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B15342	A treatie of iustification. Founde emong the writinges of Cardinal Pole of blessed memorie, remaining in the custodie of M. Henrie Pyning, chamberlaine and general receiuer to the said cardinal, late deceased in Louaine. Item, certaine translations touching the said matter of iustification, the titles whereof, see in the page folowing	Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.; Copley, Thomas, Sir, 1534-1584, suggested trans.	1569 (1569)	STC 20088; ESTC S102468	222,799	366

the olde came to seke and saue that was loste and to repaire that was by him decayed And then as Adam loste Faith Continence Charitie Wisedome and vnderstanding Counsell and strength Prosp suprà hope and humilitie so must all that companie of vertues with ●ther by him lost be restored in such as Christ of his especial grace reneweth and iustifieth For as Christ saieth of one man whome he healed so is it true in al whom he restoreth that he healeth not one part but the whole man. Ioan. 7. Deut. 32. Esai 53. His workes are perfecte and neither lacketh he power to cure all our griefes being God neither wil to doe it who for that cause became man. And as a man diseased deadly in al the principal partes of his body is not called a sound and whole man vntil the partes be al cured So the soule corrupted and made olde in Adam decayed in grace and bereft of Iustice can not be called a new creature vntil the salues of these vertues by the hand of our Phisition be laid vnto it and shew their operation in it For it is not said as many of you as haue ben baptised in Christe haue beleeued in Christe thought vppon him or heard of him Galat. 3. but it is said Christum induistis ye haue put on Christ that is to saie haue taken into you the vertues of Christ as before ye had the qualities and conditions of Adam Ephes 4. For that saith S. Paule is the true receiuing of Christ and his Gospel to put of the olde man and olde conuersation and to be renewed in spirite and minde putting on the newe which was created after the Image of God in iustice and holines Libro 1. cap 9. de pec meri remiss Christe saith S. Augustine Dat sui spiritus occultissimam fidelibus gratiam Geueth vnto his faithful a most secrete grace of his spirite which priuily he powreth euen into babes As Adam by a secret infection of carnal concupiscence infected and consumed all that came of his race He saith in the same booke Legimus iustificari Ibid. c. 10. c. We read that such be iustified in Christ as beleue in him through a secrete geauing and inspiring of spiritual grace whereby who so euer cleaueth vnto our Lord is made one spirite with him What Iustification is By all this we vnderstande that our Iustification importeth not onely an assente of minde and faith to beleue the Gospell of Christe neither standeth onely in remission of sinnes past which God mercifully forgeueth but requireth also a renewing of spirit and minde a change of lyfe and conditions ●it 3. that as in Adam we were disobedient seruinge sundrie lustes and pleasures leading our lyfe in malice and enuie hatefull hating one an other So in Christe forsaking vngodlines and worldely desires Tit. 2. we must liue soberly iustly and godly putting on vs as the chosen of God holie and beloued Coloss 3. the bowels of compassion mercie and gentlenes humilitie modestie and patience This it is to leaue of Adam and put on Christe which is our renewing and Iustification The kingdome of heauen is like vnto leauen Matth. 13 whiche a woman taketh and hideth in three measures of flower vntil the whole be leauened But as the whol paste is not leauened as long as any parte thereof remaineth in his olde tallage and taste euen so is not man translated from death to lyfe nor made a newe creature 1. Ioan. 3. Galat. 6. 2. Cor. 5. vntill the whole estate of his soule be refourmed And surely vntil he be made a newe creature he is not iustified Sicut fuit vetus Adam c. As the olde Adam was powred through the whole man and possessed the whole Bernard serm 5. de Aduent So nowe lette Christe haue the whole who hath created and redeemed the whole and shall glorifie the whole who in the Sabboth daie cured all the whole man. The olde man was sometime in vs that transgressour of Gods commaundemente he was in vs as well in hande and woorke as in mouth and heart But nowe if there be any newe creature in him the olde is past and contrarie to lewdnes in hande there is innocente life in the mouth contrary to arrogante pride there is the woorde of confession in the heart contrary to fleshly lustes there is charitie contrary to worldly glorie there is humilitie By which wordes of Sainct Bernarde we see sette before vs a true description of our Iustification by comparing togeather the corrupte estate of man in Adam and the repairing of the same through the Mediator of God and menne 1. Timo. 2. the man Iesus Christe For this repairing of mans corrupt estate Christe is often times in the Scripture compared with Adam and called an other Adam and the last man. Rom 5. 