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A80742	Gospel-libertie in the extensions limitations of it. Wherein is laid down an exact way to end the present dissentions, and to preserve future peace among the Saints. VVhereunto is added good newes from heaven; to the worst of sinners on earth. The former in nine sermons on 1 Cor. 10. 23. All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expeaient. The latter in three sermons on Luke 2. 10. Feare not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. By Walter Cradock late preacher at All-Hallows Great in London;	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.; Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6762A; ESTC R204983	178,682	290

so in the times of the Gospel a sinner one that is not borne againe is under the law and under the curse and damnation of it at this day So this libertie and latitude it lies not at all in the morall law of God those commands of God those last for ever there is no gap opened there Wherein then is it It in these two things principally The liberty of Sts. in the new-Testāent One is that now we are freed from all those ceremonies that lay upon them under the law in the new Testament we are freed from them I need not name many places Freedome from Ceremonies In Gal. 5.1 compared with verse 13. Standfast in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not brought back into bondage What is that be not circumcised and circumcision is taken divers times for all the ceremoniall law you observe daies and times and moneths and years I am afraid of you Christ hath made us free from all the ceremonies of the law But you will say that it is a poore freedome A great freedome You are mistaken it is a great thing for if you looke Act. 15. the Apostles and Elders there say of the ceremonies neither we nor our fathers were able to beare them they were so heavie For if we consider the cost they were at how they were driven to kill beeves and sheep and oxen and to make morning and evening sacrifice and burnt offrings and to bestow so much money to be at abundance of cost and charges and to goe to Ierusalem every yeare and to a sacrifice in the Temple and a great deale of labour And which is more there were abundance of ceremoniall restraints their places they were restrained to them they must worship in this place and not in another but now in the Gospel we must lift up pure hands in every place And then for the time they had dayes and moneths and they had yeares of Jubilee which are all gone And for the very creatures they must have such meat and such cloathes they were restrained and tied in every thing and crossed that they could not have their minde If you consider this it is a great matter that Christ Jesus hath at once removed all these beggerly rudiments away so I say there is so much more roome for you that unlesse Popish Mosaicall spirits bring them in againe Christ Jesus hath removed them That is one thing The second and the chiefe is this 2. Libery in in the externalls of Gods worship That there is a greater liberty in respect of the externalls of Gods Worship that is that God hath not tied people in the new Testament so stricly to his outward worship as he did the people in the Old I doe not meane that he hath not tied them for the substance or for the matter of it Nor in the substence or matter or māner neither doe I meane to speak properly that he hath not tied them for the manner but for circumstance and some circumstances too it may be God hath tied us to So I meane not matter so much as manner nor properly the manner so much as circumstances nor all circumstances for it may be there are some that God hath instituted and appointed but there are abundance of circumstances in the worship of God that are undetermined in his blessed Word and are left to the spirituall discretion of the Saints to determine as may agree most with love and peace and charity As you may see clearly Punctuall lawes in the old Testament if you compare the one with the other the outward worship of God in the old Testament and in the New you shall see for their outward worship there they were tied to the snuffe of a candle there must be so many loopes and so many pins and so many ilet holes Passeover Nay come to the passeover you shall see the Lord made them divers laws as they must take a lambe of such a yeare on such a day of the moneth and what kind of lambe it must be and he shews them what they shall doe with the lambe how they must kill it and what their posture must be they must stand and have their staves in their hands and what sauce they must have and how they shall roast it and what they must doe with the rest of it The Lord did punctually binde them and stint them in that other things the Lord made all his lawes deare to them But in the new Testament take the chiefe of the holy Ordinances the Supper of the Lord we see Christ when he was betrayed Lords Supper he took bread and wine saying This is my body and this is my blood and there is an end You may ask five hundred questions if you will what bread it was and what wine and how oft it was taken by the Disciples or administred but there you heare no further of it And so for Baptisme Baptisme it is said John