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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10111	An exposition, and observations upon Saint Paul to the Galathians togither with incident quæstions debated, and motiues remoued, by Iohn Prime.	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1587 (1587)	STC 20369; ESTC S101192	171,068	326

an Arrian vnawares And therefore I maruel why Maister Harding should cal it an heretical conuenticle in a corner of the woorld And howebeit Arrianism were an heresie of heresies yet they indirectly confirmed it and being fraudulently circumuented when they sawe the error were verie sorit for their offence which they had committed in the simplicitie of their conceat of vnderstanding that it would be no great matter to relent in a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word and in fauour of a general peace If * Detect Pag. 250 b. force could excuse Liberius simplicitie in these deserueth softer words But both by Liberius his * Yet Platina reporteth that it was vpon respect of benefits and fauor forced subscription and by this generall councels misconstruing the capital heresie of Arrianisme was much confirmed And therefore we were best as Austine aduiseth to try our matters and causes at the touch-stone of the infallyble word of God and not at the erryng determynations of Popes or Byshops eyther sorted by them salues or seated together and that of late tymes not so much in a general as in a Gehennal councell of Pragmaticall Machiuels deuising howe they may cosen the woorld and exyle the true and ryght profession of perfit christianity wherefore they must bee withstood with courage and boldnes in the sight of all men as Paul resisted Peter From whom notwithstanding verilie as from one man and not as from a generall Councel of many the Pope maketh this his impossible and improbable claime of not erring but how erroniously we haue declared Hier. Ec. l. 6. c. 5 And Pigghius sayeth in the behalfe of the Pope that there is not a woord in the scriptures properly for general councels 15 Wee which are Iewes by nature not sinners of the Gentiles 16 Know that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law but by faith in Iesus Christ euen we haue beleeued in Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ not by the works of the Law because by the works of the Law no flesh shal be iustified Paul hauing iustified and made good his authority by sundry proofes 1. By his immediate calling from God 2. By his dutifull diligence therein 3. By his equall conference with the cheefest pillars 4. And lastly by his iust reprouing Peter though he went not with aswift foote from the Gospel yet because he went not with a right foote in it and toward it now draweth happily by this and such like occasion to the chiefest matter and argument handled in this Epistle sheweth abundantly that no ceremonious rite no nor yet which God more respecteth can the works of men iustifie man And this he declareth by his own example by the example of others like himselfe We saith he whome he describeth 1. by their cōdicion 2. by their iudgemēt in christ 1 By condicion in a worde to say they were Iewes by nature Iewes that is so born so descended Phil. c. 3.5 And elswhere Paul saith of himselfe that he was a Iew an Hebrue of the tribe of Beniamin a zealous fellow once and a follower of the Law So were the Iews so was he not sinners of the Gentiles sinners both by nature that is by birth and by their bringing vp and so thought of by common reputation and called by our sauiour very * Matt. 15.26 Dogs Where by the way I marke two things 1. the great goodnes of God towarde the Iewes 2 and their infinit ingratitude towardes him So that what euer they were by their default yet by their condicion such they were so were esteemed of God euen as his peculiar people but with * Psal 147.20 other nations it was not so 2 The Apostles and Disciples ouer and besides their condicion very good in former time yet now altered to a better state were also of a right iudgment in christ they knew we know they knewe that the truckels swathing clothes of old ceremonies were for them but while they were childrē whom God so tendered kept for a time to that end that those ceremonies might be meanes the rather to lead them to Christ and not that they should be iustified in them or in any thing else that they did or could doe I cannot say as our Sauiour said to Nicodemus * Iohn 3.10 Are you Masters in Israel and know not these thinges I know you know them yet giue mee leaue a little that all may learne that which most of you know Neither is there any knoweledge in al the woorld like to this Wherefore the repetition thereof cannot be vngrateful An enquiry how man maie be Iustified before the iudgement seat of God A time shal come and a doome must be and a day is a ppointed when all flesh shall appeare and hold vp hand as it were answere guilty or not guilty before the tribunal seat of God that seeth the heart and searcheth the raines Heere in this plea of Iustice is required thou bee neither accessory nor principall to the least breach of the Law if thou wilt liue and be iustified and be quit thereby * Luk. 10.18 Hoc fac viues Doe this and liue Doe not this thou canst not liue Or doe what thou wilt if thou dost not this if thou dost not the Law only and wholy that it wil be thy vndoing thou canst not liue leaning to the Law and meaning to be iustified thereby Iob. 9.28 At the very remembrance hereof holy Iob wil feare his workes as nothing more and Dauid in remorse of his owne either secret sinnes or open faults and in consideration of the frailty of al flesh trembleth and saieth * Psa 130.3 If thou ô Lord marke what is done amisse who shal abide it Who shal stand in iudgement and sustaine thy wrath Whereupon I reason and make this reckoning If Iob the iust man feared if Dauid a man according to Gods owne hart trembled at this triall alas what shal others doe If the strong soldier feare and flye what shall become of the weake the same the blind What shal become of the vtterly impotent If the wind blowe away the solid wheat where shal the chaffe rest O Lord who is he or where is his dwelling that we may goe to him and common with him and heare a man that can saie and faie in truth my hart is cleane And if the heart be not cleane how vncleane are the hands If the spring be corrupt how polluted are the riuers Who in the woorld who one can answere one for a thousand And hee that aunswereth not all aunswereth not one In manie things saith Saint * Iam. 3.2 Iames we offend al. And in including all hee excludeth none and the Scripture hath expresly * Rom. 3.9 Galath 3.22 concluded all vnder sinne If then all be concluded vnder sinne if al offend and that in many thinges