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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18980	A briefe discourse of mans transgression [an]d of his rede[mption by Christ, with a particular surueigh of the Romish religion]	Clement, Francis.	1593 (1593)	STC 5399.8; ESTC S3116	50,810	106

Rom. 2 7. 〈◊〉 6 10. not for their worthinesse Iob. 15. vers 15. 16. and 14. 4. and 9 3. Psal 130 3. Luke 17 10 but for his own free promise Hebr. 10 23 and grace Phil. 2 13. T it 3 5. which he approueth in thē Isai 43 25. Micha 7. vers 19. 20. 2 Cor. 12 9. merit by thē for the true Christians soule is purified in obeying the truth through the spirite to loue brotherlie without faining 1 Pet. 1 22. mortifying the deedes of the bodie by the same spirit Roman 8 13. for like as by faith he is made the child of God Gala. 3 26. euen so Christ dwelleth in his heart by faith to inable him to comprehend with all Saints the loue of Christ which passeth knowledge that he may be filled with all fulnesse of God Ephes 3 17 c. being made partaker of the godlie nature in that he fleeth the corruption which is in the world through lust ioining vertue with his faith with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance c. 2 Pet. 1 4 c. for a christian is able to do all things through the help of Christ which strengthneth him Phil. 4 13. euē to loue his enemies to blesse them that curse him to do good to them that hate him to pray for them which hurt him and so ●indlie resembling the naturall sonne of ●is heauenlie father Mat. 5 44 c. whose workmanship he is created in Christ Ie●us vnto good workes which God hath ordeined that he should walke in them Eph. 2 10. And not to be wearie of well doing Gal. 6 9. but by the grace of God Heb. 12 28 to go forward in the worke of his saluation with careful feare c There be two kinds of feare in holie scripture a filiall or childly feare proceeding of the reuerence of Gods maiestie Ier. 5 22. and loue of his mercie Ps 130 4. Prou. 28 14. Isai 66 5. Ier. 2 19. Mal. 1 6 1 Ioh. 4 18. And a seruile or slauish feare proceeding from an euill consciēce abhorring and trembling at gods presence Gen. 3 8. Deut. 28 65. 〈◊〉 Prou. 29 25. Isai 57 20. Hab. 2 4. Iam. 2 19. trembling Phil. 2 12. And this is the true making his calling and election sure vnto his own hart soule as Saint Peter willeth 2 Pet. 1 10 which else is vndoubtedlie sure vnder the Kings broad seale with God as Saint Paul testifieth 2 Tim. 2 19. It is most certaine therefore which the Apostle saith that we are ingrafted by baptisme with Christ to the similitude of his death and resurrection knowing that our old mā that is the works which by nature we haue drawen from sinfull Adam is crucified with Christ that the course reigne of sinne in our mortall bodies might be destroied seing we are dead with Christ as touching sinne as our dipping in the water of Baptisme signifieth but are risen againe to a newnesse of life vnto God in Iesus Christ as our taking vp againe from the same water presenteth giuing our bodies as instruments and seruants of righteousnesse and holinesse of life Rom. 6 5 c. For our Lord Iesus hath therfore redeemed vs with his most precious bloud from that dreadfull and damnable state wherein our father Adam was whē he fled to the trees for a vaine couert from the Lords presence in Paradise that we now being deliuered out of the bands of Satan and the hands of the wicked our enemies spirituall and corporall might serue him without feare in true holinesse and righteousnesse all our life long Luke 1. vers 74. 75. And not that we should d If when the Lord who with a word of his mouth made heauen and earth Ps 33 6. shall likewise with his word raise vp the dead out of their graues at the last day Ioh. 5 28● none will thinke that they haue any power in that worke to quicken themselues why in our spirituall rising frō sinne wherein we were dead Eph. 2 1. when hee sayth vnto vs Awake thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead Christ shall giue thee light Eph. 5 14. Should we once dreame that we are helpers with Gods grace for our sufficiencie is of God 2 Cor. 3 5. who worketh in vs both the will and the deed euen of his good pleasure Phi. 2 13. And keepeth vs by his power through faith vnto saluation 1 Pet. 1 5. read Rom. 8 30. 