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A06663	The castell of comforte in the whiche it is euidently proued, [that] God alone absolueth, and freli forgeueth the sinners of so many as vnfaynedly repent, and turne vnto hym Lately compyled by Thomas Becon.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1549 (1549)	STC 1712; ESTC S109188	24,993	94

spake these wordes loosen hym and let hym go rather to his Disciples than to all the other indifferently I thynke rather that he spake them to y ● women as mooste comonly occupied aboute suche thinges But to whom he spake the text maketh no menciō therfore cā they proue nothyng As touchyng the losoninge of y ● Asse who seeth not their folishnes the occasion why christ sente the disciples for the Asse was not to geue theym power to losen men from their sinnes at their pleasure but to fulfil y e prophecy of zachary whiche so lōge before prophecied y ● Christ shoulde come rydynge mekely vpon an Asse contrarye to the expectacion of the ambicious vayne glorious Iewes What is this to the purpose Where as Christ by this example teacheth humilite the papistes gather pryde Christe submitteth hym self euen with the mooste lowest and they exalt thē selfs with the mooste hyghest yea aboue all that is called God or that is worshypped and syt in the temple of God and shewe them selfes as God Tell me good Reader are not these swete Allegorymakers I woulde they woulde ones cease to moralyse for they haue lyed too longe Some of them also alledge this sayinge of Christe Whatsoeuer thou shalt bynde on the earth shalbe also boūde in heauē And whatsoeuer thou shalt loosen on earthe shall be loosoned in heauen Here they esteme them selfes more thā Goddes By this texte they thynke they maye do whatsoeuer pleaseth theym saue or condemne bynde or loose holde vp or cast doune buylde or subuerte brīg to heauen or caste doune to hel but if the good men woulde take the paynes to looke what goeth before theyr cōbe should sone be plucked doune they wold not make somuch of their paynted shethe Christ sayeth a littel before I will geue y ● the keyes of y ● kyngdom of heauē He sayeth not I geue y ● Christ in this place onely promised y ● keyes to the congregacion and performed his promise after his resurreccion as we maye se in y ● Gospel of Ihon. Hereof maye y ● papistes rightwell perceyue y ● this texte wherof hytherto they haue so greatly gloried and out of the whiche they haue sucked so greate aduauntage maketh littel vnto the aduauncemēt of theyr fayned power Their laste and moste strōg bulwarke where y ● keyes were geuen to the true ministers is this text Whosoeuer synnes ye forgeue they are forgeuen vnto them And whosoeuers synnes ye retayne they are retayned Here they triumphe perswade themselfes that they haue gottē the victory though they neuer fight stroke But if they will be fauorable to God and worke no iniurie to the other scriptures afore rehersed they shall haue no cause to lifte vp their bristles Christe speaketh here after the manner of our speache whiche diligently must be noted vnles we wil depriue God of his glorie Whan we se a man restored to his healthe whiche longe before hathe ben vexed of some greuous disease is made whole thorowe the diligence of some Phisicion we vse to saye Doctor Turner made this mā whole or doctor Byll or some other whiche is expert in that kynde of science and yet is it not the doctor that made hym whole but rather y e emplastures and medecines y ● he ministred vnto hym yea rather god if we wil speake truly which gaue such vertue to hys creatures to worke health vnto the sicke So doeth the scripture speake Somtyme it attributeth our health to the ministers of the worde as in thys aforesayde place somtyme and moste comōly to God hym self as we tofore haue abundantly hearde somtyme to the worde of God as it is written Nowe are ye clene for the wordes sake which I haue spokē vnto you Itē Neyther herbe nor emplasture hathe healed thē but thy worde o Lord y ● healeth al thinges Hereto pertaineth y e saying of y e Psalmographe he sent his worde healed thē deliuered thē frō their destruccions and yet doeth God onely make vs whole forgeue vs our sinnes as he himself witnesseth by the Prophet saying thy destrucciō o Israel cometh of thy self only of me cometh thy helpe saluacion What cā be more plainly spoke Who is able once to hiske against these thinges Who wil once opē his mouth to barcke agaist this doctrine Nomā I suppose except he