baptized in Jordan as if it had been known before though it were never heard of And the Disciples when they were to preach after the resurrection saith Christ Goe preach he that beleeves and is baptized shall be saved Go baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost and there was an end They might ask a hundred questions Shall we doe it in a River or in a Brook to young or to old in Winter or in Summer Who shall doe it and what shall his calling be and many such questions but Christ layes down the summe of the Doctrine and the end of it In the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost and there is no more of it And so for Offices Offices and Officers and Officers in the new Testament For Offices you have a lite or two of Pastors and Preachers and Deacons and two or three lines of his duty and this is all a briefe touch and there is an end Now doe you think that the Sonne of God in the new and glorious Testament would passe over these things out of carelesnesse Or did he slight it as if he cared not how it were done Might not he have made his Supper as curious as the Passeover and all those ordinances He might But to me there are many clear reasons why he left it so among the rest this is one that in the new Testament the Saints are not so strictly and so straitly bound as they of the old were But you will say Why Christ hath left the Saints now at more liberty How doth it appeare that it was so Why did Jesus Christ leave it thus Why did he not binde us hand and foot as they were There are these foure or sive reasons First this is one reason that the Apostle hath why Christ gave this liberty because they in the old Testament were Servants 1. The Saints under

as hard as to wash a Blackmore white Now this people being a customed foure thousand yeares to serve God with offerings and sacrifice and Temple and Jerusalem it was not easie to breake them of that custome Therefore the Lord Christ comes and when hee would set up his worship he speaks exceeding fairly of that outward worship because they had fed so long upon it that they doted As we at this day as they would make a curious outward worship as of old they wrung and wrested the Scripture to make it faire and delicate and curious as that that God would have of them But Christs designe being to set up a spirituall kingdome he shewes that as in the old Testament unlesse there were something internall the externall did not please God My soule abhorres your sacrifices c. So in the new Testament much more the Lord doth not regard outward worship at all without the inward and the inward is almost all that God looks after Therefore consider a few places of Scripture Gal. 5.6 There was great question about ceremonies and outward things saith the Apostle Neither circumcision availeth any thing or ununcircumcision but faith that worketh by love For in Christ Jesus saith he that is in the dayes of Christ in the new Testament neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails Externals to be looked to as for as God hath let them down but faith that worketh by love Talk not of outward things stand not so much upon them not but that the servants of God must look to externals as farre as God hath set them down but talk not so much of them but faith that worketh by love see there be that So in Gal. 6.15 the same words almost For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing or uncircumcision but a new creature In the time of Christ he lookes not whether men be circumcised or uncircumcised but whether they be new creatures So in 2 Cor. 5.17 there are the same words almost The Apostle poynts out unto us how much God in the time of the new Testament regards inward worship Therefore we see in Rom. 14. where there was great controversie concerning the eating of hearbs and the keeping of dayes Paul answers not directly but saith The kingdome of God is not in these things but in righteousnes and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost He would not have them strive about these things but goe to the inward worship see that there be righteousnes and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost so in Heb. 13. when there was clashing about these outward things It is a good thing saith he that the heart be stablished with grace And so in Timothy bodily excercise profitteth little but godlines is profitable for all things Therfore The designe of God being to set up a spirituall kingdome the work of grace in the heart that we might worship him in spirit the lord hath given more libertie and is more sparing in laying downe of externall worship Lastly this is another reason though I could give many more that the Gospell of Iesus Christ was to be preached to all nations they being different in customes in clymates in constitution The Gospel being to bee preached to different nations Christ ties them chiefly to that substance and dispositions Christ tied them in his law for the substance so left the rest to be by the spirit of God in his people to be determined according to the best advantage for the honour of God and the good of his people As for instance it is a hard thing to make a law for all England and for all the Counties and Townes that that should be good for one