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A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

Saraes wombe Neyther did he doubt of the promise of God through vnbeliefe but was strengthened in the fayth and gaue glorie to GOD being fully assured that hee which had promised was also able to doe it and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse c. Hereby may euery one easily perceiue that faith vndoubtedly beleeueth that those thinges shall be perfourmed and through the goodnesse and power of God be brought to passe which otherwise seeme neuer possible to bee performed that faith doth alwayes looke into the promises and power of God and finally that faith is an assured certaine vndoubted and inuincible perswasion conceiued of the goodnesse and power of God whereby this glorie is ascribed attributed and entitled to God that hee both will and also can saue vs. All which are signified in that vsuall and accustomed fourme of confession which euerye one priuately vndertaketh and pronounceth for himselfe saying I beleeue in God For in these fewe wordes is set foorth and contayned the whole summe and signification of fayth Nowe heare and marke in fewe wordes howe thou art iustified by fayth Euen as the Apostle teacheth vs that Abraham was iustified by fayth without workes and that his fayth and sure perswasion of Gods goodnesse and power was imputed to him for righteousnesse so must thou make thy reckoning whosoeuer thou bee that acknowledgest thy selfe a greeuous sinner and that thou art guiltie of the manifolde breache of Gods law and that thou hast no good workes of thine owne to oppose and set against the seueritie of Gods iudgment that thou likewise and in the same sorte shalt bee iustified by faith without workes as the Apostle in that Chapter euidently and plainely testifieth He sayth there also further that it is not written for him onely that it was imputed to him for righteousnesse but also for vs to whom it shal be imputed for righteousnesse which beleeue in him that raysed vp Jesus our Lorde from the dead who was deliuered to death for our sinnes and is risen againe for our iustification This therefore is required at thy hand seein thou hast no manner of helpe in thy selfe whereby to obtayne thy saluation eyther by thine owne workes or any others that thou conceaue a sure and vndoubted fayth and a stedfast and firme perswasion of the goodnesse and power of God and that thou be fully perswaded and throughly assured in thy conscience that God the father will receiue thee againe into fauour that he will pardon forgiue thee thy sinnes and that he will iustifie and make thee righteous for his sonne Iesus Christ as he by his owne expresse words by his holy Prophets and last of all by the same his beloued sonne hath graciously promised For if from the bottome of thy heart thou vnfaynedly beleeue the promises of God touching this matter made vnto the holy fathers of olde be thou assured that thou art in the kings high way to iustification and saluation These promises haue euer from the beginning of the worlde hitherto beene euidently continued and shall to the worldes end be most faithfully and truely perfourmed Immediately after the transgression and fall of our first parentes Adam and Eue this promise of Christ was made vnto them when as the Lorde spake vnto the serpent I will put ●nmitie betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seede and her seede he shall breake thine head Afterwarde he spake vnto Abraham saying In thy seede shall all Nations of the earth be blessed Which promise is excellently expounded by the Apostle to signifie and to be meant of Christ This promise was likewise made vnto Dauid that of his seede and posteritie Christ the Sauiour of the worlde should be borne Many others of the Prophetes besides did most clearely and manifestly prophesie and foretell of Christes comming and of righteousnesse by him onely to bee obtayned Isaiah in his 53. Chapter after manie notable speeches of Christs humiliation death hath lastly these wordes Hee shall see fruite of the trauayle of his soule and shall bee satisfied by his knowledge shall he iustifie manie for hee shall beare their iniquities To be shorte manie figures signes and types acertayned insinuated and represented vnto mens mindes those thinges which were to be done finished by Christe