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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10911	The summe of Christianitie reduced vnto eight propositions, briefly and plainly confirmed out of the holy worde of God.	Rogers, John, fl. 1560-1580.	1578 (1578)	STC 21183; ESTC S112989	19,396	49

woorde They which through want of knowledge or weakenes of the minde are not sufficient vnto the well gouerning and brideiing of them selues must as the Lord hath commanded be instructed and strengthened by others that either by mercifull admonition and exhortation they may bee recouered from sinne or else may be saued by terrors and threats of the iudgements of God beeing thereby as it were by violence taken out of the fire of destruction Unto this appertayneth that notable exhortation of the Apostle Let vs obserue and marke one another not vnto enuy or occasion of sin but to stirre vp our selues mutually and euen to whet one an other vnto the duties of charitie and to all good workes The other kinde of discipline is publike consisting of three partes First of the preaching of the lawe which is as a two edged sworde in the hande of Gods ministers to offer vp his people an holie and blameles sacrifice vnto his maiestie not onely opening our eyes that we may see and knowe what is that good perfect and acceptable will of the Lorde but also through the working of the holy Ghost conuerting our soules and fashioning them after the image similitude of him that made thē Secondly admonitions exhortations and counsels ministred by such persons as the Lord hath appointed for the ouersight of their brethren Thirdly of conuenting of the offendours before the Churche in open congregation to bee iudicially admonished or according vnto the qualitie and degree of their offence forbidden the Supper of the Lord or cut of from the Churche vntill by remorse of sinne with smart and shame of punishment laide vpon them for the same they shal with certaine testimonies of true and vnfeigned repentance humbly desire to be restored vnto their former estate amongest the people of God. The weakenes of conscience must often times be holpen by ciuil punishment publikely or priuately to be executed by magistrates parentes maisters and others whom the Lorde God hath authorized and armed with the swoorde of iustice and rodde of correction not for the profite onely of suche as offende but also for the example terrour of others that at least by awe of punishment they may feare to doe euill For as indulgence and impunitie nourisheth increaseth wickednesse as Salomon saith and wicked men so godly seuerity of punishment chaseth away sin and lessoneth the number of offendours In punishing it must be remembred that it be not dumme and silent but ioyned with doctrin admonition exhortation that the force thereof may work the more in the hart of the offenders It may not be the reuenge of our priuate griefe but of the dishonour of the name of God of the breach of his holy commaundementes It must be ioyned with calling vpon the name of the Lord that as it is his good ordinance so it may be both giuen and receiued according to his wil and blessed by his spirit to the reforming of those that haue done amisse and forwarnings of others Finally all meanes are to be vsed that the conscience of the offender may be touched with the horror of his sinne and feare of Gods iustice that we may cleere our selues of all corruption by directing the punishment not against the person but against the sinne beeing greeued that we are compelled to flye to that extreme remedy and yet to doe it with á godly courage and zeale as caryed with most iust hatred and indignation against sinne Unto the abating of the rage of our corrupt and degenerate nature the Lord yeeldeth vs no small helpe by afflictions and aduersities which therefore are called chastisementes and corrections because we are thereby reformed as the Prophet saith before I was corrected I went astray but now I haue kept thy commaundements In so much as he professeth that it was good for him that hee had beene afflicted and acknowledgeth that of very trueth the Lorde had chastened him meaning thereby that as the Lord hath couenaunted with his people all good things so is it also a parte of his couenaunt to punish and correct his children as he knoweth to be expedient for them the reason whereof is rendred by the Apostle For if wee iudged our selues we should not be punished but when we are punished we are nurtured of the Lorde that we might not be condemned with the world The ende of all is that the workes of Satan in the corruption of our nature with the fruites of the same might vtterly be abolished and ▪ that the image of God not blemished onely but euen cancelled and defaced by the fall of Adam might be renued and repaired in vs The first happeneth vnto vs in the dissolution of this earthly tabernacle from which time we sinne no more as appeareth by that vehement and lamentable exclamation of Saint Paule Miserable man that I am would God I were deliuered from this bodie of death The second though begon increased in this life shal not be fully accomplished vntill our Sauiour Christ returne from heauen be made glorious in his Saints For albeit we are now the childrē of God it hath not yet appeared what we shall bee but our life is hid with Christ in God and we knowe that whē Christ which is our life shal be made manifest we also shal be made manifest with him in glorie Then shall we be clothed with that glorious tabernacle not made with handes eternall in heauen then shall mortalitie be deuoured of immortalitie then shall Christ who alreadie is crowned with glorie and honor returne our redemer from heauen and chaunge our vile bodies that they maye be made like vnto his glorious bodie according vnto that power whereby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto him selfe Then shall it be accomplished which is written death is swallowed vp in victorie O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victorie For the strēgth of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the lawe But thankes be vnto God who hath giuen vs victorie by Jesus Christ our lord Therefore let vs be strong and immoueable in the trueth abounding alwayes in the worke of the Lord seeing we know that our labour is not in vaine in the Lorde But the day of our redemption shall once appeare wherin the trumpets shal blow and the deade shall rise those that are found aliue shall be changed and wee all which beleeue shall meete the Lorde in the ayre and so reigne with him in glorie for euer which time shoulde long since haue come vpon the worlde sauing that the Lord is pacient to vswarde and will not that anie of vs should perishe and not of vs onely which now liue but of those also which shal be raised vp in posteritie after vs whom he hath likewise appointed vnto saluation and will in his good time call by the ministerie of his Gospell least we without

