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A77486	Brightman redivivus: or The post-humian of-spring of Mr. Thomas Brightman, in IIII. sermons. Viz. [brace] 1. Of the two covenants. 2. The danger of scandals. 3. Gods commission to Christ to preach the Gospell. 4. The saints securitie.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.; Halsted, John.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4691; Thomason E375_16; ESTC R201349	89,168	128

was the materiall Oyle of the inward Spirituall Annoynting Psal 105.15 and 1 Kings 19.16 Elisha is said to be Annoynted and yet had nothing but Elias Cloake cast on him Object But you will say if the presence of the Spirit be the Annoynting then Christ was Annoynted in his very Conception Answ To this answer is made that there is a two-fold Annoynting The one was Sanctity of nature and this was from the Conception But the other was for a publik● Office and that was only in Baptisme by the visible shape of the Holy Ghost and with the voyce of the Father having seene the meaning let us see the instruction Doct. 1. Doctrine Christ did not of his own swing and Counsell leap into the Office of Reconciliation but by the Authority and Ordination of God and the Holy Spirit So that whatsoever was done by Christ in that Office was done by the will and common consent of the Trinity Heb. 5. chap. 4 and 5. verses So that whosoever embraces Christ he doth by the same meanes and at the same time come into favour with the whole Trinity who committed this Office to Christ as on the contrary they that despise Christ the Annoynted of God in vain do they boast of God when as together with Christ they reject the Father and the Spirit And hence appeares the miserable Condition of the Jewes Turkes and all Infidels who refuse to hearken to the Annoynted of God Doct. 2. Doctrine No Creature Man or Angell can perform this high Office but Christ alone to whom is given fulnesse of the Spirit yea not only are any able but it it not lawfull for any to attempt the same but Christ alone because there was none ever ordained or Consecrated to this Office besides him Iohn 6.27 Him hath the Father sealed to wit as with his Letters Patents testifying that Christ his Son is the only Mediator by whom he will be Reconciled 2 Cor. 5.21 God was in Christ reco●ciling the World And 1 Cor. 1.30 Christ is made to us of God Acts 4. There is no other Name or Person by whom we may yea or by whom it is lawfull to seeke Salvation Acts 5. at the end Acts 10. Him hath God annoynted So that alwayes the Apostles from this inferre that this Christ is the Saviour So that all are accused of falsification and forgery before God who presume to Translate the praise of this to any other then Christ for they goe about to Corrupt the Authentike Seale of God Vse So that this serves both to demonstrate and refute the Audacious boldnesse of the Papists in obtruding any into any part of the Office of Christ for be it granted that any either Man or Angell were found without sin and had the fulnesse of the Spirit yet might not such presume nor any for him to put him into this Office because not only sufficiency is required but also Ordination from God Now this can no where be shewed that God appointed any other If Christ should need any assistant it is either because he cannot or will not beare the whole burden himselfe The one whereof is most blasphemous against the power of God And the other is most derogatory to the infinite love and bountifulnesse of Christ Though in a Land there may be many fit for an Office yet if by Charter the Kings Majesty grant it to one alone who dare presume not only not to set up another but not so much as go to any other about that businesse or Office but he shall incurre the Kings displeasure And shall we not thinke Simile that if any seeke for Salvation at the hand of any other then at this Ioseph that God shall not be offended Shall one Sun in the Firmament suffice to inlighten the whole World and shall not the Sun of righteousnesse Christ Iesus Better had these men controuled any of the workes of Gods Creation yet a woe belongs to such then of Redemption and as their madnesse would appeare who to help the Sun would light Candels at noone day So no lesse madly deale they who would adjoyn any assistants unto Christ Second the meditation of this That God annoynted Christ is the foundation of Christian comfort both in that we may be assured that no exception can be taken against Christ who was sent by God himselfe as also because God out of his infinite and free Love to Man-kind gave Christ to be a Saviour And this the Scripture oft beats on as Rom. 3.21 25 26. Rom. 5.8 2 Cor. 5. at the end And Christ himselfe Iohn 3.17 So God loved the World For wee being the parties that had offended a Mediator should have beene procured by us and from us But we were unable to supply any because we were children of wrath Behold and wonder It was Man that had offended it was God that was injured and therefore in all reason it was