1. Cor. 15. Not an other Adam like vnto the firste but an other contrary to the firste suche as came to restore that which was lost by the first Rom. 5. For as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners so by the obedience of one many shall be made iuste And as in Adam all men die so in Christe all shal be reliued And as by the synne of one all men came to damnation so by the Iustice of one all come to the Iustification of lyfe But as we were all condemned in Adam bicause we were naturally borne of him and thereby tooke his conditions so to be saued by Christe we must also be newe borne in him and put on vs his qualities And so do we see that our true Iustification is the recouering of that which we lost in Adam and what that was I haue shewed before The whiche Christe hath fully restored in such as truely take a new birth of him In the secōd boke the .xviij Chapter as I shall shewe toward the ende of this woorke where place shal serue to speake of the vertue and strength of our Iustification by Christe It is now to be shewed particularly how such as are borne in synne come to be iustified in Christ what the causes of our Iustification be by what meane God worketh it in vs and how we receiue it Of the causes of our Iustification The V. CHAPTER Ioan. 3. THE chiefe and principall cause of our Iustification is the great loue that God beareth vnto man who so tendred the worlde that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne Galat. 4. And to make vs his children sent the spirit of his Sonne into our hartes that is the holy Ghoste wherewith he hath sealed vs vp Ephes 1. and geuen it as a pledge of our inheritance And this hath he wrought Tit. 3. not for the workes of iustice that we did but according to his owne mercie The cause that deserued this owre Iustification at his handes was the death of his sonne Iesus Christe Rom. 5. Coloss 1. 1.

him in euery good acte that he doth fateantur gratiam Dei adiutorium etiam ad singulos actus dari Lette them confesse that Gods grace and helpe is geuen euen to euerie good acte and deede I doo more willingly recite the wordes of S. Austine in this pointe bicause the moste learned in all ages since haue folowed the same iudgement and manner of teaching not onely Presper Aquitanus in Italie Fulgentius in Africa and S. Bede in this our country of Englande The teaching of the Churche cōcerning the grace of God in al ages but also the moste learned schole menne As Hugo de sancto Victore S. Thomas Bonauentura and other Whereby the Reader maye vnderstande what hath benne the teaching of the Church in all ages concerning the grace of God. As this grace of God is it whereby man is moued to al thinges that he doth wel so it is also the cause that worketh in him true penance and thereby Iustification For shyning vppon the soule of a sinner and geuing lighte to that darcknes it moueth the same to prepare him selfe and to receyue the working of God in such manner as I haue shewed before By grace God inspireth faith into our hartes whiche no man can haue without his speciall gifte Ioan. 6. No man can comme vnto me saieth Christe Augustin Tract 27. in Ioan. vnlesse it be geuen him from my Father Of whiche woordes S. Augustine gathereth Ergo credere datur nobis Then euen faith is geuen vnto vs. When S. Paule preached in Macedonia God opened the harte of a woman called Lydia to geue heede vnto suche thinges as were said by him Act. 16. Many other heard S. Paule as wel as shee but God gaue her the grace to beleue his woordes To you it is geuen saieth S. Paule Philip. 1. for Christes sake not onely to beleue in him but also to suffer for him And as these and other sayinges prooue that faith is Gods gyfte so of the feare of God it is sayd by the Prophete Timorem meum dabo in corde eorum Ierem. cap. 32. vt non recedant à me I will geue my feare in their harte to th ende they shall not goe from me Dauid knowing that it is the gyfte of God prayeth for it saying Psal 118. Confige timore tuo carnes meas Pearce my flesh through with thy feare If hope were not the gifte of God it should not be saide Tu Domine singulariter inspe constituisti me Psal 4. Thou Lorde haste placed me in hope singulerly Neither woulde S. Paule haue said 2. Thes 21 God our father hath loued vs and geuen vs comforte euerlasting and good hope in grace 1. Ioan. 4 Rom. 5. Charitie commeth of God. powred