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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07828	Two treatises concerning regeneration, 1. Of repentance, 2. Of the diet of the soule shewing the one, how it ought to be sought after and may be attained vnto, the other, how it being gotten, is to be preserued and continued.	Morton, Thomas, of Berwick.	1597 (1597)	STC 18200.5; ESTC S4792	100,213	251

life consisting not in a bare and naked profession or in worde onely but also in deede and action when as euery grace of Gods spirite lurking inwardly in the heart sendeth foorth fruit in life according to the nature and kinde of it For as it commeth to passe in our bodies both in the whole and also in the seuerall partes and members of them that the more they are exercised the more they are both confirmed in strength and augmented in quantitie and contrarilie the more they cease from perfourming theyr naturall functions the lesse able they are to perfourme them yea by this meanes it commeth to passe that they are littl● and weake euen so it commeth to passe in the soule the graces whereof as they are more or lesse put in practise in the doing of of good workes and the performaunce of Christian duties so they do either encrease or decay For example a Christian is diligent in practising the duties of loue towardes his brethren hee imparteth his goods and whatsoeuer he hath vnto them for the relieuing of their necessitie and the supplie of their wants this Christian by this meanes increaseth loue in his owne soule by giuing hee becommeth more liberall by shewing mercie on the distressed more pittifull the more hee giueth to his brethren of his temporall goodes the more hee getteth to himselfe of spirituall loue the more wee suffer afflictions the more wee learne patience as it is sayde of Christ in the fifth to the Hebrewes and the eight verse That hee learned patience by his sufferinges and as it is sayde in the fifthe to the Romanes That afflictions worke patience the more the bodie is tamed and kept vnder by fasting such other means the more the soule is strengthned and so it commeth to passe in all other graces Fo● by practi●e they are kept and increased by the want of practise they are diminished and lost Whereby it appeareth how necessarie good workes are in regarde of the good estate of the soule and that as they take their being frō inward graces so they giue backe againe vnto them strength and increase Thus Christ Mat. 7. in the parable of the wise and foolish builder maketh the practise of Christianitie to bee the foundation of Religion in the heart of a man euen that without the which it cannot stand and continue but will decay by little and little and at length fall to the ground in lyke manner Paule 1. Tim. 6.17 maketh good workes the foundation of godlinesse although in truth and in proper speach it bee the fruit of it And Iam. 1.22 Be ye not onely hearers but also doers of the law otherwise yee deceyue your selues for that all your Religion will soone vanish away and come to nought For the facultyes both of bodie and soule are lost by idlenesse as they are strengthened by vse and labour and therfore wee are not to doubt but that good workes howsoeuer little esteemed by many and seldome to bee found in the lyues of any haue a necessarie and notable vse in this spirituall Diet. And surely whosoeuer considereth the liues and professions of many Christians yea euen of those of whom we are to thinke no otherwise but that they are truely endued with faith how fruitlesse and altogether barren of good works they are neede not maruaile why most men either decrease or stand at a stay in godlinesse but may easely see and acknowledge that the graces of God are lost for want of vse and the practise of Christian duties For now a daies ch●istians being too much ad●icted to the world and worldly pleasures content themselues with the performance of those Christian duties which belong to God as are prayer hearing the word receiuing the sacramēts leading an vnblameable life But as for the duties of loue and mercy which cannot be performed without cost the impairing of our worldly state and diminishing of our earthly pleasures these are not to bee found among men but cleane laide aside as things of no necessitie nor of any great vse in regard of saluation But the trueth is that the more they are neglected the more the graces from the which they should proceede are diminished For as good children are to their parents so good workes are to inward graces they cherish and maintaine them as they came from them and so are in respect of them both as causes and as effects And therefore that we may be stirred vp to the daily practise of good works wee will breefely consider in how many other respects they are good and needfull Sect. 15. THe first motiue and that which ought to be of greatest force to perswade vs to good works is the setting foorth of Gods glory for the which purpose we● were both created in the beginning and recreated in regeneration 1 Cor. 6.20 You are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your bodies and soules which are Gods For that God is greatly glorified by our good workes wee know both by the scripture and by cōmon reason Mat. 5.16 Let your light so shine before men that they seeing your works may glorifie your father who is in heauen And Ioh. 15.8 Herein is my father glorified that yee bring foorth much fruite and become my Disciples And 1. Pet. 2.12 Haue your conuersation honest among th● Gentiles that they beholding your good works may glorifie God in the day of their visitation Yea this is agreeable to reason it selfe for by this meanes it appeareth that the God whom we serue is not euill or vniust or any approuer of euill but of puritie iustice vprightnesse and goodnesse Again by obeying Gods commandements we shew and professe to the whole worlde that we acknowledge loue and feare him that we beleeue his worde promises and threatnings that we hope and trust in him whereas by neglecting those Christian duties which God requireth we shew indeed whatsoeuer we professe in word that wee make small reckoning of him or of his word Secondly we ought to abound in all good workes that so we may giue both to others and also to get to our own cōsciences many arguments and pledges of true regeneration the which cannot be knowen by any other meanes But shall wee go a little further and say that good workes are some cause of our saluatiō as being in part the matter of our iustification It is not good or lawful to speake or lie in the cause of God or to perswade good works by an vntruth yet thus much we may safely say that looke what is to be giuen to renewed holinesse in the matter of our iustification and saluation So much may and must bee granted to good workes which are a part thereof to wit the holinesse of the outward action For holinesse is exercised by good works especially by those which are most costly and troublesome vnto vs. For whosoeuer doth any thing contrary to his temporal commodity he doth it in al likelihood in some spirituall respect and for conscience