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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10578	A necessary instruction of christian faith and hope for Christians to holde fast, and to be bolde vp on the promise of God, & not to doubt of their saluation in Christ. Translated out of D. Vrbanus Regius, into English and newly recognized by Iohn F.; Instruccyon of christen fayth	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1579 (1579)	STC 20848; ESTC S106076	25,574	62

workes of the fiesh because it is required of vs to be done God forbid y any pertaining to the grace of god shold so thynke Thys is a damnable errour of the Pelagians whom as the Apostle in his wordes following doothe confute saying Who soeuer be led with the spirit of God they be the childrē of god Lesse we shoulde thinke this mortefiing of the flesh came by our spirite but by the spirit of God of the which spirite of God the same Apostle speaketh more ouer All these things sayth he worketh one alonly spirite destributing to euerye man hys gyftes so as it pleaseth hym amongste the whyche gyftes also hee rekeneth faythe So then lyke as thys mortifieng of the fleshe notwithstanding it be required of vs is the gyfte of God euen so is fayth also the very gyft of God though neuer thelesse it be required of vs if wee will bee saued to beleeue for these thinges both bee commaunded vs of god and also be the giftes of god To the entent we shoulde vnderstand that both we doe them and yet it is the gyfte of God that we doe them so as the Scripture sheweth by Ezechiell the Prophet And I sayth almighty God shal make you that you shall doe them What can be more playne Marke well this place of scripture gentyll brethren and yee shall see that God promiseth hee will make them to doe suche thinges which he will haue done And ther in the same place hee bringeth forth no merites of theirs but much wickednes shewing declaring thereby y hee giueth good for euil in y he maketh thē bring forth afterward good workes causing them to doe his commandements Also in the lxxxviii psalme hee saythe in lyke manner Lyfte vp your heartes for he which promised will performe so as he hath performed manye things alredy for the trust that we haue in him we haue it not in our merits but only of his mercy No man can be strong in this life but onely in the hope of Gods promise For as concerning our owne merites we be marueilous weake but as concerning the promise of God we bee strong And in the lxxxxviii psalme hee saythe where is security and peace hee answereth againe truely none in this lyfe but onely in the hope of the promise of God. S. Ambrose in the firste booke de vocat genti c. writeth if no man saith he wil breake or dispise a mans will or testamente as sayth the Apostle nor alter it Then howe can it bee that Gods will testament should be broken in any thing It tarieth alwayes and euery day is fulfilled that the Lorde promised to Abraham without any condition gaue with out any lawe By this saying of Ambrose it may wel appeare that the promise of the newe testament which is that God wil be mercifull vnto vs wil forgiue vs our sinnes wil giue vs the holy ghost and wil make vs safe that this promise I say doth not depend of any condition of the law For freely it commeth onely of grace because we should neuer doubte of his grace and fauour toward vs And what other thing meaneth S. Ambrose where hee sayth so ofte y wee be saued before God by fayth only and a lonely Looke vpon his comentaries of the Romains looke also in the Corin. and Gal. Theophilactus also writeth in like sort In so much saith he as it is euident that the lawe bringeth nothing but anger therefore had Abraham his iustice and inheritance giuen him because that all should goe by grace Wherefore then seing that all thinges nowe doe stande in the grace and in the mercy of God so that he is bounde nowe not to worke after his iustice then what should let vs to thinke but that all thinges bee certaine and stable what soeuer he doth giueth or promiseth Nowe if blind hipocrisie here obiecte again that Paule in this place speketh onely of Abraham and therefore y thing concerneth none els but him but wee muste seeke our health and iustification otherwise I answere again Not so For therefore Paule calleth Abraham there the father of all the beleuers and in him propoundeth to vs al y true meanes how al men both before the cōming of Christ and after the comming of Christ must be iustified And therefore this text of Paule doth as well pertaine to vs all for it is writen and set forth vnto all vs Euen as S. Paule in the very same chap. writeth This is not written for him onely sayth he that it was imputed to him for iustice but for vs all to whom it shall be imputed for iustice beleeuing on him who raysed vp from death our Lord Iesus Christ w̄ was giuen for our sins and raised vp again for our iustificatiō Amen Difference between the Papist and the Protestant How feare confidēce stand togeather in a true christian Three causes of saluatiō declared Assurance of our saluation hovv it resteth Hovve faith bringeth in hope The difference betwene faith and hope discussed The obiecte of faith and of hope considered The operation of faith and hope Faith saueth hope comforteth The cause of our saluation euer to faith onely and not to hope Faith to iustification may be somtimes where hop fainteth but hope to comfort can neuer be without faith Eccl. 9 The Hebrue text meaneth āother thing and is wrong trāslated A true christian man doubteth not of Gods fauour Faith. Incredulity Math. 19. The doctrine of the priests clergye VVhat hope is by the sophisters Grace and deseruing are tvvo cōtrary things to be seperated The lavve Rom. 7. Gala. 5. 1. Iohn 1 Eph. 64. Luke 17. good works hovv they are necessarye Gala. 2. Math. 5. Phil. 2. 2. Pet. 1 Iohn 1 Gala. 3. Euil vvorks The foundation of our faith Rom. 5. VVhat true faith is Acts. 15. Iohn 15. Iohn 13. Luke 19. No good faith no good vvorks True faith true vvorks Ephe. 4. Rom. 8. Our iustification only belongeth to Iesus Christ. Appeale frō the lavve to Christ. VVhat the promise of God is Hie. 31. Heb. 3. Heb. 9. 2. Cor. 1 Psalme 89. VVeakenes in Christes kingdome born vvithal Truth Grace Esa. 55. Iere 31. Nota. Heb. 8. 10. Gala. 3. VVe oughte not to dout Bond testament promise mercy oth Gods promise is a gi●t VVhat vvas the cause vvhy Moses vvas preached and not Christ. The vse of the lawe VVhy the lavv vvas giuen Rom. 6 Gala. 3. Marke this vvell Gala. 2. Rom. 8. Gala. 3 The ende of the lavve Rom. 10. Iere. 11. Good men doe sinne Rom. 4. Gal. 3. Not● Iacob 2 Gala. 2. Roma 4. Rom. 4. The promise vvas made before the law cāe Nota. The promise came vvithout any cōdition Condition excluded The foundation of our hope Grace free vvithout condition Rom. 8. Marke and learne Tit. 3. Gal. 3. Ephe. 1. The holy spirite is our pledge Rom. 4. Experience Remedy in tentation Rom. 5. Christs kingdome is a kingdom of secu●●e Esa. 32. Esa. 9. Christ the prince of peace Icre 23. Esa. 42. The conclusion Obiection of the papistes An answere Cirillus Ancient doctors against the new Roman Papistes Augustine de predest 11. Ezechiell Augustine vpon the psal 88. VVe be weak in our selues in Gods promise strong Ambrose De vocat genti lib. 1. Cap. 3. Ambrose vp on Paule to the Rom. 3. 4. 9. 10. 1. Cor. 1. Gal. 1. 3. 5. Theophilact in Rom. 4 Rom. 4. ¶ Imprinted at Londō by Hugh Singleton dvvelling in Crede Lane at the signe of the gylden Tunn neere vnto Ludgate and are there to be sold. Cum priuilegio Anno. 1579.