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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11923	A godly and fruitfull sermon preached at Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull minister of Gods holy Gospell	Murray, John, 1575?-1632, attributed name. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 22236; ESTC S106434	19,379	64

curse and condemnation it denounceth the justification it proposeth the rigour of obedience it requyreth ye are not under the law Rom 6 14. Ye are divided from the lawe Rom 7 6. The lawe is not given to the righteous man 1. Tim. 1.9 From the law ceremoniall the witnesser of sinne Christ hath put out the handwryting of Ordinances which was against us toke it out of the way fastened it upon the Crosse Col. 2.24 and so from the traditions and precepts of men or things indifferent whatsoever as binding the consciēce which is cōmonly called the christian liberty or cōmoditie Rom. 14.16 Ye are bought with a price be not the servāts of men 1. Cor. 7.23 The liberty which sanctification bringeth is that spirituall priviledge wherby Gods children are freed from the power and dominion of sinne Sathan c not perfectly but in parte yet in al the powers and faculties of the soules senses and members of the body The minde from the power of darknes the will from the power of disobedience the heart from the power of deadnes the affections from the power of pollution and corruption the body and members thereof from the power of sinne wherby they are made weapons of unrighteousnes that the renued man thus freed might at the least concerning the inner man delight in the lawe of God and in his minde serue it without constraint willingly chearfully The law of the spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus hath freed me from the law that is the power and authoritie of sinne and death Rom 8 2. This liberty of sanctification hath two degrees the one is in this life imperfect which may be called the liberty of grace the other after this life perfect the liberty of glorie Rom 8.21 the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God The same Apostle to the Col 1.13 shutteth up this twofold liberty of Iustification sanctification in a word The Father saith he hath delivered us from the power of darknes and hath translated us into the kingdome of his deare sonne Now from this internall liberty followeth that comfortable liberty which the Apostle in sundry places calls Par●êsia wherby the soule of the freeman hath free accesse to the throne of grace to receiue mercy and finde grace to help in time of need Heb 4.16 From this springeth that peace which passeth all understanding Phil. 4.7 Rom. 5.1 That ioy which Peter calleth glorious unspeakable 1 Pet. 1.8 Without this internal liberty ther is nothing in the soule and conscience of the sinner but terrour distraction and doubting even in the smallest matters c. The externall liberty which is instrumental and defensiue in respect of the former is likewise twofold the libertie of the preaching and professing of the truth of God the true doctrin drawne out of the pure foūtaine of the word The libertie of the practise of holy Discipline following from the same fountaine This may be called the liberty of the house of God wherby it is governed which is the Church of the living God the piller and ground of the truth 1. Tim 3.15 We call them instrumental because they are Gods powerfull and ordinary instruments through which by his spirit he worketh the internall liberty continueth keepeth it Take away these instruments no Iustification no sanctification 1. Pet. 1.23 We call them dcfensiue because the gard the inward which if they were not would easily vanish and Satan would soone weare it out of the soule The third word in this exhortation is that he desireth to stand in this liberty yea to stand fast as the word importeth as within a compasse or station There appeareth to be a Metaphore in the word borrowed from the custome of worldly warriours who stand stedfast in the station in the which their captaine placeth thē resolved without feare to fight never to flee but couragiously to confront their adversaries So stand ye stedfast saith the Apostle and settle the affection of your heart fast in the liberty wherin as in a statiō your graue gracious captaine Iesus hath placed you resisting by faith that spirituall adversary the Devil who wil striue by all meanes possible to drawe you out of that liberty This is the exhortatiō in the which the Apostle expresly meāeth the internall libertie frō the law morall ceremoniall sin death c. In the afore said respects and by consequence of this we inferr the externall defensiue liberties For if we should stand fast in one poynt of this spirituall liberty then we should stand fast in all The dehortation is from the contrary Be not entangled c The yoke of bondage is opposed as contrary to liberty the entāgling with this yoke to the standing in the libertie This bondage is a spirituall bōdage of the soule consciēce principally and is answerable in the opposition to this libertie in all the sorts poynts thereof the bondage under sin Sathan death the law morall ceremoniall traditions of men Antichrist the man of sinne in corrupt doctrine and Discipline We briefly passe it over because it is cleere by the contrary in the words be not entangled And now there appeares also to be a metaphore borrowed from the custom of Oxen or other beasts whose neckes being once comprehended or conteyned as the word signifieth in the yoke are forced to follow whithersoever the driver by word or by goad lusteth So faith the Apostle if you fall backe to bondage you entangle your selues with such a heavie yoke that whither soever sinne or Sathan leades you you must goe This word agayne importeth not that the Galatians had been under the Ceremoniall law for they were of the Gentills and not Iewes to whom this law was proper but that they had ben before under the yoke of bondage the law moral engraven in their hearts by nature albeit defaced by sin the yoke of sinne Idolatrie c. So that now to fall backe to this bondage or whatsoever spirituall yoke was to be entangled againe This is the dehortation in which the Apostle expresly meaneth the yoke of the law ceremoniall morall But by consequence all spirituall yokes of bondage whatsoever are forbidden for if we should not entangle our selues in a my then likewise in none The reasō enterlaced betwixt the two branches of the admonition is drawne from the purchaser and giver and so the excellencie of this libertie which is so much the more excellent by how much the contrary bondage is dangerous If ye aske who is the purchaser giver of this libertie the Apostle Paul answereth here it is Christ If the Sonne shall make yow free ye shal be free in deed saith Christ himselfe of himselfe Ioh 8.38 If the Father be the author of this libertie the sonne is the purchaser and giver of this libertie the spirit is the worker and sealer up of this liberty in our soules If ye aske whereby Christ hath purchased this libertie the Apostle Peter answereth Not with

