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work_n	ceremonial_a	law_n	moral_a	5,536	5	9.9611	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22562	Three treatises Viz. 1. The conversion of Nineueh. 2. Gods trumpet sounding the alarum. 3. Physicke against famine. Being plainly and pithily opened and expounded, in certaine sermons. by William Attersoll, minister of the Word of God, at Isfield in Sussex.	Attersoll, William, d. 1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 900; ESTC S121173	371,774	515

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Againe the Scripture teacheth that we are justified without workes not by the workes of the Law If then works be excluded what can be included or what is there established but faith what can have place in our justification beside the same For to say that a man is justified by faith onely and to say that a man is justified by faith without the workes of the Law are equivalent and in effect all one thing Even as he that saith The husband ought to be master of the house and not the wife saith in effect that the husband onely ought to be master especially when the Question ariseth whether the man or the woman ought to be master for albeit he expresse not the word onely yet all men know it is necessarily to be supplied So he that saith a man is justified by faith without workes implyeth withall that a man is justified by faith onely when the Question standeth whether a man be justified by faith or by good workes or by the one and the other joyned together albeit he doe not expressely adde the word onely But it is further objected Obiect that the works which Saint Paul excludeth are the workes of the Ceremoniall Law and that sometimes he excludeth the works of Nature onely and not of Grace I answer Answ As though the Churches of God after their embracing the Gospell and walking many yeeres in the wayes of godlinesse were so simple and so foolish as to make any Question whether they could bee justified by workes wrought before their conversion when they were poore miserable Idolaters having no hope and being without God in the world Wherefore the Apostle as if of purpose he would prevent this tricke of evasion Rom. 4.2 6. bringeth in the example of Abraham and David even when they were in Gods favour Observe farther for the clearing of this point that he in all his treatises of justification which are many and large never exhorteth us to be justified no more then he doth to be elected Search the Epistle to the Romanes to the Galatians and other his Epistles or the Epistles of Peter and John and James yee shall never finde an exhortation to be justified but in these and other Scriptures we have a thousand exhortations to be holy and sanctified True it is we are warned to make our election and calling sure as also wee may be to make our justification sure But what may be the reason hereof doubtlesse because justification is not a vertue in man but a grace of God whereby he absolveth sinners in beholding his Sonne as in Civill Courts Iustification is an Act of the Iudge not a vertue in him that is to be judged Rom. 5.9 Therefore he saith Wee are justified by the blood of Christ but if by justifying hee had meant sanctifying or regenerating of us he would rather have said we are justified by the Spirit of Christ besides they are expressely distinguished else-where 1 Cor. 1.30 Againe the same Apostle concluding that a man is justified by faith without the workes of the Law Rom. 3.20 must be understood to understand the Morall Law to wit the same Law by which he teacheth that those which have sinned shall be judged And afterward that the Gentiles which have not the Law Rom. 2.12 14. 4.2 doe by Nature the things contained in the Law And againe chapter 4. when he insisteth upon the example of Abraham that he was not justified by workes it had beene in vaine to goe about to prove that he was not justified by the workes of the Ceremoniall Law For what had this beene but to fight with his owne shaddow seeing the Ceremoniall Law was not then ordained neither was established untill foure hundred yeeres afterward The like I might shew out of the Epistle to the Galatians For when he teacheth Gal. 2.16 that a man is not justified by the workes of the Law he excludeth the works not onely of the Ceremoniall Law but of the Morall Law especially as appeareth in the next Chapter where he sheweth that Christ Iesus hath delivered us from the curse of the Law even of that Law which saith Gal. 3.26 5.14 Cursed is every man that continueth not in al things which are written in the Booke of the Law to doe them where onely the Moral Law is spoken of And in the 5. Chapter he telleth them that all the Law is fulfilled in one word which is this Obiect Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe O but it may be said This is no better then to abolish and destroy good workes utterly when they are excluded from justification and to make our selves enemies to good workes that we may live as we list because we teach that we cannot stand righteous by them in the sight of God God forbid Nay Answ we hold that no man can be justified being without good workes albeit he cannot be justified by good workes Even as the eyes are not without the eares in the body yet the eyes onely see and not the eares So faith onely hath the vertue to justifie us that is to cause us to be absolved from our sinnes and to be accounted just before the judgement Seate of God because it hath this property and nothing else but it to apprehend the benefits of Christ Iesus and to apply and appropriate his righteousnesse to the person that hath it And that we are not enemies to good workes neither reject them as superfluous let Bellarmine himselfe as a witnesse no way partiall to us speake for us lib. 4. de Justif cap. 7. Bellarm. lib. 4. De Iustific cap. 7 Adversarij in eo conveniunt c. ut opera bona fieri debeant quoniam alioqui fides non esset viva nec vera nisi fructus bonos faceret quomodo ignis non est ignis nisi calefaciat that is It is agreed by our Adversaries that goodworkes in regard of the necessity of their presence are necessary to salvation and ought to be done because otherwise faith could not be lively and true unlesse it doth bring forth good fruits as fire cannot be fire except it give heat So then we cannot be judged to condemne good workes even our Adversaries themselves being judges yea we confesse a necessity of them as themselves confesse Besides the same Bellarmine after all his magnifying of the dignity of good workes to the highest straine as the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood Prov. 30.33 so hee teacheth they are able to endure the Iustice and Iudgement of God yet I say after all this hee witnesseth and confesseth thus much in his owne words Bellarm. De Iustific lib. 2. cap. 3 Justificamur à Deo gratis id est ex mera ejus liberalitate quantum ad nostra merita nullo enim nostro opere meremur justificari that is We are justified of God freely that