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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11923	A godly and fruitfull sermon preached at Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull minister of Gods holy Gospell	Murray, John, 1575?-1632, attributed name. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 22236; ESTC S106434	19,379	64

A GODLY AND FRVITFVLL SERMON PREACHED AT LIETH IN Scotland by a faithfull Minister of Gods holy Gospell Psalme 74 10. O God how long shall the adversary reproch thee shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever 22 Arise O God maintaine thine owne cause remember thy dayly reproch by the folish man Printed 1607. To the godly and Christian Reader IT every where goeth heard with Christs true Church as I heare and feare Neither doe men make that use of the miseries of it that were fit but even in affliction eyther fall away or become faint harted and careles In Scotland the Hierarchy prevaileth much and then Christes Discipline must needs be thrust to the walles Yet see notwithstanding how God stirreth up some to make opposition against that triple-headed Cerberus This Sermon is one playne proofe of it which was both preached and written there and came to my handes by good meanes I haue caused it more plainely to speake English then the Scottish phrase yeelded And yet God is witnes to my soule that I haue done it as neere as I could without any diminution of or addition to either matter or manner Such as it is I present it to thee ayming only at thy benefite and pleasure specially spirituall Farewell and the Lord giue thee grace to use it to all good purposes A GODLY AND FRVITFVL SERMON PREACHED AT Lieth in Scotland by a faithfull Minister of Gods holy Gospell Gal 5.1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made vs free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage SEeing upon us the endes of the world are come saith Paul 1 Cor. 10.11 and now the end of all thinges is at hand saith Peter 1 Pet 4.7 and that day of the Lord is comming like a theefe in the night in the which the heavens shall passe away with a noyse and the elements shall melt with heat and the earth with the works that are therin shal be burnt up 2 Pet 3.10 and therfore seeing Sathan that great redde dragon knowing that he hath but a short time is upon his long chayne ranging and raging drawing downe froÌ„ the heaveÌ„s even some of the starres who should giue light in Gods Church casting theÌ„ to the earth Revel 12. and raysing up false Christs and false Apostles so that if it were possible the very elect should be deceaved Math. 24.24 For these causes we haue made choise of this portioÌ„ of holy scripture whereby we may be put in minde and our heartes may be stirred vp to fasten our affections fast upon that gratious liberty wherewith the Sonne of God hath made us free from every spirituall thraldome standing stedfast through faith not entaÌ„gling our selues againe with any yoke of bondage untill the crowne of that free kingdom be put upon our heads in the great day of the glorious appearing of our Saviour Iesus Christ The chiefe butte the Apostle Paul shoteth at in this epistle is to establish his doctrine concerning true Iustification by the righteousnes of Iesus onely through faith without any mixture of the works of the lawe whatsoever morall or Ceremoniall against those false Apostles who had crept in amoÌ„g the Galathians studying to deceiue bewitch them that they should not beleeue the truth to whom the Apostle before had described Iesus Christ in their sight and as it were crucified him amongst them by the playne and powerful preaching of the gospell cap. 3.1 For the lawe is excluded and debarred in the matter of Iustification faith onely having place apprehending and applying the imputed righteousnes of Iesus Christ But the lawe in the matter of sanctification is admitted as the rule to which the christian maÌ„ should square this conversation and as the lanterne that should lead him in the pathes of the Lords coÌ„mandements The Apostle insisteth in this purpose from the beginning of the 3 chap. to the second parte of this fift and after that he hath throughly reasoned and in the end coÌ„cluded in the last verse of the chap going before that they were not the children of the bondwoman Hagar as Ishmael that is servants and slaues under the law through workes and so lying under the curse thereof but sonnes of the free woeman Sara as Isaac that is heires of the promise through faith in Iesus In these wordes which we haue read he inferreth by way of a second conclusion of the premises a graue powerfull admonitioÌ„ that seeing they were free and freed from all the bonds bondage of the law morall and Ceremonial their geeat care should be to keepe themselues so The admonition hath 2 branches The one an exhortation to stand fast in the libertie The other a dehortatioÌ„ from the contrary not to intangle c. Between these two is interlaced a reason or argument to perswade to the one disswade from the other taken from the purchaser and giver of this libertie who is Christ and so from the excellency thereof This is the libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free therefore stand fast in it This is the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free therfore be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage In the exhortation we begin at this word therefore which is a particle of illation relatiue of the last verse of the chapt going before upon the which this whole admonition is inforced as a necessary consequent and by a necessary consequent we are the children of the free woeman Sara c. Let us stand fast therfore in this liberty We are not the children of the servant let us not therefore be entangled c. we are the children of the fre woman and not of the servant let us therfore staÌ„d fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage The second word is liberty There are sundry sorts of liberty a naturall liberty a civill liberty a bodily liberty a spirituall liberty The first three sorts we overpasse as not pertinent to this text and purpose The liberty of which the Apostle speaketh here is a supernatural spirituall and a heavenly liberty which is generally divided thus into a spiritual internal liberty and a spiritual external liberty The internall liberty is the purchase and gift of Christ to his owne children whereby he setts them at fredome both in soule body immediately from the spirituall thraldome of sinne Sathan c And this is twofold the liberty of Iustification and the libertie of sanctification The liberty which justification brings consisteth in these poynts in perfect freedom from sinne both originall and actuall in respect of meere imputation Now ye are freed froÌ„ sinne Rom. 6.22 From the guiltines therof Who will lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen Rom. 8.33 From the punishment thereof death and condemnation There is no condemnation to theÌ„ which are in Christ Iesus Rom 8.1 From the law morall the revealer of sinne death in regard of the

