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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29932	Dwelling with God, the interest and duty of believers in opposition to the complemental, heartless, and reserved religion of the hypocrite / opened in eight sermons by John Bryan ...	Bryan, John, d. 1676.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5243; ESTC R31994	149,472	465

please as shape a Coat for the Moon So also the necessity of the obedience of Mankind to the Moral Law 'T is as inseparable as it s very being it being impossible to receive a being and not with it a bond of obligation Men when they sin spurn not only against Moses but against very Nature He that owns the ground owns the Fruit also We are not our own in any of our actions And how easie a way Men have to choak temptations to Atheisme Let them take leave to deny Moses and trample him under-foot yet in their Souls they finde written in very legible Letters every Commandment of this Law 't was born with them and suckt from Natures own instruction Why then should they suspect the Law of Moses and think it a trick foysted upon them to deprive them of their pleasures Nature bearing witness that Moses is no Deceiver Finally How inexcusable Men are that live in such an Age wherein they have both these Laws One to confirm the other Two witnesses if both accuse us at the last Day how shall we escape condemnation Manifold are the uses this written Law of God doth serve unto Some common to the Elect and Reprobate Viz. to shew the excellency of Man's Nature before the Fall when he had power perfectly to keep it and the excellency of that supernatural condition in the life to come when there shall be the same yea a more glorious power and the corruption of our present condition how short we come of due perfection and the Lord 's right notwithstanding to require perfect obedience of us and to punish us for default in the least point It serves also to illustrate the Law of Nature obtenebrated by the Fall the Law of incorrupted Nature being the same in substance with the Decalogue also to discover and convince all Men of sin and their obnoxiousness to eternal Death to be a Bridle to restrain them from gross sins and finally Men are taught thereby what a one God is and how he ought to be worshipped either proper and peculiar to the Elect it serves as a guide to point thèm to Christ the Mediator and to kindle a desire in them to seek eternal righteousness and salvation by him and when they are in Christ to be a Rule of Thankfulness for the Redemption purchased by him Every Man should be thankful in the best manner he can for a benefit received What better Rule can a Christian have than that which God hath made He hath shewed thee O Man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with the Lord thy God Micah 6. 8. Tit. 2. 11 12. Qu. Why have you dwelt so long upon this point Answ To work in you whose dwelling the Lord is a detestation of the Antinomian Errours Many have cut off some uses of the moral Law or falsly glossed upon it but few would ever wholly abrogate it but this unhappy Sect. Like Nero who wished Rome had but one Neck that he might cut it off at one blow So these would deal with this Law of Moses It follows not the Gospel is come in therefore the Law must go out Hagar so long as she is obedient may dwell in Abraham's House To make it clear to you that the decalogue pertains to Christians consider 1. That it is confirmed by Christ 2. Commanded to Christians by the Apostle 3. Established by the Gospel how it teacheth Christ to be the end of the Law and that Justification cannot be had without that perfect righteousness which the Law requires or satisfaction for unrighteousness and that Men ought to study and endeavour it and that the observation of it is a testimony of our communion with God that he dwelleth in us and we in him as you heard in a former discourse Obj. Christians are not justified by the Law neither do they receive the promise by it therefore it pertains not at all to them Ans The consequence is false unless they could prove there were no other necessary uses of the Law but we have shewed many and there 's a number more Obj. 2d If believers are not under the Law but under Grace to them the Law doth not pertain but the former is true Ergo the latter Ans 'T is a fallacy termed from ambiguous or that which may be taken more wayes than one Not to be under the Law is not to be freed from it as a rule of life for we are inclined and disposed by God's free Spirit to the willing obedience of it but to be delivered from the burden of the Law exacting in our own Persons perfect obedience as necessary to life and from the malediction of it due to disobedience these we are freed from by Christ To be under grace is to be justified and regenerate Obj. Christians are mortified and dead to the Law Ans The same fallacy and the same solution Believers are moreover freed from that irratation to sin which is effected in unregenerate Men by the Law Obj. 4th But now we are delivered from the Law that being dead wherein we were held Ans The same again and the Apostle opens his meaning in the words that follow declaring our manumission from the servitude of the Law from its rigorous exaction and curse and that we have a spirit of ingenuity to obey willingly Obj. 5. Gospel-Ministers are Ministers of the Spirit not of the Letter Ans The meaning is no more but this that their Ministry is more efficacious than the Ministry of the Old Testament Obj. 6. If the Law pertain to Christians then they are under the curse of it but the latter is false Ergo the former Answ The meaning of those words of the Apostle upon which the consequence of the Connexion is grounded is plainly this that they that think Righteousness to come by the works of the Law and promise themselves Eternal life thereby are under the curse of it Obj. Christians are no longer under a School-Master Ans 1. The place is impertinent for it speaks of the Ceremonial Law mainly if not only 2. If at all of the moral the consequence is denyed for though they be not under a School-Master as the faithful under the Old Testament were yet it follows not that obligation to obedience is taken away Obj. 8. Christians are redeemed from the Laws subjection Ans Not simply as if they owed no more obedience but so far forth that they are not bound to a perfect fulfilling of it but that unfeigned assent and consent shall be accepted Obj. 9. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free Ans From the Ceremonial Law Obj. 10. Against Spiritual Men there is no Law Ans To hold their Consciences under guilt yet they must be taught their duty by this holy and just and good Law Obj. 11. The Law is not made for a righteous Man Ans The meaning is