Countie that is for another and for one Towne that is for another But if a man were to make a law for Spaine and France and Italie and Turkie for all the world that are nations crosse and contrary one to another in their clymate and disposition that law that were good for one Kingdome would destroy another So here when Christ made lawes in the old Testament there was but one nation and a little nation and the Gospel was not to remove from that nation Therefore he comes to particulars but the Gospel now being to be preached to all nations he hath left a latitude for his people that they may apply the Gospel to all countries and nations for the glory of God and the good of his people As for instance Baptisme saith Christ Baptize all nations that is go and use water for their washing for whatever men find in the word I speak not of now go use water for a spirituall end to purge their bodies to signifie the purging of the soule If Christ had tied men to go into Jordan as in that countrie it was so hote they might goe with a great deale of comfort but if Christ had made Baptisme such an Ordinance as that in all Climates and Countries and Regions they must go over head and eares in a River we know in some climates it would have been present death As with us in this climate at some times of the yeare to be put over head and eares in the Thames it would be death at others not Therefore Christ layes down the substance and the end and by the Word of God and sound Preaching he left the rest for the Spirit of God in his people to apply Againe to instance in the Supper of the Lord The Lords Supper The Lord tooke bread and wine and blessed and broke and gave them and the drift of all the busines is to shew the breaking of his body and the shedding of his blood Now he hath bound us that we should break bread and drink wine that may represent the thing but he hath not bound us to bread so properly called or to wine properly so called for there are some countries that have neither bread nor wine but only rootes that they called bread and they have water for their drink Now if Christ had said it must be true bread and true and reall wine that must doe the deed these people could never have the Supper of the Lord Therefore the Gospel being not to be limitted to one countrie but to be spread to many nations Christ hath left a latitude for the conveniency of all nations So you have the Doctrine and the Reasons of it I should come to the Uses but I must leave them for another day ENCOURAGEMENT for sinners to come unto Christ 1 COR. 10.23 ALL things are LAWFULL for me but ALL things are not EXPEDIENT c. HAving opened these words to you the last day I observed these three Doctrines which by the help of God I shall speak of The first was this that There are many things that are lawfull to the Saints now under the new Testament that were not to them under the Old And the second was That of those many things that are lawfull to the Saints now there are but

that are godly of the Presbytery must reprove those men that are full of fire and fagot and nothing else rather reprove them then connive at them 5. The common multitude Fiftly and lastly and so to end for this time the last sort of people are the common superstitious multitude They exceedingly blow up the fire how They cry out of divisions there are so many Religions amongst us there is this religion and that and they are all for conformity and O that the Synod would settle some government they care not what if it be Rome it self and it is dishonourable that we should have divisions and stirres among us Thus the blinde multitude cry whereas it is better to have division than an evil uniformitie It is true the time will come that all shall be of one heart and one way but it hath never yet been There were abundance of differences in the Apostles times in the first Churches between the Jewes and Gentiles and they were alway wrangling about blood and about the Law and Geneallogies yet they were the Churches of God deare to the Lord. So I say every little difference and discent makes not a new religion No opinions are profitable in a sort in the Churches that some should discent from others sometimes Therefore for the multitude to conclude this use labour to appease the multitude the multitude are ignorant labour to instruct and teach them Presbytery and Independency are not two religions but one religion to a godly honest heart it is only a little rufling of the fringe therefore make not the breach wider and blow not the fire more The Lord give you and me every one of us wherein by any of these sorts of people we finde our selves guilty to endeavour to reforme and to follow the things that concerne our peace that however our enemies will not receive termes of peace yet we may be at peace among our selves which the Lord grant The vvay to peace in a mans selfe 1 CORINTHIANS 10.23 All things are lawfull for me but all things are not exdient THe last lesson from these words was this That a Christian under the New-Testament ought not only to eye what is lawfull what is absolutely commanded or forbidden but to eye also what is expedient and what is inexpedient what is convenient and what is inconvenient what edifies and what edifies not We opened