the Apostle declares two things concerning himselfe The first his good conscience The second that he was not thereby justified By which all the workes of grace are excluded from justification Yea it is most evident that a man must be justified before he can doe any good workes or any thing pleasing unto God so that those workes that follow justification can no way effect it or be the cause of it And as all workes are excluded so all vertues faith onely excepted for as he that receives a gift puts forth his hand onely but after he has received it not onely his hand but his tongue and his feet and his other members which conferred nothing in the receiving testifie their thankfulnesse After the same manner we receive the matter of justification by faith onely the hand of the soule not by hope or charity But after Christ is received and imbraced these graces likewise manifest themselves with all the rest which spring from faith the fountaine that sanctifies cleanses and purifies the heart sprinkling it with the blood of Jesus Christ from which fountaine arise all the streams of all other saving graces that appear in our lives And this Mr. Montague is the saving doctrine of justification which when the Church of England so firmely holdeth forth declares and preaches it believeth in Jesus Christ as it ought to believe and is built upon the foundation of Peter when it excludes all merits and workes from justification and lookes for salvation in Christ by faith alone for which its believing it hath very good reason for if the children of Israel did not by their owne righteousnesse merit the Land of Canaan which is by God himselfe there excluded Deut. 9. which was but the type how much lesse can any man by his merits merit Heaven it selfe which is the thing typified But that I may neither leave you Mr. Montague nor any Romanist any ground of cavill I shall by your patience say something here severally and by it self to a poore objection that is often made by the Papists against our doctrine of free justification by faith alone who often contest that in the whole Scripture it is no where said that man is justified by faith alone that particle alone say they is no where inserted in the holy Scripture but is onely put in by us But for answer I desire you to take notice that howsoever that particle in so many letters be not in expresse terms specified there is in many places of the Scripture that set downe that that is equivalent to it as will by and by appeare And however I say that word alone be not in the Scriptures notwithstanding the Apostle Paul doth clearely confirme our opinion of free justification by faith alone so that no man can doubt of it that hath not resigned his reason and so evidently declares it as if he had in expresse words said by faith alone For faith beholds and lookes upon something without us that is the mercy and favour of God promised in a mediator which are the sure mercies of David and this mercy alone doth justifie us and this mercy doth faith alone apprehend wherefore the name of faith taken by it selfe denoteth as much as faith alone and by it selfe Besides Paul in this businesse and worke of justification joynes nothing with faith and therefore he teacheth that faith alone doth suffice for if it hath nothing joyned and coupled with it in justifying or absolving of us then it is plaine and evident that faith alone doth justifie us For whatsoever could adde or conferre any thing to our justification all that is removed and excluded from faith in our justification For what is it Mr. Montague I pray thinke you that in this cause or businesse should be joyned with faith I presume you will say workes Now then if workes be removed severed and disjoyned from faith and that in expresse words it followes then necessarily that we are justified by faith alone Heare then I pray what Paul saith Rom. 3. vers 28. We therefore conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law And in the same chapter vers 20. Therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified And vers 24. Being justified freely by grace through the redemption of Jesus Christ And in chap. 4. ver 5 6. But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is imputed for righteousness even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works And in his epistle to the Gala. cap. the 2.16 knowing that a man is not justified by the workes of the Law but by the faith of Jesus Christ c. I beseech you Mr. Montague tell me ingenuously what could be spoke or cited more cleerly for the confirming of our opinion and doctrine For if wee be not justified by the workes of the Law and if we be not justified but by the faith of Jesus Christ and if all workes of the Law be so often by the Apostle excluded from justification and twice in expresse tearmes removed from justification in this verse and that with an irrisistible reason added by the Apostle shewing the impossibility of justification by workes saving that by the workes of the Law shall no flesh be iustified I say in all these regards it necessarily followes that we are justified by faith alone And we may adde to all this what the Apostle often speakes that wee are justified freely it is the gift of God which excludes all reason of merit Ephes 2. vers 8 9. for by grace are yee saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Not of workes lest any man should boast Mr. Montague if all