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A77486	Brightman redivivus: or The post-humian of-spring of Mr. Thomas Brightman, in IIII. sermons. Viz. [brace] 1. Of the two covenants. 2. The danger of scandals. 3. Gods commission to Christ to preach the Gospell. 4. The saints securitie.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.; Halsted, John.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4691; Thomason E375_16; ESTC R201349	89,168	128

Brightman Redivivus OR THE POST-HUMIAN OF-SPRING OF Mr. THOMAS BRIGHTMAN Jn IIII. Sermons Viz. 1. Of the Two Covenants 2. The danger of Scandals 3. Gods Commission to CHRIST to Preach the Gospell 4. The Saints Securitie LUKE 16.31 If they heare not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rise from the dead LONDON Printed by T. F. for John Rothwell at the Sun and Fountaine in Pauls Church-yard and Hannah Allen at the Crowne in Popes-head Alley 1647. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER CHRISTIAN Reader heere mayst thou have one speaking to thee from the Dead for as Heb. 11.4 it is said of ABEL'S Faith That by it being dead hee yet speaketh So may wee truly say of this Faithfull man that being Dead hee yet speaketh by his workes of Faith Witnesse those on the Revelation Who though hee was silenced Living that neither hee nor his Workes might speake in England Yet now wee see them have liberty to speake when all those their Enemies are prest to silence and shame As hee by a divine and propheticall Spirit discovered out of the Epistle to the Angell of Laodicea And that hand which preserved those his workes from the destruction of those cruell Pharaohs that caused such Children to be strangled in the birth hath brought these unto Light and Life which may be called The Post-humian Of spring of that Learned and Godly Mr. BRIGHTMAN being borne out of due time from having the benefit of the Father in polishing and sending them abroad but not out of due time in regard of the benefit they may bring to the Church of CHRIST and they containe rich Treasures in Earthen vessels Divine and heavenly Substances under homely Garments They are his Notes who is worthy to be heard in the least and meanest of his Messengers The gleanings of Brightman better then the vintage of the Prelacy for they faithfully deliver the message of the great GOD of Heaven They are gleanings of his Harvest in which thou mayest find not onely to fill thy hand but thy bosome Psal 129. What though they bee Fatherlesse Pity them and use them kindly for the Father sake Though they want his Apparell for they were found clad in Roman Buffe yet they have his stampe and Image on them though altered in apparell If any Reliques ever deserved respect these doe and are honourable though not venerable in Romes sense Receeive these Orphans to house and lodging they shall not get so much by thee as thou by them but lodge them in thy Understanding and in thy Affections thou mayest receive better Ghests then thou art aware of They are the Discoveries of that bright Light whose eyes were made bright by that true Eye-salve They will lead thee right not as the Prophet led the Assyrians into the En●mies holds and hands but into the Land of the living into the land of Righteousnesse They containe foure Sermons 4. Posthume Sermons discovering severall Doctrines but all ●●●t precious Truths The first discovers most plainly yet learnedly the two Covenants of Workes and Grace The second will informe thee fully and profitably in the Doctrine of Scandals through which the world is at this stay it is The third represents Christ in his Propheticall Office so fully to a poore Soule that it cannot but cry out J have enough CHRIST JESVS is mine by the free gift of God the Father The fourth sets out Faith Hope and the Love of God very sweetly and cleerly But J shall not need to speake for them they are of age and ability to speake for themselves God give thee blessing in the Reading them as J wish to mine owne Soule To which J commend thee and rest thine in Christ Jesus c. JOHN HALSTED THE POST-HUMIAN OF-SPRING OF Mr. BRIGHTMAN Galat. 4. Vers 22 23 24 25 26. For it is written that Abraham had two Sons the one of a Bond-woman the other of a Free-woman But hee that was borne of the servant was borne after the flesh c. TWo things of great weight are handled in this Epistle First the Apostle doth avouch and maintaine the truth and dignity of his Apostleship and this is done in the two first Chapters Secondly the Apostle doth by many reasons confirme the true manner of Iustification to be not by the conjoyned workes of the Law with Faith but by Faith alone in Christ and this is done in the 3d. and 4th Chapter and to the 13. verse of the fift Chap. In these words here set downe the Apostle doth most sharply taxe the folly and madnesse of the Galatians in that being freed from the yoke of the Law by CHRIST they would againe submit and subject themselves unto it and this is done by an argument of contraries or by shewing the most unlike contrary condition and effect of the Law and of Faith it is thus framed It is a most foolish and absurd thing for the free and ingenuous to give themselves or inthrall themselves in bondage But all that Beleeve in Christ are manumitted and set free but they that are and will be under the Law are slaves and bondmen And this madnesse was partly layd open before by shewing that the Law was as a Prison chap. 3.23 Wee were kept under and shut up c. By shewing that the Law is as a severe Schoole-master That it is also as a tutor and guardian for such as are in their minority and therefore all those that were or would be under the Law they did offer themselves to be detained in Prison and doe acknowledge themselves ignorant and children that need to be ordered and nurtured with the sharpe discipline of another now who is so fond and foolish as to delight alway to be in this condition The first part of the Apostles reason is not expressed and needs no declaration as being plaine to reason and common sense and experience The second part of the Argument hath prefixed to it an indirect reproofe of this Ignorance in the 21 verse as if hee should have said It is a most foolish and rash part for any man to bind himselfe or to desire to serve any Master and not to know what wages or reward he shall have Will yee serve the Law are you ignorant what is the fruit or profit of it or if you be why doe you not enquire and you shall find that it is the bondage of your selfe and your Posterity So that herein is the naturall inconsiderations of us all detected that we runne a head in the way of errour and wickednesse and never consider what will follow of it what benefit we shall get as the Apostle else-where sheweth by opposing the Romans with the like question Rom. 6.21 What fruit had you c. After this preparative there followes the just and sufficient proofe of the truth of the second part of the reasons in the 22 verse From the type of the family of Abraham for as the Son of a bond-woman is a servant

