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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03586	A learned discourse of iustification, workes, and how the foundation of faith is overthrowne. By Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13708; ESTC S121045	45,591	98

followeth immediatlie therevpon that this Jesus whom wee call the Saviour is not the Saviour of the world because all the Prophets beare witnesse that the true Messias should shew light vnto the Gentiles that is to say gather such a Church as is Catholicke not restrained any longer vnto one circumcised nation In the second rancke we place them out of whose positions the deniall of any the foresaid articles may be with like facilitie concluded such as are they which haue denyed either the Divinitie of Christ with Hebion or with Martion his Humanitie an example whereof may be that of Cassianus defending the incarnation of the sonne of God against Nestorius Bishop of Antioch which held that the Virgin when shee brought forth Christ did not bring forth the sonne of God but sole and a mere man out of which heresie the deniall of the articles of the Christian faith he deduceth thus If thou dost denie our Lord Iesus Christ in denying the sonne thou canst not choose but denie the father for according to the voice of the father himselfe He that hath not the sonne hath not the father Wherefore denying him which is begotten thou deniest him which doth beget Againe denying the sonne of God to haue beene borne in the flesh how canst thou beleeue him to haue suffred beleeving not his passion what remaineth but that thou deny his resurrection For we beleeue him not raised except wee first beleeue him dead neither can the reason of his rising from the dead stand without the faith of his death going being before The deniall of his death and passion inferreth the deniall of his rising from the depth Wherevpon it followeth that thou also denie his ascension into heaven The Apostle affirmeth that he which ascended did first descend so that as much as lyeth in thee our Lord Iesus Christ hath neither risen from the depth nor is ascended into heaven nor sitteth at the right hand God the father neither shall he come at the day of finall account which is looked for nor shall iudge the quicke and dead And darest thou yet set foot in the church Canst thou thinke they selfe a Bishop when thou hast denyed all those things whereby thou dost obtaine a Bishoply calling Nestorius confessed all the articles of the Creed but his opinioÌ„ did imply the denial of every part of his coÌ„fessioÌ„ Heresies there are of the third sort such as the Church of Rome maintaineth which be removed by a greater distance froÌ„ the foundation although indeed they over throw it Yet because of that weakenes which the Philosopher noteth in mens capacities when he saith that the common sort cannot see things which followe in reason when they follow as it were a farre of by manie deductions therefore the repugnancie of such heresie and the foundation is not so quickly or so easily found but that an hereticke of this sooner then of the former kinde may directly graunt and consequently neverthelesse denie the foundation of faith 33 If reason be suspected triall will shew that the Church of Rome doeth no otherwise by teaching the doctrine she doth teach concerning good works offer them the verie fundamentall words and what man is there that will refuse to subscribe vnto them Can they directly graunt and directly deny one and the very self-same thing Our own proceedings in disputing against their works satisfactorie meritorious do shew not onely that they hold but that we acknowledge them to hold the foundation notwithstanding their opinioÌ„ For are not these our arguments against them Christ alone hath satisfied and appeased his fathers wrath Christ hath merited salvation alone We should doe fondly to vse such disputes neither could we thinke to prevaile by them if that wherevpon wee ground were a thing which we know they do not hold which wee are assured they will not graunt Their very answers to all such reasons as are in this controversie brought against theÌ„ will not permit vs to doubt whether they hold the fouÌ„dation or no. Can any man that hath read their books concerning this matter be ignorant how they draw all their answers vnto these heads That the remission of all our sinnes the pardon of all whatsoever punishments thereby deserved the rewards which God hath laid vp in heaven are by the blood of our Lord Iesus Christ purchased and obtained sufficiently for all men but for no man effectually for his benefit in particular except the blood of Christ bee applied particularly vnto him by such meanes as God hath appointed that to worke by That those meanes of themselues being but dead things only the blood of Christ is that which putteth life force and ifficacie in them to worke and to be availeable each in his kind to our salvation Finally that grace being purchased for vs by the blood of Christ freely without any merit or desert at the first bestowed vpon vs the good things which we doe after grace receiued be thereby made satisfactorie and meritorious Some of their sentences to this effect I must alleage for mine owne war rant If we desire to heare forraine iudgements we find in one this confession He that could reckon how many the vertues and merits of our Saviour Christ haue beene might likewise