abrode in our hartes through the holy Ghoste which is geuen vs. What shal I say of penance whiche God geueth vnto sinners to knowe the treuth 2. Tim. 2. and to amende and gette out of the snares of the Diuel of whom they be holden captiue at his pleasure It is God that geueth a newe harte and putteth a newe spirite in the middest of vs that taketh away the harde stonie harte and geueth a softe harte and tender as fleshe Ezec. 36. And what is that greate change of harte and minde from euil to good but repentance And to commende his grace and make it appeare as it is very grace in deede he saieth non propter vos ego faciam This wil I doo not for your sakes but for my holy names sake Here it may be said If our Iustification and what so euer apperteineth vnto it A doubte be the gyfte of God and procede of grace what parte hath man therein and what is there lefte for him to do To this question I shal answere in the next chaptre And hereby maye the Reader vnderstande that the grace of God is neither hydden nor obscurely preached by the Churche in the Doctrine of Iustification seing that both our Iustification it selfe and the meanes wherby we comme vnto it be truely ascribed specially vnto grace That man hath free wil which being holpen by grace worketh in our Iustification and what it worketh THE X. CHAPTER GOd worketh mannes saluation by his grace Of free will. but he worketh it in him by hī selfe that is to say with his own cōsent and by his free wil He worketh in al his creatures causing the earth to bring forth grasse the trees theyr leaues and fruite the beastes to doo according to their kinde But these effectes he worketh in them by his owne power without them that is without any consente of them And this is the difference betwene beastes that wante reason betwene the insensible creatures and man Man as S. Augustine saith Serm. 11. de verb. Aposto Iren. li. 4. cap. 72. In the 4. Chapter Nec vt pecora factus est was neither made as beastes were nor made lyke a tree nor made lyke a stone but was made after the Image of his Creator That is as I shewed before indued with reason and wil And therefore although there may be in man corrupte wil and deceyued reason yet whatsoeuer he doth he woorketh it thorough will and reason Iren. li. 4. cap. 71. Liberum eum fecit Deus ab initio saieth the aunciente Father Ireneus God made man free euen from the beginning hauing aswell his owne power as his owne soule to doo Goddes will and minde voluntarilie and willingly not compelled by God. For there is no force vsed of Goddes parte The wooman when she had offended framing an aunswere to excuse her selfe sayde not Serpens coegit me Chrysosto Hom. 17. in Genes the serpente forced me and I eatte but what sayde shee The serpente deceyued me there is no necessitie nor violence but will and arbitremēt August de grat lib. arbit cap. 2. And bicause no man should doubte hereof Reuelauit nobis per Scripturas suas sanctas God him selfe saith S. Augustine hath reueled vnto vs by his holy Scriptures that there is free will in man. And howe he hath reueled it I put you in remembrance not by mannes saying but by Goddes woorde Firste bycause the very commaundementes of God coulde doe man no good vnlesse he had free will by the whiche he might doo them and atteyne to the rewardes that be promysed And in the same place Further there be so many commaundementes whiche doo in a manner by name speake vnto our will Rom. 12. Psalm 31. Prouer. 1. Prouer. 3. as that Noli vinci à malo Will thou not be ouercomme of yll Be not made lyke a horse and a mule in whome there is no vnderstandinge Forsake not the counselles of thy mother Be not wise in thyne owne conceyte and after manye other Scriptures there alleged he concludeth thus Surely where it is saied will not this and will not that and where in the admonitions that God geueth the worke of

it is as S. Augustine and Prosper Aquitanus say Aug. tra in Ioan. 72. Prosper de promis part 2. cap. 30. l'e fide oper cap. 14. De gratia lib. arbit cap. 7. Epist 107. Enchi c. 8. Aug. de fide oper ca. 14 a greater worke then to make heauen and earth or to bring a deade man to life againe The argument is not mine but suche as S. Augustine vseth and repeteth almost as often as he speaketh of Iustification Saying that S. Paule by these wordes hath decided and determined the matter Non quamlibet fidem qua in Deum creditur c. It is not euery Faith whereby a man beleueth in God that the Apostle determineth to be healthfull and Euangelicall but that is the Faith saith he which worketh through charitie wherevppon he auoucheth that the Faith which some take to be sufficiente for their saluation auaileth nothing in so muche that he saith If I haue all