Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	faith_n	heart_n	purify_v	2,568	5	11.6551	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07719	A short analysis of a part of the second chapter of S. Iames, from the 14. verse to the end of the same With a briefe confutation of the Rhemists annotations therevpon written. By Iohn Morgan. 1588	Morgan, John, fl. 1588.	1588 (1588)	STC 18103; ESTC S107508	19,383	50

except it were a due debt it were vncertaine because hire is certaine mercie is vncertaine But confound grace and workes as you will and compound with S. Paule if you cau Rom. 11. vers 6. If it be of grace not now of workes otherwise now grace is not grace but if of works not now of grace otherwise the worke now were not worke Thus I haue seene a little according to your direction your Annot. Rom. 4. vers 1. Now to follow you in S. Iames. Rhemists Cap. 2. Vers 22. Faith did worke with Some Heretikes hold that good workes are pernitious to Saluation iustification other that though they be not hurtfull but required yet they be no causes or workers of Saluation much lesse meritorious but are as fruits and effects issuing necessarily out of faith Both which fictions falshods and flights from the plaine truth of Gods word are refuted by these wordes when the Apostle sayth that faith worketh together with good works maketh faith to bee a coadiutour or Cooperator with works and so both ioyntly concurring as causes and workers of iustification yea afterward he maketh workes the more principal cause when he resembleth faith to the bodie and workes to the spirite or life of man Aunswere IT were to bée wished that you had nominated those Heretikes that wee might haue knowne them by their names If any haue sayd their workes are imperfect and so pernitious for any man to place his confidence of euerlasting life in his maimed and stayned obedience they haue such partners as you shall not for so saying bee able to attach of heresie S. Paule when as he abounded with most excellent workes he denyed that hée obtayned righteousnesse or life thereby 1. Cor. cap. 4. vers 4. Neither would he reioyce in any thing but in the crosse of Christ Galath 6. vers 14. Hieroni. in Esaiam cap. 64 If we behold our owne merits we must be driuen to desperation And Origen vpon Math. Tract 8 Say that you are vnprofitable seruants saith Christ for notwithstanding we haue done all things that are commaunded yet haue we done no good thing for if our doings were good indéede then were they not vnprofitable but any good déede of ours is called good not rightly or duly but by abuse of speach We say flatly maugre the Deuill and Antichrist that our works be not causes or workers of our saluation much lesse meritorious Rom. 9. vers 16 It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that hath mercy 1. Tim. 2. vers 5.6 There is one God and one mediator of God and men the man Christ Iesus who hath giuen him-selfe the price of redemption for vs but if our works imbrued and drenched in the bloud of Christ can pacifie the wrath of God or make perfect our redemption it is manifest there is not one mediator and redeemer when as euery man is redeemed by his owne works What blasphemie is this to say or once to thinke that Christ suffered death and poured out his bloud not that he him-selfe should saue vs by his bloud but that he should giue the same power to our works that which you call fictions falsehoods and flights shal be prooued to be the fixed faithfull firme truth of God Doth not S. Peter in the 15. of the Acts giue this vnto faith to purifie our hearts vers 9. Doth not the same Apostle 2. Epist cap. 1. vers 5. make vertue knowledge temperance patience brotherly kindnesse lone the fruits and effects of our faith after that by the preaching of the Gospell and the spirit of God we are made partakers of the diuine nature vers 4. The Apostle Iames doth not refute this doctrine by these words faith worketh together with good works no more then S. Paule doth confute his owne doctrine when he saith Galath 5. vers 6. faith working by loue thereby declaring that a true faith is effectuall and fertil of good works If you remember your marginall note vpon the 4. cap. Rom. vers 2. Iustice before man and Iustice before God we graunt faith to be a coadiutor or cooperator with works and so both iointly concurring as causes and workers of iustification before men but if you come before God take your aunswere of S. Augustine in Psalm 94. Si Deus vellet pro merit is agere non inueniret nisi quod damnaret If God would deale with vs according to that we haue deserued he should find nothing but that he might condemne In that which you ioyne afterwards whereas you say yea afterward he maketh works the more principall cause when he resembleth faith to the body and works to the life or spirit of a man The Lord open your eyes that you may see this mysterie remeur this vaile from your eyes of the confidence of your works We protest before God and all good men that we neuer meant to make faith the chiefe only cause of our iustification but that the grace and mercy of God by our Sauiour Iesus Christ promised to the faithfull in his holy word is the principall originall cause and very fountaine of our iustification and that faith not a dead faith as they thought against whome S. Iames wrote but a liuely faith being wrought in our harts by the word of God and by the operation of the holy Ghost beleuing Gods promise of his mercy in Christ is the instrumētall cause in vs whereby only we receiue our iustification without the merit of out works yet being iustified we are most hounden in all good works as much as it shall please God to giue vs grace thereunto I can but muze at your folly which make works the more principall cause of our iustification because he resembleth faith to the bodie and good works to the soule if either you had knowne the true scope of this Scripture or the weakenesse of an argument drawne from likenesse Omnis similitudo claudicat you would not haue argued so fondly S. Iames speaketh of a dead faith which is only an imaginarie and mathematicall phantasie which is as farre different from a true christian faith as is a vizard from a mans face an image from a man a painted smoke from a burning flambe Rhemists Annotation Iam. 2. ver 23. The friend of God By this also another false and friuolous euasion of the Heretikes is ouertaken when they feine that the Apostle heere when he saith works do iustifie meaneth that they shew vs iust before men and auaile not to our iustice before God for the Apostle euidently declareth that Abraham by his works was made or truly called the friend of God and therefore was not as the Heretikes say by his works approued iust before man only Aunswere OUr true exposition howsoeuer it séeme vnto you a false and friuolous euasion yet I hope all that haue vsed that distinction are not Heretikes for then is the Angell an Heretike which so hath taught vs Genesis 22. vers