore is withheld from the Lord. If therefore this part-sacrificing of the price of their possession vnto the Lord were so hainous a sinne in Ananias and Sapphira is there not the like danger for all other that so sacrifice vnto the Lord Did not the Lord threaten by Zephaniah to stretch out his hand against them that sweare by the Lord and by Malcham Let not this therefore seeme a small matter For indeed it is not so easie a matter as most men thinke it to be to sacrifice our selues to the Lord. As God hath giuen vs all that we haue so he is worthy of all he will haue all he must haue all or else nothing And thus to sacrifice our selues as I haue said is more then euen when the legall sacrifices were in request and force the sacrificing of all buls and rams and lambs and all other creatures by the Law required For euen then without this sacrificing of themselues Psal 50. 8. c. Isay 1. 11. M●ca 6. 6. all the other were nothing yea reiected as odious lothsome and detestable to the Lord. Finally to conclude all this argument let vs neuer forget to ioyne together all before said of the sacrificing of our selues both actiuely and also passiuely For neither the actiue sacrificing of our selues is enough without the passiue when we shall be called thereunto and cannot lawfully auoid it neither this without the former Though I giue my bodie saith the Apostle to be burned and haue not loue it profiteth nothing Thus much of sacrificing our selues both actiuely and also 1. Cor. 13. 1● passiuely CHAP. VIII Of the two first adiuncts of the sacrifice of our selues liuing and holy THe adiuncts of this sacrifice are three 1. liuing 2. holy 3. acceptable There is also a fourth your reasonable seruice but this being more then an adiunct euen a post argument as I may speake for confimation of the maine exhortation I do not therefore reckon it with the rest Touching these three the last is both an effect and also an end of the two first An effect because if the sacrifice be liuing and holy it cannot but be acceptable An end because we must not offer our selues a sacrifice liuing and holy to please men to get credit to our selues or to make any other gaine thereby for this life but to be acceptable to God to please God As before the Apostle had set downe the substance of our sacrifice to be our bodies yea our whole selues soules and bodies as hath bin shewed so now in the two first adiuncts here annexed he setteth downe the qualitie As before he had set downe what we must offer so now he setteth downe what manner of sacrifice our said sacrifice must be viz liuing and holy and acceptable The word liuing is to be taken by oppsiotion to the old Liuing Exod. 29. 10. Leuit. 1. 3. 1. Why the old sacrifices were slaine Rom. 5. 12. and 6. 23. 2. Rom. 56. sacrifices of beasts which though they were presented aliue at the doore of the Tabernacle yet before they were to be sacrificed they were to be slain and that first to note that we by our sinnes had all deserued death for death entred by sinne and death is the wages of sinne Had not man sinned he should neuer haue died Secondly the old sacrifices were to be slaine typically to represent the death of Christ Iesus who died for the elect when they were vngodly and for sinners that he might redeeme them from all their Tit. 2. 14. 2. Cor. 5. 21. iniquitie and be made the righteousnesse of God in him and so all together might be sanctified and cleansed