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A36446	Theanthrōpos or The great mysterie of godlines opened by way of antidote against the great mysterie of iniquity, (now awork in the Romish Church.) In a sound and seasonable treatise; wherein 1. The incarnation of the Son of God (and evangelicall love, wisdome, humility, &c. expressed in that contrivance) is fully explicated and displayed. 2. Ceremonies in poynt of divine worship are concluded to be by Christ (the true Messiah) abrogated; and examined whether they are not since Christ, Jewish-anti-Christian; where the Jew and Judaizing Christian are deservedly taxed. 3. Christian liberty with its VIII steps and V boundaries, is modestly and briefly asserted; and many other matters of consequence and moment are imparted; but now published for vindication of the truth and its assertor. By Thomas Douglas, M.A. minister of the Gospel at Olaves-Silverstreet, in London.	Douglas, Thomas, fl. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing D2040; ESTC R212841	54,580	83

Man that I am What will become of me Where shall I dwell for ever Who shall be my companions to all eternity Damned Spirits or the Spirits of just men made perfect Such terrors and fears are as it were a Preface and Introduction to hell Now Redeemed ones are free from those Legal terrors and in stead of a Spirit of bondage they are possessed of the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father And this is that which breeds comfort in life and confidence at death in the children of God 7. The seventh is Exemption from the Ceremonial and Judicial Lawes of Moses That Unsupportable Yoke which neither the modern Jews nor their fathers were able to bear Acts 15. 10. This freedom and Immunity are we in a more especial manner to understand by Redemption in the Text. The Jewish Church like an Heir during his minority was subject to a Pedagogie viz. the Ceremonial and Judicial Laws of Moses in which respect the state of the Jewes seemed to be a servile-state but when the fulness of the time was come even the time of the Churches maturity and riper age God sent forth his Son made of a woman to redeem his Church from that bondage and servitude There were three Laws committed to the Jewes viz. The 1. Moral 2. Ceremonial 3. Judicial The Moral Law was ordained to be a standing and Unalterable Rule of Life and Obedience both to the Jewish and Christian Church The Ceremonial and Judicial Lawes were Appendices of the Moral Law The Ceremonial of the first Table determining the particulars of that Worship which was peculiar to the Church of the Jewes The Judicial of the second Table determining the particulars of that Policy which was peculiar to the Common-wealth of the Jewes So that the Ceremonial contained the Ecclesiastical Lawes of that Church and did respect God The Judicial the Civil Lawes of that Commonwealth and did respect their Neighbour Now Christ did in the fulness of the time redeem his Church both from the Ceremonial and Judicial Laws as a * Gal. 5. 1. yoke of bondage imposed not upon the necks but even upon the Consciences of the Jewes binding them to a strict and accurate observation of the same As touching the Judicial and Civil Law What things soever contained therein were communis juris of common Equity and had a foundation in the Law of Nature and might be enforced by the Law Moral are still Obligatory to Christians But what was peculiar to the constitution of the Judaical Policy and are not enforceable by any common Right but were the particular positive Laws of the Jewes do not more binde Christians then any other Municipal Law For Christ destroying the Jewish Commonwealth their Temple and City according to the Prophesie of Daniel chap. 9. v. 26 27. did withall abrogate and destroy the whole Jewish Policy and Lawes And thus it is said The Priesthood namely of Aaron being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law namely of Moses Heb. 7. 12. As touching the Ceremonial and Ecclesiastical Law That together with the Judicial Law might be condered in a fourfold respect as is evident from Scripture viz. as 1. A Badge of distinction between the Jewes and all other Nations Gen. 17. 13 14. 2. A Ratified signe of Guilt Col. 2. 14. 3. A Typical Adumbration of Christ and his Benefits Heb. 9. 9 10. 4. A Tutor and Schoolmaster to the Infant-Church Gal. 4. 1 2 3. Now The Christian Church is freed from the Ceremonial as from the Judicial Law in all these respects For 1. Christ hath broken down the middle-wall of partition between Jewes and Gentiles c. Eph. 2. 14 15. 2. Christ hath abolished and taken out of the way the hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us c. Col. 2. 14. 3. Christ the Typified Body of Levitical shaddows and Adumbrations Col. 2. 17. is come 4. When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman c. to redeem them that were under the Law his Church from a Mosaical Pedagogie and Elements Gal. 4. 4 5. Then 1. The Ceremonies are not things Indifferent in the Christian Church They were abrogated by the Son of God whose designe in coming in the flesh was to redeem his Church from that Legal Yoke so that to obtrude them upon the Gospel-Church were to frustrate Christians of one great End of the Incarnation and to infringe their Christian Liberty O! How sad is it when men pursue Iniquities for Indifferencies Ergo c. * Do Cas Cons lib. 4. cap. 11. Cas 3. Baldwin in his Cases of Conscience hath a passage which I cannot omit Charles the fifth caused a wretched book called INTERIM to be published wherein yeilding to the Cross Surplice Holy-dayes and other Ceremonies was enjoyned conformity thereunto being much urged by some furious Zelots who pleaded the Emperours Commandment in a thing Indifferent the non-conforming Protestants replyed That the Question was not about a thing Indifferent c. The same Reply might we make to those that urge the Ceremonies as Indifferent things How can those be said to be things Indifferent which Christ hath abolished From which he hath Redeemed his Church 2. How impudent is the Church of Rome in burthening Christians with a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were ever able to bear namely a heap of superfluous yea ridiculous yea impious and Antichristian Ceremonies But Sunt pompae istae omnes Ceremoniae Papisticae nihil aliud quam furi meretricii ad hoc excogitati ut homines ad spiritualem scortationem alliciantur Zanchy ad Regin Elizab. Epistol lib. 1. pag. 112. this is like her Though they are a burthen to the better sort of Christians yet they are a part of her Whorish paint whereby she endeavours to allure Christians to partake of the cup of her Fornications 3. The Ceremonies of the Jewish imposed upon the Christian Church were an Antichristian yoke What insolent Tyrannie is it then in the Romish Church to obtrude old Rotten Ceremonies together with a monstrous heap of her own cursed hatching upon Christians I pray God professed Protestants take not pattern by her its sufficient proof that she is Antichristian and that THE MYSTERIE OF INIQUITY is at 2 Thess 2. 7. work there By reason of such execrable Tyrannie the case of Christians I speak it with much regret is abundantly more sad and their condition more servile then was that of the Jewes O what pity is that Observe 1. The Ceremonies were imposed upon the Jewish by God himself They are imposed upon the Christian Church by Men like our selves There the Jews were the servants of God Here Christians are made * 1 Cor. 7. 23. the servants of Men. Nay 2. The Jewish was an Infant-Church the Christian is a ripe and Adult-Church The Jewish-Church was like an Heir under Age and more servile The Christian-Church is like an