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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12363	The lavviers question The answere to the lawiers question. The censure of Christ vpon the answere. By Henry Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1595 (1595)	STC 22679; ESTC S103005	28,698	73

counsell at the mouth of the Lord Examine all thine actions by the touchstone of the worde and bee sure to doo nothing for the which thou hast not the worde for thy warrant If harlots entise thee to lewdnes as Putiphars wise entised Ioseph Genesis the thirty nine Chapter fly from them as Ioseph did from hir and remember what the law saith thou shalt not commit adulterie If sinners such as haue no feare of God before their eyes entise thee saying Come with vs wee will lay waite for blood and watch to state the simple man consent thou not but consider what is written in the Law Thou shalt do no murther If they say cast in thy lot among vs wee will all haue one purse wee shall get great riches and fill our houses with spoile Prouerbs the first Chapter and fourteenth verse Walke not thou in the way with them refraine thy foote from their path and looke what the Lawe requireth of thee thou shalt not steale If Papists would perswade thee to change thy religion because thy Fathers were of another religion looke into the Scriptures examine thy religion by the word of God and then as Elias saide vnto the people If the Lord be God then follow him but if Baal be hee then goe after him the first booke of Kings the eighteenth Chapter and twenty one verse So answere thou them if this religion be agreeable to the worde as in truth it is then will I be of this religion though my forefathers haue beene of your religion And to conclude if thy father that begate thee thy mother that bare thee thy wife that lyeth in thy bosome thy friend that is as thine owne selfe or thy childe which is the fruite of thy body Deutronomium the thirteenth Chapter and sixth verse shall require thee to doo any thing which the Lorde hath forbidden in his law or shall forbid thee to doo any thing which the Lorde hath commanded in his word then thou maist answere them as Iob answered his wife thou speakest like a foolish woman Iob the second Chapter and tenth verse or as Christ answered his mother VVoman what haue I to doo with thee Iohn the second Chapter and fourth verse or as hee answered his friend Peter Go after me Sathan for thou sauerest not the thinges that bee of God c. Matthewe the sixteenth Chapter and twenty three verse Yea if it come to this that thy Prince which hath power ouer thy life commaund one thing and the Lord commaund the contrary thou must answere as Peter and Iohn answered the Rulers Acts the fourth Chapter and nineteenth verse whether it bee meere c. Yea thou must be content with Sydrach Misach and Abednego Daniel the third Chapter to vndergoe any punishment euen vnto the death rather than thou wouldst dishonor him or disobey his worde that hath power to call both bodie and soule into hell together Matthew the tenth Chapter and twenty eight verse It followeth verse twenty seauen And he answered and saide Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy strength and with all thy thought and thy neighbour as thy selfe Before the Lawier mooued the Question Now t is the Lawiers turne to answere and in his answere he sheweth him selfe a learned Lawier for whereas the lawe of God consisteth of tenne precepts he reduceth the same vnto two The one taken as it seemeth out of Deutronomium the sixt Chapter conteining our duety towarde God the other taken out of Leuiticus the nineteenth Chapter conteining our duety to our neighbour Here is the abridgement of Moses lawe which as it was deliuered in two tables so it is reduced to two dueties and both these require but one thing and that is loue Deutronomium the tenth Chapter So doth our Sauiour Christ himselfe diuide the lawe Matthew the twenty two Chapter where beeing asked which is the great commandement hee answereth as here this Lawier dooth Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde This is the first commaundement and the second is like vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Heere is nothing but loue my brethren and yet here is the fulfilling of the law Romaines the thirteenth Chapter For all the benefits that God had bestowed vpon the Israelites his people hee requireth nothing but loue And for all the fauours which he hath done vnto vs he asketh no more but loue againe If wee were not too vnkinde God needed not to craue our loue hauing so well descrude our loue in louing vs before wee loued him first of Iohn the fourth Chapter But nowe hee is ●aine to become a Suter for our loue which he hath dearely bought for he shewed his loue to vs before hee craues our loue to him By his almightie power hee created vs of nothing and made vs the most excellent of all his creatures if that bee little worth because it cost him little for he spake the word and we were made Psal. 33.9 Yet this is such a loue as cannot be expressed that when wee were fallen from that excellent estate wherein wee were created and become heyres of hell and condemnation so did he loue this sinfull world that he gaue his onely begotten sonne to die for the sinnes thereof That hee might bring