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A18672	The foundation of Christian religion: comprehended in three godlie and learned treatises. 1. Faith. 2. Hope. 3. Charitie	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597. Traité de la foy. English.; Veghelman, S.	1612 (1612)	STC 5188; ESTC S118874	139,379	370

hath done or suffered for vs And in generall all that is needfull for vs to beleeue and wherevpon we ought to ground and settle the hope of the everlasting life and happinesse Wherevpon may be jnfered that the doctrine of the Pope and of all his Pastors and Muncks of Papistry cannot availe any thing to edifie our Faith the which is not setled vpon the jnventions foolish traditions and vaine jmaginations of men But vpon the pure word of God the which ought to be layd open in the church to the people purely and simply without any mingling of dreames ravenings of men As saith the Prophet Ieremie Ierm 14. You must not mingle the chaffe among the good graine nor the drosse among the fine Siluer nor the water with the good wine Peter also willeth that if any one speake in the assembly 1. Pet. 4. let him speake like the words of God S. Paul exhorteth his Disciple to preach the word of God without adding or changing 2. Tim. 4. for as it written by the Prophet Psalm 12. The words of the Lord are pure words euen as the siluer which from the earth is tryed and purified seuen times in the fire for which cause nothing may bee mingled with it but it must needs corrupt it The third cause to wit the formall of Faith is Iesus Christ for as much as he is our Christ that is to say our Mediatour and jntercessor For in this quality hee is as it were the forme of our Faith the which hee quickneth and giveth a being therevnto as doth the shape to the matter which it shapeth and vnto the which it is applyed Now as we see all things take their being and denomination of their forme as the fire is named by it forme the fishes the beasts the birds and all things in generall are called according to the forme which ●hey beare Also so is Faith and calleth it selfe Christian because that Iesus Christ who is the forme thereof and wee are also for this reason called Christians because that wee are provided therewith which causeth that through Iesus Christ ●e are regenerate to be new creatures Moreover it is he that hath kept the commandement of God It is he who vndergoing the wrath and the malediction of the threatnings of God hath delivered vs from them Finally it is he that obtayneth the blessing set downe in the promise made to Abraham and to his posterity and who in doing so hath beene a meanes that the law the threatnings and the promises which are the three principall parts of the scripture were accomplished in his person and by consequent the Faith thereof healthfull to all belieuers Whereby wee may say of Iesus Christ that hee is ths forme Faith the which cannot subsist without the efficacy of the word nor the word haue her efficacy without him Therefore is it that we may say that Iesus Christ contaynes all the causes and par●s of Faith in himselfe for divers respects First the efficient because that as God he produceth it in vs by his spirit As he did in Paul when going jnto Damascus he called him and in his mercy did change him in an jnstant and made him of a furious persecutor of the Church a faithfull servant vnto him and it Afterwards that hee is also the matter of our Faith by reason of those things which he hath suffered for vs by the which paying our rāsome he hath fully satisfied to the justice of God for all our jniquities Againe that he is the forme of our Faith in as much as he is the Mediatour and jntercessour who by his merite keepeth vs perpetually in the grace of God his Father in the which resteth all our life salvation and beatitude And to conclude that he is also the end thereof because it is hee vnto whome we ought wholy to referre and attribute the praise and glory of our salvation which are the reasons for the which it is sayd Iohn 1. that in him consists all fulnesse of gifts and graces of God Also that God the Father hath giuen vs all things with him that is to say not only life but also the meanes whereby wee may attaine therevnto And that in him are all treasures of the knowledge wisedome and other graces and blessings of our God Which considering S. Augustine saith That in our selues we are nothing and that in him we are all things And the Apostle to the Hebrues Who is the cheefe and the accomplisher of our Faith who insteed of the ioy which he had in hand hath indured the crosse hauing despised the shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God The finall cause which is the fourth and last of Faith is the glory of God and the salvation of men for the mercy of God manifesting it selfe in the remission of our sinnes and his vertue in the execution and in the accomplishment of his promises and his justice in the paine which Iesus Christ did endure vppon the crosse for vs and his power in the discomfiting of our enemies and his wisedome by the which he hath by death brought life by sinne justice by jnfirmitie force by darknesse light by wounds healing by lowlinesse exaltation and by hell whither Iesus Christ did descend Paradice and the kingdome of Heaven being I say all the vertues of God manifested and layd open in Iesus Christ all christian men apprehending them by Faith haue matter and cause to prayse and glorifie God for God doing that which is sayd hath shewed how glorious and wonderfull his name was Men then believing these things in their hearts and publishing them with their mouths cannot better magnifie the workes vertues and miracles of our God then in doing it CHAP. VI. ¶ Of the effects of Faith wherof the first is the reconciliation betweene God and man HAving spoken of the causes of Faith it is also needfull to declare the effects thereof which are great and admirable the first is the reconciliation betweene GOD and vs. For when we were as farre from GOD as the East might bee from the West that there was no creature vpō earth more miserable then man in this estate Esay 58. to draw vs out of it to set vs againe in the hope of his grace and of our saluation from the beginning after that our first parents out of whose loynes wee came were departed frō God through their rebellion and disobedience God to prevent their ruine which was all apparant and very neere pleased to rayse them againe being so fallen That of them should come the seede which should bruse the head of the Serpent Gen. 3. The which promise he repeated since to Abraham Gen. 12. promising that of him a child should be borne that should bring an vniuersall blessing vppon all the Nations of the earth and againe since hath likewise repeated it to Dauid assuring him that from him should descend a King whose raigne should be