that I have spoke cannot yet satisfy you I hope it will satisfy all rationall men and it doth abundantly confirme me in this truth and also prove that that Church which teacheth the free grace of God and the doctrin of justification by faith alone in Jesus Christ is a true Church and believes as it ought to believe But before I draw to an end and couclude this point I shall at your best leisure desire you to answer this Argument If wee be not justified by the workes of the Law if to him that workes not but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly his faith is imputed for righteousnesse if by the workes of the Law no flesh shall be justified if Righteousnesse without workes be imputed if freely if by grace if it be the gift of God and to conclude if we be not justified but by the Faith of Jesus Christ Then we are iustified by Faith alone But the antecedent is true therefore the consequent Wherefore then should any man cavill against our Doctrine of free justification by faith alone because the particle alone is not in expresse tearmes set down when there are divers expressions of as full efficacy
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND A true Church PROVED In a Disputation held by JOHN BASTWICK Doctor in Physick AGAINST Mr. WALTER MONTAGUE in the TOWER Buy the truth and sell it not also wisdom instruction and understanding Prov. 23. v. 23. Where there is no vision the people perish but he that keepeth the Law happy is he Prov. 29. v. 16. Published by Authority LONDON Printed for A. Crooke and I. Rothwell and are to be sold at their shops in Pauls Church-yard 1645. To the Reader Christian Reader IF thou desire to know the occasion of the ensuing discourse betweene mee and Master Montague of whom I may say this although he be an enemy that hee is both generosus doctus adversarius thou shalt not onely be fully satisfied of the necessity of the publishing of it but mayst also finde the true Church by the essentiall and undeceivable notes of the same the which wheresoever they appeare doe abundantly prove and delucidate it to be a true Church Now when they are to be found in the Church of England as in all the reformed Churches it may truely be concluded of them all that they are true Churches from the which there is no just ground and cause of separation As for the Church of England I may ever affirme this as I have in the following Treatise evinced that since the Apostles times the Gospell and the saving truths thereof have never been more purely preached and more chearfully received imbraced and believed and the Sacraments more duely administred and the Name of God more truly invocated and called upon then now in the Church of England that all those that live in it owe their conversion to the Ministery of the same so that with all good reason wee may infer that that Church that teacheth the knowledge of the onely true God and whom hee hath sent Jesus Christ John 17. and is able to build them up in their most holy faith is a true Church and where salvation may be found And therefore not onely those of the Church of Rome that do calumniate her and all the reformed Churches for hereticall are in a great errour and blame-worthy but more especially those that had the worke of regeneration wrought in their hearts by her ministery and owe their conversion to her and yet doe asperse her with odious tearmes absolutely denying her to be a true Church all such I say are likewise to be reproved and have for this their temerity a great deale to answer for before God and all good men for by these their expressions they doe not onely proclaime their owne unthankefulnesse unto Almighty God but their undutifulnesse and ingratitude unto their mother and their uncharitablenesse towards their brethren whom they account of as a company of Insidels denying communion with them in holy things though every way as good and as holy as themselves by all which their proceedings they doe not onely cast filth in all their faces and expose themselves to the ludibree of the world and bring an odium upon the whole Church but are a cause of division and schisme in the seamlesse garment of Christ and give a great scandall to the enemies of the Gospell and to all such as love the truth in sincerity without faction contrary to the Apostles rule who exhorts all Christians to take heed that they give no offence to the Jew nor to the Gentile nor to the Church of God But that all men may see I charge none falsly nor wrong them not in any thing I shall here recite some expressions of their principall leaders and teachers for to enumerate them all would be an endlesse worke as I had them from their owne mouthes in the presence of others and as I finde them in their printed bookes By word of mouth they say That the Church of England is an arrant Whore and Strumpet and that she that was once a Whore can never be presented unto Christ as a chaste Spouse then the which what could be more contumeliosly disgracefully and untruly spoken especially when it is uttered by such as had the worke of grace and conversion wrought in their hearts by the ministery of the Church if they have any grace or were ever truely converted though now they have disobediently deserted and forsaken her In print thus they declare themselves concerning the Church of England and all believers and their fellow brethren in it That the Church of England is a true whorish mother