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A07407	The iustification of man by faith only: made and vvritten by Phylyp Melanchton. and translated out of the Latyn in to this oure mother tonge by Nicholas Lesse of London An apologie or defence of the worde of God, declaringe what a necessary thynge it is, to be in all mennes handes, the want wher of is the only cause of al vngodlienes committed thorowe the whole earth, made by the sayde Nicholas Lesse	Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Lesse, Nicholas. Apologie or defence of the worde of God. aut	1548 (1548)	STC 17792; ESTC S104245	86,618	204

to that doctrine of Paull in the exposition of thys Epystle to the Romaynes I wyl refute and take awai with so manifest argumentes and and profes that they theyr owne selfe shal se and also say that all togyther is a wrye and amysse We wyll byde by the wordes of Paull which sayeth that we be iustified by Faythe frely that is that we do obteine remission of our sinne beynge reputed iuste before God nat for any of our merites but by Fayth which is the trust of mercye promised to vs for Christ sake only We wil nat make Paul speakynge here in figures we do nat chaunge his wordes but we do lerne of him to take the true meanynge as the nature of the worde and the matter whiche the Apostle takethe in hande to dyspute doth requyre It is very profitable and necessary to al good men to haue certayne sure testimonies of the Scripture wi●h the confirmations of this proposition alway redy and at hande bothe to instructe other and also to styrre vp true Fayth and perfecte prayer The whiche vocables by vs declared and perceyued of you I trust in the Lorde that this proposition By Faith we are iustified is easy and lyght for euery man to vnderstande For the which cause at other tymes we haue gathered togyther forthe of Paull many places for this purpose Wherfore at this present it shal be sufficient to haue touched the principall In the ende of the thyrde chapiter to the Romaynes Paull mooste lyke a cunninge clerke propoundynge this proposition By Faythe we are iustified freely vseth weyghtye and clerkly confyrmations whiche moost of all are to be printed in mennes myndes to kyndle vp our Faith that in al our perylles and dangers they may be alway before our eyes ¶ THVS muche haue I spoken of Iustification and of Faythe workes Nowe wyll I declare some thyng concernyng the doctryne of good workes which are called the newe obedience Dure newe obedience whiche necessaryly foloweth Faith There be .iiii. thinges that we wyll speake of The fyrste what workes are to be done the second howe they maye be done Thyrdly howe they maye please God In the which thyrde part we wyl dyscusse whether we be iustified that is to say accepted of God to eternal felicitie for that newe obedience sake whiche be borne agayne in a newe kinde of life and whether we be without sinne and worthye euerlastinge lyfe for our owne purenesse Fourthlye we wyll treat of deadlye sinne whiche maketh vs voyd of Grace of Fayth and of the holy Ghost consequently declaryng what are called venyall sinnes and whiche they be ●hat wor●es are to ●e done TO THE FIRST QVEstion what workes are to be done wherin it is right that we do lede the mindes of mē to the worde of God that they may know that al theyr life as wel concerninge the conflicte of conscience as their outwarde dedes must be gouerned and ruled by the worde of God as witnesseth the Prophete saienge The candle or lanterne to my fete is the worde of God I do aunswere therfore to thys question worde of God that those workes whiche are commanded to vs of God are to be kept and done and that by the manifest word of God As the ten commaundementes in maner and fourme as they be declared and also expoūded in the newe testament yea and also if there be any other preceptes or commaundementes perteynynge to the outwarde lyfe in the teachynges and lessons of Christe and hys Apostles This I do say bicause I wold nat that men shulde make and faine no newe worshippinges and workes with out the worde and commaundement of God As dyd the Monkes Chanōs and Fryers Nonnes Monkes with other Popysshe prelates and nowe of late the Anabaptistes whiche nat takinge the worde of God to councell did inuente and pike out for them selfes workes after theyr owne iudgemente and phantasies makinge men beleue afterward that they were styrred therto by the holy spirite The which may in no case be resisted or cōtraryed but obeyed by allawes right reson This was the cause of the dissolute and vnlawfull liuinge of the Anabaptistes Anabaptystes Wherfore here after it shal be declared to you what is to be vnderstāde and ment by this wordes to be deliuered from the Lawe purposyng nowe in fewe wordes to shewe that they whiche be regenerated and new borne by Faith as I haue sayde do receyue the holye Ghost that there may be begon in them a newe obedience or better maner of liuinge a newe lighte and life eternall whiche is a beginning and an entrance into the lawe of God ¶ THERFORE the Prophete sayeth I wyll gyue and put my lawe into theyr hertes Faythe of necessitie muste