Those that wayte vpon the Lord ●her new strength their wings growe ●aine like Eagles they shall rune and shall ● waxe weary they shall walke and shall ● labour at all Esay 40.31 So then ●thout the knowledge of Iesus Christ ●e trust in him and viuification by the ●ly spirit men cannot desire to doe ●od workes lesse effect and ac●…mplish them Therefore they abuse ●…emselues daungerously that thinke ●at the Pagans vnbeleeuers and pro●e men whose hearts are not purified ● the truth of the Gospell accepted by ●th and who doe not beleeue in the ●nne of God manifested to the Church ● the doctrine of the Prophets Evan●elists and Apostles can doe workes ●easing and agreeable to God And ●ose that maintaine that the naturall ●an can of his owne will render obedience to God and others who jmagin● a concurrance of the value of the wor● man and of the workes with the dign●ty and perfection of him that comma●deth them and those that without c●ryng whether the person pleaseth Go● or no teach that what he doth thinkin● he doth well it is agreeable to God 〈◊〉 farre that it is euen to boast themselue● before the seate of his justice of th● which they speake most vnworthily ● without a convenient respect of the satisfaction obedience and justice of Iesus Christ confounding miserably th● cause of saluation with the demonstration of the grace receaued and the sig● of justification 3. How good woorkes please god 3. It is demanded how good work● please God Ans They please becaus● of Iesus Christ in whome those tha● please God are elected and welbeloued To speake this more amply wee mus● first remember that the party that do● the good works is already reconciled ● agreeable vnto God by the meanes o● his onely Sonne Secondly that such a party justified by faith during his abyding in the world cannot satisfie to all that which the diuine law requireth To the contrary it cryeth euery day vnto the Lord pardon mee my sinnes Thirdly the party justified deploreth with Dauid and S. Paul his misery before God resisteth his euill affections growing from day to day in those that are least jmparfect prayeth that God would not impute so many filthinesses and jmperfections which appeare on euery side vnto him In the fowrth place although that the partie iustified by Faith acknowledgeth his defaults this neuerthelesse abides resolute in him that God requireth obedience although jmperfect and that the same is pleasing vnto him for the loue of Iesus Christ as sayth S. Peter you are an holy Priesthoode to offer vppe spirituall sacrifice acceptable to GOD by Iesus Christ 1. Peter chap. 2. vers 5. It followeth vppon that which we haue now sayd that our obedience doth not please by reason of the worke done or for any worthinesse that is therein or because it is done which it is not either be reason of the degree or ranck of the partie that did the worke For the good woorkes of Cornelius the Centurion did please God no lesse then the good workes of S. Peter the Apostle 4. Why we ought to doe good workes As for the fowrth point many vnderstanding that man is iustified before God by Faith onely without works do make iniquity of the causes which ought to inflame and prick vs forward to good works This question must be answered by the scriptures which propound three important causes to wit The necessitie of them Necessitie Dignitie Reward Let vs breefely speake of these three Necessitie is distinguished into fiue articles to wit of Commandement of dutie of Faith of repentance and of exemption from punishment euery one which ought sufficiently to stirre vs vppe to do well First the creature must necessarily obay to the Cteator Then when the Lord seriously and seuerely commandeth that wee obay him who seeth not that Christians ought of all necessitie to studie to do good works Walke sayth hee Ezech. 20.19 in my commaundements and S. Paul This is the will of God that is to say your sanctification 1. Thessalo 4.3 In regard of the necessity of the dutie the Apostle noteth it Rom. 8.12 in these words Wee are debtours not to the flesh to liue according to the flesh For if you liue according to the flesh you die but if by the spirit you mortifie the deeds of the body you liue Also 1. Corinth 6.19 Know you not that your body is the Temple of the holy ghost which is in you the which you haue of God and are not your owne for you were bought with a price then glorifie God in your body and in your spirit for they are Gods It is commanded to all the faithfull carefully to keepe and entertaine Faith S. Paul sheweth the necessity thereof saying 1. Tim. 1.18.19 Fight a good fight hauing faith and a good conscience which some haue put away and as concerning faith haue made shipwracke And in the 5. chap. ver 8. If there be any that prouideth not for his own and namely for them of his houshold he denieth the faith and is worse then an infidell The necessity of repentance is conformed by this protestation of the Lord As surely as I liue I desire not the death of a sinner but that he turne from his wickednesse and liue When a sinner leaueth his wicked course he is quickned by the holy Ghost to the end he may walke in newnesse of life for regeneration the beginning of that life which is a new light and a restauration of the jmage of God in those that are justified As for the necessity to auoyd his chastisements Dauid giueth vs warning jnough therof when hee sayth God chastiseth the sonnes of men because of their iniquities Psal 89.33 The second cause named Dignity The dignitie of them consisteth in this poynt that the belieuers are the children of God temples of the holy Ghost pallaices wherein Christ dwelleth whose members and co-heires they are What a wickednesse were it if they should resemble the enemie of their Sauiour What danger it is to defile the Temple of the Lord bearing therein the filthinesse of Satan And what crueltie to driue away the holy Ghost out of his accustomed lodging Seeing then that the propertie of the children of God is to follow their heauenly father who cryeth vnto them Bee yee holy as I am holy and that they are eleuated and called to be holy who seeth not that it soueraignely appertaineth vnto the Saints during their soiourning in this world to doe good woorkes The ●…ware of them The third cause called Reward oftentimes promised to those that are obedient Moyses shall be a witnesse thereof vnto vs of whome the Apostle saith Heb. 11.26 That in his labours hee had a respect vnto the recompence of reward The children of God are not mercenaries and life euerlasting is not a reward of varlets but an inheritance of children the recompence which they expect is of the good will of him that loued them from before