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A80742	Gospel-libertie in the extensions limitations of it. Wherein is laid down an exact way to end the present dissentions, and to preserve future peace among the Saints. VVhereunto is added good newes from heaven; to the worst of sinners on earth. The former in nine sermons on 1 Cor. 10. 23. All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expeaient. The latter in three sermons on Luke 2. 10. Feare not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. By Walter Cradock late preacher at All-Hallows Great in London;	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.; Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6762A; ESTC R204983	178,682	290

as hard as to wash a Blackmore white Now this people being a customed foure thousand yeares to serve God with offerings and sacrifice and Temple and Jerusalem it was not easie to breake them of that custome Therefore the Lord Christ comes and when hee would set up his worship he speaks exceeding fairly of that outward worship because they had fed so long upon it that they doted As we at this day as they would make a curious outward worship as of old they wrung and wrested the Scripture to make it faire and delicate and curious as that that God would have of them But Christs designe being to set up a spirituall kingdome he shewes that as in the old Testament unlesse there were something internall the externall did not please God My soule abhorres your sacrifices c. So in the new Testament much more the Lord doth not regard outward worship at all without the inward and the inward is almost all that God looks after Therefore consider a few places of Scripture Gal. 5.6 There was great question about ceremonies and outward things saith the Apostle Neither circumcision availeth any thing or ununcircumcision but faith that worketh by love For in Christ Jesus saith he that is in the dayes of Christ in the new Testament neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails Externals to be looked to as for as God hath let them down but faith that worketh by love Talk not of outward things stand not so much upon them not but that the servants of God must look to externals as farre as God hath set them down but talk not so much of them but faith that worketh by love see there be that So in Gal. 6.15 the same words almost For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing or uncircumcision but a new creature In the time of Christ he lookes not whether men be circumcised or uncircumcised but whether they be new creatures So in 2 Cor. 5.17 there are the same words almost The Apostle poynts out unto us how much God in the time of the new Testament regards inward worship Therefore we see in Rom. 14. where there was great controversie concerning the eating of hearbs and the keeping of dayes Paul answers not directly but saith The kingdome of God is not in these things but in righteousnes and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost He would not have them strive about these things but goe to the inward worship see that there be righteousnes and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost so in Heb. 13. when there was clashing about these outward things It is a good thing saith he that the heart be stablished with grace And so in Timothy bodily excercise profitteth little but godlines is profitable for all things Therfore The designe of God being to set up a spirituall kingdome the work of grace in the heart that we might worship him in spirit the lord hath given more libertie and is more sparing in laying downe of externall worship Lastly this is another reason though I could give many more that the Gospell of Iesus Christ was to be preached to all nations they being different in customes in clymates in constitution The Gospel being to bee preached to different nations Christ ties them chiefly to that substance and dispositions Christ tied them in his law for the substance so left the rest to be by the spirit of God in his people to be determined according to the best advantage for the honour of God and the good of his people As for instance it is a hard thing to make a law for all England and for all the Counties and Townes that that should be good for one Countie that is for another and for one Towne that is for another But if a man were to make a law for Spaine and France and Italie and Turkie for all the world that are nations crosse and contrary one to another in their clymate and disposition that law that were good for one Kingdome would destroy another So here when Christ made lawes in the old Testament there was but one nation and a little nation and the Gospel was not to remove from that nation Therefore he comes to particulars but the Gospel now being to be preached to all nations he hath left a latitude for his people that they may apply the Gospel to all countries and nations for the glory of God and the good of his people As for instance Baptisme saith Christ Baptize all nations that is go and use water for their washing for whatever men find in the word I speak not of now go use water for a spirituall end to purge their bodies to signifie the purging of the soule If Christ had tied men to go into Jordan as in that countrie it was so hote they might goe with a great deale of comfort but if Christ had made Baptisme such an Ordinance as that in all Climates and Countries and Regions they must go over head and eares in a River we know in some climates it would have been present death As with us in this climate at some times of the yeare to be put over head and eares in the Thames it would be death at others not Therefore Christ layes down the substance and the end and by the Word of God and sound Preaching he left the rest for the Spirit of God in his people to apply Againe to instance in the Supper of the Lord The Lords Supper The Lord tooke bread and wine and blessed and broke and gave them and the drift of all the busines is to shew the breaking of his body and the shedding of his blood Now he hath bound us that we should break bread and drink wine that may represent the thing but he hath not bound us to bread so properly called or to wine properly so called for there are some countries that have neither bread nor wine but only rootes that they called bread and they have water for their drink Now if Christ had said it must be true bread and true and reall wine that must doe the deed these people could never have the Supper of the Lord Therefore the Gospel being not to be limitted to one countrie but to be spread to many nations Christ hath left a latitude for the conveniency of all nations So you have the Doctrine and the Reasons of it I should come to the Uses but I must leave them for another day ENCOURAGEMENT for sinners to come unto Christ 1 COR. 10.23 ALL things are LAWFULL for me but ALL things are not EXPEDIENT c. HAving opened these words to you the last day I observed these three Doctrines which by the help of God I shall speak of The first was this that There are many things that are lawfull to the Saints now under the new Testament that were not to them under the Old And the second was That of those many things that are lawfull to the Saints now there are but