advantages faile yet this doth not an increase of Grace whereby is increased our assurance As St. Paul teaches Rom. 6.22 That being the Servants of Righteousnesse they had this fruit to wit an increase of holinesse So Rom. 5.5 Hope makes not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad That is the sense of the love of God is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit for by him as a most certain pawne or witnesse that we are beloved of God and how good he is and Fatherly affected So that wee see by what meanes this sense of Gods Love is brought into our Hearts even by the Holy Spirit Vse And therefore a second duty to every one that would cherish this sense of the love of God in him is that he cherish the Spirit who is the Author and preserver hereof But we shall not need to seeke other meanes for the effecting of this then those the Apostle delivers in this place For if there shall be a continuall Meditation of our Righteousnesse purchased by Christ If there shall be a serious Meditation of those good things wherewith God rewards the Servant calling on his name If also our hearts shall be throughly enflamed with a constant expectation of that felicity laid up in Heaven for the Faithfull What can be wanting to us for the preserving a lively sense of this Love we speake of See how loftily the Apostle vaunted himselfe in the confidence of never loosing the sense of this Love bearing himselfe only on these grounds and props Rom. 8.33 Who shall seperate us from the love of God in Christ c. Now what can be more renowned and Honourable what more to be desired then that fraile and weake man should bee stronger and more powerfull then Life then Death then the Divel then Sin and all the terrours of Hell and yet St Paul doth witnesse that the sense of this Love alone did put this Noble heart and Victorious Spirit into him And every godly man truely fearing God hath experience of this in himselfe This is that admirable and wonderfull power which carries men violently through glory and Ignominy through good report and bad through fire and torments that they might Magnify the name of their God whose unspeakable love they feele in their hearts 2 Cor. 5.14 The Love of God constrains us 2 Cor. 4.8 9 10. For when they have Gods favour they stand not much on it that the World is against them For say the wicked spoyle their goods thirst after their bloud yet what need they bee discouraged in heart when they know that these light afflictions shall be recompenced with so great reward as is shewed 2 Cor 4.15.16 17. Wherefore let us get to our selves this most strong Bulwarke against all the force of Satan and his adherents Let us endeavour to Sanctity that being made richer in Graces we may have a more plentifull assurance and deeper stampe Imprinted in our hearts which none hath ever tasted or shall no not with the least sipping that sets not himselfe unfainedly to this taske and makes Conscience to proceed and increase in the same course having a pure heart a true tongue and clean hands But alas if these things be so who can sufficiently bewayle these our dayes wherein men shew that they are so farre from preserving themselves in the love of God that they are set to cast themselves out of the same while some seeke above all to preserve themselves in the love of the World and so the love of God cannot be in them They being carryed away so with the Pleasures Honours and profits of the World as they desire no other Others go on in the open breach of all Gods Lawes grieving the Spirit of God provoking him to his face and moving him to turne his Love into Anger Is not the love of many waxed cold and doth not the fayling of this love in men shew that God begins to withdraw his Love which was the beginning of the other What meanes that deadnesse of mens hearts what meanes either a generall neglect of all meanes Simile or a formall outward use of them which never entring into the heart can no more strengthen the life of it then the meate that is taken into the mouth and goes no further can nourish the body O then let us awake and hold fast our Bridegroome Let us entreat him and endeavour our selves in his way then he will enrich us with his Graces take us into his secret Cabinet and Seale up to and in our Soules the Charter of eternall life O how should this make us pray with David O that my feete were so directed c. O how should Christ and his Truth bee in our hearts to dye and to live how should we sigh and contend for it Who would loose his Evidence Take heed of Sin if thou cherish it it will so eate out the letters of thy Evidence that thou shalt not be able to read them and so weaken thy title and tenure in the Heavenly Inheritance that when the Earthly shall faile thou wilt not know what shall become on thee Arise then by unfained repentance from thy Sins and never give over till by thy Teares thou hast so washed out all the Spots as that the letters of thy Evidence may be cleared and that the Starre which was so darkned may so cleerely shine and directly conduct thee not as it did the wise men to Christ in the Manger but to Christ in glory at the right hand of the Father whither thou shalt alway bee admitted not to offer gifts as they did But to be filled with all pvrfection of happinesse Waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hitherto of preserving our selves in the love of God the last furtherance thereunto is here set down to wit Christian Hope It is described by three things First from a property or effect namely Wayting Secondly from the object or thing wayted for the Mercy of Christ called the Grace of Christ 2 Cor. 13. at the end as also the fruit thereof Eternall Life which often is called Hope Thirdly from the end Eternall Life So that the sense of all is Wayting for Eternall Life through the Mercy of Christ Where at the first is discovered that impudent devise and falshood of the Popish Church touching their double justification the first whereof they avouch to be of Grace but that at least of Grace and workes whereas here it is expressed That a Christian justified waytes for Mercy But leaving them to their blindnesse Note let us see what may concerne our selves This Wayting here expressed is a lively property of true Christian Hope in part common to it with Faith For Faith and Hope have both the same grounds the same causes the like effects and therefore as he that Beleeves makes not hast so neither doth he that Hopes So that To Hope Waite Expect and Trust are put all for one in the old Testament Lament 3.40 41. and