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A40368	King Jesvs is the beleevers prince, priest, and law-giver, in things appertaining to the conscience, Isai. 55.4. Heb. 7.17. Jam. 4. 12. Or, The loyall spouse of Christ hath no head, nor husband, but royall King Jesvs. Written by Francis Cornwell, a minister of Jesus Christ, out of the learned workes of Mr. John Fox in his book of Martyrs, excepting onely some explanations of his owne, for the benefit of the reader.	Cornwell, Francis.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.	1645 (1645)	Wing F2041; ESTC R208105	18,659	46

heresie that hath either rebelled more presumptuously against the high Majesty of God the Father nor more perniciously hath injured the soule of the simple than this doctrine The first inconvenience It subverteth the Will and Testament of God For whereas Almighty God of his mercy hath given us his Sonne Jesus Christ to dye for us and with him hath given out a full promise That whosoever beleeveth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 3. 16 36. by their faith onely and assigneth no other condition either of the Law or any mans workes but onely faith to be the meane between his Sonne Jesus Christ and us these men take upon them to alter this Testament that God hath ratified in the bloud of his Sonne and adjoyne other conditions which the Lord in his word never appointed nor knew To whom the words of Ierome may be well applied upon the Epistle to the Galathians speaking of such Qui de Evangelio Christi faciunt hominis vel quod pejus est diaboli c. That is Which make of the Gospel of Christ the Gospel of men or rather the Gospel of the devill c. The second inconvenience Whereas the Christian Reader in the Gospel reading of the great grace and sweet promises of God given unto mankind in Christ Jesus his Sonne might thereby take much comfort of soule and bee at rest and peace with the Lord his God cometh in the pestiferous doctrine of these Heretikes wherewith they obscure this free-grace of God to choke the sweet comforts of man in the Holy Spirit and oppresse Christian liberty and bring us into spirituall bondage which Christ by his precious death hath freed us from Gal. 5.1 The third inconvenience As in this their impious doctrine they shew themselves manifest enemies to the grace of God tendered to us in Christ by interposing their owne righteousnesse of workes with the righteousnesse of faith and so make the death of Christ of none effect Gal. 2. 21. If righteousnesse come by the law then Christ is dead in vaine So are they no lesse injurious to Christian men that beleeve in him for life and salvation whom they leave in a doubtfull distrust of Gods favour and of their salvation contrary to the word and will of God and right institution of the Apostolicall doctrine Whereas our new School-men of late to maintaine this said wicked point of doctrine doe object unto us that wee rather leave mens consciences uncertaine for as much as if life say they were not a due reward it were uncertaine And now for as much as a due debt is certain and mercy and favour is uncertain therefore say they wee leaving mens consciences to the mercy of God doe leave them in a doubtfull uncertainty of their salvation To this I answer that due debt if it be proved by the Law duly deserved it must be certaine but if the Law shall prove it imperfect or unsufficiently due then it is not certaine neither can there be any thing duly claimed Now as touching mercy so long as it remaineth secret in the Prince of life Christ Jesus and not knowne to his subjects that beleeve and obey him so long it is uncertaine but when this mercy shall be openly published by proclamation Esay 55. 1 2,3 Ioh. 7. 37. Revel. 22. 17. Let him that is athirst come And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely ratified by an oath and a promise That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye we might have a strong consolation Heb. 6. 17 18. confirmed by his last Will and Testament established in bloud that the promise of pardon and forgivenesse of sinne may be sure to all that beleeve For a mans Testament is of force after a man is dead Heb. 9. 17. and sealed inwardly by the Spirit to the conscience Rom. 8. 16. and outwardly by the Sacrament of Baptisme and the Lords Supper which are to us that beleeve as the rain-bow was to the old world a token that God will destroy the world with water no more Gen. 9. 14 15 16 17. so God hath sworne to us in his Sonne that hee will not be wroth with us nor rebuke us For the mountaines shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindnesse shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee Esay 54. 9 10. For I will be mercifull to their unrighteousnesse and their sinnes and their iniquities will I remember no more Heb. 8. 12. Then this mercy remaineth no more doubtfull but ought firmly to be beleeved of every faithfull subject to King Jesus Therefore Saint Paul to establish our hearts in this assurance and so to give a full answer to this doubt in his Epistle to the Romanes doth teach us saying And therefore of faith that it might bee by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that onely which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all Rom. 4. 16. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if wee beleeve on him that raised up Iesus our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our offences and was raised againe for our justification Vers. 23 24 25. meaning hereby that workes have nothing to doe in this case of justifying and noteth the reason why for then our salvation should never be certaine but stand in a doubtfull wavering because in working we are never certain whether our workes and deserts be perfect and sufficient in Gods judgement yea or no and therefore saith Saint Paul to the intent our salvation should be out of doubt and certain it standeth not of works in deserving but of faith in apprehending and of Gods free grace in promising life and salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord The fourth inconvenience As in this their sinister doctrine they break this Principle of Christian Religion which saith that a man is justified by faith without workes Rom. 3.28 so again it breaketh another Principle namely that to the word of God neither must we adde nor take from it Deut. 4.2 For this rule being granted that nothing is to be added to Gods word nor taken from it then have these men done wickedly in adding as they doe to Gods word for whereas Gods word limiteth to our justification no condition but faith Saint Paul speaking to the cruell Jailor that beat the Apostle demanding of him in the bitternesse of his spirit Sirs good Sir what must I doe to be saved replied Beleeve saith he on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thine house And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house And he took them the same hour of the night

