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A08830	The benefite that Christians receiue by Iesus Christ crucifyed. Translated out of French into English, by A.G. 1573; Dal beneficio di Christo. English	Benedetto, da Mantova, fl. 1534-1541.; Flaminio, Marco Antonio, 1498-1550.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606, attributed name.; Paleario, Aonio, 1503-1570, attributed name.	1573 (1573)	STC 19114; ESTC S120980	53,945	119

word which promiseth forgiuenesse of all sinnes peace to all them which accept the grace of the Gospel Uerely I say that he which vppon theis promises of God perswadeth not himselfe assuredly that god is a mercifull and louing father vnto him nor with stedfast cōfidence loketh to receyue the inheritance of the heauenly kyngdome at his hand is not faythful in dede maketh himself vtterly vnworthie of gods grace In respect whereof sainct Paule sayeth that we be the temple of God so farforthe as we firmely mainteine the confidence and glory of our hope vnto the ende And in another place he exhorteth vs that we shuld not giue ouer our trust which hath great rewarde of recompence And therfore my brethren let vs giue our whole indeuer to do the will of God as it becommeth good children and beware that we sinne not as néere as we can And although we fall oftentimes into sinne through our own frayeltie yet let vs not by and by surmise that we be vessels of wrath or that wée bee vtterly forsaken of the holy Ghoste for wee haue our Aduocate Iesus Christ before God the father and he is the attonement maker for our sinnes Let vs bethinke vs of the opinion of Saint Austin who fayeth that none of the Saincts is rightuouse and without sinne and yit notwithstanding that he ceasseth not to be rightuous and holy so farforth as he retaine his holynesse with affection And therefore if wee haue afflictions and tribulations let vs not think that God sends them bicause he is our enemie but bicause he is our most louing father The Lord sayeth Salomon chastiseth him whom hee loueth and scourgeth euery child of his whom he receyueth Wherfore if we haue receiued the grace of the Gospel whereby man is receiued of GOD for his childe wee muste not doubt of Gods grace and good will towards vs. And when wee perceyue our selues to delight in GODS woord and to haue a desire to followe the life of Iesus Christe wee must stedfastly beleeue that wee bee the children of GOD and the temple of the holy Ghost For those things cannot be done by the power of mans wisedome but are the gifts of the holy Ghost who dwelleth in vs by faith and is as it were a seale of authoritie which sealeth vp Gods promises in our hartes the certeinty wherof is printed aforehand in our mindes and is giuen vs as a pledge to stablish and confirme the same As soone as you beleeue sayth the Apostle Sainct Paule yee be sealed by the holy Spirit of promise who is the earnestpenny of our inheritance Behold howe he sheweth vs heereby that the hartes of the faithfull are marked with the holy Ghost as it were with a seal● in respect wherof he calleth the holy ghost the spirit of promis for so much as he confirmeth the promis of the Gospell the which as I haue oftentimes told you is a happy tydings that promiseth forgiuenesse of sinnes and euerlasting life to all suche as beleeue that all their misdooinges are blotted out in Iesus Christ. All we that beléeue in IESUS Christ sayeth Sainct Paule are becomme the children of GOD and bicause we bée his children hée hathe sent the Spirit of his Sonne into our hart which cryeth Father father And to the Romanes those sayeth he that are guided by the spirit of GOD are the children of God for ye haue not receyued again the spirit of bondage in feare but the Spirite of adoption whereby wee crie father father For certeinly the sam● spirit beareth our spirit record that wée bée the children of god Now then if we be children wée bée also heires And we must marke well that in these twoo places the Apostle Saint Paule speaketh plainly not of any speciall reuelation but of a certeine recorde which the holy Ghost doth commonly yéelde to all such as receyue the grace of the Gospell Then if the holy Ghoste assure vs that we be Gods children and heires why should we doubt of our predestination The same man sayeth in the same Epistle whom hée hath predestinated them hathe hee also called and whō he hath called them hath he also made rightuouse whom he hath made rightuouse thē also hath he glorified What shal we thē say to al these things if god be on our side who can