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A88987	Christian liberty vindicated from grosse mistakes, occasioning so great divisions in England. Or, A tract, shewing what it is, and what it is not, the diversity of errours, a generall councell to be the meanes of beating them down, and how far forth conscience is to be born with, and the insolencie of the late remonstrants. Most earnestly recommended to the reading of the Right Honourable Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, and all those that through a mistake stand so stifly for the priviviledge [sic] of conscience at large, ... Whereunto is added an appendix of 17. questions, necessary to be discussed and be determined by the Assembly of Divines without delay, that every one may know what to hold and rest in, and the unnaturall divisions in the same body may cease. / By John Mayer, D.D. of Divinity.	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing M1421; Thomason E361_4; ESTC R201203	21,204	33

this partition wall and to sanctifie the Gentiles also through faith we are now at libertie herefrom Act. 10. onely some as not having this knowledge think themselves tyed are still tyed and therefore should sin Rom. 14. if they eate of things uncleane and the like is taught of keeping or not keeping dayes formerly sanctified Secondly of Circumcision and washings in case of legall uncleannesse sacrifices the High-Priest and other Priests in their vestments c. we are not only at liberty from them all Gal. 5.1 but if we should still use them we should have no benefit by Christ Thirdly I say that this liberty is from servitude to our vile lusts and sinnes From servitude of sin Joh. 8.34 which whosoever committeth is the servant thereof then whoso are thus freed are free from the danger of death and the power of the Devill for he worketh by our lusts Jam. 1.14 Eph. 2. unto which therefore our servitude being at an end there is an end of our servitude to Satan also and of our subjection to him to bee by him carried away into his hellish Kingdome And all this liberty we ought to stand for but especially this last as wherein our happinesse doth consist freedome from sin by justification through faith and by a vertue derived from Christs death to whom we are joyned by faith to dye to sinne and live to righteousnesse and freedome from the Devill and his snare 1 Pet. 5.8 and dominion and finally from his Lion-like devouring of us And hitherto affirmatively what Christian liberty is now to shew negatively what it is not What Christian liberty is not 2 Pet. 2.19 And here I say briefly first that it is not a liberty to any evill or sinne because this is no liberty but servitude to corruption and is so opposite to Christian liberty as that the Apostle faith How should we that are dead unto sinne yet live any longer therein Rom. 6.2 against those that said If it be of grace that we are saved let us continue in sinne that grace may abound As the dead are bound up from doing the actions of the living so the true Christian is said to be dead unto sinne to intimate that be is not at liberty to act sinne any more as they that live in sinne and were never mortified unto it but contrariwise bound that hee cannot now sinne any more i Joh. 3.9 as St. John expresly teacheth For what is sinne but a breach of the Law and he that breakes the least of those Commandements or Lawes saith our Lord shall be called the least in the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 5.19 that is shall be rejected and put from it as most unworthy for such are by the Holy Ghost set forth sometimes by this word least and sometime by the word last as Matth. 19.30 ch 20. And this makes against all them that will be justified by faith in Christ so as to be at liberty to doe evill and yet not to be said to sin in so doing These begin in the spirit but end in the flesh as those of Isaacks posterity and of Israels who degenerated and became no better then Ishmaels 2 Tim. 2.21 For whosoever is a vessell Elect and pretious and so appointed to hovour purgeth himselfe and is fit for the masters use being prepared to every good worke He that saith to doe evill is no sinne what saith he else but as the cursed Serpent to Evah touching the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill Although yee eate of it yee shall not dye so he although ye do the evill which God forbiddeth it is no sinne in you neither shall death betide you therefore The Antinomians then from Zealots are turned Libertines yea Serpents which I wish that all the people of God would take serious notice of and take heed of being beguiled by their subtilty to their destruction For let this be received and what Whoremonger Drunkard Sweater what man full of envie wrath strife c. shall bee shut out of Heaven seeing he beleeveth also and thus too in the number of justified persons But how may we confute them sith he that beleeveth is justified and he that is justified can have nothing laid to his charge past present or to come whereas if he doth but sin it cannot but be laid to his charge Answ It is not laid to his charge because God imputes it not to him and not because it is no sinne if it were otherwise it would not have been said Psal 32. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sinne but rather in whom there is no sinne which whoso saith of himselfe is a lyar and hath no truth in him 1 Ioh. 1 8. yea although he be a beleever for it is written If we confesse our sinnes he is faithfull to forgive them If it were according to the opinion of these proud justiciaries that note of St. John would fall to the ground whereby he saith we may know the children of God and of the Devill He that doth not righteousnesse is of the Devill and P. being a justified person 1 Ioh. 3.10 Gal. 3.20 said He knew not what when he confessed saying Of all sinners I am the chiefe and complained of sin in himself 1 Tim. 1.1 Rome 7. Hitherto of the first Secondly Christian libertie is not to error although he who holdeth it thinkes it to be truth and in walking accordingly walkes according to his conscience neither may he therefore be suffered but animadverted against as an evill doer by the higher powers provided that it be first determined by a Generall Nationall Assembly that it is an error Hence I say first That Christian libertie is not a libertie to error 2 Thess 2.11 for then it should be against Christ who is the truth and Gods Word which is truth and a libertie to lying because errors are lyes and damnable lyes for they that beleeve them are damned and it is an epithite of such errors as men hold and will not revoke them which are therfore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2.1 Heresies of damnation and the Hereticks are said to be subverted and condemned of themselves Tit. 3.10 11. But Quest Whether is any error to damnation or no because some erring about meats and dayes are pleaded for and defended Rom. 14. Act. 16.3 And Paul is said to have taken Timothy and circumcised him which yet he plainly teacheth to be so great an error that it frustrateth the benefit by Christ Gal. 5.1 And after long travell Act. 21. comming to Jerusalem he by the advice of the Church purified himselfe according to the Ceremoniall Law which was then abolished and therefore the practice was erroneous Yet Gal. 4.10 11. the observing of dayes is censured as prejudiciall to the good comming by the Gospel for he saith Yet observe dayes c. I am afraid that I have