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A02881	An exposition of the whole eight chapiter to the Romaines, expounded by Ihon Hedlambe, preacher and minister to the congregation at Braughin, and student of Diuinitie in Peterhouse at Cambridge, before Maister Doctour Squire, and the whole ministerie assembled at the laste synode, holden at Ware in Lent laste past 1579. Wherein is perfectly proued our iustification to bee by faithe onely, to the beatyng doune and ouerthrowyng of all erronious and false opinions to the contrarie. Seen and allowed	Hedlambe, John.	1579 (1579)	STC 13020; ESTC S112579	16,960	48

¶ An exposition of the whole eight Chapiter to the Romaines expounded by Ihon Hedlambe Preacher and Minister to the Congregation at Braughin and student of Diuinitie in Peter house at Cambridge before Maister Doctour Squire and the whole Ministerie assembled at the laste Synode holden at Ware in Lent laste past 1579. Wherein is perfectly proued our iustification to bee by faithe onely to the beatyng doune and ouerthrowyng of all erronious and false opinions to the contrarie Seen and allowed ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert VValley 1579. To the right woorshipfull maister Thomas Meade one of the Queenes Maisties Iustices of her common Plees at Westminster Ihon Hedlambe wisheth long life with the increase of godlinesse and felicitie THat the good and godlie order of that man of God the right worship full our godlie Archdeacon maister Doctor Squier maie be knowē vnto your worshipp for whō I with the reste of my brethren and fellowe Ministers of the Churche of God are to giue GOD moste hartie thankes for that it pleased GOD to sende suche a faithfull distributer of his woorde to raigne ouer vs Who bothe with godly zeale setteth forthe the truthe and also with greate mildnesse encourageth vs to goe foreward in the same It was his good pleasurs to appointe me though moste vnworthie at his laste Sinode at Ware to open as GOD would blesse me and directe me at that tyme vnto my fellowe Ministers those notes which according to my small capacitie I had collected vpon the viij Chapiter to the Romaines after whiche my rude discourse beeyng ended he did so comfort me to go foreward as was greatly to my ioye and cōsolation in the Lorde wherefore as dutie bindeth me praiyng the Lorde long to cōtinue this our churche of England with hym and many suche faithfull Ministers to God his glorie and their and our greate comfortes not beyng able to speake that he deserueth neither to vtter that in hym whiche my harte doeth conceiue I referre it to your worship others godlie and learned Wherefore now returnyng my baise stile to write vnto your worship as the diuine Philosopher Plato right worshipful did oftē tymes giue thankes to the Angell of his birthe for three thinges first that he was a man and not a beast Secondly that he was a Grecian not a barbarian thirdly that he was borne in the daies of Socrates whiche rhankfulnesse that Heathen Philosopher euen to that God he knewe not and that for worldly transitorie thinges hath pricked me forward though not forgetfull yet vnable to fulfill any part of my dueties to be hartely thankfull to the Father of mercie God of all power whom I truly knowe through Christe Iesus for that he hath created me like vnto hymself sinne onely excepted hath not onely brought me to the pleasant spryng of the hie Helicon but also hath sent me suche a Mecenas who as he is able so is he willyng to further those my studies and labours wherunto God hath called me And seyng right worshipfull that you are that fauorer of my labours in Christ Iesus for whom I am not onely to pray to God but also through his assistaunce in and by my self to shewe some effectes and tokens of my thankfull mynde and knowleging bothe with what loue you embrace the truthe of God his woorde and what fauour you beare to the Ministers of the same as also what delight you take in reading of the same and mixyng the studies therof with other your labours professed I haue here sent vnto your worshippe a breef discourse of the whole viij Chapiter to the Romaines whiche although I haue neither so well pollished drawen suche lineamētes nor added such coulers as other both could and would haue dooen if thei had been appointed to haue spoken in that place Yet as GOD at that tyme did giue me grace and vtteraunce and for the measure of that Spirite whiche he lent me I did breefly bothe in deuidyng and expounding so labour as the shortnesse of tyme wherein I had warnyng and was to speake permitted me whiche my labours if thei be accepted and approued by your worship I trust I shall God his grace assistyng me take suche like or greater paines in some other place of Scripture to the building vp of the walles of the decaied Hierusalem and to the beatyng doune of the kingdome of Sathan bothe in other and also in my self Thus desiryng the God of mercie who raised againe frō death the great Shepherd of his flocke euen Iesus Christe the righteous alwaies to preserue and prospere your worship and yours bothe to his Churche and also to this our common wealthe Thus with due remembraunce of my bounden dueties I cease to trouble your worshippe from Braughin this xxj of Maie 1579. Your worshipps moste bounden in the Lorde duryng life Ihon Hedlambe ¶ The Printer to the gentle Reader WHereas it hath pleased God gētle reader through his holie spirite to moue and directe the author hereof to set doune here for thy comfort an exposition of the whole 8. Chapiter to the Romaines These are to desire thee with humilitie and diligence to read the same and also for the better vnderstandyng thereof to reade ouer the eight Chapiter not doubtyng but that in readyng hereof thou shalte receiue comforte through Gods holie Spirite praiyng vnto hym that he will directe the hartes myndes and pennes of all readers and writers that all their actions maie bee to God his glorie and to the edifiyng of the readers and hearers whiche God graunt for his mercie sake Thus fare thou well in the lorde who euer blesse vs Amen ¶ Octauum caput ad Romanos IT is not as I suppose vnknowen vnto any of you right worshipfull welbeloued brethren and felowe ministers of Gods holie Misteries how and in what order the blessed Apostle S. Paule disputeth against that people whiche in his daies did vexe the Churche with the deuelishe and abhominable doctrine of saluation by their own workes and santification by the vanities of mans braine and yet I haue thought it good at this present breefly to open the whole methode of the same bothe because I feare there bee some here who either haue not perfectly heard or learned the same and other that haue not distinctly taught it as also that I maie by the assistance of Gods spirit and your gentle pacience more plainly set open before you the whole contents of this present scripture to the aduansement of Gods truthe to the true vnderstandyng of his worde and the health of all our soules c. This whole Epistle maie well be deuided into twoo especiall partes the first is of doctrine especially I saie especially because that in the disputation of Doctrine he handeleth other thynges by the waie The seconde of manners And in that first parte whiche is doctrine he disputeth at large of iustification by faythe in the first 8. Chapters And the 9.10.11 Chapters he bestoweth in the confirming of