nedes go before this newe life the whiche life must also folow as necessarily Many sentences in the Scriptures bearynge therto witnes Example If thou wylt entre into heuen kepe the commandemētes Also Excepte the iustice of you do abounde aboue c. Fornicators and adulterers shal nat possesse the kingdom of God And. The holye Ghoste doeth moue and styre the hertes of men by the worde of God to the which worde we muste gyue all our obedience As Paull witnesseth we are detters that we doo nat lyue after the fleshe For Fayth can nat stande in vs withoute repentaunce For by Faythe we muste receyue the remission of sinne And that man doth nat in dede aske and call for remission of sinne whiche agaynst his owne conscience deliteth in mischiefe It is nat the outwarde discipline only whiche is requyred of vs. But the beginninge of the inwarde obedience that is to saye the godly motions of our herte agreable to the lawe of God A man may se that the aduersaries of the truth when they doo crye and barke good workes they doo play as though they shulde teache chyldren how they shuld behaue them selfes in modest and honest wearinge of their garmentes in theyr eating drinking Nowe and then peraduenture they doo speke of almes dede But touchyng the workes commaunded in the fyrst table they do playe mum nat one worde for a good pounde beynge as dum as a fishe Wherfore is the but bicause they knowe nat the doctrine of Fayth therfore they can gyue no good instruction But God commaundethe and requyreth of vs the workes of both the tables ❧ HE wyllethe that we do feare and drede the angre and wrathe of God agaynst oure infyrmities innumerable offences He wylleth also that we being reconciled by the sonne of God do beleue that he hath receyued vs to hys fauour that he wyll saue vs that he wyll helpe vs. With this Faythe wyll he be called on He wyllethe that with thys Faythe we do bothe call and surelye to loke and trust after helpe as the psalme Call on me c. He wyllethe with this Fayth that we do depende and hang on him and nat to seke other aides helpes contrary to his worde and wyll

against our conscience which we do cōmyt for the nones wyllyngly And Paull sayeth The workes of the fleshe are manifest that is when a man againste hys conscience willingly doth breake the cōmaundementes of God nat resistinge temptation but flatteringe with his owne vices and noughty desyres Pryuely as Saull hatinge Dauid or elles opēly and outwardly in outward actes and deds As Dauid in taking away the wife of an other man They whiche offende on this maner do lese Grace they shake of the holy Ghost from thē They do cast away theyr Fayth from them in so muche that without they do repente turninge againe to Faythe departinge forth of this lyfe beinge in that miserable case they shal perishe for euer ¶ VVE nede nat in this place reason and dispute of predestination We wyll iudge and pronounce of our dedes and of the wyl and iudgement of God as the worde of God expressely doth teache If Dauyd had nat repented he had ben cast into euerlastinge tormente as Saull Mannes mynde is so ydle and negligent that it regardeth passeth for nothing Wherfore we must take good hede that we do nat flatter with that euyl which may be couered with many colours and clokes to make it appere to be good honest and vertuouse Let vs set before our eyes the word of God as he saieth The lanterne to my fete is the word of God The which word beareth wytnes that for such sinne committed grace is gone away and the holye Ghost cast of as to the Romaynes viii If ye lyue after the flesshe ye shall dye Example we haue in Mathewe .xii. The Deuyll returnynge backe agayne to them frome whom he was caste out doeth bringe .vii. spirites with him of a more mischeuous nature then himself and so entring in causeth the later parte of theyr lyfe to be muche worse than that which was past Mathewe also in the .xiii. chap. speaking of the sede which was suffocated and strangled with the enticementes of the world and Paul the fyrst Epistle and .vi. chap. to the Corinthians Go nat out of the way for whormongers Idolaters Theues c. shall nat possesse the kyngdom of God Where he wytnesseth that he precheth to them which before hadde receyued the benefites of Christe Than he warneth nat to lese those benefytes Also the fyrst Epistle to the Corinthiās x. chapiter Be you nat ydolaters let nat vs be whormongers as some of them were and perysshed in one day .xxiii. thousand men And the .v. cap. to the Galathians They which so do shal nat attayne to the kingdom of God It foloweth He that soweth in flesshe shall repe distruction he that soweth in spirite shal repe euerlasting lyfe And the fyrste Epystle to Timothe .v. cap. He that taketh no care and charge for his owne familie doth deny hys fayth and is worse than an infydel To the Hebrewes .xiii Aduouterous persons and whoremongers the lorde shal iudge and the second Epystle of Peter and seconde chapiter If when they haue receyued the knowledge of God and of theyr sauiour Iesu Christ they haue ones escaped fledde from the fylthynes of this world and afterwarde agayne do suffer them selfe