be altogether drouned in papisme This therfore is the true meaning of thaforesayd text Whā soeuer y ● ministers of y ● Lordes worde declare vnto me y ● swete promises of God y ● father made to me in Christes bloud I beleue thē thā are my sinnes forgeuen me at y ● very instaūt but if I do not beleue thē than are my synnes retayned y ● is to saye not forgeuē And forasmuch as I eyther repēt beleue or els cōtinew still in myne olde dānable state at the preaching of y ● Lordes ministers therfore y ● scripture attributeth my deliueraūs from synne or otherwyse to thē whan notwithstandynge God alone remitteth my synne if I repent and beleue If I do not the vncircumcision of my hert that is my incredulitie and vnfaithfulnes is the occasion that my sinnes are retained and not forgeuen For thys sayinge alwaye muste nedes avyde true thy destrucciō o Israel cometh of thy selfe onely of me cometh thy helpe and saluacion So y t the priestes I meane the ministers of Gods worde are counted to forgeue synne whan they preache to the truly repentaūte remission of synnes thorowe Christe and to retayne synne whan they declare too the vnfaythfull damnacion and that the wrath of God abydeth vpō them so long as they remayne still in their incredulitie and vnfaythfulnes as it is writtē He that beleueth not on y ● sonne shall not see lyfe but the wrathe of God abydeth vpon hym Thus se we that those te●te● of the holy scripture which the papistes alledge for y ● maintenaunce of their fayned vsurped power in remitting synne maketh nothing for their purpose if they be truly alledged vnderstande accordinge to the vayne of the holy scriptures The scriptures of God maye not be rent and torne neyther harked nor wrested to serue the priuate affectes of menne but euery text must be so weyed pōdered alledged and vnderstōd that it may agre with the other textes of the holy Bible that al the glory of our saluacion may be ascribed to God alone which is both the beginner finisher of all our health to hym therefore be all honour and prayse for euer Amen NOw wil I make hast to the laste parte of this treatyse which requireth y ● I should expresse my mynde concernyng the keyes which Christe before hys passion promised too hys churche and after his resurreccion performed hys promyse and shew by the sacred scriptures that the gyfte of the keyes is no vayne and idle gyfte but a necessarie ioyfull and confortable treasure

For y e Papistes will here obiecte If remissiō of sinnes cometh from God alone than were the keyes geuen to the congregaciō in vayne But to the entent that I maye stop the mouthes of y e aduersaries and that they may haue no occasion to barke agaynst the glory of God after this marke wel good Reader what shal be spoken Trueth it is y ● God alone teacheth men hys verite by the holy Ghoste as it is written Al shal be taughte of God Again I will poure oute of my spirite vpon all fleshe and youre sonnes and your doughters shall prophecye The Psalmographe also sayeth I will heare what the Lord speaketh in me yet will he that they shoulde be studious of the holy scriptures bothe daye and nyghte as it is commaunded of Christe Searche the scriptures and also diligently heare the preachynge of hys woorde as it is written He that is of God heareth the woordes of God My shepe heare my voyce Euery one that is of the trueth heareth my voyce So in like maner although God alone remitteth all synne yet will he y ● remission of synnes shoulde be preached to the people that by this meanes they maye repent beleue and be made whole as Christ testifieth saying It behoued Christ to suffer and too ryse agayn frō death the thirde day and that repentaunce and remission of synnes shoulde be preached in hys name amonge all nacions Faythe cometh by hearing hearing by the worde of God For the ministers of the gospell are the organnes instrumētes of Christ by whom God worketh thorow his holy spirit health and saluacion in so many as are predestinate vnto eternal lyfe They are Gods laborers ministers by whom we beleue euē as the Lord geueth euery man grace They are the oratours messengers interpreters Asigels Apostles and Embassadours of the Lord as the Apostle sayeth all thinges are of God which hath reconciled vs vnto hym selfe by Iesu Christ and hath geuē vs the office to preache the attonement For God was in Christ reconciled the worlde vnto him self and imputed not their sinnes vnto them and among vs hath he set vp the worde of attonement Now then are we