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A04576	Dauids teacher, or The true teacher of the right-vvay to heauen Discouering erroneous teachers and seditious sectuaries. Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September. 1609. By Ro: Iohnson, M. of Arts, chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne.	Johnson, Robert, chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln.	1609 (1609)	STC 14694; ESTC S107451	26,498	52

lawes yea with my whole heart Nay God goeth a step further with his Children by grace for there is 3 Gratia preueniens a preuenting grace Psalm 82. His grace shall preuent mee So in Gen. 20. 6. I kept thee from doing this thing that thou shouldest not sin against me therefore suffered I thee not to touch her God doth preuent his children from sinne nay there is more 4 Gratia subsequens a subsequenting grace Ps. 49 Gratia eius subsequ●tur me his grace shall follow me he shall set a crowne of pure golde vpon my head And thus much out of the copulatiue And which sheweth grace goeth before righteousnesse I will Wherein for breuities sake obserue There is in the regenerate free-wil to wil good or righteousnes but not to perform but by grace velle mihi adiacet perficere autem non inuenio To will is present with me but I finde not how to performe the same I see a law in my members rebelling against the law of my minde But Dauid saith heere I will keepe it Wherin obserue Secondly There is in the regenerate conditionally by grace free-will in righteousnesse to keep the Law of God I will keepe it with my whole heart I will offer thee free-will-sacrifice I will praise thy name For if there were no free-will at all in the elect to performe righteousnesse by grace then were grace giuen in vaine and receiued in vaine and of necessitie it must be granted that men should stand still in the waies of God without any will or endeuour of action at all and let grace worke in vaine as on sencelesse stocks and stones Nay rather grace beeing giuen vs we must bend our affections and actions to walke in the law of God to keep it with our whole heart And yet when yee haue done all this free-will vnto righteousnesse euen in the elect est manca maimed and weake Caro habet suam voluntatem etiam in pijs as Cyprian saith the flesh still rebelleth against the spirit so long as this vnion standeth and vntill it be separated by death So we come vnto the third place wherein we obserue the thing promised I will keepe it And heere may a question be demanded whether the regenerate for of them wee speake in this place may keepe the law of God or not The answer must be with this distinction 1 It is one thing to keepe the law of God perfectè absolutely perfectlie as the law requireth 2 And it is another thing to keepe the law of God respectiuè respectiuely to the vttermost of a mans power and with all his indeuour to haue respect vnto the law of God to keepe it so neere as he can The first way none can keepe it no man hath kept it but onely vnus Christus God and man none but Christ can keepe the law perfectly as the law requireth perfect obedience vnto iustification but onely Christ he hath fulfilled it In the beginning of the booke it is written of me that I should fulfill thy will O God I am content to doe it yea thy law is within my brest And in Christ is God well pleased Matt. 3. which he would not haue beene if hee had not kept his law perfectly The second way wee may keepe the law of God that is haue respect vnto the law of God vnto the vttermost of our power and with all our endeuour to keepe the same Dauid saith I will keepe it vnto the end Zacharie and Elizabeth were both iust before God and walked in his ordinance and commandements for to doe them Paul saith I haue fought the good fight I haue kept the faith I haue fulfilled my course from henceforth there is a crowne of glorie laide vp for me yet none of all these did keepe the law so perfectly as the law required to iustifie themselues by the law But they kept the law of God with that respect as Dauid had vnto the law of God Psal. 119. I will haue a respect vnto all thy commandements And so we are said to keep the law of God If a master set his Scholler a coppie excellently written and bid his scholler doe as hee hath done if the same scholler hath respect vnto his masters coppie and frame the proportion of his letters so neere as he can to his masters coppie the same scholler doth as his Master bid him and as well as he can and so is said to keepe his Masters commandement Euen so wee beloued God hath set vs a law to keepe and biddeth vs keepe it Deut. 1. 6. If wee doe keepe it as well as we can with al our indeuours and haue respect vnto it wee are saide to keepe his commandements though we cannot keep them in such perfection as our Master Christ hath done hee is so excellent so perfit that we must still learne of him yet come short of him So then because we cannot keepe the law of God so perfectly as the law requireth shall wee not keepe it at al absit God forbid If our earthlie parents command vs to trauell vp an exceeding high mountaine whose top we cannot attaine vnto shall we not therfore indenour to climb vp at all shal we not goe vp as farre as we can God forbid Because in Isaac shall thy seede bee blessed which cannot be if Isaac be slaine shall not Abraham therefore keepe the commandement of God and doe his indeuour to performe the comandement by offering vp his sonne Isaac God forbid Looke thou to the commandement of God aboue all respects and doe thy indeuour to keep his law and haue a respect to keepe it and this is that which God requireth at thy hands Si quod possimus agamus caetera peragat Christus If we indeuour and doe what we can to keepe the law of God what shal be defectiue in vs Christ will supply by his perfectnesse and righteousnes And this is Dauids meaning when he saith I will keepe thy law nay hee must also perseuer in this and therefore he saith I will keepe it vnto the end Heere is the continuance and time limited of Dauids promise in keeping the law of God first he will keepe it then vnto the end Not for an houre or a day or a yeare but ad finem vsque there 's the time limited so long as our time is limited Wherein obserue We must goe on stil proceed stil continne persist and perseuer in the waies of God and a sanctified life ad finem vsque vnto the end Dauid saith I will keepe it vnto the end And Paul But continue thou vnto the end was his charge vnto Timothie And our sauiour Christ saith If ye continue in my word ye are my Disciples What shal it profit a Marchant to trauell a long voyage and to make ship-wracke in the Hauen Euen so what shal it profit a man to liue a vertuous life a while and when

