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A95657	Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse liberty. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major of London, &c. in Pauls, Aug. 16. 1646. / By Edvvard Terry, Minister of the Word, and pastor of the church at Great-Greenford in the country of Middlesex. Sept. 11. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing T781; Thomason E356_11; ESTC R201136	37,931	42

laced This I am sure is true in experience that the longer it is before a colt be backt the more unwillingly by farre at the first doth he endure his Rider and the longer it is before a Bullocke comes to the yoake the more hardly is he brought to it and the more at first he struggles and strives with it And doubtlesse the longer a people goe under reines let loose the harder will it be by farre to curbe and restraine them The law saith the Apostle was not made for a righteous man but for the lawlesse and disobedient for the ungodly and sinners c. 1. Tim. 1. 9. for the lawlesse and disobedient sayth the Apostle and because it curbes and restrains them therefore they esteem themselves in bondage or as prisoners in bonds being required to yield obedience unto it For Reason 1 This is the principall reason why all rebellious spirits think thus because good Lawes meet and crosse and contradict and oppose them in their evill wayes in their unjustifiable courses because they meet them and reprove them and set in order before them the things that they have done as it is Ps. 50. 21. In every commission of evill in every omission of good in every even the least fayling in duty whatsoever they shake the secure man out of his seat they disturbe the filthy persons upon their beds of lust who undoe one another by their filthy embracements all shameles prostitutes who sell their soules with their bodies dealing with all those they pretend to love as Monkeys and Apes sometimes doe with their little-ones they kill them with kindnes they tell these who thus stretch themselves upon the bed of lust that though they sleepe securely there their destruction sleepes not their damnation slumbers not ●● in 2. Pet. 2. 3. They awake the Drunkards crying out Ioel 1. 5. Awake yee Drunkards weepe and bowle c. They debase proud ones foretelling their fall Luc. 18. 14. Every one that exalts himselfe shall be abased They startle the bold prophane swearers with the weight of their guilt Exo. 20. 7 They acquaint Oppressors with those screech owles of woe which cry aloud from the beames of their chambers And they tel the Covetous who are like the Mole that bury themselves under every clod of earth or like the barren wombe or unsatiable Death that will never be satisfied of enough mould in the grave and of enough fire in hell They meet with Formall professors of Religion who make Religion nothing but a complement and they tell them that of all tempers in Religion a luke-warme temper is the worst Because thou art neither hot nor cold but luke-warme I 'le spue thee out of my mouth sayth the Spirit to the Church of Laodicea Re. 3. 16. That is I will make thee who art but a Church in shew to be no Church at all it being all one in the account of God to deny the Faith and not soundly and sincerly to professe it They unma●ke the double faced hypocrites who only act Religion play devotion who are all for shew and nothing for substance making Religion a cloake and they tell them that as Religion is the best armour in the world so it is the worst cloake and whosoever put it on for no other end it shall in conclusion do them no more good then that disguise which Ahab put on in which he perished when he fought with the Syrians at Ramoth Gilead 1. Ki. 22 They convince blinde errors by cleere and orthodox truths And tell them that receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved that for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they might beleeve a lie that they might be damned who beleeve not the truth c. 2 Thes. 2. 10. 11. 12 They cast downe imaginations and every high thing which exalts it selfe against God 2 Cor. 10. 5. In a word They meet with sinners at every turne and because they doe so these cannot away with them and therefore may be fitly compared unto that fiery meteor which causeth thunder the more streightly it is wrapt and bound up in the cloud it breaketh forth with the greater violence and noise Or they are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest to which the Prophet compares them Isaiah 57. 20. foming and raging most against those truths of God which oppose them most as the tempestuous Sea doth against those Rocks and Bankes and bounds which hinder its course and keep it in Vse Breifely now for application of this point I shall addresse my speech unto every loose lawlesse libertine in the world and first desire to let him know that there is no liberty but servitude in sinne no liberty but in the freedome from sin and secondly they whosoever they be that cast off Gods yoke whose service is freedome and yeeld obedience unto the commands of Satan for every one in the world serves one of these two Masters they are meere bondslaves unto him they serve for all the services that the Devill imploies his servants in are whatsoever men may thinke otherwise of them no better then a very toilesome drudgery a very base bondage Heare the truth of this in some particulars as in the sin of covetousnesse wherein Ahab may be our example who because he could not possesse Naboths Vineyard according to his coveting desire it troubled him so that he was heavy and sad and spiritlesse immediately upon it 1 Ki. 21. we may observe the like in that sin of envy which Solomon tels us is the rottennesse of the bones Prov. 14. 30 a sin that is plagued by it selfe that hath much justice in it as one well observes for it eateth up the heart marrow of her Master as he desireth to eate up the heart of another And againe Surgunt de nocte Latr●nes The Theife wakes while the true man sleepes and is more troubled to breake open than the true man is to guard his house The not Adolterer the filthy uncleane person useth the twilight the evening the blacke and darke night Prov. 7. 9. that he may compasse his lust while the chast man sits quietly in his house How did the unnaturall Lust of Amnon vex him till he had obtained his desire so that he fell sick for his Sister T●●●●●r and after he had satisfied his unnaturall appetite he was as sick of her as he was before for her he hated her exceedingly saith the text his Lust ended in loathing so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her 2 Sam. 13. 15. what fruit had yee in th●se things whereof yee are now ashamed saith the Apostle to the Romans Rom. 6. 21. for as sin makes men past shame that they may commit it so it brings shame if the sinners conscience awake after the committing thereof See this farther in that most beastly sin of drunkennesse how it causeth woe and sorrow and contention and babling

ΨΕΥΔΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ OR Lawlesse Liberty SET FORTH IN A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE Right Honourable the Lord Major of London c. in PAULS Aug. 16. 1646. By EDVVARD TERRY Minister of the Word and Pastor of the Church at Great-Greenford in the County of Middlesex The Law was not made for the righteous man but for the lawlesse and disobedient for ungodly and for sinners 1. Tim. 1. 9. Ye shall keepe my statutes and doe them I am the Lord Levit. 20. 8. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that doe well 1. Pet. 2. 13. 14. Some mocked and others sayd We will heare thee againe of this matter Act. 17. 32. Imprimatur Sept. 11. 1646. John Downame LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper and are to be sold by Charles Greene at his shop in Ivie Lane at the signe of the Gun 1646. To the deservedly Honoured Sir GILBERT GERARD Baronet and Sir JOHN FRANKLIN Knight Knights for the County of Middlesex in this present Parliament Right Worshipfull THere is no condition whatsoever can priviledge a folded Arme For if Idlenesse had beene better then Labour our first Parents had never beene put into the Garden to dresse it but they must labour then in their innocent estate because they were happy and so much more must every one of us in his sinfull condition get up and be doing that he may be so The Church of God is a Garden enclosed so Cant. 4. 12. otherwise called the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts Isaiah 5. 7. Now Laberandum in vinea Labourers are for this vineyard where they shall ever finde never want worke they therefore which dare be idle and loyter heere are worthy to be cast out The Apostle compares the Church of God to a building Ep. 2. 20. the beauty whereof hath ever beene such a great eye-sore to all ungodly men that their mouthes of wickednesse have still extended themselves wide against it crying of it as they of Jerusalem Psa. 137. 7. Rase it rase it and their hands of violence lifted up to downe with it downe with it even to the foundation thereof The case being thus he is not worthy to be esteemed a member of the Church of God who labours not with the very utmost of his endevours one way or other to uphold defend maintaine enlarge this building to keepe this vineyard from waste this Fabricke from ruine which could not possibly continue were it in the power of men or divels to destroy it And if ever Distractions Dissentions Divisions threatned the wel-being of a Church and State as they alwayes doe the Church of God in this Kingdome at this time is in very much danger wherein a generall liberty is taken in matters which concerne Religion by people of what spirit I know not to doe what they please not what they should Our malady we see and cannot chuse but complaine of and if there be not a speedy cure thought on to apply unto our hurt the whole Kingdome may shortly take up that saying and make particular application of it prudens sciens vivus vidensque pereo For my selfe being lately called to that publicke place where this Sermon was delivered I thought it my duty to fall upon some subject that might have relation to our present times and distempers In which you may please cleerely to behold the necessity of Government as well in Church as State Then how generally it is disaffected and by whom esteemed the heaviest of all burthens who therefore doe what they can to throw it off which meditations as they then passed through the eares as I feare of many who then heard them for this I am sure of that abundance of this spirituall seed every where miscarries so they now most humbly desire leave to take the boldnes that through Yours they may passe into the hands of others that may consider them at leysure and upon better advantage Vox audita perit litera scripta manet That which we only hear may easily slip from us when as that we read may read againe in probability may stick by us And the Lord in mercy make this thus successeful For surely there were never any people under heaven that enjoyed and wanted more instruction then we doe when we seriously consider how that Almighty God hath laid wide open before us the Books of his revealed will of his mercies of his judgements yet though we have been taught abundantly by precepts we have not learned been prest upon by mercies we have not regarded and chastned too by the keenest the sharpest of all temporall judgements we have not been taught Doubtlesse the body of this Kingdome was exceedingly corrupted when it could not live unlesse it bled as it hath abundantly done and yet the cure is not perfect nor ever shal be till Reformation make up that breach which ungodlinesse hath troden downe Now there is no Reformation to be hoped for without Religion and no life no power of Religion without Government to order it guard it encourage it Which Church-Government that Great Councell of whom your very worthy Selves are a part have resolved speedily to establish The City of London are ready to taste and like and entertaine it We in the Country do exceedingly want it and the present want of that most desired issue of your great labours is ready to fill us with as much impatiency as poore Rachel expressed for want of children Gen. 30. 1. Now the Lord send it and settle it throughout the whole Kingdome and make all those that shal be called to act in this great work like Joshua who when he was appointed to be a Leader and a Governour of the people Deut. 34. 9. was full of the spirit of wisedome And fill them full of the spirit of zeale too for the house of God that Gods glory in the increase of his Church may be ever before their eies ever in their aime And the Lord make us who are Ministers of the Word in a speciall maner to apply our selves unto all those with whom wee shall have to deale in all love and meekenesse and tendernesse and prudence that so good and so great a worke be not quite mar'd by an ungodly indiscreet or carelesse handling And the Lord give us arguments to perswade those that have long continued in blindnesse and consequently have beene ignorant of the necessary truths of God now to encline their eares unto wisdome and to apply their hearts unto understanding Pr. 2. 2. that they may be while they are in a capacity of helpe entreated to suffer God through Jesus Christ to save their soules and let God arise and have mercy in building up his Sion amongst us that after our Eclipse he may appeare unto us in glory There was never yet any good and great worke carried