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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

being covered or uncovered in hearing whether he might put on his Hat in the Sermon time the Minister holding strongly that he ought not the other holding that he might so when the Gentleman could not answer the Minister saith he Sir I will not dispute with you but I am very loath to doe that by doing whereof I must of necessitie condemne the Generation of the faithfull I will not stand against your arguments but I will not say it is a sin for a man to put on his Hat because I should condemne the Generation of Saints and godly people in England Though we see no command nor know nothing offensive yet let us beware how we doe that by our owne practise that will condemne the Saints So in this case the saying holds that when a man is at Rome let him doe as they doe at Rome that is in things that are not determined when we have no other light let us goe according to the custome of the Churches In some Churches they use not to put on their Hats but to be bare in hearing the Word while I am there I will even doe so when I come there I will not put it on God hath not determined it and there it is the custome of the Saints here to be singular is naught The Saints should be singular from wicked people and from good people in evill things but in things that God hath not determined we should not be singular from them As to instance in one case in singing of Psalmes among us that troubles many of you Of singing Psalmes We know that God hath commanded us to sing Psalmes and Hymns and spirituall Songs we all agree in that that is plain in the Word But he shewes not there whether they ought to be songs of our owne composing or the Psalmes of David or in what tune wee should sing in this or that tune or whether we should sing one or two or three or more this is not determined Moreover I know not which is more expedient that twenty or forty sing or one alone What shall I doe in this case Look on the custome of the Churches of God that hath been practised by the Saints for time out of minde and when God hath not determined it and they have done so therefore I will goe along with them if it have been a generall custome in the Church wee ought not rashly to reject it I tell you for my owne part when I observe any custome in any Church any thing that is laudable and comely that God hath not determined there is a kind of honour and reverence that striks my heart though God doe not command it or forbid it yet being the custome among the Saints it works a reverence in my heart therefore he rein make use of this when all other lights are out Neither doe I say this alone doth not the Scripture say the same Of long haire 1 Cor. 11. there was a great dispute concerning long haire and short haire whether women should cut their haire men should weare long haire see how the Apostle resolves the case verse 14. Doth not even nature it self teach you that if a man have long haire it is a shame unto him Why how doth nature teach it The word generally is taken for nature but divers godly wise men conceive that by nature is meant the custome of the countrie that they lived in doth not nature teach you that is is it not contrary to the generall custome of the countrie much more of the Saints for a man to weare his haire ●●e a woman But if a woman have long haire it is a glory for it is given her for a covering But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custome neither the Churches of God VVhether you relate this custome to the beginning of the ver If any be contetious we have no such custome we do not strive and contend or if you relate it to the other if any man strive about long haire we the Churches of God doe not walk so they doe not weare long haire but which way soever you take it therefore men should weare short haire to avoide contention Of preaching So in Acts 16. when Paul and the women met together by the waterside verse 13 it is said they came to a Rivers side where prayer was wont to be MADE and there they sate down and preached and prayed he doth not say it was supperstition to come on a green place by a River but it was a custome and Paul goes thither and teacheth them and opens the Word to them So that in those things that are not determined custome is a great help to men in many things Thirdly I add a third rule and that is right reason Right reason naturall reason or right reason Think not evil of these that I name custome and reason Reason of three sorts because they are taken in a bad sense sometimes But to understand this there is three sorts of reason usuall in Scripture Spirituall reason Rom. 12. the Apostle bids us give our bodies and soules to the Lord a reasonable sacrifice 1. spirituall that is in a spirituall way of argumentation it is fit that I should give my selfe to Christ that I mean not here There is corrupt carnall reason 2. corrupt this leads us out of the way this is never good Thirdly there is common reason 3. common naturall reason right naturall reason in us which many of the duties of the New-Testament are grounded on If you say what is that It is a light in the soule that is a Relique of that light that was in Adam VVhen God made Adam Right reason what and all other creatures he made all good there were good things and every thing in a good order and he made Adam like himselfe God looked and he saw everything that it was good God put a light in him to judge of the Sun Moone and Stares Adam had this light in a sort to judge of Heaven and Earth and hee saw that all was good When Adam fell he lost a great deale of this light and there came darkness and confusion Yet the light is not growne so dimme as the other faculties are grown loose for all carnall men excepting none they have light to judge beyond their power to practise that is the reason the Heathen said I see good and better things but doe the worst So the carnallest man in the world hath some light to judge good and evil more than he hath strength to doe whence is this It is a stamp of that light that in Adam was compleat at the first Now this right reason it often helps the Saints when they have no other light As in 2 Cor. 14.23 The Apostle reproves them for speaking with strange tongues in the Church that the people understood not what argument doth he use saith he if an Ideot come in

