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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18915	The discription of a true visible Christian right confortable & profitable for all such as are distressed in sowle about present controversies in the churche. Dravven by He. Cl. but published by occasion (as will appeare in the epistle) by Io. I.	Clapham, Henoch.; Joope, John.	1599 (1599)	STC 5337; ESTC S111143	14,116	32

sayth Iustification by Fayth ALONE it is sufficient so that the beleiuer whosoever is ONLY so justified yea though no worke haue bene performed by him Wherevnto he addeth the theif his iustification on the Crosse sayinge The Lord required not of him what before he had wrought nor did expect what vvork he shold fulfill after he beleived but being iustified by SOLE confession namely of fayth he ioyned him companyon vnto him being redy to enter into Paradise And that Origen may not be demed wauering herein he afterward sayth Abraham might haue glory for his vvorks vvith holy iust men that savve them but this glory vvith God vvas ONLY by Fayth hid And so he straight reconciles S. Paul and S. Iames adding this The Apostle elsvvhere saith the stipend of Syn is death but here he sayth not the stipend of Righteousnes is lyfe eternall But the Grace of God is life eternall And Clemens his Mr. writ thus before him By Faith ALONE the beleiuer is perfected Cyprian hath this Faith ALONE profils somuch vve can as vve beleiue After him Victor Antiochian preacheth thus These vvordes thy faith hath made the hole they shevv that the ga●ments touched cured her not but Faith Therefore neither place nor vvords nor any such thing externall doth saue a man but euery man is saued by his fayth And Ambrose treades the same tract so They are justified GRATIS because Working Nothing nor restoring any thing in the rovvne thereof by Fayth ALONE they are iustified through the guifte of God And at large the same Elder presseth th'opposition not betwene the works of the law and the works off faith as the Romanist wold haue it but betwene the works of the lawe ād SOLA FIDES Faith alone For Chrysostom he thus syngs the same songue here the Apostle shevveth the vertue off God not because he only saueth but also iustifieth leadeth into glory vsing no vvorks herevnto but exacting ONLY faith And Basilius Magnus writeth so That glorying in God is then by all meanes perfect vvhen as a Man is not extolled by reason of his ovvne righteousnes but acknovvledgeth himself verily to be destitute of Righteousnes but to be justified by Faith ONLY in Christ. And Paul so glories in that as he contemnes his ovvne Righteousnes Pope Leo writes thus Euen as righteousnes is by Faith so likevvise by true fayth is life eternall obtayned Rabanus walks in the same padde with his predecessors sayinge By the Grace of Christ ALONE the Elect are deliuered from every Scādale Thus Remigius Lyfe eternalis not by Merit because of our selues vve cā fall but of our selues vve cānot ryse but by his vvill that is by his Mercy But yet lower to corrupted tymes The Idiote writes so To justify is better then to create seing by creating Nature is giuen but by justifyinge both the falt is taken avvay and Grace is conferred Then Giselbert foloweth on with his pen thus I say the righteousnes of God not vvhereby god is just but vvhereby he cloths man vvhē as he justifies the vvicked Gratis Afterwards Theophilact so subscribes It is the Righteousnes of God vvhich is by Fayth This nedeth not our Labours or vvorks but the WHOLE partaineth to God his grace But I will yet descend to corrupter tymes Abbot Barnard hath this If thovv shalt beleiue that thy synnes cannot be blotted out but Only of him agaynst vvhome thovv hast synned in vvhome syn is not thovv dost vvell but adde therevvithall se also thovv beleiue it That is because by him synnes are forgiuen vnto the. This is the testimony vvhich the H. Gh. beareth in our heart saying Thy synnes are forgiuen the. For so the Apostle thought namely that Mā vvas iustified by Faith GRATIS And abbot Rupertus so It is expedient to knoe Christ he must seek him vvho being found doth bring profit in vvhome to beleiue it is Salvation And afterwards In Iesus Christ neither circumcisiō nor vncircumcision nor Gentile nor levve but FAITH ONLY is required And the Manke lo. Baptista Folengius protesteth his fayth thus vvhat greater Signe can there be both of God his justice vvherby of Synners he hath MADE vs lust as also of his Goodnes vvhereby vve are GRATIS invited to the inheritance of Eternall happines after a manner euen dravven vs being vnvvillinge But to alleadge all I cold alleadge it were to make a Booke and not to conclude a Chapter and none of the former writers can be reiected off the Romanist With whose so euident testimony if so He will not be satisfied neyther is a Clowde of witnesses moe likly to be accepted As for works whereby Fayth is declared to Man according to that of Iames Shevve me thy Fayth by thy vvorks ●noue of those writers but euer vrged them as men wold thereby receive assurance of theyr Election according to that of S. Peter make your callinge election sure namely by works Not that thereby our Election is made sure with GOD but vnto vs. wherevnto lo. Viguerius Doctor of Theologie amongst the Papists in his Theologicall Institutions approved by Sorbon priviledged by the King Ao 1549. he thus cōsenteth By those vvords 2 Pet. 1. 10. no vvay can be had that Election shold be by reason of vvorks follovvinge but that by perseverance in good vvorks Praedestination vvhich is vnmoveable it is by conjecturall assurance so shovven Certaine vnto vs. Touching the Euer-visibility of the Church it is One way then proved whē there be found in Catholike vnity such as holde the former two poynts 1. Christ. 2. so apprehendinge Christ vnto perfection of salvation But that there haue bene som who haue so beleiued and confessed euen through the corruptest tymes it may appeare vp that is already sayde Obiection But som of them liued vnder Antichrists externall Church-gouernment therefore such visible Antichristian This blynd argument of Brounisme I answer with the like Diotrephes Nicolaitans Satans throne Balaamites Iesabel prophetisse Denyers of Resurrection c. they liued vnder Christ his externall church-gouernment therefore all they were true visible Christians If this be sottish thē the former for if Christ his church-gouernment be not able to make all true visible Christians vnder it then neither can Antichrist his externall regiment make all vnder it visible Antichristian There is a greater government then the church-government and that is the government of Christ and Antichrists Spirit and that is it which maketh the sowle visible Christian or Antichristian But hereof as also of the Church her euer-visibility in his owne chapter for the probation whereof variety of Arguments shall not be lackinge That is already sayd it may suffice to manifest vvho is a true visible Christian. All glory to God The definitiō of a true visible Christian as yet in an vnbaptised estate vvhose particulars are aftervvard● proved * Rom. 8. ‡ 1 Iohn