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A19743 A godlie and fruitfull treatise of faith and workes. Wherein is confuted a certaine opinion of merit by workes, which an aduersary to the gospell of Christ Iesu, held in the conference, had in the Tower of London H. D., fl. 1583.; Dod, Henry, attributed name. aut 1583 (1583) STC 6168; ESTC S114042 37,853 104

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receiueth all thinges in good part And whersoeuer anie fault shall be committed freendly to amend it with thy pen and especially for the pointing thereof And for the marginal notes and quotations also the like ouersights as before are cōmitted wherfore good reader blame not the author without cause either for the one or for the other A greater volume thou maiest haue but a learneder treatise for the substance therof I perswade my selfe is hard to find Thus putting thee in mind of the old adage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is easier to find fault and to carpe than to imitate or amend I commit thee to God who blesse thee with the knowledge of his truth Thine in the Lord Phillippe Stubbes●… Faultes escaped in the printing   Page Line Faulte Correction C. 1●… 〈◊〉 for first read first Adam F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for worke of the law read works of the law F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which make read which walke A TREATISE OF Faith and works GOD by his eternall wisdome in his secrete counsayle before the foundatiō of the worlde decreed the creation of the same world And in that his secret counsell determined to make mankinde and also appointed a number certeine howe manie hee wold create before the end of the world and that the world should not end before that number certein were accomplished euen to the last person God decreed so to make man in his first creation as that he should bee perfect good and shoulde haue free wil that if he would he might stand and abide in that perfect goodnesse and not fall from the same and so neuer to be dampned But God foresawe thatnotwithstanding he wold make man the purest creature aboue all that hee would make vnder the compasse of the heauens and woulde giue him free will power and strength to keepe himselfe from falling if hee would yet notwithstanding he would fall and breake the commaundement which God woulde giue him wherby both himselfe and his whole posteritie should fall into the state of damnation and so the iustice and wrath of God should take holde and bee powred vpon al mankind for his so transgressing the onely cause of all their corruption The mercy and loue of GOD foreseeing this fall of man and perpetuall death for the same by the iust iudgement of God preassed forward and as it were pleaded against the iustice and wrath of GOD That though by the fall of a first Adam sin entered and the whole posteritie of mankind shuld bee brought into the state of damnation for in Adam all do die Euen so by the death of a second Adam Christ Iesus mankinde is to bee recouered bought made righteous and redeemed frō the paine due by that fal Which loue and mercie in God being as high or higher in dignitie then his iustice is to haue as great or greater interest in man then his iustice And the power of mercie is as well to be showed on man as the power of iustice But iustice replied that death must fall vpon mankinde for transgressing For the reward of sin is death and therfore iustice otherwise could not be answered but by death The mercie and loue of God to make a full agrement for mankinde and by iustice to satisfie the iustice of God ordeining That we shuld be made the righteousnesse of GOD in Christ. Graunted that death by death should be redeemed and that by innocent death euen the death of the verie sonne of God VVho onelie should take on him our infirmitie and beare our paines by whose stripes we should be healed And he shoulde bee the redeemer in iustice by death to satisfie the iustice appease the wrath of God Wherevpon the iustice and wrath of God being therewith aunswered and the elect freed from the same iustice and wrath of God The Lorde in mercie and loue decreed in the same his secrete counsell to giue vnto the redeemer those whome before they were he had bought and made sure to himselfe by a price which hee woulde giue in the appointed time before set downe in the secret counsell of God And those whome before they were he had bought chosen were vnto him certeinelie knowne the number certeine and euerie particular person hee knewe before they were For God was not ignorant thereof neither can there be ignorance in God neither would he redeeme those whome he knew not In the fulnes of time the word being the secōd person and verie God of verie God tooke flesh made of the substance of the virgin Marie in which flesh liuing here vpō the earth he fulfilled the whole law to the vttermost Who did not sin neither was their guile found in his mouth Thē to satisfie the iustice of God for that number which were before they were created elected and chosen to be saued The same flesh being man ioyned to the Godhead and so one Christ laide vpon himselfe and bare all the whole burthen of sin in his bodie on the tree done from the first to the last end of the world by all his elect Thus bearing all our sinnes hee being yet an innocent lambe was slaine and hanged vpon the crosse suffering before diuers tormentes and passions And when the vttermost peny for mans ransome was paid Christ hanging vpon the crosse a little before his death saide It is finished That is to say all the prophesies which were prophesied of me by all the Prophetes from the first to the last are fulfilled And with all I haue finished the woorke which was giuen me to doe of my Father I haue satisfied the iustice and wrath of my heauenly father against the sinnes of mine elect I haue paid their full ransome I haue redeemed all from eternall death haue for euer destroied death and hell for them Death is swallowed vp in victory So that now there is no more to be laide against them nor to bee done for the redeeming of them from their sinnes all is finished The elect of God being thus redeemed And elected before the foundation of the world before they were or had done either good or euill And that of a certeintie infallible without alteration of purpose and without repentance by God in any respect in his secret counsell For in God there is no repentance nor alteration of any thing decreed in his secret counsell but his purpose standeth firme and stable for euer This election being thus in certeintie determined the number persons certeinlie knowne to God by name set downe writtē in the booke of life by the finger of God not one of them to be lost For Christ said those whome thou gauest me haue I kept none of them be lost but the lost child that the scriptures may be fulfilled Nor anie one to be added therevnto but the decreed number to stand full without alteration of the same or any person therof because that God is altogither perfect wisedome