with the same vices to be entangled and ouercome theyr latter tyme is made much worse than the fyrst Mathewe .x. He that denieth me before men I wyll denye him before my father in Heauen Mathewe .xxiiii. He that continueth til the ende shal be saued Mathew .xxv. Go you from me ye cursed into fyer euerlastinge I hungred and you gaue me no meat c. and .i. Corinth xiii And I had al Fayth and nat Loue I were nothing Although that for our own vertues and workes we are nat iust that is to say accepted before God yet must we haue a newe obedience in vs though it be nat perfect as men which be ruled and led with the spirite of God as the sonnes and chyldren of God As the fyrst epistle of Iohn .iii. cap. In this are knowen the sonnes of God and the sonnes of the Deuyl He that doth nat iust is nat of God He that loueth nat his brother abideth in death My litle babes let no man deceyue you He that doth iustly is iuste be that worketh sinne is of the Deuyll The nature of man is so weake and redy to euyl that it doth alway extenuate and make smal the greatnes of theyr offences makinge them eyther to be none as they do flatter with them selfes or els if they be offences to be very small But marke what bytter threateninges these be What might be sayde more sore more terrible than these wordꝭ He that worketh sinne is of the Deuyll that is to say he is bonde to the Deuil he is led and gouerned by the Deuyl being forsaken of the holy Ghost and out cast from God as the ende of him doth testyfy ¶ VVHAT a great heape of sinnes calamities and miseries did the on fall of Dauyd cause After that the noughty desyre and fylthy luste hadde ones got the vpper hande in him thē he toke an other mannes wife He commaunded her husbande to by kylled and with him many Citezins good godly and vertuouse mē were also destroyed The name of God susteynynge and sufferynge great blasphemy Then nat longe after the son moueth sedition agaynst his father He taketh vseth his fathers wyfe in whordome so consequently folowing a most lamentable and pyteous distruction of many thousandes of the Citezins To be short sedition is the mother of many euyls The ydolatry of Salomon By the ydolatry of Salomon what mischefe did insue and ryse ¶ THE kingdom of Israel was torne a sonder The fall of Adam they continued in perpetuall ydolatry and deadly warres The fal of Adam did it nat bringe great and many euyls into this worlde ¶ THIS is the mynde of the Deuyl to worke suche craftes for vs when he perceiueth that we make light of sinne flattering our owne affections giuinge to them the brydle and reyne at large wherby Fayth is extinguished For Faythe which asketh remission of sinne can nat be in them whiche haue theyr delyte in sinne nat being sory nor repenting thē selfes as witnesseth this saying Where shal God dwel In a contrite hert which fearethe my wordes They wyl nat be deliuered from sinne which wyllyngly delyteth therin The teachinge of Iohn warneth vs from whens sinne commeth howe great an enmy we haue declaring what is the entente and purpose of oure aduersary that we may learne to practice Fayth and that Christe in vs maye ouercome this great and cruel enmy ¶ Hytherto haue I declared to you the whole summe of the teachinges of the prophetes and the doctryne of the Gospell concerning iustification or Grace concerning our reconciliation concerning Faith and good Workes Wherfore for as much as this is playne and open hauing no darknes or perplexitie without Sophistical cauilations when it speaketh of the motions and stirringes which be knowen to vertuouse mindes in the church

to make muche of our owne wyttes nat regardyng the Lorde mockynge and dalyenge with thys opinion and that opinion of God as the supersticyous holy hipocrites and the deintly fedde epicures vseth to do dayly to haue dyuers and sodein motions and styrringes in vs clene contrary to God and hys lawe These I tel you playnly be no small euyls and vyces Nay that they be great and sore vyces the bytter and sharpe paynes ordeined by God and prepared for the cōmytters and offenders doeth sufficiently declare to vs. For these abhominable vyces God dyd make man subiecte and thrawl to deathe punishynge and chastenynge him straytly with many and marueylous kindes of calamities and miseries Consyderynge therfore that the wrathe of God for these offences might by no maner of sacrifice be peased and pleased but by the death of his owne son onely it doeth folowe of necessitie that that vyce is a greate vyce which requyreth so greate a raunsome to be redemed with It is a marueylous thynge to se that the dulnesse of man is so great that he can nat perceiue and se this his owne disease beinge so great Wherfore sithe that man is so blynde that he canne nat nor wyll nat se and knowledge it God hys selfe with hys owne voyce and doctryne hathe made it open to the eyes of al men Lette vs heare hym and beleue hys worde settyng at lyght al Sophistical cauillations whiche with theyr mockyng and mowyng do make of originall sinne but a trifle and a thyng smal to be regarded and taken hede of nat muche settyng by nay vtterly refusynge and dispisinge