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world_n	deny_v	lust_n	ungodliness_n	2,308	5	11.2023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13556	Regula vitæ the rule of the law vnder the Gospel. Containing a discovery of the pestiferous sect of libertines, antinomians, and sonnes of Belial, lately sprung up both to destroy the law, and disturbe the faith of the Gospell: wherein is manifestly proved, that God seeth sinne in iustified persons. By Thomas Taylor Dr. of Divinity, and pastour of S. Mary Aldermanbury, London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1631 (1631)	STC 23851; ESTC S118279	80,247	284

tried in that Court If God shall say leave such a sinne or be damned doe such a duty a●d ●e saved he may say We will doe neither the one nor the other on these tearmes Well may he say and more that his tongue le ts fall unseemely tearmes and it hides his nakednesse but a little to droppe out that his meaning is that God hath nothing to doe to call a beleever into the court of nature For howsoever hee will teach God what hee hath to doe or what he hath not to doe he might long since have beene taught that God will require of us even that righteousnesse which he put into our nature and that is a talent which we must be countable for as well as any other OBIECT 7. Those that have the spirit of God for their rule and doe all by a free spirit they neede not the Law to rule or urge thē to them it is vaine and needlesse But all beleevers have the spirit to rule them and they doe all by a free spirit Therefore Answ. The former proposition is false that those that have the spirit to rule them have no neede or use of the Law and as grosse to conceive the spirit and the Law contrary which are indeed inseperable for the Law is the instrument the Spirit is the workmaster the Law is the rule the Spirit the applier of that rule The spirit is so farre from destroying the Law that he writeth it in the inner parts he addeth clearenesse and light unto unto it he worketh love and delight unto it 2. It was ever the wicked conceit of Libertine Enthusiasts that the spirit worketh our obedience immediately and by himselfe alone rejecting all meanes whereas he worketh it in us ordinarily by the word the Law and the Gospell Ioh. 16. 13. The spirit sent to beleevers shall not speake of himselfe but whatsoever hee shall heare that shall he speake He is in himselfe the spirit of illumination but enlighteneth beleevers by shewing them what is to be done by the Law and what is to be beleeved by the Gospell 3. Is the spirit therefore a free spirit because hee frees us from the Law no verily but because he sets us free to the performance of it This reason holy David gives us Psal 119. 32. I will then runne the way of thy commandements when thou hast enlarged or set mee free Or is that the duty of a free and willing subject to cast off the lawes of his King No but most freely and willingly to obey his Law and this is the freedome wrought by the free spirit in free and ingenious Christians 4. To say we obey God by by the spirit without a Law or a commandement is a meere non sence for is any obedience without a Law Is not our rule to doe onely what the Lord commandeth what can be more ridiculous than for a subject to professe obedience to his Prince but yet hee will not be under any Law And to say they obey of love and yet obey no commandement is as fond and false 1 Ioh 53. This is the love of God that we keepe his commandements and his commandements are not grievous Ioh 14. 15. If ye love me keepe my commandements love must ever looke to the commandement OBIECT 8. Those that are under the Law of Christ are not under the Morall Law But Beleevers are under the Law of Christ Gal 6. 2. and so fulfill the Law of Christ. Therfore And thus doe they further unfold themselves that wee may understand them consider say they men as creatures in their naturall being thus are they under the Morall Law given by their Creatour But consider them as redeemed and new creatures they are freed from that Law and onely tyed to precepts taught by Christ in the Gospell which teacheth to deny ungodlines and worldly lusts and to live soberly justly and godly in this present world Tit 2. 11. Answ. Here is a whole bundle of errours to be untied 1. The proposition is false that beleevers who are under the Law of Christ are not under the Morall Law seeing the Law of Christ is for substance the same with the Morall Law for what is the Law of Christ in the place alledged but the doctrine precept and commandement of Christ enjoyning the love of our brethren bearing their burden which the Apostle opposeth not to the Morall Law as these sectaries doe but enjoyneth it as a more necessary Law than all that heape of ceremonies to which the false Apostles would have brought them backe against whom he strengtheneth the beleevers of that Church through that whole Epistle 2. It is frivolous and popish to conceive the Gospell a new Law for is not the covenant of grace the same in the old Testament and new and did not the holy men in the olde Testament Mose● David Samuel Daniel and the rest enjoy the same covenant with us or were they saved by another Gospell than we or did not they frame their lives to the same sobriety righteousnes and holinesse that we doe 2 Did not the Apostles preach and write the Gospell Yet 1. Ioh. 2 7. they professe We write no new commandement but the old which yee have had from the beginning And what was that but the same which was written in mans nature before the fall and after written by Gods finger in tables of stone which same commandement though he call a new commandement in the next verse that is not because it is another in the substance but the same law of love renewed and reinforced upon new grounds by Christ the great Law-giver And ratified both by his owne doctrine and example and in this new manner it was never urged before 3. So farre is the Law of Christ fro● 〈…〉 morall law 〈…〉 according that 〈…〉 of S. August The Law knowes to command but the Gospell to assist to the commandement True it is that Christ abolished all Lawes that made difference betweene man and man Iew and Gentile Eph. 2 14. Yea and the Morall Law so farre as it made difference betweene God man beleeving And 2. as it is opposed to the Gospell And 3. as it hindreth entrance into the kingdome to beleevers And 4. as any thing in it was accidentall significative circumstantiall or tempoall But all matters substantiall essentiall and eternall Christ by his Law hath confirmed to continue for ever This harmony of the Morall Law and Christs Law judicious Calvin in his harmony avoucheth The whole Law saith hee agreeth with the Gospel both in condemning the sa●e vices and commanding the same vertues And if this be so then certainly it destroyes not the Law And Pare●s on Rom 10. 14. saith They erre that thinke the Law repugneth Christ in the Gospel 4. It is little under blasphemie that they oppose the Father and the Sonne as if they had diverse wills divers rules or contrary Lawes wheras the Son professet● that hee spake nothing from