and that they that are of her are base begotten and bastardly children and that she neither is nor never was truely married joyned or united unto Jesus Christ in that espousall band which his true Churches are and ought to be but is one of Antichrists Nationall whorish Churches and Cities spoken of Revel 16.19 c. That the Church of England is false and Antichristian and as shee is a false and Antichristian Church shee can never make true Officers and Ministers of Jesus Christ and absolutely deny that conversion and confirmation and building up in the waies of God are wrought by the Ministery of the Church of England for how say they can they build them up in that which they themselves are ignorant of and enemies unto For as Jannes and Jambres with stood Moses so doe these men also resist the truth being men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth c. This is their Dialect and further they assert That as they have taken paines by the Word of God and demonstrable arguments grounded thereupon to prove the Church of England Antichristian so they promise to all the world that they will in the strength of the Lord of Hosts for ever seperate from Cuurch Ministery and worship of England and all and every one of them as Antichristian and false And conclude that all the Ministers of the Church of England are not true Ministers of Christ but false and Antichristian Ministers and that our Religion neither is the true Religion nor that it leads men the true way to salvation and they affirme that they groundedly and absolutely deny that either the Church of England is or ever was a true Church And from many such premises as these they exhort all good people that are in the bosome of the Church of England as they love their owne inward peace and spirituall joy to withdraw their spirituall obedience and subjection from her Others of them esteem no better of their brethren then of Insidels Vnbelievers and Heathens and proclaime them in their writings published by authority to be men who deny disclaime and preach against Christs Kingly government over his Churches men unconverted or at least converted but in part wanting the maine thing to wit Christs Kingly Office men visibly out of the Covenant of grace who have not so much as an outward profession of faith who deny Christ to be their King to whose persons and infants the very Sacraments and Seales of grace with all Church-communion may and
they were certainly assured So we read Luke 1. vers 1. Whereof we are fully perswaded c. and Heb. 10. vers 34. And yee tooke the spoyling of your goods with joy knowing in your selves you had in Heaven a better and induring substance So in the first Epistle of St. John chap. 3. vers 2. Behold now are we the sonnes of God and it doth not yet appeare what we shall be but we know that when he shall appeare we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is In all the Saints we finde an infallible assurance and an undaunted and unremoveable confidence in Jesus Christ who they believed was delivered for their offences and raised againe for their justification knowing there was no other name under Heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved Acts 4 ver 11. And this faith in Jesus Christ is that that will support us in all tribulations and finally save us according to that in St. John chap. 3. ver 14 15 16. As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wildernesse even so must the Sonne of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God so loved the world that be gave his onely begotten Sonne that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life And vers 18. He that believeth on him is not condemned butâ—â— that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the onely begotten Sonne of God And in Chap. 5. ver 24. Verily verily I say unto you he that believeth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life Numberlesse testimonies might be accumulated out of the holy Scripture to prove that only to be the true faith and knowledge of Christ when we do conceive him in such sort as he is offered of the Father that is to say clothed with the Gospell for faith hath a mutuall relation to the word and the word to faith because the word is the fountaine of faith and the ground of faith and the mirrour in which faith beholdeth God as Christ saith here He that believeth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life This that I have now said Mr. Montague will I hope give satisfaction to any rationall man if not to your selfe that the Church of England believeth as it ought to believe because it regulates the faith of all Christians according to the word of God and Christ their onely Prophet and therefore it is an unanswerable argument that the Church of England is a true Church and built upon the foundation of Peter when it joyneth the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ and faith in him alone together Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnesse that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus Rom. 3. v. 25 26. When therefore I say the Church of England joyneth the knowledge of God and Christ and faith in them both inseparably together and makes daily publication of this same doctrine it is evident that it is a true Church and built upon the foundation of Peter the ground and pillar of truth and where salvation may be attained unto for that Church which