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B15342	A treatie of iustification. Founde emong the writinges of Cardinal Pole of blessed memorie, remaining in the custodie of M. Henrie Pyning, chamberlaine and general receiuer to the said cardinal, late deceased in Louaine. Item, certaine translations touching the said matter of iustification, the titles whereof, see in the page folowing	Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.; Copley, Thomas, Sir, 1534-1584, suggested trans.	1569 (1569)	STC 20088; ESTC S102468	222,799	366

him in euery good acte that he doth fateantur gratiam Dei adiutorium etiam ad singulos actus dari Lette them confesse that Gods grace and helpe is geuen euen to euerie good acte and deede I doo more willingly recite the wordes of S. Austine in this pointe bicause the moste learned in all ages since haue folowed the same iudgement and manner of teaching not onely Presper Aquitanus in Italie Fulgentius in Africa and S. Bede in this our country of Englande The teaching of the Churche cōcerning the grace of God in al ages but also the moste learned schole menne As Hugo de sancto Victore S. Thomas Bonauentura and other Whereby the Reader maye vnderstande what hath benne the teaching of the Church in all ages concerning the grace of God. As this grace of God is it whereby man is moued to al thinges that he doth wel so it is also the cause that worketh in him true penance and thereby Iustification For shyning vppon the soule of a sinner and geuing lighte to that darcknes it moueth the same to prepare him selfe and to receyue the working of God in such manner as I haue shewed before By grace God inspireth faith into our hartes whiche no man can haue without his speciall gifte Ioan. 6. No man can comme vnto me saieth Christe Augustin Tract 27. in Ioan. vnlesse it be geuen him from my Father Of whiche woordes S. Augustine gathereth Ergo credere datur nobis Then euen faith is geuen vnto vs. When S. Paule preached in Macedonia God opened the harte of a woman called Lydia to geue heede vnto suche thinges as were said by him Act. 16. Many other heard S. Paule as wel as shee but God gaue her the grace to beleue his woordes To you it is geuen saieth S. Paule Philip. 1. for Christes sake not onely to beleue in him but also to suffer for him And as these and other sayinges prooue that faith is Gods gyfte so of the feare of God it is sayd by the Prophete Timorem meum dabo in corde eorum Ierem. cap. 32. vt non recedant à me I will geue my feare in their harte to th ende they shall not goe from me Dauid knowing that it is the gyfte of God prayeth for it saying Psal 118. Confige timore tuo carnes meas Pearce my flesh through with thy feare If hope were not the gifte of God it should not be saide Tu Domine singulariter inspe constituisti me Psal 4. Thou Lorde haste placed me in hope singulerly Neither woulde S. Paule haue said 2. Thes 21 God our father hath loued vs and geuen vs comforte euerlasting and good hope in grace 1. Ioan. 4 Rom. 5. Charitie commeth of God. powred abrode in our hartes through the holy Ghoste which is geuen vs. What shal I say of penance whiche God geueth vnto sinners to knowe the treuth 2. Tim. 2. and to amende and gette out of the snares of the Diuel of whom they be holden captiue at his pleasure It is God that geueth a newe harte and putteth a newe spirite in the middest of vs that taketh away the harde stonie harte and geueth a softe harte and tender as fleshe Ezec. 36. And what is that greate change of harte and minde from euil to good but repentance And to commende his grace and make it appeare as it is very grace in deede he saieth non propter vos ego faciam This wil I doo not for your sakes but for my holy names sake Here it may be said If our Iustification and what so euer apperteineth vnto it A doubte be the gyfte of God and procede of grace what parte hath man therein and what is there lefte for him to do To this question I shal answere in the next chaptre And hereby maye the Reader vnderstande that the grace of God is neither hydden nor obscurely preached by the Churche in the Doctrine of Iustification seing that both our Iustification it selfe and the meanes wherby we comme vnto it be truely ascribed specially vnto grace That man hath free wil which being holpen by grace worketh in our Iustification and what it worketh THE X. CHAPTER GOd worketh mannes saluation by his grace Of free will. but he worketh it in him by hī selfe that is to say with his own cōsent and by his free wil He worketh in al his creatures causing the earth to bring forth grasse the trees theyr leaues and fruite the beastes to doo according to their kinde But these effectes he worketh in them by his owne power without them that is without any consente of them And this is the difference betwene beastes that wante reason betwene the insensible creatures and man Man as S. Augustine saith Serm. 11. de verb. Aposto Iren. li. 4. cap. 72. In the 4. Chapter Nec vt pecora factus est was neither made as beastes were nor made lyke a tree nor made lyke a stone but was made after the Image of his Creator That is as I shewed