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A17219	Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same: and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe. 1572	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Coxe, John.	1572 (1572)	STC 4074; ESTC S113230	103,005	301

place he saithe what hast thou that thou hast not receiued wherfore if thou haue receiued it why bostest thou as thoughe thou hadste not receyued it And agayne he sayth It is giuen to you in the things appertayning to Chryst that not onely you shoulde beleeue in him but also suffer affliction for hys names sake Likewise he sayth For it is God that woorketh in you bothe the will and the deede euen of hys owne good will. And although the faythfull doo all that they doo with a frée spirite and willing minde yet neuerthelesse this their fréedome and willingnesse is let and hindered very much through the defectes and infirmities of the flesh whiche alwayes remayneth with vs euen vnto deathe Wherefore Paule greatly complayneth saying The flesh rebelleth agaynst the spirit and the spirite agaynst the flesh so that the things which I would not do that do I. Touching this matter read more Roma 7. And yet in this case doo we not attribute vnto man any more frée will than that which the frée mercy of God worketh by whose holy spirite he is fréely gouerned preserued But as touching the infirmity which dwelleth in vs the operation and working of the spirite is hindred and let thereby so that mans free will can doo nothing that is good and so that good which it is willing to doo and dothe is of the frée grace and holy spirite of god And therfore Paule attributeth not his good workes to hys owne free wil but to the grace of God saying By the grace of God I am that I am and hys grace was not in me in vayne but I labored more than they all and yet not I but the grace of God that was with me 1. Corinth 15. Marke well that he sayth yet not I but the grace of God which was with me But touching euill lyke as wée haue sayde already wée doo it not by compulsion or agaynst our will but willingly and that by reason of the corruption which is grafted in our nature And yet when wee runne headlong to the Deuill God can lette and stoppe vs and giue vs an other manner of mynde whereby wée may bée stirred and dr●uen as it were to the things wherein before we had no delight The fithe Common place Of Fayth and good Woorkes The. xviij Question What they thinke of fayth hope and charitie The Answere TOuching these thrée being in déede the cheefe poynts of our Christian religion I thinke very wel and truely of them euen as the word of god hathe taughte Fayth is the sure confidence of a man that is lyghtened of God whereby he trusteth in God and in his onely son our Lord Jesus Chryst and his vndoubted worde and that to the remission of sinnes and eternall lyfe Hope is a stedfaste pacient and comfortable looking for of those things whiche we beléeue cheefly if the receiuing of them be deferred and appeare otherwise thā they were beléeued to be charitie is poured into our hearts encreased and preserued and is due both to God man so that we should loue God aboue all things and our neighbour as our selfe euen as Chryste also hath loued vs The places of Scripture from whence these descriptions are taken I haue therfore willingly left out least this Booke shoulde grow and encrease vnto an huge volume The. xix Question Whether these three vertues faith hope charity are but one thing or else distinct vertues in the holy Scripture and chiefly whether the one may not be taken for the other The Answere TOuching these thrée singuler giftes of God S. Paule speaketh distinctly giuing to ech of them their peculyar properties 1. Thes. 1. VVe giue thanks vnto God almightie for you all making mention of you in our praiers remembring alwayes your effectuall fayth diligēt or working loue and stedfast hope in our Lord Iesus Chryst. c. And forasmuche as he giueth thankes and prayers vnto God he teacheth that these vertues are fréely giuen frō him vnto men and that therefore they ought to pray and render thankes vnto him And vnto faythe he attributeth a certayne effectuall working bicause that from hir all good works yea hope and charitie do spring And he calleth charity diligētor working bicause true charitie or loue laboreth and exerciseth hir selfe to please bothe God and man And to hope he attributeth stedfastnesse and pacience bicause Paul in the eight to the Romanes sayth That wee are made safe throughe hope But hope if it be seene is no hope For how can a man hope for that which he seeth But if we hope for the thing