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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18357	Six sermons now first published, preached by that learned and worthy divine Edward Chaloner lately deceas'd, Dr in Divinity, sometimes Chaplaine in Ordinary to our soveraigne K. Iames, and to his Maiesty that now is: and late Principall of Alban Hall in Oxford. Printed according to the author's coppies, written with his owne hand	Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.; Sherman, Abraham, 1601 or 2-1654.	1629 (1629)	STC 4937; ESTC S107649	98,854	158

the daie because it is the cause of it physicke is necessary for the recovery of a mans health because it is the cause of it or else a thing may be said to be necessary by way of an effect or of a condition and so heate is necessary to the fire light to the sunne moystnesse to the water not that heate is the cause of the fire nor light the cause of the sunne nor moystnesse the cause of the water but that the fire and sunne and water are rather the causes of them and they necessary effects of these Vpon this distinction depends the great controversie betweene vs and the Church of Rome concerning good workes We agree on both sides that to do and performe the word of God to do good workes is necessary for every man which expecteth to be justified by Christ the difference consists in this they say that good workes are necessary to justificatiō as being causes of it we say they are necessary to justification only as being effects of it I need not insist much vpon the deciding of the controversie in these barren times of ours wherein there are so few which do good workes I wonder what they aile to busie themselues so much in musing what gaine or merit shall accrue vnto them from them whether it shall bee a merit of congruity or desert whether of the first grace or of the secōd when as their store me-thinks is yet so small that though they sell all they haue and become bankerupt marchants they shall never bee able to purchasse the least pearle which adornes the crowne of glory I know that diverse are of opinion that it is a good pollicie to perswade the common people as the Pope doth that good workes are the meritorious causes of justification so by a consequence of salvation because by this meanes the heat of sin say they will bee repressed in many men will bee the more carefull in the performance of good deeds But were these men either well catechised in their religion or else were any whit skilled in the writings of the adverse party I doubt not but they would soone perceiue that their doctrin of works addes fewell rather to increase the flame of bad desires in one thē any way extinguisheth or diminisheth the vigour of it For besides that they teach that many grosse hainous sins are no sins that they mince many and of mortall make them veniall say that the hope of the reward for their good workes the feare of punishment either in hell or in purgatory for their bad do something moue rouse thē vp to performe good deedes yet judge you beloued whether the easy avoiding of those punishments which they haue devised will not as much giue thē courage to goe on in sin persevere in the way of wickednesse Why marke but a little their doctrine in any sinne there are these two parts the guilt of it the punishmēt the punishmēt they make to be twofold the one eternall which is in hell the other temporall wherewith say they God either afflicts men in this life or else in purgatory whē they are dead Now would you know how easie a matter they make it to be freed from the guilt of sin from hell fire Why Bellarmine will soone resolue you for that tell you that these are taken away by confessing of ones sins to the Priest by receiuing an absolution frō him in his 4th booke de poenit and 1. ch and because contrition is so necessary to make the absolution to be of force hee will tell you that a servile contrition is sufficient for that purpose such an one as ariseth not from a feare of offending God but only from a feare of the punishment which God will inflict vpō thē as we find it in his 2d booke de poenit 17. ch which kinde of contrition and sorrow for ones sinnes if it be sufficient I make no question but that the divell himselfe might bee absolved from his sinnes for besides that hee trembles which argues that hee is possest with such a feare as this Saint Iames tells vs moreover that he beleeues which I think is more then many Papists do who content thēselues with an implicit faith as they terme it and a blind zeale but because when the guilt and the punishment of hell fire is taken away they teach that God leaues a temporall punishment to bee vndergone by them either in this life or after this life in purgatory you shall see that the meanes to avoid that will bee as casie as the former For to omit more going about then needes if they would take a speedy way it is but purchasing an Indulgence of the Pope they may haue plenam pleniorem plenissimam as they terme them for halfe their sins or for one third or fourth part or if the Pope please for all as wee may well see in Bellarm his 1. booke de Indulgent chap. 9. Who would not bee a Papist if he were desirous to liue as he listed When besides the Indulgences for a certaine number of Ave-Maryes repeated at some altars which the Pope appoints he may haue a pardon for more yeares then the world is like to continue But to leaue them a while to themselues it shall be enough at this time to shew you that howsoever we holde not good workes to be the causes of salvation nor yet that we are to merite Heauen by them as they doe yet that wee make them absolutely necessary for those which are the heires of salvation and so withall that our doctrine rightly considered doth more necessarily require them of vs then the Papists doe For first wee holde them to bee necessary in respect of God that his Commandement may bee obeyed that his will may be done that wee shew our selues obedient children vnto him that wee bee thankefull for our redemption by CHRIST that wee may glorifie our Father which is in Heaven Secondly we hold them to bee necessary in regard of our neighbours that they may bee helped that they may be wonne by our example and that by doing good the mouthes of our adversaries may be stopped Thirdly we hold good workes necessary for our selues and that notably in these respects First that wee may haue some assurance of our faith and of our salvation for when wee cannot discerne our faith whether it bee a true and liuely one or no but onely by the workes which it bringeth foorth as the tree is not knowne but by his fruite it greatly concernes all those which would over-come all temptations at their death to make good proofe of their faith in their life which is the thing pointed at by the Apostle S. Peter in his 2. Ep. and 1. Chap where he saith giue diligence to make your calling and election sure And herein the Schooles afford vs a good distinction and tell vs that aliud est fiduciam ponere in operibus aliud fiduciam