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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03586	A learned discourse of iustification, workes, and how the foundation of faith is overthrowne. By Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13708; ESTC S121045	45,591	98

thought the Gospell onelie should be preached to the Jewes What more opposite to propheticall doctrine concerning the comming of Christ then the one Concerning the Catholicke Church then the other Yet they which had their fansies even when they had them were not the worst men in the world The heresie of Free-will was a milstone about the Pelagians necke shall wee there giue sentence of death inevitable against all those Fathers in the Greeke Church which being misperswaded died in the errour of free-will Of these Galatians therefore which first were iustified and then deceived as I can see no cause why as many as died before admonition might not by mercie be received even in error so I make no doubt but as manie as lived till they were admonished found the mercie of God effectuall in converting them from their error least any one that is Christs should perish Of this I take it there is no coÌ„troversie only against the salvation of them which died though before admonition yet in error it is obiected that their opinion was a very plaine direct deniall of the foundation If Paul Barnabas had bin perswaded they would happly haue vsed the tearmes otherwise speaking of the Masters theÌ„ selues who did first set that error abroach certaine of the sects of the Pharisees which beleeved What difference was there betweene these Pharisees and other Pharisees from whom by a special description they are distinguished but this These which came to Antioch teaching the necessity of circuncision were Christians the other enimies of Christianitie Why then shoulde these be tearmed so distinctly beleevers if they did directlie denie the foundation of our beliefe besides which there was no other thing that made the rest to be no beleevers We neede go no father then S. Paules very reasoning against them for proofe of this matter seeing you know God or rather are knowne of God how turne you againe to impotent rudiments The law ingendreth servants hir children are in bondage they which are gotten by the Gospell are free Brethren we are not children of the servant but of the free woman and will yee not be vnder the law That they thought it vnto salvation necessarie for the Church of Christ to obserue daies and monthes and times and yeares to keepe the ceremonies and sacraments of the law this was their errour Yet hee which condemneth their error coÌ„fesseth that notwithstanding they knew God and were knowne of him hee taketh not the honour from them to be tearmed sonnes begotten of the immortall seed of the Gospell Let the heaviest wordes which he vseth be waighed consider the drift of those dreadfull conclusions If yee be circumcised Christ shal profit you nothing AS many as are iustified by the law are fallen from grace It had beene to no purpose in the world so to vrge them had not the Apostle beene perswaded that at the hearing of such sequels No benefit by Christ A defection from grace their heartes would tremble and quake within them and why because that they knew that in Christ and in grace their salvation lay which is a plaine direct acknowledgement of the foundation Least I should herein seeme to holde that which no one learned or godly hath done lette these words be considered which import as much as I affirm Surely those brethren which in S. Pauls time thought that God did lay a necessitie vpon them to make choise of daies and meats spake as they beleeved and could not but in wordes condemne the libertie which they supposed to be brought in against the authoritie of divine Scripture Otherwise it had beene needlesse for S. Paul to admonish them not to condemne such as eate without scrupulosity whatsoever was set before them This error if you weigh what it is of it selfe did at once overthrow all Scriptures whereby we are taught salvation by faith in Christ all that ever the Prophets did foretell all that ever the Apostles did preach of Christ it drewe with it the deniall of Christ vtterly in so much that S Paul complaineth that his labour was lost vpon the Galatians vnto whom this error was obtruded affirming that Christ if so bee they were circumcised should not profit them any thing at all Yet so far was S. Paul from striking their names out of Christs book that he commandeth others to entertaine them to accept them with singular humanity to vse them like brethren he knewe mans imbecilitie he had a feeling of our blindnesse which are mortall men how great it is and being sure that they are the sonnes of God who soever be indued with his feare would haue them couÌ„ted enimies of that wherevnto they could not as yet frame themselues to be friends but did ever vpon a very religious affection to the truth willingly reiect the truth They acknowledged Christ to be their only and perfect Saviour but saw not how repugnant their believing the