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A95657	Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse liberty. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major of London, &c. in Pauls, Aug. 16. 1646. / By Edvvard Terry, Minister of the Word, and pastor of the church at Great-Greenford in the country of Middlesex. Sept. 11. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing T781; Thomason E356_11; ESTC R201136	37,931	42

make a shew before it and therefore that Magistrate is worthy to be disarmed who beares the sword in vaine And the Keyes were never left unto the Church to be worne as golden Keyes for honour or ornament or to be kept in the pocket but to let in some and to lockout others as occasion is offered These things command and teach saith the Apostle to Timothy 1 Tim. 4. 11. In the beginning of that Chapter there is mention made of some that in the latter times should depart from the faith giving heede to seducing spirits speaking lies in hypocrisie Now that which was contrary to this the Apostle must command and teach Command {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the very selfe same word that is used Acts 5. 40. which the Captaines and Officers and High-preists used when they commanded the Apostles they should not speake any more in the name of Jesus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they commanded them it is a word of authority which Judges use upon the Bench for men to hearken or not to hearken to at their perill So St. Jude speakes of some that did separate themselves not having the spirit Jude v. 19. and such must be saved with feare {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} save them by feare discipline censures for so I conceive that place is properly interpreted for feare is there opposed to compassion of some have compassion v 22. putting a difference twixt them that erre of weaknesse or unavoydable ignorance and them that doe it out of wilfullnesse and perversnesse the first must be dealt more gently withall others must be more roughly handled Saved by feare v. 23. pulling them as a brand out of the fire wherein otherwise they would be unavoydably consumed I beseech you let me not be mistaken in that I have now delivered insector vitia non homines I know it is a very great act of injustice to be angry at the offender and not at the offence I assure you therefore tis mens faults not their persons which here stirres me up to make complaints I shall ever desire to be most tender of those in whom I can discerne any impressions of God And I know it had been better for me that I had never been then that I should live to condemne the generation of the righteous And for my part my witnesses are in Heaven and in my owne breast that so farre as I can know my heart I doe not wish to live a minute longer then I shall unfainedly desire to honour those that truely honour God And ever since it hath pleased God to reveale himselfe in any measure to me I could love Religion in russet in raggs as well as in the gayest dresse And shall labour by Gods grace while I live to give most respect where I finde most goodnesse But when the error of Religion turnes mens braines and so makes them to fight against the truth of it I cannot chuse but complaine I know that Zeale is good excellent good and hath its due deserved commendation both of God and man and cursed be they that goes about to extinguish that holy fire that Zeale which is well grounded well ordered grounded upon knowledge and carried on with discretion But I know that there is as much difference twixt Zeale and Zeale as there is betwixt Religion and Superstition and therefore to be carried on violently either by a mis-grounded or a mis-governed Zeale may be cursus celerrimus but praeter viam a swift violent motion but quite out of the way Fourthly are those rebellious spirits we have named so resolved in their waies that they leave no meanes un-attempted to bring their devices to passe as before we observed O let us now labour to be as wise as active in our generation as they can be in theirs And Oh that we had been so Oh that we would be so T was Jehu's question 2 Ki. 9. 32. who is on my side who It may be now the Lords When the mouth of wickednesse is opened so wide when the mists of error thicken so much and when the wings of schisme spread so far over us and there is not that endeavour which ought to be which might be to dispell those mists to clip those wings and to stop that mouth qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet we are guilty of every sin which we might and doe not prevent If we had wrought wisely as we might as we should have done we should have dealt with Schismes and Divisions while they were growing on us which because we did not have done us already such apparant mischeife as wise men doe with Snakes Vipers venemous creatures they stay not till they have stung or bit them but they crush and kill them before-hand that they may neither bite nor sting It is a sad thing to dally and foole with dangers especially those which are spirituall till by our connivence they strike through the life of our Religion It was therefore very good counsell which Demosthenes sometimes gave unto the Athenians that they should not expect till evill came but prevent it we should be wary before the wound and meet with diseases