shall confesse with the mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in their heart that God hath raised him from the dead shall be saved for with the heart men believe unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation Rom. 10. But the Church of England doth all this Ergo it believeth as it should believe and is a Church where salvation may be found And had the Church of England Mr. Montague but this marke alone it were enough for ever to stop the mouthes of all gainsayers and prove that it is a true Church and built upon the foundation of Peter and believes as it ought to believe And now I come to the qualification viz. That the Church of England doth renounce all self-merit in matter of salvation and all will-worship and humane inventions in Gods service which are requisites in any Church to make it a true Church and without which it cannot be a true Church You may remember Mr. Montague when you heard the name of merit and will-worship you began to bestir your selfe as if it had something troubled you and it doth indeed highly concerne you to looke about you lest falling upon the rocke of your owne merits you dash your selfe in pieces and destroy your owne soule And you affirmed that if you should speake of the doctrine of merits it would last you a weeke Truely Mr. Montague if you should speake a moneth or a yeere together of Christs merits and what he hath done and suffered for the redemption of mankind I should willingly be your anditor and think that nothing sufficient enough could be uttered or expressed to magnifie Gods and Christs love and to stirre up thankfulnesse obedience and love to God and Christ againe for their infinite mercy towards us such miserable creatures as we poore men are But Mr. Montague if you shall speake but one minute of an houre to extoll mans merit or to preach that men by their good workes can or may merit Heaven or if you goe about to establish that blasphemous doctrin for it is no better you shall have just cause to repent all the daies of your life for your so doing for this doctrine tends to overthrow the glorious Gospell and the whole worke of our redemption and Christs sufferings and opens an other way to Heaven than any of the Saints of old knew of who ever taught that Christ onely was the way the truth and the life and not mens merits and workes of supererogation Therefore Mr. Montague that Church that teacheth the free grace and eternall love of God in Jesus Christ unto the people when we were dead in our sinnes and trespasses and that inculcates self-deniall upon all men and urges them in matter of salvation to rely onely upon Christ and his obedience and passion with all his merits and to follow the guidance of his word for the manner of his service and teaches them to reject all will-worship and humane inventions in honouring God that Church believes as it ought to believe and teacheth the true way to Heaven and is built upon the foundation of Peter for all these things are the necessary requisites for the making of a true Church as I shall God willing speedily shew But if I shall be more large upon this point I desire your pardon for in my opinion it is a doctrine of as great concernment as any in Religion and where it is taught it is a sure evidence of a true Church In the handling of the which I will
prove all I shall say out of the holy Scripture which I make the rule of faith All therefore that will believe in Jesus Christ aright and as hee himselfe would have them and be his Disciples they must deny themselves and renounce all selfe-merits for that is the first lesson he teacheth them Mat. the 16 vers 24. If any man saith he will come after me let him deny himselfe and take up his Crosse and follow me and Luke the 9. vers 23. If any man will come after me let him deny himselfe and take up his crosse dayly and follow me This lesson is taught both in the Law and Gospell as in the places now cited and also in the 55 of Isaiah ver 6.7 Seeke yee the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is nigh let the wicked forsake his wayes and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord and hee will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon By these testimonies of holy Scripture we learne that the first step to Heaven is selfe-deniall and renouncing our own merits This selfe-deniall consists of three parts The first a meane esteeme of our selves The second a dayly taking up of the crosse The third a following of Christs example and foote-steps in patient doing and suffering what God would have us And this Master Mountague is not an easy lesson to learne But now to leave the two latter parts I will only insist upon the first which is to deny our selves and in self-deniall three things are requisite First for the magnifying of the free grace of God we ought to be humble meane and nothing in our own eyes for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble James 4. and the first of Peter 5. and this was ever the practice of all the Saints Abraham counts himselfe dust and ashes when hee hath to deale with God And Christ Mat. 11. saith Learne of me for I am humble and meeke So that all those that have rightly learned this lesson have no high and overtowring thoughts and conceits of their owne worth or merits but lie low and prostrate before God acknowledging themselves miserable sinners and unprofitable servants when they have done