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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13094	A christal glasse for christian vvomen containing, a most excellent discourse, of the godly life and Christian death of Mistresse Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton vpon Trent, in Staffordshire the 14. day of December. 1590. With a most heauenly confession of the Christian faith, which shee made a little before her departure: as also a wonderfull combate betwixt Sathan and her soule: worthie to be imprinted in letters of golde, and are to be engrauen in the tables of euery Christian heart. Set downe word for word, as she spake it, as neere as could be gathered: by Phillip Stubbes Gent.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1592 (1592)	STC 23382; ESTC S104605	19,337	22

works could ●aue vs then had Christ died in vaine And if they could sa●e vs why should they not be called by the name of Sauiour But when I say that Faith onely iustifieth I meane not a barren faith or a dead Faith wi●hout good works such as the diuels haue but I speake of such a Faith as bringeth forth good works in great plēty and can no more be without good works than the Sun without light the fire without heat or the water without his natural moysture If you would know why we should doo good works if we cannot be saued by them I will tell you we must doo good works for foure causes chiefly First to shew our obediēce to him that commaunds vs secondly to glorifie him that created vs and ordained good works also that we should walke in them Thirdly for the mutuall lou● and charitie which we beare towards the brethren Fourthly to make our saluation sure and certaine vnto vs as the Apostle speaketh For these other causes must we do good works yet must we not trust to be saued by them for there is no other name giuen vnder heauen wherby man can be saued but onely the name of Iesus Christ. I do also constantly beleeue con●esse ●hat al the canonical scriptures are the in●allible word of God and that the holy spirit of God was is the onely author of them that holy men of God spake writ them as they were taught and inspired by the spirite of God as blessed Peter beareth record I also beleeue that the holy scriptures do contain all things necessary to sa●uation without all popish trash of vnwritten verities or rather vnwritten berie lyes I do further also beleeue and confesse that God the father hath from euerlasting and before all worlds in his secret counsel and in his euerlasting purpose and decree elected chosen and predestinate in Christ Iesus certaine of the lost sonnes of Adam to be members of his body coheir●s with him of his heauēly kingdom And othersome hath he pr●destinated to euerlasting destruction leauing them in their naturall sin and corruption still Now if ye aske me what predestination and reprobation is I answer it is the euerlasting purpose or decree of God whereby he doth chuse some to saluation some to damnation If you demaund why he chuseth some to salu●tion and not all finding them all in like state and condition I answer In chusing of some to saluation he sheweth his vnspeakable mercy grace fauour and loue and in chusing other some to damnation he sheweth his power his iustice and his iudgem●nt to all the world For as by the one the mercy of God appeareth so by the other wee may see what we haue all deserued And if you aske me why he chuseth some and reiecteth othersome I tell you hee may doo it at his blessed will and pleasure for if I haue two debters that owe me a thousand pound it is in mee to release the one of the whole debt and to exact the whole of the other for to the one I shew but mercie and to the other but iustice Now those that the Lord hath predestinate in Christ Iesus to euerlasting saluation them doth he call in his good time to the knowledge of his truth to repentan●e to integrity of life to all perfection and those whom he doth call them doth he iustifie and whō he doth iustifie them will he glorifie And that this doctrine of predestination reprobatiō standeth thus the Apostle Eph. 1.11 sheweth euidently saying we are chosen in Christ when we were p●edestinate according to the purpose of him that worketh all things a●ter the counsel of his will And in the 4 5 ver of the same chapter he ●aith we are chosen in him meaning Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy blamelesse before him in loue Read Rom. 9. and many other places of holy scriptures you shall fin● this doctrine to be very cleare I do further beleeue and confesse that God hath his seuerall churches as namely his Church triumphant in the kingdome of heauen his Church militant dispersed vpon the face of the earth I do also beléeue that this militant Church is two folde visible and inuisible The visible Church is knowne and discerned by these marks the word of God preached the Sacraments sincerely ministred Ecclesiasticall discipline and other censures of the Church duely executed The other Church I call the inuisible Church not for that men are inuisible but for that it alwaies appeareth not to the eye of the world but is knowne to God onely who alone knoweth who are his I beleeue that this Church this spouse of Christ cannot erre finally in matters of saluation and damnation so long as she holdeth her head Christ Iesus aright And I constantly beléeue that Iesus Christ is the onely head ruler and gouernour of his Church and not Antichrist the Pope nor any of his shauelings as Paul testifieth Ephes. 4.15 saying Let vs grow vp in all things in him who is the head Christ Iesus Againe in another place hee saith As Christ is the head of the Church so is the husband head ouer his wife I beleeue and confesse that Iesus Christ hath left not onely the holy Scriptures to instruct and teach his Church but also Sacraments in number two to wit Baptisme and the Lords Supper as seales of his grace towards it to confirme it in his truth and as conduits of his mercy to conuey his grace goodnesse to it also These Sacraments I say are Seales and signes of holie things and therefore cannot be the things themselues For it is against the nature of a Sacrament to be the thing signified therby Baptisme consisteth of two natures the visible Element and the inuisible grace The visible Element is water the inuisible grace is the gifts and graces of the holy Ghost conferred in baptisme The water signifieth vnto vs that our whole nature is corrupted and had need to be purged and cleansed It signifieth also vnto vs our regeneration sanctification and new birth And it representeth also vnto vs the bloud of Iesus Christ which cleanseth vs from all sinnes And I faithfully beleeue that it is no more lawfull for a woman to minister this Sacrament then it is lawfull for her to preach or to minister the Sacrament of the Lords Supper And as concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper I beleeue and confesse that it consisteth of two natures also an earthly and an heauenly nature or quality The visible element or earthly nature is bread wine the heauēly nature or quality the body and bloud of Christ signified thereby The wine doth represent vnto vs the bloud of Christ which was shed for vs and the bread doth signify vnto vs also the body of Christ which was giuen for vs. And as many as doe receiue this Sacrament worthily