before indued with reason and wil And therefore although there may be in man corrupte wil and deceyued reason yet whatsoeuer he doth he woorketh it thorough will and reason Iren. li. 4. cap. 71. Liberum eum fecit Deus ab initio saieth the aunciente Father Ireneus God made man free euen from the beginning hauing aswell his owne power as his owne soule to doo Goddes will and minde voluntarilie and willingly not compelled by God. For there is no force vsed of Goddes parte The wooman when she had offended framing an aunswere to excuse her selfe sayde not Serpens coegit me Chrysosto Hom. 17. in Genes the serpente forced me and I eatte but what sayde shee The serpente deceyued me there is no necessitie nor violence but will and arbitremēt August de grat lib. arbit cap. 2. And bicause no man should doubte hereof Reuelauit nobis per Scripturas suas sanctas God him selfe saith S. Augustine hath reueled vnto vs by his holy Scriptures that there is free will in man. And howe he hath reueled it I put you in remembrance not by mannes saying but by Goddes woorde Firste bycause the very commaundementes of God coulde doe man no good vnlesse he had free will by the whiche he might doo them and atteyne to the rewardes that be promysed And in the same place Further there be so many commaundementes whiche doo in a manner by name speake vnto our will Rom. 12. Psalm 31. Prouer. 1. Prouer. 3. as that Noli vinci à malo Will thou not be ouercomme of yll Be not made lyke a horse and a mule in whome there is no vnderstandinge Forsake not the counselles of thy mother Be not wise in thyne owne conceyte and after manye other Scriptures there alleged he concludeth thus Surely where it is saied will not this and will not that and where in the admonitions that God geueth the worke of

thee to the holines of fasting There is no entry into fasting by dronckennes nor to iustice by auarice nor to temperaunce by riot nor to conclude in fewe is there any entrie by vice vnto vertue There is an other gate into fasting Dronkennes maketh waie to insolent behauiour but conuenient sufficiency vnto fasting He whiche is to trie for the best game dooth exercise him selfe before hand He whiche fasteth must first exercise and prepare him selfe by abstinence laie downe glottony fiue daies before not as one that would thwart the ordinary daies or deceiue the lawe maker For fondly doost thou labour to wery thy body and yet not to mitigat nor to release thy crime and euill appetite A false storehowse is that bodie Thow drawest into a bottomlesse barrell For the wine passeth and runneth his naturall waie But thy sinne and insatiable luste remaineth within thee The seruaunt runneth awaie from his master that beateth him yet thou remainest styll with wine whiche dailie beateth thy head The best measure of the vse of wine is the necessitie and the lacke that the body maie haue thereof But if thou exceede those boundes to morow thou wilt come complaining of the heauines of thy head yaning gyddy and smelling yet of the vndigested wine Al thing wil seeme to moue al thing to go rownde with thee For drunkennes as it maketh men sleepe as if they were dead so it maketh men to wake as if they were in a dreame Doost thow not consider whome thou comest to receiue by this fasting Euen him which promised to come vnto vs saying I and my Father will come and make our dwelling with him Why therefore dooste thou by drunkennes preuent his comming and close the entrie against our Lord Why doost thou allure and take in thine Enemie to take possessiō first of thy munitions Drunkennes doth not receiue our Lorde Drunkennes driueth away the holy Ghoste A Similitude For as smoke driueth awaie bees so dothe surfeting and belly cheere put to flight and driue awaie al spirituall graces Fasting is the ornament of the Citie The strengthning of the place of Iustice The peace of our howses and the sauing and preseruation of our gooddes and possessions Wilt thow see the bewtie of fasting Then compare me the euening of this festing daie with the euening of to morrow being fasting daie Thow shalt see the Citie chaunged from tormoyle and tempesteous waues of great sturre to a sure calme and quiete tranquillitie But I wish that both this day may be like vnto to morrowe in holinesse and modest comlinesse and that to morrow may want nothing of the mirth and ioye that is this daye And further I besech our Lorde who hath by the course and reuolution of the yeere brought vs about to this time that it may please him to graunt vnto vs being as it were tryers for the mastery that by these excercises wee may shewe foorth the firmenesse and strength of our constancie and that we may come to the day appointed for the receyuing of our crownes Now by dayly recording of that healthfull Passion suffred for vs but then in the world to come by receauing retribution and rewarde according to our life lead here and that in the iust iudgement of Christe him selfe to whome be all glory for euer AMEN Thus endeth the Sermon of S. Basil made of fasting THE THIRD SERMON MADE BY S. LEO SVRNAMED THE GREATE AND POPE OF Rome in the yere of our Lorde 450. Vpon