for our iustification the brasen serpent was set vpon a poale in the wildernesse and sundrie sacrifices by the Israelites vsed were figures of Christ and foreshewed both his comming in the fleshe his death which hee shoulde suffer for our instification Now that thou maiest knowe how for Christ and in Christ our sinnes are pardoned and forgiuen vs and righteousnes imputed vnto vs thou must looke into his death which hee suffered to pacifie and satisfie the wrath of God the father for our sinnes This singular benefite and vnspeakable act of Christe together with the most soueraigne vertue and efficacie of the same is in many places both of the olde Testament and of the new notably described For this his death and passion was figured and foreshewed by the types and sacrifices before expressed This death and passion of our Sauiour and redeemer Christe was most excellently pithily and cleerely set out and foretolde by the Prophet Isaiah in the Chapter afore recited And Christ sayth himselfe This is the bloud of the new Testament which is shed for you and for manie for the remission of sinnes By the death and bloudshed of Iesus Christ we are sayed in many places of scripture to be sanctified and clensed from our sinnes In an other place also the Apostle speaking of Christ sayth He gaue himselfe for vs to be an offering and a sacrifice c. In this sort therefore and after this manner doth our heauenly father being pacified and pleased with vs through the death of Christ forgiue and pardon our sinnes and imputeth vnto vs his righteousnesse But thou wilt saye howe knowe I whether this merite of Christe this remission of sinnes and this gift and imputation of righteousnesse for Christ be beneficiall profitable and applyable to mee or no For we must euer stande in feare and doubt least wee be excluded from the participation of those so vnestimable benefites as Christ brought and wrought But to answere thee in this case and because thou shalt not be vnfurnished of a stayed perswasion herein be thou thus assured that the worde of God doeth most plainly direct and point thee to sundry places and alledgeth vnto thee manifolde textes and reasons whereby thou mayst vndoubtedly knowe that thy sinnes are forgiuen thee for Christs sake if thou doest earnestly repent thee of thy wickednesse and withall beleeue that God the father for Christ his sonne will receiue thee into fauour and forgiue thee thy sinnes in this thy beleeuing be thou sure thou shalt obtaine pardon and remission of all thy sinnes and offences which the scripture

doeth in many places testifie and declare Abraham beleeued God it was imputed to him for righteousnesse Which sentence the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romans namely in his fourth Chapter vseth for his theme or principall ground-worke to his whole discourse of this matter there by him handeled The author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes affirmeth that all the holy fathers and Patriarches in the olde time were in this sort iustified by faith In the Gospel after Iohn it is in sundry places by expresse words saide that so many as beleeue on the name of Christ shal be saued shall haue life euerlasting and shall neuer come into condemnation The Apostle Peter also witnesseth the same saying To him euen Iesus Christ geue the Prophets witnesse that through his name all that beleeue in him shall receiue remission of sinnes In another place also Paul Silas to the same effect said to the Iailers whom they conuerted Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saued Also to the Romans out of the prophet Abacuc The iust shall liue by his faith Againe The righteousnes of God by the faith of Jesus Christ is vnto al and Vpon all that beleeue Againe all are iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus whome God hath set foorth to be a reconciliation through faith in his bloud And againe Therefore we conclude that a man is iustified freely without the workes of the lawe Yea in the thirde to the Galatians in the second to the Ephesians the third to the Philippians and the thirde to Titus it moste manifestly appeareth and is moste plainly shewed that by faith onely in Christ without any wo●kes of our owne eyther coucurring or furthering we are freely iustified ⸪ Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius FINIS A TABLE