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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00055	Love and obedience or, Christs precept and promise. Being a sermon preached on Whitsunday last, 28 of May, 1637. in Guild-hall chappell, before the right honorable the Lord Major of this city of London.	Freake, William	1637 (1637)	STC 11347; ESTC S123109	14,888	23

may well be promised in the whole sheafe which filleth the bosome And thus the holy Apostles had it from the time that Christ breathed on them saying Receive yee the holy Ghost Iohn 20.22 in some measure and so they might well love him in some sort and in some sort might keepe his Commandments and yet be capable of the promise of the Comforter in some more ample measure for all that so that now the doubt is answered and Christ may proceed to his Prayer and we to the consideration of the further particulars therein comprized Ego rogabo Patrem ille dabit c. In which words is a most materiall observation touching our faith in the blessed Trinity Here is the Article offered and set down in the three Persons 1. Ego 2. Ille 3. Altum Ego rogabo there is Christ the Sonne Jlle dabit He shal give there is God the Father personally named Ego rogabo Patrem ille dabit And alium Paracletum another Comforter a third person the Holy Ghost Here is then one Person praying the other prayed unto the third prayed for Filius orans Pater donans Spiritus consolans A most plaine ground for the point of the holy Trinity and a most evident distinction of the Persons And heere this prayer of Christ sets us to seeke his other Nature Here he intreats as inferiour to his Father which sheweth him perfectly man But in the 26. vers of the next Chapter as equall to his Father in the nature of God hee joyneth in this giving with like Authority Rogabo as Man Dabo as God when that Comforter shall come whom I will send unto you from the Father And thus finding the Father giving here and the Sonne sending there we have an infallible proofe of the proceeding of the Holy Ghost from the Father and from the Sonne And lastly the Deity of the Holy Ghost and his equality to the Father and to the Sonne are herein plainely demonstrated For our Saviour Christ in sending and procuring a Comforter in his absence must needs send and procure them one equall to himselfe one every way as good or else they had changed for the worse and so might well have prayed him to let his prayer alone they were better as they were and if he did not send them an equall Comforter they were like to be at a losse But our Saviour meant not so therefore he saith Another Comforter which shall abide with you for ever an everlasting Comforter from the everlasting Father the Prince of peace Isaiah 9.6 These things thus cleared I proceed to some doctrinall observations 1. That the Holy Ghost is not given but from the Father whose absolute gift he is for Ille dabit saith my Text according to that Luke 11.13 It is our heavenly Father that giveth the holy Ghost to them that aske it of him And therefore is he called The promise of the Father Luke 24.49 And that Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father John 15.26 And in this Chapter ver 26 our Saviour stiles him The Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father saith he will send in my Name 2. With a grave Expositor I here observe Non dari Spiritum sanctum nisi interventu Christi Mediatoris That the Father giveth not the holy Spirit unto any but through the intercession of our blessed Lord the Sonne of the Father For Ego rogabo Patrem saith my Text ille dabit Therefore doth he stile himselfe the Doore beside whom there is no right entrance to the participation of this divine donation Ioh. 10.9 and Mat. 11.29 the easer of those that are weary and heavy laden who never finde true rest but in this comforter promised in the words of this Text therefore doth he stile himselfe the way the truth and the life in this chapter verse the sixth to shew us that there is no way to true life eternall but by this spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne no way to attaine this spirit but by the Sonnes intercession to the Father 3. It is worth your noting to whom this comforter is promised it is onely those who love Iesus Christ and keep his Commandements for so much the connexion of the two generals in my Text doth evidently demonstrate If ye love me c. J will pray Therefore saith our Saviour in the verses after my Text If any man love me he will keepe my word and my Father will love him and we will come in unto him and dwell with him How my Father will love him and we will come c. O quanta dignitas quantus honor Deum diligentibus mandata ejus observantibus saith an ancient Father of the Church What a dignity what an honour doth accuree to those who love God truely and keepe his Commandements What sweetnesse of comfort can be comparable to this by retaining the true love of God as a resident guest in the heart to have the blessed Comforter in my Text to have the blessed Trinity it selfe dwelling within us saith Arden acutely This is to have God the Father by the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the sacred influence of his sanctifiing Spirit ruling and reigning and residing in our hearts This is truely to make our soules and bodies Temples of the holy Ghost as St. Paul speake 1. Cor. 6.19 This is to acquire an infallible testimony to our owne soules that we are in Christ and Christ in us that the benefit of our Saviours prayer is extended to us as touching the comforter promised in my Text For he that keepeth his Commandements saith St. Iohu dwelleth in him and he in him and and hereby shall we know that he abideth in us even by that spirit of love and obedience even by that spirit which he hath given us 1. Ioh. 3.24 4. We may not omit to take notice that this blessed Spirit is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a comforter to intimate Christs intention in sēding him In the world yee shall have affliction but be of good cheare I have overcome the World Ioh. 16.33 and in the meane while I will pray unto the Father and he shall give you another comforter Indeede the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the originall as the learned in the Greeke Language well understand doth in the genuine etymology thereof signifie an advocate qui accusatis in necessitate constitutis adsit opem ferat proijs loquendo saith the Etymologist one that may assist and plead for such as are accused before a Iudge and stand in danger of a censure Therefore doth our Saviour exhort his Disciples when after his death they should be called before Kings and Princes for his name sake to flye to the advice and assistance of this holy Advocate for it is not ye that speake but the Spirit of God which speaketh in you saith our Saviour Mat. 10.18 19 20. That we might learn thence when in our

