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A10770	An exposicion in Englishe vpon the Epistle of .S. Paule, to the Colossians wherin the letter is purely declared, with many good exhortations to flee vice, and to take vertue, as shall appere clerely to the faithfull reader throughout all this epistle: written by Lancelot Ridley of Cantorbury. Anno salutis humanæ M.D.XLVIII.; Exposicion in Englishe upon the Epistle of. S. Paule to the Colossians.	Ridley, Lancelot, d. 1576.	1548 (1548)	STC 21039; ESTC S104540	65,741	282

Ephe. v By God inwardly workyng by his spirite that cutteth from the harte all euil thoughtes carnal lustes and affeccions and this is called the circumcision of the harte signified in the olde lawe by the outward Circumcision of the flesh And this our baptisme is come to vs in the stede of circumcision to the Iewes and is as necessarie and more profitable to vs then was Circumcisiō to the Iewes in the tyme of the old law And as it was necessary by Gods cōmaundement Gene. xvii That all young men children should be Circumcised the eighte daie So it is no lesse necessarie that all young children should be Baptised for without Baptisme none can bee saued Ihon .iii. Math .xxviii. Marke .xvi. Therfore the Anabaptistes are greatly to bee blamed that would not haue young children Christened or Baptised in the water and in the holy Ghost Of Baptisme of young children I haue spoken Ephe. iiii Therfore I do not speake of it in this place any more And you whē you wer ded by synne and by the vncircūcisiō of your flesh together with hym he hath quickened you again forgeuyng to you all youre synnes and put awaie that hand writyng that was against vs conteined in the lawe writtē with the decre that was contrary to vs and that toke he clere awaye and fastened it to the crosse hath spoyled Rule and power and hath made a shewe of theim openly and hath triūphed ouer thē in his awne persone The Apostle here sheweth the thyng that he shewed more at large Ephe. ii That is what we are of our selfes mightes and powers what we be by Christ By our awne nature receiued of Adam we wer ded by synne originall and of our selfes by actuall synne but by Christe alone we be restored again to life and God hath forgeuen vs our synnes frely without our merites or deseruinges for Christes sake onely and where we wer Gentiles vncircumcised now bee Circumcised in oure hartes haue cutte awaie from our hartes all carnall affeccions lustes appetites contrary to the spirite of GOD. And where as the hande writyng was against vs that is where as the law written called hand written did conuince vs of synne that wee could not deny but we wer synners and for our synne had deserued death and we wer worthie death yet it pleased God onely of his mere mercie and grace to forgeue vs our synnes and to make vs heires of the heauenly inheritaūce and partakers of his glory by Iesus Christe Also where as the lawe did condempne vs for our syn to death it pleased God of his mercie not onely to forgeue vs our synnes but also to take awaie that hande writyng that condēpneth vs for synne to deth and that writyng was the lawe of God written that shewed all men to be synners in the sight of GOD and no man to bee iuste Christe onely excepted in the sight of God and for sinne worthie death The Apostle here vseth a Metaphor of a writyng or of an obligacion made where men be bound to fulfill the writyng or obligacion made This writing is the lawe of God it requireth that all men should fulfill the lawe no manne fulfilled the lawe Christ onely excepted wherefore al men was found by the lawe gyltie worthie death because thei fulfilled not the law that thei were bounde to kepe This lawe Christ not onely for himself but for all them that beleue in hym or shall beleue in hym to the worldes ende did fulfill that it shall not bee imputed to theim that beleue in Christe any trasgression of the lawe for Christ is the fulfiller of the law and we by hym in hym Christ is the perfeccion of the lawe to al thē that beleue in hym Ro. x. 2 He hath fastened it to the crosse Now he sheweth when he deliuered vs from synne and brake in peces the Obligacion that condempneth vs to death for synne it was whē he suffered death vpon the crosse for vs and toke our synnes vpon his backe Esay liii And in that suffryng he ouercame the deuill and all our enemies synne death and hell and the deuill and all wicked spirites whom he calleth here rule and power and in token of victorie he sprede abrode banners of victorie and the spoyles of enemies diuided and did triumph noblely ouer his enemies and that by no other power or mighte but by his awne power and might and strength that al honor and glory should be geuē to God alone and to none other for all victories had ouer our enemies to declare vnto vs by whom and in whose name and power wee shall ouercome oure enemies the deuill the worlde and the fleshe that is in the name of Christe and by Christe alone and not by holy water sprynkelyng or by the sound of an holy bell by a palme crosse holy candle or other sorcery or witcherie as some folishly and supersticiously hath thought for these cānot driue awaie the deuill but rather the deuill is kepte and mainteined by suche false trustes vain hope lies for Christ droue not away the deuill when he was tēpted of the deuill Mat. iiii With holy water holy candle palmes or crosses but by the woorde of GOD resistyng all temptacions of the deuil and so by the woorde of God muste we resist and ouercome the deuill Ephesi vi Therefore let no man iudge you in meate or drynke or in parte of the holy daie as the newe Moone or Sabboth dayes which are shadowes of thynges to come the body verely is of Christ The Apostle semeth here to gather a conclusion of the wordes and sentences goyng before after this maner forasmuche as Christ hath restored you ded to life again and hath circumcised your hartes and forgeuen you all your synnes and takē awaie that hande writyng that condēpned you to death for sin in you ye and also hath ouercomed all your aduersaries that was against you or would haue accused yon and hath had victorie ouer thē And also you in Christ haue all iustice holines wisedome forgeuenes of synne redempcion saluacion life and all perfeccion fredom from al captiuitie of the deuill synne death or hell fire from all seruitude and bondage of the lawe and that by Christe onely that you hauyng and possessyng Christe by true faithe haue no nede of the lawe or workes of it that you should not thynke the lawe necessary to saluacion that is that you should not thynke that without you kepe the lawe and all the Ceremonies of it you could not bee saued as some thought no man could be saued without he were Circumcised in the fleshe accordyng to the old lawe Gene. xvii Commaunded to Abraham and his posteritie duryng the tyme of the law but against that opinion saincte Paule throughout all his Epistles laboreth and sheweth plainly that Circumcision is not necessary to saluaciō but that without Circumcision and workes of the lawe such as beleue in Christe shal bee saued although

as our redempcion reconciliacion remission of sinnes iustice righteousnes before GOD eternall life and felicitie all other giftes of God we receiue by Christ onely of Gods mere mercie and grace and not of our merites or deseruynges or of our workes merites or peticions of sainctes Al fulnes of the father is called to dwel in Christ not the Christ now hath receiued that thyng that he had not before for all goodnes of the father he had before as Ihon .v. saieth As the father hath life in hymself so he hath geuen to the sonne to haue life in hymself as the father raised ded men to life so doth the sonne And. Iho. xviii Christ said to his father glorify me with thy selfe with the same glory that I had before the world was created but all fulnes of the father is called to dwell in Christ that all men should knowe all the goodnes thei haue to come of God by Christe to thē that all that beleueth in Christ shuld not perishe but bee saued and should haue life euerlastyng by Christ with the father 4 And by hym to reconsile all thynges He goeth forwardes describyng what benefites wee haue receiued by Christ he saith that al thynges whiche wer out of Gods fauor to bee reconciled again to Gods fauor and loue as all mē whiche either for their originall sinne or for their actuall synne were out of Gods fauor and had offended GOD should by Christe onely bee reconciled to Gods fauour and haue remission of their synnes and be made partakers of euerlastyng life and that onely by Christe So by Christ alone all thinges in yearth or in heauē be brought again to Gods fauor And you whiche was farre of and enemies in mynde and in euill workes now he hath reconciled you again in the body of his fleshe by death that he should make you without fault without all spottes in his sight Before the Apostle shewed in parte what Christe was now he turneth his sermon to these Colossiās and sheweth what benefite thei haue receiued by Christ and that thei should loue Christ the better bee more thankefull and geue more thankes to God for their health life and saluacion he sheweth what thei wer before thei receiued Christes benefite then thei were farre from life and saluacion from God alienated by many vices and sinnes bothe originall and actuall in harte mynde will iudgement and in many euill workes as in Idolatrie supersticion fornicacion adultery errors and heresies for lacke of knowlege and of Goddes grace and by their naughtie liuyng in the whiche thei wer brought vp in and accustomed from their young age that thei committyng great and abhominable sinnes in the sight of God thei thought themselfes not to synne for thei knewe not what was synne nor the daungier of synne nor yet God their creator and maker Suche ther be many in the worlde brought vp in ignoraunce and blindnes supersticiō and Idolatrie thynketh supersticion and Idolatrie to please GOD well the cause whereof is euill bringyng vp of their parentes without knowelege of God and of his will and not taught to knowe God and his pleasure to bee dooen of vs his creatures and seruauntes as we haue promised in our baptisme by our Godfathers promisyng for vs. And