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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19743	A godlie and fruitfull treatise of faith and workes. Wherein is confuted a certaine opinion of merit by workes, which an aduersary to the gospell of Christ Iesu, held in the conference, had in the Tower of London	H. D., fl. 1583.; Dod, Henry, attributed name. aut	1583 (1583)	STC 6168; ESTC S114042	37,853	104

number and cōdemned sort Faith therefore may bee without good workes and yet saluation to the beleeuer in Christ. The theefe that hanged on the Gibbet on the right hand of Christ at his death hee did no good workes yet he had Faith and that but at the instant before his death And Christ pronounced him his elect saying To day shalt thou bee with mee in Paradise But rarely may Faith be found without good workes though workes done in ciuill charitie may be without Faith For Turkes and Iewes do as many ciuil charitable workes as all the Christians doe and yet are they without faith in Christ and therfore remaine in the state of damnation and their ciuill workes of charitie auaileth them nothing neither can they be saued by them Therfore Faith which apprehendeth Christ doth onely iustifie but so doth not workes for Faith is aboue good workes and good works are but handmaidens to Faith to wait vpon hir but not to merit saluation because of imperfection For the best works that euer were wrought by man besides Christ if they be brought to Gods tutch-stone they shall be found to be drosse and no fine golde Therefore we are to take hold onely on Christ Iesu by Faith and so shall wee stande sure of our saluation without doubting which workes cannot assure vs of And why then should any man hang vpon good workes which cannot assure vs of our saluation or think his owne workes Friers workes Priests workes or workes of supererogation to merit for them whē as the good works of Christ which were most pure and vndefiled could not saue mankind and because they coulde not saue mankinde Christ therefore would die to purchase that which good workes could not Peraduenture some will aske wherefore Christ should worke all his good works which he wrought in the worlde Was it not to merit our saluation and to purchase heauen for his elect I say no. Neither was it the purpose of the eternitie to send downe from heauen into the world the second person in Trinitie to take our mortall flesh and by fulfilling of the law to merit heauen for his elect But the purpose and end of his comming downe to take flesh was to die for the saluation of his chosen children who could not bee saued nor enter into the kingdome of heauen but onely by the bloudie sacrifice and death of that vnspotted and innocent lambe of God Christ Iesus And so heauen which was lost by Adams fall was not merited by fulfilling of the lawe or by doing the good works of grace either by Christ himselfe or by his chosen children You will aske againe to what end then did Christ all that was commanded in the lawe and fulfilled the same most perfectly if thereby hee should not merit heauen for his elect It is to be answered for fiue causes The first cause is to shewe that Christ by fulfilling of the lawe was a iust person had therefore no cause of death in him and that also hee dying suffered his death most wrongfully For Christ liuing iustly in the world without sin and without spot or blemish of sin fulfilling the whole lawe in such sort as neither the iustice of God nor all the deuils in hel coulde laie anie thing to his charge or could finde any one sparke of sin wheron they might take holde thereby to put Christ iustly to death and shewing him selfe thus to be a iust and most righteous person so fulfilling the whole lawe to the vttermost that might be ought not to haue died but to liue in the same according to the word Doe this and liue And therefore he was most wrongfully put to death But most graciously for poore miserable man whose deliuerance from the wrath of God and fiery lake of hell was wrought by the same death who otherwise must haue liued in perpetuall torments Christ his good works in deed was a fulfilling of the lawe in his owne humaine person alone but not for any others neither could mankind thereby be saued And therefore Christ would suffer his passion and death because that neither by his owne nor by others good workes mankinde could be saued which as afore is said if saluation for mankinde might haue come thereby Christ should neuer haue needed to haue died And now ye childrē of God heare the Trump of Christ Iesu sounding in your eares a conquest a conquest victorie victorie A conquest Victorie By whome Ouer whome And for whome Euen by Christ Iesu the most innocent and vnspotted lambe of God sacrificed slain And he it is that triumpheth ouer death hell and all the power of hell and ouer the wrath and iustice of God the Father and ouer the lawe of God so that now the iustice and lawe of God hath vtterly lost their force and Satan with all the power of hell hath lost their interest which they had woon against the elect by Adams fall And that by the most wrongfull putting to death the most innocent and immaculate lambe of GOD Christ Iesu. And for the chosen children in Christ is this most royall and victorious conquest woon Christ hath suffered the paine and we haue reaped the gaine And this hath the death of the blessed sonne of God Christ Iesu done which all the good workes in the world coulde neuer doe The second cause was that all persons should knowe that God had not commanded that which was impossible to be done by man for Christ beeing man did in his owne person fulfill the whole lawe did worke all the good works that the lawe required to be done euen to the vttermost silable of the lawe all was performed by Christ. The third cause was for example that all persons should follow Christ in well doing to liue in the world as hee liued in the world to hate sin as he hated sin to loue vertue as hee loued vertue that thereby our conscience might stand assured of our election that the world might iudge vs by seeing the workes of Faith to proceed from vs to be the elect of God in Christ Iesu and those whome Christ died for The fourth cause was to shewe the difference betwixt the first Adam the second Adam Christ Iesu. The first Adam in his first creation was the perfect image of God For God saide Let vs make man in our image according to our owne likenesse And hee was good in the sight of God hauing free-will to keepe himselfe so if hee would but hee fell by breaking the commandement The second Adam was borne the verie perfect sonne of God hauing also freewil which held and kept himselfe in the obedience of his heauenly father all the daies of his life and kept all the commandements which God had commanded The first could be tempted with an apple or fruite of the tree The second Adam Christ Iesu coulde not be tempted vvith all the kingdomes of the worlde The first Adam was Of earth earthly and subiect

