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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11430	A letter to the trew professors of Christes Gospell, inhabitinge in the parishe off Allhallowis, in Bredstrete in London, made by Thomas Sampson, sometyme their pastore	Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1554 (1554)	STC 21683; ESTC S116470	12,610	27

they wander enwrapped in laberin these inextricable They erre in extenuating synne bothe originall and actuall / in not vnderstādinge the lawe / the force of it I meane nor the ende of it / in makynge a Iustification / partly of Christes grace / partelye of mans free wil / good mocyons and good worckes / and herein they so enwrappe theym selfes with their termes of the fyrst grace / Toyes for an ape too play vvith all the seconde grace / grace presidente / grace concomitatinge / grace folowinge / with merite of congruence / and merite of condignitie / that neither vnderstande thee trewe iustificacion / neither canne other men vnderstande what they do meane by their Iustificatiō But their doctrine is too bringe men into a continuall doubtynge of saluacion / and leadeth them cleane from that free Iustificacion / whiche we haue in Iesus Christe But you my brethren haue out of the scriptures receyued / and I truste by the practyses of youre owne conscyences haue tasted ☞ That by nature ye are the chyldren of wrath of your selfs as of your selfs that ye are but suche a lompe of synne / that in you dwelleth no good thynge For whyche the lawe iustely condempneth you as gilty of Goddes curse and wrathe / and so dryueth you too Christe By whose grace ye be frely iustified By whose bloudde sheddynge / onely and alone / the attonemente is nowe made made betwene God and you / whiche you beleuing are made the heires of blessinge / of whiche your consciences by fayth beinge assured by the worke of Gods spirite / Rom. 5. ye be at peace with God / because ye do feale euen in your hartes by liuelye perswasion off fayth / that Christ hath loued you / and geuen hym self for you / Ephe. 5. for whose onely sake ye are iustefied and saued Which you thus felinge / are ledde by thesame spirite that worketh thys in you too render vnto God the sacrifice of your body / in liuing doing those workes / which in hys sight are acceptable / and that in a fredom and libertie off the spirite / I meane no fleshely libertie / but that libertie of the spiritie / by whiche we darre drawe nye vnto the seate of Goddes grace / calling hym Abba father / that libertie that subdueth the libertie of the fleshe / and maketh it captiue bonde too serue the spirite In which you also walkinge / when ye haue done all that ye can do / yf ye coulde do all that is commaunded you too do / yet seinge all mans righteousnes is but as a defyled clothe / ye seke not thereby the perimplishment of your Iustificacion Which is all redy fully geuen you in Christes Iesus / ye loke not to the merite of your good workes but on your part knowing your owne want and imperfection / Luc. 17. yea / and synne euē in the best ye do / ye saye we are vnprofitable seruauntes commending all your doinges to the grace of God thorowe Christe / that by hym they maye be made pure on Godes parte considering / that the good ye do / is the worke of his spirite in you / which worketh in all men / bothe to will to do / ye do geue vnto hym the glory / seyng by his grace onely / ye are that good that ye are Neuertheles / yet this also ye knowe that the Lord / Good vvorkes whiche through Christe hath accepted you vnto his grace / doth of the same grace in Christe / accept these youre workes into hys fauour / as iust perfect and good Whiche though they be the woorkes of hys spirite in you / yet is he content to haue thē called and estemed as yours / and as youres dothe he of hys owne fre grace reward thē bothe in this lyfe / and in the lyfe to come In this that I haue thus spoken / you se the force of synne originall and actuall / the force and ende of the lawe / the power of mans free will / the trew iustification / mās regeneracion / and the life / fruictes perfection of Gods regenerate chylde By which ye may the more easely perceaue how farre the papistes wander from the truthe of iustification / by which they drawe men into a desperate doubting of saluacion / whyche who so liketh / let them taste therof Here is occasion also geuen me to warne you of all those meanes that they haue taught too be meritorius to deserue Gods grace / as workes of superrogaciō / workes done of a good entent / fish fastes / vowes / pylgrimages / pardons / Conterfa●ts good vvorkes and suche like Popish trashe / which though as yet perchaūce they dare not teathe / yet haue they taught / and will hereafter teache it But against all such / I accōpt you sufficiently armed / if ye holde fast thys that our onely merite a valiable before god / is the merite of Christ / whiche he frely geueth / and God for his onely sake frelye imputeth to all trew beleuers / which is vnto them full perfyt / and sufficient merit / righteousnes / sanctification / saluacion The intercession of sainctes They teache also inuocacion of sainctes / to make them mediators / if not too God for vs / yet vnto Christe to speake the better for vs. 1. Tim. 2. The scripture teacheth playn / that betwen God and man / there is but one mediator / the man Iesus Christ / who therfore became man / that for men he alone should make intercessiō / as for mans redēpcion he alone did dye Ioan. 15 Wherefore euen he also teacheth mē to call vpō the father in hys name / promising to suche that they shall be harde Prayer abused amonge the papistes 1. Cor. 14 Prayer abuse they not onely in a straūge tonge / contrary to the doctrine of Paule / whiche will haue all thinges done in the cōgregacion / to the edifyeng thereof in supersticious numbring of a certayne number of Psalmes / or Pater nosters / of whiche because the people shal be sure / Math. 6 they teache thē the vse of beades / contrarye vnto whiche Christ our Sauiour taught / condemninge it as a phariseicall supersticion / when for their much clatering sake / they thinke them selfes to be hard Prayenge for the dead But also they teache and defend prayeng for the dead / to be charitable and propiciatory Apoc. 14 Where as yet the scripture teacheth / that they that dye in the Lorde / are insolace and blessednes As then they nede not our prayers / so our prayers can adde noughte vnto their blessednes Avvaie vvith ioure purgatorij rakers and four masses of Requsē And on the contrary parte they that dye wickedlye / haue no remedye euerlastingly So that on all partes / thys kynde of prayer is in vayne The wother being in moste blessed saftie / and with these the tyme of health