for ever Here it is not so the curse is taken away In those few things thou art to do for Christ if thou faile there is no damnation the hell and curse is gone Fourthly Compare it with the service of the devill that all men naturall are in 4. With the service of the devill you shall see that in the service of the devill there is abundance of charge and cost and paines As for instance if you look to a drunkard he spends the whole weeke and wastes his estate in the service of the devill The adulterer doth not cease to sin the devill will not give him rest And the worlding drudgeth all his life to serve the devill The service of the devill is a great slavery and drudgery that a Saint often pities a carnall man not only for the danger of his soule but for the drudgery of his life he pities a worldly man to see him rise early and goe to bed late As we say he must needs goe that the devil drives The devil drives the drunkard to the alehouse and the worlding to his mammon and eates out the strength and marrow of his bones It is not so in the service of Christ But you will say Object the service of the devill is sweet wee see men continue to be his servants Men finde sweetnes in the service of the devill and will not be the servants of Christ I could speak many things of that but only a word 1. It will one day be soure It seemeth sweet to men But it will be soure one day And besides though it be sweet to them 2. That sweetnes is from distemper yet it is a sweetnes that ariseth from their sicknes and distemper As a child e that will eate no meat sometimes but coles and ashes it is sweet but it is a distemper he is sicke there is no such sweetness in coales And a man in a feaver he desireth to drink water it is but his sicknesse So if wee be drunk and sweare and be whoremoungers and proud men and women and delight in worldly things in pleasures and the service of the devill it is an evil humour and corruption that makes us finde that sweetness But the maine reason is this 3. It is sweet because you never tasted the sweetns of Christs service you find sweetnes in the service of the devill because you never tasted the goodnes of the service of Christ I dare say if there were no heaven nor hell if thou diddest know the sweetnes and comfort in the service of Christ thou wouldest scorne and disdaine to seeke comfort in a cup of drink or in worldly things but that is the reason thou hast not tasted that the Lord is gracious I remember a godly blessed man that when carnall men made bonefites and the ministers would have reproved them to see what a stir they made on a Candlemas Even let them alone saith he that is all the comfort they have they have noe acquaintance with better comforts if they had they would leave them So he was readie to weepe for their joy So the pleasure and comfort thou hast in the service of the devill the Lord pittie thee it is only because thou art not acquainted with the sweetnes of the wayes of Christ If you object Object I but some of the servants of Christ have turned the servants of the aevill againe Some of Christ servants have gone back to serve the devill I answer they are but few there are more of the devills servants that become the servants of Christ than of the servants of Christ that become the servants of the devill But those people that do so 1. They are but few they are but wooden leggs they never drew sap and sweetnes from Christ they were never truly members of Christ they did but hang on 2. They were not true members of Christ they found some sweetnes in the back of Religion in the circumstances of Religion but if they had tasted of God rightly they would never have gone away from him So I say this should encourage thee to come in First that the maine work is done to thy hand Secondly That that that is left are but a few and easie things in comparison of the service of Satan and of Papists and of the Jews under the Law and of naturall men that serve God for life Thirdly to make it more easie yet 3. Christ will give his Spirit to doe that he requires those few things that are to doe the Lord Jesus will give his Spirit to doe them he will doe all thy works for thee he expects not that thou shouldest doe them in thy owne strength but he hath promised to give his Spirit and that shall pray according to the will of God So here thou shalt have a yoke an easie one and in that yoke thou shalt have Christ himselfe to draw with thee I can doe all through Christ that strengtheneth me saith Paul There are but a few things that wee are bound to doe and those few things Christ will doe for us Fourthly and lastly Consider those few things that thou hast the Spirit of Christ to doe for thee how weake soever thou art in thy performance the Lord Jesus continually accepts of them that is the weakest prayer and the weakest service of a sincere Saint in the new Testament it is a sacrifice well pleasing to God Who would continue in drunkeness and lie in sin refuse to come to Christ when the wayes of Christ are so comfortable You will say What doe you meane by comming to Christ You would have us come to Christ and you say here is a comfortable way and an easie yoke what is it to come to Christ Coming to Christ what I will tell you that least we loose all our labour Joh. 6.35 Iesus said I am the bread of life he that commeth to me shall never hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst So that comming to Christ is believing in Christ But you will say I am to seek againe I know not what that is to believe in Christ I will not stand upon the definition but a word that thou maiest understand what I meane by believing in Christ There are three things in it Believing in Christ what First it is to give credit to all that Christ tells thee That is one thing Secondly to receive that life and salvation all that Christ Jesus gives thee Thirdly to submit to the lawes that Jesus Christ layes upon thee To give credit to what hee teacheth I say if thou wouldest know what it is to come to Christ or to believe in Christ it is when thou wilt be taught by Jesus Christ when thou wilt give credit to the things that he teacheth As you see Isaiah 2.2 Come say the people let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord and to the house of God Let us goe up Why so He