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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02611	Tvvo sermons preached before the Kings most excellent Maiesty in the church of Beauly in Hampshire The first, the last of August. The second, the 9. of August. By Christopher Hampton Doctor of Diuinitie.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1609 (1609)	STC 12740; ESTC S103819	27,099	54

TWO SERMONS PREACHED BEfore the Kings most excellent Maiesty in the Church of BEAVLY in Hampshire The first the last of August The second the 9. of August BY CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed for Edward VVhite dwelling at the little North doore of Pauls at the signe of the gunne 1609. To the right honourable Henrie Earle of SOVTHAMPTON Baron of TICHEFIELD Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter and Gouernour of the Isle of WIGHT BEhold right honourable the Sermons now published which were pronounced by your Lordships appointment in a very sacred presence The gratious allowance which then they receiued from a royall diuine giueth me hope that they will not be vnwelcome to the Church entertaining all meditations with facilitie that aduance Christ her Bridegroome Patron and delight What was intended in them to this purpose he knoweth best that knoweth all things If any thing be attained that shall alwaies be ascribed thankfully to his goodnesse and submitted willingly to her censure With this obedience I haue determined to liue and desire to die In the meane time they come abroad vnder the passe also of your Lordships authoritie as of my honourable Magistrate Were they iust volumes and of any great request your Lordship were more than worthy of them for that heroiacall zeale wherewith you haue adorned our little Sarepta Now making scarse a pamphlet they are the lesse worthy of a noble patron But I haue had true experience that your Lordship accepteth the poore indeuours of our ministerie aboue their worth Therefore recommending them to your Lordships good fauour and your Lordship to the riches of Gods blessing I take my leaue with reuerence and will rest Your Lordships most affectionately deuoted CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON A SERMON PREAched before the King at BEAVLIE in Hampshire ROM 10.4 Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to euery one that beleeueth IT is not vnknowen vnto you that the Doctrine of free iustification is the principall subiect and matter of this Epistle The Iewes whom the Apostle spake of in the beginning of the Chapter were afraid to come to this righteousnesse of Christ lest they should be iniurious to the Law and offend God that had commanded it so seriously to the Fathers The Apostle answereth that this their feare proceeded from ignorance of Gods righteousnesse and their owne Law and addeth a reason in these words of my Text For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to euery one that beleeueth Quicquid est veteris Testamenti Christum sonat All the Old Testament as Augustine saies sounds of Christ The Ceremonies are nothing but figures of him he is the kernell of the promise they are all in him Yea and Amen and without him no promise hath accomplishment He is the life and soule and perfection and end of all the Commandements And therefore hee that hath Christ and holdeth him by faith hath all that the Law requireth in precepts offreth in promises and shadoweth out in types and figures The points in this text are considerable 1 The prerogatiue that Christ hath aboue the Law he is the end of the Law 2 The benefit thereof for righteousnesse 3 To whom this benefit perteines to euerie one that beleeueth Excellent things are spoken of the Law If thou wilt enter into euerlasting life saith Christ vnto a Lawyer keepe the Commandements So saith Moses Behold this shall be our righteousnesse before the Lord our God If we take heed to all these Commandements to doe them Whereby wee may perceiue that faire and large promises are annexed to the Law What is fairer than righteousnesse What larger than euerlasting life But they are conditionall and not absolute Si potes dicere Feci quod iussisti potes itidem dicere Redde quod promisisti If thou canst say I haue done that which thou commandest thou maist well say Giue me that thou promisest On the other side if the Law be not obserued and that exquisitely too the threats thereof are all as terrible Cursed is euery one that abideth not in all that is written in the Law to doe them Hard conditions of doing and doing all And if you please that wee shall enter into the question whether wee can performe the Law or not Paul answereth that it is a matter not of difficulties for that might be compassed with endeuour but of impossibilitie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which was impossible for the Law to doe And hee giueth a reason thereof in the former chapter The Law is spirituall and I am carnall Now these two be contraries For the flesh euermore lusteth against the spirit witnesse the same Apostle not in words onely but in true experience also For hee felt a Law in his members rebelling against the Law of God and leading him captiue When this elect Vessell and great Apostle after he was regenerate for the vnregenerate feele no such strife found this long distance betweene the Law and his owne affections and such defects that for horrour thereof he cried our O miserable man that I am may wee attend any good performance or complement of the Law in others Steuen challengeth the whole Nation of the Iewes You haue receiued the Law and haue not kept it His words carry the strength and sinewes of an argument That which is not kept cannot iustifie But you haue not kept the Law therefore what boast soeuer you doe make thereof that you receiued it from GOD that it was published by Angels and giuen to the Fathers yet doth it not iustifie it giues you no prerogatiue They could not answer this with reason and therefore fell into passion and outrage the text saith When they heard these things their hearts burst asunder and they gnashed vpon him with their teeth Manifest euidence of conuiction Peter calleth the keeping of the Law an importable yoke and contesteth against those which vrged the performance thereof for iustification that they laid a taske vpon the necks of their brethren which neither they nor their fathers were able to beare If the Law could be performed why doth Peter call it an importable yoke If it cannot bee performed why is righteousnesse sought or placed in it For it is not the hearing or hauing but the doing of the Law that iustifieth Sinne as Iohn defineth it is a transgression of the Law And doe not all men sinne It were a sinne for any man to say he hath no sinne and if we confesse our sinnes what do we confesse but that we are transgressors and not performers of the Law Shall we put the matter to a triall and let all the saints in heauen and earth passe vpon the Iurie O Lord let them bee demanded heere in thy presence if it were by their workes or fulfilling of the Law that they were iustified Haue they not all with one voice returned their verdict Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the praise for thy louing mercy and