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cause_n	justification_n	justify_v	meritorious_a	2,124	5	11.4575	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16556	An exposition of the festiuall epistles and gospels vsed in our English liturgie together with a reason why the church did chuse the same / by Iohn Boys ... ; the first part from the feast of S. Andreuu the Apostle, to the purification of Blessed Mary the Virgin.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1615 (1615)	STC 3462.3; ESTC S227	247,989	326

considered especially 1. An iniurie done to God and that is for giuen 2. An inordinate act the which once being done cannot be vndone but is a blot or staine whereby the soule is defiled and that is laid here to be couered and elsewhere to be washed away 3. The guilt of eternall death and that is not imputed Whosoeuer then is in Christ hath all his sinne and euery thing in all his sinne for giuen couered not imputed for these three signifie the same because that which is couered is not seene and that which is not seene is not imputed and that which is not imputed is forgiuen All his sin is put out of Gods remembrance cast as it were behinde his backe so couered with Christs grace so buried in Christs graue that not so much as the print of one little fault appeares in the words of Augustine Sitexit peccat a Deus noluit aduertire si noluit aduertere noluit animaduertere sinoluit animaduertere noluit punire neli●t agnoscere malutt ignoscere so that the saying of the Prophet Blessed is the man whose vnrighteousnesse is forgiuen and whose sinne is couered containeth a definition of iustification It is Gods free pardon in remitting our iniquities for the Publican is said expresly to be instified in that God was mercifull to him a sinner Luke 18.13.14 This makes against Osianders deified righteousnesse as also the Popi●h inherent iustice for God is our righteousnesse and Christ our holinesse 1. Cor. 1.30 Being iustified freely by grace through faith in him who iustifieth the vngodly Imputat ' D●us homini iustiti●m vt compati●ns vt dissensans vt beneu●lens Dimissio etenim ad compassion ● obiectio ad dispersion●m non imputar● ad bene●●lentt●m pertinet See Epistle 25 Sund. after Trinitie Whereas it is obiected that the blessed man is iustised by workes in part because in his spirit there is no guile as the text runnes in Dauid how soeuer omitted here by Paul Augustine answereth aptly that the blessed man hath in his heart no guile for that he doth not disse●nble his sinne but humbly confesse his faults I said I will acknowledge my sinnes vnto the Lord and so thou for gauest the wickednesse of my sinnes Euery Christian may ●●y with our Apostle When I am weake then am I strong And God also saith vnto such as feele their infirmities as hee did vnto Paul My grace is sufficient for thee for my power is made perfect through weaknesse 2 Cor. 12.9 And therefore the true penitent bragges not or his vertue● as the Pharisie but of his infirmities as Paul acknowledging ingeniously that his happinesse consists in the remission of his sinnes He● omnibus sol● perfectio si se mueriur imperfectos And whereas some further obiect how Dauid saith elsewhere Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsell of the ungodly c. And blessed is he that considereth the poore c. And blessed are they that are vndefiled c. Our Diuines answer that those place and the like presuppose faith a waies according to that Apostolicall axio●e Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne Faith is the ne●t of 〈◊〉 albeit our birds be neuer so faire yet they will bee lost except they bee brought forth in true b●l●efe The sparrow hath 〈…〉 an house and t●e swallow a rest where ●he may lay her young euen thine Altar O Lord c. Psalm 84.3 Such as are faithfull hauing their 〈…〉 for giuen and their sinne couered are blessed men and all their worker as being laid vpon Christs Altar are most acceptable to God But faith Augustine Heretickes and ●●●●dels in doing glorious acts and honourable deeds haue not where to lay their young and therefore they must of necessitie come to nought as the Fathers of our Common Law speake Meritur act● cum person● their a lions are damnable with their persons See Gospell on all Saints day Came this blessednesse then vpon the Circumcision It is fit in vrging Abrahams example to reconcile S. Iames affirming in his Epistle cap. 2. vers 21. that Abraham was instified through workes and S. Paul auowing heere that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousnesse Our Diuines answer that S. Paul speakes of the causes of his iustifying before God but S. Iames of the signes of his iustifying before men S. Paul of Abrahams iustification exprior● S. Iames of Abrahams iustification ex posteriori S. Paul of the iustifying of Abrahams person Saint Iames of the iustifying of a particular act in offering Isaac be sonne Now Paul proues Abraham to be iustified by faith ex ordine can●arum in the 9.10.11.12 verses And then ex causa promissionis in the 13.14 The cause preceeds or at the least is alway conioined with his effect but Abraham was iustified when he was yet vncircumcised Ergo Circumcision was not the meritorious cause of his iustification Abraham as Melan●thon obserues out of the Scriptures euidence was called out of Haran and iustified when he was seuentie fiue yeeres old Gen 12.4 But circumcised in the ninetie ninth yeere of his age Genesis 17.24 Abraham then was iustified 24. yeere before Circumcision was instituted and as our Apostle theweth elsewhere foure hundred and thirtie yeeres afore the Law was giuen Ergo father Abraham had the pardon of his sinne not by Circumcision or any other worke of the Law but only by faith apprehending and applying Gods holy promise concerning the blessed seed See Epistle 13. Sunday after Trinitie Wherefore then serued Circumcision It was vnto him a signe and a seale of the righteousnesse of faith verse 11. Signum Memoratiuum a signe of commemoration of the Couenant betweene God and Abraham and of the promise which he receiued to wit 1. Of the multiplying of his seed 2. Of inheriting the land of Canaan 3. of the Messias which should be borne of his seed And for this cause the signe was placed in the generatiue part Representatinum a signe representing Abrahams excellent faith as it is afterward called a seale of the righteousnesse of faith Distinctinum a signe whereby the Iewes were distinguished from all other people Demonstratinum a signe shewing the naturall disease of man euen originall ●inne and the cure thereof by Christ. Prafiguratinum a signe prefiguring Baptisme and the spirituall circumci●ion of the heart A Seale For that it is a witnesse of faith receiued As being an expresse signe of the thing signified Abraham beleeued his seed should be multiplied ideo congrueuter accep it signum in membro generationis As sealing vp secretly this mysterie that the Sauiour of the world should be borne of the seed of Abraham Because it was a confirmation of Gods promise to father Abraham as the Letters Patent of Kings are sealed for better assurance Vt obsignaret iustitiam fidei to seale