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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14032	An exposition vpon the canonicall Epistle of Saint Iames with the tables, analysis, and resolution, both of the whole epistle, and euerie chapter thereof: with the particular resolution of euerie singular place. Diuided into 28. lectures or sermons, made by Richard Turnbull, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christie Colledge in Oxford· now preacher and minister of the word of God and the holy Sacraments, in the citie of London.	Turnbull, Richard, d. 1593.	1591 (1591)	STC 24339; ESTC S118931	472,056	683

are subiect whensoeuer the times be what manner so euer the meanes be what kinde so euer we suffer in For which cause the exhortations in the holy and sacred worde of God thereunto apperteyning are sundrie and manifolde Which to passe ouer and as it were onely to geue a taste thereof by the way What saith Saint Paul touching Rom. 1â— this matter Doeth not he exhort the Saintes to reioyce in hope to be patient in tribulation to continue in praier Who elswhere setting downe the steppes and degrees wherein the Saintes must treade if they wil walk worthie the calling whereunto they are called requireth Ephes 4. 1. Pet. 4. 12. Iames 1. 2. Reuel 2. 10. Heb. 10. 35. 36. as the third steppe to Christian conuersation long suffering or patience wherefore he saith I therefore as a prisoner in the Lord exhort you that you walke worthie the calling whereunto you are called How With al humblenesse of minde and meekenesse with patience or long suffering supporting one another through loue endeuouring to keepe the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace The holy and blessed Apostle Saint Peter describing 2. Pet. 1. vnto the Saintes that golden chaine of all excellent vertues wherewith he would haue all the elect of God to be adorned and beautified as the most incomparable ornament of their life maketh patience the fifth linke therof whereunto in this wise he perswadeth therfore giue all diligence thereunto Ioyne moreouer vertue with faith and with vertue knowledge with knowledge temperance with temperance patience with patience godlines with godlines brotherly kindnes with brotherly kindnes loue For if these things be in you and abound they will make you not to be idle nor vnfruitefull in the acknowledging of our Lorde and onely Sauiour Iesus Christ These and infinite other the like places wee haue generally mouing vs to this excellent and commendable vertue patience Particularly the Apostle in this place exhorteth to patience which is in bearing and suffering the iniuries and cruell oppressions of prophane rich men by whose tyrannie and cruell dealing they were marueylouslie afflicted which they ought with all patience to beare looking and wayting for the comming of the Lorde Iesus Christ to auenge their causes and quarrelles against the wicked Our holy and blessed Sauiour Christ in particular exhorteth vnto patience which in the bearing of violence Mat. 5. and iniuries of men consisteth Resist not euill saith our sauiour Christ but if one smite thee on the one cheeke offer vnto him the other and if he sue thee at the lawe to take away thy coate from thee let him haue thy cloake also if he constraine thee to goe with him a mile go two Whereby our Sauiour exhorteth the Saintes to prepare themselues alwaies against iniuries and with all patience and quietnes of their mindes to beare the oppressions of men which wrongfully should be offered Hereunto this Apostle hauing respect willeth and exhorteth the Saints to beare the iniuries and cruell oppressions of the wicked with patience and with all godly quietnes to wayte for the comming of Iesus Christ Be ye therefore patient saith the Apostle Saint James vntill the comming of the Lord. Wherein we are taught that seeing we must stay our selues and settle our hearts and with patience runne the race of afflictions vntill the comming of Christ therfore both the reward of their patience and other vertues of the Saints and also the punishment of their aduersaries and oppressours are reserued till the day of Christ till his comming in glorious maiestie to iudge the quick and the dead and to geue sentence against all men Wherefore albeit the Saintes of God haue some small and little feeling of their future ioyes and glorie to come as in the meditating vpon heauenly thinges in the setled peace and quietnes of our consciences with God Col. 3. Rom. 5. and the like and the wicked also euen in this life sometime feele and tast of their extreame calamities to come Isay 57. Isay 66. by the disquietnes of their consciences the continuall anguish of their soules the great vexation of their minds and the