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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66403	A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1672 (1672)	Wing W2711; ESTC R38653	30,581	162

upon Christ's shoulders by the means of these two fine words Not imputing and imputing and a third swimming notion of your own conceipt which any man may have with a little imagining termed by you faith it would be known therefore where your Church hath found out these words of Art in the Holy Scriptures Prot. We do in all humility confess that the globe of our sins and the World of that righteousness which is to appear in the presence of Gods Justice is too massie for us to sustain that are but dust and ashes and subportable only by that Atlas Christ Jesus upon whose shoulders not our conceits but the goodness of God hath plac'd and pressed them But that these words imputing and not imputing are such Greek unto you I do impute it to your not reading of Scriptures and taking up your Religion by trust and credit from such Fripperers and Brokers as by lending your souls a false opinion of Merits and good works do dive into your purses and eat up your estates by way of interest Not to trouble you as I might with a thousand places ask David whether not imputing of sin and S. Paul whether the imputing of Christs righteousness doth not make us blessed and justified For the words use your own eyes and inspection And for the meaning I refer you to S. Augustin upon the one and St. Ambrose his commentary upon the other passage Now that you fondly imagin that Faith this Heavenly hand that reacheth at this double Act and applies it to our own Souls is such an apprehension as you may command when you please out of your own phantasie it is such a poor opinion that no Soul warmed with the least touch or feeling of religion but contemns with a most holy scorn and reproach I tell you and if you once have it your conscience will tell you no less this Faith is the richest jewel in Gods cabinet and can never be compas'd by any sole endeavour of ours until the Holy Ghost comes down from Heaven to set and enchase it in our hearts with his own fingers as it were And being once obtained it new molds and fashions the whole nature of man so as the understanding becomes more enlightned to know God the will to obey God the affections to love God and our brethren Nor can it be preserved to the comfort of our conscience without daily praying meditating doing good works reading the Scriptures hearing good Sermons and perusing of devout and Godly Treatises My belief therefore is this God not imputing sin and imputing righteousness is the worker The Merits of Christ the procurer Faith wrought by the Holy Ghost the instrument or applier good works or my inherent righteousness poor as it i is partly a concause or a necessary condition and partly an effect of my Justification For Faith it self does sanctifie in part and thereupon it is God that justifies Pap. I have heard some of your side rail against the very name of inherent righteousness which you seem now to acknowledge and embrace Do Protestants therefore challenge any other righteousness besides that of Christ's which is imputed Prot. They do acknowledge a Sanctification or inherent righteousness in the same sense as the ancient Fathers took the Word but not as Jesuits of late mistake it We have righteousness inherent or subsisting in us according to which we shall be judged but not according to which we shall be juctified though we cannot be justified in the whole unless in some measure such as God in Christ accepts we be sanctified first Which yet we cannot be of our selves but by Gods free Grace We cannot therefore plead Merits as you of Rome are wont to do at the Throne of God For Faith it self cannot justifie although without it we cannot be justified That indeed is a Condition but God in Christ is the sole Author of our Justification because by him and by him alone our sins are not imputed to us You make your righteousness to go before as the cause we ours to come after as the effect of justification Pap. But have you any use of your Free-will in either righteousness I mean that imputed or this inherent Or are you as some relate your opinions meerly suffering and passive like so many stocks and stones casting not so much as a sigh grone or short wish towards this great work of your conversion Prot. In our first conversion to be righteous we are not like so many Niobes or images of marble which move not at all but as they are in the whole lump carted and transported Our understandings not affording themselves the least glymps of knowledge nor our wills the least shew of inclination unto this Act but being quickened enlivened by the engines of Grace and motions of the Holy Ghost in our souls and consciences our understandings wills and affections do cooperate and run along with the Grace of God in all our works of piety and devotion The points therefore of this Chapter are these 1. Justification consists in Gods not imputing of Sin and in his imputing of Christs righteousness unto us 2. It is not our conceipt but the justice and mercy of God which layes this load on our Saviour Christ 3. Whosoever is acquainted with the Scripture cannot be unacquainted with imputed righteousness 4. Imputed righteousness is soon appprehended but infused Faith must be first obtained 5. We have an inherent righteousness in part which is the Condition of our Justification 6. Grace alone works our justification grace and we together but we in the second place our Sanctification CHAP. IV. Of Saints Souls of the Dead and those dependant Questions Pap. WE are scandalized likewise at your Church because you give no more reverence to the Saints than you do neither praying unto them nor adoring their images nor giving them any set imployment above in Heaven or the least care of us here on earth Which smells very much of the Heresies of the Cainans and Eunomians condemned so many years agone in the Christian Church Prot. What employment the Saints have in Heaven besides the contemplation of God face to face we know not nor do we deny their praying for us Upon earth they receive in our Church all that honour bespoken for them in the primitive Church We keep duely the memorials of the Blessed Virgin and the twelve Apostles and a yearly panegyrical commemoration of all the Martyrs and Saint of God respecting them as our fellowes and friends though not as our Tutelar gods and young little Saviours We admire their lives and as we do not furiously deface so do we not adore their Images Because S. Augustin would fain know where that Christian may be found that prayeth or adoreth beholding an Image We rear them no Temples as to Gods but trophees only of praise as to deserving men S. Paul himself did all this and he did no more