necessitie of Mosaicall ceremonies was to their faith in Iesus Christ. Herevnto a reply is made that if they had not directly denied the foundatioÌ„ they might haue beene saved but saved they could not bee therefore their opinion was not onely by consequent but directly a deniall of the foundation When the question was about the possibilitie of their salvation their denying of the foundation was brought to proue that they could not be saved now that the question is about their deniall of the foundation the impossibilitie of their salvation is alleaged to proue they denied the foundation Is there nothing which excludeth men froÌ„ salvation but only the foundation of faith denied I should haue thought that besides this many other things are death vnto as many as be given to vnderstaÌ„d that to cleaue therevnto was to fall from Christ did notwithstanding cleaue vnto it But of this enough Wherefore I come to the last question whether that the doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning the necessitie of workes vnto salvation be a direct deniall of our faith 27 I seeke not to obtrude vnto you any private opinion of mine owne the best learned in our profession are of this iudgement that all the corruptions of the Church of Rome doe not proue her to deny the foundation directly if they did they should grant her simply to be no Christian Church But I suppose saith one that in the Papacie some Church remaineth a Church crased or if you will broken quite in peeces forlorne mishapen yet some Church his reason is this Antichrist must sit in the Temple of God Least any man should thinke such sentences as these to be true only in regard of theÌ„ whome that Church is supposed to haue kept by the speciall providence of God as it were in the secret corners of his bosome free from infection and as souÌ„d in the faith as we trust by his mercy we our selues are I permit it to your wise considerations whether it bee more likely that as frenzie though it selfe take

light I will doe mine indevour to set downe somewhat more plainely first the foundation of faith what it is secondly what it is directly to denie the foundation thirdly whether they whom God hath chosen to be heires of life may fall so farre as directlie to denie it fourthly whether the Galatians did so by admitting the errour about circumcision and the law last of all whether the Church of Rome for this one opinion of works may be thought to do the like and therevpon to be no more a Christian church then are the assemblies of Turkes and Jewes 23 This word foundation being figuratiuely vsed hath alwaies reference to somwhat which resembleth a materiall building as both that doctrine of lawes and the community of Christians do By the Masters of civill policie nothing is so much inculcated as that commoÌ„weales are founded vpon lawes for that a multitude cannot bee compacted into one body otherwise then by a common acception of lawes whereby they are to bee kept in order The ground of all civill lawes is this No man ought to be hurt or iniured by an other Take away the perswasion and ye take away all the lawes take away lawes what shall become of commonweales So it is in our spirituall christian community I do not meane that body mysticall whereof Christ is only the head that building vndiscernable by mortall eies wherein Christ is the chiefe corner stone but I speake of the visible church the foundation whereof is the doctrine which the Prophets Apostles profest The mark whervnto their doctrin tendeth is pointed at in these words of Peter vnto Christ Thou hast the words of eternall life in these words of Paule to Timothee The holy Scriptures are able to make thee wise vnto salvation It is the demand of nature her selfe what shal we do to haue eternal life The desire of immortalitie and of the knowledge of that whereby it may be obtained is so natural vnto all men that even they who are not perswaded that they shall do notwithstanding wish that they might know away how to see no end of life And because natural meanes are not able still to resist the force of death there is no people in the earth so savage which hath not devised some supernaturall helpe or other to fly for aide succour in extremities against the enemies of their lawes A longing therefore to be saved without vnderstaÌ„ding the true waie how hath beene the cause of al the superstitions in the world O that the miserable state of others which wander in darknes and wote not whither they goe could giue vs vnderstanding harts worthelie to esteeme the riches of the mercy of God towards vs before whose eies the doores of the kingdome of heaven are set wide open should we offer violence vnto it it offereth violence vnto vs and we gather strength to withstand it But I am besides my purpose when I fall to bewaile the cold affection which we beare towards that whereby we should be saved my purpose being only to set downe what the ground of salvation is The doctrine of the gospell proposeth salvation as the end and doth it not teach the way of attaining therevnto Yet the damosell possest with a spirit of