comfortlesse sorrowe of their hearts which they often suffer Yet neither the Saints shall haue the consummation of their ioyes neither the wicked the full measure of their punishments before the day of iudgement and comming of Iesus Christ Wherefore S. Iames here exhorteth the Saints to waite for both these til the comming of the Lord. The consideration hereof is comfortable and the knowledge therof most profitable to the Saints wherfore we may note this in particular a little And first for the glorie of the Saints and their deliuerance it is in perfect measure to be looked for only at the appearing of Iesus Christ in glorious maiestie Our Sauiour Iesus Christ to that purpose foretelling his Apostles of his comming to iudgement and the signes which Luke 21. Mat. 24. 31. should forerunne it exhorteth them against that day to lifte vp their heads to be of good cheare and to be comforted because their redemption approached then onely promising them full deliuerance from miseries and perfect redemption of soule and body Saint Paul affirmeth to the Romanes that in this life they should be subiect to Rom. 8 manifold afflictions and troubles euen as the Lord Iesus Christ was and that here there is no ende of affliction to be looked for but we must waite for that til the comming of Christ which with sighing and sorrowing he witnessed they waited for euen the deliuerance and redemption of their bodies This glorious redemption onlie is perfected at the comming of the Lord. Paul writing to the church Coloss 3. of Colossa auoucheth that our life is hid with Christ and that when Christ which is our life shall appeare then shal we also appeare with him in glorie What is the glorie of the Saints Is it not to be conformable to the image of Rom. 8. the sonne and to be made like vnto him But wee come not to that perfect conformitie and likenes with Christ in this mortall life but in the life to come therefore the Col. 3. 1. Iohn 3. glory of the saints in the day of iudgement in perfect measure onely is reuealed Saint Iohn therefore saith now are wee the sonnes of God but yet it is not made manifest what we shal be we knowe that when he shall appeare we shal be like vn to him for we shall see him as he is Thus the glorie of Gods Saintes in perfect beutie shall not appeare before Iesus Christ be reueiled againe from heauen The holy Apostle and electe vessell of Christ Saint Paul looked for his glorious 2. Tim. 4. 1. Pet. 1. 5. 6. 7. 1. Pet. 4. 13. 1. Pet. 5. 4. crowne only in the day of Christ his appearing therfore saith he I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue ended my race I haue kepte the faith from

men is to be shewed and knowen for righteous or as Saint Augustine saith To bring to passe that one be knowen Of the spirite letter c. 26. and reputed for iust and righteous as in the Gospell the Pharisie falsly perswading himselfe of righteousnesse sought to haue iustified himselfe that is brought to passe Luke 18. that he might haue beene reputed for iust by fasting paying of tithes geuing of almes and such like works which he did Thus the Scribes and Pharisies by their pretended workes and shewe of godlines by the outward appearance and actions which they did in the knowledge and sight of men thereby before men sought to bee reputed estemed and reckoned for righteous Which being done Luke 16. in singular and notable hypocrisie our Sauiour worthelie and sharply inueyeth against them Ye are they which iustifie your selues before men How by their workes and outward life But God knoweth your heartes for that which is highly esteemed among men is abhominable in the sight of God Seeing there is a double iustifying one before God through faith alone the other before men onely through workes of which kinde speaketh Saint James he speaketh of being iustified before men not before God which thing shall appeare euidently 1 Out of the storie it selfe wherin it is recorded that Gen. 22. when Abraham was ready to haue slaine his sonne the angell of God restrained him and helde his hand and saide to Abraham Doe nothing vnto him for now I knowe that thou fearest God for that for my sake thou hast not spared thine onely sonne In that the Angel saith now I knowe So other fathers So Dionisius Carthusianus vpon 2. Iames. it must not be vnderstoode of the knowledge of God as if then onely he knewe but of the knowledge of men novv I know now I make knowen to men and so doeth S. Augustine expound it This Angell was God for it is said that for the Angels sake he spared not his sonne now I knovv thou fearest God in that for my sake thou hast not spared thine onely sonne Godly Abraham was not ready for any Angels sake but for Gods sake to haue offered This angell being God and God knowing all