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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