that we would not have take hold on us Be apprehensive before-hand of danger taking all evills that they may not much hurt us at the very first bound that our providence in this case may prevent our too late Repentance Yee know how that it is much easier to quench a fire-brand then a great fire and to put out a great fire on the hearth then that which is far lesse in the top of a chimney And the Lord rouse us up out of that spirit of slumber into which we are fallen that we may not be like the Smiths dog whom neither the hammers above him nor the sparkes of fire falling round about him can awake And Lastly let us all resolve to be as active for God as any other in the world can be against him They say in Philosophy that the foundation of naturall life is feeling so no feeling no life and so the want of spirituall feeling argues a want of spirituall life in which respect that may be applied unto many what St. Paul speakes of the wanton widow mentioned 1 Tim. 5. 6. that they are dead while they live being so un-apprehensive so un-affected so insensible of what may trench upon God and his cause T is an observation in nature that the more quick and nimble the sense of feeling is in a man the better is his naturall constitution So our tendernesse our sensiblenesse of Gods honour or dishonour above all other things expresse the goodnesse of our spirituall temper And doubtlesse it is now high time for all that feare the Lord to speake often one to another as they did Mal. 3. 16. To stirre up one another unto a godly jealousie over Gods whole cause his worship his Church his Children It was a brave resolution of Tully

ΨΕΥΔΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ OR Lawlesse Liberty SET FORTH IN A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE Right Honourable the Lord Major of London c. in PAULS Aug. 16. 1646. By EDVVARD TERRY Minister of the Word and Pastor of the Church at Great-Greenford in the County of Middlesex The Law was not made for the righteous man but for the lawlesse and disobedient for ungodly and for sinners 1. Tim. 1. 9. Ye shall keepe my statutes and doe them I am the Lord Levit. 20. 8. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that doe well 1. Pet. 2. 13. 14. Some mocked and others sayd We will heare thee againe of this matter Act. 17. 32. Imprimatur Sept. 11. 1646. John Downame LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper and are to be sold by Charles Greene at his shop in Ivie Lane at the signe of the Gun 1646. To the deservedly Honoured Sir GILBERT GERARD Baronet and Sir JOHN FRANKLIN Knight Knights for the County of Middlesex in this present Parliament Right Worshipfull THere is no condition whatsoever can priviledge a folded Arme For if Idlenesse had beene better then Labour our first Parents had never beene put into the Garden to dresse it but they must labour then in their innocent estate because they were happy and so much more must every one of us in his sinfull condition get up and be doing that he may be so The Church of God is a Garden enclosed so Cant. 4. 12. otherwise called the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts Isaiah 5. 7. Now Laberandum in vinea Labourers are for this vineyard where they shall ever finde never want worke they therefore which dare be idle and loyter heere are worthy to be cast out The Apostle compares the Church of God to a building Ep. 2. 20. the beauty whereof hath ever beene such a great eye-sore to all ungodly men that their mouthes of wickednesse have still extended themselves wide against it crying of it as they of Jerusalem Psa. 137. 7. Rase it rase it and their hands of violence lifted up to downe with it downe with it even to the foundation thereof The case being thus he is not worthy to be esteemed a member of the Church of God who labours not with the very utmost of his endevours one way or other to uphold defend maintaine enlarge this building to keepe this vineyard from waste this Fabricke from ruine which could not possibly continue were it in the power of men or divels to destroy it And if ever Distractions Dissentions Divisions threatned the wel-being of a Church and State as they alwayes doe the Church of God in this Kingdome at this time is in very much danger wherein a generall liberty is taken in matters which concerne Religion by people of what spirit I know not to doe what they please not what they should Our malady we see and cannot chuse but complaine of and if there be not a speedy cure thought on to apply unto our hurt the whole Kingdome may shortly take up that saying and make particular application of it prudens sciens vivus vidensque pereo For my selfe being lately called to that publicke place where this Sermon was delivered I thought it my duty to fall upon some subject that might have relation to our present times and distempers In which you may please cleerely to behold the necessity of Government as well in Church as State Then how generally it is disaffected and by whom esteemed the heaviest of all burthens who therefore doe what they can to throw it off which meditations as they then passed through the eares as I feare of many who then heard them for this I am sure of that abundance of this spirituall seed every where miscarries so they now most humbly desire leave to take the boldnes that through Yours they may passe