thinges from all eternitie it could not bee vnderstoode of his knowledge but of the knowledge of men who by Abrahams obedience whereunto hee was stirred vp by the commaundements of God were now assured and certified that hee was truely righteous Seeing then it appeareth that the very storie it selfe hath relatioÌ„ specially to the iustifying and being reputed for righteousnesse in the sight of men not of God Saint Iames alleadging it must speake in the same sence as the storie it selfe doeth of iustification that is of iustification before men not before God 2 Moreouer S. Iames could not say in that actioÌ„ that was done which long before that time was not done only but also opeÌ„ly witnessed But AbrahaÌ„ before God was iustified before and he had the testimonie of Moses who said that he beleeued God and that was imputed reckoned for righteousnesse Now this promise for beleuing Gen. 22. whereof he was reckoned for righteous was made thirtie yeares before he offered vp his sonne If hee were righteous before God thirtie yeares before his sacrifice hovve could his sacrifice be cause of his righteousnesse Then seeing Iames saith that he was iustified by that obedience and he were before God iustified thirty yeares before then can he not be vnderstoode of iustificatioÌ„ before God but of being iustified before men The like reason Rom. 4. from the circumstance of time S. Paul vseth Who speaking of the same righteousnesse of Abraham before God saith That hee was counted for righteous before hee was circumcised But he offered vp his sonne long after his circumcision For when he was commaunded to be circumcised hee receaued but the promise onely of Isaac and afterwarde Gen. 17. Gen. 18. Gen. 19 Gen. 20 Gen. 22. it was repeated and the destruction of Sodome and Gomorrha beeeing past and hee hauing dwelt a time in Gerar receaued the promise made vnto him in the twentie chapter of Genesis it is recorded that GOD visited Sarah and shee did beare him a Sonne and they called his name Isaac Who then being borne growing vp and being now about thirteene yeares olde his father was by God commaunded to offer him vp in Mounte Morah By the circuÌ„staÌ„ce of time AbrahaÌ„ being proued to haue beene speake of diuers works Saint Thomas their holy Doctour expounding those wordes His faith wrought with his workes and by the workes his faith was made perfect saith Faith wrought through workes that is faith whereby he was iustified before led and brought him vnto the workes and by workes namely following faith was his faith made perfect that is augmented declared and shewed Thus he also affirmeth that Iames spoke of workes Heb. 11. following faith The authour of the Epistle to the Hebrewes shewing that that obedience and sacrifice of Abraham was a worke following faith ascribeth and applieth it to faith saith that Abraham by faith offered Isaac vp If therefore S. James speake of works following faith as he must needes doe alleadging this example which as the trueth is in God as it is also confessed both by Thomas and the ordinarie Glosse also then can he not speake of iustification before God for that cannot be accomplished by workes following faith and iustification 4 Finally we must diligently consider and carefullie Acts 15. Philip. 3. Gal. 3. 5. Rom. 4. weigh with what people hearers and persons these two had to deale withall S. Paul as appeareth in many places of the new Testament had to do with such as perswaded men that vnlesse they obserued the lawe of Moses they could not be saued whom he confuteth out of the law it selfe out of the Prophets Dauid Abacuk others out of the Gospell and true ende and vse both of it and of the lawe of Moses to which purpose hee setteth downe a doctrine quite contrarie thereunto that men are iustified by faith in Iesus Christ without the works of the lavv of Moses To the establishing of which assertion affirmaÌ„ce and opinion the Epistle to the Romanes Galathians Ephesians and Philippians seemeth to haue beene penned and written In processe of time this assured doctrine was wroong and wrested by some gathering that it was not needefull for such as by faith in Iesus Christ were iustified to be followers of good workes but that to beleeue onlie barelie without care of holy conuersation was sufficient Which to preuent as S. Paul in those forenamed Epistles oftentimes ioyneth exhortations to manners so S. Iames seeing the carnall professors greatly to abuse the gospell to the libertie and loosenes of the flesh in this Epistle encountreth with them testifying and protesting to all meÌ„ that faith in men pretending iustification without works is but as a dead carkas And thus hee writeth not against Paul but

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