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A15783	An epistle dedicated to an honourable person in the which are discouered a dozen bad spirits, who from the beginning haue much haunted & grieuously tormented the Protestant congregation, so that euery one may perceaue, if he be not tooto [sic] partiall, and ouermuch carryed away with affection, that such an assembly cannot be the true Church of God.	Wright, William, 1563-1639.	1622 (1622)	STC 26046.5; ESTC S3299	20,837	34

fayth hath no such blasphemous speaches against Christ but the quite contrary to wit That he was the splendour of his Father the figure of his substance without spot or blot of sinne the fountaine of all grace and vertue to whome was giuen a Name aboue all Names power both in heauen and earth to raise himselfe from death to life to ascend into heauen to sit at the right hand of his Father and to crush all his enemyes vnder his feet I do not deny but Spangeberge is somwhat Cyriacus Spangeb contra Stepha Agricol fol. ● a. more modest then others seeing that although he preferre Luther before all the Saints of God the Apostles yea and our B. Lady that thrice renowned Queene of Heauen yet he puts one before him to wit S. Paul saying Christus habet primas habeas tu Paule secundas At loca post Paulum proxima Luther habet First place to Christ the next to Paul Then Luther first of others all Heere hence it is no wonder that Conradus Risse tells vs in plaine tearmes That God did take from ●itzherb 2. part of policy and Religion pag. 453. ● 31. him to wit Luther the true spirit for his pryde and gaue him insteed thereof an angry proud and lying spirit c. Thus far of their spirit of pride The spirit of Liberty is the broad way that leadeth to perdition which indeed they haue made so broad as I do not see how the Diuell can well desire a borader For first they reiect the ten Commaundements as impossible the Ca●●● lib. 2. instit c. 7. §. 5. Lawes of Moyses or the Ceremoniall law is abrogated and Christ our Sauiour made none and humane lawes do not bind in conscience and therefore they infer how they are freed from all Hence saith Caluin Christian liberty Caluin l. 3. instit c. 19. §. ● consisteth in three parts first that the consciences of the faithfull while they with the confidence of their Iustification do raise themselues aboue the law do forget the whole iustice thereof And after It is requisite that mention of the law being taken away they onely imbrace Gods mercy And § 4. Our consciences are free from the yoake of the law And § 7. he reiecteth all humane lawes as well Ecclesiastical as ciuill which are made about thinges of their owne nature indifferent The third part is saith he that we make no scruple of externall thinges which are of themselues indifferent but that we indifferently vse or omit them Hence he inferreth that no man is obliged to humaine lawes concerning fasting and holy daies This liberty of the Ghospell is founded in two principles the one is that the Pope is Antichrist for by this is taken away the Canon Law the other that we are not bound to obey Kinges and Princes if they commaund any thing not conteyned in Scripture and thereby are both Imperiall and Municipall which we call the common Lawes abolished Thus far of the Libertine spirit of Iohn Caluin which he may be thought to haue sucked from D. Luther and his most learned schollers Luth. de libertate Christiana Idem ad c. 2. ad Galat For thus discourseth D. Martin Onely Faith the Word doth raigne in the soule wherby it is manifest that only faith sufficeth a Christiā man for all thinges and that he needeth no workes for his Iustification and if he needeth no workes he needeth no Law if he need no law he is free from the law and it is true that the law is not made for the iust Thus argueth Luther vpon the same ground he affirmeth resolutely els where Onely Faith is necessary that we may be iust al other things are most free nether commanded any more nor prohibited Luth in c. 7. ep 1. ad Cor ● And againe in another place Thou art bound to God in nothing but to beleiue and confesse him in all other thinges he maketh thee free that thou maiest do according to thine own will without any offence of conscience This being the doctrine of Luther the Maister it is not to be wōdred at if some of his schollers haue drawen out these the like positiōs all tending to the enlarging of the liberty of this fifth new inuented Ghospell The law say they is not worthy to be called Confessio Māsf●ld in secta Antinomorum the VVord of God if thou be a whoore or a fornicatour or an Adulterer or any other sinner whatsoeuer onely beleiue and thou art in the way of sauation euen when thou stickest fast in the very middest of thy sinne The ten Commandments belong to the Court but not to the Pulpit Whosoeuer haue any thing to do with Moyses do go the right way to the Diuell c. The saying of Peter Make sure your vocation by good workes is vnprofitable Whensoeuer thou hast any cogitation that any meanes is to be vsed that men may be good honest and holy chast thou art already gone astray from the Ghospell Heereupon sayth D. Luther Let vs take heed of sinnes but especially of good workes And others tell vs How we ought to pray to God that we may remaine constant euen vnto the end without all good workes seeing that good workes are not necessary but hurtfull and pernicious to our saluation And that Christians with good workes belong to the Diuell To the which they adding that the best worke they do can be no better then a mortall sinne we inferre that they are bound in conscience neuer to do any good worke And because their fayth according to D. VVhitak Fides aut est perpetua aut nulla contra Camp rat 8. pag 143. Luth. in 2. part Postillae printed Argēt Germ. an 1537. fol. 140. Luth. tom 1. ep lat n. folio 334. ad 1 hilippum D. Whitaker once had can neuer be lost they may giue full scope and loose their raines largely to all liberty and loosenes of life For as nothing doth iustify but fayth so nothing sayth Luther doth damne but infidelity And althogh the Apostle tell vs That Fornicators Adulterers and such like shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen Yet out of D. Martin Sinne cannot withdraw vs from Christ although we should commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day But truely if we may be as great Saints in glory as the Apostles our B. Lady the thrice renowned Mother of God or any other Saint in heauen how great soeuer and yet haue liberty to kill and murther a thousand tymes a day contemne all lawes both of God and man neuer fast or do any worke of pennance who will say that this way to heauen is straite and not rather so broad as all the blacke spirits in hell for the increase of sinne and amplifying of the Diuels Kingdome can scarce inuent a broader But if we add that of M. Wotton who tels vs That sinne is remitted as soone as committed VVotton in his answere