into the hands of others that may consider them at leysure and upon better advantage Vox audita perit litera scripta manet That which we only hear may easily slip from us when as that we read may read againe in probability may stick by us And the Lord in mercy make this thus successeful For surely there were never any people under heaven that enjoyed and wanted more instruction then we doe when we seriously consider how that Almighty God hath laid wide open before us the Books of his revealed will of his mercies of his judgements yet though we have been taught abundantly by precepts we have not learned been prest upon by mercies we have not regarded and chastned too by the keenest the sharpest of all temporall judgements we have not been taught Doubtlesse the body of this Kingdome was exceedingly corrupted when it could not live unlesse it bled as it hath abundantly done and yet the cure is not perfect nor ever shal be till Reformation make up that breach which ungodlinesse hath troden downe Now there is no Reformation to be hoped for without Religion and no life no power of Religion without Government to order it guard it encourage it Which Church-Government that Great Councell of whom your very worthy Selves are a part have resolved speedily to establish The City of London are ready to taste and like and entertaine it We in the Country do exceedingly want it and the present want of that most desired issue of your great labours is ready to fill us with as much impatiency as poore Rachel expressed for want of children Gen. 30. 1. Now the Lord send it and settle it throughout the whole Kingdome and make all those that shal be called to act in this great work like Joshua who when he was appointed to be a Leader and a Governour of the people Deut. 34. 9. was full of the spirit of wisedome And fill them full of the spirit of zeale too for the house of God that Gods glory in the increase of his Church may be ever before their eies ever in their aime And the Lord make us who are Ministers of the Word in a speciall maner to apply our selves unto all those with whom wee shall have to deale in all love and meekenesse and tendernesse and prudence that so good and so great a worke be not quite mar'd by an ungodly indiscreet or carelesse handling And the Lord give us arguments to perswade those that have long continued in blindnesse and consequently have beene ignorant of the necessary truths of God now to encline their eares unto wisdome and to apply their hearts unto understanding Pr. 2. 2. that they may be while they are in a capacity of helpe entreated to suffer God through Jesus Christ to save their soules and let God arise and have mercy in building up his Sion amongst us that after our Eclipse he may appeare unto us in glory There was never yet any good and great worke carried

them Ro. 5. 19. Their Persons infected their Nature but our nature ever since infects our persons Ne mali fiant times nascuntur We are borne bad as well as become so our sin sticking more close to our nature then our skin doth to our flesh And it is no marvell now if our nature so marvellously corrupted be ready to break every branch of the tree of Good which God commands and of the tree of Evill which God forbids this sinfull corruption being like a violent stream which the longer and further it runnes from the fountaine runnes with the greater violence After the flood when the people began to multiply they grew heady exorbitant violent unruly little lesse then mad for they went about an impossible worke to build a towre whose top might reach to heaven Gen. 11. And God there sayth of them v. 6. that they would be restrayned in nothing they imagined to doe that is if they were let alone therefore Almighty God caused their tumultuous action then begun in Pride to end in Confusion In whose example that rebellious spirit which is in every one by nature is drawne out to the very life And doubtlesse were it not for these bands and cords in my Text and for those hookes and bitts which God hath put in the jawes and nostrils of men they would be more unruly more untamed then all the creatures of the world beside Man being estranged from the wombe is ready to goe astray as soone as he is borne Ps. 58. 3. Being of a disobedient and a gainsaying spirit There is a pertinent story to this purpose which Valerius as I remember relates of a Roman who had very long and voluntarily confined himselfe within the walls of Rome and with very much content but afterwards when he was commanded not to goe forth the gates of that City that place which before was his Paradise now by reason of that word of restraint became his Prison And Reason It must needes be thus because rebellion and disobedience is ●●naturall as kindly to man in generall as the very flesh and bones he carries about him Adam left it as a Patrimony as an inheritance unto all his Posterity and Eue gave perversnes in her milke every one naturally harbours a Rebell in his breast Nitimur in verita● which causeth him to thinke forbidden fruit most faire forbidden pleasures most sweet forbidden waies most secure This made the blessed Apostle himselfe sadly to complaine Rom. 7. 