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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02604	A most excelent and fruitful treatise, called Patericks Places concerning the doctrine of fayth, and the doctrine of the law: which being knowen, you haue the pith of all diuinitie. With a briefe collection or exposition of a summe of S. Pauls doctrine touching iustification by fayth, in Iesus Christ: which is the only marke to shoote at, and the only meanes to obtaine saluation. Selected and reduced into this volume by I.D. 1598.; Patrick's Places. English	Hamilton, Patrick, 1504?-1528.; Frith, John, 1503-1533.; I. D.	1598 (1598)	STC 12734; ESTC S105993	37,059	67

by our example to prayse God to imbrace the same Religion and to do the like For requisite it is that as God hath beene so mercifull vnto vs and gracious in eternall gyftes we should be mercifull likewyse to other in temporall commodities And seeing it hath pleased him of his fatherly goodnes of our partes so little deserued to call vs to so high a vocation to giue the blood of his Sonne for vs to forgiue vs al our sinnes to delyuer vs from this present wicked worlde to make vs citizens of heauen yea his children more then seruants ●ytle then can we doe and well may he thinke those benefices yll bestowed if we forgiue not our neighbours and shew some thing agayne worthy that holy callyng wherewith he hath called vs in mortifying our fleshly lustes here and studying after heauenly thinges And finally if we being prouoked with such loue and kindnes render not againe some loue for loue some kindnes for kindnes seeking how to walke in seruing him so much as we may in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our lyfe And though our obedience shall alwayes be imperfect do the best we can yet reason would that some obedience we should shew as louing children to such a louing father And this is the cause why Sainct Paule is so vehement and vrgent to call vpon good workes not that workes should iustifie but that we being iustified so mercifully and tenderly through his grace should not abuse his grace in vayne but endeuour our selues to our vtmost to render our seruice agayne to him in such conuersation of lyfe as may most make to his glory and profite of our neighboure And though the wordes of our Sauiour seeme in some places to attribute to our obedience charitie here in earth great rewardes in heauen That is of his owne free grace goodnes so to impute small matters for great desartes And not for vs to clayme any meede thereby or thanke at his hand as by any worthynes of our doinges no more then the Seruant when he commeth from the Plough and seruing the Cattle in the stelde serueth first his Maister at home and wayteth vpon his table the Maister is not bound sayth Christ to thanke his Seruant therefore and did him sit downe So you sayth he when you haue done that is commaunded you say ye are vnprofitable Seruantes ye haue done but what your bounden duetie was to doe Luk. 17. Agayne here also is to be vnderstoode that where such rewardes be ascribed vnto mens deedes it is not for the worthynes of the deede it selfe but for the Fayth of the doer which Fayth maketh the worke to be good in Gods sight For els yf an Infidel should do the same worke that the Christian doth it were nothing but meere sinne before God In that therefore the Christian mans worke is accepted be it neuer so small as to giue a cup of colde water the same is onely for his Faythes sake that doth it and not for the worke which is done Whereby againe we may learne how Fayth onely doth iustifie a man that three maner of wayes First it iustifieth the person in making him accepted and the childe of God by regeneration before he begin to do any good worke Secondly it iustifieth a man from sinne in procuring remission and forgiuenes for the same Thirdly it iustifieth the good deedes and workes of man not onely in brynging foorth good fruites but also in making the same workes to be good and acceptable in the sight of God 〈◊〉 which otherwise were impure and execrable in his syght The office therefore of Fayth and Workes is dyuers and must not be confounded Fayth fyrst goeth before and regenerateth a man to God and iustifyeth him in the sight of God both in couering his sinne and in making his good deedes acceptable to God clyming vp to heauen and there wrastling and pleading Christes merites with God and his iudgement for righteousnes for saluation and for euerlasting life Workes and Charitie folow Fayth and are exercised here vpon earth and gloriech onely before man but not before God in shewing fo●rth obedience both to God and man Further then this our good workes do not reach nor haue any thing to doe in the iudgement of God touching saluation I speake of our good workes as S. Paule speaketh Rom. 7. as they be ours and imperfect for els if our workes could be perfect according to the perfection of the Law as Christ wrought them in the perfection of his flesh then should we obtayne saluation by them according as it is sayd Qui feceret ea viuet in eis But now seeing the imbec●●itie of our flesh can not attayne thereto it foloweth thereof that all glory of iustifying is taken from our workes and transferred onely to Fayth Certayne Principles or generall Verities and infallible Rules of the Scripture grounded vpon the trueth of Gods worde in the argument of iustification The fyrst Principle AS sinne and death came originally by the disobedience of one to all men of his generation by nature So righteousnes and life came originally by the obedience of one to all men regenerated of him by Fayth and Baptisme Rom. 5. The seconde Principle The Promise of God was freely geuen to our first Parentes without their deseruing That the Seede of the woman should breake the Serpents head Gen. 3. The thirde Principle Promyse was geuen freely to Abraham before he deserued any thing That in his Seede all nations should be blessed Gen. 12. The fourth Principle To the worde of God neither must we add nor take from it Deut. 4. The fyft Principle He that doth the workes of the Law shall liue therein Leuit. 18. Galla. 3. The sixt Principle Accursed is he which abideth not in euery thing that is written in the booke of the Law Deut. 27. Galla. 3. The seuenth Principle God onely is to be worshypped Deut. 6. Luk. 4. The eight Principle All our righteousnes is lyke a defyled cloth of a woman Esa. 64. The ninth Principle In all my holy Hill they shall not kill nor slay sayth the Lord. Esa. 11. 65. The tenth Principle God loueth mercie and obedience more then sacrifice Ose. 6. 1. King 15. The eleuenth Principle The Law worketh anger Condempneth and openeth sinne Rom. 3. The twelfth Principle The ende of the Law is Christ to righteousnes to euery one that beleeueth Rom. 10. The thirteenth Principle Whosoeuer beleeueth and is baptised shalbe saued Math. vlt. The foureteenth Principle A man is iustifyed by Fayth without workes freely by grace not of our selues Galla. 2. Ephe. 2. The fyfteenth Principle There is no remission of sinnes without blood Heb. 9. The sixteenth Principle Whatsoeuer is not of Fayth is sinne Rom. 14. Without Fayth it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. The seuenteenth Principle One mediatoure betweene God and