DAVIDS TEACHER OR THE TRVE TEACHER OF THE RIGHT-VVAY TO HEAVEN DISCOVERING ERROneous Teachers and Seditious Sectuaries Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September 1609. By Ro Iohnson M. of Arts Chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God the L. Bishop of Lincolne LONDON Printed by T. Haueland for Mathew Law and are to be solde at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard neere S. Austins-gate at the Signe of the Fox 1609. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLNE ⸫ TO make triuiall Apologies for publishing bookes in these times were idle since the reasons some alleage for their defence therein are common and ouer-worne And therefore if I should with others vrge the earnest entreatieo friends for a coppie of this Sermon as a reason for publishing thereof rather then the expresse commandement of some which haue authoritie therein and vnto whom I am most obliged in all dutie I could not bee free from such suspition also In which respect since as it was preached so being now published as both my dutie and loue bindeth mee I present it vnto your Lordship with all due respect Humbly desiring that as vnto my vnworthy selfe so also vnto this you would bee pleased to vouchsafe your Patronage If not your pardon But howsoeuer I hope your acceptance since I offer it with a truely deuoted loue I beare towards your Lordship in all dutie And so addressing still my praiers vnto God for your Lordships long health aud prosperitie Irest Your Lordships in all obseruance and dutie ROBERT IOHNSON A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS CROSSE THE third of SEPTEMBER 1609. Psalm 119. 33. Teach me O Lord the way of thy Statutes and I will keepe it vnto the end AS the Psalmes of Dauid are rightly entitled The holy Psalmes of Dauid so this Psalme Pellican stileth Sacratissimus Psalmus a most sacred or holy Psalme First holy in respect of the subiect which is the holy law of God and then holy in respect of the Author therof which is the holy Spirit of God that directed the pen and heart of this Psalmograph for the composing thereof And this Psalme is compiled after an alphabeticall order to helpe the memorie And although there be in this Psalme 176. verses yet in euery one of these verses is found one of these ten words according to the number of the ten Commandements of Almighty God viz. the Law the Way the Word the Righteousnesse the Truth Iudgements Precepts Statutes Commandements and Testimonies And this is Dauids ten-stringed Lute wherewith he did solace himselfe and in euery one of these verses he touched one of these strings Neither is this to be thought any absurd tautalogie or idle repetition that these words are so often repeated in this Psalme and one of them found in euery verse For it sheweth vs The wonderfull affection loue and zeale that the children of God haue vnto his lawes and word Therefore Dauid heere out of his loue and zeale that way saith Teach me O Lord the way of thy Statutes and I will keepe it vnto the end Nay such is his affection to the Law of God that he will not rest so but proceedeth further Direct mee in the path of thy Commandements Nay such is his loue that hee will not stay heere Incline my heart vnto thy testimonies Nay more so great is his zeale to the Commandements of God that he maketh it demonstrable with an Ecce demonstrable in it selfe verse 40. Ecce behold I desire thy Commandements hee stampeth the carecter Ecce vpon it in testimonie of his great loue vnto the Law of God And therefore as all the other verses deserue a carefull and respectiue meditation so this verse which I haue proposed to be handled is most worthy our considerations both propter dignitatem subiecti the excellencie of the subiect which is the Law of God and also propter necessitatem vtilitatem so necessary as nothing is more requisit then hoc vnum this one thing and so profitable if wee respectiuely apprehend it that it cannot but sway our best and worthiest thoughts vnto the loue thereof Teach me O Lord because he was ignorant he desireth a Teacher and because hee would bee sure to haue a good teacher he praieth the Lord to teach him and because he would be sure to learne a good lesson hee desireth the knowledge and practise of Gods Law and because he would not discourage his Teacher by teaching a non proficient hee promiseth to keepe it and that vnto the end The wisdome heerein contained First Doce Teach There 's his ignorance Secondly Teach mee There is the ignorance of the elect themselues without continuall instruction Thirdly the way the narrownesse and difficultie thereof Fourthly of thy statutes the firmnesse and stabilitie thereof I will keepe it There 's his promise respectiuè First I will There 's his free will by grace Secondly keepe it There 's his treasure Thirdly vnto the end There 's his time limited his perseuerance So then 1 Heere is a request 2 And heere is a promise A request to be taught a promise to keepe his lesson Teach me O Lord There 's his request And I will keepe it There 's his promise In the request obserue 1 The subiect of the request in Doce Teach 2 The pattie making request in mee 3 The person vnto whom he maketh this request O Lord. 4 The summe or totall desired The way of thy Statutes In the promise obserue 1 The person promising I will 2 The matter promised keepe it 3 The continuance and time limited how long Vnto the end Let vs now therefore not stay any longer at the doores of my text but let vs enter in to behold the riches and furniture contained therein And if it please you to lend me the hand and goe along with mee I will bee your conduct into the still-yard and storehouse of Gods children and there ye shall take a view of all their treasures which are wonderfull and cause admiration in the true beholders thereof for so he saith vers 129. Thy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soule loue them 1. Wonderfull in respect of the Authour whose name is wonderfull the mighty God the euerlasting Father the Prince of peace Isay 9. 6. Secondly wonderfull in respect of the wisdome contained in them Rom. 11. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the deepnesse of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God How vnsearchable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out Thirdly wonderfull in respect of the continuance of their time verse 144. The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlasting These treasures will continue when all other decay and perish For all other treasures vanish away like smoke and are like Zeuxes painted grapes deceiuing poore birds with the onely semblance of grapes when a man thinketh hee hath fast hold of them then they are presently gone from him doe what he can Or like vnto the apples of