23. of a law in his members rebelling against the law of his mind I see a law in my members that is sin ruling like a law in my members in the faculties of my soule and body or like a law governing and ruling my actions Rebelling against the law of my minde that is against that renued spirituall part in me which like a Law too commands me another way Vse I shall not adde much by way of inference or use in the application of this particular because that which I might here insert will fall into that which followes from this text But I beseech you give me leave before I proceed to let fall a very sad complaint and to leave a most just reproofe behind me A complaint and reproofe of some particulars which former times were scarcely acquainted withall A complaint and reproofe of the Preachings and Printings and actings of thousands at this time in this Kingdome a very lively comment on this particular in my text Bo●●Deus ad qu● tempora reservati sumus Good God in what times doe we live when so much lawlesse unwarrantable unjustifiable liberty is taken by men to doe what they please without controll Oh how hath the Pulpit been abused since the hedge hath been downe about our Church by a liberty which without doubt Posterity will not beleeve could be taken at such a time at this when he that pleaseth consecrates himselfe when the lowest among the people without any lawfull Call or Commission take upon them to be publique Teachers of others For an outward call or commission I am sure they have none and if they have an extraordinary and an immediate call from God which would manifest it selfe in more then ordinary guifts let them make this appeare and we will hold our peace and moreover we will reverence them and lay our selves at their feete as they in the fourth of the Acts and 34. 35. verses when they had sold their possessions brought the money and laid it downe at the foote of the Apostles But till they can make this appeare I know not with whom more fitly to compare them then with those vagabond Jewes ●●●ists which tooke upon them great matters to dispossesse those which were troubled with evill spirits Acts 19. 13. and there were seven sonnes of 〈…〉 which did so verse 14. and the evill spirit answered and said to them Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are yee The Devils could easily espie the want of Commission in the sonnes of Sc●va when they adjured him by the name of Jesus whom Paul preached saying Jesus I acknowledge and Paul I know but who are ye● As if he had said your warrant is not good your 〈…〉 are not strong enough to remove me And doubtlesse there are no such chaines of Authority no such linkes of iron to binde the Nobles and Princes of the earth and to restraine Devills as in those tongues which God hath armed from above and enabled and set apart and sent cut in his service Or these which before we named are like those mockers of the true Prophets for they want no slighting nor reviling tearmes for them those mockers mentioned Jer. 23. 25. who call the people together and tell them they have dreamed they have dreamed when they deliver dreames indeed Now as Pauls spirit was stirred up at Athens so should the spirits of all godly honest and Orthodox Ministers and people be now stirred up in England when we doe further consider how that all those ancient and damnable heresies recorded by Irenaeus and Epiphanius which we hoped had been long since buried in forgetfullnesse are rack't up againe out of their corruption and preached by some and applauded by others and defended by more And no marvel for they are a people in generall to give a breife character of them that shall doe them no wrong of proud uneven unquiet untractable unpeaceable uncharitable spirits differing and dissenting much amongst themselves carried away headlong by the violence of their owne wills which they improperly and by misconceiving call their consciences whose wills are very much too hard for their understandings which makes them so wedded to their owne conceivings that you may assoone remove Rocks from their places as these from their conclusions and therefore nor fit to be disputed withall being like mil-horses in the evening just there where they began their morning circuit having two generall all replies for all objections as if you proove a thing plainely by Scripture their usuall answere

laced This I am sure is true in experience that the longer it is before a colt be backt the more unwillingly by farre at the first doth he endure his Rider and the longer it is before a Bullocke comes to the yoake the more hardly is he brought to it and the more at first he struggles and strives with it And doubtlesse the longer a people goe under reines let loose the harder will it be by farre to curbe and restraine them The law saith the Apostle was not made for a righteous man but for the lawlesse and disobedient for the ungodly and sinners c. 1. Tim. 1. 9. for the lawlesse and disobedient sayth the Apostle and because it curbes and restrains them therefore they esteem themselves in bondage or as prisoners in bonds being required to yield obedience unto it For Reason 1 This is the principall reason why all rebellious spirits think thus because good Lawes meet and crosse and contradict and oppose them in their evill wayes in their unjustifiable courses because they meet them and reprove them and set in order before them the things that they have done as it is Ps. 50. 