the Fast of the tenth Moneth and of the almes to be done in the same How Gods fielde is with faith to be fenced and inclosed with Fasting to be tilled and tempered with almes to be sowen and with prayers to be donged and made frutefull The fast of the tenth moneth is the imber fast vvhich is kept in the moneth of December IN our Lordes field whose laborers and workemen we be most deerly beloued we must prouidently and diligently exercise the spiritual tillage to the end that we with continual industrie foreseing and doing that which is at euery season duly and orderly to be done may ioye in the plentiful increase of our good and vertuous workes Whiche if thorough sluggish idlenes or dul lasynes they be neglected our ground can bring foorth no worthy spring no good graine nor holesom fruite but being ouergrowne with thornes and brambles shal bring foorth nothing woorthy to be laied vp and kept in storehowses but suche thinges onely as are meete to be burned and consumed with fier This fielde deerly belooued by the sweete dewe of the grace of God falling therein is first inclosed and fenced by faith tilled tempered and seasoned by fasting sowed with almes deedes donged and made fruteful by praiers to the ende that in our ground thus husbanded no bitter or vnholsome rote spring therein nor sap of any noisome stocke rise vp but that al seed of vice being killed and distroyed in vs the worthy corne of vertue may ioyfully and plentifully growe vp together To whiche diligence the maister and teacher of pietie doth in all tymes exhorte vs but in these dayes which are more specially appointed to this woorke wee muste styrre vp in our selues a more cowrage and feruent care hereof least it be found a wickednesse in vs to neglect that being taught and instructed whiche vertue and pietie would vs to doo though we were not commaunded We doo therefore exhorte and admonish you that this Fast of the tenth moneth whereunto wee knowe your charitie with a religious intent and disposition is prepared wee celebrating with one minde by the helpe of Christ may euery of vs shine in good works according to the measure and proportion of the abilitie which he hath receyued of God. And that the more feruentlie bicause our enemies The diuel is most busye vvhē men are best disposed which are greeued and vexed at our sanctification doo in these dayes wherin thei know vs disposed to a better attendance of our dewty are most fearce vpon vs and with more craft and subtelty lye in waight for vs To the end that by fearing some with doubt of pouertie which may grow by their liberal geuing of almes and putting into others a heauines and repining at the paine of fasting they may draw many from the vertuous fellowship of this deuotion Against which temptation most deerly beloued let there be kept waking in vs the zealous intent of a charitable harte And let these thoughtes of mistrust be far repelled from Christian mindes For it is a smal thing which to a poore man is inough Neither is his diet or apparel chargeable Poore foode is it that he hungreth after Math. 20. poore drinke it is that his thirst wil be quenched with His nakednes nedeth to be couered and asketh not to be decked And yet our Lorde is so kinde a Iudge of our workes so louing an esteemer thereof that euen for a cup of colde water he wil not fayle to geeue

reward And in that he is a Iust beholder of our mindes he will not onely recompence the charge of our woorke but also reward the workers affection thorough Christe our Lorde THE FOVRTH SERMON MADE BY THE SAME S. LEO VPPON THE SAID FAST OF THE tenth Moneth and of the Almes to be done in the same Of what valew against sinne fasting is which in bothe Testamentes is obserued WE doe with good cowrage and confidence moste deerely beloued exhorte you to the workes of pietie bicause by experience we perceiue how gladly and willingly you receiue our exhortations For you knowe and by the teaching of God him selfe be assured that the obseruing of the Commaundementes of God dothe auaile you to eternall ioye In the executing and keeping whereof bicause mannes frailtie dothe often wexe weary and by her brittle infirmitie offende in many thinges our good and mercifull Lorde hath geauen vnto vs remedies and helpes by the whiche we may obtaine pardon For who coulde possibly escape so many flattering allurementes of the worlde so many crafty deceites of the Diuell and finally so many perilles growing of his owne mutabilitie and frailtie vnlesse the wonderfull clemency of the eternall Kinge had a wil rather to repaire vs then to lose vs For though wee be already redemed The vvar of Christians is continual 1. Ioan. 5. already regenerated and made the children of light yet so long as wee are detained in this worlde whiche is all sette in wickednesse so long as corruptible and temporall thinges doe flatter the infirmitie of the flessh no man can passe this life without tentation Neither doth there lightly happen to any man so vnblouddy a victorie that emong many enemies and daily conflictes though his fortune be so good to escape death he be altogeather free from woundes To