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George Ioye confuteth, Vvinchesters false articles; George Joye confuteth, Winchesters false articles.
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Joye, George, d. 1553.
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1543
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¶ George Ioye confuteth Uvinchesters false Articles I Chaunced vpon certayn Articles entitled to the Bysshop of Winchester called Steuen Gardiner which were writen ageÌ„st doctor Barnis and his ij felows breÌ„t M. D. xxxix for preching onely faith to iustifye By these his articles Winchester wold proue that workes muste iustifye that is to saye with owr workes we muste merite the remission of owr synnes Whiche doctryne as it is coÌ„trarye to Gods worde so is it iniuriouse to Christis blode Whose godly name is One alone for all sufficent euen that same precious hid tresure in the gospell in whoÌ„ saith Paul are all the tresures of wysdome and knowlege hyden For in him dwellethe the moste perfit fulnes of god verelye in him ar we complete eueÌ„ perfitly iustifyed with owt any inweiuing of Winchesters works This thinge do I tell you saith Paul leste any man as nowe wolde Winch. decoyâ—e you with his apparent Popissh perswasioÌ„s This full iustificacion by onelye faith Paul expresseth clerely in these words also This owr euerlasting liuing preist intercessour Christe abydeth for euer vnto this ende euen absolutly fully and perfitly with oute any lak or breache to saue all them that thorowe him by faithe come to God the father Here ar we taught Christe to haue an euerlasting preisthod to saue perfitly and suffici ently thorow owr faith only and that he euer liueth vnto thissame ende Wherfor for the defence of owr so plentuouse and perfit redempcion and for the ryche fauour mer cye of owr heuenly father and free forgeuenes in christis passioÌ„ thorow owr faith onely and that the glorye of his grace wherby he hath made vs his derelye beloued chosen childern thorow his beloued sone shulde be praysed by whom we haue redempcioÌ„ thorow his blode euen the remission of synnes according to the riches of his so plentuouse grace vnable to be minisshed to defend this my lord gods glory I saye to warne the simple vnlearned that thei be not deceiued by siche blasphemouse Bisshops articles I shall by gods helpe iustly by his worde clerly confute them althouge he yet teache and preche them into his own dampnacion and deceiuing of as many as beleue him In Pauls tyme there strayed about a certayne idle sorte and secte of heretyks called Nazares or Minei the moste subtyle kinde of men in paintinge and perswadinge their false doctryne These heretiks troubled and ê‘uerted the chirchis wel instituted of the apostles especiallye the Galathens Antiochens and Romans agenst whose heresyes Paul did wryte so mightely and ernestly coÌ„futing theÌ„ These pharisais laboured in the same heresye in which Winch. now techeth and writeth mixinge the obseruance of the law with the grace of the gospel eueÌ„ works with faith to iustifye These Nazares confessed Christe to be god and man that he dyed rose agen cÌ„ but vnto him onelye thorowe owr faith thei attributed not all owr wholl iustificacion but parte therof as now dothe Win. to the works of the lawe as vnto our own merits and parte to his passioÌ„ making christe a sauiour to halues But is christe diuided saith Paul These heretyks descended out of the faccion of the pharisais as nowe do owr iusticiaries owte of the Pelagians whose rightwysues saithe Christe excepte owrs excell more aboundaÌ„tly we shal neuer come to heuen These Nazares were Iewes born but in name thei wolde be called christians and yet nothing holdinge the benefite of the grace by christe confounding the lawe with the gospell merits mixed whith grace free forgeuenes with deseruinge by works contendinge noman to be saued by christe recepte he being circumcised kept the lawe of Moses Agenste whom Paul with so greate labour farre otherwyse instituted his chirches preching and writing constant ly owr synnes to be knowne and shewed vs by the lawe and not therby to be takeÌ„ away onely the grace of faith thorow christe to mstiâ—re all nacioâ—s Happye it was that those heretyks sprong vp in his dayes whose pistles we haue yet so mightely clerely coÌ„fusing and pressing down these heresyes now crepte vp agene by Winch. The cheif articles of the christen religion vpoÌ„ the which all other ar staied and grown ded is that in christe Iesu is all sufficiencye and perfeccion of forgeuenes of synnes and saluacion of whose fulnes we receiue grace for grace as saith Iohn wherfore as manye as be iustified ar iustified by thonelye faith in him and by nothing els as by any subsydiary attaynment as Winchester wold haue his helping wilworks vnto this full iustificacioÌ„ in christe the perfeccioÌ„ of the lawe This is the some of the hole gospel This is the stacion of the cause the argument material of all Pauls pistles eueÌ„ the treadsole or growndsole where vpoÌ„ as the dore is tur ned and returned so ar all his arguments processe there vpon treated and retreated speciallye in his pistles to the Rom. Gala. Hebrews â–ª And nowe sith this Bisshop stereth vp afâ—esshe these olde heresyes we can haue no better armour and argumentes theÌ„ Paul made agenste him fixste warninge vs of siche sedicious secte sowers saing There ar many ruÌ„nres abrode of whom I warned you oftyn but now with weeping teares I warne you agen eueÌ„ of the enimies of christes crosse whos ende is dampnacion whose belye is their god and their glorye shall ende with shame whose care and study is sette vpon erthelye thinges I can not meruel enoughe at this bisshop fyghting so ernestly for good works to iustifie that he dothe none himselfe but persecute christes chirche so cruellye presone petiously and destroy the pore innocent lombes of God christis own bodye I passe ouer his luciferyn pryde affâ—bicion arrogaâ—cye viciouse liuing c aboue Nero Iuliane Traiane Herode or any soft Sardanapale Belyke he beleueth not his owne articles for if he did he wolde do better works for his owne iustificacioÌ„ The fru tes of Pauls faith being once a pharisaye of Win. opinion were the persecucion of christes chirch aboue mesure as himself testifyeth and as all like pharisais haue euer done and do it still vnto this daye God conuerte them once as he did Paul So be it We therfore with Paul and Christe affirme owr onely one alone Sauiour Chryst for his owne merits and owr faith into him thorowe the fauour of his father apeaced in him to iustifye that is to absolue vs from owr synnes to geue vs life eternall This owr onelye sauiour we preche and wryte to be the onely rightwysues wysedom holymaker redempcion and satisfaccion sufficieÌ„t for all that beleue in him And if there be any that thinke christes rightwysues his satisfaccion his merits and redempcion made for vs of his father not a sufficient iustificacioÌ„ and forgeuenes of their synnes but that thei muste sette their own works chekmate with his passion redempcioÌ„ to helpe forth