OF THE Titles of this booke to be found by the number of the Page as followeth 1 WHat the true triall and examination of a Man 's owne selfe is and how generally necessarie to all true Christians 6 The examination triall of our owne selues must first begin at the consideratiō of our own corrupt nature 13 Whosoeuer will truely trye profitably examine himselfe must diligently consider his promise made made at Baptisme how well in ech point he answereth the same 26 No better way for the true tryall and examining of our selues than by diligent and exact consideration of our deedes wordes thoughts by the precise rule of the Law of God 169 Of Repentance Contrition and Mortification 177 Of Faith And how all true penitent sinners are againe iustified through faith in Christ Jesu FINIS LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet at the signe of the White Beare in Adling streate neer Bayenards Castell 1587. 1. Cor. 11. 28. Gal. 6. 4. 2. Cor. 13. 5. Rom. 1. 28 11. Rom. 3. 12. Act. 24. 16 Rom. 5. 12. Ibid. Psal 51. 5. Gen. 8. 21. Isai 9. 17. Rom. 7. 18. Ephes 2. 3. Rom. 7. ●3 Rom. 5. 12. Gen. 3. 17. Gen. 2. 2. Rom. 5. 18. Eph. 2. 19. Act. 2. 38. Tit. 3. 5. Mar. 16. 16 Joel 2. 13. Act. 23. 8. Rom. 4. 11. Ephes 5. Rom. 6. 4. Eph. 2. 13. Rom. 6. 4. 1. Cor. 6. 11. Tit. 3. 5. Rom. 6. 12. Rom. 5. 7. 22. Rom. 8. 16. Eph. 1. 14. 5. 26. Rom. 8. 16. 27. Rom. 12. 1. Cor. 12. Gal. 5. Heb. 12. Ephes 4. 1. Cor. 6. 2. Pet. 2. 21. 〈◊〉 11. 26 Lu 1. Tim. 1. 9. Psal 119. 33. Rom. 3. 20. Rom. 7. 7. Vers 9. Gal. 3. 13. Vers 24. 1. Commandements Deut. 5. 6. Magistrate ●tudents 〈◊〉 teachers ●●holers ●hisition Apothecarie Merchant Chapman Artificer 2. Commandement Caruers Grauers Painters Image-makers Handi-●●aftesmen ●●rtificers 3. Commandements Magistrate Officer 4. Commandement Buyers and sellers Suters for mariage Souldiers Minister Magistrate Schoole-master Merchant Chapman Stage-plaiers Musicion Minstrell Artificers House-holder 5. Commandement Orphans Wardes Scholler Schoolemasters Subiects Rom. 13. 1. 1. Pet. 2. 13 Magistrats Seruaunts Hādmaids Masters Mistresses Ephe. 6. 9. Collo 4. 1. Children Wardes Orphans Parent Guardian Layman or parishioner Scholler Seruant Maister Mistres Euery man or woman in generall 6. Commandement 1 Iob. 3. 15 Minister Ciuill Magistrate Generall Captaine Souldiour Lawier Atturney Aduocate Scribe Phisition Apothecary Rich man Marchant Artificer Butcher Baker Brewer Fishmōger Vitailer Cooke Tauerner Hu●band Wife Nurses Harlots Strumpets Euery man particular 7. Cōmandement Bishop Pastor Minister Prince Magistrate Officer Physition Apothecary Schoolemaister Scholler Husband Wife Tailers Painters Scmsters other Artificers Inholder Tauerner Vitailer Musitians Mintirels Stageplaiers 8 Commandement Clergiman or Minister of the Church Act. 8. 19 Ciuill Magistrate Warri●ur Doctor Graduate Scholemaster Reader Teacher Scholer Student Lawyer Atturney Aduocate Scriuener Notarie Phisition Apotheca●ie Merchant Chapman Seli●● of ware Broker Treasurer Receiuer Guardian Wife Artificers Labourers Husbandman Farmer Monyer Min●er Clothie● Vintener Tauerner Butcher Baker Gamester Stageplaier Pandar Bawde Begger Children Boyes Gyrles 9. Commandement Clergie man or church Minister Magistrat Judge Atturney Aduocate Proctor Notarie Maister of Colledge Doctor Teacher Scholemaste● Reader Student Sch●ler Marchant Seller of wares Artificers Workemen Occupiers 10. Comandement Psal 19. 12. Jsa 64. 6. Luc. 17. 10. Rom. 8. 7. Rom. 7. 18 Deut. 28. 1. Chro. 21. 14. 2. Sam. 12. 18. Job 34. 30 1. Sam. 2. 31. Psa 130. 3 Rom. 7. 2. Luc. 13. 3. Act. 2. 36. Mar. 1. 15. Mat. 3. 2. Rom. 9. 11. Col. 2. 12. Mat. 11. 28. Psal 51. 16. Psal 6. 2. Ver. 6. Mat. 26. 7● Luc. 18. 13. Luc. 23. 42. Exod. 32. Num. 6. 14. ●6 Deut. 2. Pro. 3. 13. Dan. 9. Ezra 6. Gen. 4. 13. Mat. 27. 3. Mat. 26. 75 Mar. 14. 72. Luc. 22. 92. Joh. 18. 25 Joh. 20. 15. Heb. 11. 17 Rom. 4. 17. Gen. 15. 5. Rom. 4. 5. Gen. 3. 58. Gen. 22. 1. Gal. 3. 19. ● Sam. 7. ●2 Psal 132. ●1 ●say 9.7 ●ere 23. 5. Mat. 17. 5. Act. 13. 23. ●sa 53. 11. Num. 21. 9. Joh. 3. 14. Exod. 2. 48. Heb. 9. 9. Isa 53. Mat. 26. 28 Mar. 14. 24 Rom. 4. 25. Eph. 1. 7. Collos 1. 14 Heb. 13. 12 1. Iohn 1. 7. a Eph. 5. 20. Gen. 15. 6. Heb. 11. Ioh. 1. 12. 3. 15. 36. 47. Act. 10 43 Act. 13. 31 Rom. 1. 17 H●bak 2. 4 Rom. 3. 22 Ver. 24. Ver. 28. Gal. 3. 7. Ephes 2. 8. Phil. 3. 6. Tit. 3. 5.