receiueth all thinges in good part And whersoeuer anie fault shall be committed freendly to amend it with thy pen and especially for the pointing thereof And for the marginal notes and quotations also the like ouersights as before are cōmitted wherfore good reader blame not the author without cause either for the one or for the other A greater volume thou maiest haue but a learneder treatise for the substance therof I perswade my selfe is hard to find Thus putting thee in mind of the old adage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is easier to find fault and to carpe than to imitate or amend I commit thee to God who blesse thee with the knowledge of his truth Thine in the Lord Phillippe Stubbes●… Faultes escaped in the printing   Page Line Faulte Correction C. 1●… 〈◊〉 for first read first Adam F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for worke of the law read works of the law F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which make read which walke A TREATISE OF Faith and works GOD by his eternall wisdome in his secrete counsayle before the foundatiō of the worlde decreed the creation of the same world And in that his secret counsell determined to make mankinde and also appointed a number certeine howe manie hee wold create before the end of the world and that the world should not end before that number certein were accomplished euen to the last person God decreed so to make man in his first creation as that he should bee perfect good and shoulde haue free wil that if he would he might stand and abide in that perfect goodnesse and not fall from the same and so neuer to be dampned But God foresawe thatnotwithstanding he wold make man the purest creature aboue all that hee would make vnder the compasse of the heauens and woulde giue him free will power and strength to keepe himselfe from falling if hee would yet notwithstanding he would fall and breake the commaundement which God woulde giue him wherby both himselfe and his whole posteritie should fall into the state of damnation and so the iustice and wrath of God should take holde and bee powred vpon al mankind for his so transgressing the onely cause of all their corruption The mercy and loue of GOD foreseeing this fall of man and perpetuall death for the same by the iust iudgement of God preassed forward and as it were pleaded against the iustice and wrath of GOD That though by the fall of a first Adam sin entered and the whole posteritie of mankind shuld bee brought into the state of damnation for in Adam all do die Euen so by the death of a second Adam Christ Iesus mankinde is to bee recouered bought made righteous and redeemed frō the paine due by that fal Which loue and mercie in God being as high or higher in dignitie then his iustice is to haue as great or greater interest in man then his iustice And the power of mercie is as well to be showed on man as the power of iustice But iustice replied that death must fall vpon mankinde for transgressing For the reward of sin is death and therfore iustice otherwise could not be answered but by death The mercie and loue of God to make a full agrement for mankinde and by iustice to satisfie the iustice of God ordeining That we shuld be made the righteousnesse of GOD in Christ. Graunted that death by death should be redeemed and that by innocent death euen the death of the verie sonne of God VVho onelie should take on him our infirmitie and beare our paines by whose stripes we should be healed And he shoulde bee the redeemer in iustice by death to satisfie the iustice appease the wrath of God Wherevpon the iustice and wrath of God being therewith aunswered and the elect freed from the same iustice and wrath of God The Lorde in mercie and loue decreed in the same his secrete counsell to giue vnto the redeemer those whome before they were he had bought and made sure to himselfe by a price which hee woulde giue in the appointed time before set downe in the secret counsell of God And those whome before they were he had bought chosen were vnto him certeinelie knowne the number certeine and euerie particular person hee knewe before they were For God was not ignorant thereof neither can there be ignorance in God neither would he redeeme those whome he knew not In the fulnes of time the word being the secōd person and verie God of verie God tooke flesh made of the substance of the virgin Marie in which flesh liuing here vpō the earth he fulfilled the whole law to the vttermost Who did not sin neither was their guile found in his mouth Thē to satisfie the iustice of God for that number which were before they were created elected and chosen to be saued The same flesh being man ioyned to the Godhead and so one Christ laide vpon himselfe and bare all the whole burthen of sin in his bodie on the tree done from the first to the last end of the world by all his elect Thus bearing all our sinnes hee being yet an innocent lambe was slaine and hanged vpon the crosse suffering before diuers tormentes and passions And when the vttermost peny for mans ransome was paid Christ hanging vpon the crosse a little before his death saide It is finished That is to say all the prophesies which were prophesied of me by all the Prophetes from the first to the last are fulfilled And with all I haue finished the woorke which was giuen me to doe of my Father I haue satisfied the iustice and wrath of my heauenly father against the sinnes of mine elect I haue paid their full ransome I haue redeemed all from eternall death haue for euer destroied death and hell for them Death is swallowed vp in victory So that now there is no more to be laide against them nor to bee done for the redeeming of them from their sinnes all is finished The elect of God being thus redeemed And elected before the foundation of the world before they were or had done either good or euill And that of a certeintie infallible without alteration of purpose and without repentance by God in any respect in his secret counsell For in God there is no repentance nor alteration of any thing decreed in his secret counsell but his purpose standeth firme and stable for euer This election being thus in certeintie determined the number persons certeinlie knowne to God by name set downe writtē in the booke of life by the finger of God not one of them to be lost For Christ said those whome thou gauest me haue I kept none of them be lost but the lost child that the scriptures may be fulfilled Nor anie one to be added therevnto but the decreed number to stand full without alteration of the same or any person therof because that God is altogither perfect wisedome