Faith in suche sorte that I be able to moue hilles owt of theire places and haue no charitie I am nothing I woulde seeke a plainer decision if any thing coulde be more plainely spoken He saith S. Paule hath defined that there is but one Faithe auailable to witte the faithe that worketh through charitie He saith Ser. 15. de ver apost De fide oper c 14. all other Faithe what so euer it be auaileth nothing He saith and that verie often that Faith destitute of charitie maie be not onely in euill men but also in the diuell him selfe And calleth it fidem damoniorum the faith of diuelles And leste any man should saie that albeit good workes are done by charitie yet is all to be imputed to faithe whiche is the cause that worketh al Note vvel S. Paule saith on the other side that faith it selfe taketh her doing and working of charitie For as they know that vnderstand the Greke tongue ἐνεργουμένη is a participle of passiue significatiō and rightely shoulde he translate the wordes of S. Paule who shoulde saie That faith in Christ Iesu is auailable whiche is made actiue and doing thorough charitie For if we will speake of the nature of faithe as it is by it selfe it is vndoubtedly In the 2. Chapt. to vnderstande and assent vnto trewth as hath ben shewed before And bicause all knowledge be it of the Scriptures or the articles of our Crede maie be not onely in il men but in diuels also Faith is not able of her selfe to make a man iuste and righteouse vnlesse shee take vnto her hope and charitie and so be made actiue and doing by the one to hope in God by the other to loue God and man. whiche conclusion concerning charitie S. Augustine maketh In Praefa Psal 31. Ergo si nihil mihi prodest fides sine charitate c. If faithe then auaile me nothing without charitie and charitie wheresoeuer it be muste needes be working faithe it selfe by charitie hath her working Reason in man is the thing that maketh the difference betwene him and al brute beastes which be called brute bicause they lacke reason For which cause Reason as the principal power of the sowle is called of the Philosopher εντελέχεια the forme and perfection that maketh a man. In like manner charitie is the thing that maketh the difference betwene faith and faith betwene the faith of a good and an ill man betwene the faith of good Christians and vncleane diuelles As S. Augustine saith at large in a learned and godly Sermon able to satisfie any indifferente Reader not onely in this point but in the whole matter of Iustification Quid pertinet ad fidem Aug. ser 16. De ver Aposto Iaco. 2. Credere What belongeth to faith to beleue But lette there yet further be a difference made betwene this faith and the faith of vncleane Diuelles For the Apostle S. Iames saith the Diuelles also beleue and tremble if thou doest but onely beleue and liuest without hope and haste no charitie the Diuelles beleue also and tremble And a litle after first therefore make a difference betwene thy faith and the Diuelles faith Whereby wilte thou make the difference Mar. 1. Matt. 8. Luc. 4. The Diuelles said Christ was the sonne of God through feare S. Peter said it through loue Put hope then to faith And what hope is there without some good conscience put vnto hope it selfe charitie And somewhat after that Therefore make a difference of your faith then are ye of the predestinates of the called and of the iustified And in the same Sermon to conclude he saith Gala. 5. Therefore if there be in you faith that worketh through loue now belonge you to the predestinates to the called and to the iustified Let that faith therefore growe in you that is working by charitie for faith working by charitie can not be without hope Now if charitie be it that maketh the difference betwene faith and faith as S. Augustine proueth and if that which maketh the difference betwene any one creature and al other be the perfection life and sowle of that creature Then is charitie not an instrument to serue faith but the life and sowle of faith without the helpe and mouing whereof faith neither iustifieth neither worketh any good acte in the beleuer The Euangelist saith Ex principibus multi crediderunt in eum Ioan. 12. sed propter Pharisaeos non confite bantur vt è synagoga non eijcerentur dilexerunt enim gloriam hominum magis quàm gloriam Dei. Thei had faith vvithout right loue Many of the chiefe rulers beleued in him but they confessed him not bicause they would not be caste out of the Synagoge For they loued the glory of men more then the glory of God. The scripture saith they had faith and yet no man I thinke will say they were iustified who neither confessed Christe and also loued the worlde better then God. And what lacked there in them Ser. 16. de ver Apos