Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03586	A learned discourse of iustification, workes, and how the foundation of faith is overthrowne. By Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13708; ESTC S121045	45,591	98

by consequent or indirectly which hold any one assertion whatsoever wherevpon the direct denial thereof may be necessarily concluded What is the question betweene the Gentiles and vs but this whether salvation bee by Christ What betweene the Iewes and vs but this Whether by this Iesus whom wee call Christ yea or no This to be the maine point wherevpon Christianity standeth it is cleere by that one sentence of Festus concerning Paules accusers They brought no crime of such things as I supposed but had certain questions against him of their superstition and of one Iesus which was dead whome Paul affirmed to be aliue Where we see that Iesus dead and raised for the salvation of the world is by Iewes denied despised by a Gentile by a Christian Apostle maintained The Fathers therefore in the Primitiue Church when they wrote Tertullian the booke which hee calleth Apologeticus Minucius Foelix the booke which he intitleth Octavius Arnobius the seaveÌ„ bookes against the Gentiles Chrysostome his Orations against the Iewes Eusebius his tenne bookes of Evangelicall demonstration they stand in defence of Christianity against them by whom the foundation thereof was directly denyed But the writings of the Fathers against Novatians Pelagians and other heretikes of the like note refell positions whereby the foundation of Christian faith was overthrowne by consequent onely In the former sort of writings the foundation is proved in the later it is alleaged as a proofe which to men that had beene knowne directly to deny must needes haue seem'd a very beggerly kind of disputing All Infidels therefore deny the foundation of faith directly by consequent many a Christian man yea whole Christian Churches haue denied it and doe deny it at this present day Christian Churches the foundation of Christianity Not directly for then they cease to be Christian Churches but by a consequent in respect whereof we condemne them as erroneous although for holding the foundation we doe and must hold them Christian. 26 We see what it is to hold the foundation what directly and what by consequent to deny it The next thing which followeth is whether they whome God hath chosen to obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ may once effectually called and through faith iustified truely afterwards fall so farre as directly to deny the foundation which their hearts haue before imbraced with ioy and comfort in the holy Ghost for such is the faith which indeed doth iustifie Devilles knowe the same things which wee beleeue and the mindes of the most vngodly may bee fully perswaded of the truth which knowledge in th' one and in the'other is sometimes termed faith but equivocally being indeed no such faith as that whereby a Christian man is iustified It is the spirit of adoption which worketh faith in vs in them not the things which wee beleeue are by vs apprehended not only as true but also as good and that to vs as good they are not by them apprehended as true they are Wherevpon followeth the third difference the Christian man the more hee increaseth in faith the more his ioy and comfort aboundeth but they the more sure they are of the truth the more they quake and tremble at it This begetteth an other effect where the harts of th' one sort haue a different disposition from the other Non ignoro plerosque conscientia meritorum nihil se esse per mortem magis optare quÃ m credere Malunt enim extingui penitus quaÌ„ ad supplicia reparari I am not ignorant saith Minutius that there bee many who being conscious what they are to looke for do rather wish that they might then thinke that they shall cease when they cease to liue because they hold it better that death should consume them vnto nothing then God receiue them into punishment So it is in other articles of faith whereof wicked men thinke no doubt many times they are too true on the the contrary side to the other there is no griefe or torment greater then to feele their perswasion weake in things whereof when they are perswaded they reape such comfort and ioy of spirit such is the faith whereby we are iustified such I mean in respect of the qualitie For touching the principall obiect of faith longer then it holdeth the foundation whereof wee haue spoken it neither iustifieth nor is but ceaseth to bee faith when it ceaseth to beleeue that Iesus Christ is the onlie Saviour of the world The cause of life spirituall in vs is Christ not carnally or corporally inhabiting but dwelling in the soule of man as a thing which wheÌ„ the minde apprehendeth it is said to inhabite or possesse the minde The minde conceiveth Christ by hearing the doctrin of Christianitie as the light of nature doth the minde to apprehend those truths which are merelie rationall so that saving truth which is farre aboue the reach of humane reason cannot otherwise then by the spirit of the Almightie be conceived All these are implyed wheresoever anie of them is mentioned as the cause of the spirituall life Wherefore if we haue read that The spirit is our life or the word our life or Christ our life we are in everie of these to vnderstaÌ„d that our life is Christ by the hearing of the gospell apprehended as a Saviour and assented vnto through the power of the holy Ghost The first intellectuall conceipt and comprehension of Christ so imbraced S. Peter calleth the seed whereof we be new borne our first imbracing of Christ is our first reviving from the state of death and condemnation He that hath the sonne hath life saith S. Iohn and he that hath not the sonne of God hath not life If therefore he which once hath the sonne may cease to haue the sonne though it be for a moment he ceaseth for that moment to haue life But the life of them which haue the sonne of God is everlasting in the world to come But because as Christ being raised froÌ„ the dead dieth no more death hath no more power over him so the iustified man being alied to God in Iesus Christ our Lord doth as necessarily from that time forward alwaies liue as Christ by whom he hath life liveth alwaies I might if I had not other where largely done it already shew by many and sundry manifest and cleere proofes how the motions and operations of life are sometimes so indiscernable and so secret that they seeme stone dead who notwithstanding are still aliue vnto God in Christ. For as long as that abideth in in vs which animateth quickneth and giveth life so loÌ„g we liue and we knowe that the cause of our faith abideth in vs for ever If Christ the fountaine of life may flit and leaue the habitation where once hee dwelleth what shall become of his promise I am with you to the worlds end If the seed of God which coÌ„taineth Christ may be first conceived and then cast out how doth S.

