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A18947	The Popes deadly wound tending to resolue all men, in the chiefe and principall points now in controuersie betweene the papists and vs. Written by T.C. and published by Master Doctor Burges, now preacher to the English troopes in the Pallatinate.	Clarke, Thomas, of Sutton Coldfield.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635.	1621 (1621)	STC 5364; ESTC S108050	185,964	236

whose iniquities are forgiuen and whose sinnes are couered Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne So that hereby we see it most manifest that iustification before God consisteth in faith alone without workes euen as he also proueth as apparantly where he absolutely and vtterly excludeth all kinde of workes for being wholly or any part of the cause of iustification in that he saith Rom. 11. If it be of grace it is no more of workes If it be of workes it is no more of grace That is to say it is of the one but not of both And therefore in the third Chapter of the same Booke he closeth vp the doctrine of iustification thus Rom. 3.28 We conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the Law And thus much by proofe of Scripture touching this point also Now let vs heare the iudgement of the Fathers 10 Saint Augustine saith k August in ●●s 83. q●●stio●s Quest 76. Glossa ordinaria Abrahrns was iustified by faith without works Saint Hilary saith l Hila. 9. Can. Ma. 8. It moued the Scribes that sinnes was forgiuen by man for they onely beheld man in Christ Iesu and that to be forgiuen of him which the Law could not release fides enim sola iustificat for faith onely iustifieth Saint Hierome saith m Hier. 10. cap. Rom. They not knowing that God iustifieth sola fide by faith onely supposed themselues to be iust by the workes of the Law which they neuer obserued Theophilact saith n Theop. 3 cap. Gal. Because no man is iustified by the Law c. Now he doth plainly shew that fidem ipsam vel sol●m faith it selfe yea euen alone hath power to iustifie Saint Chrisostome saith o Christost 4. Hom vpon the 1. to Tim. chap. 1. Who could hardly beleeue that enemies that sinners that such as were not iustified in the Law nor by workes that they by and by haue ex sola fide by faith onely obtayned the chiefe merite It seemed to the Iewes said he● an incredible thing that a man that had spent all his former life vainely and disorderly hauing passed the same in wicked workes that afterwards hee should be said to be saued sola fide by faith onely Againe he saith thus of them p In his Hom. vpon th 3. chap. to the Gala. They said who so stayeth himselfe sola fide by faith onely is accursed Contrariwise Saint Paul proueth who so stayeth sota fide by faith onely is blessed Moreouer he saith q Vpon the 4. chap. to the Rom. the 8. Ser. That a man destitute of workes should be iustified by faith that peraduenture may seeme to be well but that a man beautified with vertue and good workes should neuerthelesse by them not be iustified sed sola fide but by faith onely truely this is wonderfull And hereof it is that their Doctor Maister Harding is compelled thus to confesse r D. Har. in his booke A detection of sundry foule errours li●s c. in fol. 357. Wee are iustified freely without workes that may deserue the grace that God giueth To conclude Saint Origen saith ſ Origen 3. B●●●ke 3. chap. Rom. Rom. 4 5. If we require an example who was iustified sola fide by faith onely without workes I suppose that the same theefe doth suffice And indeed this i● that remedy● whereby God doth saue his elect which hee calleth at the last houre whether on their death bedde or on the gallows-tree And this it is which Saint Paul saith Rom. Rom. 4.5 4. By faith God doth iustifie the vngodly And as hee sheweth that faith is the onely meanes whereby God doth saue the vngodly Gal. 3.11 Hab. 2.4 whom he vouchsafeth to call so Galla. 3. aluding to these words of the Prophet Habakkuk chapter 2. The iust shall liue by his faith hee proueth that the most righteous shall be saued by their faith onely or else they shall neuer be saued And thus much for the answering the other sort of Papists also which will haue men to be saued by faith and workes together 11 But now Christian Reader what shall wee say shal we conclude that we are iustified by such a faith as the Papists charge vs with which is generall with all the wicked which not onely is without the fruits of a true and liuely faith but hath the contrary God forbid But wee say that we are iustified by faith that is by such a faith as Saint Paul saith 2. Thess 3.2 1 Cor. 13. chap. All men haue not 2 Thess 3. Yea by that faith which hee saith worketh by loue and which Saint Iames saith James 3.17 Is full of mercie and good fruits chapter 3. Euen by the same faith which is manifested vnto men and approued of God to be a true faith which at the day of iudgement shall be tried by the fruits thereof and all iudged thereby at