divinatioÌ„ spake the truth These men are the servants of the most high God which shew vnto vs the way of salvation A new and living way which Christ hath prepared for vs through the vaile that is his flesh salvation purchased by the death of Christ. By this foundation the children of God before the written law were distinguished from the sonnes of men the reverend Patriarks both possest it living and spake expresly of it at the houre of their death It comforted Iob in the midst of griefe it was afterwards the anker hold of all the righteous in Israell from the writing of the law to the time of grace Every Prophet maketh mention of it It was famously spoken of about the time when the comming of Christ to accomplish the promises which were made long before it drewe neere that the sound thereof was heard even amongst the Gentils When he was come as many as were his acknowledged that he was their salvation he that long expected hope of Israel he that seed in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed So that now he is a name of ruine a name of death and condemnation vnto such as dreame of a new Messias to as many as looke for salvation by any other then by him For amongst men there is given no other name vnder heaven whereby we must be saved Thus much S. Marke doth intimate by that which hee doth put in the front of his booke making his entrance with these words The beginning of the Gospell of Iesus Christ the son of God His doctrine he tearmeth the Gospell because it teacheth salvation the Gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God because it teacheth salvation by him This is then the foundation wherevpon the frame of the Gospell is erected that very Iesus whome the Virgin conceived of the holy Ghost whom Simeon imbraced in his arms whom Pilat condemned whom the Iewes crucified whom the Apostles preached he is Christ the Lord the only Saviour of the world Other foundation can no man lay Thus I haue briefly opened that principle in Christianity which we call the foundatioÌ„ of our faith It followeth now that I declare vnto you what is directly to overthrow it This wil be better opened if we vnderstand what it is to hold the foundation of faith 24 There are which defend that many of the Gentils who never heard the name of Christ held the foundation of Christianitie why they acknowledged many of them the providence of God his infinit wisdome strength power his goodnesse and his mercy towards the children of men that God hath iudgemeÌ„t in store for the wicked but for the righteous which ferue him rewardes c. In this which they confessed that lieth covered which we beleeue in the rudiments of their knowledge concerning God the foundation of our faith concerning Christ lieth secretly wrapt vp and is vertually contained therefore they held the fouÌ„dation of faith though they never had it Might wee not with as good a colour of reason defend that every ploughman hath al the sciences wherein Philosophers haue exceld For no man is ignorant of their first principles which doe vertually containe whatsoever by naturall meanes is or can be knowne Yea might wee not with as great reason affirme that a man may put three mighty oakes wheresoever three akornes may be put For vertually an akorne is an oake To avoid such paradoxes we teach plainely that to hold the foundation is in expresse tearmes to acknowledge it 25 Now because the foundation is an affirmatiue proposition they all overthrowe it who deny it they directly overthrow it who deny it directly and they overthrow it

such questions as these if voluntarily they should bee to farre waded in might seeme worthie of that rebuke which our Saviour thought needfull in a case not vnlike What is this vnto thee when I was forced much beside mine expectation to render a reason of my speech I could not but yeeld at the call of others and proceed so farre as dutie bound mee for the fuller satisfying of mindes Wherein I haue walked as with reverence so with feare with reverence in regard of our Fathers which lived in former times not without feare coÌ„sidering them that are aliue 38 I am not ignorant how readie men are to feed and sooth vp themselues in evill Shall I will the man say that loveth the present world more then hee loveth Christ shall I incurre the high displeasure of the mightiest vpon earth shall I hazard my goods endanger my estate put my selfe in ieopardie rather then yeeld to that which so many of my fathers embraced and yet found favour in the sight of God Curse Meroz saith the Lord curse her inhabitants because they helped not the Lord they help'd him not against the mightie If I should not only not helpe the Lord against the mightie but helpe to strengthen them that are mightie against the Lord worthily might I fall vnder the burden of that curse worthie I were to beare my owne iudgement But if the doctrine which I teach be a flower gathered in the garden of the Lord a part of the saving truth of the Gospell from whence notwithstanding poisoned creatures doe sucke venime I can but wish it were otherwise and content my selfe with the lotte that