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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	command_v	servant_n	unprofitable_a	1,244	5	10.6349	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70924	Romes destruction, or, Expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the word of God, for the condemning of the doctrine of the Roman church, and justifying of that of the reformed churches first written in French, by C.D.R., a French noble-man ; and now published in English, at the solicitation of divers religious men of this nation by Jam. Mountaine.	C. D. R.; Mountaine, James.	1641 (1641)	Wing R11; ESTC R10609	52,610	234

long will ye trample under feet the merits of the death and passion of the son of God Saint Peter teaches us that there is no salvation in any other but in Christ Jesus And that there is no other name under heaven given unto men whereby wee must bee saved Act. 4. 12. Item To him give all the Prophets witnesse that through his Name whosoever beleeveth in him shall receive remission of sins Act. 10. 43. and contrariwise these Doctors teach men to seeke for salvation and remission of sinnes in the name of Saints Saint Paul teacheth us that we have redemption through the blood of Christ even the forgivenesse of sins Col. 1. 14. But these Doctors teach men to seeke after Redemption and remission of sins through the blood of Martyrs Saint John affirmeth that the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sinne 1. Epist. 1. 7. and that the faithfull have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe Revel. 7. 14. But these Doctors on the contrary teach men to wash and to cleanse their sinnes in the blood of Saints departed which is to reject the death and passion of Christ as Panigarolle teaches it plainely in his ninth Lesson Page 278 saying It is a great sinne and foolery to say I trust to be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ Panigarolle Lesson 9. p. By so many expresse places of the word of God and necessary consequences drawne out of the same the pretended satisfaction of our adversaries is cast to the ground and cut even to the very deepest roote as likewise their Purgatorie which they have built upon the same foundation For Purgatory was invented but for these two ends The first to satisfie the justice of God for the punishment of sinnes Now if we must not satisfie Gods justice for the punishment of sinnes as I have proved it clearely It followeth there needeth no Purgatory The second is for to intrap and to catch money from the simple people For how commeth it to passe that the Prelates of the Romane Church have so many thousand pounds of yearely revenews That one part of the Nobility is incommodated and behind hand and that the greatest part of the people starve with hunger but because these men have by divers meanes cunnycatcht a great part of their estates and especially by great Donations that many have given at their death to redeeme their soules from the paine which they thought to suffer in a fire of Purgatorie For is there any thing in the world which a man will not give at the very point of death to free himself from going into a fire for the space of many hundred yeares Will a man in that perplexity care to leave his posterity after him miserable and wretched in giving away all his estate So hee may be exempted from the torments of that fire which as they say is seven times hotter than our fire is in this world Those therefore that laid the first foundation thereof shewed themselves most ungodly and full of covetousnesse which is the roote of all evils as Saint Paul saith Timoth. 6. 10. as likewise enemies of the glory and merits of the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ CHAP. VII That our good works have no merit at all and that all the merit of the Faithfull is in one Christ alone AS for the merits of works we need no long discourse for to shew that they have none at all seeing that the very best of our works are full of defects being alwaies mingled with some corruptions of the flesh and man is so subject to sin as that he doth not the good he would but the evill which he would not Wherefore the Prophet Esay saith That we are al as an unclean thing and that al our righteousnesses are as filthy rags Esay 64. 6. Whence it followeth that they have no merit at all For what can such polluted works that are so farre from that perfection they ought to have deserve at the hands of God And though they were done as they ought yet could they deserve nothing For a man deserveth nothing in doing that which he is bound to doe When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you saith our Lord Jesus Christ say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to doe Luk. 17. 10. Moreover whatsoever is given us by Grace and Mercy of God is not given us by the merits of our works If it be of Grace saith Saint Paul it is no more of works otherwise Grace is no more Grace Rom. 11. 6. But the salvation of the Faithfull and the glory that they shall have in the kingdom of God is given them through the Grace and mercy of God Therefore it is not given them by the merits of their works The second proposition of this Argument is also proved by many expresse texts out of the Word of God All have sinned saith S. Paul being justified freely by his Grace Rom. 3. 23. 24. By Grace are yee saved and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of works least any man should boast Ephes. 2. 8. 9. and in another place But after that the kindnesse and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared not by works of righteousnesse which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy-Ghost Tit. 3. 4. 5. In a word whatsoever absolves and justifies us before God from the same I say comes all our merit But it is the onely obedience merit and satisfaction of our Lord Jesus Christ that absolves and justifies us before God Therefore from him alone proceedeth all our merit and if all our merit proceeds from Christ alone then it followeth that it doth not proceed from our works But the first is true Therfore the last also Let our Adversaries now deny as much as they will That all our merit is in one Christ alone and let them establish other merits in their works as for our selves we will remain constant to that being assured that by Christ his onely merits obedience and satisfaction we are absolved and justified before God which thing the Prophet Esay teacheth us when hee saith That he was wounded for our transgressions and that the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all Esay 53. and so doth the Apostle S. Paul saying That the Mediator is one between God and man the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransome for all 1. Tim. 2. 5. 6. and Saint John teacheth it also plainly when he saith That Jesus Christ the Righteous is the propitiation for our sinnes 1. Epist. 2. 2. Now our Adversaries alledge certain places of Scripture which say that God rewardeth good works Wherupon they build this syllogisme Wheresoever there is a reward there is merit But there is a reward to good works Mat. 5. 12. Apoc. 22. 12. Therefore there is merit