and Messiah in Hebrue signifieth anointed giuing vs to vnderstand that this is he whom the father hath chosen sealed and anointed with his spirit to be our Prophet Priest King and is made vnto vs from God wisedome righteousnesse sanctification redemptiō that no flesh might glory before his Maiestie but that whosoeuer glorieth might glorie in the lord Christ the eternall wisdome of his Father from the beginning was the onely Pastor and teacher of his Church reuealing by his spirit vnto the holy Fathers and Prophets the doctrine of saluation But in the fulnesse of time taking vpon him our nature he came into the world our wisdome from God in his owne person out of the bosome of his father declaring vnto vs all the councels of God concerning our redemptiō and that in greater measure and clearenes of vnderstanding then euer before from the beginning Further as he is the chiefe pastour and shephearde of the flocke so is it he in whom all the promises of God are yea and Amen Who is also al and in all of whom we haue receiued commaundement from heauen that we shoulde heare him He is therefore both the teacher and the thing that is taught He is made our righteousnesse first in that he hath fully satisfied the iustice of GOD borne the stripes of our correction and the chastisement of our peace taking vpon him the curse of the lawe due vnto vs for our sinnes and by bearing and ouercomming the same hath deliuered vs from the power of sinne Satan hell and the wrath of GOD and made an euerlasting attonement vppon the altar of his Crosse offering vp himselfe an oblation and sacrifice of moste sweete sauour vnto the lord Secondly in that he hath accomplished all the righteousnesse of the law that we in his obedience hauing the same imputed vnto vs might be iustified before God and obtaine the blessing of the lawe which is eternall life He is made our holines or sanctification because in him is found the lawe of the spirite of life which deliuereth vs from the law of sinne and of death For it is he onely that hath condemned sinne in the fleshe that is to say hath perfectly purged cleared our nature of sinne in his owne person by ioyning it vnseparably vnto his deietie that wee beyng clothed with his most pure and vnspotted humanitie might in all respectes appeare acceptable and well pleasing in the sighte of the Lorde He is made our redemption not nowe to offer vp anie newe sacrifice for sinne which hee hath already done once for al But that hauing all power geuen to him both ouer thinges in heauen and thinges in earth he mighte rule and gouerne his Churche by his worde and by his spirit guyding and defending the same in the Pilgrimage and warfarre of this life vntill the day of our adoption shall appeare euen the deliuerance of our bodies what time he shall returne our redeemer from heanen and shall change our vile bodies that they may be made like vnto his glorious bodie according vnto that power whereby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto himselfe In the meane time sitting at the right hand of GOD our aduocate and intercessour with the father not only to make intercession for vs but also to presente vnto the Lorde our selues our soules and bodies and all that wee haue and do our prayers and obedience an holie and acceptable Sacrifice vnto his Maiestie The thirde proposition Saluation by Christ appertaineth only vnto them that beleeue in him HE that beleeueth in the sonne is not condemned but hath eternall life and he that beleueth not the sonne is alredy condemned neither shall he see life but the wrath of GOD remayneth vppon him because hee hath not beleeued in the name the onely begottē sonne of god Faith therfore is the only meanes wherby we possesse Jesus Christ and in him althe mercies of God vnto our saluation For by faith Christ dwelleth in our harts that beyng rooted and grounded in the loue of God wee might bee able to comprehend with all Saintes what is that breadth length and depth and height and to knowe that loue of Christ which passeth all knowledge and to bee filled with all that fulnes of god Faith is that testimonie of our consciences wherby we are assured from the witnesse of the Spirite of God that all our sinnes are pardoned and forgeuen vnto vs in the merite of the Sacrifice and death of Christ and that we stande iustified as righteous before God in the perfection of his obedience and through him are nowe the adopted childrē of his father and heires of his euerlasting kingdome in that we are made mēbers of his bodie euen bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh to become with him one spirit and spiritual temple vnto God. The fourth proposition of the causes of faith in the worde preached and sacraments ministred Faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the worde of God. Rom. 10. 17. THis faith is not borne with vs neither groweth it out of our corrupt nature nor is bought with earthly treasure nor attained vnto by the labour and industrie of man but is the free and gracious gifte of GOD vnto his children whom he loued frō before al beginnings wrought in their heartes by his spirite through the preaching of the Gospel Which spirit is therefore called the spirit of adoption because it beareth witnes vnto our spirits that we are the children of God and heires of his kingdome teaching vs with boldenes confidence to crie Abba father and the Gospel preached is called the arme of the Lorde and the mightie power of God vnto saluation The grounde and foundation of our faith is the worde of God especially that part thereof which contayneth his moste louing promises made vnto vs in Jesus Christe This woorde was geuen vnto man from heauen firste by the Lord himselfe speaking vnto the Fathers in his owne person then by the ministery of his holy angels after by his seruauntes the Prophetes Last of all by his owne Sonne in whome are all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge hidde This worlde remaineth vnto vs in the recordes of the olde and newe Testament which bookes were written by the holie men of GOD his Prophetes and Apostles inspired by the holy Ghost is profitable to teach to confute to reprooue to instructe in all righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect and perfectly instructed vnto euerie good woorke contayning all thinges necessarie for vs to knowe vnto eternall life from whiche we may not take any thing neither put anie thing vnto it This worde is plaine and easie to bee vnderstood of them that desire to doe the will of God and seeke after wisedome in humilitie