vs to heauen hee came downe from heauen that hee might deliuer vs from hell hee went downe to hell for vs Not golde nor siluer but his dearest bloud was the price of our redemption 1 Peter 1. What can a man doo more than to giue his life for his friend Rom. 5.6.7 And what can God doo more than to die for sinfull men And for all this what dooth this louing Lorde require of thee but that thou loue the Lord thy God Blessed be such a Lorde that requireth nothing of his seruants but loue If any Prince were so gratious vnto his subiects that he would require no other subsidies nor tribute nor custome of them but loue how were the subiects bound to loue and honor such a Prince And such a one is our most gratious Lord and King who for all the blessings and benefits that we enioy vnder his most happy gouernment craueth no more but loue at our hands for recompence Once he required burnt offerings that was a deere kinde of seruice but now he asketh loue a kind of seruice which euery man may well affoorde He asketh not learning nor strength nor riches nor nobility but he asketh loue a thing that the simplest the weakest the poorest the basest may performe as well as he that is most learned most strong most riche or most nobly borne If God had required this of thee that thou shouldst be able to dissolue doubts like Daniell and to dispute subtile questions what should then become of thee that art vnlearned If the Lorde should accept of none but such as were strong and

so almighty God hath furnished vs with iudgement and reason as it were with certaine artillery whereby we are able to distinguish betweene good and euill and sent vs into this world as it were into the open fields and sets his lawe before vs as a marke as Dauid speaketh promising to giue vs the kingdome of heauen if we hit the same and albeit hee knoweth that wee cannot hit this marke that is keepe the lawe which he hath set before vs yet for the exercise of our faith and for the testifying of our duety and obedience towards him hee will alwayes haue vs bee ayming at it and though we come shorte of that dutie and obedience which he requireth at our handes yet dooth hee accept and rewarde our good endeuour but if we stubbornely refuse to frame our selues after his will then may hee iustly bee angry and displeased with vs. Therefore though thou must not perfectly keepe the law of God yet if thou endeuour thy selfe to the vtmost of thy power to obserue the same the Lorde that worketh in vs both the will and the worke will accept the will for the worke and that which is wanting in vs he will supply with his owne righteousnesse It followeth And thou shalt liue Heere is the promise euen life eternall Among all earthly things we count none so deere and precious as our life insomuch as we can be content to forgoe any thing before our life our bloud and our limmes we lose sometimes for the sauing of this temporall life which is no life indeed but rather a shadow and the image of death Now if we make so much and suffer so many things for the life of the body which is so shorte and momentany how farre greater things should we suffer for the saluation of our soule and for the gayning of that glorious and happy life which shall neuer end Heere Christ speaketh not of any common life but of life eternall which is the inheritance and seate of the blessed For seeing Christ must answer to the Lawiers Question and his Question was how he might inherit eternall life when the Lawier had saide what was written in the Law Christ answereth Hoc fac viues as if hee should say Loue God and thy neighbour and so thou shalt inherit eternall life this is the assoiling of thy Question Go to therefore deare brethren and consider at how small a rate or price of loue eternall life is to be purchased If we take so great paines vndergoe so many difficulties to pursue this mortall life what paines should we vndertake to enioy that immortall life If God should bid vs goe into a hote fierie Furnace and cast our selues into the burning flames we ought to doo it that wee might raigne with Christ But our gratious louing Lorde commaundeth no such thing but onely commendeth vnto vs loue that wee may liue Our God is not as the gods of the Gentiles which will haue the Parents slay their children and offer them vp in fire for a burnt sacrifice No our God will not the death of a sinner but rather that hee conuert and liue Ezech. 8. O how gratious is the Lord vnto vs which requireth no more of vs but loue and yet requireth vs with no lesse than life and that a glorious and eternall life Thus I haue at length explained The Lawiers Question and the Answere of Christ vnto the Question wherin I haue shewed you one way to come to heauen which is to keepe the Lawe of God and this way we finde most hard and difficult Another way there is by the death of Christ and this euery man thinks most easie to finde But this I assure you that who so euer doth not indeuour to walke in that old way that is to walke in the wayes of the Lord shall neuer come to heauen by that new and liuing way Christ Iesus because as Iohn saith cap. 3.3 who so euer hath this hope in him purgeth himselfe That is who so euer hopeth to be saued by the death of Christ hath a care to keepe himself from sinne and to walke in the commandements of the Lord. FINIS