21. In every commission of evill in every omission of good in every even the least fayling in duty whatsoever they shake the secure man out of his seat they disturbe the filthy persons upon their beds of lust who undoe one another by their filthy embracements all shameles prostitutes who sell their soules with their bodies dealing with all those they pretend to love as Monkeys and Apes sometimes doe with their little-ones they kill them with kindnes they tell these who thus stretch themselves upon the bed of lust that though they sleepe securely there their destruction sleepes not their damnation slumbers not ●● in 2. Pet. 2. 3. They awake the Drunkards crying out Ioel 1. 5. Awake yee Drunkards weepe and bowle c. They debase proud ones foretelling their fall Luc. 18. 14. Every one that exalts himselfe shall be abased They startle the bold prophane swearers with the weight of their guilt Exo. 20. 7 They acquaint Oppressors with those screech owles of woe which cry aloud from the beames of their chambers And they tel the Covetous who are like the Mole that bury themselves under every clod of earth or like the barren wombe or unsatiable Death that will never be satisfied of enough mould in the grave and of enough fire in hell They meet with Formall professors of Religion who make Religion nothing but a complement and they tell them that of all tempers in Religion a luke-warme temper is the worst Because thou art neither hot nor cold but luke-warme I 'le spue thee out of my mouth sayth the Spirit to the Church of Laodicea Re. 3. 16. That is I will make thee who art but a Church in shew to be no Church at all it being all one in the account of God to deny the Faith and not soundly and sincerly to professe it They unma●ke the double faced hypocrites who only act Religion play devotion who are all for shew and nothing for substance making Religion a cloake and they tell them that as Religion is the best armour in the world so it is the worst cloake and whosoever put it on for no other end it shall in conclusion do them no more good then that disguise which Ahab put on in which he perished when he fought with the Syrians at Ramoth Gilead 1. Ki. 22 They convince blinde errors by cleere and orthodox truths And tell them that receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved that for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they might beleeve a lie that they might be damned who beleeve not the truth c. 2 Thes. 2. 10. 11. 12 They cast downe imaginations and every high thing which exalts it selfe against God 2 Cor. 10. 5. In a word They meet with sinners at every turne and because they doe so these cannot away with them and therefore may be fitly compared unto that fiery meteor which causeth thunder the more streightly it is wrapt and bound up in the cloud it breaketh forth with the greater violence and noise Or they are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest to which the Prophet compares them Isaiah 57. 20. foming and raging most against those truths of God which oppose them most as the tempestuous Sea doth against those Rocks and Bankes and bounds which hinder its course and keep it in Vse Breifely now for application of this point I shall addresse my speech unto every loose lawlesse libertine in the world and first desire to let him know that there is no liberty but servitude in sinne no liberty but in the freedome from sin and secondly they whosoever they be that cast off Gods yoke whose service is freedome and yeeld obedience unto the commands of Satan for every one in the world serves one of these two Masters they are meere bondslaves unto him they serve for all the services that the Devill imploies his servants in are whatsoever men may thinke otherwise of them no better then a very toilesome drudgery a very base bondage Heare the truth of this in some particulars as in the sin of covetousnesse wherein Ahab may be our example who because he could not possesse Naboths Vineyard according to his coveting desire it troubled him so that he was heavy and sad and spiritlesse immediately upon it 1 Ki. 21. we may observe the like in that sin of envy which Solomon tels us is the rottennesse of the bones Prov. 14. 30 a sin that is plagued by it selfe that hath much justice in it as one well observes for it eateth up the heart marrow of her Master as he desireth to eate up the heart of another And againe Surgunt de nocte Latr●nes The Theife wakes while the true man sleepes and is more troubled to breake open than the true man is to guard his house The not Adolterer the filthy uncleane person useth the twilight the evening the blacke and darke night Prov. 7. 9. that he may compasse his lust while the chast man sits quietly in his house How did the unnaturall Lust of Amnon vex him till he had obtained his desire so that he fell sick for his Sister T●●●●●r and after he had satisfied his unnaturall appetite he was as sick of her as he was before for her he hated her exceedingly saith the text his Lust ended in loathing so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her 2 Sam. 13. 15. what fruit had yee in th●se things whereof yee are now ashamed saith the Apostle to the Romans Rom. 6. 21. for as sin makes men past shame that they may commit it so it brings shame if the sinners conscience awake after the committing thereof See this farther in that most beastly sin of drunkennesse how it causeth woe and sorrow and contention and babling