which time euery one that is found to haue had it shall as the Apostle Saint Peter saith 1. Ep. 1. chap. Receiue the end of his faith euen the saluation of his soule The rest that had not this fruitfull faith shall be damned as appeareth in the 25. Chapter of Saint Matthew 12 True it is that the generall sort because they beleeue Christ to be the Sauiour of the world and haue their names deriued from him to be called Christians thinke verily they shall all be saued Yea though many of them liue worse then the very Infidells But what reason haue they so to delude themselues seeing that not a few but many which preach Christ and the Christian faith shall be damned because howsoeuer they preach well and teach the truth their liues are not correspondent Our Sauiour Christ speaking of Christians and the time of triall who be true Christians indeed Matth. 7. saith Matth. 7.22.23 Not euery one that saith vnto mee Lord. Lord shall outer into the Kingdome of heauen but he that doth my fathers will which is in heauen Many will say vnto mee in that day Lord Lord haue we not by thy name prophecied and by thy name cast out Deuills and by thy name done many great workes and then saith Christ I will professe vnto them I neuer knew you Depart from mee yee that worke iniquitie And here wee see those miracle-mongers the Papists specially included who as we proued in our second Chapter worke their miracles in the name of Christ to draw men to Antichrist And as touching their conuersation of life their Saint Bridgit bringeth Christ thus reproaching them for the vilenesse thereof saying t Bridgit in her sixt Booke of Reuelation 15. chap. Their conuersation and life stinketh like a Where in my sight So that as she saith in another place v In her first Booke chap. 50. The simple sort by their bad example they hurle downe headlongs 13 But now haply they will obiect and say are wee singular

those that will be perfect by the workes of the Law God will condemne for vnperfect for not fulfilling the whole Law And for this cause it was that Saint Paul concludeth hereof thus By the workes of the Law shall no flesh be iustified in the sight of God Romans 3. And thus much by proofe of Scripture concerning this point now let vs heare the ancient Fathers 6 Saint Augustine writing against the Pelagian heretikes saith a August in his first Booke against the Pelagians Who will grant you that any man can doe that thing that no man was euer able to doe Againe he saith b Against that 2. Epistle It is impossible that the Law should be fulfilled by flesh Saint Hierome also against the same heretiques wrote thus c Hier. to Cresiphontus against the Pelag. Ye will say Gods Commandements be easie yet you are not able to shew vs any man that euer fulfilled them altogether And these Pelagians Saint Augustine called the new heretiques whereby it seemeth that they were the first Authors of this heresie And notwithstanding their great Doctor Saint Thomas of Aquine proueth it an heresie by saying d Thomas of Aquin 3. Galat. It is impossible for flesh and bloud to fulfill the Law yet commeth their Master Harding and saith e M. Hard. Apolog chap. 19. Diuis 1. We beleeue that God commandeth vs nothing vnpossible to vs otherwise how could he iustly punish for not doing that Commandement which by no meanes we are able to fulfill Wee are sure that God punisheth no man vniustly for there is none iniquity in God To which we answere 7 God is iust and perfect in nature and therefore he gaue a iust and perfect Law and such a one as man might haue kept had he kept himselfe in that perfect estate wherin God created him but if through his owne default hee hath lost the freedome both of power and will so as that he cannot now but breake his Law God is not vniust in punishing him for it And it is most certaine that to the intent man might see what a miserable estate he had brought himselfe into Gal. 3.19 Rom. 3.20 this iust Law was giuen For as Saint Paul saith Galat. 3. It was added because of transgression and Rom. 3. By the Law commeth the knowledge of sinne And this is it which Saint Augustine saith f August in his Preface to the Galathians The Lord gaue a iust Law to vniust men to make manifest their sinnes and not to take them away Againe he saith g Vpon the 118 Psal To this purpose was the Law giuen that of great it might make little that it might shew vnto thee that thou hast no strength of thy selfe to fulfill the Law And so being needy vnworthy and poore might flee vnto grace and cry Haue mercie on me O God for I am weake The Pelagians saith he h In his booke of Grace and Free-will cap. 4. thinke themselues cunning men when they say as we heard right now Master Harding said God would not commaund the thing that he knoweth a man is not able to doe To which Saint Augustine answereth thus h In his booke of Grace and Free-will cap. 4. God commaundeth vs to doe some things that we are not able to doe that we might vnderstand what