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A16690	Detection of Ed. Glouers hereticall confection lately contriued and proffered to the Church of England, vnder the name of A present preseruatiue. VVherein with the laying open of his impudent slander against our whole ministrie, the reader shal find a new built nest of old hatcht heresies discouered, (and by the grace of God) ouerthrowne: togither with an admonistion to the followers of Glouer and Browne. By Steph. Bredwell, student in phisicke. Seene and allowed.	Bredwell, Stephen.	1586 (1586)	STC 3598; ESTC S114175	80,218	141

in y ● same verse if your eyes had not dazled you might haue seene that the Apostle after his thankes giuing for his deliuerance from the danger of that same bodie of death against which he had exclamed confesseth that euen then as touching his minde he serued the law of God but in his flesh the law of sinne Which place is as cleare as the sun-shine not onelie to shew the falshood of your first reason against our interpretation of the 7. to the Rom. but also to proue so your great shame the trueth of the generall assertion aforesaide namelie that The regenerate are not free frō sinne Yet these are not all the foiles you receiue by it for it cutteth likewise the throte of your second reason before it haue time to draw one breath of life for where you say Therefore after this he thanketh God in Christ that he was deliuered from that bodie of sinne which made him to doe that euil he would not and to leaue vndone the good he would You would make vs belieue that Paul in this place was a changed man so as he could no more sin vnwillinglie as before which purpose of yours now you sée is preuented and therefore your reason spoilde yet ere I passe I must admonish the Reader to consider of what spirite this sauoureth that in alledging the 25. verse which soundeth thus I thanke my God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Now therefore euen I in my minde doe serue the law of God but in my flesh the law of Sinne. He bringeth it out thus He thanketh God in Christ and so cutteth off all the rest but chopping into the roome thereof these wordes that he was deliuered from that bodie of sin which made him to do that euil he would not and to leaue vndone the good he would A sentence I confesse of like length but neither of like nature nor trueth If anie say for E. G. For now I vnderstand he is dead that he added that part not as to haue it taken for the wordes of scripture but the sense of the place I could easely admit that answere were it not for the sakes of some of his sect who as I vnderstand can not read at all and yet are very stiffe in his opinions I know not how they haue béene this way abused Besides it is not comuenient in citing of scripture to sow anie peeces of our owne into it without putting some partition wall betwixt or bringing in the seruant in some differing weed from his maister that the one be not taken for the other of the commers in Moreouer if hee bring those wordes for the meaning of the place yet hee is too impudent and blasphemous presuming to speake directlie against the spirite of God which it is cleare that hee doth when the text saith Paule had yet such an enimie of flesh about him as serued the law of sinne and this man saith Paule was now deliuered from that bodie of sinne as made him do the euil he would not Two thinges in their substance flat contrarie though chaunge of wordes at first would seeme to couer it But lest we should maruaile at this dealing he makes a custome of the matter for the next place he bringeth out of the beginning of the 8. chap. where hee would faine make S. Paule speake according to his humor for whereas the text is There is now therefore no condemnation to those that are in Christ Iesus which walke not according to the flesh but according to the spirite You must vnderstand it as it is thus paraphrasticallie deliuered by him To them which are in Christ Iesus there is no condemnation or no such bodie of death which is the cause of our condemnation for they walke not after the flesh as he was forced to doe by the law of sinne when as he did the euil he would not and left vndone the good hee would but they walke after the spirite and so doe the good they would His bolonesse here as before whether it sauour of Babilon or no I leaue it to the christian Reader to iudge But three thinges must be obserued and examined wherein beyond al reason warrant he abuseth this place of the Apostle First for the worde condemnation by that he wil haue vnderstoode the bodie of death therein without anie necessitie transforming the effect into the cause as though he would cōpel the holie ghost to speake for his purpose but without all probabilitie both forasmuch as that word is no where vsed in that sense as also this verse repeating the argument of the 5. chap. 1. verse of the same Epistle concerning iustification by faith onely proued by an argument drawne from the effectes toucheth nothing at all that speciall obiection which hee answereth in the latter ende of the 7. chapter whereby he was occasioned so to handle that conflict of the flesh and the spirite So that then we sée if E. G. would haue taken this worde condemnation in his naturall sense and not malitiously peruerted it as one that would wilfullie runne into the pit he should haue béene so farre off finding his bodie of death in it as that much rather the sunne shine of comfort would appeared vnto him to haue banished the night of dark discomfort that came vpon him in his sicknesse when as this place rather would haue told him there is no condemnation towardes thee if thou be Christes agréeably whereto the spirite saith in the 33. and 34. verses afterwarde who shall laye anie faultes against the elect of God It is God that iustifieth who is hee that shall condemne It is Christ that is dead yea rather that is risen againe who sitteth also at the right hand of God and entreateth for vs. The second thing I obserue is concerning these wordes They walke not after the flesh which walking he taketh to be al one with that S. Paule calleth the law of sinne in his members whereas he might aswell haue compared a beast vnto a man for by that other law in his members it is manifest he meant the power of sinne which gate oportunities manie times against him although in his inner man to his might he made resistance as all open eyes may sée both by the opposing of the law in the members to the inner man as also by the whole suite and circumstances of the text Contrariewise in the other place Paule speaketh of the minde giuing obedience to the law of the members which he calleth To walke according to the flesh as when there is no resistance made to sinne So that her● the holie Ghost speaketh of a whole man willingly going after sin there of a man falling but sometimes through infirmitie also there he sheweth in what respect the law hath a worke of death in our mortal bodies according to the obiection in the 13. verse but here he teacheth a note to know our selues truly iustified by euen our sanctification according to the matters handled from