to make them belonge to the predestinates to the called and iustified as S. Augustine saith but onely right loue to make that faith actiue and stronge to loue the glory of God more then the glory of men whiche vnlesse God gaue them afterwarde that faith nothing auailed them Only charitie rather then only faith Wherefore if a man were disposed to make a diuorce betwene faith hope and charitie which no good man euer did he might say by these and other reasons that charitie alone rather iustifieth and haue S. Augustine to say with him whose wordes these are Charitas inchoata De natura gra cap. 70. inchoata iustitia est c. An vnperfect charitie is an vnperfect iustice a well increased charitie is a well increased iustice a great charitie is great iustice perfect charitie is perfect iustice And in the same booke he saith of charitie Ca 38. ib. Qua vna verè iustus est quicunque iustus

euil out of him selfe yet that which is afore saied hath no doubt or ambiguitie where he forbiddeth vs not to accompanie those brethren which are noted of any of those vices afore named That is to saie be infamouse and notoriouse offenders in any of them Howe and after what manner sinners are to be rebuked and corrected THE III. CHAPTER BVT with what minde and with what charitie this merciful seueritie should be vsed he shewed not only in that place where he saith that his soule may be saued in the day of our Lorde Iesu Christ but also very euidently in an other place where he saieth 2. Thess 3. If any doe not harken vnto our worde note him by your Epistle and do not companie with him that he may be a shamed not yet esteeming him as an enemy but rebuking him as a brother And our Lorde him selfe being a singular example of patience whereby euen emong his twelue Apostles he suffred and endured a Diuel euen til his passion who also saieth Ioan. 6. suffer both to growe vp vnto the haruest least while you goe about to gather the cockle Math. 13. yee also roote vp the corne therewith and fore shewed that those nettes drawen in a similitude of the Churche vnto the shore that is vnto the ende of the worlde should haue in them both good and euill fisshes with suche like wherein either openly or by similitude he spake of the commixtion and entermeddlie of the good and the euil did not yet thinke therefore the Discipline of the Churche to be omitted but rather admonished it should be vsed where he said Math. 18. Take heade to your selues if thy brother sinne against thee goe and rebuke him secretly betwene him and thee if he heare thee thow haste gained thy brother but if he heare thee not then take with thee one or twoo that in the mouth of two or three witnesses all your talke may rest that if he do not heare them then tel the Church but if he wil neither harken vnto the Church then let him be vnto thee as an heathē and publican And immediatly he addeth a most greuous terror of that seueritie Math. 7. saying in the same place what so euer you lose in earth shal be losed also in heauen and what so euer you binde in earth shal be bound also in heauen He also forbiddeth that which is holy to be geuen to dogges Neither is the Apostle 1. Tim. 5. when he saith rebuke the offenders before all that the rest may be affraid cōtrary therfore vnto our lord where he saieth rebuke thy brother betwene him and thee For both is to be done euen as the diuersitie of their weakenes whome we meane not to destroy but to correct and amend doth require and one is to be cured in one sort and an other in an other sorte euen in the same sort there is a manner and order also of tolerating and bearing of euil persons in the Churche And there is againe a like consideration to be had in chastising and rebuking in not admitting or absolute excluding and remouing from the Communion and fellowship of the Church Of such as vnderstand the Scriptures amisse THE IIII. CHAPTER BVT men do erre in that they keepe not measure and when they haue begonne easely to be inclined to one syde they do not regard other testimonies of diuine auctoritie wherby they might be called backe from that mind and stay in that truth and moderation which is tempered of both and that not in this thing alone whereof now the question is but also in many other thinges For some beholding the testimonies of the diuine Scriptures witnessing vnto vs one God only to be serued and worshipped haue thought the same which is the sonne to be also the Father and the holy Ghoste Others againe being as it were sycke of the contrary disease while they attended those thinges whereby the Trinitie is declared and could not conceiue in their braine how there should be but one God sith the Father is not the Sonne nor the sonne the father nor yet the holy