followeth immediatlie therevpon that this Jesus whom wee call the Saviour is not the Saviour of the world because all the Prophets beare witnesse that the true Messias should shew light vnto the Gentiles that is to say gather such a Church as is Catholicke not restrained any longer vnto one circumcised nation In the second rancke we place them out of whose positions the deniall of any the foresaid articles may be with like facilitie concluded such as are they which haue denyed either the Divinitie of Christ with Hebion or with Martion his Humanitie an example whereof may be that of Cassianus defending the incarnation of the sonne of God against Nestorius Bishop of Antioch which held that the Virgin when shee brought forth Christ did not bring forth the sonne of God but sole and a mere man out of which heresie the deniall of the articles of the Christian faith he deduceth thus If thou dost denie our Lord Iesus Christ in denying the sonne thou canst not choose but denie the father for according to the voice of the father himselfe He that hath not the sonne hath not the father Wherefore denying him which is begotten thou deniest him which doth beget Againe denying the sonne of God to haue beene borne in the flesh how canst thou beleeue him to haue suffred beleeving not his passion what remaineth but that thou deny his resurrection For we beleeue him not raised except wee first beleeue him dead neither can the reason of his rising from the dead stand without the faith of his death going being before The deniall of his death and passion inferreth the deniall of his rising from the depth Wherevpon it followeth that thou also denie his ascension into heaven The Apostle affirmeth that he which ascended did first descend so that as much as lyeth in thee our Lord Iesus Christ hath neither risen from the depth nor is ascended into heaven nor sitteth at the right hand God the father neither shall he come at the day of finall account which is looked for nor shall iudge the quicke and dead And darest thou yet set foot in the church Canst thou thinke they selfe a Bishop when thou hast denyed all those things whereby thou dost obtaine a Bishoply calling Nestorius confessed all the articles of the Creed but his opinioÌ„ did imply the denial of every part of his coÌ„fessioÌ„ Heresies there are of the third sort such as the Church of Rome maintaineth which be removed by a greater distance froÌ„ the foundation although indeed they over throw it Yet because of that weakenes which the Philosopher noteth in mens capacities when he saith that the common sort cannot see things which followe in reason when they follow as it were a farre of by manie deductions therefore the repugnancie of such heresie and the foundation is not so quickly or so easily found but that an hereticke of this sooner then of the former kinde may directly graunt and consequently neverthelesse denie the foundation of faith 33 If reason be suspected triall will shew that the Church of Rome doeth no otherwise by teaching the doctrine she doth teach concerning good works offer them the verie fundamentall words and what man is there that will refuse to subscribe vnto them Can they directly graunt and directly deny one and the very self-same thing Our own proceedings in disputing against their works satisfactorie meritorious do shew not onely that they hold but that we acknowledge them to hold the foundation notwithstanding their opinioÌ„ For are not these our arguments against them Christ alone hath satisfied and appeased his fathers wrath Christ hath merited salvation alone We should doe fondly to vse such disputes neither could we thinke to prevaile by them if that wherevpon wee ground were a thing which we know they do not hold which wee are assured they will not graunt Their very answers to all such reasons as are in this controversie brought against theÌ„ will not permit vs to doubt whether they hold the fouÌ„dation or no. Can any man that hath read their books concerning this matter be ignorant how they draw all their answers vnto these heads That the remission of all our sinnes the pardon of all whatsoever punishments thereby deserved the rewards which God hath laid vp in heaven are by the blood of our Lord Iesus Christ purchased and obtained sufficiently for all men but for no man effectually for his benefit in particular except the blood of Christ bee applied particularly vnto him by such meanes as God hath appointed that to worke by That those meanes of themselues being but dead things only the blood of Christ is that which putteth life force and ifficacie in them to worke and to be availeable each in his kind to our salvation Finally that grace being purchased for vs by the blood of Christ freely without any merit or desert at the first bestowed vpon vs the good things which we doe after grace receiued be thereby made satisfactorie and meritorious Some of their sentences to this effect I must alleage for mine owne war rant If we desire to heare forraine iudgements we find in one this confession He that could reckon how many the vertues and merits of our Saviour Christ haue beene might likewise vnderstand how many the benefits haue beene that are to come to vs by him for so much as men are made partakers of them all by meanes of his passion by him is given vnto vs remission of our sinnes grace glorie libertie praise salvation redemption iustification iustice satisfaction sacraments merits and all other things which we had were behouefull for our salvation In another wee haue these oppositions and answers made vnto them All grace is given by Christ Iesus True but not except Christ Iesus be applied He is the propitiation for our sinnes by his stripes we are healed he hath offered himselfe vp for vs all this is true but apply it we put all satisfactioÌ„ in the blood of Iesus Christ but we hold that the meanes which Christ hath appointed for vs in this case to apply it are our penall workes Our Countrimen in Rhemes make the like answere that they seeke salvation no other way then by the blood of Christ that humbly they doe vse prayers fastings almes faith charitie sacrifice sacraments priests onely as the meanes appointed by Christ to apply the benefit of his holy blood vnto them touching our good workes that in their owne natures they are not meritorious nor answerable to the ioyes of heaven it commeth by the grace of Christ not of the work it selfe that we haue by well doing a right to heaven and deserue it worthily If any man thinke that I seeke to varnish their opinioÌ„s to set the better foot of a lame cause foremost let him know that since I began throughly to vnderstand their meaning I haue found their halting greater then perhaps it seemeth to them which knowe not the deepnesse of

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