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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

God the father whereby we fulfill the lawe And men by grace fulfilling the lawe doe merite their saluation But forasmuch as this grace cannot be geuen vs but by faith in the death merite of Christ Iesus therfore we say that by grace infused into vs by faith in Christ good works are wrought which are not now our works but the workes of grace and those workes merit saluation Who is able to ouerthrowe this Bulwarke buylded vpon so sure a rocke which being so profound is not possible for a man to vndermine the depth nor come neare the toppe thereof being so high But the God of heauen will with the breth of his mouth ouerthrow such wicked blasphemie whereupon by the helpe of whose power thus I aunswere that this is but a subtle cauill and vntruely spoken to say that they be not our works For although that by grace we receiue the holy Spirite of God who by his mighty power mightely stirreth vp our hearts replenished with faith in Christ Iesus to worke such charitable works as are prescribed in Gods booke though yet vnperfectly perfourmed on our parts yet can it not be saide but that they be our works euen as faith is saide to be our faith which wee receiue by grace As for example who will doubte of the woman which was diseased with an issue of bloud twelue yeares hauing a strong faith in Christ Iesus but that she had the same by grace And yet Christ saide vnto her thy Faith hath made thee whole here you see that Christ called it her faith though shee had the same by grace so of works they be our works though they be done by grace But let it be graunted for trueth that by the grace of God we being renouated receiue the holy spirite of God who worketh in vs all good things yea all the good workes that are wrought by man according to the saying of Saint Paul who saith It is God that worketh in you both the wil and the deede euen of his good pleasure And that wee could not haue obteyned grace from GOD the Father but by faith in the death and merite of Christ Iesus so that they are not now to bee called our workes but the workes of grace Let all this that is saide be graunted yet that by fulfilling of the law by the same grace we merite saluation that is vtterly false and repugnant to the word of God For Saint Iohn saith Beholde the Lambe of God which taketh awaie the sinnes of the world The sinnes of the worlde being taken away what followeth then The kingdome of heauen and saluation to them whose sinnes are taken away by the slaine Lambe Christ Iesus But it is not saide Beholde the good workes of grace which take away the sinnes of the worlde but Behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the worlde Then it is only Christ that meriteth heauen for vs by taking away our sinnes and not the workes of grace nor our fulfilling of the Law And why is hee called a Lambe because of his innocencie For Saint Peter saith He is a Lambe vndefiled and without spot And because hee was to be sacrificed and slaine as a sheepe to the slaughter He was innocent and as the Prophet saith He did neuer violence nor vnrighteousnes neither hath there beene any deceitfulnesse in his mouth He was without sin deserued not to die but he dyed therfore for something Trueth he died for our sins which were laid vpon him for Esay saith The Lord threw them al vpon him and so made him to be sinne for vs which knevve no sinne But by imputation were they made his sinnes And our sins being thus taken from vs and laide vpon him death had therby power ouer him which slewe him for our sinnes So that as by imputation Christ was made the only sinner for the elect and therfore dyed so are all the elect by imputatiō made as innocent Christ. And Christ clothing his elect with his innocencie God the Father beholdeth them no more as sinners to damnation but as Christ Iesus because Christ hath washéd cleane away in Gods iudgement all the filth of sinne from vs with his precious bloud which he hath shed vpon the crosse so as the filthy Chanelraker polluted with the filth of the Chanel durt is by the Barber washed cleane that no spot thereof is to bee seene so hath Christ out blessed Barber washed away all our filth the durt of sin in such sort as our heauenly father for his Christes sake beholdeth them no more And Christ once dying for the sinnes of his elect accordinge to the purpose of God in his secreate counsell before the creation of the world which purpose could not be altered but must stand still for euer hath thereby onely merited saluation for vs then is it great blasphemy to maintaine such an heresie which doth cut away the cause of our saluation by the only death and passion of Christ our Sauiour and attributeth the same to me rites and works by grace whereby they haue made the works of the lawe to put Christ cleane out of office in the merite of our saluation and only the workes of the lawe which are wrought by Faith and grace to be the meane to merite the same And Christ by his death and passion but only the cause of grace who in deede is the onely effectuall cause in the merit of our saluation so that the works of the Lawe and Grace haue no parte in the cause therof but only as effects do de clare vs to be the elect of God Saint Luke saith Feare not litle flock for it is your fathers plesure to giue you a king dome To giue you a kingdome see here is the kingdome of heauen giuen vs and that which is giuen cannot be said to bee bought or merited and if it were either bought or merited it cannot be said properly nor rightly to be geuen Then being geuē vs we by the works of the law and grace haue not merited it And so are we not iustified by them before God so the proposition that the workes of grace or the deedes of the law doe merit or iustifie before God is false though they be wrought through faith by the power of the holy Ghost and by grace because it is the proper office of Christ immediatly that is to say without any o ther mean or cause to purchase mans saluation and not the office of the holye Ghost by grace working in man for saluation coulde not bee purchased but by death and the holy Ghost coulde not die but Christ only by taking our flesh was lead as a sheepe to be slaine and made a sacrifice for sinne Therefore Christ is the onely purchaser of our saluation Neither doe the workes of the Law iustifie vs before God nor merite saluation for vs though they bee done after grace receiued But with what face can you O

