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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80547	The perfect-law of God being a sermon, and no sermon;-: preach'd,-, and yet not preach'd;-: in a-church, but not in a-church; to a people, that are not a people-. / By Richard Carpenter. Wherein also, he gives his first alarum to his brethren of the presbytery; as being his-brethren, but not his-brethren.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1652 (1652)	Wing C625; Thomason E1318_1; ESTC R210492	112,779	261

nostrum sempèr siccoculum fuit It belongs to our intemperate and luke-warm Kinde to be so in heavenly Matters In temporall Affliction we can yell it Who notwithstanding may drop a little by a thaw of tender-heartednesse or have a Preacher that may perform in earnest what our Classicall Brother so jestingly and so commonly vaunted I 'le make the People weep to Day The Law of God is likewise perfect as his Originall Will is copied out into his Word Which VVord in it's full Amplitude fully complies with the End of it's coming from God as his VVord and is abundantly sufficient in it's kind to Salvation It canonizeth no Falshood prescribes no frivolous or evill Thing And herein differs our Christian Scripture from the Turkish Alcoran The Holy Ghost from profane Mahumet's Pigeon His Alcoran being a pure Drollery elemented and engendred in the Conjunction of three Apostaticall Brains In the perusing of which Averroes Sir-named the Commentator Avicenna Alsarabius Vide Avicen lib. 6. Met. cap. 7. Albumazar Haly and other Mahumetan Philosophers Physitians Astrologers were so troubled and confounded that they quickly deserted the Alcoran as repugnant even in Matters bounded with the Precincts of Nature to the Principles of Nature and Reason And because it did gloriosè mentiri●●ly gloriously to prevent their fall into the Desolation of Heart catched upon Aristotle for their better Information in the learning of Truths naturall and supernaturall The Compilers of the Alcoran had not learn'd the Text Psal 25. 3. in it's Hebrew simplicity Let them be ashamed who transgress without cause Where the Septuagin● adopt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let them be confounded with shame that act unprofitably without Law in the which acting more is alwayes lost than ●ound The Vulgar Latin Edit Valg is the Septuagint vulgarly turn'd Latin The fifth Edition is Greek-Hebrew in the word Greek Hebrew in the sense 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let them be ashamed Sept. Editio V. that apostatize In truth Holy Scripture proposeth different Laws serving them forth in different Times or in the same Time subordinating one to the other But the finall aim and ultimate VVork was one and the same It was a Rule and Pillar-Truth under the Old Law That when a Precept of the Moral Law so fell in company with a Ceremonial or Judicial Precept ut in angustum cogerentur that both could not hand it together the Moral Precept should still challenge the place and be reverenced with Obedience And whereas the Law of Moses was partly judicial partly ceremonial and moral or natural partly our Evangelical Law turn'd off and abrogated the two former succeeding to them but spared and setled the last as the written Foundation of all sound Law because it is the neerest to that unwritten Law of Nature which is the first Extract in us out of God's Originall Weeker de Secretis lib. 3. cap. 2. VVeckerus will teach you the Art of making a Candle the Flame whereof cannot be extinguished or one that as ardently burneth and flameth under Water as above it Such yea such a Candle is our Law Psal 11. 105. Thy word is a Lamp unto my feet The Textuarie VVord holds a Candle The Law of Christ is an everlasting Lamp or Candle Press on As Christ who is Verbum Genitum the Begotten VVord and Verbum Deus the VVord which is God and the Founder of the Church hath a visible and humane Nature So hath he a divine Nature which is invisible and his best and richest Nature is not beheld with mortall Eyes And Verbum scriptum the Written Word which is Verbum Dei the Word of God by which the Church as by a Written Law is aptly and 〈◊〉 oportionably regulated as it hath a literal external and historical Sense So doth it rejoyce in a Sense that is spirituall internal and mystical and the best and true sense is not alwayes obvious to our Vnderstanding Yea t is a lasting Axiome and stands like an Ol● Monument in Divinity When God is most observed and served by obedience to the spiritual or mystical Sense that Sense though mystical is most intended by the Holy Ghost The End of God speaking to us being to teach us to know and serve him through some Degrees of Perfection answerable to our Modell By the which it appears velut Solis radiis depi●tum as if it were painted with the Sun-Beames That the Perfection of Scripture in a main part with regard to the Interpretation of the Sense lies inwardly like the Soul of a Man or the Virtue of a Seed Herb Plant Minerall or Iewel And therefore as a rare sort of Musicall Instruments require only to their Musick that they be touched with the Sun-Beams So these inward strings though perfect yet never give a right sound except they be gently touched by an Vnderstanding purg'd of Opacities and enlightened with the Sun of Righteousnesse Yet this doth not any way derogate from the due Perfection of Scripture in it self God's Providence towards us preparing offering and affording Helps general special and particular And as Aquinas clears it Iudicium de re non sumitur secundùm D. Tho. part 1. quaest 16. art 1. in Corp. id quod inest ei per accidens sed secundùm id quod inest ei per se Wee judge not of a thing according to that which is accidental and adventitious to it but according to that which is in it by or from it self The same Truth stands like a grown Oke and is altis defixa Radicibus deeply rooted respectively to the Interpretation of the Words I most humbly crave here a Christian that is a milde tender and pious Examination in your most retired thoughts of a Scruple quem injecit mihi inter studendum profunda Cogitatio Others have assumed the freedome to disquiet and invade the Press in plain English with some vain shadows of this austere Difficulty sent abroad like walking Apparit●ons and have thereby disorderly perplexed the Stated Hearts of ignorant people that have learn'd only to read English I speak to Scholars as in the Schools and in the language of the School Of Scholars therefore who try all Things I reverently demand a Reason of their Faith as it is their Faith If I could have reasonably and quietly rested in private Answers I would not have adventur'd upon a publick Proposall I desire not the unhinging of any Mans Faith that moves upon a right Pole I rather wish we were all attemper'd to the Spirit of Orderly motion Our Lord God knowes I never knew this Demand or Difficulty by the name of an Engine Apage hin● Ardelio In sound earnest O ye learned heads I have heard your Adversaries speak And in mandatis habeo I have it written in my Duty that I must be true to you I affirm nothing positively but put only Wind and Tyde and Sailes to the Quaere that we may leave nothing