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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50402	The law of God ratified by the gospel of Christ, or, The harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded, and the moral law adjusted a rule of holy living to all, though justified by faith / as it was delivered in several sermons preacht to the parochial congregation of Mayfield in Sussex by Mr. Mainard late rector thereof, publisht since his death.	Maynard, John, 1600-1665.	1674 (1674)	Wing M1450; ESTC R33505	161,259	298

Brother he is not ashamed to call them Brethren 3. Let all be stirred up to turn to the Lord and lay hold of Christ that they may be united to him as he is united to their Nature though not by the same kind of union but as he is personally joyned to the nature of man so they may be spiritually united to him receiving his spirit embracing him by faith that through union with him they may be united to God for the Father is in the Son In as much as Christ hath made so near an approach to us as to become one person with our Nature let us take heed lest we become guilty of despising his love in suffering sin or the world to keep us at a distance from him to withhold us from closing with him for he partaking of our Nature hath made way for us to partake of his divine Nature by participation of his spirit and graces for by the exceeding great and pretious promises of the Gospel men may be partakers of the divine Nature that is by Christ partaking of the humane Nature who is the substance of the Promises and in whom they are all Yea and Amen 4. How should Christians abhor to defile themselves by sin to pollute that Nature of man in their own persons which Christ in his person hath exalted to the right hand of God far above Angels Principalities and Powers When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he saith And let all the Angels of God worship him all the holy Angels worship man in the person of Christ. Take heed then of abaseing the Nature of man in your own persons to the service of sin and abase your selves exceedingly before the Lord for abaseing your Nature in this kind Again in a secondary consideration I take the Tabernacle and Temple for a representation of the Church of Christ the multitude of Believers Iohn saw the new Hierusalem and heard a voice saying Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them So the Church of God is called the house of God for saith the Apostle Ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them 1. How should all that live within the Church professing themselves Christians take heed of defileing the Lords Tabernacle and polluting his Temple by sin How highly is God dishonoured when his Temple is polluted when any live in a course of sin or commit gross acts of sin where his Gospel is preached or professed The Priest was commanded to bring the blood of the Goat of the sin-offering within the Vail and there to sprinkle it then it followeth he shall make an attonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the Children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins and so shall he do for the Tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness See the cursed ● nature of sin it defileth the Tabernacle and Temple of the Lord it polluteth his Sanctuary his Church when it is committed within his Church that is among those that profess themselves Christians attend upon his Ordinances believe his Gospel Ye that harden your hearts in any evil ways and make light of continuing in sin though ye live in the visible Church humble and judge your selves before the Lord depart from iniquity otherwise assure your selves your sin will find you out Secondly It is a great height of wickedness when any rejoyce in scandalous sins committed within the Church and make a sport of them Do not these shew themselves prophane graceless wretches If thou hadst any sincere love and respect to his glory thou wouldst not take pleasure in such things as tend highly to his dishonour but rather bewail and lament them I conceive the Apostle in the 2. of Corinth mentioneth his former Epistle written to the same Church and there he saith Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears for in that Epistle he had reproved divers disorders and scandalous sins committed in that Primitive Church which was of his planting and it was such a matter of grief unto him that he wrote about these things out of much affliction and anguish of heart with many tears With what a spirit are they led who make a sport of such things Scandalous sins i● the Church are to be reproved and lamented as things that defile the Sanctuary of Christ and dishonour him but who can find in their hearts to rejoyce in them but they that are Enemies to Christ Again The Tabernacle and Temple represented particular Christians each true believer being a spiritual Temple to the Lord. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy Flee fornication Every sin that a man doth is without the body but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body What! know ye not that the body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you Both body and soul is to be consecrated and dedicated to God as his Temple for him to dwell in by his spirit The body is as it were the outward Court The inferiour faculties of the soul may be compared to the inner Court within the first Vail The superiour faculties the Understanding Judgement Conscience Will may be likened to the inmost Court within the second Vail the principal and most holy place of the Temple Now as all the Courts of the Temple and Tabernacle were holy being consecrated and dedicated to the most holy God and sanctified to his holy services and ordinances and were to be kept holy free from profanations and defilements so the souls and bodies of Christians are to be consecrated and sanctified as holy Temples to the Lord and to be kept from all filthiness of flesh and spirit and to be cleansed dayly and when they are defiled by sin the Lord is dishonoured and his wrath is provoked he accounteth it a defiling of his Temple whereas the Apostle s●emeth to say that every sin except fornication is without the body c. I conceive it is to be understood comparatively that Fornication Adultery Whoredom and sins of that kind do in more special manner defile the body than other sins other sins defile the body also scil outward acts of sin wherein the body or any of the members of the body act sinfully And when the body is defiled with sin the heart and soul is first defiled for sin beginneth there For out of the heart proceed evil 〈…〉 murders adulteries fornications thefts 〈◊〉 witness blasphemies these are the things which defile a man these and all other sins are the things which first defile the heart and soul where they are conceived and bred and then so many of