this to you and came to a Use where we are at this time to exhort you that this may sinke into your hearts to wit that you would not make lawes to your selves in the New-Testament where Christ hath not bound you and where Christ hath left you free and hath not determined things Secondly I exhorted you that you would be carefull and vigilant and wise to take notice in all things what is expedient and to doe the same and to presse it on you we proposed one Motive to you which was the maine drift of all the discourse we intend upon this Scripture to wit that this is the ready way of peace and to end strife and contention among the Saints Now how that is I have opened to you as I was able and so finished it this morning Now to set it on a little more upon your souls not to repeate any thing there are two or three words more that might stir you up Consider it for I know it is a harsh truth to many of your eares I feare you have many prejudices against it but I beseech you consider it well it is of great consequence it is one of the master stones in your foundation I mean in your walking and conversation towards men at least I say therefore I will add certaine motives more and as the first was the way to peace among the Saints to end controversies that are among them Motive 2. The way to peace in a mans self So secondly it is a way to peace a way to end the controversies of a Christian with himself For Beloved I dare say and I am able to make it good and have known it by experience in other Saints that the most of your guilt and the most of your trouble that is within you most of the guilt on Christians it ariseth not from doing of things simply sinfull or neglecting things simply commanded but from some disorderly doing of lawful things and that is two wayes 1. Doing lawfull things with commō hearts Either that you doe lawfull things as eating and drinking and sleeping and divers other things with common hearts and eye not God in the doing of them you doe them in a carnall fashion without holines for we must be holy in all manner of conversation You are not holy when you are eating you have not a holy frame of soule when you are sleeping therefore your sleep and your meat and such like things they produce a world of guilt and trouble you doe them with common hearts as the Pharisees said the Disciples eat with common hands 2. Doing lawfull things inexpediently Or else secondly it is from doing lawfull things inexpediently you eye not what is expedient Meat and drink and sleep and talking and walking and cloathes and recreations they are lawfull but in all these you look not what is expedient And I mean not only Beloved those civill things that I named to you but also in religious things wherein God hath not determined you make laws to your selves and then you faile in keeping of those lawes as usually when God sees men make lawes to themselves let them keep them themselves if they will it is just with God not to give power to keep lawes that are not of his own making God will not give strength to keep lawes that hee hath not made God will not help you you make lawes I say and you have no strength to keep them and then there ariseth a world of guilt and trouble As thus God commands us to pray alway to be earnest in prayer to read the word to teach our children to help our neighbours to doe good to their souls and bodies Now you have made a law that you will pray in your family so oft and pray privately so oft and read so many Chapters a day and keep so many dayes of humiliation once a week or so here is a law of your own making I say not but it is expedient to do so sometimes and many times but you make it an absolute law that when God comes and calls you to another thing contrary to your law Trouble of conscience in Christians whence then there is nothing but guilt and horrour on your soules As for instance you make a law that you will pray twice before you goe forth every morning privately and in your familyes and it is a good course if things be according because you are bound to pray alwayes but you make an absolute law and there comes another busines of greater weight you have prayed once and

and Preach the Gospel to the end of the world And then you know the Gospel tells us that he went up into heaven 9. Ascended into heaven and from heaven as soone as he came there he sent his holy Spirit to us to unite us to Christ to be our Intelligencer to make known the heart of Christ to us to lead us into all truth to comfort us in all distresses and to make intercession in us till we come to heaven where he is And the Gospel tells us this good newes that when he went to heaven he made way for poore sinners to come there 10. Intercedes for us and that there he intercedes for us and there succours us and pities us when we are in the flesh as he was once Then the Gospel tells us that in due time he will come againe from heaven as he went 11. shall come to judgement and bring a Crowne with him and actually subdue all his peoples enemies and give them the same glory that he hath and they shall be one with God for ever as he is he will come and take poore sinners to himselfe that they shall be where he is and as he is world without end The Gospel tells you moreover that