9 16. See S. Pauls conclusion Rom. 3 28. where he opposeth faith to the whole law vers 21 12. and 4 13 c. Read Phil. 3. vers 6. 9. and Gallat 3. vers 11 12. Iohn 17. Tit. 3 5. merit any thing of our saluation by our works as those Marchants teach and so deny the Lord that bought vs for whē we haue done all those things which are commanded vs we are vnprofitable seruants and haue done but that which was our dutie to do Luk. 17 10. for Iesus ●hrist alone hath made vs his peculiar ●eople and sheepe of his pasture and not ●e our selues Psal 100 3. And as all were ●ead in Adams transgression so Christ ●ied to redeeme all that they which liue ●hould not henceforth liue vnto them●elues as they did in ignorance before ●heir calling Rom. 6 19. Tit. 3. 3. 1 Pet. 1 4 but vnto him which died for them ●nd rose againe 2 Cor. 5 15 who his own ●elfe alone hath trodden the wine-presse of the bloodie furie of all our spirituall e●emies Sathan sin hell death c. for the ●escue of his church and redemption of his people euen by the might of his own ●rme without any helper Isai 59 16 and 63. vers 3 5. Heb. 1 3. and freely bought out our transgressions by his bitter passion and purchased for vs Gods euerlasting fauour again and that vnspeakeably more aboundant Ioh. 10 10. Rom. 5 17. and 8 17 and more sure 1 Pet. 1. ver 3. 4. 5. through the same his obedient sufferings for vs Phil. 2 8. Hebr. 5 8 then euer had Adam in his innocent roialty Good works then serue to many excellent purposes but cheefly to the glory of God as our Lord commandeth Mat. 5 16. And they so testifying our faith and obedience towards God in the sight of men do iustifie vs before men as S. Iames witnesseth Iam. 2. ver 22. 23. 24. Thus haue we seene that Iesus Chris● Act. 4 12. 15 11. 1. Pet. 1 20. 1 Ioh. 5 11. Heb. 11 2. c. is the only and all sufficient means ordained of God before the foundation of th● world for the only saluation of the holy Patriarkes and Prophets and of all men euen from Adam in all ages as wel before the comming of Christ in the flesh as after to the worlds end so that the saying of the Apostle is clearly verefied Iesus Christ yesterday and to day the same also is for euer Heb. 13 8. Hereby likewise we see that their purgatorie is but the

Purgatorie Popes painted fire and is not in the scriptures as also no one point of poperie is therefore all sinfull And for Purgatorie it was deuised of the heathen Atheists long before the daies of any Pope within the compasse of those 1864 yeres wherin we sayd that Abraham and his posteritie were separate from the Gentiles which space the Apostle calleth the Times-past wherein God suffered the Gentiles to walke in their own waies Act. 14 16. And ●herein after a sort the Lord hid him●lfe from them as Isai speaketh 45 15 as ●ntrariwise the same Prophet foretold ●at the Lord would discouer his holy ●me in the sight of all the Gentiles that 〈◊〉 the ends of the world might see the sal●ation of God 52 10. Of those Heathen I ●ay and in that time a kind of Purgatorie ●as inuented by their vaine Poets and ●hilosophers who were the diuines of ●he Heathen as in the writings of Plat● ●nd Virgil it appeareth from whom these ●orthy marchants for faile of scripture ●aue cosoningly gathered the dead coles ●f their Purgatory blown vp the same ●o vehemently with the boistrous belows ●f their own hot burning breath that they ●aue made it nothing lesse if not much more terrible for the time then hell it self A diuelish deuise meerly forged of these merchants wherby as also by their masse they made merchandise of mens soules as Peter and Iohn foretold vs. Yet is there a double Purgatorie or purgation of Christians in this life The one is whereby we are cleansed from all our sinnes by the blood of Iesus christ Heb. 1 3. 1 Ioh. 1 7● Reuel 1 5 which vvas also signified vnd● the law by that blood offered Leuit. 17 11 vvhich see how the Apostle interpreteth 1 Hebr. 10 1 c. For almost al thing● vvere by the law purged vvith blood an● vvithout shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9 22. This our first purgation is figured also by baptisme where our washing in the vvater or new birth Tit. 3. 5 betokeneth our putting on of Christ Gal. 3 27. vvhich in the Reuelation is called the vvhite raiment Reuel 3 vers 4. 