we ought to craue of him Also their Saint Bernard speaking of that which God in his Law requireth of vs to be performed saith i Bernard vpon the Canticles the 53. Sermon In commaunding impossible things God made not men transgressours but humble that euery mouth might be stopped and all the world in danger vnto God because no flesh shall be iustified in his sight And thus much for the answering that sort of Papists which hold that men are iustified and saued by their good workes Now let vs see what wee can say to the other sort 8 Another sort there are which hold that wee are iustified by faith and workes together And they ground their opinion vpon the words of Saint Iames. chap 2. Iames chap. 2.24 where hee saith Ye see how that of workes a man is iustified and not of faith onely And hereupon they conclude that in the sight of God we are iustified by faith and workes together whereas it is euident by the words doing before Saint Iames had no such meaning and therefore their mis-vnderstanding him hath caused them to erre For they not considering that there be two manners of iustifications the one before God the other before men Mat. 23. Mat. 23. suppose that Saint Iames speaketh there of iustification before God but how can this possibly be seeing as we heard before hee said in the same chap. He that faileth in one point of the Law Iames 2. chap. 10. and 3.2 is guiltie of all And in the chap. following in many things we sinne all Now seeing he saith that in many things wee sinne all and hee that breaketh one point is guilty of all it is cleare he did not meane iustification before God but before men And this appeareth also most euidently from the beginning of the 2 chap. to the 17. verse of the same Where he hauing to deale with the Atheists of his time such as of whom there are too many euery where in whom albeit there appeare no fruit of a true and iustifying faith but the contrarie yet let any well disposed man reproue them for the same streight way they breake forth into these speeches and say I hope I haue as good a faith as you and I hope to be saued as well as the best of you all To such said Saint Iames Iames chap. 2.18 Thou hast the faith and I haue workes shew me thy faith out of thy workes and I will shew thee my faith by my workes Now in that he saith shew me and I will shew thee it is without all contradiction he speaketh of the outward iustification before men and not that by workes neither by faith and workes together we are iustified before God 9 Againe whereas against those Athiests hee opposed that outward signe of Abrahams faith by offering to sacrifice his sonne Isaac at the commandement of God yet although his faith thereby was manifested to the World to be a true faith hee was neither iustified before God by that worke neither by it and faith together but euen by the faith alone Rom. 4.2.3.4.5.6.7 For as the Apostle Saint Paul saith Rom. 4. If Abraham were iustified by workes he hath wherein to reioyce but not with God For what saith the Scriptures Abraham beleeued God and it was accounted to him for righteousnesse Now to him that worketh the wages is not counted by fauour but by debt but to him that worketh not but beleeueth in him that iustifieth the vngodly his faith is accounted for righteous Euen as Dauid declareth the blessednesse of the man vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes saying Blessed are they

of the matter and the meanes saith * Ambrose vpon 1 Cor. first Chap. In Christ Iesus is grace giuen for as much as this with GOD is decreed that who so beleeueth in Christ is saued sola fide by faith onely without workes receiuing freely forgiuenesse of sinnes And thus wee see the case to stand cleare that faith without workes is the onely meanes of iustification and saluation 18 Now then Christian Reader this doctrine of iustification by faith in Christ without workes being so easie and clearely to bee proued the truth is it not a Worlds wonder to see that so many wise and learned men should impugne it And that a Cardinall one of the Popes Pen-men Master Allen should ascribe so much vnto good workes as to say x In D. Fulkes answere Page 239. They cleanse before hand stayeth the soule from death and lifteth it vp vnto eternall life Regard not the iangler that will say mens workes doe not purge sinne and winne heauen Which doctrine being true what is it but that wee are iustified and saued by the workes of the Law whereby not onely all those testimonies of the ancient Fathers are proued false but also all those Scriptures which before we cited are confounded and these that follow which shew that we are iustified and saued onely by faith in Christ without workes are to no purpose 19 Saint Paul Ephesians 2. saith Ephes 2.8 For by grace are yee saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes lest any man should glorie in himselfe Also Galatians 2. he saith We which are Iewes by nature Galat. 