all this love 12. Gods Covenant and grace and mercy and salvation by Jesus Christ here and in Heaven it is all made sure to us by an everlasting Covenant sure perfect in every point as David saith And this Covenant is sealed with the blood of the Testator the Lord Jesus that it might be sure and he hath also sent Pastors and Teachers to make known this Gospel and he hath given the seale of the Lords Supper and Baptisme to confirme this Gospel Put all together and from the first to the last you shall not finde in the Ministery of the Gospel if it be truely and soundly opened any sillable but what is wholesome and comfortable and sweet and glad tidings to the worst sinners Only to cleare it more fully to you there are some objections that you may make for Beloved it were a happy thing if we did fully understand this Lesson and fully believe it therefore that it may sink into your hearts I will tell you all that I know can be said against it One objection is you will say Object Concerning outward things the Ministery of the Gospel is not so very good because we poore sinners doe not heare any thing in it for the body we doe not heare any thing in it of honour and wealth we see people as poor after they receive Christ as ever they were and it may be poorer and if God did mingle in the Gospel earthly things with heavenly than it were good newes worth the hearing Beloved concerning that I answer but in two words Answ All the happinesse of this world consists either in honour or wealth As for honour if you believe in God if you receive Jesus Christ the Gospel brings you tidings that whereas now you are poore people that no body cares for you shall be Kings and Queens as Christ is a King so you shall be Kings and his daughters shall be Queenes Psalme 45. Nay you shall be Princes in all Lands You know earthly Kings are but Princes in their severall Kingdomes as the King of Spaine and the King of England c. But the Saints for honour are Princes in all Lands Psal 149. They shall binde Kings in Chaines and Nobles in fetters of Iron such honour have all his Saints You must look on it beloved with a spirituall eye And if there be any reallitie in that that they call honour this is not a notion but there is more reallitie in spirituall honour than in Carnall Spirituall honour reall Take carnall men that call you honourable and worshipfull and the like you know all these are but words and a puffe of winde when they are present but they are hatefull and hate one another when they are gone as the Apostle saith But if a man receive Christ in the Ministery of the Gospel there is true honour that is such a man will be respected in the hearts of others not only in the eyes of God and godly men but in the hearts of the wicked for in their hearts they will say such a man is an honourable man such a woman is an honourable woman they will not do any thing against their consciences and disobey Christ they had rather die Beloved there is more realitie in this honour you shall be Princes and Kings and Queenes Angels waite on the Saints And then you shall have innumerable companies of Angels you shall be in as glorious a condition as they and somewhat better you shall have them to waite on you You consider not this because you settle not your selves to search spirituall priviledges you shall have an innumerable company of Angels to waite on you that is better than to be Lords and Earles that have an innumerable company of Swearers and drunkards and whoremongers for their serving men that it were a great deale more ease if they could spare them to be without them but you shall have a company of Saints and Angels to waite on you Saints right to outward things And though the Gospel tell you not of outward riches for Christ himselfe saith The foxes have holes and the foules of the aire have nests but the Son of Man hath not whereon to lay his head Yet the Gospel tells you that you have so much title to wordly things that Godlinesse hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come And that God will be a Sun and a shield to those that feare him and he will withhold from them nothing that is good Is not that tidings enough of riches and wealth when God will withhold nothing that is good God will give food and raiment they have it by promise wicked men have it by providence as the doggs and fowles have it Therefore for all that objection this truth runs cleare Object The Gospel brings persecutions But secondly another will say the Gospel indeed brings tidings of Christ and salvation but it brings tidings also of afflictions and persecutions the Gospel saith Whosoever will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution And Christ saith I come not to bring peace but a sword I come to set the father against the sonne and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against her mother and saith the carnall heart I like not this newes I love to be at peace with God and all the world as their phrase is Concerning that Ans 1 they are priviledges though it be true that the Gospel brings afflictions yet it is true the Gospel tells you that these sufferings of yours In the first place they are priviledges the Gospel tells you it is a peice of your happinesse to have them 1 Cor. 3.