that was commanded them and in a word are weary and heavy laden Secondly we must renounce our own wills and reason and bring them in subjection to the will and pleasure of God not our owne wills and reason therefore but the will of Christ must suffice us his wisdome must be our reason Thirdly we must count all things as dung in comparison of Christ and for the excellency of the knowledge of him and ought to esteeme all things but losse willingly cheerefully relinquishing and forsaking friends riches honours yea if necessity require for the cause of Christ and keeping of a good conscience we must abandon our owne lives and whatsoever is dearest unto us all which cannot consist with the thought of selfe-merit for this lesson teacheth us humility and just cause indeed have all men seriously and unfainedly to be humble for if we looke upon all men since the fall of Adam as they are in their naturall condition we shall finde nothing in them but sinne and corruption and that they are wicked in all their wayes and unrighteous in all their thoughts and therefore they ought to be humble and to forsake and deny themselves and to returne unto the Lord and come unto Christ and be lowly under the mighty hand of God if they will obtaine mercy finde pardon and be exalted this is the first lesson I say we must learne Yea the very regenerate themselves and the dearest Saints and Servants of God whiles they remaine in this Tabernacle of clay and till their soules be unbodyed finde themselves so laden with iniquity transgression and sinne as they have alwayes matter of humiliation never of glorying never of vanting of their own merits never of boasting of their own righteousnesse but rather of seeking another righteousnesse the righteousnesse of Heaven the righteousnesse of Faith which is Christs righteousnesse by which they may appeare before God and this they can never obtaine to without selfe-deniall and renouncing all their own merits But it will not be amisse Master Mountague briefely to take notice of all men in their naturall condition and after their Regeneration and that both before the Law and under the Law and under the Gospell and see Gods own Testimony of them all and the witnesse and testimony the holiest men that ever were and lived gave of themselves and then it will be cleerely evidenced they renounced all selfe-nesse and all their own merits and looked only for salvation by the merits of Jesus Christ And first let us heare what God saith of all the seede of Adam before their Regeneration Genesies the 6 vers 5. and God saw that the wickednesse of man was great upon the Earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evill continually Note here the spirit of God doth not say that man hath some evill thoughts or that his thoughts are evill sometimes but he asserts First that every imagination or the whole immagination purpose or desire of the heart are evill Secondly that they are evill continually or every day alwaies evill and in the 8. Chap. vers 21. he affirmes the same saying The imagination of mans heart is evill from his youth The corruption therefore of all men begins with them from their Cradle and if God doth not regenerate us it continues and accompanies us to our grave and this is the condition of all men before Regeneration and that before the Law and under the Law and under the Gospell And it could be no otherwise by the Testimony of Job 14. vers 4. Who can bring saith he a cleane thing out of an uncleane Not one All came of a corrupt seede David witnesseth the same Psal 51. vers 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sinne did my mother conceive me such a generation of men without selfe-deniall and returning from their wicked waies and forsaking their unrighteous thoughts and imaginations cannot be Christs Disciples This miserable condition of mankind is every where published through the Scripture to being men to a more deepe humiliation and abhorring of themselves Psal the 14. vers 2. The Lord looked downe from Heaven saith the Psalmist upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seeke God They are all gone aside they are altogether become filthy there is none that doth good no not one By this testimony we see the corruption so generall that the Lord exempteth no man from it The same doctrine is confirmed in the 53 Psal and in this condition do all men continue till they are regenerated and begot anew for so long as they are in their naturall estate and till they are in Christ they can do nothing pleasing unto
Christ is become of no effect unto you saith Paul whosoever of you are justified by the Law yee are falne from grace All those therefore that will be justified by the works of the Law deprive themselves of the grace of God in Jesus Christ but the Church of Rome doth this Mr. Montague ergo But for the Church of England it followeth the Apostles example Phil. 3. ver 8 9. Counting all things losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ and that it may be found in him not having its owne righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith By the which righteousnesse of Christ all the workes of the Law are excluded from justification But I will yet more fully prove that the workes of grace are also excluded from justification Ephes 2. ver 8 9. For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Not of workes lest any man should boast Here againe all workes