Gentlewoman that keeps dayes of humiliation Profession suffers for it Therefore I must eye what is seemly for one of such a profession as I am of to doe Fourthly 3. In regard of sex you must eye also your relation for your sex that is to be eyed Many lawfull things become a man that doe not become a woman and some become a woman that doe not become a man Therefore consider which women seldome doe in regard of sex they will speake first and determine things and order businesses never considering their sex consider if it be a decent thing if you doe that which is convenient if you doe so as befits your sex as well as other circumstances Col. 3.18 Wives submit your selves to your own husbands why should wee doe so might they say as it is fit in the Lord that is it is a decent thing to doe it though in some things they might contest and see as much as their husbands have more reason in their precepts yet saith he submit as it is FIT. It is not decent for a woman to rule and to master and to speak all order all and her husband to be but a drudg You will say what evill is it is it unlawfull O it is undecent to come to a house where the woman rules it is as if people went with their heeles upward it is uglie and undecent So in 1 Tim. 2.9 In like manner also let the women adorne themselves in modest apparel with shamefastnes sobrietie not with broided haire or gold or pearles or costly array Why is it not lawful to weare gold or silver c I cannot say but it is lawfull but mark what he saith next but which becometh women professing godlines There is their sex and there profession it must become both Therefore in 1 Pet. 3.3 he wisheth woman to teach their husbands by silence if they be godly and meek women that is the best lecture they can read to their husbands that they may be wonn by their chast conversation whose adorning saith he let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing gold or putting on of apparrell but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which in the sight of God is very precious I will not say saith Peter but it is lawfull to weare broided haire and gold and pearle but it is not an ornament to a spirituall eye it is no ornament no more than to see a Cart-horse dressed with a leather To see a woman spend her time vainely in trimming but this is an ornament a meek spirit An ornament what is that That that beseems and becomes a woman it becomes that sex to see a modest meek spirit therefore eye the sex also Then if you will have things decent 4. in regard of age eye the age In 2. Tit. 1.2.3 he that wisheth them not to doe things inconvnient he teacheth old men and young men and old women and young women so that that which is decent in old men is not decent in young it is decent for old men to rebuke the younger but you must not rebuke an Elder it is not fit for a young man to rebuke an Elder If it be a carnal child it is fit for his father to rebuke him for his naughtines but if he be a godly child he must not goe home and wrangle with his parents you must looke to the age Lastly looke to the season every thing is beautifull in its season 5. in regard of the season And a word spoken in season is like apples of gold with picters of silver that is very handsome So your words and actions must be seasonable or else they will never be convenient There is a time for all things Therfore in Rom. 13. The latter end Apostle saith brethren it is high time to make you readie our salvation is nearer than when we beleived The night is far spent the day is at hand let us cast of the workes of darknes and put on the armor of light let us walk decently 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is decently in the margine it is honestly in the booke as in the day time As if hee had sayd heretofore it was night and darknes there was little knowledg and little preaching of the Gospel in the night men weare any foule cloathes but in the day it is not decent for a man to walk with the cloathes of the night therfore put of your night capps and weare cleane cloathes walk decently as in the day looke to the time frame your conversations according to that And that I conceive the Apostle drives at Ephes. 5. Where hee commands us to walke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strictly I rather like the translation we have Circumspectly because it hath better coherence with the text See that you walk circumspectly not as fooles but as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are evil I see nor how because the dayes are evil we should redeeme the time by walking strictly but walk circumspectly fit your opportunity and time observe it take nitice of it As indeed what bad times were there about halfe a score yeares agoe men were faine to watch opportunities to pray and to goe to Sermons or to fasts So walk decently that is serve the times observe opportunities Ro. 12. take notice of every opportunity to doe things fitly and seasonably I onely give a few instances So you understand All things are lawfull but all things are not expedient that is all lawful things are not convenient they are not decent it may be they are not seasonable It may be that fits an old man that doth not fit a young It may be it is fit for the husband that doth not befit the wife it may be it is no harme in a carnall man that doth not beseem one that is a professor of religion Thus you must walk thus it becometh Saints to walk you must look to decency and conveniency The third rule Christian must walk laudably or expressions to order things that are not determined they are many but they all come to this they imply a thing laudable or commendable that is a degree higher for decency is a thing that keeps us that we doe not disparage our selves in our relations and make us worse but wee are called upon to walk laudably not only not to cast dirt on religion but to bring honour and to add glory to it not only not to disgrace it but so to walk that the eye that seeth us and the eare that heareth us may blesse us Let no rotten communication proceed out of your mouthes but that that may minister grace Not grace to the soul but that it may be gracious and lovely and amiable I will shew you but one place the glorious golden rule of the Saints walking in the new Testament Phil. 4.8 where the Apostle

