A Lent - Sermon Preached at White Hall February 20,1628 [1629/9]

              A 4 lent sermon preached at paite white palte gall hall galt Febr february mary uary mazy 20 1628 1628 16289 JAMES 2.12 212 212 SO 50 SPEAK YE YEAND AND SO DOAS DO AS THEY THAT SHALL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY HIS is one of those seven epistles which athanasius and THIS TorigencairdcalidCatcascatholickcatholicjcatholicsholickthatisuniversalperchancebecause they are not directed to any one church as some others are but to all the christian world and S hierom calld calid calad them canonical perchance because all rules all canons of holy conversation are com drizd prizd in these epistles and epiphanous epiphanius and oecumenius calld calid calad them circular perchance because as in a circle you cannot discern which was the first point nor in which the compass begun the circle so neither can we discern in these epistles whom the holy ghost begins withall whom he means principally king or subject priest or people single or married husband or wife father or children masters or servants but universally promiscuously in- differently they give all rules for all actions to all persons at all times and in all places As in this text in particular which is not by any precedent or subsequent relation by any connexion or co- herence herence directed upon any company or any degree of men for the apostle does not say ye princes nor ye people but ye ye in general to all so speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty so these epistles are catholick catholics Catholick so they are canonical and they are circular so but yet though in a circle we know not where the compass began we know not which was the first point yet we 1