that if man could not by himself yet he should have sought out one who might have stood twixt God and him to make an atonement But loe the contrary God offended and Man offending even God I say the Creator all-sufficient in himselfe and blessed for ever And man a worme a wretch before him yet this great God vouchsafes to send an embassage to us weake men to entreat of conditions of Peace and to offer the bloud of his own Son to be shed who was the Embassadour to confirme the league of Peace twixt himself and us Was there ever any love like this and wonderfull Oh the Ocean of comfort O endlesse love how should this confirme weake Consciences How can we doubt that the Lord will fayle his when he hath done this for them all ready O let us render love for love that wee be not worse then Publicans and sinners who love those that love them Doct. The third Doctrine Out of this with the former circumstance we learne whom and what manner of ones God doth preferre to any Office to wit such as are fit and are replenished with such gifts of the Spirit as the place requires ☞ for so it is here said Christ was Annoynted because he was furnished So was Saul 1 Sam. 10.9 And David 1 Sam. 16.14 So Cyrus Esa 42. and 44. chap. So Joshua Moses and all the Apostles and Ministers Ephes 4.12 13. Vse The use of this is that none presume to insinuate or intrude themselves into those Offices to the executing wherof they are not in some sort fitted of God So that it is plaine that many that boast themselves Ministers are nothing lesse then that they would seeme for when as they art rude and altogether void of Edification God hath not sent them for he hath not committed his flock to dumbe dogs or blind watchmen ☞ but whosoever he doth advance unto that dignity he doth furnish them in some good measure and as they mock both God and men who will enter Marriage estate having neither ability or desires to performe Marriage duties being either

Reade Pray seldome and coldly our increase will be slender as he that sowes sparingly shall so reap But alas in what things do men Macerate themselves with cares paines watchings but in such things as are fraile short and unprofitable from which Christ earnestly diswades Iohn 6.27 28. But Faith is not deare to the World though it alone free us from the slavery of Satan and makes us the Sons of God sets us at liberty this opens heaven to us that was shut Yea it represents it to us in this life and gives us both a pledge and tast of it Vse Let us not content our selves with a bare name of Faith neither let us thinke it sufficient to have our minds brightned with any manner of knowledge as with Lightning but if at any time we have felt the lively heate thereof in our hearts let us cherish and adde new matter to it that it may flame forth What is the reason why when we professe the true God true Christ and sincere Religion Yet all this our knowledge and profession is idle and unfruitfull Many regard not Faith at all others content themselves with a name or Vizard thereof Hence it is that true Religion doth abound with no lesse swarmes of wicked men then once the horrible Popish Superstition For as a Picture being the worke of Art Simile doth not so much resemble the shape of a Man as the Carkasse it selfe which is the frame of Nature and yet this availes no more then the Picture to execute the functions belonging to Men. So the Popish Superstition was only a Picture and counterfeit of Religion the worke of mens hands Simile and therefore farre inferiour to our solid and substantiall Portraiture which God himselfe hath fashioned with his own hands and doth exceed the other in Beauty and Truth of all the Members But when as by our carelesnesse wee doe deprive Religion given us of God of the life and Soule thereof this our Carkasse which we scarce hold is no more availeable to performe the Office of a Christian then that Antichristian imitation of the worship of God Wherefore my Brethren if there be any care of freeing the Church of God the deere Spouse of Christ from those opprobies and imputations wherewith for our sakes it is unjustly charged of the Adversary if we desire to prove to our selves that our Faith hath taken deeper roote then that ever it should wither away with the heat of the Sunne if we desire any comfort in adversity and in the houre of death let us apply our selves to increase and cherish Faith Object But some may say what meanes dost thou shew us of doing this Ans To which answer is made that every thing is perfitted by the meanes it was begot and begun and is brought up by the same it was brought forth 1 Peter 2. at the beginning But notable is that place Heb. 20.25 Shewing how Faith Hope and Charity are increased for in the former words he had exhorted to these and in the 25 verse hee shewes the meanes which are two First is that we cleave to the holy Assemblies with a holy mind and never suffer our selves prophanely to bee pu●led away nor of our own accord to forsake them And secondly to apply at all times mutuall