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A86502	The peasants price of spirituall liberty. VVherein is represented the complexion of the times, and considerations to cure it. In three sermons. By Nathaniel Homes, D.D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1642 (1642)	Wing H2571; Thomason E151_1; ESTC R15127	49,057	90

we have beene so long in proofe already divers things out of the New Testament Math. 15. the madnesse of the Pharisees and Iewes upon their dirty ceremonies against Christ Mar. 26.61 Acts 7. Acts 21. Acts 19. Acts 14. Stephan and Paul preaching to them Gospel liberties The clamours of Demetrius and the Gentiles in the behalfe of Diana and her silver shrines and of Jupiter and Mercurie and divers other passages in Christ and the Apostles time Revel 17.12 13 14. 18.11 12. c to v. 20. and out of the prophesies of the Revelation But it is high time to passe to the demonstration of this point In summe wee shall give but one maine Reason for demonstration of this point of Doctr. Therefore doth the Lord so deale with refusers of spirituall liberty with such severity because in refusing they adde iniquity unto iniquity incurably And when God doth impose judgements by way of gradation as to disgrace and discard as gracelesse then we may easily suppose that mans sinnes with ascending aggravations when the sea bank is made high 't is because the tide swels high So that man professing at least practising that unjust way o● sinning God pronounceth this as his just way of vengeance in punishing For God is mightily offended with ascentions and aggravations of sinne Jer. 2.13 That we may see the ascent or risings of this sinne of the Anti-libertine of this opposite of spirituall immunity note first how it begins in omission or remission carelessnesse to know the glasse and glory of this liberty secondly that it is radicated habituated and setled in the very complexion or setled into a very complexion it becomes his corrupt naturall disposition thirdly that it is maintained and continued with a full if not a profest resolution fourthly by all is made up an Idolatrous ingratefull retaliation 1. This spirituall vassall will not learne nor understand what the liberty of the Gospell is and that 's a strange thing seeing it is a liberty What was our maine occasion for which the Jewes tooke away the life of the Lord Jesus but their perverse blindnesse Math. 27 6● Ioh. 6. so much extolled by the morall Philosopher Math. 15. if but civill they will not indure the light of his glorious Doctrine touching the annulling of Moses the Temple-ceremonies If he did but in sound of words Math. 23. glance at those they indited the fact as a great crime What was that which provoked the Iewes to the stopping their eares and the martyring of Stephan Acts 6. but the Doctrine of the liberty of the Gospell in opposition to Mosaicall ceremonies Acts 7. What kindled the contention betweene the ceremoniously imbondaged Iewes and the enfranchised and freed converts of the Gentiles but the Jewes sticking to the Doctrine of workes and ceremonious performances ●p●o Rom 〈◊〉 on all which that I may t●uch the very reason of this unteachablenesse they were so madde ●p to Gala● not under the notion of bondage nor did they oppose Gospell liberty under the conceipt of liberty but man naturally loves a sensible service and loathes a spirituall worship that hee may seeme to himselfe to be able of himselfe to doe somewhat for himselfe in matters of salvation This makes the Papists to turne all their worship into as the Apostle calls it a bodily exercise 1 Tim. 4.8 as formerly the Colossians into lust not touch not handle not Coloss 2. and an afflicting of the body See the accusation of the Martyrs in the Marian persecutions Fox Book of Ma● The Papists sacrament of the Supper is the flesh blood and bones of Christ The water of Baptisme washeth away originall sin Their repentance whippings and Lent and flesh fasts and almost all their services are according to their doctrine efficacious ex opere operato their bare doing the duty doth effectually do the spirituall thing So the Popish Prelaticall faction turne all worship and devotion into sensible ceremonious actions and motions Now this first step is an high one even ignorance especially affected ignorance 2 Thess ● 8 for it is that which stops up the way against the light and makes men to wander in every way of sinne 2. Such persons as these that will not understand the excellency of their liberty but stand out against it with custome naturallize themselves into a liberty-loathing or depising complexion So that as the great Philosopher said 〈…〉 some are servants by nature Foolish passive silly in regard of governing others but in regard of subjection to be governed they are instrumenta rationalia they have reason enough to work according to the direction of another So these men by corrupt custome are fitted to be led by the streame of times and the examples of corrupt men and the rotten principles of blind guides There is that power or rather tyranny of a vaine conversation received by tradition that nothing but a redemption and that by the blood of Christ will fetch a man off 1 Pet. 1.18 Wee see to this day the sad event of this truth How hard it is to take off the old wives and doting men and idiots of all sorts from their old mumpsimus That as conscientious persons wander for the pure practising of the word the meat of their soules so these traditious persons wander for their pottage And alas for them what meane they make for Swines broth Sure if this stuffe were of God the rude multitude would never be so eager they would not cry out that reformation were Innovation But sure their broth is not good their meat is so bad Esay 65.4 They eate Swines flesh and broth of abominable things is in their vessells Certainely the best prayers the best formes of worship are not commonly consistent with the worst kind of life But as these pottage-bellies these Swine-eaters of which the Prophet speaks live among graves and monuments so these that cry up customary forms of Discipline worship though corrupted live commonly among the dead they love the company at the best but of the Pharisaicall painted Sepulchors Ma●h ●● But to breake off to goe to the next head wee see wee heare wee know that custome hath and doth prove another nature a new cōplexion to men to hold them strong to their customary way of worship and Discipline be it never so much corrupted and degenerated 3. To all this the opposers or contemners of liberty add resolution they know no better as we said in the first Branch they are accustomed to this condition as we said in the second Therefore they resolve and sometimes professe their resolution that they will not goe out free they will not because they will not As the civill servant Exod. 21.6 So these spirituall vassals in effect say They love their Master they will not goe out free For observe their relish of and carriage towards the sound preaching of spirituall liberty of and toward the word that