subscribed Sworne Looke the Confession of faith Wherby By the great name of the Lord our God Whereto To continue in obedience of the Doctrine and Discipline of this reformed Church and to defend the same How long All the dayes of our liues Vnder what payne Vnder the payne conteyned in the law and danger both of body and soule in the day of Gods fearefull iudgment How haue all sworne and subscribed Not secretly but solemnely agayne not ignorantly or rashly but saith the wordes after long and due examination being perswaded in cōscience through knowledge wrought by the holy spirit and not moved for worldly respects in a through resolution willingly beleeving confessing subscribing affirming before God and the whole world that it is the onely true religion pleasing God and bringing salvation to man and promising to mainteine it both in the Doctrine and Discipline So that if any will alledge that now they may alter because they see greater light surely it may well be greater livyng thou seest but greater light thou canst not see to make thee alter This is a strong reason to bynde the loosest heart and make stedfast the most wādring soule unles in the sight of God his Angels and the world we would be manifestly perjured make open Apostasy to the high blaspheming of that Gospell of grace which we preach and professe 7. And lastly we know not how long our God shal grāt to vs the liberty of this present life If while we enjoye it we likewise keep fast this pretious liberty purchased to us by Christ and so long possessed of vs in peace the certeinly in weale in wo in life in death we shall find the fruit and comfort thereof But if we forsake this liberty and God come and cut of the liberty of this present life with what assurance shall we looke for the liberty of that better life Therefore let us stand fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free and not be entangled agayne with the yoke of bondage Now it may be that some wil be reasonyng within themselues after this manner What needes all this a-doe of this liberty the keeping of it and standing in it Wherein is it hurt And by whom I answer to the first If ye will compare the state of our Church as it was within these few yeares with that which now is the graces and faces of ●aithfull men zealous for the house of God their vnity and amity the order comelines of their meetings the cōcurrēce to the Lords worke which thē was with that which now we looke vpon with our eyes disorder confusiō division your question wil easily be resolved The time hath been whē our Church liberties haue been as a defensed cittie or house but now doores and windowes are partly cast open partly broken up enemies entered so that the faithfull keepers wil be forced eyther to yeld or to suffer but to suffer is farr better for if either our liberties through craft be undermined or through reward be given out of our handes it is likely the Lord will never honor us with them agayne But if by violence they be throwne out of our hands then possesse we a good conscience in our Gods great mercy they shal be repossessed whē he thinks time Was not the glorious liberty of Doctrine and Discipline exercised in this land sometime to it that which the Arke of God was to Israel the glory and prayse of it which now is departing there is none like Phinehas wife to mourne for it Was not Scotland albeit the meanest among many Nations yet renowned through the world because Christ in his Gospell of grace was so clearely borne out before our eyes in it And as Bethleem Ephrathah albeit litle among the thousands of Iuda yet renowned because Iesus was borne in it But now we are beating him downe putting him in bāds covering his face as though we were of purpose now to bury him agayne with the Iewes The Lord be mercifull to us I need not insist in these thinges which are more then evident whereof every one of us talketh privily albeit we speake no● much of them publikely I answer to the second question that is by whom our liberties are hurt As concerning our Soveraigne the Kings Majestie he promised at his departure out of this Country and protested as we heare at that meeting late at Lieth●oe by his Cōmissioner that it was no way his highnes intention to alter our government or to hurt our liberties And to testifie our entier and sincere loue reverence and dutifull obediēce to him we preach with Christ Math 22.21 Giue unto Caesar our christian Caesar that which is his and unto God those things which are his With Paul Rom 13.1 Let every soule be subiect unto the higher power which is of God and ordayned by him With Peter 1. Pet 2 17. Feare God honor the King We pray for him that his throne may be established with the Sunne and the Moone in his owne person and Royall ofspring till the Sonne of God sett downe his throne in the cloudes to judge the quicke the dead And we will giue to him more honor then Saule requyred of Samuel whē he desired that he would but honor him before his people 1. Sam. 15.30 Not only wil we honor him before his people but also before the Lord in sincerity Well then let us search out this hurt among our selues The Lord hath appoynted us to be the lightes of the land holding out his light before this darkened generation to be the eyes for the body of his Church to guide her forward in the way of grace but we haue been in a great measure blinde and darknes our selues The Lord appoynted us to be the watchmen set on the walles of his Sion to see foresee blowe the trumpet and giue warning to his people in time of danger but we haue been blynde and haue not seene and as dombe doges who haue not barked The Lord appoynted us to be builders of his house the ground corner and headstone whereof is Iesus Christ but we haue been breakers downe of that which our worthy predicessors and we our selues haue builded up before and so haue made our selues transgressors saith the Apostle Paul Gal. 2.18 The Lord appoynted us to be the keepers and dressers of his vineyard but we by our sloath and silence haue suffered the hedges therof to be brokē downe and many wylde grapes to growe therin The Lord appoynted us to be the sheephards of his flocke to feed them lead them out to the greene pastures of his word and Sacraments but we in a great measure haue been idle sheepheards feading our selues and forgetting the flocke which Christ hath purchased with his pretious bloud Here is the cause of our wounded hurt liberties This we confesse in the sight of God and his Angels for this we cry God mercy for Christs sake O that our heads were