cure therefore the harmes whiche they often fall into that warre with the inuisible enemie these three remedies are for medicine chiefely to be applyed Instance in prayer chastising of our selues by fasting and the bountifull geauing of almes Whiche three thinges when they are togeather putte in vre and exercised God is made mercifull vnto vs the faulte is blotted out and the Tempter is repulsed Of these helpes truely owght a faithful sowle alwayes to be prouided and furnished but chiefely and with greatest care are they nowe to be exercised in these dayes whiche are moste properly and peculiarly appointed to those woorkes of pietie Of whiche kinde and degree is also the solemne fast of this tenth Moneth Whiche is not therefore to be neglected bicause it hath benne taken vnto vs out of the obseruaunce of the olde Lawe as though this were one of those thinges which with the discerning of pure meates from vnpure the differences of wasshinges and the Sacrifices of byrdes and beastes did in the newe Lawe ende and cease For those thinges in deede which bare the figures of thinges to come were ended when those thinges were accomplisshed whiche they signified But the profitte of fasting Fasting though it vvere obserued in the olde testament is also to be kept in the nevv Mat. 4. Matt. 22. the grace of the newe Testamente hath not remooued nor putte awaye But with good and vertuouse obseruation hath still admitted continence and abstinence as thinges alwayes profitable bothe to the bodie and the sowle For euen as there remaine receiued and retained in the heartes of Christians these Commaundementes Thou shalt woorshippe thy Lorde God and serue him alone And Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe and suche other like Preceptes euen so that whiche in those bookes is commaunded of the sanctification and healing by fasting is not made voide or frustrate by any interpretation For in all tymes and in all ages of this worlde fasting maketh vs the stronger against sinne Fasting conquereth concupiscence repelleth tentations abaseth pride allayeth wrath and all the affections of a good minde and disposition it nurrisheth vppe to ripenesse and perfection of all vertue Especially if it be also ioyned with the beneuolence and pietie of charitie and doe prouidently exercise it selfe in woorkes of mercie For fasting without almes is not so much a purging of the sowle as it is an affliction of the fleshe And it is rather to be reputed to be donne for couetousenesse then for continencie when a manne dothe so absteine from meate that he also absteineth from pietie and good woorkes Let therefore our fast deerely beloued abownde with fruites of liberalitie and lette them be plentifull to the poore of Christe with charitable giftes and louing rewardes And lette not the meane and inferioure sorte be stayed from this woorke bicause it is little that they can take out of their small substance and abilitie Our Lorde knoweth euery man his abilitie and being a iust looker on seeth wel out of what measure and portion eche man geaueth For substances that be in equalitie vnlike can not geue like almes But many times is it made equall in merite whiche is vnequall in charge For the minde may be like where the rente and store is vnlike To the ende therefore that these thinges may by the helpe of God be regarded with pietie and deuotion let vs fast the fourth and the sixth daie of this weeke Wednesdaie Fridaie and Satterday the ymber dayes aboue a xj hundred yeres agoe But on the Satterdaie let vs celebrate Vigil and watching at S. Peter the Apostles Church by whose prayers we being helped may in all thinges merite and deserue the grace of God. THE FIRSTE SERMON MADE BY THE SAME S. LEO VPPON THE FAST OF THE seuenth Moneth Of the praise of Abstinence and almes deedes The fast of the vij moneth is the ymber fast kepte in September WE knowe your carefulnesse most deerely beloued to be of suche deuotion that you doe not onely till and temper the sowles with the ordinary fastinges appointed by the lawe but also with voluntary abstinence Yet haue we thought good to adde to this your good disposition our exhortation and warning To the ende that if there be any of you slacke in this vertuouse exercise they doe obediently ioine them selues with the rest in this publique and generall fast appointed in these daies Wherein we must more attentiuely celebrate this most holy custome and vertuouse vsage that by humilitie of fasting we may merite the helpe of God against all our enemies For it is a principall woorke whiche both by authoritie we charge you and of charitie we aduise you that the libertie of eating being for a time restrained we geue our selues to the chastising of our owne bodies and to the feeding of the poore whome who so euer refresheth he feedeth his owne sowle and tourneth his temporall meates into eternall delicates In place therefore of euill and voluptuouse delightes let there succeede in vs the plentifull increase of holy desires Let iniquitie cease but let not righteousenesse be idle Let some man feele him helping whome no man feeleth oppressing For it