hath befallen mee the rather because it hath not befallen me alone Saint Paule teached a truth and a comfortable truth when he taught that the greater our misery is in respect of our iniquities the readier is the mercy of God for our release If wee seeke vnto him the more we haue sinned the more praise and glorie and honor vnto him that pardoneth our sinne But marke what lewd collections were made herevpon by some Whie then am I condemned for a sinner and the Apostle as we are blamed and as some affirme that we say Whie doe we not evill that good may come of it hee was accused to teach that which ill disposed men did gather by his teaching though it were cleane not only besides but against his meaning The Apostle addeth Their condemnation which thus doe is iust I am not hastie to apply sentences of condemnation I wish from mine heart their conversion whosoever are thus perversely affected For I must needs say their case is fearefull their estate dangerous which harden themselues presuming on the mercy of God towardes others It is true that God is mercifull but lette vs beware of presumptuous sinnes God delivered Ionah from the bottome of the sea will you therefore cast your selues headlong from the toppes of rockes and say in your hearts God shall deliver vs Hee pittieth the blind that would gladly see but will hee pittie them that may see and hardeneth himselfe in blindnesse No. Christ hath spoken too much vnto you to claime the priviledge of your fathers 39 As for vs that haue handled this cause concerning the condition of our Fathers whether it bee this thing or any other which wee bring vnto you the counsell is good which the wise man giveth Stand thou fast in thy sure vnderstanding in the way and knowledge of the Lord and haue but one manner of word and follow the word of peace and righteousnesse As a loose tooth is a griefe to him that eateth so doth a wavering and vnstable word in speech that tendeth to instruction offend Shall a wise man speake words of the winde saith Eliphas light vnconstant vnstable words Surely the wisest may speake words of the winde such is the vntoward constitution of our nature that wee doe neither so perfectly vnderstand the way and knowledge of the Lord nor so stedfastly imbrace it when it is vnderstood nor so graciously vtter it when it is imbraced nor so peaceably maintaine it when it is vttered but that the best of vs are overtaken sometime through blindnesse sometime through hastinesse sometime through impatience somtime through other passions of the mind wherevnto God doth know we are too subiect Wee must therefore be contented both to pardon others and to craue that others must pardon vs for such things Let no man that speaketh as a man thinke himselfe whiles he liveth alwaies freed from scapes and oversights in his speech The things themselues which I haue spoken vnto you are sound howsoever they haue seemed otherwise vnto some at whose hands I haue in that respect receiued iniurie I willingly forget it although indeed considering the benefitte which I haue reaped by this necessarie speech of truth I rather incline to that of the Apostle They haue not iniured me at all I haue cause to wish them as many blessings in the kingdome of heaven as they haue forced mee to vtter words and syllables in this cause wherein I could not be more sparing of speech then I haue beene It becommeth no man saith St. Ierome to bee patient in the crime of heresie PatieÌ„t as I take it we should be alwaies though the crime of heresie were intended but silent in a thing of so great consequence I could not beloued I durst not be especially the loue that I beare to the truth of Christ Iesus being hereby somwhat called in question Whereof I beseech them in the meeknesse of Christ that haue been the first originall cause to consider that a watchman may crie an enimie when indeed a friend commeth In which cause as I deeme such a watchman more worthie to be loved for this cause then misliked for his errour so I haue iudged it my own part in this as much as in me lieth to take away all suspicion of any vnfriendly intent or meaning against the truth from which God doth knowe my heart is free 40 Now to you beloued which haue heard these things I will vse no other words of admonition then those which are offered me by St Iames My brethren haue not the faith of our glorious Lord Iesus in respect of persons Yee are not now to learne that as of it selfe it is not hurtfull so neither should it be to any scandalous and offensiue in doubtfull cases to heare the different iudgements of men Bee it that Cephas hath one interpretation and Apollos hath another that Paule is of this mind that Barnabas of that if this offend you the fault is yours Carry peaceable minds and you may haue comfort by this varietie Now the God of peace giue you peaceable minds and turne it to your everlasting comfort FINIS a Lib. 4. Ann b Lib. 1. Hist. c In vita Agricolae d Lib. a. 1 2 1. Cor. 5. 12. 13. 2. Cor. 6 v 7. a Or whosoever it be that was the author of those Homilies that go

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