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A13949	Three small and plaine treatises 1. Of prayer or actiue 2. Of principles, or positiue 3. Resolutions, or oppositiue Diuinitie. Translated and collected out of the auncient writers for the priuate vse of a most noble ladie. By an old praebendary of the Church of Lincolne.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1620 (1620)	STC 24259; ESTC S102025	30,759	166

Faith 5. If you endeauour to abstaine from sinne for feare of offending so good a God 6. If you beginne to endeauour to liue godly and righteously because it is the will and commandement of God 7. If you take more delight then you did in praying to God 8. If you thanke God priuately for these his good motions By these eight points you may soone know whether you haue true faith or not Q. What is the infallible marke of true and iustifying Faith A. The effectuall applying of Christ and all his benefits to your owne soule in particular This application doeth make a difference betwixt iustifying Faith and all other kindes of faith which cannot saue vs As Historicall Faith which is a bare knowledge Faith of Miracles which is a bare assent Temporary Faith which is but a bare profession of the Faith for a time embraced onely for the desire of Knowledge Credite Profite Q. What is the meaning of this assertion of S. Paules that we are iustified by Faith alone A. The meaning is this Euen as when you giue your almes to a begger it is receiued by his hand alone and yet his hand is not alone when it receiues these alms but accompanied with an arme sinewes and arteries Euen so when God offers vnto you Christ and his righteousnesse you doe receiue him by Faith alone and yet this Faith which receiues Christ is neuer alone but still accompanied with Charitie and good workes In a word 1. To holde almes is proper to the hand and not the arme and to holde Christ proper to Faith and not good workes 2. You are iustified by Faith alone and yet if your faith be alone it cannot iustifie you Q. What is the meaning of S. Iames when hee sayth That wee are iustified by workes and not by Faith A. The meaning is this 1. Faith iustifieth vs before God good works before men 2. Faith makes vs good workes declare vs to bee iustified 3. Faith giues vs our first iustificatiō good works our second which is our Sanctification or holinesse Q. What is the least and weakest degree of Faith that I may build vpon to keepe mee from despaire in case I finde not all those alterations in my selfe which you spake of before A. 1. If you desire Faith or pray vnto God that you may desire Faith 2. If you can pray or desire of God to enable you to pray 3. If you find fault with your want of faith and desire sometimes of God to helpe this want You are for all that the childe of God RESOLVTIONS OPPOSITIVE DIVINITIE OR The ordinary Obiections of Papists against them of the reformed Churches DIALOGVE Papist Protestant CHAP. I. Of the Church Pap. THe Church of England is no Church 〈…〉 strange considering your owne Writers conclude a Church to be there where there is found 1 doctrine of saluation Georg. Cassan consult titul de Ecclesia according to Scripture 2 the vse of the Sacraments and 3 outward discipline or Ecclesiasticall gouernement although the Churchmen should fall short of those Apostolicall and primitiue perfectiōs which flourished in their predecessours Pap. Yea but it is not the Catholike Church mentioned in the Creed I beleeue in the Catholike Church Prot. 1. No more is the Church of Rome for there was no Church at all in Rome when the Creed was made by the Apostles at Hierusalem Ruffin in Symb. Augustin Ser. 115. euery Apostle making his Article when they were to depart to plant particular Churches in Rome Id. Serm. 181. de Tempore England and other places 2. But our Church is a branch and portion of that Catholike Church as is also the a Theoriani collo Damianus à Gots Onuphrius in vita Iulij Greeke Armenian Aethiopian and Syrian as well if not rather then the Romane Church Pap. Peraduenture these other Churches may bee members of that Catholike Church as ioyned and vnited with vs but the vnion betwixt your Church and ours hath beene cut asunder aboue an hundred yeeres agone and therefore you are quite cut off from the Catholike Church Prot. This is more then you know or then I am bound to beleeue For Cassand consult pag. 930. meerly spirituall consisting in Faith Hope Charitie true Doctrine c. Institut of a Christian fol. 19. This vnion of the members of the Catholike Church is inward not outward and