Ghost either the father or the sonne thought hereupon that diuersitie also of substances was to be affirmed and mainteyned Some beholding in the Scriptures the prayse of holy Virginitie haue cōdemned mariage Some againe folowing those testimonies wherby chast mariages are commended haue made wedlock equal in worthines with Virginitie Some when thei did reade It is good my brethern not to eate flesh Rom. 4. or to drincke wine haue thought some other lyke creatures of God and some meates in their fantasie to be vncleane Other some reading that euery creature of God is good and nothing to be cast awaye or refused whiche is receiued with thankesgeuing haue fallen into glottony and dronckennes not being able to escape one vice but that they fel on the contrary side to a greater Euen so in this matter which we haue now in hand some hauing an eye to the preceptes of seueritie and straightnes whereby we are admonished to rebuke the vnquiet not to geue that is holy vnto dogges to repute the despiser of the Churche as an heathen to pul away from the knot and vnitie of the body that mēber which causeth scanlder or offence do so trowble the peace of the Church that thei go about before the time to separat the cockle and so blinded by this error do rather separate them selues from the vnitie of Christe And suche is our cause againste the schisme of Donatus And this not with them that knewe Cecilianus who is charged not with true but with sclaunderous crimes nor with them that stande stubbornely and impudently in charging him styll but with them to whome we saye Put the case they were euil men for whose sakes your selues be not in the Churche yet ought you by bearing with them whom ye could not amend or put away from you haue remained notwithstanding your selues in the Churche But againe some perilously aduenturing on the other syde when they see the mingling of good and euil in the Churche shewed or foretolde and haue learned the preceptes of patience which doo make vs so strong that although there seeme to be cockle in the Churche yet should not our faith or charitie thereby be hindred or at lest for that cockle whiche we see in the Churche we should not therefore our selues depart from the Churche do thinke that both the Church and Discipline is to be newe instituted geeuing vnto the Prelates and rulers thereof a certayne moste peruers securitie as though to them appertayned only to tell vs whereof we should beware or what we should doo but not to care what in deede any man doth That for euil mens sake we should not depart from the Churche and after what manner the euil should be either corrected or suffered in the Churche THE V. CHAPTER BVT we thinke it to apperteine vnto sound doctrine by bothe these testimonies and allegations of

woorthy of mee Also in Deuteronomy the like thinges are written to the strengthning of our faith and loue toward God Deute 33. in these woordes They which saie vnto their Father or Mother I knowe thee not and haue not knowen their children these haue obserued thy commaundementes and haue kept thy testament For if wee loue God with all our hart wee ought not to preferre either parentes or children before God. Which thing S. Iohn also sheweth in his Epistle saying that Charitie and the looue of God is not in them whome we see to haue no regarde to doo good vnto the poore Hee that hath saith he worldly substance 1. Iohn 3. and hath seene his brother want and hath shut vp his compassion from him how doth the loue of God dwel in him For if God geue vsurie for the almes that is geuen to the poore and that whiche is geuen to the least of them is geuen to Christe there is no cause why a man shoulde preferre earthly thinges before heauenly or esteeme man more then God. So did that widowe 3. Reg. 17 mentioned in the thirde booke of the Kinges when after all her goodes consumed A notable example in the greate drought and famine she had made her of a litell branne and oyle that was yet lefte a lofe baked vnder the ashes to eate with her children and so to dye Helias came sodaynlie vnto her and desired some parte thereof to be first geuen him to eate and then shee and her children to feede on the reste For she neuer sticked to fulfill his requeste neither did shee though she were the naturall mother any iote preferre her children in that great hunger and penury before Helias But that she did in the sight of God which might please God. Readily and willingly was that offered whiche was required Neither of aboundance a porcion but of a litell the whole was geuen And an other man was first fedde before her owne hungrie and steruing children Neither did shee in that penury and famine thinke firste of her meate and then of the woorkes of mercy