vnderstand how many the benefits haue beene that are to come to vs by him for so much as men are made partakers of them all by meanes of his passion by him is given vnto vs remission of our sinnes grace glorie libertie praise salvation redemption iustification iustice satisfaction sacraments merits and all other things which we had were behouefull for our salvation In another wee haue these oppositions and answers made vnto them All grace is given by Christ Iesus True but not except Christ Iesus be applied He is the propitiation for our sinnes by his stripes we are healed he hath offered himselfe vp for vs all this is true but apply it we put all satisfactioÌ„ in the blood of Iesus Christ but we hold that the meanes which Christ hath appointed for vs in this case to apply it are our penall workes Our Countrimen in Rhemes make the like answere that they seeke salvation no other way then by the blood of Christ that humbly they doe vse prayers fastings almes faith charitie sacrifice sacraments priests onely as the meanes appointed by Christ to apply the benefit of his holy blood vnto them touching our good workes that in their owne natures they are not meritorious nor answerable to the ioyes of heaven it commeth by the grace of Christ not of the work it selfe that we haue by well doing a right to heaven and deserue it worthily If any man thinke that I seeke to varnish their opinioÌ„s to set the better foot of a lame cause foremost let him know that since I began throughly to vnderstand their meaning I haue found their halting greater then perhaps it seemeth to them which knowe not the deepnesse of

be overborne shal they be compast about by the wicked But the Prophet doth not only complaine Lorde how commeth it to passe that thou handlest vs so hardly of whom thy name is called and bearest with the heathen nations that dispise thee No he breaketh out through extremity of griefe and inferreth violently This procesding is perverse the righteous are thus handled therefore perverse iudgement doth proceede 9 Which illation containeth many things whereof it were better much both for you to heare me to speake if necessity did not draw me to an other taske Paule and Barnabas being requested to preach the same things againe which once they had preached thought it their dueties to satisfie the godly desires of men sincerely affected to the truth Nor may it seeme burdenous to me or for yee vnprofitable that I follow their example for the like occasioÌ„ vnto theirs being offered me When we had last the Epistle of S. Paule to the Hebrewes in hand and of that Epistle these words In these last daies he hath spoken vnto vs by his Sonne After we had theÌ„ce collected the nature of the visible Church of Christ had defined it to be a community of men a sanctified through the profession of the truth which God hath taught the world by his Son and had declared that the scope of Christian doctrine is the comfort of them whose harts are overcharged with the burden of sin and had proved that the doctrine professed in the Church of Rome doth bereaue men of comfort both in their liues and in their deathes the conclusion in the end wherevnto we came was this the church of Rome being in faith so corrupted as shee is and refusing to be reformed as shee doth we are to sever our selues from her The example of our fathers may not retaine vs in communion with that church vnder hope that we so continuing may be saved as well as they God I doubte not was mercifull to saue thousands of them though they lived in Popish superstitions in asmuch as they sinned ignorantly But the truth is now laide before our eies The former part of this last sentence namely these wordes I doubt not but God was mercifull to saue thousands of our fathers living in popish superstitions in as much as they sinned ignorantly this sentence I beseech you to marke and to sift it with the severity of austere iudgement that if it be found to be golde it may be sutable to the precious foundation whereon it was then laid for I protest that if it bee hay or stubble my owne hand shall set fire to it Two questions haue risen by reason of this speech before alleaged The one whether our fathers infected with Popish errors and superstitions may be saved The other whether their ignorance be a reasonable inducement to make vs thinke they might We are then to examine first what possibility then what probability there is that God might be mercifull vnto so many of our fathers 10 So many of our fathers living in popish superstitions yet by the mercie of God to be saved No this could not be God hath spoken by his angell from heaven vnto his people concerning Babilon by Babilon we vnderstand the church of Rome Go out of her my people that you be not pertaker of her plagues For answere wherevnto first I doe not take the words to bee meant only of temporall plagues of the corporal death sorrow famine fire wherevnto God in his wrath hath condemned Babilon and that to saue his chosen people from these plagues he saith Go out with like intent as in the Gospel speaking of Hierusalems desolations he saith Let theÌ„ that are in Iudaea fly vnto the mountaines and them that are in the midst thereof depart out or as in the former times to Lot Arise take thy wife thy daughters which are there lest thou be destroied in the punishment of the Cittie but for as much as here it is said Go out of Babilon we doubt their everlasting destruction