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A54843	The law and equity of the gospel, or, The goodness of our Lord as a legislator delivered first from the pulpit in two plain sermons, and now repeated from the press with others tending to the same end ... by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1686 (1686)	Wing P2185; ESTC R38205	304,742	736

the strength of Sin is the Law 1 Cor. 15. 56. The Law does thunder out a Curse as well as a Rigid Obligation the one from Mount Ebal as well as the other from Mount Sinai upon every Soul of man who shall but fail in the least Iota For it is written saith St. Paul who only saith it out of the Law Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them Or to consider it yet more distinctly admit Aeternal Life had been expected from the Law by this Inquirer yet sure it may sooner be ask't than answer'd To which of the Laws he should have had recourse for it Certainly not to the Ceremonial for That was but a shadow of things to come whereof the Body is Christ Coloss. 2. 17. The very Sacrifice of the Law was not able to expiate but only to commemorate the Peoples Sins Heb. 10. 3. Therefore in vain would he have sought to the Ceremonial Law And as vainly to the Iudicial For that was a Politick Constitution peculiar only to the Iews and reaching no farther than to a Civil Iurisdiction Much less yet could he seek to the Moral Law of Moses for Life Eternal For the Moral Law exacted so Universal an obedience and also denounced so great a Curse as I said before on the least omission that he could look for nothing thence but the justest matter of Despair For first our Nature is so corrupt and our Persons so much corrupter since our having found out many Inventions that if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the Truth is not in us 1 John 1. 8. And secondly if Righteousness come by the Law then is Christ dead in vain Gal. 2. 21. What then remain'd to this inquisitive Iew but that the Law should be his Schoolmaster to bring him unto Christ Gal. 3. 24. The Law being adapted by the infinite Wisdom of God's oeconomy either to lead or to drive him thither For requiring more from him than he was able to perform and yet denouncing a Curse on his Non-Performance it could not but make him stand affrighted at the ugly Condition he was in I mean his desperate Impossibility of ever attaining to Life Eternal by the meer perfection of his obedience Hence he saw it concern'd him to seek somewhere else He found it clear by Demonstration and by the woful Demonstration of sad Experience he stood in need of a Saviour and of such a Saviour too as might deliver him from the Curse and from the Rigour of the Law by being made both a Curse and a Ransom for him Again he saw both by the Doctrins and by the Miracles of Christ that He was most likely to be That Saviour to wit a Saviour from whom he was to look for such a Clue as might be able to conduct him out of the Labyrinth he was in And therefore just as this Saviour was gone forth into the way This kind of Neophyte in my Text came running to him and asked him meekly kneeling upon his Knees Good Master what shall I do that I may inherit Eternal Life Now if Christ was His Oracle who only liv'd under the Law How much more must he be ours who were born and bred under the Gospel Shall men of our Dignity and Profession of our Proficiency and Growth in the School of Christ an holy Generation a Royal Priesthood a Peculiar People shall such as We go in Inquest of Life Eternal to such deceivable Oracles as either Zuinglius or Calvin Piscator or Erastus or Iohn of Leyden to the Sepulchres of Martyrs to the Discipline of Monasteries to daily Ave Maries and Masses to Papal Indulgences or Bulls or to the outward Scarrifications and Buffettings of the Flesh shall we lean upon such Reeds as will but run through our Elbows or shall we inlighten our selves by Candles when behold the Sun of Righteousness is long since Risen in our Horizon or to fly for Refuge to the Saints when behold a Saviour Christ is called very fitly the Sun of Righteousness Mal. 4. 2. to whom the Apostles are but as Stars in the Firmament of the Gospel which only shine forth with a borrowed light and have no other brightness than what He lends them Now all the Stars in the Firmament cannot make up one Sun or afford us one Day without his Presence Just so All the learned and the good men on Earth All the Angels Saints in Heaven cannot make up one Saviour or but light us the way to Eternal Life without the Influence and Lustre of Jesus Christ. Iairus a Ruler of the Synagogue a man that wanted no worldly means whereby to Cure his only Daughter did yet despair of her Recovery until he fell down at the Feet of Christ Luke 8. 41. And so the Woman who had been sick of a bloody Flux no less than twelve years together and had spent all she had in Physicians Fees was not the better but the worse until she crowded towards Christ and touch't the Hemm of his Garment Luke 8. 43. That we are every one sick of a bloody Flux too appears by our scarlet and crimson Sins Which Flux and Fountain of our Sins can never possibly be cur'd unless by Him who is the Fountain for Sin and for Uncleanness Zach. 13. 1. For as Red wine is good for a bloody Flux in the Body so is That which gushed out of our Saviour's Body who called himself The True Vine the only Good thing for this Disease in the Soul And of this Wine we drink in the Cup of Blessing which we Bless in the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. To him alone must we fly as to the Physician of our Souls who saith to us under the Gospel as once to Israel under the Law I am the Lord God that healeth thee Exod 15. 26. He alone saith St. Peter is the Head-stone of the Corner nor is there Salvation in any other Acts 4. 11 12. It pleased the Father that in him should all Fulness dwell Coloss. 1. 19 And of his Fulness have all we received Grace for Grace John 1. 16. All things necessary to life and to life Eternal are delivered to him of the Father Matth. 11. 27. And this 't will be easy out of Scripture for I am speaking to Believers I should not else produce a Text to make apparent by an Induction For first if we are hungry He alone is the Bread of Life which whoso eateth shall live for ever John 6. 58. Next if we are thirsty He alone is the living Water which whoso drinketh shall never thirst John 4. 13. Thirdly if we are foul He alone has that Blood by which we may be cleansed from all our Sins 1 John 1. 7. Fourthly if we are foolish He is the Wisdom of the Father who hath laid up in Him all the Treasures of Knowledge Coloss. 2. 3. He is Doctor Catholicus and only He.