corruptible thinges as silver or gold but with the pretious bloud of Christ as of a Lambe undefiled and without spotte 1 Pet 1.18.19 If ye aske which is the register or Charter of this libertie in and by the which our right of this liberty is sett downe and made sure we answer The word of the Old and New Testament principally the word of the Evangelists in the which this liberty all the sorts and particuler poynts therof are plainly and plentifully layd out before our eyes The word is truth if ye know the truth the truth shall make you free saith Christ Iohn 8.23 For it is both the Charter and working instrument of this liberty Now the meaning of this whole admonition is this shortly and simplie Seing ye are once set at liberty and so freed from spirituall thraldome by Iesus Christ the Lord of life and liberty stand fast to this libertie and fall not backe againe under the wofull misery of any spirituall bondage whatsoever To come to the doctrine First we see there is a libertie wherewith the Sonne of God hath priviledged his people whom Peter calleth the people set at libertie 1 Pet 2.9 which is heavenly spiritually and supernaturall and in nature far differeÌ„t from any earthly or worldly libertie which is even in all and every one of the sorts and poynts therof the purchase of his owne pretious bloud the free gift of his liberall loue the right wherof is conferred to them by the charter of his blessed word sealed up in the tables of their hearts and coÌ„scieÌ„ces by the spirit of grace which is delivered to us from day to day by the publicke preaching of the word Therfore neither Angell in heaveÌ„ nor man on earth should take upon them to chop or change in this liberty or the meanest poynt therof without the warraÌ„t of the word unles they would that the purchaser of this libertie should be avenged of them for the violation thereof It is true in outward or earthly liberties given by men or which are amonge men for outward society or comodity men may doe as they think meet alter add impare c. But as for this liberty and the particulars therof which come as it were immediately out of the hands of Christ let men take heed how they meddle with them to add to alter to impaire or to pervert as they would wish that God should not meddle with them in wrath Yet such is the follie and presumption of mortall men that they haue oft their head and their hand in these inviolable liberties altering or disanulling theÌ„ for their owne further libertie or rather loosnes to the flesh Take an exaÌ„ple from the Papists who in effect overthrow this liberty in all and every poynt thereof The libertie of Iustification and sanctification by their freewill in nature their preparations to IustificatioÌ„ their good works chiefly of the outward man their pilgrimages purgatory and satisfactions by the which they entangle theÌ„selues with the yoke of the law sin and condemnation the libertie of thinges indifferent or humane traditions by an heap of Idolatrous superfluous Ceremonies thrust upon the consciences of ignorant people as a parte of Gods worship necessary and meritorious The defensiue liberties by their unwritten verities and traditions mixed matched with the pure and sincere word of truth by their Antichristian Hierarchy and innumerable superstitious rites defeating yea excluding the true Discipline and comely order of the house of God Thus while they shew themselues enimies to this libertie in all the particulars of it they also declare that all the linckes of this spirituall yoke of bondage lie heavie upon the necke of their soules which is a just and deserved recompence of the violation of this liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free Therfore by their example we should beware of such for we haue great cause seing within thes few yeares it may be perceiving that we were inclyning their way in our Church govermeÌ„t they are so encreased encouraged that not onely here they set up their heades but also they haue been bold as yow know of late to set out the publicke ensignes of Idolatry as though their had been neither Prince nor Pastor in Israel as though both the edge of the civill and spirituall sword had been either broken or blunted and yet they are not much dashed nor dismayed As for us my brethren it becommeth us alwayes in holines and faithfulnes to preserue mainteine every one of these liberties so farr forth as our place or power will extend that we may stand fast in them seeing Christ by them hath made us free that we be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage Secondly the Apostle sheweth that this happie priviledge which Christ hath purchased for us is not a loosnes but a libertie not a loosnes or a licence to sinne but a libertie in holines and righteousnes to serue the Lord not a loosenes or a loose rayne to ruÌ„ne whithersoever our vayne and raging lusts leade us but a libertie which is likewies a yoke not like the yoke of bondage which is hard and heavie a yoke of iron but a goldeÌ„ yoke of the which our Saviour Christ Math 11.30 saith My yoke is easie and my burden light not a loosenes that hath no limittes but a libertie which is bounded and limitted by the Lord himselfe in his blessed word which we shall easily perceiue by passing through shortly the particulers of this libertie First the liberty of Iustification sanctification is not a loosnes that they who imagine they injoy theÌ„ may doe what they lust but a liberty which should not be abused as an occasion to the flesh saith the Apostle in this same chapter 13 which hath his owne limitts prescribed by God in his word Being made free from sinne yea are made the servants of righteousnes Rom 6.18 Being freed from sinne ye are made servants unto God having your fruite in holines Rom 6 22. There is a limitte of this liberty righteousnes holines or the service of God Ye are a people set at liberty that ye should shew forth the vertues of him who hath called you out of darknes into his marveilous light 1. Pet 2.9 There is another limitte of this liberty further The freedome from the lawe is not a loosenes as though we might cast the law of God behind our backs as no way perteyning to us but a liberty limitted For albeit we be freed froÌ„ the curse and condemnation of it yet are we not simply freed from the command of it Albeit we be freed from the correction of it yet not from the direction of it It continueth to be a director and leader of us in the way of light Oh how far then are the Atheists and Epicures of this age blynded who are so in effect albeit lurking under the shadow of outward profession with all the Hypocrites in these dayes they resting themselues upon the broken reed

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