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A16549	An exposition of the dominical epistles and gospels used in our English liturgie throughout the whole yeare together with a reason why the church did chuse the same / by Iohn Boys ... ; the winter part from the first Aduentuall Sunday to Lent.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1610 (1610)	STC 3458; ESTC S106819	229,612	305

disputes in lib. 1. de Iustificat cap. 4. wrought by charitie but contrariwise charitie doth arise from faith It is then an idle dreame to suppose that charitie is inclosed in faith as a diamond is in a ring for Christ is the pretious pearle which giues life and lustre to the ring The iust liue not by loue but by faith in him It is an improper speech as our Diuines obserue to say that faith worketh by loue as the bodie by the soule the matter by the forme for the soule rather worketh by the bodie then the bodie by the soule The matter is passiue the forme actiue Secondly we say that Paul in that text faith which worketh by loue doth not intend iustification but y e whole course of a Christian aft●r his iustification hee shuts out of Gods kingdome nullifidians and meritmongers on the left hand nudifidians and carnall Gospellers on the right In Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing neither vncircumcision that is to say no merit nor worshipping No religious order in the world but faith alone without any trust in workes auaileth before God On the right hand he doth exclude slothfull and idle persons affirming that if faith only doe iustifie then let vs worke nothing but barely beleeue Not so y● carelesse generation enemies of grace for faith is operatiue working by loue Paul therefore sets foorth in that excellent sentence the whole perfection of a Christian in this life namely that inwardly it consists in faith toward God and outwardly in good workes and loue toward our neighbours so that a man is a perfect Christian inwardly through faith before God who hath no neede of our workes and outwardly before men whom our faith profiteth nothing by loue Faith is the Christians hand Now an hand hath a propertie to reach out it selfe and to receiue a gift but it can not cut a peece of wood without an hatchet or saw or some such like instrument yet by help of them it can either cut or diuide Such is the nature of faith it doth receiue Christ into the heart but as for the duties of the fi●st and second table faith cannot of it selfe bring them forth no more then the hand can cut of it selfe yet ioine loue to faith and then as our Apostle ●●ith worketh through loue performing all duties so well to man as God The propertie of true faith is to receiue in to it selfe The nature of true loue is to lay out it selfe vnto other faith then alone iustifieth apprehending and applying Christs merits vnto it selfe but it cannot manifest it selfe to other except it be ioyned with loue Shew me thy ●●ith out of thy workes And thus as you see that inward worke of iustification is ascribed in holy Scripture to faith onely but outward workes of sanct●fication holin●sse and righteousnesse to faith and loue ioyntly I ref●●re the distressed soule to the comfortable Commentaries of M●rtin L●●●er vpon the Galathians and the curious Diuine to Do●tor Abbot his Apologie for the reformed C●tholike Ti● I●●ti●ication For I will ingenuously confesse that my conscie●●e was neuer quieted more then in reading the one and my curiositie neuer satisfied more then in examining the other Though I besto● all my goods to ●eed the poore ● M●rcifull workes are pro sacri●ici●s im● prae sacri●ici●s accepted of God as sacrifice Heb. 13.16 yea more then sacrifice Hosea 6.6 I will haue mercie not sacrifice To be mercifull is the sole worke common to man with God It is then an higher step of perfection to distribute goods vnto the poore then to sp●ake with the tongues of men and Angels or to be furnished with all varietie of knowledge yet Paul saith If I bestow my goods all my goods not vpon the rich but vpon the poore to feede not to feast them and had not loue it profits me nothing Where note fiue degrees of this amplification the first is to giue for most men as it is in the prouerbe are better at the rake then at the pitchforke readier to pull in then to giue out The second is to giue not another mans but our owne goods If I bestow my goods According to that of Salomon Ecclesiastes 11.1 Cast thy bread vpon the waters Pa●is si tuus qui tuus The third is all our goods not some small portion or great summe but all according to that of Christ If thou wilt be perfect sell all that thou hast and giue it to the poore The fourth is to giue not to the rich but to the poore Frange panem esurienti saith the Prophet Deale thy bread to the hungry The last is to giue to the poore not superfluously to feast but necessarily to feede them If a man performe this and more then this out of vaineglorious ostentation or idle prodigalitie not out of loue to Christ and compassion of his members it were but so much as nothing Though I gaue my bodie to be burned Loue is seene more in deedes then in words and in suffering more then in doing and of all suffering death is most terrible and of all kindes of death burning is most fearfull Here then are many degrees in this one speech as Interpreters obserue first si tradidero not if I be forced but if of mine owne accord I giue my bodie to be burned as it is said of Christ he gaue himselfe for vs a sacrifice Secondly si tradidero corpus if I suffer losse not of goods onely though that be very commendable Heb. 10.34 Ye suffered with ioy the spoiling of your goods But affliction in body which is far dearer then our wealth as the father of lies in this truly Skinne for skinne and all that euer a man hath will hee giue for his life Thirdly S●tra●●dero corpus meum if I giue not onely the body of my child though a woman is highly magnified for such an act in the 2. of Maccabees 7. but my hod not onelie flesh of my flesh but flesh which is my flesh not onely to suff●r a naturall death but a violent and of all violent the most terrible to be rosted yea consumed in the fire If any suffer all this and want charity to particular persons esp●cially toward the common body of the Church it is no better or rather indeed wor●e then nothing I beseech you therefore by the mercifulnesse of G●d whatsoeuer you speake whatsoeuer you study whatsoeuer you doe whatsoeuer you suffer let all be done in loue Vniuersa inutilitèr habet qui vnum illud quô vniuersis vtatur non h●bet Vnprofitably quoth Augustine hath he all who wants that one whereby he should vse all As the same father in another place Quāta est charitas quae si desit frustrà habentur caetera si adsit rectè habentur omnia How great is loue for if it be wanting all other graces lose their grace but if present all are profitable So the text