be against vs And therefore if I plainly perceiue that God hath called me by giuing me fayth and the fruiets of faith that is to wit Peace of conscience mortification of the flesh and quickening of the spirit whether it be in whole or in parte why should I doubt that I am not predestinated And moreouer we saye with Sainct Paule that all true christians that is to wit all such as beléeue the Gospell receyue not the spirit of this world but the spirit that commeth from god by the inspiration wher of they discerne the things that God hath giuen them What maruell then is it if wée know that god hath certeinly giuen vs euerlasting life But there are some which saye that no man ought to presume so farre as to boast himselfe to haue the spirit of god They speake in such wyse as if the christiā should glory of the hauing of it for his owne desertes not by the onely mere mercie of God and as though it were a presumptuousnesse to professe him selfe a christian or as though a man could be a Christian without the hauing of Christes spirit or as though we could without flat hipocrisie say that Iesus Christ is our Lord or call God our Father if the holy ghost moued not our hartes tungs to vtter so swéete wordes And yit notwithstanding euen they that count vs presumptuouse for saying that God hath giuen vs his holy spirit with faith forbid vs not to say euery day Our Father but rather commaund vs But I would haue them too tell me how it is possible to separate faith the holy gost asunder séeing that faith is the peculiar work of the holy ghost If it be presumption to beléeue that the holy ghost is in vs why doth sainct Paule bid the Corinthians try them selues whither they haue faith or no affirming them to be reprobats if they know not that Iesus Christ is in them But in very déede it is a great blindnesse to accuse the christians of presumptuousnesse for taking vppon them to glorie of the presence of the holy ghost without which glorying there cannot be any Christianitie at all But Iesus Christe who cannot lye sayeth that his spirit is vnknowen to the worlde that they only do know him within whome he dwelleth Then let them begin to become good christians and put away their Iewish minds imbrace the grace of the holy gospell in good earnest and then shall they know that the good and true christians both haue the holy Ghost and also acknowledge themselues to haue him But

God by the meane of Iesus Christ. O wonderfull glorie of the christian to whom it is graunted through fayth to possesse the vnspeakable benefites which the Angels long to beholde By this present discourse a man may playnly perceiue the difference that is betwixt vs and them that defend y iustification by fayth and work●s togither Herein we agrée with them that we stablish works affirming that the fayth which iustifieth cannot be without good works and that those which are become rightuouse are they that doo the good workes that may rightly be called good workes But we differ from thē in this that we say that faith maketh men rightuouse withoute the helpe of workes And the reason is redy namely bycawse that by fayth wée putte on Christ and make hys holyness and rightuousenesse to bée ours And seyng the cace so standeth that Christes rightuousenesse is gyuen vs by faith Wée cannot be so thanklesse blynde and vnhappye as not to beleue that he is of suffycient abilitie to make vs acceptable and ryghtuouse before god Lette vs saye with the Apostle if the blud of Oxen and Gotes and the asshes of a Cow sprincled clenzeth the vncleane as touching y clenzing of y flesh how much more shal the blud of Iesus Christ who by the euerlasting spirit offered himselfe vndefiled vnto God clenze our consciences from dead workes to serue the liuing God I prey thée now thou good deuout christian consider well which of theis two opinions is the trewest holyest and worthiest to be preached Ours which aduaunceth the benefyte of Iesus Christ pulleth down the pride of man which would exalt his owne works ageinst Christes glorie or the other which by affirming that fayth of it self iusti●ieth not defaceth the glorie and benefyte of Iesus Christ and puffeth vp the pryde of man who cannot abyde to be iustified fréely by our Lorde Iesus Christ without some merit of his owne But saye they it is a gret quickning vp to good works to say that a mā maketh himself rightuouse before good by means of them I answer that we also confesse that good workes are acceptable to god that he of his mere grace and frée liberalitie recompenseth them in Paradise But we