When the children of Israel were bid of Moses to look up to the brasen serpent neither could the serpent have helped them except they had looked up nor yet their looking upward have profited them unlesse they had directed their eye unto the said brasen serpent as the onely object set up of God for the same purpose for them to behold so all poore sinners are commanded in the Gospel to look up to Jesus whom they have pierced Zech. 12. 10. now a crucified Jesus cannot help them except they looke up nor yet their beleeving or looking upward cannot profit them unlesse they direct the eye of their faith unto the said crucified Jesus as the onely object set up of Gods free grace for them to behold Iohn 3. 14. Thus our faith directed by Gods own Spirit Zech. 12. 10. to the body of Jesus crucified is the onely meanes whereby Christs merits are applied to us and we now justified before God according to the doctrine of Paul who in expresse words defining what this faith is and how it justifieth saith If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and shalt beleeve in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved Rom. 10. 9. Besides this what action or quality soever is in man either hope charity or any other kind of faith or beleeving be it never so true except it apprehend this object which is the body of Christ the Sonne of God that loved us and gave himselfe for us it serveth not to justification And that is the cause why wee adde this particle onely to faith and say that Faith onely in Christ justifieth us to exclude all other actions qualities Thus farre Mr. Fox the Writer addes qualifications marks signes evidences of sanctification as poverty of spirit mourning for sinne hungring and thirsting after Christ love to the brethren universall obedience or gifts or workes of beleevers as repentance for sinne or any other acts of humiliation fasting praying weeping mourning or reformation or deed of charity from the cause of justifying But you destroy qualifications markes signes and evidences of sanctification Doe I destroy qualifications c. because I will not make them causes of my justification Markes signes and evidences of sanctification flow from faith and not faith from them they are the fruits as I may so speake of a justifying faith and declare what kind of faith it is that justifieth namely repenting faith working faith They shall look upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourne over him as one mourneth for an onely sonne and shall be in bitternesse for him as one that is in bitternesse for his first-borne Zech. 12.10 Because nothing can expiate my sinne but the bloud of my Christ therefore I repent But a good tree is knowne by his fruit Mat. 7.17 To others not to it selfe for if the good tree could speake it would say I am not a good tree because I beare good fruit but by vertue of my union with my good root I bring forth good fruit So we are not good men because wee shew forth to others these markes signes qualifications and evidences of our sanctification as poverty of spirit mourning for sinne hungring and thirsting after Christ c. but by vertue of our union with our good root the Lord Jesus wee bring forth this good fruit Iohn 15. 5. I am the Vine and yee are the branches hee that abideth in mee and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without mee yee can doe nothing These Objections and the Answers were inserted by the Writer to shew that though hee deny markes signes qualifications and evidences of sanctification as causes of justifying yea and he utterly denyeth them to be the first evidence of Justification for that were to robbe faith of his prerogative Heb. 11. 1. Faith is the evidence of things not seen though hee deny them à priori yet hee acknowledgeth them à posteriori from the effects as a secondary witnesse and as an evidence that the spirit of Jesus dwelleth in you of a truth which causeth this life and fruit of holinesse so to abound in you Thus farre the Writer declareth his judgement Now to Mr. Foxes words againe For so much as there is no other knowledge nor gifts of men given of God to man be it never so excellent can stand before the judgement of God unto justification of a poore sinner or whereunto any promise of salvation is annexed but onely this faith looking up to this spirituall Brasen Serpent that is to the body of Christ Jesus for us crucified Zech. 12. 10. As for example When the Turke saith that hee beleeveth in one living God that made heaven and earth his beleefe therein is true yet it justifieth him not because it lacketh the right object which is Christ Jesus crucified So when the Jew saith that he beleeveth in one God maker of heaven and earth and beleeveth also the same God to be omnipotent mercifull just and true of promise and that hee hath elected the seed of Abraham true it is that hee beleeveth and yet all this serveth him not because Jesus Christ crucified the Sonne of God is not joyned with all And though the said Jew should be never so devout in his prayers or charitable in his almes or precise in keeping the Law and beleeve never so stedfastly that hee is elect to be saved yet hee is never the nearer to salvation for all this so long as his faith is not grounded upon the head Corner-stone which is the person and body of Jesus Christ the true Saviour seeing there is salvation in none other Acts 4. 