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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 Math. 7. ver 21. Not euerie one that saith vnto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth my Fathers will which is in heauen Iohn 6. verse 40 And this is the will of him that sent me that uery one that seeth the Sonne and beleeueth on him may haue euerlasting life and I will raise him at the last day LONDON Printed for Gregory Seton and are to be sold at his shop vnder Aldersgate 1583. To the Right honorable and his very good Lord Ambrose Earle of Warwicke Baron Lisley maister of her Maiesties ordenance knight of the most honorable or der of the Garter and one of her highnes priuy Councell H. D. wisheth all prosperitie in this life with increase of honour and in the life to come eternall felicitie in the heauenly hierarchie by Iesus Christ. AT what time Right honorable I had finished these my slender labours containing such holesome doctrine I trust as may semeneces sary for the time Certein of good iudgement hauing per used the same made some perswasion to suffer the impression thereof which at the firste considering my own weakenes the slender handling of so weightie a matter the pretence in the beginning for my priuate exercise I disassented to their desire But being somewhat pressed to do some good to the Church how litle soeuer and to cast forth some publike stone to the repairing of the building leauing the successe to almightye God I was in the ende contented to yeeld and imboldened to commit this litle treatise to the printe The first and onely occasion of the writing wherof was an argument which an aduersary of the truth held in the cōferēce had in the Tower of London the force whereof seemed to me so weake as that I thought my simple skill might easely confute the same wherefore committing that argument to memory I applied my endeuour to the confutation therof And although arte the eloquent order forme of the learned herin be wanting yet I doubt not but done according to the truth Yet iudge I this my labour litle worth and smally or nothing able to preuaile against the cauils and slaunders of the aduersary vnlesse your honorable L. were patrone thereof to whom I do dedicate both my good hart and worke also not as to teach your L. ought contained in this treatise whose honor aboundes both in Zeale and knowledge of this doctrine but by your authoritie to get it the more fauourable intertainement with others when they shall behold this simple discourse shrowded vnder the protection of your honorable good L. Thus being bold in all humilitie to prostrate this litle booke before your honour obseruing the examples of others in like oblations for the better defence thereof I pray to the Lord Iesus long to preserue you in much honour and felicitie Amen Your honors most humble to commaund H. D. To the vnlearned Papists VNto you I write yee vnlearned Papists whom the Pope and his Prelates haue so blinded and dulled your sences that you haue eares and heare not eyes and see not a hart and yet cannot vnderstand the trueth nor finde the waie of your saluation For blind ignorance who among you is called the mother of deuotion though most vntruely hath so lulled you a sleepe in popish dreames that you can neither heare see nor vnderstand the word of life but hath shut vp the same from you so as you cannot learne Christ truly nor obey your Prince faithfullie but doth nussell you vp in old wiues fables and legions of lies as they thinke most meetest for your study fearing that if they shuld suffer you to read the word of truth the blinde way which they haue ledde you in all this while would bee by you so espied as their great hypocrisie and false doctrine could no longer lie hid but would be knowne to their great shame and vtter condemnation The Lord hath opened the eies of a number of his people which haue bene led in the waie of your blindnesse and the Lord in mercie may also open your eies and wil if you will not too obstinatlie withstande his offered grace The Lord calleth you if you wil hear him He bids you search the scriptures for therin you shal find life and wisedome which is Christ. But your Antichrist forbiddeth you to reade them because he would haue you still blind and know no other Christ as a leader to heauen but him Forsake not him that is life to followe him that leadeth to death whose doctrine draweth to dispaire taking awaie al confidence by the merites of Christ and leaueth you in perpetuall blindnesse and confidence of your workes And therfore awake out of these Popish dreames flie from that whore of Rome who hath made you drunken with the cuppe of hir fornication Imbrace Christ Iesus the onlie Sauiour and onelie rest vpon him for your saluation Doe as much good as you can and fulfill the lawe to the vttermost of your power that God maie be glorified therby but repose no trust of saluation nor merite therein Leaue that onelie to Christ vnto whom it doth apperteine for he onlie hath obteined it by shedding his moste precious bloud without the helpe of our woorkes For if those woorkes might saue vs thē Christ died in vaine for what need is there of his death when our works maie saue vs. But forasmuch as this is most vntrue and that there was nothing in the world whatsoeuer that was able to redeeme the soule of man the commandement of God being once broken by Adam but Christ. Therefore the most precious bodie of Christ was made the alone and onelie sacrifice for to redeeme vs. Wherefore staie no longer forsake all vaine helpes from the Pope and flie to Christ onelie and there rest yee And so farewell H. D. 〈◊〉 the Christian Reader a preface premonitorie I Nede not good Christian Reader to stand vpon either the commendation of the Author of this booke or the worke it selfe for Vino vendibili hadera suspensa nihil est opus both the one and the other such is the exellencie of them both may fusticiently commend themselues Onely this I am to request at thy hands good Reader that what faultes or escapes soeuer thou shalt meete withall in this booke as there be some I beseech thee impute them not to the negligence of the Author who is greatly agreeued at them but to the ouersight of the printer through whom they were cōmitted Wherefore gentle Reader I beseech thee read this booke being I assure thee a learned worke cum iuditio not praeiuditio with the spirite of modesty not of contumacie knowing that as the Apostle saith charitie couereth the multitude of faultes enuieth no man speaketh ill of no man but