heard of an history of these times printed in France but be sure we shall in after times have it in plaine English there by divine providence shall all be set downe if men carry themselves unevenly as suppose that such men did so much were at so great cost in going against the Protestant Scots that in conclusion carryed themselves so innocently but did nothing against the Popish Irish that in the very beginning exercised such bloody cruelties that such Gentlemen hindred the reformation which the Parliament would have effected had not they beene opposite that such Ministers still preached plotted petitioned that they might were the yoke of bondage I make but a supposition with Ifs And 's what may be storied of us But you may happly imagine that positively grosse men shall be more grossely set forth to all future ages never to be forgotten to the worlds end If therefore you have any true blood running in your veines if any esteeme of your reputation before God and the world shew your selves worthy men in the behalfe of the Churches liberty and pious tranquility You see the force of the Motive is that God and men shall conspire to blot your names with reproach to the worlds end if you doe not write your names faire with noble actions and write over them this Motto I will doe what I can for God and his Church then will God prevent and men forbeare to mention you but for honour How did God and Moses heale the reproach of Levi in matter of the Sechemites when after upon command of publike authority they stood up for God against the Idolaters These times are full of eyes every man is an Argos Be you full of hands a Briareus for God and the Church and the Historians shall not leave out a title of your honour yee never had such a time or shall have to be graced or disgraced in your name as this is 3. Mot. God will discard cast off such he leaves them to lose themselves by losing the opportunity of time These Potters losing this opportunity never returned that we reade of The designe was infinitely too great for them to undertake alone Hierusalem losing her day all other dayes were hid from her eyes and her house was left desolate Matth. 23. Luke 19. So now is an unparalelled time for us Three Kingdomes awakened and their Parliaments Now let us joyne purses prayers powers petitions practices and great things may be done Lose wee this opportunity and wee shall in all humane probabilitie never see the like againe because now in all Kingdomes God hath it seemes by their common vote put it into their hearts to hate the whore of Babylon Rev. 17 16. And powerfull is the generall consent and vote of the people to move forward any good worke Rev. 19.6 their very voyce is as the sound of many waters and how prevailing is a flood or river of water Now wee may goe on in good with the streame in some degree omit this opportunity and after we must goe against the streame Now pe●ltion may doe that which after the point of the sword cannot as it ought not Now may be bought with words and teares which after cannot be blood and speares Yea lose we the opportunity but for a piece of our redresses and it cannot be well with us Have wee not a propriety in our goods then our estates are gone Have we not deliverance from oppressing Courts then our persons or bodies are lost Have wee not a right settlement of a right ministrie then our soules are undone So that the maine point of this motive is punctum temporis Articulus temporis this is the point of time that may settle all in joynt 4. Motive God will cast us off if we slight such offers and times of offers as gracelesse cast us off from the meanes of grace or the meanes from them and give them up to the cruelty of men If wee be sluggish to the undoing if not damning of our children wee shall lose the meanes of grace and so grace If wee secretly prescribe for in our hearts wee dote upon the continuance of corruptions in the Church God will prescribe openly If wee by sluggishnesse in the forefront leade our posterity for future into captivity wee shall goe first into captivitie Remember the rule Amos 6. Our enemies love the treason against the Church not the traytors Remember how they served Cranmer after hee had recanted they burnt him whiles hee was in a good minde to serve their turne And note how the Prelates among themselves served the great Antiscibbatarian Prelate when he had served their turnes hee was much cast off by them as I gathered from one his of owne servants haply because he held not Transubstantiation too Fides non est servanda cum Haereticis 'T is burning not turning that they aime at in eminent professors See the summe of this Motive If we make God cast us off wee lose his Grace and all favour of men It is not Religion onely but our lives also that wee shall lose No mercilesse ruine like to that which ariseth out of contrariety of Religion Tantum Religio potuit suadere molorum 5. Liberty-losers saith the Doct. are men of unworthy unready spirits Shall we be unready for our owne good Not rightly informed in judgement not ready in affections to practise upon opportunities Not ready in affections as not sensible of the misery of spirituall bondage Not ready in judgement as not enlightened touching the excellency of Christs reformation of his Church unprepared in prayers fastings c Yea unfit in prayer and unfit in person For God must prepare the heart as well as to receive the thing petitioned for as to make the prayer Ps 10.17 There were some fitted in prayer as we may say but not fitted in person Isa 58.3.4 Forget not this that reformation goes on when the heart is prepared especially in publique persons 2 Chron. 27.6 So in Jothams time 2 Chron. 29.36 so in Hezechiahs time 6. Who preferre Who are they Peasants for the most Their stocke was dissembling projecting Polititians Deputies Judges in Moab men of the Lye And the stalke the men themselves Mr. Dike in a Sermon on 1 Ioh. 5. Planters Hedgers c. One in a Sermon called them Hedge-rogues And sure under such termes doth God set forth such Peasants spirits despising spiritualls Job 30.7 They bray under the bushes and under the nets they gather together Zeph. 2.9 Moab shall be as Sodome how is that The breeding of nettles and salt pits For Sodome despised Lots Ministery and became a desolation Luke 14.23 Goe yee into the high wayes and hedges the Gentiles yet spiritually in bondage are supposed to lye under hedges as it were that is men despicable And observe all along the course of times men base or meane in the stock being suddenly advanced become in their spirits and that is worst of all most