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The refutation of the byshop of Winchesters derke declaratio[n] of his false articles, once before confuted by George Ioye Be not deceiued by this bysshops false bokes. Heare novve the tother parte, and iudge truely of the trueth. For the veritie vvyll haue the victorye.
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Joye, George, d. 1553.
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1546
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STC 14828.5; ESTC S107947
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in their encreace be knowen by their orderly operations and frutes Faith in christ firste beleueth into hym and iustifieth and teacheth man al his good workes to be wrought in him of god and not of himself faith purifyeth hertes and maketh a quiete conscience whiche is our holy sabboth and rest so oft commanded in the lawe to be sanctifyed of vs. By hope we continue iÌ„ the thinge now known and promesed By faith and by expectacioÌ„ paciently tary for it Faith beleueth God to be trwe hope taryeth tyl God exhibeth his trwth in tyme when thoccasion shal be geuen Faith beleueth God to be hir father hope taryeth tyl he declare him self fatherly to vs. Faith beleueth eternall lyfe to be geuen vs for christis sake hope waiteth for the daye where in it shal be reueled vnto vs. Faith is y e fouÌ„dacioÌ„ stone wher vpon hope and charitie reste and leane fast to it charitie extendeth hir to god knowen by faith and to hir neighbour These .iii. giftes I may also by waye of doctrine compare to .iii. diâ—tinct knids of leades throne into one and the same grounde whiche albeit anon thei apere not aboue the grounde yet nether is the earthe ne the seades idle as ye taunt and terme it but by the secrete power of the moost high seadisman worke their naturall distinct operacions and officies ere thei appere and fructifye their distinct frutes Neither adde I anye onelies otherwise to faith then the scripture and all the olde holy doctors do as hir onely proper distincte operation requireth In the iustified man they be al .iii. but not concurrant into the one and same effecte of iustification but eche gifte seuerally tendeth into hir proper accion and be not idle no notherwise then wheÌ„ the man hauing both eies eares nose seeth with his eyes onelye yet be not therefore his eares ne nose idle sences Then by an other false supposicioÌ„ wold ye deduce a falser conclusion sayeng In dede theffect of faith is properly to illumine the vnderstanding of charitie to warme Now if the iustificacion of man implyed only thexpulsion of derkenes froÌ„ mans vnderstaÌ„ding theffect of faith wold suffice but seing god in iustification moueth mannes hert and kindleth loue in it why may not these two vertues with their two effectes by gods working concurre in mans iustification Fyrst the scripture teach you that to illumine the vnderstandynge is not so properly attributed to faith but also to the declaracion of y e word saienge Declaratio sermonum tuoruÌ„ illuminat intellectum dat paruulis The declaration of thy wordes illumineth and geuethe vnderstandyng to the litle ones And agen praeceptum domini lucidum illuminans oculos The precept of the lord is pure bright illumininge the eies of oure vnderstaÌ„ding And in another place lucerna pedibus meis uerbum tuum thy worde is lanterne and light to my fete If ye had red diligently and vnderstanden the psalmes ye shulde haue sene this propertye attributed to the worde but I will not steke w t you for so litle ignorance Then ye saye If the iustificacion implyed onely thexpulsioÌ„ of derkenes theffect of faith were sufficient As thoughe if the iustificacioÌ„ implyed not onelye that effecte but many other it shuld not be sufficient but it implyeth manye mo effectes besyde youre warnynge with charitie and yet is it sufficient For in the iustifycacion by faith onely God purifyeth the herte In the iustificacion is implied thexpulsion of dubitacion of the remissioÌ„ and is implied the peace and setlinge at reste of a tranquill conscience and yet all these impâ—yings let not faith onely the lesse to iustifye But what and if I saye that God by faith warmeth the hert and kindleth it to loue as by the rote of charite I am able to proue it Thus God geueth no cold faith into manis hert but a warme faith effectuouly to warme ergo Faith warmeth charite and kindleth loue with oute the which warminge faith your charite were as colde as yse Nowe is this youre wyse argument God in iustiâ—icacion kindleth loue in man ergo charite iustifyeth I denye your argumeÌ„t proue it if ye can For God kindleth not loue by loue but kiÌ„dleth lou by faith For if loue be not warmed by faith it shal be but a cold and faithles loue I meruel ye be so blyndened wil not see the trwth but so sinistrely of malice to seke these feble childish shiftis had ye rede but this one text of Paul malice not blyndinge your vnderstandinge Porro finis precepti est charitas ex puro corde coÌ„sciencia bona fide non simulata Th ende of the precept is loue procedinge out of a pure hert and out of a good conscience and out of faith vnfayned ye might haue sene plainly out of what rote charite springeth and faith iustifienge purifienge and makinge a good conscience to go before charitie But herken what foloweth a quibuâ— quod aberrarunt quidam defeceruÌ„t ad uaniloquium uolentes legis esse doctores non intelligentes que loquuntur neque de quibus asseuerant from the whiche doctrine and order of faith and charitie c. because some men haue erred and gone farre from it therfore are they fallen back from the truth vnto vaine and lieng spech false reasons and arguments agenst the veritie willinge to be seene and to be doctours of the lawe and teachers of gods law not vnderstaÌ„ding what they speke ne of what thinges they make assertioÌ„s articles and sich lik affirmacioÌ„s enstruccioÌ„s c. now how say ye haue not S. Paul liuely described you here set ye forth in your iust colors Blame not me for recitinge these words but Paule for writinge them and your self for verifieng them of your selâ—e with youre owne dedes wordes and writinge Trewely not with all the learninge subtilite rethrike and witte ye haue shall ye proue charitie to helpe faith to iustifie but only faith to do it for ye striue against the truthe and as christe tolde Paul It is to harde for ye to kick against y t prick God once illumine your hert w t his word to se once onely faith to iustifye amen As for Paul declareth â—lainly that albeit he speketh sometime of faith without meÌ„cion of charitie yet he meaneth not faith as a bare foundacion but faith with charitie to iustifye Albeit ye be the popes lawer and doctour to yet do I not take ye to be of so highe autoritie as to beleue these your bare wordes concerninge the vnderstanding of Paules mynd But if Paule haue so plainly declared his minde as charitie wyth faith to iustifye seinge ye be so well seene in Paule expresse Paules mynde with Paulis wordis for this mater lyke a lerned bishop Nether we ne Paule ne Christ call faith onely iustifyinge a bare foundacion for god geueth no siche idle bare cold giftis as ye prate of nether christ buylding his chirche