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

receiueth all thinges in good part And whersoeuer anie fault shall be committed freendly to amend it with thy pen and especially for the pointing thereof And for the marginal notes and quotations also the like ouersights as before are cōmitted wherfore good reader blame not the author without cause either for the one or for the other A greater volume thou maiest haue but a learneder treatise for the substance therof I perswade my selfe is hard to find Thus putting thee in mind of the old adage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is easier to find fault and to carpe than to imitate or amend I commit thee to God who blesse thee with the knowledge of his truth Thine in the Lord Phillippe Stubbes●… Faultes escaped in the printing   Page Line Faulte Correction C. 1●… 〈◊〉 for first read first Adam F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for worke of the law read works of the law F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which make read which walke A TREATISE OF Faith and works GOD by his eternall wisdome in his secrete counsayle before the foundatiō of the worlde decreed the creation of the same world And in that his secret counsell determined to make mankinde and also appointed a number certeine howe manie hee wold create before the end of the world and that the world should not end before that number certein were accomplished euen to the last person God decreed so to make man in his first creation as that he should bee perfect good and shoulde haue free wil that if he would he might stand and abide in that perfect goodnesse and not fall from the same and so neuer to be dampned But God foresawe thatnotwithstanding he wold make man the purest creature aboue all that hee would make vnder the compasse of the heauens and woulde giue him free will power and strength to keepe himselfe from falling if hee would yet notwithstanding he would fall and breake the commaundement which God woulde giue him wherby both himselfe and his whole posteritie should fall into the state of damnation and so the iustice and wrath of God should take holde and bee powred vpon al mankind for his so transgressing the onely cause of all their corruption The mercy and loue of GOD foreseeing this fall of man and perpetuall death for the same by the iust iudgement of God preassed forward and as it were pleaded against the iustice and wrath of GOD That though by the fall of a first Adam sin entered and the whole posteritie of mankind shuld bee brought into the state of damnation for in Adam all do die Euen so by the death of a second Adam Christ Iesus mankinde is to bee recouered bought made righteous and redeemed frō the paine due by that fal Which loue and mercie in God being as high or higher in dignitie then his iustice is to haue as great or greater interest in man then his iustice And the power of mercie is as well to be showed on man as the power of iustice But iustice replied that death must fall vpon mankinde for transgressing For the reward of sin is death and therfore iustice otherwise could not be answered but by death The mercie and loue of God to make a full agrement for mankinde and by iustice to satisfie the iustice of God ordeining That we shuld be made the righteousnesse of GOD in Christ. Graunted that death by death should be redeemed and that by innocent death euen the death of the verie sonne of God VVho onelie should take on him our infirmitie and beare our paines by whose stripes we should be healed And he shoulde bee the redeemer in iustice by death to satisfie the iustice appease the wrath of God Wherevpon the iustice and wrath of God being therewith aunswered and the elect freed from the same iustice and wrath of God The Lorde in mercie and loue decreed in the same his secrete counsell to giue vnto the redeemer those whome before they were he had bought and made sure to himselfe by a price which hee woulde giue in the appointed time before set downe in the secret counsell of God And those whome before they were he had bought chosen were vnto him certeinelie knowne the number certeine and euerie particular person hee knewe before they were For God was not ignorant thereof neither can there be ignorance in God neither would he redeeme those whome he knew not In the fulnes of time the word being the secōd person and verie God of verie God tooke flesh made of the substance of the virgin Marie in which flesh liuing here vpō the earth he fulfilled the whole law to the vttermost Who did not sin neither was their guile found in his mouth Thē to satisfie the iustice of God for that number which were before they were created elected and chosen to be saued The same flesh being man ioyned to the Godhead and so one Christ laide vpon himselfe and bare all the whole burthen of sin in his bodie on the tree done from the first to the last end of the world by all his elect Thus bearing all our sinnes hee being yet an innocent lambe was slaine and hanged vpon the crosse suffering before diuers tormentes and passions And when the vttermost peny for mans ransome was paid Christ hanging vpon the crosse a little before his death saide It is finished That is to say all the prophesies which were prophesied of me by all the Prophetes from the first to the last are fulfilled And with all I haue finished the woorke which was giuen me to doe of my Father I haue satisfied the iustice and wrath of my heauenly father against the sinnes of mine elect I haue paid their full ransome I haue redeemed all from eternall death haue for euer destroied death and hell for them Death is swallowed vp in victory So that now there is no more to be laide against them nor to bee done for the redeeming of them from their sinnes all is finished The elect of God being thus redeemed And elected before the foundation of the world before they were or had done either good or euill And that of a certeintie infallible without alteration of purpose and without repentance by God in any respect in his secret counsell For in God there is no repentance nor alteration of any thing decreed in his secret counsell but his purpose standeth firme and stable for euer This election being thus in certeintie determined the number persons certeinlie knowne to God by name set downe writtē in the booke of life by the finger of God not one of them to be lost For Christ said those whome thou gauest me haue I kept none of them be lost but the lost child that the scriptures may be fulfilled Nor anie one to be added therevnto but the decreed number to stand full without alteration of the same or any person therof because that God is altogither perfect wisedome