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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88657	An abstract of a commentarie by Dr. Martyn Luther, u[pon] the Galathians. Wherein the difference betweene the law, the gospell, and the strength of faith is declared. Whereunto is added divine and morall Latine sentences, taken out of the fathers, and other authors, which are cited i[n the] margent of the Practise of piety, but not E[ng]lished there; which for their excellency, and benefit of those who understand not Latine, are here translated.; In epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Galatas commentarius. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Ferrers, Edmund.	1642 (1642)	Wing L3508; Thomason E147_12; ESTC R212720	18,488	30

my Saviour Christ besides him I will see nothing I wil heare nothing This faith is our victory whereby we overcome the terrour of the Law sinne death and all evils and yet not without great Conflicts Come unto me saith Christ all ye that labour under the Yoke of the Law Mat. 11.28 for I have vanquished the Law by double right and authority first as the Sonne of God and Lord of the Law Secondly in your person which is as much as if yee had overcome the Law your selves for my victorie is yours If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his Rom. 8.9 If a man be uncertaine and stand in doubt of the grace and favor of God towardes him then Christ profiteth nothing for he that doubteth of Gods favour towardes him must needs doubt also of the promises of God and soe consequently of the will of God and of the benefites of Christ namely that he was borne suffered died and rose againe for us c. If we could fully assure our selues and constantly beleeve that God is our Father and we his sonnes and heires then should we overcome the Law your selves for my victorie is yours If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his Rom. 8.9 If a man be uncertaine and stand in doubt of the grace and favour of God towardes him then Christ profiteth nothing for he that doubteth of Gods favour towardes him must needs doubt also of the promises of God and so consequently of the will of God and of the benefites of Christ namely that he was borne suffered died and rose againe for us c. If we could fully assure our selves and constantly beleeve that God is our Father and we his sonnes and heires then should we utterly contemne this world with all the glory righteousnes wisedome and power and with al the riches and pleasures thereof neither should wee be so carefull for this life Whosoever apprehendeth the son and me and my promise in him by faith to him I am a God to him I am a father him doe I accept justifie and save Christ is the finishing and accomplishing of the Law to righteousnes to every one that beleeueth Ro. 10.4 They that beleeve in him shal be blessed with faithfull Abraham they are the sonnes and heires of God who giveth the word which when we haue received by faith given from above we are new borne and the sonnes of God for there is no other name given unto men under heaven whereby they must be saved The heart being furnished with this confidence or assurance to wit that for Christes sake we are righteous hath the true forme of Christ which is given by the Ministrie of the word as it is said 1. Cor. 4. J have begotten you through the Gospell that is to say in spirit that ye might know Christ and beleeue in him We must distinguish the heavenly and spirituall blessing from the earthly for the earthly blessing is to have a good civil government both in Common-wealthes and Families to have children peace riches fruits of the earth and other temporall commodities But the heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the Law sinne and death to be justified and quickned to life to have peace with God to have a faithfull heart a joyfull conscience and spiritual consolation to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ to have the gift of prophecy the revelation of the scriptures to have the guifts of the holy Ghost and to reioyce in God These are the heavenly guifts which Christ giveth to his Church A Christian laying hold of the benefits of Christ through faith hath no Law but all the Law is to him abolished with all his terrors and torments For Christ hath made us free not civilly nor carnally but divinely That is to say we are made free in such sort that our consciences are now free and quiet not fearing the wrath of God to come And certainly this christian libertie swalloweth up at once and taketh quite away the whole heape of evils the Law sinne death Gods wrath and breifly the serpent himselfe with his head and whole power and in stead thereof it placeth righteousnes peace and everlasting life c. Therefore blessed is hee that understandeth and beleeveth And let us learne to magnifie this our libertine purchased by Jesus Christ the sonne of God by whom all things were created both in heaven earth which libertie he hath purchased with no other price then with his own bloud To deliver us not from any bodily or temporall servitude but from a spirituall and everlasting bondage under mightie and invincible Tyrants to wit the Law Sinne Death and the Devill and so to reconcile us to God his Father This libertie then is not given us by the Law or for our righteousnes but freely for Christs sake Therefore according to the Apostle Galath 5.1 Stand fast in that libertie wherein Christ hath made you free And in the 8. of John 36. If the Sonne shall make you free ye shall be free indeed And Christ himselfe Math. 9.2 saith Be of good comfort my sonne thy sinnes are forgiven thee Wherefore it is impossible for the Iusticiaries which seeke to winne heaven life and salvation by workes and merits to know what the liberty and deliverance from sinne is And Gal. 5.2 Saint Paul saith Be not intangled againe with the yoke of Bondage where the Apostle seemeth to compare those who seeke righteousnes by the Law to Oxen For like as Oxen draw in the yoke with great toile and receive nothing thereby but forrage or pasture and when they bee able to draw the yoke no more are appointed to the slaughter Even so they that seek Righteousnes by the Law are Captives and oppressed with the yoke of bondage that is to say with the Law and when they have tired themselves a long time in the works of the Law with great and greivous toyle in the end this is their reward that they are miserable and perpetuall servants of sinne death Gods wrath and the Devill For the confidence and righteousnes of workes are nothing but maketh Christ unprofitable The Devill being the father of lying and the Enemy of Christian libertie wherein Christ hath made us free But J know Christ to be profitable unto me therefore I will not make him unprofitable which I should doe if either I should presume to purchase my selfe favor and everlasting life by my good workes or should despaire because of my sinnes For it is impossible that Christ and the Law should dwell together in one heart for either the Law or Christ must give place And to have this perswasion that it is Christ alone that iustifieth me both against my evill deeds and without my good workes is to lay hold of the true Christ But if I think that he exacteth the Law and workes of me to Salvation then he becommeth unprofitable to me and I am utterly seperated from