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A09069	A booke of Christian exercise appertaining to resolution, that is, shewing how that we should resolve our selves to become Christians indeed: by R.P. Perused, and accompanied now with a treatise tending to pacification: by Edm. Bunny.; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 1.	Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.; Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619. Treatise tending to pacification.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.	1584 (1584)	STC 19355; ESTC S105868	310,605	572

they do in althings agree with them Freedom of wil and merit of works were indeed jolly matters to puffe us up higher in our own aestimation but we can be prowd inough without them Sufficient for us it ought to be that we may be saved let us leave the glorie therof wholy to God and take no part therof to our selves Since the fal there is not in man any inclination at al unto good that is of that kinde saving only in those that are regenerate and that which is in them is not ever continual but somtimes very rare and weak likewise and ever is the special working of God in us And though our works that are done in faith and love have reward promised unto them and so consequently by promise du yet are the best of them on our parts or so much therof as is ours so unperfect and weak that by right they could otherwise than by merciful acceptance deserve nothing at al. And when we are sure we have most absolute redemption fully and wholy in the merits of Christ what need we trouble our selves further to search out whether that we may not think that our good works have in some sense merited also Traditions so far as they do not swarve from the written word or are to aedifieng we do not mislike otherwise we think we have alreadie so much to do that is expresly commanded unto us that we think they hinder us much in the service of God that incumber us with more The preesthood and sacrifice of Iesus Christ we account to be of that sufficiencie in themselves and so proper to him alone that we cannot yet be persuaded either that we need or that we may set up any other but that we must needs bewray either our great ignorance in the one or that we have a very slender and over-base an account of the other Otherwise if these wil not serve needs must we be more out of hope to get any good by those that are brought in by them Howbeit his preesthood continueth forever and his sacrifice once made is a ful satisfaction for al so that we need never be careful for any thing else to be joined withal As for their purgatorie and the sillie helps that they have allotted therunto we can neither stand in fear of the one nor if we should be distressed by it can hope of any releefe of the other Of their purgatorie we cannot stand in fear both bicause the scripture doth not tel us of any such place and besides that it lappeth up al forgivenes of sins and remembrance therof to al beleevers in the death and sufferings of Christ and that in so ful and comfortable maner that it leaveth to us no dread at al of any such torments to be afterward suffered for sin by any of us and bicause it is so evident to al the world that it was at the first an heathenish opinion among the gentils before they came to the knowledge of Christ and hath been since used in the church of Rome as a compendious way to get in monie and that beyond al measure and mean The helps that they use to releeve the souls that they suppose to be afflicted therin can do little good both bicause that nothing can be any satisfaction for sin to the justice of God but only the death and sufferings of Christ and bicause that those helps of theirs besides that they are verie weak in themselves are not ordeined of God to be the means to apply the same unto any but only the faith of the parties themselves wrought in them by the holie Ghost In their worshipping of saints and images there is some ods howbeit we cannot finde the better of them both their worshipping of saints I mean to be any better than plain idolatrie so oft at least as it goeth beyond that honor which in the second table and fift commandement is appointed to fathers mothers and reacheth unto the worship which in the first table and in the first second commandements is before taken up unto God As also we think themselves should perceive that if they do it as a dutie that they ow unto them or as a thing that saints do like of or to get some benefit at their hands in al these points they do but wast leese their labor for that they ow them no such dutie neither do they like that they should offer them any such nor yet can help them in those things that they crave at their hands And as for their images neither are they blessed of God to yeeld any such fruit as they require at their hands neither should we so maintain the dignitie of our creation being ordeined to repraesent the person of God to al these his creatures if we shuld so servilely abase our selves to stoks and stones when as the Lord hath made us the head over them not them over us Concerning the marriage of those that are of the clergie seeing that both the scripture alloweth of it in al estates and degrees whatsoever and that God in his wisdome ordeined the same and seeing that the practise of al antiquitie hath had it in continual use it is a thing we think more plain than that we may allow any controversie therof to be made If this wil not serve let them but turn bak their eies to themselves and but make an indifferent search how fowl and manifold pollution hath broken foorth among them since the time that they have abandoned marriage from their orders and that one thing we think wil be sufficient to teach them that heerin they were far overshot and have found it tru in themselves by experience that which before they might have learned at the mouth of the Lord that generally it is not good for any estate of men to live unmarried when as therby they so quikly brought al their orders so fowl out of order As for their inhaerent justice and that with some distempered affections as it seemeth they charge us to allow of none other but that which is putative and only faith the substance of this matter being before specially touched it is not needful heer to say any more therof So these are in effect those great matters for whose sakes we are charged to have translated so corruptly and so consequently in the judgement of some that we have not the word of God at al among us Wherunto would they ad but this little correction that for these matters we have it not to their good liking therunto could we be content to yeeld and therwithal think that we stil must want al authoritie of scripture for thē Otherwise they have sufficiently found even in the ruines of their own usurpation and doctrines that we have the scriptures among us as also not many of themselves do charge us but only for these and for a few such others besides of such like or lesse importance

