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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85892	The glorious excellencie of the spirit of adoption; or, Of the spirit of the sonne of God, derived to the sonnes of God. Wherein are many precious truths held forth, which are presented to all the children of truth, who are and shall be sanctified through the truth. / By M.G. minister of the Gospell.	M. G.	1645 (1645)	Wing G47; Thomason E1175_1; ESTC R5770	40,603	110

Father the Son and the Spirit and then though thou couldest doe nothing befre yet thou mayest bee able to say with Paul I can doe all things through Christ which strengtheneth mee And so much for this use I come now to the next And 4. Vse To discover the fondnesse of those that seek to be instified by his works as Papist and Papisticall spirits Vse 4 IS it so that the Spirit of life in Christ Iesus hath free us from the Law Then this discovers the fondnesse of those that seeke to be Iustified by the by the Workes of the Law Let those Pharisees but to sider that unlesse the Lord Iesus had come into the world to free men from the curse of the Law no flesh could have been saved unlesse Christ himselfe through the eternall spirit had fulfilled the Law for us all men must have perished for ever for there is no life to be obtained by the Law but in the perfect fulfilling of the Law Gal. 2 17. Rom. 3.20 but saies the Apostle by the workes of the Law shall no man living be justified And therefore when the young man in Gospel that thought to be justified by his doings came to our Savious and said what must I doe to inheherite eternall life Our Saviour answers to his question because hee questions whither he might be saved by doing and tells him what he must doe and againe saies our Saviour if thou wilt bee perfect meaning if thou by thine owne strength seekes to bee perfect I will tell thee what thou must doe having before told him that hee must do all the workes of the Second Table towards his brother Our Saviour tells him further he must goe and sell that he had and he should have treasure in heaven and come and follow the Lord Jesus but that cast him into a sad fit as being utterly unable so to do And certainly unlesse men bee able to fulfill the Law to the uttermost is no obtaining salvation by it If thou failest but in one point thou art guilty of all for there is no hope for thee I meane in the Law How vaine is it therefore for any man to seek life by that which speakes nothing but death to all since all have sinned and all come short of it Aagaine consider that no man can come unto the Father but by the Lord Jesus He is the way the truth and the life God hath determined to glorifie and magnifie his free grace that all might be of grace that the Creature might not have whereof to boast and therefore wee are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in CHRIST JESUS Romancs 3.34 That the creature might not have whereof to glory and therefore the Scripture saies that Abraham was iustified by workes but Abraham beleeved God and it was accounted unto him for righteousnes And therefore saies the Apostle to him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted unto him for righteousnesse Rom 4.3.5 And in the 23. and 24. verses the Apostle tells us againe that Abrahams faith being imputed unto him for rigteousnesse It was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed unto him but for us also to whom it shall bee imputed for righteousne if we beleeve on him that raised up Iesus our Lord from the dead Be ashamed therefore of thy vanity thou that goest about to establish thine owne righteousnesse being ignorant of the righteousnesse of God and be now informed there is no other name under heaven by which thou canst be saved but by the name of Iesus Christ And 5. Vse To cleere the Saints of that odious nickname of Antinomians Vse 5 THe fifth use is this If it be so that the Saints have the Law of God written in their hearts and the law of the Spirit of life be within them then in the next place this point is of use to cleere the Saints from that nick-name of Antinomian which some doe indeavour to fasten upon them But herein I would not be mistaken as though I hereby Intended to sooth up those that are really such in their lawlesse practises for to such I have spoken already in the first use but I speake now of those that have the law of God written in their hearts through the Spirit Who yet are branded with this contemtible title of Antinomians or persons against the law by scandalous and wicked persons and that as it seemes upon this ground Because they professe they are saved by free grace and not by the workes of the law and instified in beleeving the promise of free grace without the deeds of the Law That which I shall say for them in this particular is this that in this they doe not make voide the Law but establish the Law And doe I say so or doth not rather the Spirit of God by the Apostle Rom. 3.31 say so for the Apostle having been in the former ver discoursing that no flesh should be justified by by the Law but by free grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus and that the Law is nothing in point of justification but it is all imputed to faith saies the Apostle do we then make voide the Law through faith God forbid Yea we establish the Law And now you that cast these false aspersions on the Saints How will you answer the Apostle heere For you cast not this aspersion upon those that are in these times only but upon all that are saved by free grace through the redemption that is in the Lord Jesus in all ages and places Now saies the Apostle they doe not make voide the Law but they establish it And now friend whosoever thou art that castest this title upon the Saints know that if thou dost not see that they establish the Law it is through thine owne ignorance thy ignorance of the workings of the Spirit of JESUS CHRST in those that beleeve for though the Saints now are redeemed from the Law that they might not serve in the oldnesse of the Letter yet they now serve in the newnesse of the Spirit and though they be free from the Law yet it is that the Law of the Spirit might be put into them for the Spirit of Iesus Christ worketh in them mightily both to will and to doe and they are led by the Spirit of God in the waies of God They are led by the Spirit in the waies of holynesse and puritie And further they are led by the Spirit to doe that which is above the Law and which the Law doth not teach them also as to beleeve in the Lord Iesus and to see themselves compleate in him and to behold the things that are freely given to them of God even that the Lord Iesus is made unto them of God wisedome Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption not that they can possibly slight the Law although they are carried in the Spirit beyond it as it holds forth any holinesse

