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A03906	A sermon preached at S. Maries in Oxford vpon the feast of Epiphany concerning the true comfort of God his Church truly millitant and apologie of the same. Ianuary 6. 1589. By Edwarde Hutchins Maister of Arts, and fellow of Brazen-nose College in Oxford.	Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.	1589 (1589)	STC 14015; ESTC S104318	17,227	32

flesh but sanctifieng according to the power of his godhead or as Origen speakes qui sanctus est non efficitur who is a saint not made a saint or as Abbat Theonas qui sanctus est nay not only that but immaculatus not onely a saint as the godly now be but a saint without sin which the godly for the time of this life cannot bee then charge me with sin otherwise as verily as christ my Christ was foule and al foul because sin for me 2. Cor. 5. Ciril tom 1. pag. 235. so am I not foul but fair al fair righteous al righteous because the righteousnes of god in him whom thou canst not charge with any sin Indeed if I were left to my self my feet are foul but yet auoid satan wher my christ hath washed them of my selfe my wounds are filthy many mighty but yet auoid satan wher my christ hath clensed cured them truth it is my sins are many great and greeuous but yet the grace of my Christ is an almighty grace greater and stronger then they be in whom their foulnes filth is purged away their greatnes come to nothing Thus dearly beloued the church this loue may comfort her self though foul by the wood yet as one speakes an vnknowen autor fair and al fair by her all comely crucifixe that died vppon the wood though foul in her own folly yet al fair in her wisdom though foul in hir own frailties Rom. ● Zach. 14.11 Mich. 4.11.12.13 Iob. 8.34 Ciril tom 2.111 Bern. in Epi. serm 1. yet al faire in her might though foule in her owne bondage captiuities yet al fair because al free in her freedom though foul in her sins yet al fair wtout spot in christ her spotles pascal once but once slaine to make her clean frō al her sins and foulnes From al foulnes as any may easily perceiue if she do but refer her selfe to the crosse of her paschal thither where she may behold her alone ful acquittance frō al sin from al her foulnes thither where shee may leape into the very side of her christ as into a wel and wash her selfe faire and al clean in his blood Damascen orthod fid li. 4. cap. 10. the water of life that alone sprang out of his precious side that heauēly foūtain to represent her al faire thither wher she may run betweene the armes of her sauiour spred vpon the tree to embrace to couer her frō all her foulnes from all her infirmities thither where as one speaks the ful comfort to the approofe and proofe of this text she may wash her foul head in the blood of his head her foul hands in the blood of his hāds her foul feet in the blood of his feet her foule side in the blood of his side her foul hart in the blood of his hart Ioh. 19.34 Reuel 1.5 Mat. 26.28 Eph. 25.26.27.29 her foul body in the pure precious blood that coloured his body from head to foot and her soul in his innocent soul yet pressed to the very sorrowes of hell for the filth of her sins to represent her al faire Thus the church truly millitant the godly may answere the diuel in al trial of conscience to the truth of these words that she is al fair Which is indeed the cheefe felicity and hap of the church that in al satans attempts she is so able by faith to couer her selfe with the white garmentes of Christ Reuel 1.13 by faith so to shield her selfe as in christ her plenty to deny al want Col. 2.3 1. Cor. 3.11.12 1. Cor. 10.3.4 Esa 8.14.15 Cor. 2.12.32.34 1. Cor. 2.8 1. Ioh. 2.2.2 in christ hir morning star to deny al darknesse in christ her precious pearle and treasure to deny al vilenes in christ her foundation and rock to deny al weaknes in Christ her glory to deny all shame in christ her purgation and acquittance from sin to deny all filthines and blame that otherwise in course of iustice iustly therfore might be imputed to her in his goodnesse to deny her foulnes to defie the diuel and al hee can against this commendation that she is not al fair So much the more doe I maruel at them and blame them that teach in this behalfe discomfort for truth nay I had almost said truth despeyre for comfort That the church this loue of our sauiour is not otherwise fair and al fair then by the inherēt grace by perfection of duty that this imputed beuty in tru account is no way real but imaginary and ergo do not onely deny it but cry out against it For answer to whom the proofe of the negatiue heretofore hath prooued Prou. 20.9 Isa 41.29 53.12 1. Ioh. 11. that she is not actually no neyther can possibly for the time of this life bee said to be fair al fair in respect of good life but that she is foule foul because steined with sinne with sinne as Leuchettus wel noteth vpon the master of the sentēces his 3. book Dist 27. quaest vnica according to the scripture Whereupon it followeth that where she is here commended to be fair and al fair and that not only for the time of the next life as S. Bern. would haue it and truly though somwhat restraintly but also for the time of this life as the word approueth yet that cannot be by infused that it must needs be true by grace alone and grace onely imputed Which imputation is not res opinaria but solida as Athanasius speakes in a like case no imagination therefore as they write and as of late I haue seen the point charged in priuate schroles which are abroad but a point of truth and as real as was the imputation of our foulnes of sin to our Christ who was not counted a sinner nay sin in the cause of his church by imaginatiō though by only imputation For the gospel is no fable but a trueth euen the woorde of Christ as therefore the worde of this loues wisedome 1. Cot. 1.24 1. Ioh. 2.2 Ciril tom 3. 108 6. Rom. 5.1.2 Esa 2.2 Act. 10.36 1. Cor. 1.30 Ioh. 14.6 Ioh. 17.17 for christ is her wisdom as the word of her recōciliation for christ is here peace as the word of her righteousnesse for Christ is her iustice as the word of her life for christ is her life soo to make al these comforts good and this commendation true it is no les then verbum veritatis the word of truth for Christ is truth who spake the truth general of the word when he spake to the father thy word is the truth And what is the truth special of the gospell if this be not that truth that the church this loue is al faire freed from her foulnes not ex propria dignitate but ex imputata dignatione not of selfe desert therefore but of vndeserued of imputed mercy whereby Christ became bound to free her