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A05360	An excellent treatise of Christian righteousnes, written first in the French tongue by M.I. de l'Espine, and translated into English by I. Feilde for the comforte of afflicted consciences, verie necessarie and profitable to be reade of all Christians, as well for establishing them in the true doctrine of iustification, as also for enabling them to confute the false doctrine of all Papistes and heretickes; Excellent traité de la justice chrestienne. English.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.	1577 (1577)	STC 15512; ESTC S106720	64,303	130

bable that of our selues we can dispose our selues to receaue our saluatiō when soeuer God offreth it vnto vs It is so farre of that it can be true that quite contrary we are thē wholly turned away and resist against it with all our power Which thing may plainely appeare by the example of S. Paule who was called and ledde by Iesus Christ as it were by strong hande to his sheep folde euen then when he was going to Damascus being carried with a deadely hatred and enflamed with furie to persecute and vtterly to roote out if he coulde the memorie of his name There is nothinge more certaine then that S. Augustine sayth that all they that labour and sweate vnder the heauie burden of this flesh and complaine of this miserable life they haue but one onely consolation and hope that is to saye that Iesus Christ is their Mediatour their righteousnes By reason wherof whē he made his entraunce into the middest of Ierusalem all that wente before and behind him cryed out with one voice Hosanna c. that is to saye ▪ Saue vs O sonne of Dauid our Sauiour To the end to shew that there was neuer good man neither before nor after his comming which did hope to be saued by any other meanes then onely through his righteousnes and obedience And therefore S. Augustine sayeth that all the Sainctes since Abell vnto Iohn Baptiste and after the Apostles vnto the ende of the worlde ought not to be praised but in him and not in them selues In so much that the first haue sayde My soule shall reioyce in the Lorde and those that came after haue sayed in like manner By grace I am that I am and all in generall saye That whosoeuer will glorie he must glorie in God. And in verie truth this is he that hath borne the wooll and the flece of which was sponne this cloth wherewith we must be clad that we may be shrowded against heats cold and other iniuries of heauen All you sayeth the Apostle which are baptised in Christ haue put on Christ This is that kinge who for the adorning of the Queene his spouse hath made for her ritch and sumptuous robes as the Psalmist sayeth Which thinge Ezechiell sheweth also more clearly I haue washed thee with water yea I haue washed away thy bloud from thee in which thou wast altogether polluted I haue anoynted thee with oyle and clothed thee also with broydred worke and haue sette a crowne of Golde vpon thy heade and I haue decked thee with golde and siluer that thou mightest be very bewtifull All that same long Alegorie which he vseth there in the 16. of his prophesie is to no other ende but to extoll the righteousnes of Iesus Christ with which the Church is apparailed and adorned with those other precious giftes graces and blessinges wherewith she is altogether couered and replenished And as there is nothing more vncleane then she when she is naked so is there nothing more bewtifull then she when she is decked in the liuerie and collour of her husband For then hath she a speciall grace that makes her verie amiable delightfull and in passing good liking to God him selfe Moreouer being so clothed in this robe of innocencie all that was foule in her and which disfigured her is in such sorte couered and defaced that there appeareth no more vncleanes in any part of her because Iesus Christ as S. Augustine sayeth is as a spounge which wipeth vs cleanseth vs from all our filthynes which he taketh in exchaunge for the bewtie righteousnesse and perfection which he communicateth vnto vs Wherin we ought to acknowledge and to adore this great and incomparable loue which he beareth vs and which he hath truely and in effect shewed vnto vs heaping vpon vs at the daye of our mariage so great and precious ioyes although he receaue nothing of vs in dowrie but olde baggage altogether couered with thicke and filthie dirte to witte euen our imperfections and iniquities We receaue then in doing this thinge two great commodities of his righteousnes which serue vs for two purposes to witte first to draw vs out from the mier and claye wherein we were buried to decke vs with goodly robes wherewith we are clad to make vs bewtifull that is to saye to deliuer vs from the malediction and curse wherinto we were fallen and then on the other side to blesse vs and to bring vs into fauour with God his father to drawe vs backe from pouertie and to enrich vs to raise vs vp from death and to giue vs life to drawe vs from hell and to make vs mounte vp into heauen Euen as Iesus Christ on the one part hath deliuered vs from feare terrour and torment of conscience sparring and shutting vp hell gates so on the other he hath set vs in a certaine and vndoubted hope of euerlasting life and of a blessed reste opening his paradise vnto vs. This is that which is sayde of him in the scripture that he keepeth the keyes of death and of life the one to make fast and shut vp the gate which was alwayes open to swallow vs vp and deuour vs and the other to open vnto vs the kingdome of heauen which was alwayes locked and shutte against vs By meane whereof at his death the vaile that let the entraunce into the Sanctuary was broken and clefte into two partes to the ende that that way might be made open for vs and that euery one might haue a meane and libertie to come vnto God and to presente them selues before him with confidence This is the cause that Paule writing to the Hebrewes sayed that by his flesh he hath prepared a waye for vs to heauen to attaine vnto life Forasmuch as he hath in that flesh rendred vnto God for vs perfect obediēce and by his death hath satisfied his righteousnes for our sinnes obtaynīg for vs by this meanes the forgiuenes of our sinnes and through this remission righteousnes and by righteousnes the grace and fauour of God and by Grace life in such sort as we maye nowe presente our selues to him in all assuraunce who before was as a consuming fire to consume vs and bring vs to nothing c but now by the meanes of Iesus Christ is a shadowe to releiue and refreshe vs againe This is the reason for which Iesus Christ was figured by the ladder which Iacob sawe when he sleept wherevpon the glorie of God rested it selfe Forasmuch as in the humanitie of Christ dwelled the fulnesse of the Diuinitie bodely because by it God descendeth downe vnto vs Euen as Iesus Christ hauing taken our humanitie was called Emmanuel which is asmuch to saye as God is with vs so also we through him mounte vp as it were by degrees to heauen where our conuersation is wherof at this day we are Citizens of the householde of God.