any flee from sin and not rather add sin to sin doing evil that good may come that Gods grace may be the more manifested to his glory The Apostle rejecteth these with detestation shewing that notwithstanding all their perverse cavils they shall find God a severe judge and that their damnation is just for it doth no way lessen the guilt of sin that God getteth glory by it for sin in its own nature tendeth to the darkning of Gods Glory and men by sinning dishonour God but such is the infinite perfection of God that as he commanded the light to shine out of darkness though darkness be contrary to the light so he can work good and get himself glory out of the evil of sin which in it self tendeth to rob him of his glory So in the sixth Chapter of this Epistle shall we continue in sin that grace may abound The Apostle had shewed before that all had sinned in Adam besides the guilt of their own actual sins yea even such as lived before the Law was given by Moses and that by the publishing of the Law sin abounded the guilt of sin increased but then withal he added that where sin abounded grace did much more abound the free love and favour of God was gloriously manifested in pardoning sin thus heightned and aggravated by the express Law and in freely justifying sinners condemned by the written Law Hence this Question or Objection to which the Apostle answers with detestation as before and withal sheweth that they who are justified by the righteousness of Christ have received the Spirit and so dye to sin and live to righteousness and are engaged hereunto by their Baptisme and therefore it is in vain for any to hope for justification and pardon of sin through Christ who yeild themselves up to the service of sin So verse 14th he saith to Believers Ye are not under the Law but under Grace Hence again a Question or Objection of corrupt nature or carnal reason What then Shall we sin because we are not under the Law but under Grace May we not therefore sin securely if we be free from the Law if the Law have no power nor authority over us to condemn us The Apostle answereth this after his usual manner with detestation and then more fully Know ye not that to whom ye yeild your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness They that are just●fied by Christ and freed from the curse the condemnation and rigour of the Law are the Members of Christ and servants of righteousness but they that sin securely upon a conceit that they are freed from the Law are indeed the servants of sin and this service of sin tendeth to everlasting death The Reason of this in general is the contrariety of mans nature unto God and his Truth since the fall since the Image of God was defaced and the Nature of man corrupted by sin so that the powers of the soul thus degenerated are become cross and opposite unto the counsel and truth of God They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them we are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we the spirit of Truth and the spirit of Error all of us are naturally of the world and all remain so unless the Lord do effectually by his grace call them out of the world and so their worldly minds and hearts are unsutable and opposite unto the mind and truth of God More particularly 1. Ignorance is a great cause why men deprave the Scriptures and pervert the Truths of God the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not All are naturally darkness and therefore full of contrariety to the light and truth of God ye were sometimes darkness saith the Apostle to those that then were light in the Lord the best of those whom God hath savingly inlightned by his spirit were sometimes darkness Lye not one to another seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him They that are regenerated are renewed as in other regards so in knowledge This sheweth that the old man is possessed with darkness Corrupt Nature is void of saving knowledge and therefore in that condition men are apt to put light for darkness and darkness for light The Sadduces that denied that great Mystery of the Resurrection of the body I conceive were much pleased with an Argument whereby they hoped to non-plus the Lord Jesus Christ they seemed not directly to deny the Resurrection but only to desire a Resolution in a difficult case concerning ●a woman that had seven husbands out-liv'd them all The Question was which of those seven should enjoy her for his wife at the Resurrection but the Lord Christ telleth them they shewed gross ignorance in that wherein they thought themselves ve●y acute saith he Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God and first sheweth them how by the Almighty power of God the bodies of the Saints at the Resurrection should be so wonderfully transformed and glorified that they should not need nor desire marriage or other things of the like natrue no more then the Angels do which are Spirits and have no bodies then he proveth by the Scripture that the dead shall rise Now this ignorance is more or less gross in several persons some that are not so grossely ignorant as others yet being weak in knowledge and judgement are apt to miscarry in this kind First by misunderstanding some Texts or passages of holy Scripture so it seemeth the Saints at Thessalonica mistook what the Apostle had written to them in his former Epistle when speaking of the last day he saith This we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air. Where twice he speaketh of himself if we look on the bare words as if he should live to the end of the world as if Christ should come in glory before Paul should leave this world I conceive he spake by way of supposition that if he and other Believers then living should remain to the last day then they should be thus translated to Glory and as he saith elsewhere they should not dye but should be changed and this he might do to teach others by his example to live in a continual expectation

