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A72264 The touch-stone of the reformed Ghospell. Wherin sundry chiefe heads and tenets of the protestants doctrine (obiected by them commonly against the Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the expresse texts of the protestants owne Bible, set forth and approued by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers Iudgments thereon, in confirmation of the Catholike Doctrine; Gagge of the new gospel Heigham, John, fl. 1639. 1634 (1634) STC 13033.8; ESTC S125239 50,830 222

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Mat. 7.21.22 Mat. 5.21 Mat. 19.17 and 11.16 Mat. 12.33 Mat. 16.16 Gal. 3.12 1 Tim. 5.8 1. Ioan. 2.4 1. Ioan. 3.22 Rom. 3.31 Philip. 2.12 ¶ The Fathers that affirme this are Origen in 5. Rom. S. Hilar. cap. 7. in Matt. And S. Ambr. in 4. ad Heb. sayth Fayth alone sufficeth not S. Aug. de fide and operibus cap. 15. sayth I see not why Christ should say If thou wilt haue life euerlasting keep the cōmaundements if without obseruing of them by only fayth one might be saued XXII That no good Workes an meritorious COntrary to the expresse wordes of their owne Bible Matt. 16.27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angells and then he shall reward euery man according to his workes He sayth not that he shall reward euery man according to his mercy or their fayth but according to their workes So S. August de verbis Apost serm 35. doth interprete Matt. 5.12 Reioyce and be glad for great is your reward in heauen The word Reward in latin and greeke signifyeth wages and hyre due for workes and so presupposeth a meritorious deed as the Rhemish Testament noteth vpon this place Agayne Matt. 10.42 Whosoeuer shall giue to drinke a cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple verily I say vnto you he shall in no wise loose his reward Therefore good workes are meritorious 1. Cor. 5.10 For we must all appeare before the iudgment seat of Christ that euery one may receiue the thinges in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or had Wordes most cleere that heauen is as well the reward of good workes as Hell the stipend of euill works howsoeuer the enemies of all good life and workes do teach the contrary See more 1. Cor. 9.17 18. 25. Heb. 11.26 Psal 18.20 1. Cor. 4.5 3.8.2 Esdras 15.19 Apoc. 22.12 Apoc. 16.6 Apoc. 3. 4. 22.12 Rom. 2.6 Eccles 12. 2. Colos 3.23 Luc. 16.9 6.38 Gen. 15. 1. Ierem. 31.16 Sap. 5.16 1. Tim. 4.8 2. Thes 1. Rom. 11.21 ¶ The holy Fathers affirme the same S. Amb. de apolog Dauid ca. 6. S. Hier. l. 3. cont Pelag. S. Aug. de spiritu lit cap. vlt. and others XXIII That Fayth once had cannot possibly be lost COntrary to expresse words of their owne Bible Luc. 8.13 They on the rocke are they which when they heare receiue the word with ioy which for a while belieue and in time of tentation fall away Therfore fayth once had may afterwards be lost 1. Tim. 1.18.19 This charge I commit vnto thee sonne Timothy according to the prophesies which went before on thee that thou by them mightest warre a good warfare holding faith and a good conscience which some hauing put away concerning faith haue made shipwrack Both which places do plainly reproue this false doctrine That no man can fall from the faith which he once truly had 2. Tim. 2.16 c. Shun prophane and vaine bablinges for they wil increase vnto more vngodlines And their word will eate as doth a canker of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning be truth haue erred saying that the resurrection is past already and ouerthrow 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 Reuelat. 2.5 Luc. 19.24 Mat. 25.8 c. Rom. 11.20 ¶ The Fathers affirme the same frequently and among the rest S. Aug. de gratia lib. arbit de correp gratia ad articulos falso impositos Concil Trid. sess 6. cap. 9.12.13 and others They maintayne XXIV That God by his will and ineuitable decree hath ordained from all eternity who shall be damned and who saued COntrary to the expresse words of their owne Bible 1. Tim. 2. 3.4 God our Sauiour who will haue all men to be saued and to come to the knowledge of the truth meaning by his conditionall will that is to say if men will themselues by accepting doing or hauing done all thinges requisite by Gods law for God vseth not his absolute will or power towards vs in this case therfore he hath not willed incuitably decreed any at all to be damned as our Aduersaries 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 Therfore he is far off from euer making any such decree as our Aduersaries would perswade vs. Wisedome 1.13 For God made not death neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the liuing The reasons which conclude this truth are manifest for we must assure nothing of those thinges which depend vpon the only will of God without cleere and euident reuelation But predestination is such Therfore c. See more Ose 13.9 Ezech. 18. 32. Wis 11.24 Ioan. 3.16 Rom. 11.20.32 Prou. 20.9 28.14 Phil. 2.12 1. Cor. 4.4 9.27 10.12 Eccles 5.5 Iob. 9 21. Ioel 2.14 Ionas 3.9 Acts 8.20 Ierem. 17.9 2. Ioan. 1.8 ¶ See the Fathers that affirme the same in particular S. Aug. l. 1. Ciuit. Tertul. orat ca. 8. S. Cypr. l. 4. epist 2. And S. Amb. lib. 2. de Cain Abel will not that we refer vnto God the preuarication of Adam or the treason of Iudas though he knew the sinne before it was committed Moreouer they hould XXV That euery one ought infallibly to assure himselfe of his Saluation and to belieue that he is of the number of the Predestinate COntrary to the expresse words of their owne Bible 1. Cor. 9.27 I keepe vnder my body and bring it into subiection least that by any meanes when I haue preached to others I my selfe should be a cast-away A man would thinke that S. Paul might be as sure and as confident of Gods grace and saluation as any one of our Protestants be and yet you see he durst not adhere vnto their presumptuous and vnhappy security Rom. 11.20.21 Thou standest by faith be not high-minded but feare for if God spared not the naturall branches take heed least he also spare not thee Behould therfore the goodnes and seuerity of God on them which fell seuerity but towards thee goodnes if thou continue in his goodnes otherwise thou also shalt be cut off And Philip. 1.12 Worke out your owne saluation with feare trembling Most plaine and forcible places against the vayne security of saluation See more Pro. 28.14 Eccles 9. 1.2.2 Tim. 2.15.2 Pet. 1.10 Tob. 12.2.13 Pro. 20.9 Eccles 5.5 Iob. 9.20 Psal 18.13 1. Cor. 4. 4. Deut. 4.29.2 Cor. 10.18.1 Pet. 1.17 ¶ See S. Amb. ser 5. in Psal 118. S. Basil in constit monast cap. 2. S. Hieron l. 2. aduers Pelagianos l. 3. in Ierem. cap. 13. S. Chrysost hom 87. in Ioan. And S. Aug. in Psal 40. sayth I know full well that the Iustice of my God remaineth Whether my owne iustice remaine or no I know not for the Apostle