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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

should in our estate and office according to the gift of god and grace giuen to vs differing one from another serue in our speciall vocation euery one another in our owne estate Not inuying the gift of god in our neighbour but as the Apostle saith Let vs loue brotherly fellowshippe in going before another in honour reuerēce In doing hereof there would be no strife in the body but if a member were troubled hurt or had any disease all the other members would haue compassion of it And if one mēber were glad or ioyfull all the other mēbers would reioyce with the same as the Apost saith the 1. to the Corinth the 12. Chap. If wee knew this perfitly none would vsurpe anothers office or dignitie to the whiche he were not called but would be cōtēt of his own vocation giue to euery mā his duetie tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whome custome perteineth feare to whome feare belongeth and honour to whome it perteineth The which are all compleite by this saying loue thy neighbour as thy self for the loue of thy neighbour worketh no euill Therefore the Apostle saith Owe nothing to any man but that ye loue together These wordes being obserued ye fulfil the whole law There fore this loue one to another is euer debt and should euer bee payde For will the Prince Superiour do his duetie to the subiect and the subiect his duetie to the Superiour there would bee no disobedience The minister of the word to the auditour and flocke committed to his care The auditour to the minister of the worde there would be no diuision in the Church The father and mother to the children and the children to the parents there would bee no dishonouring The lord to the seruant and the seruant to the lord there would bee no contempt nor trouble in the common weale And so would we all looke vpō Christ our head and be ruled with his word and seek no other way beside it nor mixt the ciuill or politicke estate with the word of god but euery one to serue in the owne rowm and place thē should there be no question of politick works nor no other works of any law to be mixt with faith which iustifieth onely before god as it is before written but euery faithful person should by the word of god know their own vocation diligently exercise them therintill And seeke no further knowledge nor wisedome but that that is needfull to them to know And that with meeknesse and sobernes euer working the works of god which ar the fruits of faith to the honour of god and profite of our neighbour THE XXV CHAP. 1 All estate of man is conteined within one of these four speciall vocations 2 The offices of princes magistrats iudges 3 Wherefore iudges are called the sonnes of God wherefore and in what case they should be obeyed To the more perfite knowledge and vnderstanding of our speciall vocations in the which we shouid walk according to the word of god and gift of the holy spirite we will deuide all the estate of man in four offices dignities or speciall vocations that is to say In the office of a prince vnder whom we comprehēd all kind of man hauing generall administration in the comon weale or iurisdiction of others In the office of the administration of the word of god vnder whom we comprehend all power ecclesiasticall In the fathet mother vnder whom wee wil cōprehend al housholders hauing special families And in the subiect or seruād vnder whom we wil cōprehēd al estate of men subiect to other If thou be called to the office estate or dignitie of a king prince or any supreme power hauing iurisdiction of people in the ciuil ordinance Consider thy estate and know thee perfitely to be the creature of god equal to the poorest of thy kingdom or dominiō his brother by creation and naturall succession of Adam and of nature a rebell to god the sonne of wrath and Ire as hee was as the Apost saith Ephes. the 2. Chap. And the innocent bloud of Christ shed for thy redemption as for him and thou called by faith and borne of newe by baptisme in his bloud the sonne of god by adoption and made fellow heire with Christ of the kingdome of heauen without respect of persons the sonne of fauour and grace Therefore the poorest most vile within thy iurisdiction is thy brother whome thou shouldst not dispise nor contemne but loue him as thy self This is thy debt and duetie because it is the commandement of god whome thou should loue and feare for that is the beginning of wisdome as Solomon saith The right way to rule in thy office is to knowe God of whom thou cā haue no knowledge but by his word and lawe whiche teacheth thee what thou shouldest doe and leaue vndone according to thy vocation And as to thy princely estate and dignitie and office thou art Father to all thy kingdome Their heade in place of god to rule gouerne and keep them vpon whome thou shouldest take no lesse care then the carnall father taketh vpon the best beloued sōne gottē of his body For they are giuen by god to thee in gouernement Therefore thou shouldest begin to knowe the will of thy god take the booke of his law in thy hād read vpō it which teacheth thee the will of god It should neuer passe forth of thy harte nor depart frō thy mouth day and night hauing thy meditation thereinto that thou mayest keepe all which is written therein then shalt thou direct thy waye and haue knowledge vnderstāding of the same This being done thou shalt get the blessing of the which speaketh Dau. saying Blessed is the man which deliteth in the lawe of the Lorde and hath his meditation thereinto day and night Then aske at God wisedome and vnderstandinge which is the knowledge of his godly will and a harte that may receaue teaching that thou mayst iudge thy people decerne betwixt good euil as thou art taught by the example of Solomon For if thou lacke wisedome aske the same at god who giueth aboūdantly And doubt not for he that doubteth in his faith shall obteine nothing from god Cōfide not in thy own wisdome For god maketh wisemen blind which are wise in their owne conceate his witnessing is faithful which giueth wisedome to young babes That is to simple hartes bearing them selues lowly and humbly before god not presuming in their owne wittes For there is no place to wisedome in the proude brest as saith Solomon For god resisteth the proude but to the meeke and humble hee giueth grace The mightie and proude hee casteth downe of their seate and exalteth the humble and lowlie in harte as testifieth the Song of the glorious virgine Marie Therefore humblie and lowly submit thy selfe in the handes of thy God and take thought

