God We therfore waue off this little righteousnesse of our owne as a piece of * Esay 64.6 polluted cloth in the Act of our Iustification and cast anchor onely vpon the merits of Christ But according to your Doctrine of * Concil Trid. infused Charitie not the Almighty reconciled but the man qualified not Christ patient but an habite inherent not God by grace pardoning but an instilled vertue like a receipt of Mithridate expelling sinne is the cause of your Iustification Pap. But haue you any vse of your Free-wil in either righteousnes I meane that imputed or this inherent Or are you as some relate your opinions meerely suffering and passiue like so many stockes and stones casting not so much as a sigh grone or short wish towards this great worke of your conuersion Prot. In our first conuersion to be righteous and the Act of our Iustification wee are like so many Niobes or images of marble which moue not at all but as they are in the whole lumpe carted and transported Our vnderstandings not affoording themselues the least glymps of knowledge nor our wils the least shew of inclination vnto this Act but as they are either of them powerfully bended by the Holy Ghost to lay holde by Faith on this imputed righteousnesse But in our second conuersion to be more righteous which we call the Act of our Sanctification wee moue like * Arist polit 1. c. 1. Daedalus his statues or pageants vpon wheeles dull and vnweldy in our owne natures but so quickened and enliued by those engines of Grace and motions of the holy Ghost in our soules and consciences that now our vnderstandings wils and affections doe cooperate and runne along with the Grace of God in all our workes of pietie and deuotion To that imputed righteousnesse therfore we haue no freenesse or cooperation of our Willes to our inherent righteousnesse we haue Wee haue no concurrance in that first Act of our Iustification but we haue a cooperation of the will rouzed vp and excited by grace in all subsequent Acts of our Sanctification The points therfore of this Chapter are these 1. Iustification consists in Gods not imputing of Sinne and in his imputing of Christs righteousnesse vnto vs. 2. It is not our conceipt but the iustice and mercy of God which layes this loade on our Sauiour Christ 3. Whosoeuer is acquainted with the Scripture cannot be vnacquainted with imputed righteousnes 4. Imputed righteousnesse is soone apprehended but infused Faith must bee first obtained 5. We haue an inherent righteousnesse which is the effect but none which is the cause of our Iustification 6. Grace alone works our iustification Grace and we together but wee in the second place our Sanctification CHAP. 4. Of Saints Soules of the Dead and those dependant questions Pap. WEe are scandalized likewise at your Church because you giue no more reuerence to the Saints then you doe neither praying vnto them nor adorning their images nor giuing them any set imployment aboue in heauen or the least care of vs here on earth Which smels very much of the heresies of the a Epiphan Cainans and Eunomians condemned so many yeeres agone in the Christian Church Prot. What employment the Saints haue in heauen besides the contemplation of God face to face b Hugo de S. V. l. 2. de Sacram. c. 11. Alâ—is l. 3. we know not nor doe c Cassand in consult art 21. we deny their praying for vs. Vpon earth they receiue in our Church all that honour bespoken for them in the primitiue Church Wee keepe duely the memorials of the blessed Virgine and the twelue Apostles and a yeerely panegyricall commemoration of all the Martyrs Saints of God respecting them as our d August contr Faust l. 20. c. 2. fellowes and friends though not as our e Iouius hist lib. 24. Tutelar gods and young little Sauiours We admire their liues and as we doe not furiously deface so doe we not adore their images Because f August in Psal 113. S. Augustin would faine know where that Christian may be found that prayeth or adoreth beholding an image g Idem de ciuit Dei lib. 22. cap. 10. We reare them no Temples as to Gods but trophees onely of praise as to deseruing men h Epi. ad Hebr. cap. 11. S. Paul himselfe did all this and hee did no more We dignifie them as Saints by celebration wee dare not deifie them as Gods by inuocation Your i Eckius in his Enchirid. owne men confesse there is for this praying to Saints neither precept nor example in all the Bible And 1 Orig. l. 2. in Epist ad Rom. Origen made but a question 2 Basil cited by the Bishop of Lincolne S. Basil an If 3 NaZ Orat. 1. in Iulian orat in Gorgon Gregory Nazianzene a thinking or an opinion onely of this which you make an Article of Faith We are commanded to call vpon 4 Psal 50 15. God vpon him 5 Matth. 