are removed withall we may observe that the holy Apostle in this place a firming that we are not saved by workes speakes not of those workes before grace and regeneration according to the ordinary evasion of the Church of Rome but he speakes of all the workes men doe in the state of grace and after conversion and which shall accompany us as we presse to the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus as we may see in the 10. verse For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good workes which God hath before ordained that we should walke in them So that good workes are not the meritorious cause of the Kingdome of Heaven but onely the way which God hath prepared and appointed for us to walke in to Heaven And in the 11. to the Rom. ver 6 7. he saith And if by grace then it is no more of workes otherwise grace is no more grace He speakes here of the regenerate Romans and of the workes dond by them after their conversion which he excludes from justification and therefore it is a poore evasion or quillet of the Church of Rome to excuse their pride when they say that God hath given us the grace of meriting which is a flat contradiction for grace doth ever exclude merit as the words of Paul inferre who saith If it be by grace then not of workes and if of workes then it is no more grace otherwise worke is no more worke And in his Epistle to Titus ch 3. ver 4 5. But after saith he that the kindnesse and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared not by workes of righteousnesse which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us Here the Apostle includes himselfe in the number of the regenerate as in all the other places and disavowes all workes and excludes them from justification for the mercy and grace of God cannot stand with mens merits as hath been sufficiently already proved And in that verse he further addes that being justified by grace we should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life From which words we learne that we have life eternall as heires of God and not in the way quality of mercenaries So that by all these proofes it is evident that all workes are excluded from justification as by many reasons also may be evinced For sinners are and ought so to be justified before God that all occasion of gloriation and boasting may be taken away as we see Rom. 3. ver 27. Where is boasting then it is taken away By what Law of workes Nay but by the law of faith Now if a man by the workes of grace might be justified he should then have something whereof to glory notwithstanding he acknowledged he received those workes from God as we may see in the example of the Pharisee in the 18. of Luke and should also have more to glory of than Abraham Rom. 4. ver 3 4. where it is said that if Abraham be justified by workes he hath whereof to glory but not before God For what saith the Scripture Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousnesse Againe if a man be justified by workes then the justification of the Law should stand and be of force but that stands not as by all the testimonies before mentioned is evident and from the 14. verse of this chapter For if they which are of the Law be heires faith is made void and the promise made of no effect And not onely this verse but the tenour of the whole chapter proves that Abraham though he abounded in good workes yet was justified before God without the workes of the Law howsoever before men according to that of St. James chap. 2. He declared by his workes the livelinesse of his faith for St. James himselfe saith vers 23. That Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousnesse and he was called the friend of God And that was long before he offered his Sonne Isaac And when the Apostle Paul saith that Abraham was not justified before God by his works it cannot be understood of the works of the ceremoniall Law which was not given till foure hundred yeares after the justification of Abraham But the principall things we may gather out of this whole fourth chapter to the Romans are these First that the workes of grace and after regeneration are excluded from justificaton Secondly that the justification of Abraham the father of the faithfull is the modell and patterne of the justification of all believers and sonnes of Abraham as appeares from the 22. and 23. verses And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him who raised up Jesus from the dead And therefore as Abraham was justified before God by faith without the workes of the law so all believers are justified which the Apostle in his Epistle to the Galatians chap. 3. ver 8. doth againe clearely prove And the Scripture saith he foreseeing that God would justifie the heathen through faith preached before the Gospell unto Abraham saying In thee shall all Nations be blessed so that they which be of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham And from this very place it is manifest that Abraham then believed when the Apostle affirmes that he was not justified before God by his workes to confirme unto us likewise that we are not justified before God by our workes after that God hath given unto us faith Yea Paul evidences the same by his owne example and by the example of the faithfull that the works of grace also are excluded from justification for in 1 Cor. chap. 4. ver 4. I know nothing saith the Apostle by my selfe yet am I not hereby justified Here