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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12273	The harmonie of the lawe and the gospel Wherin is plainly shewed, that howsoeuer they differ in time and some other circumstances, yet in substance they are one & the same. And by waie of application, the pretended antiquitie of Poperie is discouered, and found to be a meere nouelty: deliuered in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, the 9. of Aug. 1607. by George Cresvvell, minister of Gods word.	Creswell, George.	1607 (1607)	STC 6038; ESTC S117450	22,951	66

them that whilst they vrged the righteousnesse of the lawe they did as much as in them lay frustrate and make voyde the couenāt and promise of God in which all their dignitie did consist As this was an errour in the Iewes so is it no lesse in the Papists who would be accounted the onely worshippers of the Saints and the maintainers of their glorie For whilest that they enuiously contend against vs for the same they doe euert and confound their doctrine and doe very farre vary from the example of faith and life wherein the Saints went before vs. But if they will maintaine the cause of the Saints why doe they not heare the Apostles who knewe no other thing but Iesus Christ and him crucified 1. Cor. 2. 2 Act. 4. 12 affirming no name to bee giuen vnto men vnder heauen wherein wee must bee saued but onely the name of Iesus Why doe they not obey the Virging Ioh. 2. 5. Marie speaking of CHRIST and saying Whatsoeuer hee sayeth vnto you doe it Hee himselfe commaundes Mat 1. 28 Ioh. 14. 6. all that doe labour and are heauie loaden to come vnto him testifying himselfe onely to be the way whereby we must come vnto the Father All this truely considered then I conclude thus that our iustification and saluation is by the Apostles so ascribed vnto the free mercie of GOD performed to vs-warde in Christ that from thence is excluded the whole lawe with all the merit of our owne workes But our aduersaries will obiect and say If the lawe doe not iustifie and that we must not hope for saluation by the law why hath God giuen a lawe Againe if faith onely iustifie and Why the law was giuen that our auntient fathers were iustified and saued by faith what necessitie was there that there should be a law giuen to posterities afterward For what hinderance was there but that wee as well as they might be saued without a lawe Againe if we be now saued without a law forsaking the lawe vpon necessitie must come vnto Christ then vainely hath God giuen and deliuered a lawe afterwarde For thus the naturall and carnall man if hee doe abuse any thing and therefore be accused is alwayes accustomed to condemne the same and cast it away as a matter hurtfull and vnprofitable Neither doth hee make any other vse of good and necessarie things then drunken men doe of their wine For if thou accuse a drunken man for the immoderate and excessiue abuse of wine hee presently will make answere and say If it be not lawfull for me to drinke why hath God giuen wine vnto vs why doe wee receiue so plentifull a vintage from him as if there were no other vse of wine but for their drunkennesse Note The same doe our aduersaries in thinges belonging to Religion For reprooue them that doe binde Christs corporall presence to the sacrament and they will presently make answere and say If Christ be not corporally presēt to what purpose were sacraments giuen wherefore hath God spoken after such a manner Might hee not haue spoken more simplie and plainely that we should haue taken his words otherwise shall we now reproue God of a lye or affirme him to be a deceiuer such a one as is willing to beguile with magnificall words Againe they doe the like that binde saluation to the merite of their workes For accuse them of error presently they will affirme that wee altogether denie and tread vnder foote good workes because they knowe no other ende nor vse thereof but that which they haue inuēted in their owne brainesicke humour Like vnto all these was the confidence of the Iewes of such as by them were deceiued in the time of the Apostle from whom were often heard these words Hath not GOD giuen vs a lawe Then what is the vse of the lawe if faith onely iustifie and if the lawe bee nothing auaileable to saluation wherefore as sayeth my text then serueth the lawe Is it not altogether vnprofitable and superfluous To this question and so to all the rest that are ioyned to it the Apostle in fewe words making answere saith It was added for transgression till the seede came vnto the which the promise was made Heere the Apostle expoundeth that which before he had spoken Namely that the couenant of God was not able to bee frustrated by the lawe that followed 400. and 30 yeares after for hee sayth that the lawe was added vnto the promise or couenant Now that which is added vnto a thing is added not to abolish it but to confirme it And therefore the Apostle writing to the Romanes affirmeth that the lawe entred for this purpose that Rom. 7. 7 the fault of our sinne might bee apparent vnto vs and that we better knowing the horror thereof might flee vnto the promise of the free mercie of God made vnto vs in Christ Againe when hee saieth that the lawe was added vnto the promise hee manifestly thereby teacheth vs that in the action of our saluation the chiefest part thereof is due to the free promise or couenant of GOD vnto which the lawe was added not to abolish or take it away but to be seruiceable vnto it more to confirme it And thus the Apostle doth reproue the ignoraunce of the Iewes who did not distinguish betweene the lawe and the promise and therefore attributed vnto the lawe that which indeede was due and belonging vnto the promise of God Note Heere then obserue that this confusion is the occasion of all errors in the matter or cause of our eternall saluation For wee are all by nature sinners subiect to condemnation but God pitying vs in his eternall decree appointed Christ Iesus to be our Sauiour in whome hee hath elected vs before the world was made or created promised him vnto our first parents after that to Abraham and other Fathers that thereby hee might shew vs that saluation comes vnto men from the free mercie of God Afterwarde hee gaue a lawe not because the promise and couenant was defectiue or imperfect or that hee would abolish the same but onely to admonish them of their dutie who already were heires of these promises and of free saluation But as the Iewes in times past not obseruing the order of God supposed that this inheritance came from and by the lawe altogether neglecting the promise Note So in like sort doe the Papistes who doe impute saluation vnto the merit of their owne workes which is all one as if a sonne shuld auouch himselfe to bee his fathers heire by the merite and desert of Obedience and should denie himselfe to bee an heire borne The same error is committed by many in the Sacraments The chiefest points of the Sacrament of Baptisme are Baptisme these The grace of Adoption Washing away of our sinnes Regeneration and Renouation of the whole man The duetie of the commer is this faith is required of the baptized and they are admonished of their duetie