say moreouer that no workes are good sauing those y as S. Austin saieth are done by thē that are become rightuouse through fayth bicause that if the trée be not good it cannot yeld good frute And furthermore we saye that such as are become ryghtuouse through faythe forasmuch as they knowe themselues to be ryghtuouse through Gods rightuousnesse purchased by Christe make no bargayning with GOD for their workes as though they would bwy their maner of iustification suche as it is with them but being inflamed with the loue 〈◊〉 GOD and desirouse to glorifie Iesus christ who hath made them rightuouse by giuing them his merites and riches they bestow 〈◊〉 their whole study and labor to doe gods wil fighting manfully against the loue of thēselues and against the world and the Diuell And when they fall throughe frayltie of the flesh thei recouer themselues by and by and are so much the more desirous to doe good so much the more in loue with their God considering that he layeth not their sinn●● to their charge bicause they be ingraffed 〈◊〉 Iesus Christe who hath made full 〈◊〉 for all his members vppon the tree of his crosse and maketh continuall interce●●● for them to the eternal Father who for the loue of his onely begotten sonne beholdeth them alwayes with a gentle countenance gouerning and defending them as his most deare children and in the end giuing them the h●ritage of the world making them like fashioned to the glorious Image of christ These louing motions are the spurs that prick forward y true christiās to do good works who considering y they are become the childrē of god through faith made partakers of his diuine nature are sturred vp by the holy ghost dwelling in thē to liue as it becōmeth y children of so great a lord and are greatly ashamed y they maintein not the beauty of their heauēli noblesse therfore they imploy their whole indeuer to the folowing of their first-born brother Iesus christ liuing in gret low lines méeknesse in al things séeking y glory of God giuing their liues for their brethren dooing good to their enemies glorying in y sufferance of reproches in the crosse of our Lord Iesus christ saying with Zacharie We be deliuered out of the hand of our enimies to serue god without feare in holines and rightuousenesse all the dayes of our life They say with Sainct Paule The grace of the Lord is appeared to abolishe all wickednesse and all worldly desires in vs to the end we should liue a sobre holy and honest lyfe in this world wayting for the blissed hope and for the gloriouse appearing of the great God and Sauiour There such other like thoughtes desires and affections are wrought by inspired fayth in the soules of them that are become right●●use And as for him that either wholly or partly féeleth not these godly affections and operations in his hart but is gyuen ouer to the fleshe and the world let him assure himselfe that hée hath not yit the iustifying faith nor is the member of Christ bicause hée hath not Christes spirit and consequently is none of his and he that is none of Christs is no christian Then let mans wisdome cease henceforth to fight agaynst the rightuousenesse of the most holy faith and let vs giue all the glorie of our iustification to the merits of IESUS Christ with whom we bée clothed thorough faith The fyfth Chapter In what wyse the Christian is clothed with Iesus Christ. ALthough that by the things aforesayd a man may easely and plainly inough perceiue howe a Christian maye cloth himselfe with Iesus Christe yit neuerthelesse I mynde to speake a little of it assuring myselfe that vntoo the good and faythefull Christian it can séeme nether grenouse nor troublesome to speake thereof although the thing were repeted a thousand times Therfore I say that the Christian knoweth that Iesus Christ togither with al his righteousnesse holinesse and innocencie is his owne through faith And like as when a man purposeth to present himselfe before some great Lord or Prince he laboreth to aray himself in some fayre and costly apparell euen so when the christian is decked and arayed with the innocencie of Christ with all his perfection he presenteth himself boldely before God the Lord of all assuring him selfe that through christes merits he is in as good cace as if he had purchaced all that which Iesus Christ hath purchaced and deserued And truely faith maketh euery of vs to possesse Christ and all that is his as we possesse our own garment And therefore to be clothed with Iesus christ is nothing else but to beleue for a certaintie that Christe is wholly