his Hook with worldly Greatness that whilst we catch at the one we may be caught with the other and like silly Fishes indeed may greedily swallow our own Destruction § 3. Thus the Things which we call the Gifts of Satan we find by experience we do but call so They are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gifts and no Gifts Munera inescata Baits of Bounty Such a Condition is interpos'd betwixt the Proffer and the Performance as makes the Donative far worse than Nothing His Condition does evacuate and null his Offer For what he said unto our Saviour without a Proxy he saith by his Instruments to each of us All these things will I give thee if falling down thou wilt worship me Which is as much as to say all shall be thine with this Proviso that thou wilt take a sure Course to be no whit the better but much the worse for their Injoyment Thou shalt be Rich at this present if for the future thou wilt be ruin'd Thou shalt have all the World at will but thou shalt have it upon Condition that thou turn Idolater and be damn'd And what is this better than to say I will give Thee very freely a great Estate upon Condition thou wilt pay me a thousand times more than it is worth and also make thy self incapable of its Injoyment I will shew thee the ready way not to Liberty only but Empire upon Condition thou wilt serve me and be a Slave I will lift thee up if thou wilt cast thy self down Thus does the Devil speak Contradictions And the Proviso with which he proffers does make the proffer of none effect Like those Beasts in the Apologue which offer'd the Lyon to be their King if he would but permit them to cut his Claws They would admit Him to Reign and to triumph over them if he would do them the favour to disable himself for the Preferment Thus the Devil either presents us with empty Proffers rather than Gifts with flattering Hopes not true Possessions or if He really indows us he does it only to our undoing If he helps us to Wit 't is that we may wickedly lay it out in speaking jestingly of Scripture and merrily drolling upon Religion to make Men laugh If he helps us to Beauty it is to raise up Self-love that we may use it like wanton Iezebel for a Snare and a Temptation and that to divers most foolish and hurtful Lusts which drown the Soul in Misery and Perdition If to Secular Greatness it is to betray us to Self-Relyance and break our Necks from that Ladder by which we mounted If he helps us with Mony by any means it is but just as old Gamesters do lend their cash to young Heirs that they may lose it with them at play Or as Harlots lend Mony unto their prodigal Gallants that when they have spent it upon their Lusts They with whom they have spent it may Sue the Bond. Or as some supply Madmen with Knives and Halters that either they may strangle or stab themselves How sweet soever the Gifts of Satan may seem to be at the beginning yet their end and designment is still as bitter as Destruction When he carried up our Saviour unto a Pinnacle of the Temple an high Preferment v. 5. it was to this end that he might cast himself headlong v. 6. When he took him up again unto a very high Mountain v. 8. it was to this end that he might presently fall down v. 9. Just as when an Eagle has found an Oyster he takes it up into the Clouds that he may give it by so much the greater fall and that by breaking the Shell he may eat the Fish In a word we may resemble the Gifts of Satan to the monstrous Locusts from out the bottomless Pit which though they had on their Heads as it were Crowns of Gold and Faces like those of Men and goodly Hair like that of Women yet their Teeth all the while were as the Teeth of Lyons and the Stings in their Tails like those of Scorpions § 4. Mark now the Lessons which This does teach us First it teacheth us to beware of the treacherous Bounty of all our Tempters whether those Tempters are Men or Devils Whose very profusest Liberality is an effect of base Avarice and who do therefore only give because they covet If the Men of the Sanedrim do offer Iudas a Sum of Mony it is not out of any good-will to Iudas for they that most love the Treason do hate the Traitor but because they do covet the Blood of Christ. They were not true and real Givers of their Thirty pieces of Silver but only parted with them to Iudas to buy his Loyalty that having once sold That he might sell his Lord too Again after this they gave large mony unto the Souldiers whom they had set on full purpose to watch the Sepulcher of Christ. Yet did they not do it in generosity or with any design of the Soldiers good but only brib'd them to tell a Lye To wit that whilst they were sleeping Christ was stoln out of his Grave Queen Iezebel no doubt did send a Present very considerable to the two Sons of Belial but it does not thence follow that she was liberally-minded for she only meant to hire them to bear false witness and thereby to requite her with Naboth's Vineyard So we know that Simon Magus was very free of his Mony but 't was to buy the famous Gift of the Holy Ghost and this to the end that he might sell it to whomsoever he should please We must be therefore very wary when any offers are made us by any Emissaries of Satan both what is offer'd and by whom and to what Intent it is directed We must beware of their offers who shall offer us That which is none of Theirs as the Devil here did and we must mark the Condition on which the offer is made As whether it is not to ingage us in Schism or Sacrilege whether it is not to make us Partners in any Conspiracy or Faction that we may worship and fall down to something else besides God Suppose a Man shall take thee up whosoever thou art who now dost read what I am writing unto some Pinnacle of the Temple or some exceeding high Mountain and shall discover to thee from thence some very excellent Seat which is none of his to wit a noble Pile of Building with a great deal of Land round about it beautiful Gardens and Fish-ponds and as well wooded as thou canst wish and shall say unto thee as Satan here unto our Saviour All this will I give thee or thou shalt have it for a Song thou shalt not pay above half the value if thou wilt promise me to keep out the proper Owner What wilt thou do in such a Case If thou acceptest of the proffer thou dost rebel against God and worship Satan For if thou dost but covet