utilitatem quaerit sed nobis nos illi non incommodamus praecepta ejus negligendo sed nobis ipsts saith Musculus upon this place As our blessed Lord in backing this precept by an argument drawne from his love doth no way aime at his owne benefit but at ours So we by detracting our obedience from his commandement can no way disadvantage him but our selves onely and theharme that growes thereof reflects upon us and the losse will undoubtedly bee set upon our score That which mooved our blessed Lord to take our nature upon him to fulfill the Law for us and yet to suffer as a transgressor of the Law was nothing else as Bishop Anselm wel observed but amor sitis salutis humanae Christ Iesus his loving and thirsty desire to rescue falling man-kinde from eternall perdition Which occasioned that Father thus to expresse his admiration O charitas divina quam magnum est tuum vinoulum O most blessed and loving Lord how strict was that bond wherewith thy divine love did voluntarily oblige thee in the redemption of perishing man-kind Tu Deū ad terram traxisti tu aed columnā ligasti tu cruci afixisti tu in sep ulchro claeusisti tu ad inferos detrusisti It was thy love oh blessed Lord that drew thee the Son of God to come down from heaven to earth that tyed thee to the Pillar that nayled thee to the Crosse that shut thee for a while into the grave that exposed thee to suffer the paines of hel for us in thy drooping agony That the love of Christ whereby he purchased us to himselfe might appeare in all respects to bee free and spontaneous and become an indissoluble tye and obligation upon us for a constant and conscionable retribution of love to him in keeping his Commandements Give me leave then so farre as I can to strike this nayle to the head in the words of the same Father O longe graviores saxo plumbo quos tanti amoris vinculum non trahit sursum ad Deum ex quo prius traxit Deū deorsū ad homines Those soules are undoubtedly more sencelesse than stones more ponderous than lead whom the tye of so free and unparaleld a love cannot lift upwards to God which formerly drew God downwards to man Those 〈◊〉 strangely frozē in their dregs Zeph. 1.12 upon whō this mo●ived●●h not work whō the consideration of Christs love so amply demonstrated doth not perswade to a full resolution of soule to testifie a full retribution of love to him by a 〈◊〉 observance of his holy will 4. And that so much the rather too because as a grave Expositor upon this place well observeth our Saviour Christ saith not si timeatis if ye feare me but si diligatis if ye love me keepe my Commandements Talem enim Christus exigit observantiā non quae a timore servili extorqueatur sed ab amore filiali ultrò nascatur saith the same Expositor for our blessed Saviour exacts no such an obedience to his Lawes as hath need to be extorted from a servile feare such an obedience as the Spanish Clergy forceth from their people by the power of their inquisition but such an obedience as floweth freely and spontaneously from the fountaine of a filiall and sonne-like feare Christus non probat obedientiam coactam saith Musculus upon this place very well to our purpose Christ never approved of any constrained obedience which had need to be wrested from the unwilling hand of the performer he hath done enough to winne the world and to draw all men to him by love if he had not to doe with a stiffe-necked people and a stony-hearted generation His word and Gospell where it is truely and powerfully preacht in the liberty thereof hath no neede of any Iesuiticall insinuations or rules drawne from Matchievel for the establishing of his kingdome If therefore that disloyall brood of Inigo Loiola that lame Spanish Souldier which in this last Century of yeares hath so much troubled all Christendome and almost the whole world about the erecting of a fift Monarchy covering all their lawlesse designes under the most sacred name of Iesus shall in Gods good time finde the all-ruling providence to turne their Councels into foolishnes as as he sometimes did Achitophels because as he would have set up a rebellious Absolom against Dauid so they would plant a politicke Hierarchy under the name of Iesus but in flat opposition to Christ the Son of David and our blessed Lord let it appeare no strange thing to those that feare God however it seeme improbable to flesh and blood Our blessed Lord never warranted nor approved of such a course to fetch in all Nations to a formall profession of Christianity onely without the lively practice of it or to force men to an approbation of that Religion outwardly which inwardly they abhorre if they durst but to despute the same or could be admitted to receive better instruction without losse of life and goods Fieri non potest ut mandatis divinis ritè obsecūdetur nisi animo spontaneo ex spirita dilectionis obtemporetur Mans obedience to Gods command can never be sincere except it proceed freely from the spirit of love and where this motive of our blessed Saviour will not work the power and policy of all the world will prove but lost labour Our Saviour without all question knew what would draw his chosen people to the obedience of his blessed will and that is a sad and due consideration of his unparaleld love to man-kind and therefore he said not si timeatis but si diligatis if yee love me keepe my commandements 5. But here againe it is not unworthy your consideration that our blessed Saviour saith not servate praecepta hominum if ye love mee keepe the commandements of men but if yee love me keepe my Commandements For in vaine doe they worship God saith our Saviour who teach for Doctrines the traditions of men It was that for which God complained of the Iewish Nation in the daies of Jsaiah Isaiah 29.13 That their feare towards him was taught by the precepts of men which practise what fruit it produced in that people the Lord tels us plainely in the former verses of that Chapter For vision becommeth in a short time to such among whom this course is taken as the words of a booke that is seal'd up which they deliver to one that can read saying Read this I pray thee verse 11. who makes answer I cannot read because it is seal'd So in a while it commeth to passe that the booke is delivered to one that cannot read saying Reade this I pray thee and he shall answer plainely I cannot reade ver 12. An entermingling of 〈◊〉 mane precepts with divine truthes breedes a neglect of the sacred Scripture and then growes up quickly superstition and will-worship which produceth in time palpable and grosse ignorance not in the people onely but also in the Priests So that the