here he sheweth some parte of their states Firste that thei were farre from God from life healthe and saluacion by reason of their ignoraūce and euill bryngyng vp in vice and synne from their yong age vnto that daie thei harde the worde of God preached vnto thē And here wee maie learne not to sticke much to those thinges wherein wee haue been brought vp from our yong age whiche parauenture haue been coumpted vertue and worshippyng of God yet the truth knowen thei haue been supersticion and Idolatrie as was Pilgrimage deckyng giltyng of Images settyng vp of candelles before images also again thei wer farre from GOD and from the house of Israel hauyng no title to claime or chalenge any parte of life or saluacion ye nothyng knowyng or myndyng life and health to perteine to theim that wer Gentiles as is more declared at large Ephe. ii But these that were farre of Christe hath made theim partakers of life and of heauenly ioye blisse and eternall felicitie with God Secondly thei wer enemies to God to their awne saluacion bothe in mynde and in euill woorkes thei had their myndes infected and poysoned with euill opinions errors and heresies euill and wicked iudgementes and full of euill woorkes Seruyng not the liuyng GOD true and iuste but many false Idolles ded Images stockes and blockes and ofte tymes thynkyng themselfes to serue the true and liuyng GOD when thei liued in al supersticion and Idolatry but these enemies Christe hath reconciled again to the fauor of GOD the father in the body of his flesh by death that by death of the Crosse whiche he suffered in his humain body for the redempcion of al bothe Iewe and Gentile that will beleue in him And thus Christes death was a full and sufficient satisfacciō for the synnes of the whole world for all theim that shal be sanctified and saued Hebre. x. 2 That he should make vs holy and blameles and without spottes in his sight Here is shewed for what ende and purpose Christe reconciled vs to the fauor of the father that we should returne again to vice synne and to our old naughtie liuing No no. But that wee should be holy and liue Godly and verteously knowe Gods will kepe it And that we should bee fautles that no notable faute crime or synne might be iustely imputed to vs of menne and that we should so beare behaue our selfes in all oure affaires that wee might be without reprofe that our faith should be so pure and stedfast garnished with all maner of good workes that we ded frō synne should liue to iustice as sainct Peter saieth i. Peter .ii. Here wee maie learne how pure holy a life all men should liue not onely the Bishoppe Pastor and prieste but also all laie men that desireth to bee felowes of saluacion and glory by Christ If you remain in faith groūded and stable and will not bee remoued frō the hope of the Gospell whiche you haue harde that was preached to all creatures vnder heauen of the whiche I Paule am made a minister Nowe he sheweth howe thei shal bee blameles without faute and spott in the sight God that is if thei shal abide in true faith and by no affliccion persecucion prosperitie or aduersitie decline or shrynke from true faith but bee constaunt and stable in it founded vpon Christ the true foundaciō and corner stone cleuyng vnto Christe and to his doctryne And here the Apostle reproueth al vnfaithfull that be doubtfull inconstaunt and waueryng in faith moued and tossed hether and thether with euery wynde and blast and tempest of wether of threatenynges of men or hope of fauor or pleasures of men And specially here is

in whō the whole body by ioyntes and couples ioyned increaseth by the increasemēt of God Here is the cause shewed of their deceipte the cause is that they haue not Christe thei seeke not Christe the hed of the Churche thei haue not Christ alwaies before their iyes thei seke not his glory but their awne glory thei referre not all thynges thei haue receiued to Christ but to other as to angelles to spirites to thē selfes their merites or to the merites of other and not to Christ whiche is our whole health life perfeccion and saluaciō in whō is all goodnes laied vp for vs and without whom there is no goodnes commyng to vs and in Christ all good thynges increaseth to a ful perfecciō and without Christe no good thyng increaseth or cōmeth to perfecciō wherfore if you be ded with Christ from the Elementes of this worlde why as liuyng in the worlde are you holden with such tradicions as though you liued in the worlde Thou shalt not touche thou shalte not taste nor handle whiche all thynges doo hurte to mā because of the abuse of the cōmaundementes and doctrines of menne hauyng a pretense of wisedom by supersticiō and humilitie of mynde and dāmage of the body and not by honor to the satisfiyng of the fleshe Paule moueth these Colossiās to returne no more to thinke the lawe or woorkes of it necessarie to saluacion or dampnable to omit it after this maner If you be ded with Christe from the Elementes of the worlde that is from the lawe and from the Ceremonies sacrifices and Iudiciall commaundemētes why as you were vnder the lawe do you so muche regarde the lawe and