Exhortations Vse Let us practice these two as is exhorted Heb. 3. Let us take heed of discouraging any in good of giving evill example of exhorting to ungodlinesse Alas then it is easie to see why so little Faith appeares why it decayes because Prophecying decayes and men grow weary of it Christian admonition is intollerable What greater policy can be of the Divell then to stop the breath of Faith and to dry up the breasts thereof As therefore we desire the preserving and increase of Faith let us make much of the meanes this will soften the heart for as Graine cannot grow if the ground be not moistened continually so our hearts grow so hard that good things cannot thrive and especially this burden lies on those Simile who are as common builders of others Faith that they doe it willingly and to this end That such as be set in such places bee kept to their taskes How can a building go forward if some builders build and the others loyter and who sees not the necessity of this how can a Souldier escape unwounded without his Shield of Faith this is that also that sets the edge on the Sword of Faith called also the Breast-plate 1 Thes 5.8 For even all the parts of the Christian Armour are hammered on this Anvill and smit out with this Hammer and are wrought with this fire And thus much of the first Christian duty or of the first succour whereby we may be preserved in the Love of God The second followes And that is Prayer which is as a certaine Embassage whereby we entreat for Raine Assistance for Faith Hope and Charity are by the gift of God made as it were our houshold Servants but so great is our wickednesse that unlesse a new supply be duly levyed out for us daily to the opposing the same that for any base reward of Honour Riches or Pleasures wee should betray those excellent gifts and our whole Salvation as much as in us lyes to the Divell Wherefore the Holy Ghost would not have us trust too much to our naturall strength but to place all hope of Victory in forraine ayd The Faithfull can do all things but it is in Christ strengthening them Phil. 4.13 Whence St. Paul Ephes 6. Having exhorted to take the whole Armour of God at last addes this as a safe defence and Munition Prayer As if all the other had been of little force to saveguard unlesse this from above did make a new supply Let us then see how we may receive some benefit and use of this succour This the Apostle shewes in a word adding this Praying in the Holy Ghost that is by the same Object But when or how is this done Answ To this answer is made What true Prayer is It is to call on God in true Faith by Christ for things necessary according to the will of God and all this with a certaine divine and heavenly commotion or stirring of the Mind whither through sorrow for the feeling of our own wants or of joy through the sense of Gods favour In this manner calling on God we may be said to Pray in the Holy Ghost because the Spirit doth stirre up in our minds all these things For we of our selves such is our Ignorance and blindnesse know not altogether what we should Pray for as we ought and therefore the Spirit doth help this infirmity and doth teach us being in a streit what we should aske and not this only but when as a wonderfull blockishnesse of heart doth wholly possesse us the same Spirit doth mollifie our hard hearts and doth infuse such lively heat into our minds whereby we tremble at our own unworthinesse and rejoyce in the most

are not his brethren with us Mark 6. But if we shall consider That Christ is King or Priest to none to whom he is not a Prophet and he is not a Prophet to those that contemn his Ordinance of Preaching then men shall he made to give due respect to the same Vse Third as touching the Ministers they ought not to be daunted if they see the proue contemn their Ministery for let them remember that they as Christ were sent to the poore so that if one or two poore embrace our Doctrine we have wherein to rejoyce Ezech. 2.5 Doct. Out of these words may be raised another profitable observation to wit What was the matter of Christs Doctrine to wit the Gospell and not the Law For this cause came he out of the bosome of his Father Iohn 1. The Law was given by M●ses c. So that this doth ●ichly commend the Office and benefit of Christ for the Gospell farre surmounts the Law Object But it may be said Did not Christ teach the Law Math. 5. and other places as to the young-man Luke 29. Answ To this answer is made Hee did it ●●t as his chiefe Office but as a preparing of men thereby to the Gospell for as the proper office of a Carpenter is ●o build not to pull downe Simile and of a Physitian to heale not to make sicke yet they are forced oft to doe both Even so was CHRIST Simile He saw that the Law was so taught as that men were made to trust in it to looke for Salvation by it as being possible to bee kept and so to exclude all helpe and necessity of any other Saviour So that most needfull it was that Christ should shew that the Law rightly understood was impossible to