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death_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	20,689	5	6.0033	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06663	The castell of comforte in the whiche it is euidently proued, [that] God alone absolueth, and freli forgeueth the sinners of so many as vnfaynedly repent, and turne vnto hym Lately compyled by Thomas Becon.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1549 (1549)	STC 1712; ESTC S109188	24,993	94

my soule blesse y ● Lord and forget nor al his benefites For he it is that pardonneth al thyne iniquities that healeth all thy diseases yea he it is y ● deliuereth thy lyfe from destruccion and crouneth the in mercy and louing kyndnesse Agayne let Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is infinite mercy and plenteous redēptiō And he it is that redemeth Israel frō all their sinnes Whosoeuer therfore taketh on hym to forgeue synne maketh hym selfe a sauiour and sayeth with the Aungell Apostata I will clyme vp aboue the hygh cloudes and I will be lyke vnto y ● mooste hyghest But let hym knowe that pryde will haue a faule and that the Lorde is a ielous God and will geue hys glorie to none other Who deliuered Adam from euerlastinge damnacion whan he with hys wyfe had transgressed the commaundemēt of the hygh Lord Who absolued Nohe from his dronkennes Who deliuered Loth frō the vnclennes which he committed with hys doughters Who saued Moyses and forgaue hym hys manslaughter Who absolued Dauid frō hys adultry Who had cōpassion on the Niniuites whā they repēted beleued and cōuerted To be shorte who forgaue and absolued all the Patriarckes Kynges Prophetes prestes c with all other of the olde testament whan they knowledged their sinnes and returned vnto the Lord their God with faithfull repentaūce but onely God alone to whome did theif●e for remission of sinnes but to God alone In whome did they put their afflaunce and trust but in God alone as the Psalmographe testifieth sayinge Our fathers trusted in the o Lord yea they trusted in the and thou deliuerest them They cryed vnto the and they were made safe in the o Lord they trusted were not confounded Are not these the woordes of blessed Dauid I sayde I wil confesse my sinnes vnto the Lorde and thou forgauest the wickednes of my sinne Here is no menciō made of Aarō or of any of that priesthode nor yet of Pope Patriarcke Cardinall Archebishop Bishop Prieste or of any other man to forgeue vs our synnes but of God alone So foloweth it that the Lorde alone remitteth the vngodlynes of oure synne and that he alone absolueth a pena et culpa This was godly doctrine in the olde testament neyther was he counted of godly mē any Heretyke that taught this kynde of learning at that tyme. God was thā the Lorde alone omnisufficient for all hys people that truly repented and conuerted to his vnmesurable mercye neyther had he nede at that tyme of any other to be conioyned with hym as he hym selfe sayde vnto Abraham feare not Abraham I am thy defender and thyne altogether sufficient rewarder and is the Lordes hande nowe so abbreuiated and shortened that he can saue nomore or is hys eare so stopped that he can not heare Lorde God what a so●ē chaunge is this But I stedfastly beleue that he is thesame Lorde now that he was in the olde tyme and of no lesse power to remit sinne at thys present than he was many thousande yeres before these oure dayes in asmuche as he abydeth euer one and is not chaūgeable as he sayeth by the Prophet Malachie I am the Lord and am not chaunged ¶ Hytherto haue I bene holde in few wordes to proue y ● in the time of the olde law God alone forgaue the synnes of his people without the helpe eyther of Bishop Prophet prieste leuite or any other y t the whole glory of their saluacion might be ascribed to hym alone Nowe let vs also labour to declare that God alone doth the very same thynge in the new testament y ● he alone maye stil remayne the God of health agaynst the pestilent doctrine of the wicked Papistes whiche so borishelye sweate to maintaine their vsurped power and fayned authoritie to the greate obscuringe of Gods glorie and that to hym alone all honour and prayse maye be geuen ¶ We reade in the holy gospel that when a certen man beyng diseased of the palsey was brought vnto Christe to be made whole Christ sayde vnto hym Sonne be on a good conforte thy sinnes are forgeuē the. The Scribes hearing these wordes of forgeuing sinne thinking w t thē selfs y ● Christ was not God but mā onely that it was the office of God alone too remit forgeue synne spake on thys manner within them selfs Hic blasphemat this felow blasphemeth or as Marke Luke writeth Who is he y ● speaketh blasphemies Who is able to forgeue sinne but God alone here the Scribes tēdering more the glory of God then our papistes pharises do at this time could not abyde y ● Christ whome they iudged only mā should chalēge to him power to forgeue sinne seing y ● alone pertained to God And vpō this place of y e scripture many write y t y ● Scribes erred not in this cōfession y ● God alone forgeueth synne but in this thei sai thei were deceyued because thei beleued not y ● christ was bothe God and man If Christe had bene nothinge but mā he had blasphemed in dede that is to say taken that thing vpon hym whiche is the office of God alone but forasmuche as he was not onely man but also God he blasphemeth not he chalenged nothing but that was hys righte So did the Scribes and not Christe blaspheme Let all men therefore learne of this historie that God alone forgeueth synne Doeth not Christe also in the aforesaid chapter of Matthew call hym selfe a Phisicion and shew that he came to call synners vnto repentaunce and to make them whole Why calleth he him self a phisicion but because it is his office to cure and heale Ieremy prayed vnto this phisicion sayeng heale me o Lorde I shall be healed saue thou me I shall be safe for thou arte he whome I will magnifye For he did knowe full well that all other phisicions were vnprofitable without his helpe and no more mete to cure sicke conscīces of them selfes then the olde Lyon was to heale the horse of whome Esope writeth in his fables whiche notwithstandyng take on him to practise phisicke whā of that same sciēce he was altogether ignorante Moreouer Christe calleth all them y ● labour and are laden to hym promiseth that he will refreshe ease and conforte them He sendeth them not awaye to other but calleth them all withoute excepcion to hym whereby he sheweth that no creature neyther in heauen nor in earth can truly and sufficiently heale our infirme and sicke consciences but he alone whiche sayeth I am the resurrectiō and lyfe He that beleueth in me althoughe he be dead shal lyue and euery one that liueth and beleueth in me shal neuer dye For who can forgeue me my synne but he alone which is without al sinne Who can deliuer me frō death hel but he alone which hath