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A sermon preached in S. Peters Church at West-Chester the XXV. of September, 1586 Containing matter fit for the time: by Edward Hutchins Maister of Arts, and fellowe of Brazennose College.
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Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.
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wiâ— fould of christ christ your sheepherd to see 〈◊〉 cornes of christ the lose of life Ioh. 6. to see you calâ— to the knowlege of the truth to coÌ„sent to it â—ome thus to hear it that you may continue 〈◊〉 how it ioyeth our hartes But alas though 〈◊〉 bee our ioy happinesse to see you in this â—r happy estate nothing could more glad â—heÌ„ to see the branch abide in the vine yet saâ— hath had yet hath his are abroad wherwtâ—ot only hacks but hopes to hew down the â—ch of christ in diuerse places Nay as it was Galatia so hath it bin so it is now in Engâ—â—â—d God grant that it be not or if it be not ytâ—ay not be so among you For sataÌ„ hath spiâ— his your prosperous estate in Iesu Christ â— not spared almost in euery place euery â— to ouerthrow it For what the powers of world haue don in this cause I need not to â—ember you what his false Apostles haue â— of late yet do atteÌ„pt you are not ignoraÌ„t â—y you knowe what diuels haue come vnto â—â— shape of Angels What Esaus vnder the â—e of Iacob What cutthroats vnder the â—e of Catholicks What Iudases vnder the â—e of Iesus And that not onely to corrupt â— but also so far to disquiet you as to sucke â—ery blood of Prince people among you were possible By which means it is come to passe that the ship of Christ is not only daed with waues but in a maner ouerwhelmâ— and his sheepe not onely pursued but almâ— quite deuoured in many places as was tâ— therefore so is our Galatia troubled Nay 〈◊〉 Scribes and Pharisies to the disquieting of 〈◊〉 church Apostolicke wan Iudas from christ oâ— sauiour Ioh. 18.2.3 and of an Apostle made him an Aâ—stata Gal. 3.1 These false Apostles bewitched thâ— Galathians and made them fools where tâ— were in the way to runne out they went abâ— by their mixture of circumcision with the gâ—â—pell Gal. 3.4 to make the gospel of Christ fruitles vâ— them Oh would to God Scribes and Phariâ— were not in this our land ô would to God tâ— no familiars had plaid by their means the pâ— of Iudas with Christ our sauiour ô would to â— that many Galathians that runne wel had beene staied stopt from the good course tâ— had begun But alas we want not in this â— day the man that plaieth Iudas nay alas vnâ— the name of Iesus they haue beene and amongst vs that haue sought and doe seeke their false perswasion to make the true Câ—â—â—stian a Iudas nay alas they doe it in diuâ— places already and euen yet they spare no â—uel to make you al Apostataes They caâ— abide to see you come to these our congregâ— â—s they caÌ„not abide to see you gather to serue â—e liuing lord they caÌ„not abide the florishing the truth that we deliuer faithfully and you â—â—ceiue obediently from vs yea it grieueth theÌ„ the very heart to see so many eares in 〈◊〉 house of our god the word of god in known â—nner offered vnto you but aboue all things â—hich was the only thing that among and aâ—â—e all spited these false Apostles to the very â—rt that Christ should be preached as a full a free Iesus only vnto you and among you â—d therefore our aduersaries crie out against 〈◊〉 gospell of Christ that that faith which â—orketh by charitie should only bee saide to â—ify saue which is our proposition neither â—re nor lesse for which cause as these false Aâ—tles to the disquieting of this church of Gaâ—a mingled circumcision grace taught 〈◊〉 gospel to be vnauaileable vnlesse circumciâ— were vsed as necessary by which means â—y deceiued many so also our aduersaries do â—â—gle workes with faith and teach saluation â—ome not only by faith but also by workes which meanes many of the simple are cariâ—â—way from vs and lose the profite of our saâ—urs gospel But here because by the way â—y doe except by the way I am to aunswere â—y except the coÌ„parison not to be iust whereas yet as these Apostles ioined together câ—â—cumcision and Christ so do they couple the â—â—rites of their woorkes and Christ But heâ— they except that circumcision was a matter the Lawe ceremoniall which did not whâ— could not iustifie but as for good woorks thâ— are duties of the Law morall which both â— and doe iustifie but I answere that indeed for circumcision truth it is that it neither dâ— neither could execute that office no lesse dâ— say of the duties of the law moral For thou it be a principle in diuinity confessed also our aduersaries that Lex impleta doth iust care and iustificatos seruare that the Law fulâ—â—â—led doth iustifie and saue the iust yet touchiâ— the categoricall and positiue whereabout question is I find it not to be true that any doeth actually or can possibly fulfill the laâ— and therfore be iustified and saued by the laâ— But here again they except that then god hâ— coÌ„manded things impossible Wherunto I â—swere that as for the impossibility of the comandement it is no matter of absurdity â— it is a point of the catholicke verity taught scriptures to be confessed by all the Apoâ— S. Peter in the 15. of the Acts doth witnâ— no lesse and our aduersaries themselues dâ— say no lesse but here again they except tha◠〈◊〉 the place of S. Peter it concerneth points the law ceremoniall which was but a Law â—mporall but as for good woorkes they are â—ties of the Law moral that bindes al men â—al ages so that if the duty therof and therein â— God of vs exacted were impossible God â—ere proued a cruel rigorous God Whereâ—â—to I aunswere first that touching the perâ—â—tualnes or temporalnes of the commaunâ—ment that is nothing whence the impossiâ—â—enesse is graunted for a truth 2 I answere â—at as for the duties of the law morall though â—ey binde perpetually and yet bee impossible be performed by the Godly yet is not God â—ereby proued a cruel rigorous god but 〈◊〉 â— cause he demaundeth nothing but his due â—e Yea what mans conscience calleth duty â—â—nfesseth to bee due now to aske nothing but â—e yea what man cannot but confesse to bee â—e that is no cruelty no rigor but iustice â—d therefore to answere more fully as for the â—ties of the lawe morall God asketh therein thing but what maÌ„ should performe Therâ—e nothing but duety yea nothing but what â—an could performe nothing therefore but â—ety yea nothing but possible dutie which â—â—ough now hee cannot performe and thereâ—re now findes the law impossible that is because wheÌ„ he could therfore had possibility 〈◊〉 performe it yet he would not so that that iâ—possibility argueth not Gods cruelty rigouâ— but iustice on his part on our behalfe our miserable infirmity and yet voluntary miserâ— Nay their owne Hugo de Victore in his annotations vpon this chapter saith that man â—â—