and much more abomination proceedeth frō that zeale which wee call good But how good that euer it appeare in our sight the adhearers thereto shall receaue the malediction of God The sommary of the 24. chapter NO better works can be then Iohn the baptist taught to the people which are the workes of mercy and to desist from fraude iniurie and oppression And these workes and not the vaine inuentions of man pastours should teach their flocks instructing thē first in perfite faith For Iesus christ being asked by the Iewes what they shuld do that they might worke the workes of god that is that they might please god answered This is the worke of God that yee beleeue in him whome he hath sent By the which words our maister vnderstandeth that without faith whiche is the worke of god and not of man no worke pleaseth god The yoke of Christ is easie and his burden is light to the faithfull because they lay all their sinns vpō Christs backe and follow him euery man in his owne vocatiō There is two maner of vocatiōs one immediate by god as the prophetes and Apostles were called to be preachers without authoritie of mā Another is mediate as when one mā called another As Paull called Timoth. Tit. to be bishops There is a generall vocatiō by which all the chosen are called to a Christian religion Hauing one lorde one faith one baptisme In this vocation there is no difference of persons but all are equally loued by god becaus we ar all the sonns of one father al boght with one price all seruaunts to one lord all guided with one spirite all tending to one end and shall all be participant of one heritage that is the life eternall by Iesus Christ by whom we are all made priests and kings but let no mā herefore vsurpe the authoritie of a king in dignitie nor the office of a priest in administratiō of gods word sacraments for that perteinteh to a speciall vocation The sommary of the 25. Chap. All estate of man is conteined within one of these four special vocations either is he prince or subiect pastor or one of the flocke father or sonne lord or seruaunt In the prince is conteined all magistrats hauing Iurisdiction in a cōmounweall Whose duety is first to know god and his lawe which hath placed them in that authoritie Secondly to guide feed and defend their subiects knowing them selues to be no better of their nature then is the poorest in their realme Thirdly to defend the iust and punish the wicked but respect of persons Hauing their harts and eyes cleane and pure from all auarice They are called the sonnes of God and should be obeyed in all things not repungning to the cōmand of god because they ar ordeined placed by god to punish vice mainteine vertue and therefore their owne life should be pure and cleane first because otherwise they can not punish sinne and secondly because the wickednesse of princes prouoketh their subiects to the Imitation thereof And therefore the life of princes shuld be pure cleane as a mirrour to their subiects and should admitte into their kingdomes no worshipping of god except that which is commanded in the scripturs for god being commoned by Idolatry and strange worshipping hath destroyed many kingdomes as all prophecyings witnesse The sommarie of the twenty sixt Chapter THE principall office of a Bishop is to preache the true Euangell of Iesus Christ knowing that if the flocke perishe the bloud shalbe required at his hands And that hee neglecting the preaching of the Euangell is no bishop nor can doe no worke pleasant before god And therefore no bishop should mixt him selfe with temporall or seculer busines for that is contrarie his vocatiō but continually should preache reade exhort his flocke to seeke their spirituall foode in the Scriptures And so the tyrantes in these dayes forbidding men to reade the Scriptures declare them selues wolues and no pastors whom god shall shortly punish because they haue contemned his command attending altogether vpon their own vaine supertitions as he did Hely and his two sonnes vnder law and the whole priesthood after Iesus Christ. The sommary of the twentie ewint chap. THE office of the Father vnder whom is comprehended all housholders is to rule and guide his children family and seruaunts in all godlinesse and honestie instructing them in the Law and word of God For honest housholders who liued in chaste matrimonie ruled guided their housholdes well nurished their children in the feare and reuerence of God were chosen to be Bishoppes in the Primitiue church And therefore they are blasphemous to the holy spirit which inhibit the Laickes so style they the chosen of God learning reading teaching of the holy Scriptures wherin is conteined the foode of the soule wherof Antichristes willing to depriue them would also kill the soule For the soule without gods worde hath nor may haue no life The office of the husband is to loue and defend his wife giuing to her onely his body The office of the wife is likewise to loue and obey her husband vsurping no dominion ouer him And the office of them both is to instruct their children in gods Law euer giuing to them example of good life and holdding them at godly occupations labouring also them selues faithfully for sustentation of their families The sommarie of the 28 Chap. THE office and duetie of the Lord is to pay vnto his seruaunts the rewarde promised And the office of the seruaunt is faithfully to worke and labour to the profite and vtilitie of his lord but fraude or simulation as hee would serue Iesus Christ. The office of the subiect is to obey his prince and rulers placed by him giuing vnto them honour custome and tribute not requiring the cause why they receaue the same for that perteineth not to the vocation of a subiect The office of the sonne is to loue feare and honour his parents Which honour standeth not in words only but in ministring of all thinges necessary vnto them which if the sonne doe not to the father and mother hee can doe no good worke before god And therefore deuilish doctors are they which teach men to found soule masses of their substance suffering father and mother to labour in indigence and pouertie FINIS The workes before written are they in the which euery christian should be exercised to the glory of god and vtilitie of his neighbour M. Henry Balnaues Richard Bannantine Richard Bannātine Iohn knox Gen. 37. Gen. 41. Psal. 104. Gene. 15. Iosue 11. 3. Reg. 12. 3. Reg. 13. 16. Esa. 1 Ier. 3. 4. Reg. 17. vltimo Act. 7. Apo. 7. Scotland Psal. 2. Io. 3. Esa. 59. psal 41. 42. Psal. 76. Psal. 21. 104. * That is the maner how he will deliuer * That is he which of him self hath power and being by whome all had their beginning life and mouing Psal. 32. Io. 1. Ro. 4.