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A09695	A learned and profitable treatise of mans iustification Two bookes. Opposed to the sophismes of Robert Bellarmine, Iesuite. By Iohn Piscator, professor of diuinitie in the famous schools of Nassouia Sigena.; Learned and profitable treatise of mans justification.	Piscator, Johannes, 1546-1625.	1599 (1599)	STC 19963; ESTC S102907	52,379	138

A LEARNED AND PROFITABLE Treatise of mans Iustification Two Bookes Opposed to the Sophismes of Robert Bellarmine Iesuite By Iohn Piscator professor of Diuinitie in the famous Schoole of Nassouia Sigena Imprinted at London by Thomas Creede for Raphe Iackson dwelling in Paules Chruch-yard at the signe of the Swanne 1599. TO THE REVEREND and renowmed men Daniel Tossanus Iames Kimedoncius and Dauid Pareus Doctors of sacred Theology and professors in the famous Vniuersitie of Heidelberg his high-esteemed brethren greeting WIth how great endeuor subtilly deuised and writhed Sophismes Robert Bellarmine Iesuite hath studied to cloake and defend the Popish errours and contrariwise to caluminate and refute the doctrine of the true teachers of the Gospell about Christian faith it is knowne to them that haue read with iudgement his disputations of the articles in controuersie betweene the Papists and the Gospellers whom he falsly calleth hereticks These disputations whē not long since they came also to my handes I read them desirously and was not a litle greened when I sawe the truth of the Gospel to be with such a shewe oppugned And whē I remembred how I heard of a credible man that learned men addicted to the Popish religion so greatly boasted of this Bellarmine as if he were some Goliath of the Papists that they feared not to say he was inuincible I began earnestly to desire that God wold stirre vp many of the teachers of the Gospel valiantly happily to withstand the enterprises of this Goliath with the stone of Gods word handsomely throwne out of the sling of true Logicke to fell him downe and finally to kill him with his owne sword And I gaue God thankes that euen then he had stirred vp some learned men which had prosperously begun this fight with him among whom first was knowne vnto me that famous man William Whitakers who fought with him manfully and happily about the holy scripture and purposed also to dispute against him about other chiefe points in controuersie God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ graunt that what he hath holily purposed he may prosperously bring to effect But when as about the same time I was to write and propound for publicke disputation in the famous schoole of Nassouia Herborne positions of Iustification I thought it would be worth my labour diligently to inquire into Bellarmines sophismes published concerning that article of faith and to endeuour briefly plainly to refute them And by this occasion was this my writing brought forth which now I publish abroad Which when for the length thereof I saw not meet to be proposed for Positions publikely to bee disputed of in the schoole I then wrote and set out other positions of Iustification and reserued this writing for a more fit time It fell out about the same time that the learned man Corradus Vorstius Agrippensis created among you and of you a while after Doctor of Theologie desired by Letters mine opinion about soluting one or two of Bellarmines sophismes in the controuersie of Iustification vnto whom I sent to that end this writing and withall requested him to communicate it with learned men of which your Vniuersitie hath store and to knowe their iudgements of it and write me word He therefore of late about Francfurt Mart passing by Sigena and for the friendship betwixt vs saluting me told me how he had giuen you this writing of mine to reade and that you hauing read it affirmed vnto him that you liked all therein and would exhort me to set it forth distinguished into two Bookes and certain Chapters which thing also hee wrote of to me not long after from Heidelberg and so stirred me vp a fresh to diualge this writing Now therfore commeth this my writing forth in the name of the Lord and it commeth forth vnder your excellent name for that I thought I should doo conueniently to offer this doctrine to be defended by them togither with my selfe which had once approoued it for a good and right opinion and therwithal publikely to testifie our holy consent in this heauenly truth You therefore reuerend brethren take this my doing in good part and valiantly defend as oft as need shal require togither with me the trueth of Christian doctrine deliuered in this writing to the glorie of Gods name and profit of Christs Church To conclude I commend you and your holy labours to God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ. At Sigena from the famous Schoole of Nassouia the 18. of December 1594. Your Brother Iohn Piscator of Argentine OF MANS IVSTIFICATION before God The first booke VVherein the iudgement of the professors of the Gospell is recited confirmed and defended from Bellarmines exceptions CHAP. I. Of the diuers significations of the word Iustifying WHen it is demaunded how a man may be iustifyed before God the word Iustifie is taken two wayes sometime for to make or to be made iust and sometime for to pronounce or to be pronounced iust These two do consent and agree betweene themselues as the cause efficient and the effect For God being a iust iudge pronounceth no man iust neither acquiteth any but him whome he hath first made iust And God maketh a man iust whome he will pronounce iust by imputation of iustice that is for so much as he imputeth iustice to him or that which is all one imputeth not sinnes vnto him but pardoneth forgiueth them Rom. 4. ver 5.6.7.8 In the first signification the word Iustifying is taken Rom. 4.5 where the Apostle sayth To him that worketh not but beleeueth in him that iustifieth the vngodly his faith is imputed for iustice Heere God is sayd to iustifie the vngodly But God pronounceth not the vngodly iust but maketh him iust and that whiles he imputeth iustice vnto him as the Apostle teacheth in this place And then at last pronounceth him iust And so the Apostle himselfe expoundeth the word Iustified by to be made iust Rom. 5.19 In the latter signification it is taken Rom. 8.33 where the Apostle sayth Who shall accuse Gods elect God is he that iustifieth Who is hee that condemneth Heere vnto iustification is manifestly opposed condemnation whereby we may perceiue that by that word here is signified iudicial acquitting whereby the iudge pronounceth iust and innocent the guiltie partie that is him that is accused and brought to the iudgement seate But Iustification being taken this latter way is againe to be distinguished For it is done either in this life and that in iustifying euery one apart by himselfe and secretly or after this life in that vniuersall day of iudgement in altogether and openly For God hath set vp his iudgement seat in the conscience of man in as much as he hath so indued mās mind with knowledge of iust and vniust that if he haue done any vniust thing his conscience of it owne accord as it were summoneth him to Gods iudgement seat and accuseth him and if he be by others accused vniustly his