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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03284	The confession of faith contending how the troubled man should seeke refuge at his God, thereto led by faith: with the declaratio[n] of the article of iustification at length. ... Compiled by M. Henry Balnaues of Halhill, & one of the Lords of session, and Counsell of Scotland, being as prisoner within the old pallaice of Roane: in the yeare of our Lord. 1548. Direct to his faithfull brethren, being in like trouble or more ...	Balnaves, Henry, Sir, d. 1579.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1584 (1584)	STC 1340; ESTC S100771	112,936	310

the 5. chapter Romanes the 8. chapter 13. And S. Pet. in his first epistle the 2. chapter O miserable blinde ignorāt mā why doest thou neglect the good worke of god to inuēt a good worke of thy owne making thinking there through to please god saying thou doest it of a good zeale and intention which is asmuch to say as that thy minde and intentione are good in the selfe And because thou thinketh the same good God after thy iudgement should approue the same as good Thou art deceaued because thou vnderstandest not the Scriptures or will not vnderstande the same It is written that the whole thoght of man and all the cogitations of his hart is ready giuen and bent vpon euill at all time And also the witte vnderstanding and conceat of man and the thought of his harte are prone ready and inclined to euill from his youth head and yoūg age And Dauid sayeth The Lord knoweth the cogitations of mans hart that they are vaine Nowe my hartes where will yee finde your good zeale and good intention either is it euill of thee self or els God is false the whiche can not bee yee may call it good but God who hath better knowledge thereof then ye haue by his word testifieth all that is in you to bee but euill as he hath declareth by the mouth of Moyses cōmanding that we do not that thing which wee thinke good but that thing which hee hath commanded vs to do that should we do and neither adde to his word nor take therefrō but walk in the way the which the lord hath cōmanded This showeth thee that thou should not followe thy good zeale and intention thinking therethrough to please god or fulfill his will the which thou can not fulfill but by his worde For all man of them selues are but Lyers and full of vainitie Great is the differēce betwixt the will of god and the will of man The thought of god and the thoughtes of man The wayes of god and the wayes of man as saith the Prophete in the persō of god my thoghts cogitatiōs ar not yours nor your ways mine but as the heauēs ar exalted aboue the earth euen so ar my wayes cogitations frō yours This is no other thing but to teach vs to follow the will and commande of God and not ours who hath declared in his scripturs plainly what we should doe leaue vndone that we neede to seeke no further So doing we shal procure the blessing of God if wee take his erudition and teaching as Dauid sayeth Blessed is the man whom thou O Lord instructeth and of thy Law teacheth him And if we will followe our own teaching doing workes of our owne intention the which wee think good we shal procure the plagues and punishmēts threatned by the Proph Ieremie the 19 chap. because we doe the thing which he hath not commanded nor spoken to vs nor yet hath ascended in his hart Trust well the people thoght they did a great excellent worke to God and sacrifice to please him when they spared not their owne children to kill offer sacrifice vnto god of their innocēt bloud This was their good zeale and good intention But they had no command of god for them and verily yee haue lesse for you to make such sacrifice as yee doe dayly to deceaue the poore people and to purchase to your selues great riches goods possessions Therefore I exhort you by the mercy of God to cast away that good zeale intētion follow the word of god as he hath cōmāded you in the scripurs for they beare witnes of him show to mā what is his wil seeke no further nor confound not the works of God with thy vain thoghts Through the vaine cōceate of mā vsed in these words good zeale intētiō haue al the abuses now ruling in the church of god risen That the sayings of the Proph. spokē to the people of Israell are cōplete this day in the Church of Christ and may be said to vs as they were said to the Iewes Euē as the theef is ashamed whē he is taken euen so is the house of Israel ashamed they their kinges their princes preists Prophets saying vnto the tree or stocke thou art my father and to the stone thou hast be gotten me They haue turned their backe to mee sayeth the Lord God and not their face And in the time of their trouble and affliction they shall say Rise and deliuer vs then shall the Lord say vnto them where are thy gods which thou hast made thee let them arise and deliuer the in the time of thy trouble Thy gods were verily in nomber according to the nomber of thy cities o Iuda what wilt thou contend with me in Iudgement yee haue all left me sayeth the Lord. Now I pray you conferre these words of god here plainly spoken with the doings of these dayes now ruling in the church and then yee shall perceaue the abuse of gods word We praye cōmonly the Pater noster that is our father to the Image of this or that saint made of tree or stone And specially to this or that altar wee kneele which is by our selues or our predicessours foūded vpon such a Saintes name whose picture is well graued in a stocke or stone And with costly colours painted and the blessed Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ after their maner offered dayly to this or that Saint and called his messe for doing of the which there is not a syllabe in gods word for you but the contrarie expresly commanded both that yee should haue no grauen Images nor worshippe them nor yet inuent any maner of worshpping of god But as god hath cōmanded by his word And for your defēce ye haue onely these wordes good zeale intention the which is expresly cōtrarie the first commandement of god for euen as we are forbidden and inhibite to haue strange gods So are wee inhibite to haue strange worshippings of god Blessed be god the matter is so patent and plainely set forth in these dayes concerning the said vaine workes inuented by man to the confusion thereof by the godly men which laboure day and night in his Scriptures to the edification of Christs chosen litle flocke that it is not needful to abide long vpō the discussing of these matters but onely to remit you to the Scriptures and the saide godly declarations made therevpon against the superstitious worshipping of Saintes going in pilgrimage purgeing in purgatorie hallowing of water or other elemēts foundatioun of masses to publike or priuate idolatrie offering or sacrifices making not commāded in the word of god choise of meats forbidding of mariage in the church of god and abominable abuses of the whole Christian religion by the shauen oincted or smeared preists bishops monkes and friers hauing onely there vocation of man and