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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42733	An assize sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Glyn and Mr. Serjeant Earle, judges of Assize at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, July the 2d, 1657 / by Thomas Gilbert ...	Gilbert, Thomas, 1613-1694.	1657 (1657)	Wing G719; ESTC R18734	21,943	35

AN ASSIZE SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice GLYN and Mr Serjeant EARLE Judges of Assize at Bridgnorth in Shropshire July the 2d 1657. By Thomas Gilbert Minister of the Gospel at Edgmond in that County LONDON Printed by A. M. for Francis Tyton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street 1657. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Chief Justice GLYN Right Honourable THis pains which another call'd to the Pulpit your Honour hath commanded to the Press I would hope but to a second Impression of it the first being in your own and others hearts Your attention spake your affection to it in the preaching your judgment of it so much above mine own will be Apologie sufficient for the Printing in this almost as much Printing as Scribling age and your Authority commanding it the Pr●ss hath even therein engag'd for the Patronage of it printed I promise my self also the third Impression in the whole course of Judicature at the stern whereof your Honour sits Lord Chief Justice hearing and I am perswaded deservedly The best Book-man of the Nation and knownly no less exquisitely able in the disquisition of a Cause then in the knowledg of the Rule Now if your Honour either already did not or did not still resolve with this either Ability to answer your Trust and make good your Style you would not have desir'd the light of this Sermon also to stare you in the face Nor may this Sermon have its use onely with your Lordship in this your so Honourable Publick station but more especially in your private Christian cap●city as your Remembran●er in all often to lay your self to the line of that Law of Liberty by which Publick Judges as well as private Christians must be judg'd That the Lord would follow it with his Blessing both Preach'd and Printed to some measure of usefullness both to your Honour and others is the prayer of Right Honourable Your Honours most humble Remembrancer at the Throne of Grace THOMAS GILBERT TO THE WORSHIPFULL EDMVND WARING Esq High Sheriff of the County of SALOP and Captain of the County-Troop Truly Honour'd Sir THis Sermon is not bec●me less Yours for becoming so much Anothers Nor will that Honourable Person grudg You a part in the Dedication from whom the whole had its Rise Its appearance in another Dress doth no more vary the Case than a Servants changing his cloathes changeth his Relation to his Master You have in your single Hand a two-fold POSSE both Civil and Military of this County an Interest in it above both and I think for your time above any Gentlemans of your Rank in any County of England You have received all from the Supreme Lord and must render an account of all to the Supreme Judg held forth in this Sermon Which that you may doe with Joy and not with Grief when judg'd by the Law of Liberty is the Prayer of Truly Honour'd Sir Your Friend and Chaplain THOMAS GILBERT AN ASSIZE SERMON JAMES IId VER. XIIth So Speak Ye and so Do as they that shall be judged by the Law of Liberty THE NINE first Verses of this Chapter mine Apostle bestow's in reproving those he writeth to for and dehorting them from their sinfull respect of Persons and after sundry Arguments to that purpose manag'd and an emergent Objection in the tenth and eleventh Verses by way of Prolepsis or Anticipation answered he layeth in a most powerfull Argument in my Text as especially against the fore-mentioned so generally against all sinfull and for all gracious behaviour the most free and impartial Judgment they were to expect from God according to his most free and impartial Law So Speak Ye and so Do c. In the words you have 1. A two-fold Act 1. Obedience 2. Judgment 2. A two-fold Agent 1. Man of the Act of Obedience expressed YE 2. God of the Act of Judgment implied in both the Act and Rule of Judgment 3. Mans Act of Obedience commanded and that in two Particulars 1. Words Speak 2. Works Do. And these two us'd by a Synecdoche of some Specials for the whole general of Obedience Thoughts too here to be understood as Ver. 4th expressed 4. As mans Obedience commanded so Gods Judgment foretold shall be Judged 5. Gods Judgment foretold in form of a Motive to mans Obedience commanded in form of an Exhortation So Speak and so Do as they that shall be judged 6. One and the same Rule both of Mans Act of Obedience and Gods Act of Judgment THE LAW OF LIBERTY Which Phrase only is of necessity to be explain'd {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by a common Hebraism for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Law of freedom for the free Law as to name no more examples Eph 4.24 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Holiness of truth for true holiness Now where the Genitive of the Substantive is by such an Hebraism used for an Adjective of quality it is to express the ●minent measure of the quality and accordingly ye have in the fi●st Chapter Vers. 25th of this Epistle this same Phrase by this same Apostle thus fil'd up The perfect Law of Liberty or Freedom for the Law of perfect Freedom or the perfectly free Law A Law so free that nothing is wanting to the freedom of it So that here the Law of Liberty or freedom is as much as the most free Law most free from all partial by-respects censur'd in the Context A most free and impartial Rule of mans Obedience commanding Obedience and forbidding disobedience of one kind as well as another to one person as well as another and a most free and impartial Rule of Gods Judgment of all persons whomsoever according to whatsoever their obedience or disobedience This Interpretation however Commentators vary the Phrase it self scope and context the best Rule of expounding necessarily bespeak So that now the whole amounts to thus much Be you sure in your Obedience to conform to the Impartial Law of God For God will be sure to conform to it in his judgment of you And passing t●e several Observations the severals of this Text would furnish out The Doctrine that taketh in the main strength of the whole and therefore deserveth to be insisted on is this The same Law of God is the Rule of Mans obedience and of Gods Judgment This I shall first prove by Scripture and then answer some Quere● for the better clearing of it For S●ripture-proof take one out of the Old T●stament Isaiah 33.22 The Lord is our Judg the Lord is our Lawgi●●r As Judg he observes the same Law for the Rule of his judgment which as Lawgiver he appoints the Rule of mans obedience Out of the New Testament two or three Proofs Joh. 12 48. The Word that I have spoken viz. as a Rule of obedience now THE SAME shall judg him viz. as a Rule