thynke you shal bee dampned if you kepe not the Lawe Hath not Christe redemed you And broughte you to healthe to life and to saluacion and to all perfeccion that you nede no help of the lawe to obtein any holines goodnes or any perfecciō The lawe brought you to no holines nor could geue you no holines why wil you then forsake Christ the aucthor of whō all goodnes commeth runne vnto the law and require of it iustice righteousnes that cānot geue to you those thynges Therefore for as muche as the lawe is abrogated by Christe why will ye turne to it again and thynke it necessary for saluacion For by Christe is life and saluacion without all helpe of the lawe As Paule here reproued the Pseudoapostles saiyng no manne could bee saued without the lawe and the woorkes of the lawe and those thynges that were commaunded in the lawe so he reproueth those men that saie men cannot be saued excepte thei kepe mannes tradicions as necessarie for saluacion as Gods commaundementes whiche thyng Christ reproueth in the Phariseis Math. xv Callyng theim Hypocrytes breaking Goddes commaundementes for their tradiciōs whiche thei preferred aboue Gods commaundementes or els made thē equall with Gods commaūdementes Paule here dooth not condempne Ciuill ordinaunces and statutes that proueth Gods woorde and glorie that causeth peace and concorde equitie and iustice and a good ordre emonges the people of God and that moueth men to vertue and godlines all suche lawes or Tradicions he approueth but he will that no Ordinaunce of manne should be preferred aboue Goddes Lawe or made equall with Gods commaundementes nor iustice holines righteousnes to be required of mannes Lawes Tradicions or of Ceremonies inuented and made by man 2 Thou shalte not touche thou shalte not taste thou shalte not handle Paule speaketh here in the persone of Pseudoapostles whiche studie to bryng Christians from Christe to Ieweshnes again saiyng thou shalte not touche vncleane thinges as ded bodies or leprose by the whiche is signified in the lawe synnes or vncleane vices that thei should not be committed thou shalt not tast this meate for it is vnclene and forbidden to be eaten Meates of themselfes was neuer vncleane But thei were called vncleane for twoo causes the one was that the lawe did forbid to eate them and so thei wer called vncleane the other was for significaciō of an vncleane thyng that was signified by it But nowe no maner of meates is vncleane to them that be cleane Tite i. omnia munda mundis All thynges are pure and cleane to theim that bee cleane and are to be receiued with geuyng of thākes to God except Maiestrates do commaunde the contrary or the infirmitie or weakenes of oure brother or oure erronious conscience do will the contrary for these causes a man must abstein from his libertie in meates and not vse it at all tymes Men should not put holines in abstinence from meate or sinne in eating soberly with geuyng of thākes to God for the kyngdome of God is not meate and drynke but iustice peace and ioye in the holy Ghost Rom. xiiiii Euen so it was with vs in tymes paste Was it not forbidden to touche this holy vessell vnder pain of suspension or dedly synne And to eate meate permitted of God was it not coumpted worse then to breake Goddes commaundementes As vpon the Fridaie to eate white meate as egges butter and Chese was estemed as greate an offence as Thefte murder adulterie these was not coumpted so greate an offence before God as to eate fleshe vpon the Fridaie or in Lēt tyme although he that did eate flesh was sicke or by Maiestrates licēsed that was coūpted such a great abhominable offēce before God that GOD could not or rather would not forgeue that offence and suche was more abhorred of menne then he that had committed thefte murder and adulterie but thankes be to God for right knowlege now geuen and let euery one vse their knowlege and Christian libertie to Gods glory to the profite of their neighbors not to satisfie the carnall appetites lustes and desires of the fleshe for if we liue after the fleshe we shal dye Ro. viii But if we shall mortifie the affeccions of the fleshe by the spirite of God we shal liue Ro. viii And optein life eternall Gala. vi 3 All these do perishe in the vse after the preceptes and doctrine of men He speaketh of meates whiche after thei be eaten do perishe that is thei go into the bely and some parte fedeth the body and other part goeth into the excrementes and those meates bryng in synne and death if thei be eaten or absteined fro as necessary for saluacion or coūpted dedly synne to eate theim nowe after the Gospell shewed for it is not the preceptes or doctryne of man that maketh a man holy or vnholy but it is the kepyng of Goddes commaundementes that maketh a man acceptable to God whiche no man can doo without Gods fauor and grace Meate is abused if men do put holines iustice vertue righteousnes life saluacion in meates or in absteinyng frō thē or think synne in eatyng theim soberly with thankes to God as some hath put greate holines in fishe and synne in eatyng of flesh whē as holines before GOD is no more in eatyng of fleshe then