which are partakers therein is either principally meant or necessarily implied in this sentence How then was it possible for so many of our fathers to bee saved sith they were so far from departing out of Babylon that they tooke her for their mother and in her bosome yeelded vp the ghost 11 First for the plagues being threatned vnto theÌ„ that are partakers in the sinnes of Babylon wee can define nothing concerning our fathers out of this sentence vnlesse we shew what the sinnes of Babylon bee and what they bee which are such partakers of them that their everlasting plagues are inevitable The sinnes which may bee common both to them of the Church of Rome and to others departed thence must bee severed from this question He which saith Depart out of Babylon least you be partakers of her sinnes sheweth plainly that he meaneth such sinnes as except we separate our selues we haue no power in the world to avoid such impieties as by the law they haue established wherevnto all that are among them either doe indeed assent or else are by powerable meanes forced in shew and apparance to subiect themselues As for example in the Church of Rome it is maintained that the same credit and reverence that wee giue to the Scriptures of God ought also to be given to vnwritten verities that the Pope is supreame head ministeriall over the vniversall Church militant that the bread in the Eucharist is transubstantiated into Christ that it is to be adored to be offered vp vnto God as a sacrifice propitiatorie for quicke and dead that Images are to bee worshipped Saints to be called vpon as intercessors and such like Now because some heresies doe concerne things only beleeved as the transubstantiation of the sacramentall elements in the Eucharist some concerne things which are practised and put in vre as the adoration of the elements transubstantiated wee must note that erroniously the practise of that is sometime received whereof the doctrine that teacheth it is not heretically maintained They are all partakers in the maintenance of heresies who by worde or deed allow them knowing them although not knowing them to be heresies as also they and that most dangerously of all others who knowing heresie to bee heresie do notwithstanding in worldly respects make semblance of allowing that which in hart iudgment they condemne but heresie is heretically maintained by such as obstinately hold it after holesome admonition Of the last sort as of the next before I make no doubt but that their condemnation without an actual repentaÌ„ce is inevitable Least any mantherefore should think that in speaking of our fathers I should speak indifferently of them all let my words I beseech you bee wel marked I doubt not but God was merciful to saue thousands of our fathers which thing I will now by Gods assistance set more plainely before your eies 12 Many are partakers of the error which

light I will doe mine indevour to set downe somewhat more plainely first the foundation of faith what it is secondly what it is directly to denie the foundation thirdly whether they whom God hath chosen to be heires of life may fall so farre as directlie to denie it fourthly whether the Galatians did so by admitting the errour about circumcision and the law last of all whether the Church of Rome for this one opinion of works may be thought to do the like and therevpon to be no more a Christian church then are the assemblies of Turkes and Jewes 23 This word foundation being figuratiuely vsed hath alwaies reference to somwhat which resembleth a materiall building as both that doctrine of lawes and the community of Christians do By the Masters of civill policie nothing is so much inculcated as that commoÌ„weales are founded vpon lawes for that a multitude cannot bee compacted into one body otherwise then by a common acception of lawes whereby they are to bee kept in order The ground of all civill lawes is this No man ought to be hurt or iniured by an other Take away the perswasion and ye take away all the lawes take away lawes what shall become of commonweales So it is in our spirituall christian community I do not meane that body mysticall whereof Christ is only the head that building vndiscernable by mortall eies wherein Christ is the chiefe corner stone but I speake of the visible church the foundation whereof is the doctrine which the Prophets Apostles profest The mark whervnto their doctrin tendeth is pointed at in these words of Peter vnto Christ Thou hast the words of eternall life in these words of Paule to Timothee The holy Scriptures are able to make thee wise vnto salvation It is the demand of nature her selfe what shal we do to haue eternal life The desire of immortalitie and of the knowledge of that whereby it may be obtained is so natural vnto all men that even they who are not perswaded that they shall do notwithstanding wish that they might know away how to see no end of life And because natural meanes are not able still to resist the force of death there is no people in the earth so savage which hath not devised some supernaturall helpe or other to fly for aide succour in extremities against the enemies of their lawes A longing therefore to be saved without vnderstaÌ„ding the true waie how hath beene the cause of al the superstitions in the world O that the miserable state of others which wander in darknes and wote not whither they goe could giue vs vnderstanding harts worthelie to