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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11011	Lectures vpon the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians. Preached by that faithfull seruant of God, Maister Robert Rollok, sometime rector of the Vniuersitie of Edenburgh	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.; Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.	1603 (1603)	STC 21282; ESTC S116223	383,986	492

of Christ 12 In that ye are buried with him through Baptisme in whom ye are also raised vp together through the faith of the operation of God which raised him from the dead IN this second chapter of this Epistle brethren you haue heard how the Apostle exhorteth to perseuerance in that faith receiued next how he admonisheth the Colossians to beware of false teachers and false doctrine The last day ye heard how he admonisheth them that they should take heed that no man spoyle them or driue them away as a pray and that through Philosophie which hee calleth vaine deceit His argument was from that fulnes that is in Christ In him saith he dwelleth the fulnes of the Godhead bodily Summe of the former Sermon Therefore be contented with him and seeke not to be filled with vaine traditions of men and their deceitfull philosophie Then for that they might haue said he is full that is true let him be full and let the fulnes of the Godhead be in him what is that to vs we are neuer the fuller in regard thereof He therfore meeteth with this obiection and saith you are compleate in him his fulnes filleth you if you be in him you shall receiue of his fulnes and be filled And who is this that filleth them To let them see that it is no small matter to be filled with his fulnes he painteth him out and saith he is the head of all the Empire Well would you thinke it a small matter to be filled with his fulnes that is so high Now to come to the words which we haue read They might Coherence Obiection haue said we want Circumcision for the false teachers did alwaies beate that into their heads they themselues thought they could haue no grace in Christ but by Circumcision The Iewes receiued Circumcision which was an entrie to grace we want this Circumcision therefore wee can haue no entrie to grace as the Iewes had In this verse the Apostle meeteth Answere them and saith In whom also ye are circumcised He granteth to them circumcision in a manner and saith Complaine not you want not circumcision in Christ Neuer Iew had it in greater effect then you haue and therefore complaine not Then note here shortly this question of theirs and his answere thereto He saith plainly that we cannot be filled with the fulnes of Iesus Christ except after some sort we be circumcised that is to say except the foreskinne not of the bodie but of the heart Our naturall corruption must be circumcised if we be in Christ and Christ in vs. be cut away For except this originall and naturall corruption wherein we are borne be cut away there is no grace for vs. For I tell you if in no measure it be abolished it so occupieth all the parts and powers of the soule that there is no place to the grace of Christ Iesus Therefore it must be first thrust out and think not that the original corruption wherein thou art borne and the grace of Christ can dwell together Simile the one expelleth the other as water doth the fire The second thing which I note is this I perceiue there is The second obseruatiō nothing that the Iewes had but in effect Christians haue the same Wilt thou speake of Circumcision The Church of Iesus Christ hath it in a farre better sort then euer they had It is true that they had more Ceremonies Sacraments figures and outward rites in their religion then we haue but we haue no losse by the want of them but rather a plaine aduantage They had the shadow wee haue the bodie Haue you not a greater aduantage by the body thē by the shadow They followed the shadow going before the bodie but thou laiest hold vpon the bodie following the shadow Oh would to God the Church of Scotland could consider this grace we haue in the bodie that the Iewes nor any els in the old world could get Thou wouldest wonder at that grace of God in Iesus Christ But alas wee esteeme it not in our daies Well to goe forward least they should misconster him hee expoundeth himselfe and sheweth of what circumcision hee meant to wit not of the grosse circumcision of the Iewes He saith Ye are circumcised not with circumcision made with mens hands not of that outward skinne but with an inward circumcision of the hart that is made by the spirit and finger of God there is the meaning In this you see a difference betweene the Iewes religion ours All things among them were outward obiects to the eyes of men their religion for the most part stoode in an outward glorie and shew Things among them were made by the hands of men as their Circumcision and their Tabernacles as appeareth in the Epistle to the Hebrues but the religion that Christ brought to the world when hee was manifest in the flesh abolished all their religion and standeth in spirit and veritie He is not neither will be worshipped in this mountaine and that mountaine but hee will be worshipped in spirit and truth Ioh. 4. 21. His religion seeketh not this outward pompe So when I looke to these men that haue brought into Christs Church this outward vanitie I am compelled to say that the deceiuers of the world haue turned Poperie Christianisme into Iudaisme yea into Gentilisme and Paganisme Fie on them I may say to them as Paul said to the Galathians chap. 3. 1. O foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you So I say O foolish man when thou hast begun with a spirituall thing wilt thou end in a fleshly thing thou shalt neuer see heauen if thou make such an end The Lord began with an outward thing and ended with a spirituall thing but thou wilt begin with a spirituall thing and wilt end with a fleshly and outward thing O thy end shall be damnable To goe forward he insisteth vpon this circumcision made without hands he defineth it in plaine words that thereby he would make them vnderstand these spirituall things for it is hard to cause a naturall man to vnderstand spirituall and heauenly things he saith it stands Wherein In a putting off in an vncloathing of thee as one would cast off his coate or shirt so the circumcision that is not made with hands standeth in this thou must cast something from thee He maketh it not to stād in the outward cutting off of the outward skin but the inward circumcision of a foule heart the cloathes that it is clad with they are pestiferous and they must be torne and throwne off that thy heart may be circumcised For I tell thee there was neuer any one more surely clad with infected apparell then thy heart is enwrapped with the botchie corruption of thy nature And if thou keepe it on it will infect thee and steale thee to death destruction before thou be aware But to come to this garment the Apostle tels thee what garment and