18 and is named of S. Paul the new man vvhich after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Eph 4 24 which is to mortifie the deedes of the body by the spirit Rom. 8 13 and to put off the sinfull body of the flesh Col. 2 11 that is to crucifie our old man that the body of sin might be destroied that henceforth vve should not serue sin Rom. 6 6 for they that are Christs haue crucified the flesh vvith the affections and lusts Gal. 5 24. read Col. 3 5 and Tit. 2 vers 11. 12 c. Our other purgation is by the fire of afflictions and persecutions Dan. 12 10 which all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus must indure Psal 34 19. Phil. 1 29. 〈◊〉 Tim. 4 10. 2 Tim. 3 12. 1 Pet. 1 ver 6. 7 that the triall of our fayth being much more precious then gold that perisheth though it be tried by fire might be soūd vnto our praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Iesus Christ whom wee haue not seene and yet loue him in whom now though we see him not yet do we beleeue and reioice vvith ioy vnspeakeable and glorious receauing the end of our faith euen the saluation of our soules 1 Pet. 1. ver 7 8 9 for if we be without the corrections whereof all the faithful are partakers then are we bastards and not sonnes Hebr. 12 8. And here wee may see that Bildad argued very absurdly against Iob in reasoning thus If thou wert righteous God would not afflict thee but he afflicteth thee therefore art thou vnrighteous Iob 8. ver 6. 20. Wherefore Iob confuteth this absurditie in the next chapter vers 21. 22. These afflictions of the faithfull were most liuely represented by the beasts diuided in the middest in the couenant that God made with Abraham where the foules fell vpon the carkases ● the Lorde went betweene those diuide● peeces of the beastes with a smoking fornace and firebrand Gen. 15. verse 10. 11. 17. to teach Abraham that his posterity shuld suffer many and diuerse afflictions to be rent and torne in peeces tried with fire fagot as the lord there in a word plainly expresseth verse 13. Exod. 2 11. Heb. 〈◊〉 verse 36. 37. In the law likewise this was prefigured where they were commanded in all their oblations to offer salt Leuit 2 13. which Christ himselfe thus enterpreteth Euerie man shall be salted with fire and euerie sacrisice shal be salted with salt Marke 9 49. This sacrifice is euerie Christian mans bodie which he is bound of dutie and seruice euen by reason Rom. 6 19. to giue vp and offer holie and acceptable vnto God Ro. 12 1. for to this end our sauiour saith to all If any man wil come after me let him denie himselfe and take vp his crosse daily and follow me Luke 9 23. I am loth to be longer in this point yet since we are come thus farre into the field of Christian combats let vs at the least take a suruey of the battell for it may be though we comenow but only to see the host as Dauid did 1 Sam. 17. vers 17. 20. that the Lord will one day call vs forth as he did Dauid to fight against Goliath verse 49 c. For howsoeuer worldlie souldiers are discharged either for infirmities or age yet none are exempted from this christian warfare but all euen from children Mat. 19 14 that feare God must prepare thēselues to this warefare which is not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers against worldly gouerners the princes of the darknesse of this world against spiritual wickednesses which are in the hie places Eph. 6 12. The weapons of this warfare are the verie whole armoure of god Eph. 6 11 c. by which Christ our Captaine hath alreadie conquered all the power and kingdome of Sathan for vs Isai 59. vers 16. 17. 18. Wherefore Saint Paule as an Heralt about to crie an Alarme in this great host biddeth vs to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Eph. 6 10. And to watch stand fast in the faith to quit vs like men and be strong 1 Cor. 10 13. And he sheweth the meanes how we may so do namelie by continuing in one spirit and in one mind fighting together through the faith of the Gospel Philip. 1 27. S. Iohn also to comfort vs before we haue giuen one stroke telleth vs that we haue alreadie gotten the victorie and ouercome the wicked one that is the Deuil 1 Ioh. 2 13. This might seeme vnto vs a paradox but that we cannot forget our grand captaine Christ the head of his bodie the Church Col. 1 18. who hath spoiled the principalities powers and triumphed ouer thē in his crosse Col. 2 15. and so cast out the