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A30609	The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6114; ESTC R23885	118,308	158

under it Rom. 6. 14. Now ye are not under the law there was a time when they were under the law first then the rigour of the law is in this it requires hard things of those that are under it I shall shew you afterward how the things are not so to those that are set free by Christ but to those that are under the law it is a hard yoke it requires hard things things that are crosse and contrary to the hearts and dispositions of all that are under it things between which and their hearts there is an enmity and antipathy Now to require such things as one hath 〈◊〉 ●inde to but are quite contrary to ones nature and that ones nature hath an antipathy against this is very tedious and yet such are all the duties of the law to those that are in bondage to it Secondly the law requires not onely hard but impossible things impossible to be performed by those that are under it the law it is a yoke that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear Acts 15. 10. but that you wil say is meant of the ceremoniall law I but there is more in it then so for do but consider the occasion of that speech it was upon this ground there were some that came from the Church of Jerusalem to the Church of Antioch and they troubled the disciples there with two doctrines the doctrine of the necessity of the ceremoniall law and the doctrine of being justified by the law now this Church of Antioch sends to the Church of Jerusalem to be satisfied about both these questions and that which is spoken is spoken concerning them both not onely the ceremonial law was that whereby they lookt for justification but the morrall law too and both were a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear and the rather it must be meant of both because in the very next words we finde it opposed to the grace of Christ in vers 11. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they As if he should say you must not think to be saved by the law but by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ Now the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is opposed to our justification by obedience to the morrall law as well as to the ceremonial so that the morral law is a yoke that neither we nor our fathers were able to beare It requires of us such things as are impossible to be done by those that are under it We must not dispute now how this can be or the justice of it that will fall in afterward And then thirdly the law exacts all of us under the condition of perfection the law accepts of nothing but that which is compleat and absolutely perfect every way both in regard of the principle from whence and the manner how and the rule by which and end to which it requires absolute perfection Fourthly the law accepts of 〈…〉 it must have it done in our own persons like a severe creditor that will be paid to the utmost farthing and by our selves I say the law in it self considered lookes for a perfect righteousnesse of our own persons or else it condemnes us this is the righteousnesse of the law That he that doth the things therein contained shall live by them Rom. 10. 5. He that doth there must be doing and that by himself personally or not at at all But it may be though there be much required yet upon some endeavours there may be some remission In the fift place therefore such is the rigour and severity of the law that let us endeavour never so much to obey it yet all our endeavours are rejected if they come not up to perfect obedience T is a vaine plea of many people to say they doe what they can and desire well and endeavour well It is true this is somewhat to those that are children and have freedome by Christ as you shall heare by and by but to those that are under the law endeavours to obey though never so strong if the work be not done are not accepted by God Sixthly the law requires constancy in all these suppose we could obey the law or goe on very farre in many things yet such are the termes between God and us as we are under the law that if we were able to obey the law in every thing as long as we live till the very last moment and should offend but in any one particular at the last moment were it not for this freedome we have by this Son we were utterly undone for ever you may see by the way still as you goe of what infinite concernment our freedome by Christ is You must look to your selves how you get deliverance by Christ for certainly this is your condition as long as you are under the law Seaventhly the law exacts the obedience it requires exceeding rigorously in a way of violence upon all that are under it it comes roughly upon them as Pharoahs task-masters it requires the work and lookes not at strength strength or no strength the work is required and required with exceeding rigour with dreadful threatning if it be not performed therefore it is the law was delivered in so dreadfull a manner with thundering and lightning and earthquakes and fire so that it made even Moses himself to shake and tremble at the manner of delivering it and in Deut. 33. 2. it is called a fiery law it came with mighty rigour that is the seaventh Eighthly there is this rigour in the law too that upon any breach of it in the least thing it doth by the severity of it break the soule so that it doth utterly disinable it for ever performing any obedience to it again there is such hardness in the covenant of the Law the Law is like an Iron or Brazen wall that upon any breach of it the soule is but as an earthen vessell that dashes against it and is broken in pieces so that there must be a creating power to make it whole again consider I beseech you I say this is the condition of the Covenant of workes which was made with us in Adam which is now the covenant of the Law that upon any one breach by the severity of it it breaks the soule so that it doth utterly difinable it for keeping it again it roots out all the principles whereby the soule should be enabled to obey again sinnes against the Gospel do not do so as you shall heare hereafter And this is the very ground why upon the first sinne of Adam we were all gone and so were the Angels upon their sinne because they had to deale with God onely in a covenant of works But if upon the breach of the Law we come to have all principles rooted out by which we should keep it afterward it will we hope pitty us and not exact obedience from us Therefore in the ninth place