in remembrance of the death passion of Iesus Christ doe eat and drink Iesus Christ spiritually to their euerlasting saluatiō And I do verely beleeue that in this Sacrament neither the bread nor the wine neither before nor after the wordes of consecration as they tearme them are chaunged altered or transubstantiate into the reall essentiall or materiall body of Christ but doe remaine the same still in nature and substance that they were before And therefore Paul feared not to call it bread still many times in his epistle to the Corinthians And our Sauiour Christ in the 6. of Iohn saith that they should see him ascend into heauen with the same body that he sate in with them at Supper whole and vneaten adding further that the wordes that he spake were spirite and truth and that it is the spirit that giueth life the flesh profiteth little And he biddeth vs to celebrate this Supper in remembrance of him and to preach his death therin till he come againe If Christ were in the Sacrament flesh blood and bone then the wicked might eate him so should there neuer any wicked be condemned for Christ sayth hee that eateth his flesh and drinketh his bloud shall neuer die yea Rattes Cattes and Mice might eate his body which were blasphemous and sacrilegious once to imagine though the Papists are not ashamed to teach it openly And albeit that these Sacraments doe represent vnto vs most excellent things yet do they not conferre grace of themselues neither is the grace of God so tied to the materiall Elements that hee cannot saue without them And therefore are the Papists more then cruell that teach all children to be damned that die before baptisme For wee read of certaine in the Acts of the Apostles that were baptised and yet they had not so much as heard whether there were any holy Ghost or not Simon Magus was baptised yet he receiued not the holy Ghost tho And againe Cornelius had receyued the holy Ghost before his Baptisme Iohn the Baptist receiued the holy Ghost in his mothers wombe and the like But yet notwithstanding although the grace of God be not tyed to the Sacraments yet hee that may receyue them and wil not or else setteth light by them or contemneth them shall neuer receiue the gifts and graces signified by them I doe also most constantly beleeue that as Iesus Christ is the vndoubted Sauiour of the worlde so is he our onely Mediatour aduocate and intercessour to God the Father and none but he alone who is ascended into the Heauens sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh continuall praiers to God for vs. And Iohn saith If any man sinne we haue an aduocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins And to the same effect Paul speaketh 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one mediatour betweene God and man which is the man Christ Iesus And as I beleeue that Iesus Christ is our onely mediatour and aduocate so I constantly beleeue that he onely is to be called vpon inuocated and prayed vnto and neyther Saint nor Angel Patriarke nor Father Martyr nor Confessour Peter nor Paul Apostle nor Euangelist Iames nor Iohn no not Marie herselfe nor any other creature how excellent soeuer they seemed to be in the eye of the world For we are assured by the word of god that the saints can neither heare our praiers nor grant our requests And therefore Christ saith Call vpon me in the day of thy troubles and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt prayse me And againe the Apostle sayth how shall they call vpon him in whom they haue not beleeued Then as it is not lawfull to beleeue in any other saue in God alone so is it not lawfull to pray to any other but to God alone in the name and mediation of Christ Iesus onely I doe also most constantly beleeue that my soule so soone as euer it shall depart foorth of my bodie shall be caried by the ministerie of the holy Angels of God into the kingdome of Heauen where I shall see and certainly knowe Adam Euah Noah Abraham Isaac Iacob Moses Samuel Dauid and all other Prophets Patriarkes and Fathers together with Marie the mother of Christ Peter Paul Iames and Iohn and all other Martyrs Confessours and holy Saints of God which haue dyed since the beginning of the worlde or which shall die to the ende of the same Oh what a comfortable thing is this that we shall know one another in the life to come Talke one with another loue one another and praise God one with another and all together worlde without ende And because some of you peraduenture will hardly beleeue this doctrine to be so I pray you giue me leaue to proue it by the worde of God and then will I make an end When God had cast Adam into a dead sleepe made woman of a ribbe of his side he brought her vnto him and he knew her straight way and called her by her name Could Adam in the state of innocency know his wife he being in a dead sleepe whilest she was in making And shal not we being restored to a farre more excellent dignity and perfection then euer was Adam in not know one another Shall our knowledge be lesse in heauen then it is in earth Doe we know one another in this life where wee know but in part and see but in part yea as it were in a Glasse and shall we not know one another in the life to come where all ignorance shall be done away In the 16. of Luke we reade how that the rich man lying in hell knew Abraham and Lazarus in heauen a farre off Then I reason thus If the wicked that be in hell in torments doe knowe those that be in heauen so farre aboue them how much more shal the godly know one another being altogether in one place fellowe Citizens in the kingdome of heauen We reade also in the 17. of Matt how our Sauiour Christ meaning to shew vnto his Disciples Peter Iames and Iohn as it were a shadowe or glimmering of the ioyes of heauen and therefore hee is sayd to bee transfigured before them and his face did shine as the Sunne and his apparell was like the light there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias sayth the text Then it followeth that if the Disciples being in their natural corruption and but in a shadow and glimmering of the ioyes of heauen did knowe Moses and Elias the one whereof died almost two thousand yeares before the other not much lesse how much more shall we knowe one another in the life to come all corruption being taken away and we in the full fruition and possession of all the ioyes and glory of heauen This is my faith this is my hope this is my trust this hath the spirite of God taught me and this haue I learned out