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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88833	Gleanings and expositions of some, and but some of the more difficult places of scriptures: perhaps, but the first-fruits unto a more plentifull harvest / by John Lavvson.	Lawson, John, fl. 1644-1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing L716; Thomason E345_5; ESTC R200984	58,069	82

learning from godlinesse literature from the holy Scriptures and to set up non-learning and put down learning as the onely divine learning for his own bellies sake No marvell though the whole Law of God at a clap fared no better at the same hands for to cashiere the Law Learning and Sabbath sute very proportionably together The holy Ghost provideth against such in these words foreseeing their forwardnesse to prophesie Ye may all prophesie saith he one by one provided that all may learn by you and all be comforted otherwise not 1 Cor. 15.29 Else what shall they doe which are baptized ever the dead Death after death Martyr after Martyr voluntarily giving himselfe over unto death rather then deny the Christian religion What a rash and wilfull part do they play to expose themselves to death if there be no resurrection Surely there either is to be a resurrection of the dead or these said voluntary Martyrs which chose death rather then deliverance are greatly deceived For the reason why they give themselves to be drenched overhead and ears not in water only but in afflictions and in death is because they expect a better resurrection And they do it one after another that is though they see others of their brethren martyred before their eyes yet they are not the lesse but the more incensed to maintain that cause for which they shall be likewise dealt with all This voluntary death might be expounded as a sinfull casting away of their own lives if there be not a resurrection For who would cast away his present life if he were not sure of a better And that this is the meaning the verse following seemeth to confirm where it is said And why are we in jeopardy every houre For there also he argueth for the resurrection from the absurdity which would follow upon voluntary sufferings if there were no resurrection 1 Cor. 15.40 41. There are also celestiall bodies and bodies terrestriall But the glory of the celestiall is one and the glory of the terrestriall is another There is one glory of the Sunne another of the Moon and another glory of the Starres for one Starre differeth from another Starre in glory So also is the resurrection of the dead c. These words have reference to the 35. verse where it is said thus But some will say How are the dead raised and with what body do they come As if the sence should be this that whereas it is enquired how the dead are raised and with what body they come I answer saith the Apostle that the glory of the raised body is more excellent then that of the mortall body as farre as the Sunne exceedeth the Starres or as one Starre exceedeth another II. CORINTHIANS 2 Cor. 12.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which it is not lawfull or convenient for a man to speak Not that Paul was forbidden to utter what he heard For what is spoken in the eare may be revealed upon the house top But he who spake to Paul had blasphemed to say I am Jesus whom thou persecutest if he had not been Jesus Christ God as well as man But if he were God as well as man which spake to Paul then Paul had this priviledge to boast of which no false Apostle had that God himself spake unto him from the third heaven This I doubt not to be the meaning of this place 2 Cor. 12.16 But I being crafty took you by guile A preoccupation as if he should have said did I send after me Titus or others who took gain of you as some who will not be seen to take bribes themselves yet will be content that their wives children or servants for their use shall take bribes then had I been crafty indeed but I did not so For Titus walked in the same spirit free from filthie lucre as well as I for so it followeth in the next verse Not that his taking them by guile was converting of them by guile 2 Cor. 12.14 Parents ought to lay up for their children the children ought not to lay up for their parents Not that Paul contrarieth 1 Tim. 5.4 where he biddeth that children shall recompence their parents but that hee a parent to the Corinthians did rather lay up and exhibite to the Corinthians then expect that they his children should lay up or contribute to him Some Scriptures and this for one are to be restrained to the present circumstances and not extended further upon paine of untruth as that which goeth into the man defileth not the man must be understood of eating things with unwashen hands there spoken of and not of all kind of eating and drinking otherwise it is untrue 2 Cor. 13.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. He appeared by his crucifixion to be weak like other mortall men yea and as one dying for his fault but his resurrection showed him to be that which he had professed himself to be good and God For if he had not been such God would not have raised him from the dead lest God should have justified him in his unjust pretences GALATIANS Gal. 4.21 TEll me yee that will be under the Law Had not Abraham two sonnes Law and descent from Abraham are here made equivalent termes Works of the Law therefore are an operation which descent from Abraham did effect Carnall Jewes dreamed that descent from Abraham had such vertue in it by reason of that promise made to Abraham and his seed Gen. 17.7 that whosoever was but a child of Abrahams carnall race was forthwith 〈◊〉 op●re operate Justified without any work of his own And so farre he was by descent from Abraham justified as to be a member of the visible Church by that means Howbeit without a gracious holy use of that promise made and a good conversation thence proceeding he was not accounted a child of God For the end of that promise I will be the God of Abraham and if his seed was not to secure the seed of Abraham but to st●●re up the seed of Abraham to beleeve love be thankfull to and walk holily towards that God who had thus promised to be their God Now these perverse Jewes and so Galatians in their steps not willing to observe the scope cleave to the words and will needs have such a visible Church in the New Testament as wherein parents and children grafted into Abrahams stock by Circumcision might be justified as members of the right visible Church of God And if they ●e but so justified as to be members of the outward visible Church of God they do not think that there needeth any other justification This hence it Paul confuteth by the example of Ishmael reaching that scoffers and persecutors at a holy use of the promise such as holy Isaac did make were even then by the same spirit whereby the promise was made accounted for nothing although they were the naturall sued of Abraham at Ishmael 〈◊〉 and that the Church of the New Testament consisteth only of such