therefore discerned onely by God himselfe We neuer sundred our selues from the people or Church of Rome but from the Faction or Court of Rome not from the sincere doctrine of that Church but from the corruptions and innouations foisted into that Church And therefore although we be neuer so hated Cassand ibid. and excommunicated by your Priests yet we may be still vnited in internall societie with your Church if you retaine those principles of Religion sound and vnaltered in the which our forefathers died and as we well hope were saued Pap. How are you then gone from vs if you be still vnited with vs. Prot. As the Prophets went from the corrupt Churches of the Iewes and as Christ and his Apostles from the Scribes and Pharises clamando dissentiendo by crying out against your corruptions and dissenting from your innouations and this a Cas consult pag. 929. Gerson de p●●●…tate Ecclesiae your owne men allowed vs to doe Pap. I but some of your men say that wee had no true Church of God in the West of many yeeres before Luthers time Prot. Their meaning is to be limited in respect of the Predominant and preuailing Faction Your Church held I confesse a sauing profession of the Trueth of God but your Church-men mingled therewith many damnable impieties And these innouators onely carrying the greatest shew of the Church are denied by our Writers to bee the true Church of God Pap. This it is we Catholikes obserue You dare not for all your malice deny the Church of Rome to haue in some sort a sauing profession of the truth of God but our Priests conclude directly that your Church hath no truth at all and that a Barclaius paraenes li. 1. pag. 7. none can be saued in that Church Prot. As in euery kingdome the generall estate is nothing so forward actiue quicke and peremptorie as the priuate Factions and yet is found at the last more wise and stayed in finall resolution So in the Catholike Church the b Can. loc theol l. 4. c. 1. Lindan panopl. lib. 4. cap. 7. Factions are euer more headie and precipitate in their denunciations of Heauen and Hell then the maine body thereof Hence it commeth to passe that although the Greeke Armenian Ethiopian and Syrian and for the most part the Protestant doth censure charitably of those Laickes who liuing rather In then Of the Church of Rome hold the grounds of the doctrine of Saluation without any notorious mixtures with the late superstitions and impieties crept into the same yet doth the a Quodlibet

neither be deceiued nor deceiue vs. For the King and the Royall Issue I Humbly beseech thee G. Cass Almighty God to preuent with all blessings of goodnesse our King and his Royall issue Increase vpon them day by day all thy fauours vanquish with thy mighty hand all open enemies and priuie Conspirators who oppugne their religion life diademe or dignitie Crowne each of them with all vertues these vertues with long liues and their liues at the last with eternall glory Amen For Charitie or the workes of Mercie August Meditat. O Lord of mercie and compassion I beseech thee by the tender bowels of thy Sonne Christ Iesus to mooue my stonie heart to the workes of mercie that I may keepe my howers of prayers mourne with them that mourne counsell them that are amisse helpe them that are in miserie releeue the poore comfort the sorrowfull helpe the oppressed forgiue them that trespasse against me pray for them that hate mee requite good for euil despise no man or woman reuerence my betters respect my equals be humble and courteous to my inferiors imitate those that are good shunne those that are bad embrace vertue eschew vice Be patient in aduersitie modest in prosperitie thankfull in either Keepe a watch ouer my tongue Scorne this world and thirst after heauen Amen For the receiuing of the B. Sacrament O Lord Iesus Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God G. Cass thorough whom onely is granted forgiuenesse of sinnes and life euerlasting who diddest iustifie the Publican when he confessed the woman of Chanaan when shee prayed Peter when hee repented and the thiefe vpon the Crosse when hee called vpon thee grant vnto me a most miserable and wretched sinner pardon and forgiuenesse of all my transgressions which I most humbly confesse I haue committed against thee that I may receiue this Communion of thy body and blood not to my iudgement and condemnation but to my euerlasting comfort and saluation who liuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Meditation When you haue newly receiued O Lord encrease my faith O Lord G. Cass let the body and blood of Christ be fixed in my soule to my comfort in this life and eternall saluation in the life to come Amen For that day you expect to heare a Sermon or when you reade vpon your Bible G. Cass ALlmighty and euerlasting God whose Word is a lanterne to our feete and a light vnto our pathes open and enlighten my vnderstanding that I may learne the mysteries of thy Word so farre foorth as is necessary to my saluation purely and syncerely and bee so transfigured in my life and conuersation vnto that which I shall learne as to please thee in will and deede through Iesus Christ my Lord and onely Sauiour Amen For sicknesse and all other vses you haue excellent Prayers in the Booke of Common prayers PRINCIPLES Few Notes for the priuate vse of my L. M. B. A Prayer to be said vpon your knees before the reading ouer of these Notes ALmightie God the Fountaine of true Wisedome and knowledge send thy holy Spirit into my heart that I may sufficiently vnderstand and stedfastly beleeue all the doctrines necessary to my Saluation and adde such practise and obedience to this Faith thorough the whole course of my life and conuersation as I may so serue thee in thy kingdome of Grace that hereafter I may be made partaker of thy kingdom of Glory through the onely merit and mediation of thy deare Sonne and my deare Sauiour Iesus Christ. Amen I. MAn sithence his fall in Adam hath no hope of saluation but by the Couenant of Grace betwixt God and Man Whereby God promiseth vnto man Mercie and Forgiuenesse of Sinnes and man vnto God true Faith in Christ and holines of life and conuersation II. ALl men haue not interest in this Couenant of Grace but they onely that are of Gods Church Now the Church of God is Any Company or Congregation of men wheresoeuer liuing called by God through the sound of the Gospel vnto the Faith of Christ and distinguished from other Societies by these fiue Marks especially 1. hearing and reading the Word 2. Faith thereunto 3. the vse of the Sacraments 4. Prayer and 5. Sanctity of life Where these fiue things are there is euer a Church of God and sufficient means of saluation III. THe Word must be read often vpon your Bible with modesty and short desires of the heart vnto God to giue you grace to vnderstand it to beleeue it and to practise it It must bee heard vpon all conuenient occasions especially in those two houres of the Sabbath day appointed by the Church and the State for that Diuine worship and then you must obserue foure Rules 1 Obserue the Preacher with attention modestie 2. Secondly apply vnto your selfe in particular the Doctrines and Vses which are deliuered in generall 3. Examine your conscience if you be guilty of the sinnes there reproued and presently call to God for grace to amend them 4. Thinke vpon these things againe when you come to your Chamber IIII. THis outward hearing and reading of the Word together with the inward working of the holy Ghost in your heart doeth beget a true liuely and sauing faith which is A certaine knowledge and assurance of the heart that all is true which God hath spoken or promised in the Scripture and that you rest wholly and confidently vpon God that he hath granted vnto your selfe in particular forgiuenes of sinnes and true righteousnesse in Christ Iesus This is the maine point you are seriously to meditate vpon and therefore obserue these precepts 1. If you doe not beleeue or if you doe doubt of any thing in Scripture presently pray vnto God to strengthen and enlighten you 2. If you doubt whether you may haue any particular interest in those generall promises of grace in Christ propounded in the Gospel fall againe to your prayers for an increase of Faith 3. If you doubt and yet can finde in your heart to pray for more faith Let your conscience neuer bee troubled with such a doubting 4. Marke well when the Creed is in reading and giue an assent with your heart to euery Article And as I doubt not you haue learned it so keepe it still in memorie V. NOw as this faith of remission of sinnes and righteousnesse in Christ is wrought in vs by the reading and hearing of the Word ioyned with Prayer so is it signed and sealed in our hearts by the two Blessed Sacraments Baptisme The Lords Supper Obserue in either Sacrament two parts A visible signe Water in Baptisme Bread Wine in the Supper An inuisible grace Remission of sinnes in Baptisme The benefite of Christs passion in the Supper VI. BAptisme is the first Sacrament of the new Testament to wit An outward washing of Water appointed by Christ in his Church with this promise that vpon your being Baptized you were