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conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	timothy_n	1,872	5	11.8568	5	true

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A43256	The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine.	Heigham, John, fl. 1639.; Kellison, Matthew, attributed name.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1370E; ESTC R216621	50,365	158

S. Ambr. in 4. ad Heb. saith Faith alone sufficeth not S. Aug. de fide operibus cap. 51. saith I see not why Christ should say If thou wilt have life everlasting keep the commandements if without observing of them by onely Faith one might be saved XXII That no good Works are meritorious COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Mat. 16.17 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works He saith not that he shall reward every man according to his mercy or their faith So S. August de verbis Apost serm 35. doth interpret Mat. 5.12 Rejoyce and be glad for great is your reward in heaven The word Reward in Latine and Greek signifieth wages and hire due for works and so presupposeth a meritorious deed as the Rhemish Testament noteth upon this place Again Mat. 10.42 Whosoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water onely in the name of a Disciple verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward Therefore good works are meritorious 2 Cor. 5.10 For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Words most clear that Heaven is as well the reward of good works as hell is the stipend of evil Therefore they must needs be enemies of a good life and of all good works who teach the contrary See more 1 Cor. 19.17 and 18.25 Heb. 11.26 Psal 18.20 1 Cor. 4.5 and 3.8 2. Esdras 15.19 Apo● 22.12 Apoc. 16.6 Apoc. 3.4 and 22.12 Rom. 26. Eccles 12.2 Colos 3.23 Luke 16.9 and 6.38 Gen. 15.1 Jerem. 31.16 Sap. 5.16 1. Tim. 4.8 2 Thes 1.6 Rom. 11.21 ¶ The holy Fathers unanimously affirm the same S. Amb de apolog David cap. 6. S. Hier. l. 3. cont Pelag. S. Aug. de spiritu lit cap. ult and others XXIII That faith once had cannot possibly be lost COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Luke 8.13 They on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy which for a while believe and in the time of tentation fall away Therefore faith once had may afterwards be lost 1 Tim. 1.18.19 This charge I commit unto thee Son Timothy according to the prophesies which went before on thee that thou by them mightest war a good warfare holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack Both which places do plainly reprove this false doctrine That no man can fall from the faith which he once truly had 2 Tim. 2.16 c. Shun profane and vain bablings for they will increase unto more ungodliness And their word will eat as doth a canker of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning the truth have erred saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some If faith once had could not be lost this saying of the Apostle should be false See more 1 Tim. 6.20 Rev. 2.5 Luke 19.24 Matth. 23.8 c. Rom. 11 20. ¶ The Fathers affirm the same frequently and among the rest S. August de gratia lib. de correp gratia ad articulo falso impositos concil Trid. less 6. cap. 9.12.13 and others They maintain XXIV That God by his will and inevitable Decree hath ordained from all eternity who shall be damned and who saved COntrary to the express words of their own Bible 1 Tim. 2.3 4. God our Saviour who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth Meaning by his conditional will that is to say if men will themselves by accepting doing or having done all things requisite by Gods Law for God useth not his absolute will or power towards us in this case Therefore he hath not willed and inevitably decreed any at all to be damned as our Adversaries hold 2 Pet. 3.9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise c. not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Therefore he is farre from ever making any such decree as our Adversaries would perswade us Wisdom 1.13 For God made not death neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living The reasons which conclude this truth are manifest for we must assure nothing of those things which depend upon the onely will of God without clear and evident revelation But predestination is such Therefore c. See more Ose 13.9 Ezech. 18.32 Wis 11.24 Joan. 3.16 Rom. 11.20.32 Prov. 20.9 and 28.14 Phil. 2.12 1 Cor. 4.4 and 9.27 and 10.12 Eccles 5.5 Job 9.2 Joel 2.14 Ionas 3.9 Act. 8.20 Ier. 17.9 2 Ioan. 1.8 ¶ See the Fathers that affirm the same in particular S. Aug. l. 1. civit Tertul. orat c. 8. S. Cypr. lib. 4. epist. 2. And S. Amb. lib. 2. de Cain and Abel will not that we refer unto God the prevari●ation of Adam or the treason of Judas though he knew the sin before it was committed Further they hold XXV They every one ought infallibly to assure himself of his Salvation and to believe that he is of the number of the Predestinate COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible 1 Cor. 9.27 I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast away A man would think that S. Paul might be as sure and as confident of Gods grace and salvation as any one of our Protestants be and yet you see he durst not adhere unto their presumptuous and unhappy security Rom. 11. 20 21. Thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear for if God spared not the natural branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on them which fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off And Philip. 2.12 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Most plain forcible places against the vain security of salvation See more Prov. 28.14 Eccles 9.1 2. 2 Tim. 2.15 2 Pet. 1.10 Tob. 12.2 13. Prov. 20.9 Eccles 5.5 Iob 9.20 Psa 18.13 1 Cor. 4.4 Deut. 4.29 2 Cor. 10.18 1 Pet. 1.17 ¶ See S. Amb. ser 5. in Psa 118. S. Basil in constit monast c. 2. S. Hier. l. 2. advers Pelagianos l. 3. in Ierem. cap. 13. S. Chrysost hom 87. in Ioan. And S. Aug. in Psa 40. saith I know full well that the justice of my God remaineth Whether my own justice remain or no I know not for the Apostle terrifieth me saying He that thinketh himself to stand let him take heed lest he fall S. Bern. ser 3. de Adven ser 1. de Septuages saith Who can say I am one of the Elect c. XXVI That every man hath not