bee kept that so they might seeke Salvation else-where This being remembred to returne to the Point to wit The excellency of the Gospell it will soone appeare by the riches and benefits it brings with it As first Pardon of Sins Secondly gift of Righteousnesse Thirdly adop●ion of Sons Fourthly acceptance into the favour of God yea unto life everlasting Fiftly gift of the Spirit Faith Hope Patience Love Holinesse c. Sixtly freedome from the Curse of the Law Hell Death and dominion of Sin Seventhly Communion with the blessed Trinity 1 Joh. 1. at the beginning Eightly accesse unto the throne of Grace Ninthly Peace of Conscience Perseverance Sanctification of all afflictions with all other riches of Christ all which are wrought by the Gospell which how great they are may be seene by the contrary or the want of them as to bee under the gui●t of Sin wrath of God Children of Satan Curse and Death bondage sting and wo me of Conscience debarred Gods presence and reserved for the fearefull soci●ty of Satan And as the excellency of the Gospell doth partly appeare hereby so will it further by considering how it differs from the Law For the Law first is Naturall second the Gospell is Supernaturall both for matter and the manner of Revealing Ioh. 1.18 Colos 2.16 1 Cor. 2.7 Had not he wi●dome of God found out this meanes of Salvation and published the same all the wits of Men and Angels had not been able to have devised such a way whereby Gods justice might bee fully satisfied and yet infinite Mercy extended to miserable Man Secondly The Law and Gospell differ in the way that leads to Righteousnesse and Salvation For the Law sayes by Doing The Gospell ☞ by Beleeving The Law teaches it must be done by our Selves The Gospell admits and sets forth Another Philip. 3. Gal. 3. Rom. 10.5 6 7. Thirdly they differ in the manner and nature of the Promises annexed to either For the Legall requires the condition of our Righteousnesse and that every way perfit But the Evangelicall requires not our own but accepts anothers nor exacts Perfection in us but only Syncerity Rom. 4. By debt and freely distinguishing the Law and the Gospell Fourthly They differ in their effects for the Law causes wrath Increases sin gives not strength to doe the things Commanded But the Gospell brings Peace Righteousnesse and 〈◊〉 the Ministery of the Spirit This is largely and excellently taught 2 Corinth 3. Vse The knowledge of these things are most necessary First they shew the excellency of the Ministery of the new Testament 2 Cor. 4.1 2 3. So that the Ministers thereof need not to be ashamed Rom. 1.16 It is the power of God to Salvation Ephes 3.7.8 9. And hereby the meanest Preacher of the Gospell is become greater then Iohn Baptist namely in regard of his Office Because they are publishers of these glad-tydings accomplished by Christ Vse Second this shewes the happy condition of the faithfull now Math 13. Luke 10. Blessed are the eyes that see those things which you see c. Heb. 12.17 18 19. Vse Third it admonishes all Christians of their duty and that they take heed they neglect not the same Heb. 2.1 2 3. If they escaped not that transgressed the Law much lesse shall they that offend against the Gospell For Christ is the Prophet whom who so will not heare must be destroyed Acts 3. at the end God suffered evill entreaty of his Servants but after he had sent his Son and they had despised him presently he tooke away the Vineyard Woes were denounced against Corazin Bethsaida and Capernaum wherein is shewed that their state should be worse at the day of Iudgement then Sodome and Gomorrha Vse Fourth this teaches the simple to distinguish the Law and the Gospell the knowledge whereof is the key of the whole Scripture as whereby all the wiles of the Papists may be discovered and avoided They commonly teach that the Gospell is the new Law and a more perfit Law whence they inferred their Doctrines of Counsell and works of Supererogations But alas if the Gospell were a more perfit Law it were wofull tydings to all mankind Hereby also may appeare that the Law and Gospell cannot be joyned in the point of Iustification for as these two are quite contrary To to do a thing by our selves and to do it by another to have a thing by desert and to have it of free gift and such are the Law and Gospell in the justification of a sinner To Preach deliverance to the Captives That which before was set down in generall only both in regard of the Benefit as also of the Misery of man this same after the usuall manner of Scripture is described more particularly and as opposites set together doe make each other more conspicuous so is it here a Misery and a mercy a defect and a supply And as the disease is before the remedy so it must first be handled and it is expressed in the word Captives wherein as before the outward and bodily Captivity is used to expresse and declare our inward miserable Captivity and bondage Captives As God sold his people into their Enemies hands suffered their houses to be pulled down the