4.10 onely for he is our 6 Psal 74.12 King of old and we are starke mad if we thinke to better our selues by changing of Masters Pap. I but how will you answere Antiquitie For I haue beene told that there are found in the writings of the Auncient Fathers prayers made to many of the Saints and holy men departed Prot. If you please to obserue them well you shall finde they are no Orisons but Orations A certain kind of passionate and rhetoricall exclamations made vnto the dead concerning some notable euents happened vnto the Church in generall or the parties themselues in particular This is easily beleeued of them who vse to reade the Greeke Fathers which are full of such eiaculations in their affectionate Discourses And that their passages are no prayers this is an argument 1 Eliens resp ad Apolog. pag. 42. Because there is not any of all these Fathers when they treat of prayer as it is their vsuall theme of set purpose and handle all the obiects and kindes therof that euer mention one syllable of this prayer to Saints This is an answere will neuer be taken away by any of your side Now if your Priests tooke an hint hereby to erect Masses for the 2 Vide Epist Vratislauiens apud Sâ—â—ltetum Annal. decad 1. p. 150 dead I hope you know they loose nothing by the bargaine Pap. You likewise contemne and deride the Reliques of the Saints which are shewed preserued and adored in our Churches Prot. We are so farre from contemning any thing in this kinde that did wee knowe them to bee true reliques and no impostures we should honour them more then you doe to wit 1 K. Iames preface monit with an honourable and Christian buriall Wee heare indeed that there were of old 2 August de moribus Ecclesiae some Christians that attributed too much to the reliques of the Martyrs but we heare from the same
THREE SMALL AND plaine Treatises 1. Of Prayers or Actiue Diuinitie 2. Of Principles or Positiue Diuinitie 3. Resolutions or Oppositiue Diuinitie Translated and collected out of the Auncient Writers for the priuate vse of a most Noble Ladie By an old PRAEBENDARY of the Church of Lincolne CERTAINE PRAYERS AND short MEDITATIONS translated out of the Writings of S. Augustine S. Gregorie S. Bernard Ioannes Picus Mirandula Ludouicus Viues Georgius Cassander Charolus Paschalius and others for the priuate Vse of the L. M. B. Morning Prayer MY Soule fleeth vnto the Lord before the morning Watch Psal 130.6 I say before the morning Watch. O let me heare thy louing kindnesse betimes in the morning Psal 143.8 for in thee is my trust shew thou mee the way that I should walke in for I lift vp my soule vnto thee O Lord assist mee with thy holy Spirit in my prayers And let my cry come vnto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Confession of sins S. Greg. Homil 33. in Iob. REceiue O Lord in the armes of thy mercie thy distressed handmaiden who in remorse and contrition returnes vnto thee from her sinnes Because the life of that sinner is not abhorred of thee which is accompanied with sighes and repentance Pardon then O Lord all my offences for thy deare Sons sake Amen A Prayer for the Morning ALmighty God Georg. Cassander Pres. Eccles our heauenly Father which hast brought me thy handmaiden to this present morning protect mee still with thy mighty power that this ensuing day I may fall into no sinne nor run into any kinde of danger but that my thoughts wordes and deedes may tend to the honor and glory of thy name and the eternall comfort and saluation of mine own soule through Iesus Christ my Lord and onely Sauiour Amen Another Viues O Most syncere and pure Light from whence this light of the day and of the Sunne fetcheth his beginning Thou which enlightenest euery man that commeth into the world Thou Light whome no night or euening can obscure but continuest euer in thy High-noone brightnesse Thou Word and Wisedome of so great a Father enlighten this morning my soule and vnderstanding that thy weake handmaiden may be this day as blinded to the Vanities of the world and quick-sighted only to those things which are pleasing vnto thee and leading to the wayes of thy Commandements Amen For the Mediation of Christ LOrd Iesus Greg. Hom. 7. in Ezech. that art not onely righteous but righteousnesse it selfe and art my Aduocate with God the Father iustifie thou me thy hand-maiden in the day of iudgement because I acknowledge and accuse my self as full of vniustice and pollution For it is not vpon any action or contrition of mine owne that my soule relies but only vpon a faith assurance and bolde confidence in thee mine Aduocate who liuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Against Temptations GIue me thy grace O Almighty God so to vanquish Aug. Serm. 86. de verbis Domini and ouercome the lusts and temptations of this world that I may triumph with thee ouer the Diuell and his wicked angels in the world to come Amen For Piety I Humbly beseech thee O Almighty God that this desire of reading Aug. Serm. 82. and hearing thy sacred Word which by thy holy Spirit thou hast planted in my heart may by thy grace and mercie be daily renued and augmented vnto a perfect fire of zeale and deuotion to the honor of thy Name and saluation of mine