but contrary To the ende that while in a healthfull woorke the carnall life was contemned the sowle might spiritually be reserued and saued Helias vvas a figure of Christ Helias therefore bearing the figure of Christ and shewing that he rendreth to eche one for mercy bestowed a retorne of the like answered and said This saith our Lorde thy pot of meale shall not faile thee neither shall the oile in the cruse be diminisshed vntill the daie wherein our Lorde wil sende raine vppon the earthe And according to the truthe of Goddes promise the thinges whiche the widowe gaue were encreased and multiplied vnto her And for her merites and good woorkes of mercy receiuing increase and abondance her vessels of meale and oile were filled ful Neither did the mother in this case take from her children that whiche she gaue to Helias but much more profited her children by doing suche woorke of pitie and mercy Yet did not she know Christ neither had she heard his Commaundementes She was not redemed by his Crosse and passion that she might for the shedding of his bloud render him meate and drinke Whereby it maie appeare how much he whiche is of Christes Churche sinneth who preferring him selfe and his children before Christe doth keepe his riches and doth not communicate his plentiful patrimony with the pouertie of the needy A commō and daily Obiectiō soluted But thou wilt saie thou hast a great many children in thy house and the number of thy children perhaps doth hold thee backe from plentifull yelding of good workes Verely I saie that for this selfe same cause thou shouldest woorke the more bountifully Note vvel The moe children thou art the father of the more hast thou to entreat for at Gods hande The sinnes of many are to be redeemed the consciences of many to be praied for the sowles of many to be raunsomed As in this secular life the moe children thou hast to feede and to susteyne the greater is thy coste and charge so in the spirituall and heauenlie life the more stoare of children thou hast the more plentifull ought to be thy expence in good woorkes An Example So dyd Iob offer many Sacrifices for his children and according to the number of the children in his howse was the number of offeringes whiche he sacrificed vnto God. And bicause there coulde not want synne that dayly offendeth the sight of God dayly Sacrifices did not want whereby synnes might be wiped awaye This doth the Diuine Scripture prooue saying Iob a true and a iuste man had seuen sonnes Iob. 1. and three daughters and he cleansed them offering for them Sacrifices vnto God according to the number of them and for their sinnes one caulfe If therefore thou doo truely looue thy children if thou wilt yeelde vnto them abundant and fatherly sweetnesse of looue and charitie thou oughtest the more to woorke to the entent that with thy iuste and good woorke thou mayst commende thy children vnto God. Thinke not hym to be thy chyldrens chiefe Father who is but weake and feeble and to continue but for a tyme. Winne rather vnto them the fauour of that Father who is the firme sure and euerlasting Father of spirituall children Assigne vnto hym thy gooddes whiche thou keepest for thine heyres Let hym be the Tutor of thy chyldren Let hym be theyr Craynsire Let hym by his Diuine Maiestie be theyr Protector against all the iniuries of this woorlde We shold cōmit our patrimonye to God. The patrimonie that is committed to God neyther dothe the common wealth take awaye nor confiscation breake into nor false accusation or quarrell picte in lawe ouerthrowe In saftie is the inheritance layd vp whereof God is made the keeper This it is to prouide for our deere children in time to comme This it is by fatherly pietie to prouide for our heyres that shall be as the holy Scripture truelye testifieth saying Psal 36. I haue benne yonger and nowe anie wexen olde Yet did I neuer see the iust forsaken or his seed wanting bread All day is he mercifull and lendeth and his seed shal be blessed And againe He whose conuersation is without blame Prou. 20. and in righteousnes leaueth his sonnes blessed behinde him Hovv Fathers ought to prouide for their childrne Therefore thou art a deceiuer and a traiterous Father except thou doo faithfully prouide for thy children except with true and religious pietie thou doo in this sorte forsee to the preseruation of them Thou which laborest by earthly inheritance rather to betake thy children to the diuell then by treasure layed vp in heauen to commend then vnto Christe doost twise offende and committest a double fault Both in that thou doost not procure vnto thy children the healpe of God the Father and also bicause thou teachest them more to looue their patrimonie then Christe Be rather