esteeme the riches of the mercy of God towards vs before whose eies the doores of the kingdome of heaven are set wide open should we offer violence vnto it it offereth violence vnto vs and we gather strength to withstand it But I am besides my purpose when I fall to bewaile the cold affection which we beare towards that whereby we should be saved my purpose being only to set downe what the ground of salvation is The doctrine of the gospell proposeth salvation as the end and doth it not teach the way of attaining therevnto Yet the damosell possest with a spirit of divinatioÌ„ spake the truth These men are the servants of the most high God which shew vnto vs the way of salvation A new and living way which Christ hath prepared for vs through the vaile that is his flesh salvation purchased by the death of Christ. By this foundation the children of God before the written law were distinguished from the sonnes of men the reverend Patriarks both possest it living and spake expresly of it at the houre of their death It comforted Iob in the midst of griefe it was afterwards the anker hold of all the righteous in Israell from the writing of the law to the time of grace Every Prophet maketh mention of it It was famously spoken of about the time when the comming of Christ to accomplish the promises which were made long before it drewe neere that the sound thereof was heard even amongst the Gentils When he was come as many as were his acknowledged that he was their salvation he that long expected hope of Israel he that seed in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed So that now he is a name of ruine a name of death and condemnation vnto such as dreame of a new Messias to as many as looke for salvation by any other then by him For amongst men there is given no other name vnder heaven whereby we must be saved Thus much S. Marke doth intimate by that which hee doth put in the front of his booke making his entrance with these words The beginning of the Gospell of Iesus Christ the son of God His doctrine he tearmeth the Gospell because it teacheth salvation the Gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God because it teacheth salvation by him This is then the foundation wherevpon the frame of the Gospell is erected that very Iesus whome the Virgin conceived of the holy Ghost whom Simeon imbraced in his arms whom Pilat condemned whom the Iewes crucified whom the Apostles preached he is Christ the Lord the only Saviour of the world Other foundation can no man lay Thus I haue briefly opened that principle in Christianity which we call the foundatioÌ„ of our faith It followeth now that I declare vnto you what is directly to overthrow it This wil be better opened if we vnderstand what it is to hold the foundation of faith 24 There are which defend that many of the Gentils who never heard the name of Christ held the foundation of Christianitie why they acknowledged many of them the providence of God his infinit wisdome strength power his goodnesse and his mercy towards the children of men that God hath iudgemeÌ„t in store for the wicked but for the righteous which ferue him rewardes c. In this which they confessed that lieth covered which we beleeue in the rudiments of their knowledge concerning God the foundation of our faith concerning Christ lieth secretly wrapt vp and is vertually contained therefore they held the fouÌ„dation of faith though they never had it Might wee not with as good a colour of reason defend that every ploughman hath al the sciences wherein Philosophers haue exceld For no man is ignorant of their first principles which doe vertually containe whatsoever by naturall meanes is or can be knowne Yea might wee not with as great reason affirme that a man may put three mighty oakes wheresoever three akornes may be put For vertually an akorne is an oake To avoid such paradoxes we teach plainely that to hold the foundation is in expresse tearmes to acknowledge it 25 Now because the foundation is an affirmatiue proposition they all overthrowe it who deny it they directly overthrow it who deny it directly and they overthrow it

away the vse of reason doth notwithstanding proue them reasonable creatures which haue it because none can be franticke but they so Antichristianitie being the baine and plaine overthrow of Christianitie may neverthelesse argue the Church wherein Antichrist sitteth to be Christian. Nether haue I ever hitherto heard or read any one worde alleadged of force to warrant that God doth otherwise then so as in the two next questions before hath beene declared bind himselfe to keepe his elect from worshipping the Beast and from receiving his marke in their foreheads but he hath preserved and will preserue them from receiuing any deadly wound at the hands of the man of sinne whose deceit hath prevailed over none vnto death but only vnto such as never loved the truth such as took a pleasure in vnrighteousnesse they in all ages whose hearts haue delighted in the principall truth and whose soules haue thirsted after righteousnesse if they received the marke of error the mercy of God even erring and dangerously erring might saue them if they received the mark of heresie the same mercy did I doubt not convert them HOW far Romish heresies may prevaile over Gods elect how many God hath kept falling into them how many haue bin converted from them is not the question now in haÌ„d for if heaven had not received any one