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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

sadly attended with the depriving of so great rewards and inflicting of so great punishments we would have obeyed when the Promises and threatnings are as clear in the same Law of God as the Precepts and Prohibi●ions 3. Because as man cannot obey or disobey God but in relation to a Law so neither can God judg man obeying or disobeying but in relation to a Law As man as before you heard might have been subject to God as supreme Lord not obedient to him as Rectour without Law so proportionably God as supreme Lord could have disposed of He could not as Rectour judg man without Law nor judg him according to any other Law than what 's the Rule of his obedience For this would be no more judiciary then but as much arbitrary as the other The Point now sufficiently clear'd and confirm'd I come at length to Vse and Application 1. To all in general 1. Information 1. The Power of God is the supreme Power of the World As Legislation making of Laws to determine the civil obedience and disobedience rewards and punishments of all the people in a Nation is an act of the supreme Power wheresoever it reside of the Nation so to make Laws to determine the spiritual obedience and disobedience and the temporal spiritual and eternal rewards and pu●ishments of all the people in the world must needs be an act of the supreme Power of the world 2. How far the Majesty of Heaven is from aff●cting the exercise of an Arbitrary power The great Potentates of the earth have it not and would usurpe it The great and only Po●entate of Heaven and Earth hath it and will not use it except in case of extraordinary concernment to his own glory and his Subjects good and then as little and with as speedy return as may be to methode or course of Law again as in the case of bringing in the New Covenant by Christ According to his absolute Power and Dominion he might had he pleased have disposed of as he pleased his whole moral Creature all man-kind to their last end of weale or woe meerly as Lord without any Law but he was pleased to become Law-giver and according to his Laws given will dispose of them to their last end as Rectour 3. God will never judg the best works of meer men meritorious God judgeth according to the nature of the things to be judged and according to his own Word the Rule of Judgment That good works merit of their own nature not many at this day of the Papists will affirm and as such as you heard in the Doctrine they are only capable of do not merit a reward That they merit by any Ordination of God in his Word all the Papists together will never be able to prove He hath indeed Ordained that the least good work even a cup of cold water to a Disciple shall have a reward not that the greatest even fire and faggot for the Master Christ himself should merit a reward He hath Ordained Christ should merit they should have not deserve a reward 4. In evil works sinne and guilt differ As the former noted against the Papist so this against the Antinomian who will have sinne and guilt to be one and the same thing and tells us we can never have sound peace till we see the filth and power as well as the guilt of sinne charged upon Christ But the difference between them I make out from the Doctrine thus 1. They have relation to the Law under different Considerations Sinne as the rule of obedience guilt as the rule of Judgment 2. They have relation to different parts of the Law Sin to the Precepts and Prohibitions as a rule of obedience guilt to the Threatnings as a rule of Judgment 3. They have different kinds of Relation to the different parts of the Law under those different Considerations Sinne a relation of deformity to the Precepts and Prohibitions whereto it is contrary as a Rule of Obedience to the Precept if a sinne of omission to the Prohibition if of commission Guilt a relation of conformity to the Threatning whereto it 's agreeable as a rule of Judgment For 't is agreeable to the Threatning that sinne should deserve death in all bind over unto death in all out of Christ Now Divines make that desert of punishment the habitual as this obligation unto it the actual guilt of sinne So much for Information I come now to 2. Several sorts of Inference according to the several conditions of people mentioned in the Doctrine And 1. It calls for pity and Prayer for those whether Gentiles or Jews that never had Christ or not sufficiently proposed to them There being none other name under Heaven given amongst men whereby they must be saved neither is there salvation in any other Act 4 12. That if Gentiles God would make Christ a Light yet further to enlighten them That the people which sit in darkness and see no light may have this great light shining unto them that the fulness of the Gentiles may be so brought in That if Jews God that first perswaded Japhet to dwell in the Tents of Sem would now perswade Sem to dwell in the Tents of Japhet that the Children of Israel may return and seek the Lord their God and David the Sonne of David their King in these letter daies Look unto him whom they have pierced and mourn that his blood be no longer upon them and their Children only in the guilt of it but for the pardoning of the guilt of that blood shed and all other their sinnes This should we say for our Elder Sister which hath no Breasts in the day she is to be spoken for that the Scatterings of the Jews may be recollected and grafted in again That whether Gentiles or Jews they may not have the Law and Covenant of Works Gods Rule of Judging of them with a Judgment of condemnation but the Gospel and Covenant of Grace his Rule of judging them with the Judgment of Absolution and Salvation 2. It should speak terrour to those amongst us that will not obey the Gospel-Positive of Faith enjoyned them but will reject Christ in the Gospel sufficiently proposed to them 1. They shall be judged with the Infidel Heathen for transgressing the Law of Works written in their hearts have the way to the Tree of Life armed against them with a flaming Sword in the hand of an Angel waving this way and that way 2. Above these with the unbeliving Jew for transgressing the Law written in Tables have that Law executed upon them with more of thunder and lightning and blackness and darkness and tempest than it was promulgate and publish't with For if so terrible were the promulgation that Moses himself who was out of the reach and Gun-shot of the curse of this Law exceedingly feared and quaked how much more dismall and dreadfull must be the execution of it upon those souls that fall under it 3. Above