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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

subscribed Sworne Looke the Confession of faith Wherby By the great name of the Lord our God Whereto To continue in obedience of the Doctrine and Discipline of this reformed Church and to defend the same How long All the dayes of our liues Vnder what payne Vnder the payne conteyned in the law and danger both of body and soule in the day of Gods fearefull iudgment How haue all sworne and subscribed Not secretly but solemnely agayne not ignorantly or rashly but saith the wordes after long and due examination being perswaded in cōscience through knowledge wrought by the holy spirit and not moved for worldly respects in a through resolution willingly beleeving confessing subscribing affirming before God and the whole world that it is the onely true religion pleasing God and bringing salvation to man and promising to mainteine it both in the Doctrine and Discipline So that if any will alledge that now they may alter because they see greater light surely it may well be greater livyng thou seest but greater light thou canst not see to make thee alter This is a strong reason to bynde the loosest heart and make stedfast the most wādring soule unles in the sight of God his Angels and the world we would be manifestly perjured make open Apostasy to the high blaspheming of that Gospell of grace which we preach and professe 7. And lastly we know not how long our God shal grāt to vs the liberty of this present life If while we enjoye it we likewise keep fast this pretious liberty purchased to us by Christ and so long possessed of vs in peace the certeinly in weale in wo in life in death we shall find the fruit and comfort thereof But if we forsake this liberty and God come and cut of the liberty of this present life with what assurance shall we looke for the liberty of that better life Therefore let us stand fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free and not be entangled agayne with the yoke of bondage Now it may be that some wil be reasonyng within themselues after this manner What needes all this a-doe of this liberty the keeping of it and standing in it Wherein is it hurt And by whom I answer to the first If ye will compare the state of our Church as it was within these few yeares with that which now is the graces and faces of ●aithfull men zealous for the house of God their vnity and amity the order comelines of their meetings the cōcurrēce to the Lords worke which thē was with that which now we looke vpon with our eyes disorder confusiō division your question wil easily be resolved The time hath been whē our Church liberties haue been as a defensed cittie or house but now doores and windowes are partly cast open partly broken up enemies entered so that the faithfull keepers wil be forced eyther to yeld or to suffer but to suffer is farr better for if either our liberties through craft be undermined or through reward be given out of our handes it is likely the Lord will never honor us with them agayne But if by violence they be throwne out of our hands then possesse we a good conscience in our Gods great mercy they shal be repossessed whē he thinks time Was not the glorious liberty of Doctrine and Discipline exercised in this land sometime to it that which the Arke of God was to Israel the glory and prayse of it which now is departing there is none like Phinehas wife to mourne for it Was not Scotland albeit the meanest among many Nations yet renowned through the world because Christ in his Gospell of grace was so clearely borne out before our eyes in it And as Bethleem Ephrathah albeit litle among the thousands of Iuda yet renowned because Iesus was borne in it But now we are beating him downe putting him in bāds covering his face as though we were of purpose now to bury him agayne with the Iewes The Lord be mercifull to us I need not insist in these thinges which are more then evident whereof every one of us talketh privily albeit we speake no● much of them publikely I answer to the second question that is by whom our liberties are hurt As concerning our Soveraigne the Kings Majestie he promised at his departure out of this Country and protested as we heare at that meeting late at Lieth●oe by his Cōmissioner that it was no way his highnes intention to alter our government or to hurt our liberties And to testifie our entier and sincere loue reverence and dutifull obediēce to him we preach with Christ Math 22.21 Giue unto Caesar our christian Caesar that which is his and unto God those things which are his With Paul Rom 13.1 Let every soule be subiect unto the higher power which is of God and ordayned by him With Peter 1. Pet 2 17. Feare God honor the King We pray for him that his throne may be established with the Sunne and the Moone in his owne person and Royall ofspring till the Sonne of God sett downe his throne in the cloudes to judge the quicke the dead And we will giue to him more honor then Saule requyred of Samuel whē he desired that he would but honor him before his people 1. Sam. 15.30 Not only wil we honor him before his people but also before the Lord in sincerity Well then let us search out this hurt among our selues The Lord hath appoynted us to be the lightes of the land holding out his light before this darkened generation to be the eyes for the body of his Church to guide her forward in the way of grace but we haue been in a great measure blinde and darknes our selues The Lord appoynted us to be the watchmen set on the walles of his Sion to see foresee blowe the trumpet and giue warning to his people in time of danger but we haue been blynde and haue not seene and as dombe doges who haue not barked The Lord appoynted us to be builders of his house the ground corner and headstone whereof is Iesus Christ but we haue been breakers downe of that which our worthy predicessors and we our selues haue builded up before and so haue made our selues transgressors saith the Apostle Paul Gal. 2.18 The Lord appoynted us to be the keepers and dressers of his vineyard but we by our sloath and silence haue suffered the hedges therof to be brokē downe and many wylde grapes to growe therin The Lord appoynted us to be the sheephards of his flocke to feed them lead them out to the greene pastures of his word and Sacraments but we in a great measure haue been idle sheepheards feading our selues and forgetting the flocke which Christ hath purchased with his pretious bloud Here is the cause of our wounded hurt liberties This we confesse in the sight of God and his Angels for this we cry God mercy for Christs sake O that our heads were