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A13024	The Christians sacrifice much better then all the legall sacrifices of the Iewes; and without the which, all the said legall sacrifices of the Iewes, euen when they were in force, were not acceptable to God. Or, a logicall and theologicall exposition of the two first verses of the twelfth to the Romanes, with all the doctrine in the said two verses, plainly laid forth, and fitly applied according as these times do require the same. Wherein also besides the orthodoxall exposition of the said words, diuers other places of Scripture by the way occurring, before somewhat obscure, are so naturally interpreted, as that the iudicious reader shall thinke his paines well bestowed in vouchsafing to reade this treatise following. With the authors postscript to his children, as it were his last will and testament vnto them.	Stoughton, Thomas.	1622 (1622)	STC 23314; ESTC S100120	224,816	288

bountifully reward such seruants at their departure from them then such people do reward such Ministers euen whilst they are with them And may not such iudgements of God be feared against the whole land for this sinne as heeretofore haue bin executed vpon other people for the like The same I say for that which I haue written of the itching eares of some to heare other preachers farther off dwelling with neglect of their owne and neerer dwellers though they cannot iustly except any thing against them yea I haue written the more in this behalfe not onely because of the great discouragement of such their owne and other neere dwelling Ministers but also because somtime such itching ears vpon a light report of some stranger preaching 3 or 4 miles off on the Lordes day going to heare him haue lost their labour heard no Sermon at all That notwithstanding which I haue written of hearing the next dwelling Preachers after their owne rather then further dwellers I doe not meane of Preachers in the same Cittie or Towne that hath diuers Churches because in such places farther dwellers may be heard after their owne Preachers without any great labour of the hearer and without any preiudice to neerer dwellers In such places more libertie may be vsed then where further dwellers cannot be heard without more labour then is fit to be taken on the Lords day Neither also do I so condemne all hearing of further dwellers mens owne or neere dwelling Preachers not being neglected but that in some extraordinarie causes and at sometimes for comfort of afflicted consciences or for resolution of some doubtfull mindes in some things men may heare some furthers dwellers whom they shall vnderstand either to preach of such a text as may minister most comfort to such troubles of conscience or to handle such points as are especially doubted of Prouided notwithstanding that it be no ordinarie matter neither often but seldome These things I haue heere promised to preuent all misconstruction of any thing in this treatise by me written and consequently to auoid all offence by such misconstruction If any other thing shall seeme strange I hope that loue and iudgement shall qualifie the strangnesse thereof Loth I am and very loath to offend any of Gods children But touching such as are so curious that nothing will please them and that rather read mens workes to carpe at them then to profit by them seeming alwaies to learne and yet 2. Tim. 3. 7. neuer attaining sound knowledge I care not to please their humors Thus crauing thy praiers for my owne comfort in my old weake age and for the blessing of God vpon this my Treatise that many may present themselues such sacrifices to God as in this Scripture he requireth and may also according thereunto take the m●re heed of all conformitie to this world and be the more carefull to be reformed in their minds c I commit Act. 20. 32. thee to God and to the word of his grace whereby we may all be built vp and at the last haue that inheritance which he will giue to all them which are sanctified Thine vnfaignedly in the Lord Iesus THOMAS STOVGHTON From my poore lodging in the poore Hospitall called S. Bartholomewes by Sandwich in Kent August 21. 1622. THE CHRISTIANS SACRIFICE ROM 12. 1. I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a sacrifice liuing holy and acceptable to God your reasonable seruice 2 And be not conformed to this world but be yee transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may proue what is that good that acceptable and perfect will of God CHAP. I. The first Chapter concerning the coherence of this Text and all following to the end with the former eleuen Chapters and the doctrine in them deliuered IN all the former part of this Epistle the Apostle after the testification of his loue vnto these Christian Romanes by his gracious salutation of them and holy thanksgiuing vnto God in their behalfe as also by his earnest prayers for them hath chiefly and principally laboured in deliuering certaine maine and fundamentall points of Religion yet not so wholy and altogether but that sometimes he inserteth some exhortations according to occasion offered by the particular doctrines handled by him The points of doctrine before deliuered are especially The points of doctrine handled in all the former Chapters these First the corruption of all men Iewes and Gentiles by nature in transgressing the law of God together with the wrath of God deserued thereby in the latter part of the first Chapter and so forward to the end of the second shewing notwithstanding by the way that the Iewes were deeper in that corruption then the Gentiles in respect of their greater knowledge and that yet God had bin very patient and long-suffering towards them thereby the better to leade them to repentance Secondly proleptically to preuent an obiection he sheweth that their greater sinne did not preiudice their prerogatiue aboue the Gentiles by the word of God onely vouchsafed vnto them and to no other nation and so preuenting some other obiections to make way to the doctrine of iustification by faith alone without the works of the law either ceremoniall or morall performed by meere naturall men or in part sanctified by grace he handleth this point largely in the third and fourth Chapters amplifying the same by diuers effects and fruites thereof and declaring the grace of God therein to be the greater because God vouchsafed the same when they that were so iustified by him were his enemies c. Chap. 5. In the sixt Chapter he hath shewed the said grace of God in so iustifying men not to giue libertie to men to sinne but to bind men to make the more vse of the death and resurrection of Christ to the dying vnto sinne and liuing vnto righteousnesse and giuing their members as plentifully as truly and as cheerfully vnto righteousnes as euer before they had giuen them vnto sinne and vnrighteousnesse In the seuenth Chapter he sheweth in what maner we that now liue vnder the Gospell are freed from the Law and how we are dead vnto the Law and yet that the Law is still necessary to shew vs our corruption remaining in the best and being so forcible that many times it maketh them to do that that they should not and the which by grace they would not doe so that euen the very best though as holy as Paul may crie out of their miserable estate in that respect and yet the more giue thanks to God for their deliuerance from the same by Iesus Christ In the eight Chapter he insisteth in the former priuiledge of them that are deliuered by Iesus Christ from their miserable condition by sinne remaining in them declaring not onely that all that are in Christ Iesus are freed from condemnatiō and who they be that so are in Christ Iesus but also that they are by