our sacrifice whiche is Chyst From the whiche most pernycyous doctryne let vs both with the inwarde and outwarde eares with hert and mynde abhorre and flie from as the most dangerous pestilēce of mās soule ¶ Iustification NOVVE TO COME TO iustification and to declare that thys worde to iustifie after the Hebrue Phrase is vsed commonly for to pronounce or to repute iuste As if a manne wolde say after the maner of speakynge of the Hebrewes The Romaynes dyd iustifie Scipio whiche was accused of the tribuns whiche is as muche to say as the Romaynes dyd quite Scipio pronouncynge hym iuste and wrongfullye accused After the selfe same maner in Paul hys reasonynge muste we vnderstande iustification to signifie remissiō of synnes and free receyuyng or acceptacion vnto lyfe euerlastynge as it is manifest the .iiii. cap. to the Romaynes In the whiche place he doeth defyne iustification to be the remission and forgyuenes of sinne So that this sentence by faythe we are iustified is as much to saye as we are reputed of God iuste for Chryste sake when we do beleue And thys worde iustyce doeth nat meane in thys place the iustyce of the lawe or the obedience vniuersal and our owne qualities Iustyce when we do say by faythe iustice is gyuen But it doeth signifie the imputacion of iustyce and acceptacion of God that is to say though we be nat of our owne worthynes cleane and iuste yet it doeth please God for Chryst sake to take ī good worth our vnworthines callynge and makynge vs iuste if we do beleue and so accepteth our good wyll A iust man makynge hys iustyce our iustyce hys worthynes our worthynes So that by thys vnderstandyng a iust man is taken respectiuely for hym that is accepted of God to lyfe euerlastinge We must note also that as sone as we do obteine remission of synne we haue also gyuen to vs the holy Ghost when with faythe we do comfort vs after our fall So that to our iustification is annexed and ioyned the gyft of the holy Ghost which doethe nat begyn to worke in vs one vertue only but also al other vertues as the feare and loue of God the loue to the truthe purenesse of lyfe pacyence ryghte dealynge with our neyghboure as here after I wyll declare more when I do speake of workes wherfore 〈◊〉 we nat iust for oure ve●tues The whiche vertues do nat meryte remission of synne nor yet are our iustyce or iustification for the whiche a man is accepted and pleaseth God bycause those vertues be nat thorowly perfect and good ¶ FVRTHERMORE when oure conscyence is full of anguysshe and tormente for synne and doeth seke wherefore we are iustified it doth nat inquire what vertues we haue and what good dedes but it doeth seke howe we may attayne to remission of sinne and reconcilyatyon with God Oure conscyence is vexed and troubled aboute the wyll of God nat beholdinge what we our selfe haue done that is good or what vertues we haue in vs. But in case we haue any vertues whiche be of any estymatyon yet oure conscyence doethe nat laye and compare them with the iudgement of God ¶ THEREFORE they whiche do interpretate thys worde Iustyfycatyon to be an infusion of vertues they do nat attende and marke that in thys case we reason of the remission of synne onlye of the peace of conscience and reconciliation with God For we do seke howe we may be iustified whiche is howe we maye haue remission of synne makynge one necessarye conclusion that God is mercyfull to vs. Iustificatiō It folowethe therfore necessaryly that iustifcation is to be taken for the remission and forgiuenes of sinne for the fre acceptation of god and for imputation of iustice ¶ Grace GRACE DOETH SIGnifie the fre acceptation and mercy of God promysed to vs for Christ sake wherwith is ioyned the gyft of the holye Ghost as witnesseth Paul Rom̄ v. cap howe muche more the grace of God and the gyft in grace by the which grace is vnderstanded the free reconciliation and by the gyfte in grace is mente the gyft of the holy Ghost with the renewynge and begynnyng of a newe and eternall lyfe For in the forgiuenes of sinne as I haue sayde is conteyned the gyft of the holy Ghost It is the prophane and vngodly Philosophy of Pelagian to be detested whiche holdeth opinion Pelagians doctryne that without the operation of the holy ghost men are made the sonnes of God and heyres of lyfe eternal Oftentymes therfore vnder the vocable of grace is signified the helpe and woorke of the holye Ghost Grace But the pryncypal signification of grace is free acceptacion as is sayde Paul by Grace obteyned remission of sinne beynge as muche to say as Paull for Chryst sake obteyned forgyuenes of synne Wherfore the Monkishe and Popyshe exposition is cleane to be refused Grace after the papistes doctrin doth signifie vertues and good qualyties whiche are in a ma● as when we saye he is a gracious man whiche is full of good dedes whiche inuentynge and deuisinge a declaration cleane contrary to the mynde of Paul saying that by grace we do purchase remission of sinne whiche is as they say for our own vertues ¶ AND that grace doeth signifie the reconciliation and fre acceptacion promised for Chryst sake many sayinges of the Scriptures do