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spirit_n	flesh_n	fulfil_v	law_n	6,597	5	5.9828	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05770	A toile for tvvo-legged foxes Wherein their noisome properties; their hunting and vnkenelling, with the duties of the principall hunters and guardians of the spirituall vineyard is liuelie discouered, for the comfort of all her Highnes trustie and true-hearted subiects, and their encouragement against all popish practises. By I. B. preacher of the word of God.	Baxter, J.	1600 (1600)	STC 1596; ESTC S112228	88,347	250

How the papistes play the traitors against the priesthood of Christ For first demaund of them how the fruites of this originall rancour are washed away they wil tel you by the sufferings of Iesus Christ Wish themselues further to declare their meaning then the diuell sheweth his hornes that before appeared like an Angell and there ariseth by and by a smokie distinction out of the bottomlesse pit Popish distinction of sinnes mortall and veniall of sinnes some mortall some veniall whereby the glorie o● Christ his passion is darkened For veniall sinnes say they deserue but temporall punishment whereof a man by some displeasance of them is washed with an holy water sprinckle or a Bishops blessing or with saying à mea culpa or by some petite penance c. Thus these Catholicke physitions in steed of vsing one purgatiue remedie without which euerie sinne becommeth deadly cast mens soules into a lethargie depriued of all true sense and motion as the emperiall Practickes vse the medicine which they call Narcoticall that is to say Popish distinction of sinnes going before Baptisme and after such as benumme and dead the diseased vntill they become past feeling They haue a second distinction of sinnes going before baptisme and of sinnes committed after as also between the guilt and the paine satisfactorie Popish distinction betwixt guilt plaine satisfactorie and all to this end to derogate from Christes worke of our redemption and to make that which proceedeth from vs of some worthinesse and merit How sinnes going before Baptisme are pardoned according to the schoole of Rome and how after which they call a worke of condignitie As for sinnes going before Baptisme they grant that they are pardoned throughly in regard of the guilt and the paine and that by some meanes of the vertue of the sacred water with the action it selfe of Baptisme But as for the sinnes committed after baptisme the guilt and trespasse is pardoned the paine satisfactorie remaines to be paid partly in this life partly after death but in a coyne which hath the Popes image and superscription In this life by pater nosters Note well aues pilgrimages fastings foundations and other paines imposed in eare confession after death he must pay the remainder in purgatorie Yea but he that is there they say can merit no longer what shall become of the poore soule then Why he must be fetcht out of the fire by praiers and good works of the liuing And what good works are those Masses Requiems Dirges holy water and such great deuotions But how many shall fetch them out They cannot tell that yet they haue taxed seuerall mortall sinnes at a certaine number of daies and yeares But what if he be come out alreadie Tush that is not the losse of a requiem or masse It shall be set vpon the tale of another score to be allowed other But who hath the bestowing of them For sooth the merchant royall of pardōs the Pope holy father Cold comfort for poore papistes But what shall become of the poore that is able to giue nothing to haue these great deuotions after his death Mary he were best to merit well in his life for no peny no Pater noster vnlesse it please the Merchant to bestow an almes of his ouerplusse Then if all this be sound wherto serueth the satisfaction of Christ O sir wot you not why to make all these afore named pretie trinkets auaileable and to send you for a season into purgatorie where as you should haue gone into hell for euer O treason Besides the spirit of lying hath so controuled and countermaunded the obligation once made for all by Iesus Christ that he hath borne men in hand that the same must euery day be really and actually reiterated And whereas the supper of the Lord was ordained True vse of the Lords Supper first that we should be made partakers of that mysticall vnion of Iesus Christ together with all his merits vnto eternall life and secondly to celebrate with solemne thankesgiuing his onely and holy sacrifice once for all made they insteed of this haue thrust in their Masse wherein they say their priestes make a full satisfacton both for the quick and dead Popish priests do more by their Masse then Christ by his merits if you list to beleeue them which Masse of theirs is of greater efficacy then the first oblatiō which the sacrificer himselfe offered vpon the crosse seeing in his as they say the paine satisfactorie is reserued still to be paied but theirs maketh an entire satisfaction O intollerable treason Alas O Lord how long wilt thou beare it The second point of our redemption is sanctification The protestāts doctrine concerning sanctification It is also called regeneratiō or new birth because by it we become new mē as touching the qualities of the soule For as man made not himselfe at the first but the power of God the creator no more is man able to make himselfe a new creature but this is by the power of him who is made vnto vs sanctification 1. Cor. 1.30 For the bringing of this to passe we teach that the corruption of nature in the first Adam is abolished in the flesh of the high priest the second Adam in whom wee being vnited by faith fulfill the law by meerely free imputation 1. Cor. 1.30 Secondly the Lord Iesus Christ drawing vs vnto him by his holy spirit formeth in vs both to will and to doe Ephe. 1.18 Psal 51.12 2. Cor. 5.17 Act. 26.18 Ephes 5.8 enlightening the eies of our vnderstanding framing a cleane heart within vs making vs from the head to the foot new creatures bringing vs out of darkenes into light and from death vnto life Altogether the Catholicke Sophistes contradict this truth Ephes 2 1.5 The sophists absurdities touching new birth teaching that our nature is not wholly slaued vnto sinne but onely feebled by the fall of the first man And so they make our nature but like a lame man and the grace of God as a paire of crutches to establish their owne merits Againe they say that originall sin is really abolished by the water of outward baptisme with the words and the Chrisme c. as much say they of actuall sinnes going before baptisme Note well and loth them in those that are of ripe discretion before they be baptised prouided alway that they be not in mortall sinne Thus first they see not our originall malady Secondly they sophisticate the remedie both in making a miserable mingle-mangle of mans pure naturals Gods supernaturall grace Thirdly in giuing power to a sound of words sprinkling of water And lastly in substituting their own toies in the place of the Lord Iesus Fie on thē presumptuous traitors Protestants doctrine touching Christ his intercession There is yet his intercession which is so called because the vertue and power of his sacrifice is alwaies before God Secondly