owne soule in Christ Iesu Amen A Prayer for a Noble-woman Carolus Paschalius O Lord Iesus Christ that art so far from contemning Nobilitie of birth that thy Euangelists haue diligently searched out and recorded thine owne genealogie giue me thy vnworthy handmayden the grace that I abuse not by ingratitude this thy fauour and mercie But rather as it was first acquired in my Auncestors let it still be preserued in my person by my continuall seruing of thee and doing as it shall lie in my power all workes of Charity to my neighbours Giue me grace that as thou hast plac't mee in Birth and rancke so I may be found in deuotion pietie lowlinesse of minde meeknesse and a religious care of thy worship conspicuous aboue others And if it bee â—hy gracious will to make me a mother of children and a mistresse of a family let me appeare a patterne and ensample of deuotion and pietie to all that are about mee And make mee and them so to liue in thy feare that we may die in thy fauour through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour Amen A Prayer for a Wife Charolus Paschal ALmighty God which haste giuen me to be a comforter and an helper vnto my husband endue my soule with those heauenly Graces wherwith I may be most enabled to serue thee and please him Knit our mindes as well as our bodies in an indissoluble band of syncere affection Giue either of vs sanctified hearts zealous towards thee thankefull towards our Soueraigne syncere and louing one towards another Crowne withal if it be thy will these chaste intentions with thy fructifying Grace that wee may become the happy Parents of such Oliue branches as may one day aduance thy glory in this Church and Commonwealth In a word so incorporate vs both by faith in Christ vnto thy kingdom of Grace that we may at the last attaine vnto thy kingdome of glorie Amen A prayer for one attendant neere the person of a Prince Carolus Paschal ALmighty God by whose gracious prouidence it commeth that my Lord and Husband is thus employed in that neernesse of attendance vpon his Royall Maiestie giue him grace so to serue thee that hee may the better serue him and by making him thy Saint continue him his seruant Fill his mind with all wisedome knowledge and other vertues befitting his ranck and calling that he may seeme no more elected by the King then selected by thee for these employments Make him vigilant carefull and industrious in his Masters afaires Make him to accompt it his onely happinesse to serue thee his onely vertue to obserue him and all the rest as glittering vanity That after a troublesome but long life in a Kings Court his soule may bee carried by the Angels vnto thy Court where one day is better then a thousand Grant this for thy deare Sonnes sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditation Count MIRANDVLA his twelue Thoughts or weapons against all the temptations of Sinne. Thinke Io. Pici Mirandulae Doctr. Salutif 1 THe pleasure thou art tempted vnto but short and momentarie 2 And euen this is attended with loathing and anxietie 3 And yet that for this thou must loose Heauen 4 That thy life is but as a dreame and shadow 5 Thy death is suddaine and at thy doore 6 Thy time of repentance casuall and vncertaine 7 Thy
neither be deceiued nor deceiue vs. For the King and the Royall Issue I Humbly beseech thee G. Cass Almighty God to preuent with all blessings of goodnesse our King and his Royall issue Increase vpon them day by day all thy fauours vanquish with thy mighty hand all open enemies and priuie Conspirators who oppugne their religion life diademe or dignitie Crowne each of them with all vertues these vertues with long liues and their liues at the last with eternall glory Amen For Charitie or the workes of Mercie August Meditat. O Lord of mercie and compassion I beseech thee by the tender bowels of thy Sonne Christ Iesus to mooue my stonie heart to the workes of mercie that I may keepe my howers of prayers mourne with them that mourne counsell them that are amisse helpe them that are in miserie releeue the poore comfort the sorrowfull helpe the oppressed forgiue them that trespasse against me pray for them that hate mee requite good for euil despise no man or woman reuerence my betters respect my equals be humble and courteous to my inferiors imitate those that are good shunne those that are bad embrace vertue eschew vice Be patient in aduersitie modest in prosperitie thankfull in either Keepe a watch ouer my tongue Scorne this world and thirst after heauen Amen For the receiuing of the B. Sacrament O Lord Iesus Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God G. Cass thorough whom onely is granted forgiuenesse of sinnes and life euerlasting who diddest iustifie the Publican when he confessed the woman of Chanaan when shee prayed Peter when hee repented and the thiefe vpon the Crosse when hee called vpon thee grant vnto me a most miserable and wretched sinner pardon and forgiuenesse of all