to be a law in regard of his mighty operation in the Soule it brings downe light and truth and life and power into the soule and workes exceeding strongly in the soule and when it comes what is able to withstand the Spirit What is greater then the Spirit What is stronger then the Spirit If the spirit comes it bears down all opposition Though the flesh lust against the spirit yet the spirit is two strong for the flesh so that it divides the very jonts and marrow So that the Spirit is a law above the law the law is weake and cannot take place in the hearts of men But when the spirit comes with its law it prevails against all and takes place The flesh profiteth nothing saith our Saviour it is the Spirit that quickneth If the spirit quickneth it hath life in it and where life is it is full of activity for life is manifested in this in that it is full of motion quicknesse and agilitie and in beating off every thing that doeth offende it or anoy it So the spirit being a spirit of life it hath a mighty power in it Although the soule be filled with sin and guilt and in that condition cloathed also with ignorance which doth so inviron the foule as it cannot stir in any other way nor hath the least motion of good in it yet when the spirit comes he beares downe all he destroyes all and therefore it is called the spirit of burning in the scripture And when Christ comes to Baptise he is said to Baptise with the holy Ghost and with fire so that when the spirit comes nothing can stand before him and he brings both light and heate and motion in him and is most powerfull in operation But then 3. The spirit may be saide to be a law or to have a law in it as it is a sure and true guide and as it leades every soule in a right and true way And therefore our Saviour tells vs The spirit of truth shall leade you into all truth And indeed the Spirit guides securely and guides safely guides surely and guides Purely for the spirit cannot erre and he that hath the spirit knowes the minde of God and is guided to fullfill the minde of God as farr as he hath the spirit for the spirit is a blessed guide and a blessed rule and about the law for although the law it s true is righteous holy and good yet alas it Cannot bring forth power to inable the Creature to walke suteable to its selfe It is onely the Spirit hath that power and not the law Therefore the Spirit he is the law of the Saints he shews them the truth teaches them the truth and leades them in the truth and gives them power to walke according to the truth for its the spirit that guides the Saints to Christ who is the truth its selfe and so The spirit guides the Saints in the waies of holynesse through the Spirit they mortifie the deeds of the body and live through the spirit they are guided to denie themselves to abandon their owne parts and their own indowments and their owne righteousnesse and to see all in and to fetch all from a Christ Through the Spirit the Saints put away the garment spotted by the flesh and forsake their vaine conversation wherein in times past they walked through the spirit the Saints are guided to deny all vngodlynesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly and holy and Godly in the present evill world through the spirit they are taught to love with an vnfained love the houshold of faith puting away malice and envie and the leaven of discention and wickednesse through the spirit the Saints are guided so to walke as to shine as lights amidst a crooked and perverse generation In a word through the spirit the Saints are guided having discliamed all their owne righteousnesse to doe that which the Jewes could not doe by the light of the law even to submit to the righteousnesse of Christ that is to cloath themselves through faith with the glorious robes of the righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus whereby they see themselves compleat in him and thus the spirit is a pure and a sure guide and in these three respects the Spirit may be said to have a law and so much may suffice for answer to the first queree But 2. Queree 2 In that the Apostle here tells us of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus and doth not say the spirit of life in us but the spirit of life in Christ The queree will be how the spirit of life is said to be in Christ Answer To which I answer The spirit of life is said to be in Christ under two considerations 1. As hee is the Fountaine of life 2. As he communicates the spirit of life unto all his people 1. As the Lord lesus Christ is the fountaine of life as the fulnesse of all life dwells in him for so sayes the Apostle It pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell 1 Cor. 15.47 45. and the same Apostle also saies he is the Lord from Heaven and that the first Adam was made a living soule but the second Adam was made a quickning spirit and therefore our Saviour tells us the flesh profiteth nothing but it is the spirit that quickens and the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life There is such a fulnesse of the spirit in Christ that whatsoever Christ speakes is spirituall and carries a spirituall signification along with it for indeed the spirit was in him without measure so that in him is life originally or he is the fountaine of Life but then 2. The Spirit of life is in him by way of communication all that of the spirit that is communicated unto us is communicated unto us in and by the Lord Iesus Have wee any life any strength any beautie upon us any grace conveyed unto us It is all conveyed in and through the Lord Iesus Christ And therefore our Saviour tells the Jewes that he was the bread of life the bread of Heaven that came down from Heaven And whosoever did eate of his flesh and drink of his blood should live for ever he breathed the Holy Ghost on his disciples and poures upon every one that beleeves on him rivers of living water rivers of his spirit for he conveies fulnesse of spirituallitie and divine strength into them That man therefore that hath the spirit of life in Christ conveyed into him through the spirit of life in Christ living in him is the most beautifull creature in the world for he carries divine sweetnesse and beautie upon his spirit And he that hath this spirit derived from Christ hath true life in him other men may be alive and yet dead but that man that hath the life of Christ through his spirit that works in him such a soul shall live for ever such a soule shall never die but it shall