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A02617	The Iesuites banner Displaying their original and successe: their vow and othe: their hypocrisie and superstition: their doctrine and positions: with a confutation of a late pamphlet secretly imprinted and entituled: A briefe censure vpon two bookes written in answeare to M. Campions offer of disputation. &c. Compiled by Meredith Hanmer M. of Arte, and student in diuinity.	Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.	1581 (1581)	STC 12746; ESTC S103736	58,079	96

of heauen 8. The Iesuites doctrine THE regenerate in this life are able by their workes to attayne vnto the perfection of the Law Censur Colon. Andrad Canis Agayne Whosoeuer shall say that the commaundements of God to the man that is iustified and in the state of grace are vnpossible to be fulfilled let him be accursed Concil Trident. sess 6. canon 18. 8. The Catholikes doctrine THE regenerate in this life cannot by their works attaine vnto the perfection of the Lawe but are found iust before God onely by fayth in Christ Iesus who of God as S. Paule sayth is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnes and sanctification and redemption Wee know that whatsoeuer the Law sayth it saith vnto them that are vnder the Law that euery mouth be stopped and all the worlde be culpable before God Therefore by the workes of the Lawe shall no flesh bee iustified in his sight As many as are of the woorkes of the Lawe are vnder the curse For it is written cursed is euery one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the Law to doe them and that no man is iustified by the woorkes of the Law before God It is euident for the iust shall liue by fayth Whosoeuer yee bee that are iustified by the Lawe yee are fallen from grace For if Abraham were iustified by woorkes hee hath wherein to reioyce but not with God For what sayeth the scripture Abraham beleeued GOD and it was counted to him for righteousnes Nowe is it not written for him onely that it was imputed to him for righteousnes but also for vs. The Israelites beeing ignoraunt of the righteousnesse of GOD and going about to establishe their owne submitted not them selues to the righteousnesse of GOD for Christe is the ende of the Lawe for righteousnesse vnto euery one that beeleeu●●h Againe the wisedome of the fleshe is not subiecte to the Lawe of GOD neither in deede can bee Our sauiour sayde vnto the Iewes did not Moses giue you a Lawe and yet none of you keepeth the Lawe The like hath Saint Paule to the Galathians They them selues which are circumcised keepe not the Lawe Peter sharply rebuked the Pharises which thrust in among the christians the obseruation of the Law and the confidence reposed in the righteousnes which they thought came thereby saying Why tempt ye God to lay a yoke on the Disciples neckes which neither our fathers nor wee were able to beare For wee beleeue through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ to be saued a● they doe The like hath Saint Paule in a large discourse among other thinges saying of Iesus Bee it knowen vnto you men and brethren that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenes of sinnes and from all thinges from which y● could not be iustified by the Law of Moses by him euery one that beleeueth is iustified It is of his fulnes as Iohn sayeth and not of our owne that all wee haue receiued He is the fulfilling of the Law for righteousnes vnto euery one that beleeueth 9. The Iesuites doctrine NOT onely in morall affayres and ciuill actions hath the will of man much sorce but also in matters appertayning vnto saluation so that man can doe nothing vnlesse his will be yelding prompt and readie to receiue the grace of God Censur Colon. Canisius Catechis Andrad Orthodox explic lib. 4. Agayne Whosoeuer shal say that the free will of man after the fall of Adam is lost and extinguished or that it is a thing hauing a bare title or rather a name without the thing and last of al brought into the church as a figment of Satan let him b●e accursed Concil Trident. sess 6. canon 5. 9. The Catholikes doctrine NOT onely in morall affayres and ciuill actions tending to good hath the wil of man little force but also much lesse in matters appertaining vnto saluation so that man can doe nothing that good is vnlesse his will be tempered by the spirit of God to yeeld made prompt and readie to receiue the grace of God No man sayth Christ can come vnto mee vnlesse the Father whiche sent me doe drawe him Agayne sayeth hee vnto the Iewes Therefore sayde I vnto you that none can come vnto mee vnlesse it bee giuen him of my Father Saint Paule saieth No man speaking by the spirite of GOD calleth Iesus ex●●rable Also no man can saye that Iesus is the Lorde but by the holye Ghoste Iohn the Baptist tolde the Pharises that wee●dred at the d●oinges of Christ A man can receiue nothing except it be giuen him from aboue Then let no man bragge neither of will neyther of woorke For what hast thou sayth Sainte Paule whiche thou haste not ●●c●i●●d if thou hast receiued it why doest tho● glory as if thou haddest not receiued it This haue I found s●●●● Solomon that GOD hath made man righteous but they haue sought many inue●tions He that made man from the beginning left him in the power of his counsell and gaue him his commaundementes and preceptes he lay● before him water and fire life and death man chose the woorst yeelded vnto the woman whome the serpent had woon lost his integritie was expelled paradise and inioyned in miserie to till the earth and in the sweat of his browes to eate his bread His power to reach his hande to the tree of life was cut of his libertie of walking in paradise was by his fall stopped his giftes corrupted and himselfe together with his posteritie became the slaues of Satan being brideled with the ●ur●e of sin So that nowe we confesse with Ieren●ie O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe neither is it in man to walk and to direct his steppes Euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue Not I saith S. Paule but the grace of God which is within me Againe Thus I liue yet not I but Christ liueth in mee Not the good which I would doe I but the euil which I hate that doe I. It is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercie Neither is he that plant●th anything neither he that watereth but God that giueth the increase O generation of Vipers saith Christ vnto the Pharises How can you speake good thinges when ye are euil Can the Black●●Moone change his skinne or the Leopard his spottes then may ye also doe good that are accustomed to doe euill saith the Lord. The steppes of man sayth Solomon are ruled by the Lorde howe can a man then vnderstand his owne way Againe The kings heart is in the hand of the Lorde as the riuers of waters he turneth it whither so euer it pleaseth him Therefore is it that the Church calleth most humbly vpon the Lord saying Turne thou vs vnto thee O Lorde and we shalbe turned heale me O Lorde and I shalbe whole saue me and