not the light of his word and his Law written in the Scriptures to many Nations yet he giveth to them all the light and Law of Nature and therefore the transgressions of the Law of Nature are sins against God The Apostle saith until the Law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed where there is no Law nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after tbe similitude of Adams transgression Sin was in the world before the Law was given on mount Sinai But how can it be just to charge sin upon them who had no Law against which to sin Nevertheless death raigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression Who are they Some seem to understand Infants only who sinned not actually in their own persons as Adam did yet dying in their infancy were guilty of original sin Others take it for all that lived between the time of Adam and Moses who sinned not after the similitude of Adams transgression because they sinned not against an express Law given by revelation from Heaven as Adam did who sinned against that express prohibition of God forbidding him to eat of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil under the pain of certain death and destruction I conceive this latter sense more probable because of that special limitation of time from Adam to Moses for the case of those that dye in their Infancy for ought I know is the same whether before or after the time of Moses before and after the Law written but the condition of those that lived between Adams time and that of Moses differed from those that lived after Now the Apostle sheweth that death the punishment of sin fell upon them so did many other judgements the flood destroying the old world the showr of fire and brimstone upon Sodom fell within the compass of that time and therefore certainly they were guilty of sin and justly punished because these calamities were the just judgements of God who is the righteous judge of all the world and therefore although these sinned not against any positive Law of God delivered to them either by word or writing yet they sinned against the light and Law of Nature which God had given them Secondly This may shew us the reason and the justice of those severe executions of God upon Heathen Nations who had no Scripture nor written Law to sin against They sinned against the Light and Law of Nature for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them c. The Judgements and Calamities publick national private personal brought upon any of mankind in several ages are evidences of Gods wrath and displeasure against them and therefore proofs of their sin and guiltiness against God otherwise the Lord who is perfectly righteous would not bring these evils upon them and among the rest the death of the body is a universal declaration of the wrath of God against mankind for sin If any should be free from all other evils yet this alone would be a sufficient proof of their sinfulness and therefore the Lord said unto Adam and in him to each particular person of his posterity soon after he had sinned and they had sinned in him Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Euery dead Corps every Funeral that ye see or hear of all the persons that have died from the beginning of the world unto this day have by their death manifested the wrath of God against sin and mens guiltiness before the Lord for though through the grace and mercy of God in Christ the death of a true believer is turned into a blessing and made an inlet or entrance into everlasting life yet in its own Nature it is a consequent of sin and sin was the original of it In special the Heathens who had not the mind of God so fully revealed to them as those within the Church yet had the Light and Law of Nature and in sinning against that Light and Law were justly punished for they held the Truth in unrighteousness This common Light and Law of Nature was the Truth of God und they by opposing their wills and lusts against it and so not following the guidance of it were found guilty of fighting against God and crossing that Light which the Lord had given them and therefore the Lord dealt with them as Enemies So the Lord punished Sodom and the Cities adjoynning with fire and brimstone So the Canaanites and Amorites were destroyed for their sins against the Light and Law of Nature and Israel was planted in their Land The Lord told Abraham that his seed should possess it but not until after four hundred years Why Because the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full so that it was the fullness of their iniquity which was the cause of their destruction it was because their sin was come to its full height that they were rooted out So the Lord having forbidden Israel the practice of divers great sins saith Defile not your selves in any of these things for in all these things the Nations are defiled which I cast out before you And the Land is defiled therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the Land it self vomiteth out the Inhabitants The Lord threatned divers grievous Judgements by the Prophet Amos against many Heathen Nations Syria the Philistines Tyrus Edom Ammon Moab All the miseries of war brought upon Heathen Nations what were they but revelations and reall demonstrations of the wrath of God from Heaven for their sins against the Law and Light of Nature The ruining of the Babylonish Monarchy by the Medes and Persians of the Persian by the Macedonians and Grecians the Macedonians by the Romans of the Roman by the Saracens and Turks on the one side and divers Northern Nations on the other these and the like were just Judgements of God upon Heathens for sins against the Light and Law of Nature So I conceive the cruel Spaniards were unjust executioners of the righteous Judgements of God upon the poor Indians or Americans for their sins against the same common Light and Law of Nature for the Lord executeth just Judgements by wicked men yea by Divels who aime not at all at the Lords end but either delight to exercise their malice and cruelty or act thus to make a ful conquest and utterly disable a people to make head again Thirdly This may clearly convince us that the sins of Christians are far more heinous then the sins of Infidels and Heathens because they sin against the same Law