contrition For seeing that it is wholly resident in the heart and there onely consisteth it is brought to passe and perfourmed in verie short space of time yea in a verie moment and further euen with the onely affections of the minde Moreouer which will make thee more to marueile that which thou once in this sort faithfully humbly atchiuest remaineth firme acceptable and ratified of God for euer after so that thou haue a stedfast an hartie purpose neuer againe to returne to thy former wickednesse For in contrition thou must wholly and altogether die vnto thy sinnes that is thou must so renounce them as though thou neuer intedest any more to haue any dealing therwith And such doutlesse was the Contrition of the Publicane whose wordes were verie briefe and fewe God bee mercifull vnto me a sinner Such Contrition was also in the Theefe which was crucified with Christe saying Lorde remember mee when thou commest into thy kingdome He therefore that will earnestly repent and come into the fauour of God againe must bee touched with such an incomparable grief for his sinnes committed that he must resolutely and directly confesse himselfe to haue thereby iustly deserued al those plagues which God by Moses and the Prophetes hath threatned and thundered out vpon all the despisers of his worde and contemners of his Maiestie and that if God being by nature most mercifull should not vouchsafe to haue mercie and compassion on him he must needes and that presently incurre the greeuous daunger and feele intollerable smart thereof Wee were purposed hereunto to haue annexed some briefe and compendious fourme of confession and therein to haue made a plaine discouerie and and anatomie of all the affections of a corrupt heart and also to haue brought in the sorrowfull sinner confessing himselfe to haue iustly deserued all plagues and punishmentes aswell of this life present as of the life to come and aswell corporall as spirituall and further also to haue described him vtterly denying and renouncing himselfe and so humbly standing before the tribunall of the Lorde his God and iudge submitting himselfe wholly vnto his diuine pleasure and blessed will wayting for that sentence and doome which shall best please him But because partly in the Chapter last afore we haue alreadie in some sort deliuered such a confession and partly for that in the sacred scriptures many good godly praiers are to be found set forth by the auncient fathers and holy men of God euery godly zealous and well disposed man may therin vertuously exercise himselfe and thence take out for his godly comfort plentifull examples of Christian meditation Of this sort there bee prayers for sinnes in Exodus in the booke of Nūbers in Deuteronomie Bookes of Salomon Daniel Ezra Ieremie c. In the Psalmes also there are many fitly agreeing to this present purpose namely these the 32. 36. 30. 50. 51. 56. 58. 62. 71. 73. 88. 92. 102. Of Faith and how sinners are againe iustified through faith in Iesus Christ CHAP. VI. AFter thou hast thus some space like a giltie suppliant suter prostrated thy selfe at the feet of thy iust and righteous iudge and art driuen vnto such a straite and narrowe issue that thou canst not any manner of wayes denie but that thou hast deserued and art most woorthie of all terrible and eternall punishmentes and with the feare of this iudgement art verie sore a mazed terrified and perplexed yea altogether mortified brought to deathes brinke the next waye and remedie for thee nowe is by fayth in the mercies of God to rayse vppe thy selfe againe meekely and humbly crauing pardon of thy sinnes and misdeedes Vnto this humble prostrating of thy selfe thou wast both profitably and necessarily driuen through humble confession of thy sinnes and meeke contrition of thy heart But nowe thou must take heede and beware that by consideration of the seueritie of Gods iudgements thou bee not vtterly discouraged dashed out of countenance and thereby enter into any dispaire diffidence or distrust of the goodnesse of God It shall be very requisite therefore for thy comfor and as a soueraigne salue and cordiall medicine against this inconuenience to lay downe before thee some holesome and health some doctrine howe thou shalt haue ful remission and foregiuenesse of al thy sins through faith in Iesus Christ Cain acknowledged confessed his sinne and being therefore in minde marueilously troubled graunted it to be most greeuous and haynous Iudas likewise openly condemneth himselfe for his great guilt and treacherous crime in betraying his maister publiquely testifying and pronouncing Christ to bee iust and innocent and further restoreth backe the money which hee had receiued What will ye saye lacked in him here to be done more And yet neyther of them both obtayned pardon of their sinnes why forsooth because this free franke confession of their sinnes was not accompanied with a liuely fayth and vndoubted trust in the mercies of God for pardon and forgiuenes thereof Contrariwise Peter bewayled and wept bitterly for his sinne but yet so that in the meane while he shrūke not frō his firme faith And therefore within a while after he receiued a singular comfort and speciall consolation from the mouth of Christe himselfe after his resurrection Therefore it is out of all doubt that faith is altogether and necessarily behoouefull to all true penitent sinners wherewith they may raise vp thē selues againe being throwen downe with the burden of their offences And nowe howe truely sorrowfull and repentant sinners may by fayth againe be raysed vp we will plainely and euidently declare Faith is a sure and stedfast trust whereby we assure our selues that god will performe vnto vs all those things that he hath promised chiefely and specially spirituall benefites and in them remission of our sinnes and righteousnesse in Christ for Christ Which is confirmed by the authour of the Epist to the Heb in these wordes Faith is the grounde of thinges which are hoped for and the euidence of thinges which are not scene The interpretation and exposition of which description so farre as concerneth the vse and practise thereof who so is desirous to know may see set down in the 4. chap. of the Epist to the Rom. Wherein after the Apostle had sayde that Abraham was iustified by faith and that the inheritaunce of the worlde was giuen to him through fayth he afterwarde addeth that this reuerend and blessed Patriarch had respect vnto the goodnesse and power of God whereby hee quickeneth the dead calleth those things which bee not as though they were And therefore that aboue hope that he should be the father of many Nations according to that which was spoken to him So shall thy seede be And be not weake in this fayth considered not his owne bodie which was now dead being almost an hundreth yeares old neither the deadnesse of