whiche we see not by pacience wée looke for them Therefore fayth hope and charitie are distincted vertues and haue eche their proper operations And therefore are they seuerally reckened by S. Paule 1. Corin 1. in which place he sayth that these thrée are Agayne these vertues are so coupled togither and depende so one of an other that they can not in any wise be hadde seuerally For who so rightly beléeueth in God and his word the same also hopeth to receiue the things he looketh for Lyke as Paule teacheth out of the Prophet Abacuc in the Epistle to the Hebrues cap. 10. Againe who so rightly beléeueth in God loueth him as his chefe and euerlasting good and loueth man bicause he is the image of God redéemed by him as S. John teacheth in his Epistle And therfore Paule to the Hebrues Cap. 11. interpreteth fayth by hope saying Fayth is the substance or grounde of thynges which are hoped for And in hys firste Epistle to Timothe he sheweth that charitie springeth from faythe saying Furthermore the end of the commaundementis loue from a pure hart a good conscience and fayth vnfayned Therefore like as there is but one sunne and yet he is not alone so is there but one fayth and yet is she not alone But as from the sunne procéedeth two seuerall things so that thereby three things are in the sunne that is the globe or body of the sunne from whiche procéedeth brightnesse and heate and these thrée are so ioyned in one sunne that by no meanes they can be separated and yet are they three distincted things hauing eche their seuerall properties So lykewise these three vertues faythe hope and charitie are so knytte togither that by no meanes they may bée separated and yet are they seuerally distincted Wherefore euen as from the Globe or substaunce of the sunne as from one spring lighte and heate doo flowe so from faythe also bothe charitie and hope doo spring And as the body of the sunne is not the lyghte or the heate so Fayth is neyther Hope nor Charitie Yet neuerthelesse the bodye of the Sunne is not wythoute Heate and Lyght and Fayth is not without Hope and Charitie And as the sunne shineth by his brightnesse and not by his heate so faythe inasmuche as shée receiueth Chryste iustifieth vs before God and not through charitie Therfore

¶ Questions of Religion cast abroad in HELVETIA by the Aduersaries of the same and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of ZVRICK reduced into 17. Common places Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe 1572. ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman for George Byshop To the right Reuerend father in God and my very good Lorde William by Gods prouidēce Bishop of Excester Iohn Cox Wisheth all grace and peace of conscience from God our heauenly father through Chryste Iesus our Lord nowe and for euer WHEN I HAD finished the translation of thys Booke right Reuerende father and being persvvaded by some of my godly freends to publishe the same in Printe for that it vvas a Booke not onely conteyning the vvhole summe of our Christian Religion but also ansvveres to all the obiections vvhich our aduersaries the Papistes may or can obiecte agaynst vs bearing any similitude or likelyhode of truthe and agayne also considering vvith my selfe that in these our dayes beeing the laste and therefore the moste perillous and daungerous dayes for so our sauiour Christ him selfe teacheth vs vvherin vve haue great neede to be furnished against the assaultes of the enimies of true Religion and vvaying vvith my selfe the godly minde of the author D. Henry Bullinger vvho vvrote the same in hys ovvne naturall tongue for the profite of his Countreymen as more largely appeareth in his ovvne preface vvhere he declareth vvhy he tooke this matter in hande a man of moste singular learning and vertuous liuing for vvhom all christendome is bound to magnifie the maiestie of god declaring his loue tovvards vs in sending such an excellent member to his Church vvho paynfully traueled not only in Lectures and Sermons euen in his olde and feble age but also vvrote many Bookes so that it can not vvell be discerned in vvhich of these tvvo exercises he did most excede in labor thought I could do God no better seruice and no greater pleasure to my Countreymen than to make them partakers of suche a precious perle as this For that it is a sure shield and strong furnished fortresse agaynst the carping tongs and clapping clacks of Mo●●● his race For such is the gret frovvardnesse obstinacie of some men that althoughe God of his mercy and clemencie hath repressed and beatē dovvne the frosen frostie and darke mountayns of Popish Cimmeria vvherby