messengers in the roume of Christ euen as though God exhorted by vs. We beseche you nowe therfore in Christes steade that y● be at one with god Agayne to the Galathians he writteth on this manner Ye did not despyse nor abhorre me but receyued me as an Aungell of God yea euen as Christe Iesu. Hereto pertayneth hys saying to the Thessalonians He that casteth awaye vs casteth not awaye menne but God whiche hath geuen hys holy spirit into vs. Moyses also in tymes paste sayde to the people that murmured agaynste hym The Lorde hath hearde your grudgynge and murmuryng wherwith ye murmure against him For what are we Youre murmurīgs are not against vs but agaynst the Lorde So likewise reade we in the Gospell that the Lord spake of hys ministers Uerely verely I saye vnto you He that receyueth wl●ome soeuer I shall sende receyueth me And he that receyueth me receyueth him that also that sent me Agayne he sayeth he that heareth you heareth me and he that despyseth you despiseth me and he that despyseth ●e despyseth hym also that sent me Here se we that the ministers of Goddes woorde are not to be despysed for they are necessarye instrumentes vnto the health of men and they are worthy of double honoure as the Apostle sayeth Therefore maye it be concluded that the absolucion of the Prieste is not too be despysed seynge it is none other thynge if it be a true and Christen absolucion than the preachynge of fre remission of oure synnes in Christes name And although he y ● plāteth be nothing he that wattereth be nothing but God which geueth the encrease agayne albeit the Lorde blesseth vs with al spiritual benediction yet inasmuche as the inestimable kyndnes manyfolde benefytes of God toward vs can not be knowen nor beleued without preachinge for fayth cometh by hearynge and hearing by the worde of God therefore hath God appoynted hys ministers to open declare vnto men those excellent misteries those confortable ioyful promyses of Gods mercy and good wil towarde mankynde that they maye perceyue learne and vnderstande what is geuē them of the Lorde what they ought to beleue how thei shuld obtayne the giftes of God and lede a lyfe worthy the kyndnes of so bounteous a father God also hath appoynted the ministers to beget men in Christ Iesu by the Gospell too open the eyes of the blynde to turne thē from darkenes to lighte to cōuerte the hertes of fathers into children and the disobedient to the wysdome of the righteous He hath commaunded them to preache repātaunce and remissiō of synnes in his name vnto all nacions Go youre waye sayeth he into the worlde vniuersall and preache the gospell to euery creature He that beleueth and is baptised shall be saued He that beleueth not shal be condemned Moreouer he hath geuen to his faythful ministers the keyes of the kyngedom of heauē that whatsoeuer they loosen in earthe maye be also loosened in heauen And whatsoeuer thei bynde in earth maye also be bounde in heauē that is to saye he hath committed to theim the office of preachyng the Gospel y t they should go forth into the worlde preache vnto all men the grace and fauoure that is geuen of God the father for Christes sake yea and that thei should proclaime publish and set abrode vnto all men that so many as repent beleue are losoned frō the captiuitie of sathā purged frō syn deliuered frō death made enheritours of eternal life Again that so many as beleue not remayne still y ● captiues bonde s●aues of satā cōtinew boūde in their synnes and in the state of damnacion and that therefore thei shal dye the death and for euer more be damned excepte they repent turne and beleue And thus their preachynge is so certeyn and sure before God that whatsoeuer they pronounce beynge conformable to the worde of God shall as certenly come to passe as thoughe God hym selfe had spoken it As for an example Whan soeuer the ministers preachers of Gods woorde in this worlde shall declare to the faythfull repentaunce remission of synnes tell them that they be losoned frō y ● captiuitie of sathā it is euen as certen sure as though God hym selfe had sayde these woordes vnto them Thy synnes are forgeuē the. In lyke manner whan they shall saye to the vnfaythfull that they remayne still boūde in their synne and that the wrathe of God abydeth vpon them and therefore they shall be damned God approapproueth their sayinge and it shal vndoubtedly come to passe according to their preachinge So that whatsoeuer the minister of Gods worde sayeth accordynge to the worde of