12. After like sort it may be said of the Papist when hee saith that hee is baptized and beleeveth in the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost three Persons and one God and also confesseth that Jesus is the Sonne of God which died for our sinnes and rose againe for our righteousnesse c. his beleefe therein is true and indeed would save him if hee did stay his salvation in this faith and upon Christ his Saviour onely according to the promise and grace of God and goe no further but that hee doth not for neither doth hee admit Christ onely to be his perfect Saviour without the help of Patrons Deeds Advocates and Mediatours nor yet permitteth his faith in Christ onely to be the meanes of his justification but setteth up other by-meanes as hope charity Sacrifice of the Masse confession pennance satisfaction merits and pardons supposing thereby to worke his justification before God contrary to the word of promise Iohn 3.16 and to the Gospel of grace Gal. 3. 8. Thus farre Mr. Fox Now the Writer inserteth a few words Thus the Papists declare from what stock they spring even from Iezebel of Rome the mother of all fornication that hath the true character of an harlot 1 King 3. 26. that can be content with a divided Christ But

and washed their stripes and was baptized hee and all his straight-way And when hee had brought them into his house he set me at before them and rejoyced beleeving in God with all his house Act. 16. 30,31,32 33,34 these Justiciaries doe adde thereunto divers and sundry other conditions besides and such as the word of God precisely excludeth as hope charity works of mercy to the poore needy brethren the sacrifice of the Masse the worke of the Priest ex opere operato auricular confession satisfactions meritorious deeds or any other qualities or qualifications or acts of humiliations which are laid down as causes to be annexed unto the bloud of Christ in point of Justification These things all true beleevers now esteeme them with St. Paul filth and dung that they may gain Christ and be found in him not having their own righteousnesse which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Phil. 3. 8,9 And thus much concerning the doctrine of Faith and Justification whereby it may appear to what horrible blindnesse and blasphemy the Church of Rome is now fallen where this kind of doctrine is not onely suffered but also publikely professed with speaking against faith thus blaspemously dare say Fides illa qua quis firmiter credit certo statuit propter Christum sibi remissa esse peccata seseque possefsurum vitam aeternam non fides est sed temeritas non Spiritus sancti persuasio sed humanae audaciae praesumptio That is That faith whereby a man firmly beleeveth and certainly assureth himselfe that for Christs sake his sins be forgiven him and that he shall possesse eternall life is not faith but rashnesse not the perswasion of the holy Spirit but presumption of mans boldnesse Ex Lindano in epitome doctrinae Evangelicae This Relation as farre as it is Mr. Foxes is truly word for word set down unlesse some doubtfull phrase were explained by the Writer for the benefit of the curteous Reader and hath excepting the explanations been seven times publikely Printed by Publike Authority Mr. Foxes Touchstone to know Truth from Error by certaine Principles and generall Verities grounded upon the truth of Gods word The first Principle AS sin and death came originally by the disobedience of one to all men of his generation by nature so righteousnesse and life cometh originally by the obedience of one to all men regenerated of him by faith and baptisme Rom. 5. chap. Ioh. 3.5 II. The Promise of God was freely given to our first Parents without their deserving that The seed of the woman should breake the serpents head Gen. 3.15 III. The Promise was given freely to Abraham before hee deserved any thing that In his seed all Nations should be blessed Gen. 12.3 compared with Gal. 3.8 IV. To the word of God neither must wee adde nor take from it Deut. 4.2 V. Hee that doth the works of the Law shall live therein Levit. 18. Gal. 3.12 VI Accursed is hee which abideth not in every thing that is written in the book of the Law Deut. 27. Gal. 3.10 VII God onely is to be worshipped Deut. 6. Luke 4. VIII All our righteousnesse is like the defiled or polluted rags Esay 64. 6. IX In all my holy hill they shall not kill nor slay saith the Lord Esay 11.9 X. God loveth mercy and obedience more than sacrifice Hos. 6.6 1 Sam. 15.22 XI The Law worketh anger condemneth and openeth sin Rom. 3.20 XII The end of the Law is Christ for righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth Rom. 10. 4. XIII Whosoever beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved Mar. 16.16 XIV A man is justified by faith without workes freely by grace not of our selves Gal. 2.16 Ephes. 2.8 XV There is no remission of sins without bloud Heb. 9.22 XVI Whatsoever is not of faith is sinne Rom. 14.23 Without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 XVII One Mediatour between God and man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. And hee is the propitiation for our sinnes 1 Ioh. 2.2 XVIII Whosoever seeketh in the Law to be justified is fallen from grace Gal. 5.4 XIX In Christ be all the promises of God Est Amen 2 Cor. 1.20 XX Let every soule be subject to superiour Powers Rom. 13. 1. Giving to Cesar that which is Cesars and to God that which is Gods Mat. 22.21 These Principles and infallible rules of the Scripture as no man can deny so if they be granted the doctrine then of the Popes Church must needs be found not to be Catholike but rather full of Errors and Heresies Fox in the book of Martyrs Tom. 1 pag. 22 these are recorded and have been seven times publikely imprinted Soli Deo Gratia FINIS Rom. 7. 4. Object Answ. Object Answ. Object Answ. Rom. 7.25 Rom. 7. 7. Object Answ. Object Answ. Object Answ. Mat. 5. Luk. 6. Rom. 5.1 Gal. 2.20 Object Answ.