the clearenesse of his Gospell vvas kepte from vs and hath caused the most comfortable bright beames of his Gospell to shyne foorthe ouer vs yet they most vvickedly blyndfield them selues vvyth the thicke and foggie mystes of mans imaginations and so rebelling agaynst God their Creator chose rather stubbornely to abyde in their olde horrible darkenesse than vvillingly to embrace the comfortable lyghte of so mercyfull a god VVherefore I mused vvith my selfe to vvhome cheefly I might dedicate this treatise amongst many graue and vvise personages I foūd none so meete as your fatherhoode and that for tvvo causes The one for that it hath pleased god of his mercy to take avvay hence vnto him selfe that moste precious levvel and excellent ornament of his Church D. Jewell late Byshop of Sarisburie for vvhose death vvhat sighes and teares are amongest the godly I ceasse to declare partly for that I vvyll not augmente and renue your Fatherhoods conceiued sorrovves vvhich you haue planted vvithin your breste such vvas the great amitie loue and faythfull frendship betvveene you and for that partly the aboundaunce of mine ovvne teares forceth the same such are the vehement affections of mans nature to vvhome this Booke vvas dedicated by one Iosias Simlerus one of the chefe Ministers in the Church of Zuricke vvho turned the same out of Dutche into Latin vvherin the author vvrote it as I sayd before that as the Booke vvas a defence and fortresse to many so he lykevvyse mighte be a sheelde and defence vnto the same agaynst the brauling tongues of the barking enimyes the Papistes vvho are euer ready to spit foorthe the pestiferous humors of their malitious and vngodly stomacks as their tyrannous practises from tyme to tyme haue and doo moste manyfestly declare VVherfore righte reuerende father and my singular good Lorde sithe it hathe pleased God as I sayde before to take avvay from vs such an ornament and Ievvel for some good cause vnto him knovven I offer this his defence into your hands beeing no lesse vvorthy to take so good a matter in hande The other is your good Lordshyps accustomable fauour and good vvill continually bestovved on the cheefe of my freends vvhich forceth me to dedicate this vnto you therby to signifie that althoughe there vvanteth povver and habilitie bothe in them and me to requite any parte thereof yet suche is our bounden dueties tovvards your Lordshippe that neither blinde obliuion nor tyme vvith his crooked sithe shall be able to cut that reuerende affection and loue from our brestes vvhich vvee haue duetifully conceiued tovvards you VVherefore I moste humbly beseeche you to accepte this my trauell in good parte and as the onely token of him vvho prayeth dayly vnto the almightie God that he may encrese you vvith honor and so gouerne you vvith his holy spirite that as you haue begun so you may continue a most vigilant and paynfull pastor in Chrystes Churche to the comforte and encrease thereof the quiet and discharge of your ovvn conscience the defacing and ouerthrovving of the aduersaries of the same and the incoraging and prouoking of your godly Ministers and Preachers to folovv your steppes in paynfulnesse diligence loue humilitie and other moste excellēt vertues for the vvhich amongst all the godly you are moste vvorthely commended and that so finishing your lyfe vvith a long and an honorable age you may vvith Chryst Iesus our head and onely cheefe pastor possesse the crovvne of eternall glory for euer and euer Amen Your Lorpships moste humble at commaundement IOHN COXE To the right reuerend Father in God Iohn Iuel Bishop of Sarisburie Iosias Simlerus vvisheth health I Haue heard oftentimes many godly men greatly desire some wryting in the which ther might bréefely be confuted all the chéefe argumentes of the Popishe prelates For saide they there is muche written very copiously and learnedly against them but all mē haue not leisure to reade ouer so great and large woorkes And furthermore to those which trauell and by crueltie of the persecuters of oure religion are forced to read them priuily these great volumes are to them very incommodious bicause they cannot easily be caried about with them nor thrust or hidde in their bosome And remembring that a fewe yéeres agone the reuerend father in God Iohn Parkhurst did often times desire me that like as D. Bullinger my father in lawe whome for reuerence sake I name had bréefely set foorthe the chéefe poyntes of our religion and confirmed the same by testimonie of holy scripture intituling it the Summe of Christian Religion so I in like maner shuld gather togither al the arguments which the papists