you are going to the other and it may be your neighbours house is on fire or a poor man is in want you goe and you cannot choose but then there is gall and guilt upon your soules because you have neglected prayer Whereas God hath not bound you to these things but hath left you to doe this or that according as it may be most for the honour of God the everlasting advantage of your own souls Hence if you observe and looke upon your own souls when you finde your selves in trouble you shall ordinarily see the truth of this doctrine Ask the question whence is this trouble why are your soules so sad you shall finde six times for one that the trouble and guilt ariseth from these things from making of lawes and we are not able to keep them whereas if wee would make an absolute law of nothing but what God hath made and doe the rest in expediency we might be able to let goe that and doe this that is expedient wee should doe abundance more good and with peace of conscience Christians ful of questions why And hence it is that weak Christians good people are so full of questions and cases and trouble themselves and Ministers endlessely Why so because many professors walk only by rule by law this is their religion they will avoide that which is evill and doe that which is good This is good but this is not all and seldome in my experience have I seen a spirituall heart that is spirituall indeed much troubled with those cases of conscience in outward things Spirituall Christians their carriage The reason is this because a spirituall Christian hath two eyes the other hath but one that is when a spirituall Christian falls on an action he asks first is it lawfull or unlawfull he easily resolves that but hee goes farther is it convenient doth it tend to the glory of God will any be better for it will my own soule be the better is it decent And it is six to one but he findes it expedient and he considers the lawfulnesse no farther that is gone and an inexpedient action to a spirituall man it is as abominable as an action altogether unlawfull Therefore we see Paul how resolutely he speaks of eating of flesh The earth is the Lords and the fulnes thereof and make no conscience of what is before you yet he saith if eating of flesh offend my brother mark his high language I will never eat flesh while the world standeth rather than I will offend my brother that is I would soone answer the case of conscience I will not trouble ministers or my self about that Weak Christians not minding this they ask only is it lawfull Is it lawfull to weare long haire is it lawfull to play at tables c. They goe no farther and so there comes guilt upon their soules I heard once I speak it not with prejudice of some godly women that were godly persons Baptisme doubted of they made great doubt of their baptisme and going by the rule that I told you before making a curious peice in the New-Testament and laying such stresse upon every nick that all was overthrown if that were wanting they were baptized the first and the second and the third time and still they feared there was a fault that they could not sleep in their beds for horrour of conscience least there should be a nick or flaw in the least in their baptisme and so were still studying a way to doe it better So it will be in all cases when men make lawes where God hath not made them there will trouble and guilt follow in that they are not able to performe them I speak it not to weaken or innervate any of the people of God in absolute commands but where God hath left a latitude as I have proved let us take notice of it and order all things for the glory of God and the edification of our selves and others And that is another motive Briefly Mot. 3. He that eyes not expediency cannot doe much for God the third is this to perswade you to this for I feare many doe not understand this and you are hardly brought to it because your hearts are contrary to the real principles of the Gospel whereof this is one as it is the way to end controversies among the brethren and the way to keep peace within our selves So thirdly unlesse you will receive this truth and labour to understand it if you goe by the other way taking every thing jure divino to be an absolute rule to binde people in all the world and then when you have put stresse on them and broken them you conclude there is no Church nor no believers such a soule will never be able to do much for God he will never be able to honour God much he may please himselfe as such doe and think that he is growen in grace and hath out-stripped others and he may trouble the Kingdome and rend the Churches and make debate among the Saints but take this for certaine he shall never be able to honour God much he shall doe little in his generation I mean that I may come to particulars he will neither be able to do much in wining of sinners nor in strengthening of weak Saints for in those two wayes are the greatest opportunities we have of honouring God If yee love me feed my lambes saith Christ He cannot doe it why so 1. They present religion to others as endlesse First because such a man or such a people that are set in such a way as many are in these dayes and many godly people they present Religion to others alwayes as an endlesse thing as a thing that hath no end And therefore when they perswade weak Christians to be religious they look upon their religion as a bottomlesse pit as Solomon saith The lips of a whore is a deep pit They think here is a religion indeed if we close with this people we shall not know where to stay the last moneth they were in one religion and the last yeare in another and so they seek a knot in a bulrush they seek for curiosity where God hath not laid it therefore they are ever wandering They perswade us to be of this Church and of this religion and we shall be safe say carnall men how earnest are they to have us be with them and two moneths agoe they were as earnest for another and it may be two moneths hence they will be for another and so they run from them Therefore in 2 Tim. 4. when there was a great deale of stir among the Christians about Genealogies and old wives tales and vaine stories Paul bids Timothy take heed of them Why because they were endlesse that is if a man goe to them they goe from one fancy to another he knows not where to finde them When Paul would cleare himself from an ill report they had of him among