2.15.16 and not sinners of the Gentiles know that a man is not iustified by the workes of the Law but by the faith of Iesus Christ euen wee I say haue beleeued in Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faith of Iesus Christ and not by the workes of the Law Galat. 3.23.24.25.26 because that by the workes of the Law no flesh shall be iustified And chap. 3. he saith Before faith came wee were kept vnder the Lawe and shut vp vnto the faith which should afterwards be reuealed wherefore the Law was our Schoolemaister to bring vs to Christ that wee might be made righteous by faith But after that faith is come wee are no longer vnder a Schoolemaister for ye are all the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus And therefore as he saith Romans 4. Roman 4. If they which are of the Law bee heires faith is made voyde and the promise of God is made of none effect And yet as he saith Galatians 2. I doe not abrogate the grace of God for if righteousnesse be by the Law then Christ died without a cause So that by the doctrine of the Romish Church we see plainely that faith is made voyde the promise of God made of none effect the death of Christ needlesse and the whole matter of our iustification and saluation to consist onely in our owne deseruings And indeede to the very same effect are these words of their Cardinall Allen y Allen in Fulke pag. 154 The death of Christ doth not discharge vs of satisfaction for our sinnes nor of any other good worke whereby a man may procure his owne saluation Also the Pope saith thus in Bernardine Rosetus * Bernard We can demerite eternall life with works Therefore we ought to presume and hold for a certaintie that after this life wee shall assuredly haue eternall life for the reward of good workes And in the Summary de Grat. Sanct. Good workes demerite three things namely eternall life increase of grace and remission of sinnes 20 Truely I cannot but admire to see that men which would faine be saued will either be saued by that onely meanes whereby they shall be damned or else they will not be saued For by the workes of the Law wee see they will procure their owne saluation purge their soules from sinne deliuer them from death and lift them vp into euerlasting life And therefore as they depend vpon the Law so they must looke to haue the reward of the Law which is the curse and condemnation of it For as Saint Paul sayth Galat. 3.10 Galatians 3. As many as are of the workes of the Law are vnder the curse for it is written Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things which are written in the Booke of the Law Galat. 5.4 to doe them And chapter the fift he sayth Yee are abolished from Christ whosoeuer are iustified by the Law yee are fallen from grace Rom. 9.30.31 And Romans 9. he sheweth this to be the cause of the condemnation of the Iewes For sayth he What shall wee say then that the Gentiles which followed not righteousnesse 32. haue attained vnto righteousnesse euen the righteousnesse which is of faith but Israel which followed the Lawe of righteousnesse could not attaine to the Law of righteousnesse Wherefore sayth hee because they sought it not by faith 33. but as it were by the workes of the Law for they haue stumbled at the stumbling stone as it is written Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and a Rocke to make men fall and euery one that beleeueth in him shall not be ashamed But therefore the same iudgement is fallen vpon them Iohn 9.39 which Christ sheweth Iohn 9. himselfe came to inflict vpon those obstinate Iewes and Scribes and Pharises who sought saluation by the workes of the Law and not by faith in him I am come sayd he vnto iudgement into this world that they which see not might see and that they which see might be made blinde And this blindnesse we see to be now in the Papists For notwithstanding the Apostle Saint Paul saith plainely thus of Christ 2 Corinth 5. God made him to be sinne for vs that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him they cannot see how this righteousnesse should serue the turne For as their Cardinall Allen sayth y In the said booke pag. 154 The death of Christ doth not discharge vs of satisfaction for our sinnes nor of any other good worke whereby a man may procure his owne saluation And further for those that cannot attaine vnto satisfaction the second part of our first Chapter doth shew that the want that is in them is made out by the ouer-plus of the righteousnesse of others For as the sayd Cardinall saith z In the said book pag. 239. The Church of God hath instructed thee that all workes whereby man may procure helpe to himselfe or others be the workes of the faithfull And thus we see that the same iudgement which Christ laid vpon the Iewes Scribes and Pharises he hath laid vpon them that they so little accounting of him should trust to be made righteous by themselues and others that so they might be depriued of his righteousnesse 21 Againe the Apostle Saint Paul 1.