Mat. 10. Mat. 13. Pag. 34. and 46. Of hardnes of hart Two degrees of hardnes of hart Mat. 27. * * It seemed to be of weaknes rather thā of such obduration as was in Pharao or is spoken of heer Exo. 6.7.8 Acts. 26.27 * * In these two also it seemeth rather to have been ignorance than obduration But the example is notably found in the Preests Scribes and Pharisies who ever opposed themselves against the preaching of Christ and at the length put him to death Persecutors A second degree of obduration Iob. 21. Psal. 57. Sap. 4. Zach. 7. The hard harted Iews Acts. 7. Mat. 5. Luc. 11.13 Iere. 5. Iere. 8. Eze. 18. Iob. 21. Esai 28. The description of an hard hart Psal. 75. Esai 48. Lib. 1. de consid ad Eug. c. 2. The explication of S. Barnards words The danger of an hard hart Eccl. 23. Eccl. 3. Li. 1. de consul c. 1. Eze. 36. Two kinds of harts in men with their properties Exo. 4.7.14 Au. 1.18 super Exod. serm 88. de temp Eze. 36. Heb. 6. Heb. 6. Ephes. 4. 1. The. 5. Heb. 3. Psal. 94. 3. Reg. 3. Esai 66. The conclusion of this whole booke Pag. 12. * * As may appeer in my preface to the reader * * Which was for that either time or health or libertie did not permit Phil. 2. The effect of that which hath been said in this booke In the first part In the second part Luc. 15. A notable saieng of S. Ierom. Luc. 15. The principal parts of this Treatise Why we may not ioin with them What is the benefit that we might seem to get by their profession What benefit we should have towards our salvation What benefit we should have in matters concerning this praesent life First of inward comfort Then of outward government What inconvenience might come in therby Inconveniences in matters of religion How it were dangerous in the work of our redemption to be of that profession with them How in the doctrine of Gods providence How in performance of our dutie to God How others might be corrupted by us What burdens heerby are laid on the consciences of men Traditions Auricular confession Poenance Rules of their observants What inconveniences would come in therby as touching our civile estate Abuse of their authoritie against soveraign magistrates Abuse of their authoritie with others At home Abroad Over his frinds Against those that withdraw themselves from his government Trailing them foorth into chargeable dangerous iourneies Greevous exactions Outlandish pastors Vpon what ground they do these things What benefite they should have by our profession The use of scripture We keepe more praecisely to the written word than our adversaries do In the work of our redemption In the doctrine of Gods providence In the worship of God Safer from giving offence to others Freer from those burdens Their confession Their poenance Their observances and forced chastitie What benefit they might have by our profession as touching their civile estate Which they may see in their own experience Then also by divers good reasons First of the goodnes of God Then of the nature of our maner of government For that we are governed by one of our own nation For that we are governed at home in our own countrie What is the inconvenience that they should have by our profession No such variety of helps with us as they have among themselves in matters of religion What inconvenience they should have in their civile estate No one head over al. No such credit to themselves with the common sort That those aforesaid inconveniences are verie little or none at al. No inconvenience to be excluded al other helps No disgrace to the honor of saints to set them by in the work of our redemption The comfort they have in those other helps little or none No great want that we have not one general head How far their credit and profit should be impaired Of iustification by faith only without works no inconvenience at al to hold it The effect of the doctrine it selfe How the place of S. Iames may be answered Of such things as hinder Discredit especially to those that have otherwise professed Discredit to those that have otherwise taught Discredit with some more specially The hard dealing that they suppose is used against them What it is that is used towards them What it is that they used towards us That our translations seem so corrupt unto them as that they cannot think that we have the word of God among us What it is that they lay to our charge therin How little cause they have to find such fault with our translations That these are not so cleer on their parts that for their sakes only we are to be denied to have the word among us Lymbus patrum Christs descending into hel Real praesence Their other sacraments Freedome of wil and merit of works Traditions Their preesthood and sacrifice Purgatorie Worshipping of saints and images Marriage of preests Inhaerent putative iustice only faith Of departing from the church What it is that maketh thē to think that we are departed from the church What they imagin to be the church How they ground upon the successe that they have had That they conceive amisse of us when they imagin that we are departed from the church How this kind of persuasion groweth What inconvenience commeth therby A surer way how to find out who are of the church A way that wil not serve our turn sufficiently The other way that wil plainly shew foorth what the church is How to find out what it is to depart from the church How we may therin be deceived How we may be able soundly to iudge in this matter Catholik Who they are that depart from the church not we but they rather so far as there is any such thing betwixt us No departing from the church in either of us But in sinceritie of religion a manifest departure is found in them Why in them Why not in us The conclusion The example of others What hurt it is if they do it not First in this world Then also in the world to come A praier for them Our weaknes acknowledged A way made unto petition The petition it selfe