of administration which is in the efficacie of the spirite working inwardlie by the outwarde meanes of diuine pollicie as preaching of the worde ministration of Sacraments c. also this same inwarde operation is twofold as tending to the fulfilling of the decrée of election or reprobation both which againe are diuerse in infants and elder persons In infants I vnderstand the operation after this sorte when as outwardlie that is as pertaining to the iudgement of the Church they are holie through the grace of the couenant whereinto they are entred And of these so manie as are elect of God are after a secret and vnspeakable maner graffed into Christ by the spirite of God The Reprobate of them are for the guiltinesse of their natiue ● originall sinne cast off for euer being left vnto them selues Now in the elder sorte the inward operation is their vocation or calling Uocation is that whereby men are gathered vnto the Church This is accompanied wi●● distribution of gifts and the kéeping and encreasing of them But this vocation we find to be twofold one common to euerie sorte wherein both reprobate and elect are brought as if they were a brotherhood to one outward societie of a church But the other is the proper calling of the elect wherby they are brought vnto election Election is a seperation of them from the world to be citizens together in Christ and of the houshold of God Their proper gifts are faith vnfained and the fruites of faith Faith vnfained is a faith whose facultie is altogether a supernaturall efficacie put into the heart to the aprehending of Christ the promise extant in him The proper action hereof or as Paule speaketh 1. Thes 1. 3. the worke of it is to take hold of Christ and to receiue him applyed vnto vs whereby he not onely dwelleh in our heartes as it is in Ephes 3. 17. but is also put vpon vs as a worthie clothing like as the Apostle speaketh Gal. 2. 27. The fruites of this faith are those which Christ worketh in his elect dwelling in them by faith The chiefe heades of which are reconciliation and sanctification and so the fruites that respect or follow either of them Fruites respecting reconciliation are the fruites of the spirite which spring from the certaine applying of the same reconciliation And those are either respecting iustification or adoption Those of iustification are such as like verie effects of a true cause so do they declare the same iustification for certaine to be applyed vnto vs such as are they which of the Apostle are set downe in their order namely an entrance into the fauor wherein we stand The loue of God towarde vs poured out in our heartes that is by the excellent working of the holie Ghost plētifully imprinted in the sense of our soule The peace of our conscience before God spirituall gladnesse and glorying in these benefits Now the fruites respecting adoption are those which do confirme the same yet more certainely vnto vs. To wit the spirite of Adoption hope The spirite of adoption which is here a figuratiue speach the cause being put for the effect is that working of the spirite of Christ which witnesseth vnto our spirite that we are the sonnes of God Wherehence ariseth that boldnesse that we call God our father And haue the certaintie of the inheritance so as with a pledge or earnest pennie confirmed vnto vs here till we be brought to the full libertie to the prayse of his glorie Hope which is the other fruite respecting adoption is whereby from the certaintie of faith we expect with patience all those thinges which are to be fulfilled This patience or waiting is the waiting of the setled or quieted soule for the full redemption from all euils which redemption also I haue largelier spoken of heretofore In this order are the fruits respecting reconciliation Those that respect our sanctification is the gift of right repentance infused in our heartes by faith where the right season of the practising faculties of holie life speciallie towardes God and men is called charitie by a figuratiue phrase ascribing the whole vnto a part And the action of this loue is a laboring in euery good worke Which I belieue euery Christian man so far forth as his life is lent vnto him is bound vnto not that good workes are anie causes of righteousnes for the Apostle flatly calleth them the fruites of righteousnesse nor yet that wee can deserue any thing by them as the filthie Papist speaketh but for others most excellent and necessarie vses which the holy Ghost setteth down vnto vs in sundry places and that both in regard of God and of man Of God in shewing forth his vertuous power thereby to the prayse and glorie of his holy name In regard of man according to the saying of James 2. 18. Shew mee thy faith by thy workes Which this way haue vse both in respect of our selues and of others For to our selues they bring a double benefit for the present life in getting a good testimonie and approbation of others that feare y ● Lord and in assuring more and more our own consciences of the certaintie of our election Also towardes other men our good works haue notable vse whether they be now of the number of the faithful congregation with vs or els euen without the same Of those that are within the Church they bee beneficiall both to the weake and the strong to the weake to confirme and build them vp more To the strong in reioycing them and gladding of their heartes And as for those that are without this our holie conuersation shall either win them if they pertaine to the Lords election being as it were a hand of conduct vnto them in the day of their visitation to bring them to the Gospel of Christ or els stop their mouthes so as they hauing no iust occasion by vs to blaspheme the trueth may be also ashamed when they come to speak euil of our professiō Thus I hope your consciences beare me witnesse that I soundly belieue in Christ both touching his priestly and kingly office and haue good workes in pretious account in their proper place yet had I neuer other teachers for the matter then such as that wilfull man whom you would follow hath cōdemned and by writing laboured to make odious both to friends and enimies So that it is more then probable that the cause of the poyson which he speaketh of euery where so virulently is not at all in our teachers but in such vncircumcised hearers as E.G. was who for lacke of an vnderstanding heart and humble spirite turned that into venome which another man receiueth the permanent foode of life by Neither is it maruel that one and the same cause should haue so contrarie effectes through the onely diuersitie of