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A15396	A catholicon, that is, A generall preservative or remedie against the pseudocatholike religion gathered out of the catholike epistle of S. Jude, briefly expounded, and aptly, according to the time, applied to more then halfe an hundreth of popish errours, and as many corruptions of manners. With a preface seruing as a preparatiue to the catholicon, and a dyet prescribed after.; A catholicon.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1602 (1602)	STC 25673; ESTC S114006	113,250	270

strife I pray thee betweene thee and me neither betweene thy heardmen and mine Gen. 13. 8. Thus did Moses seeke to pacifie the strife betweene two Hebrewes his brethren Exod. 2. 13. Exornat The amitie and loue of brethren is like a threefold coard that can not easily be broken Eccles. 4. 12. And the Prophet speaking of brotherly loue giueth it these two properties that it is both bonum iucundum a thing good and profitable as also sweete and pleasant for the sweetnesse thereof he compareth it to the sauour of Aarons oyntment for the profit thereof to the dewe of the hills Hermon and Sion that water the valleies and make them fruitfull Psal. 133. Some things are profitable but not pleasant as affliction and crosses some things are pleasant but not profitable as the pleasures of sinne but Charitie and Loue hath this preheminence The excellen●●● of charitie to be both pleasant and profitable Aitiolog Now the Apostle sheweth the reason why we ought to be carefull to maintaine peace and loue Eph. 4. 5. There is one Lord one faith one baptisme that is like as they which are seruants to one master of one opinion and iudgement and of the same blood will hold togither so should we beeing seruants to one Lord professours of the same faith and of one spirituall kinred in baptisme Applicat Now whereas the Apostle saith Keepe your selues least the Papists and Error 51. other freewill-men should take aduantage by these and such other words as though it Against free-will were in our owne power to keepe or preserue our selues in charitie or in any other Christian vertue we make this answer vnto them 1. That it followeth not vpon these and other such like precepts giuen in Scripture that it is in mans power to performe them for then where S. Iohn Baptist saith Repent for the kingdome of God is at hand Matth. 3. 2. and where Saint Peter saith Saue your selues from this froward generation Act. 2. 40. it might be inforced that man hath power by his free-will to repent and to saue himselfe 2. Wherefore as the Apostle saith the law was giuen vs as a schoolemaster to bring vs to Christ Galat. 3. 29. so to the same end are these and such other precepts set forth in scripture that man seeing his own weaknesse to keepe them may thereby as by a schoolemaster be brought to seeke helpe from God as Augustine well saith Ad hoc lex praecepit ista vt cum in his implēdo homo deficeret nonse extollat superbia tumidui De grat lib. ●rbi● c. 6. sed ad gratiam aufugiat fatigatus Therefore hath the law commanded these things that man fayling in the fulfilling of them should not swell with pride but runne vnto grace for helpe beeing wearied in himselfe 3. Againe another reason is why the Scriptures so exhort vs because man is in deede to will and performe all those things yet not of himselfe but by the strength of grace as the Apostle saith He laboured yet not he but the grace of God in him 1. Cor. 15. 10. And this point is well touched by Augustine Nos velle cum volumus sed ille facit vt velimus bonum certum est nos facere sedille facit vt faciamus That we doe De bono persev c. 16. will when any thing is willed but God maketh vs to will it is certen that we doe when any thing is done but he maketh vs doe it Secōdly we are taught by this doctrine that we ought to be most carefull to keepe charitie and so shunne all occasions which may interrupt it not as they which doe snuffe and puffe vpon euery light matter and beeing once offended are hardly reconciled but let vs remember the prudent counsell of the wise man The discretion of a man deferreth his anger and his glorie is to passe by an offence Prou. 19. 11. Looking for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ to eternall life Here we learne that Doctr. ● the hope and expectation of the kingdom of God is an excellent meane as to sustain a mans infirmitie in affliction so to stirre vp his zeale vnto euery Christian dutie Testim Thus the Apostle testifieth 1. Cor. 15. 58. Therefore my brethren be ye steadfast vnmooueable alwaies abundant in the work of the Lord for as much as you know your labour is not in vaine in the Lord that is that God hath a reward in store for the faithfull and fruitfull workes of his seruants Exampl Dauid sheweth the practise thereof in himselfe I should haue fainted except I had beleeued to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing Psal. 27. 13. Exorn. Like as the husbandman endureth his labour hoping to receiue the fruits 2. Tim. 2. 6. and as he that keepeth the figge tree shall eate thereof Prou. 27. 18. so the assurance of the reward should make vs diligent and readie to euery good worke Aitiolog The reason is taken from the contrarie 1. Cor. 15. 19. If then in this life we should onely haue hope we were of all men most miserable Now because we know that the condition of Gods children is most happie and blessed we assuredly beleeue that God hath a reward in store the hope whereof bringeth chearefulnes and encreaseth our courage and zeale to euery good worke Applic. First then by these words of the Apostle who ascribeth euerlasting life to Heauen is not merited the mercies of Christ the errour of the Papists is confuted that say heauen may as Error 51. well be merited by good works as hell by euill and that life euerlasting is the stipend of iustice as damnation is the stipend of sinne Rhemist annot in Rom. 6. 8. sect But here the Apostle directly referreth life eternall to the mercie of God and S. Paul Rom. 6. 23. saith it is the gift of God wheras the wages of sinne is death Ambrose agreeth to this Apostolike doctrine Let Intelligant se donum gratiae non operū accepis●e mercedem lib. 1. de ●ocat g●nt c. 3. them know that they haue receiued a gift of grace not a wages of their workes Secondly we must take heede of an oother popish errour they say men ought to doe good in respect and for their reward and recompence in heauen Rhemist Hebr. 11. 26. But we contrariwise affirme 1. that we must not at all expect that heauen should be giuen as a iust recompence We must not doe well chiefly for the reward of our workes as due to the worthinesse thereof because as I haue shewed it is the free and gratious gift of God 2. Though a faithfull man may propounde vnto himselfe the recompence of reward as it is saide of Moses He had respect vnto the recompence of reward Hebr. 11. 26. yet that ought not to be the chiefe or greatest motiue but the respect to Gods glorie and their owne dutie ought most of all to mooue