my transgressions which I most humbly confesse I haue committed against thee that I may receiue this Communion of thy body and blood not to my iudgement and condemnation but to my euerlasting comfort and saluation who liuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Meditation When you haue newly receiued O Lord encrease my faith O Lord G. Cass let the body and blood of Christ be fixed in my soule to my comfort in this life and eternall saluation in the life to come Amen For that day you expect to heare a Sermon or when you reade vpon your Bible G. Cass ALlmighty and euerlasting God whose Word is a lanterne to our feete and a light vnto our pathes open and enlighten my vnderstanding that I may learne the mysteries of thy Word so farre foorth as is necessary to my saluation purely and syncerely and bee so transfigured in my life and conuersation vnto that which I shall learne as to please thee in will and deede through Iesus Christ my Lord and onely Sauiour Amen For sicknesse and all other vses you haue excellent Prayers in the Booke of Common prayers PRINCIPLES Few Notes for the priuate vse of my L. M. B. A Prayer to be said vpon your knees before the reading ouer of these Notes ALmightie God the Fountaine of true Wisedome and knowledge send thy holy Spirit into my heart that I may sufficiently vnderstand and stedfastly beleeue all the doctrines necessary to my Saluation and adde such practise and obedience to this Faith thorough the whole course of my life and conuersation as I may so serue thee in thy kingdome of Grace that hereafter I may be made partaker of thy kingdom of Glory through the onely merit and mediation of thy deare Sonne and my deare Sauiour Iesus Christ. Amen I. MAn sithence his fall in Adam hath no hope of saluation but by the Couenant of Grace betwixt God and Man Whereby God promiseth vnto man Mercie and Forgiuenesse of Sinnes and man vnto God true Faith in Christ and holines of life and conuersation II. ALl men haue not interest in this Couenant of Grace but they onely that are of Gods Church Now the Church of God is Any Company or Congregation of men wheresoeuer liuing called by God through the sound of the Gospel vnto the Faith of Christ and distinguished from other Societies by these fiue Marks especially 1. hearing and reading the Word 2. Faith thereunto 3. the vse of the Sacraments 4. Prayer and 5. Sanctity of life Where these fiue things are there is euer a Church of God and sufficient means of saluation III. THe Word must be read often vpon your Bible with modesty and short desires of the heart vnto God to giue you grace to vnderstand it to beleeue it and to practise it It must bee heard vpon all conuenient occasions especially in those two houres of the Sabbath day appointed by the Church and the State for that Diuine worship and then you must obserue foure Rules 1 Obserue the Preacher with attention modestie 2. Secondly apply vnto your selfe in particular the Doctrines and Vses which are deliuered in generall 3. Examine your conscience if you be guilty of the sinnes there reproued and presently call to God for grace to amend them 4. Thinke vpon these things againe when you come to your Chamber IIII. THis outward hearing and reading of the Word together with the inward working of the holy Ghost in your heart doeth beget a true liuely and sauing faith which is A certaine knowledge and assurance of the heart that all is true which God hath spoken or promised in the Scripture and that you rest wholly and confidently vpon God that he hath granted vnto your selfe in particular forgiuenes of sinnes and true righteousnesse in Christ Iesus This is the maine point you are seriously to meditate vpon and therefore obserue these precepts 1. If you doe not beleeue or if you doe doubt of any thing in Scripture presently pray vnto God to strengthen and enlighten you 2. If you doubt whether you may haue any particular interest in those generall promises of grace in Christ propounded in the Gospel fall againe to your prayers for an increase of Faith 3. If you doubt and yet can finde in your heart to pray for more faith Let your conscience neuer bee troubled with such a doubting 4. Marke well when the Creed is in reading and giue an assent with your heart to euery Article And as I doubt not you haue learned it so keepe it still in memorie V. NOw as this faith of remission of sinnes and righteousnesse in Christ is wrought in vs by the reading and hearing of the Word ioyned with Prayer so is it signed and sealed in our hearts by the two Blessed Sacraments Baptisme The Lords Supper Obserue in either Sacrament two parts A visible signe Water in Baptisme Bread Wine in the Supper An inuisible grace Remission of sinnes in Baptisme The benefite of Christs passion in the Supper VI. BAptisme is the first Sacrament of the new Testament to wit An outward washing of Water appointed by Christ in his Church with this promise that vpon your being Baptized you were