of that coate for these thousand yeares it may still be true that the doctrine which this day they do professe doth not directly denie the foundation and so proue them simplie to be no Christian Church One I haue alleaged whose words in my eares sound that waie shall I adde another whose speech is plaine I deny her not the name of a Church saith another no more then to a man the name of a man as long as he liveth what sicknesse soever he hath His reason is this Salvation in Iesus Christ which is the marke which ioineth the head with the bodie Iesus Christ with the Church is so cut off by many merits by the merits of Saints by the Popes pardons and such other wickednesse that the life of the Church holdeth by a very thread yet still the life of the Church holdeth A third hath these words I acknowledge the Church of Rome eveÌ„ at this present day for a Church of Christ such a Church as Israel did Ieroboam yet a Church His reasoÌ„ is this Every maÌ„ seeth except he willingly hoodwinke himselfe that as alwaies so now the Church of Rome holdeth firmely and stedfastly the doctrine of truth concerning Christ and baptizeth in the name of the father the sonne and the Holy Ghost confesseth and avowcheth Christ for the only redeemer of the world the iudge that shall sit vpon quicke and dead recieving true beleevers into endlesse ioy faithlesse and godlesse men being cast with Satan and his angels into flames inquenchable 28 I may will reine the questioÌ„ shorter theÌ„ they do Let the Pope take downe his top and captivate no more mens soules by his Papall iurisdiction let him no longer count himselfe Lord Paramount over the Princes of the world no longer hold kings as his servants paravaile let his stately Senate submit their necks to the yoke of Christ cease to dye their garment like Edom in blood let them from the highest to the lowest hate and forsake their idolatry abiure all their errors and heresies wherewith they haue any waie perverted the truth let them strippe their Churches till they leaue no polluted ragge but only this one about hir By Christ alone without workes we cannot be saved it is enough for me if I shew that the holding of this one thing doeth not proue the foundatioÌ„ of faith directly denied in the Church of Rome 29 Workes are an addition be it so what then the foundation is not subverted by everie kind of addition simplie to adde vnto those fundamentall words is not to mingle wine with water heaven with earth things polluted with the sanctified blood of Christ of which crime indict them which attribute those operations in whole or in part to any creature which in the wâ—â— of our salvation wholy are peculiar vnto Christ and ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ open my mouth to speake in their defence if I holde my peace and pleade not against them as long as breath is within my body let me be guiltie of al the dishonor that ever hath been done to the Sonne of God But a dreadful thing it is to denie salvation by Christ alone the more slow and fearefull I am except it be too manifest to lay a thing so grievous to anie maÌ„s charge Let vs beware least if we make too manie waies of denying Christ wee scarse leaue any way for our selues truely and soundly to confesse him Salvation onely by Christ is the true foundation wherevpon indeed Christianitie standeth But what if I say you cannot be saved only by Christ without this addition Christ beleeved in hart confessed with mouth obeied in life and conversation Because I adde doe I therefore deny that which I did directlie affirme There may be an additament of explication which overthroweth not but proveth concludeth the proposition wherevnto it is annexed He which saith Peter was a chiefe Apostle doth proue that Peter was an Apostle hee which saith Our salvation is of the Lord through sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth proveth that our salvation is of the Lord. But if that which is added be such a privation as taketh away the verie essence of that wherevnto it is added then by the sequell it overthroweth He which saith Iudas is a dead man though in word he granteth Iudas to be a man yet in effect he proveth him by that very speech no man because death depriveth him of being In like sort he that should saie our election is of grace for our workes sake should grant in souÌ„d of words but indeed by consequent deny that our election is of grace for the grace which electeth vs is no grace if it elect vs for our sake 30 Now whereas the Church of Rome addeth works we must note farther that the adding of works is not like the adding of circumcision vnto Christ. Christ came not to abrogat put away good workes he did to change circumcision for we see that in place thereof he hath substituted holy baptisme To say yee cannot be saved by Christ except yee be circumcised is to adde a thing excluded a thing not only not necessarie to be kept but necessarie not to be kept by theÌ„ that will be saved On th' other side to saie yee cannot be saved by Christ without workes is to adde things not only not excluded but commaÌ„ded as being in their place and in their kind necessarie and therefore subordinated vnto Christ by Christ himselfe by whom the webbe of salvation is spun a except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharises yee shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven They

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