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A21064	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 19. of Iuli 1579 setting forth the excellencye of Gods heauenlye worde: The exceeding mercye of Christ our Sauior: the state of this world: A profe of the true Church: A detection of the false Church: or rather malignant rable: A confutation of sundry hæresies: and other thinges necessary to the vnskilfull to be knowen. By Iohn Dyos. Seene and allowed.	Dyos, John.	1579 (1579)	STC 7432; ESTC S111984	61,205	176

it was accompted to him for righteousnesse Abraham was iustified by fayth 430. yeares before Moyses gaue the law Therefore fayth iustifieth not the law That thyng onely iustifieth by which the holy Ghost is geuen The holy Ghost is geuen by fayth and not by the law Therfore fayth iustifieth and not the law The first reason is proued by experience The Galatiās receiued the holy Ghost by preaching of the Gospell and so consequently by fayth The examples in the Actes of the Apostles of Cornelius and many others and also the example of the Centurion proue the same Fayth onely iustifieth Read. Rom. 1. 3. 4. and 9. chap. Sola fides Onely fayth was very well knowen and vsed of auncient Fathers long a goe and the vse of the same hath bene in the Church since the tyme of the Apostles By onely fayth fréely without workes without the law The tyme fléeth away therefore I will onely cote the authours and the places Origen in his exposition vpon the Romanes chap. 3. hath Sola fides fayth onely S. Basill a mā of incomparable vertue and learnyng hath Sola fides in his booke de Humilitate Athanasius vpō the iij. chap. to the Romanes hath Sola fides The eloquēt famous Doctour Chrisost vpon the Ephesians the second chapter Serm. 5. Sola fides And in his Sermon of fayth and the law Sola fides S. Ambrose vpon the iij. iiij x. xi chap. to the Romanes Sola fides S. Hierome vpon the foure and v. to the Romanes Sola fides Eusebius Lib. 3. cap. 27. Sola fides To conclude S. August albeit not in expresse termes as the other yet in effect hath it asmuch After discourse of the merites of Christ of fayth in Christ and of the miserable nakednesse of man excellently he thus concludeth His igitur consyderatis pertractatisque pro viribus quas Dominus donare dignatur colligimus non iustificari hominem praeceptis bonae vitae sed fide in Iesu Christo hoc est non lege operum sed lege fidei non litera sed spiritu non factorum meritis sed gratuita gratia These thinges considered debated accordyng to the abilitie whiche God hath graciously geuen me I conclude that man is not iustified by the preceptes rules of good life but by faith in Christ Iesus That is not by the law of workes but by the law of fayth not by the letter but by the spirite not by merites and déedes but by free and meere grace The aduersarie obiecteth thus It is impietie or wickednesse to add any thyng to the holy Scripture for that it is written Non addes aliquid neque minues Thou shalt not add any thing nor diminish S. Paul sayth if an angell frō heauen preach any otherwise let him be accursed And Irenaeus geneth good counsaile De Deo est vtendum verbis Dei When we speake of God we ought to vse the wordes of god Sola fide By fayth onely is not to be read in holy scripture any where not in Paul him self out of whose 3. chap. of his Epistle to the Romanes it is alledged Therfore to vse exclusiuely Iustificamur sola fide We are iustified by fayth onely is impietie and Luther hath depraued and corrupted S. Paule I aunswere it is a false kind of argumēt settyng downe that thyng for the cause whiche is not the cause in déede Albeit the word Sola written with iiij letters be not extant in S. Paule yet notwithstandyng wordes equiualent are there extāt declaryng the same thyng much more effectually plainly As for example Iustificamur gratis we are iustified fréely Ipsius gratia by his grace Absque operibus without workes Dei donū est It is the gift of God per fidem By fayth When S. Paule excludeth all maner workes what els leaueth he but fayth alone They teach maintaine Purgatory Therfore they breake the net This word Purgatory is not in the Bible but the purgation and remissiō of our sinnes is made by the aboūdant mercy of god Luc. 1. Mar. 2. Onely by Christ So sayth S. Iohn The bloud of Iesus Christ the sonne of God purgeth vs and maketh vs cleane frō all our sinnes So sayth S. Mat. 1. 26. Marc. 14. Luc. 22. Act. 13. Ephes 1. Hebr. 1. 9. 10. Apoc. 1. c. Swéete is that saying of S. Cyp. Sanguis tuus Domine non quaerit vltionem sanguis tuus lauat crimina peccata condonat Thy bloud O Lorde séeketh no reuēge thy bloud washeth our sinnes pardonneth our trespasses The East Church of God whiche sometyme was as great famous as the Church of the Weast notwithstāding they beleued in God his Christ knew there was both Hell Heauē yet of Purgatory they had no skil In the late Councell begun at Ferrar by Pope Eugenius and cōtinued and ended at Florence An. 1439. Purgatorye was concluded and not before in any auncient Coūcell Notwithstāding the enemies of the crosse of Christ pretēd that the same is of very great antiquity Not much vnlyke are they to the olde Arcades whoe sayd in cōmendation of their Antiquitye that they were a day or two elder then the Moone It came from Virgill and Plato and other Heathen writers If a man aske them where it is Some of them say in Ireland The Purgatory of Patrick into the which they say they had once a key and a valiant champion named noble Nicholas boldly and valiantly aduētured in and there did sée wonders Some of them say it is in Scicilie in the burning hill Aetna And some of thē say it is in the Ilād Thile which is also called Iseland Syr Thomas Moore sayd held for certaintie that in all Purgatory there is no water no not one drop and that he would proue out of Zachar. 9. Doctour Fisher sometyme Byshop of Rochester sayd There is in Purgatory great store of water that he would proue by the Prophet Dauid Psal. 65. Albertus sayd The Executioners and Ministers of Purgatory be holy Angels Syr Thomas Moore said out of doubt they be no Angels but very deuils So hādsomely these dreames agree together It serueth wel for their purse purpose and is the most profitable monster that euer was whelped of the Babylonicall strumpet They maintaine frée will Therfore they breake the net This word frée will is not in all the holy Scripture but is inuented by proude men which would set vp their owne righteousnesse and put downe the righteousnesse of Christ The frée will of man is in fallyng and not in rising Christ onely is free we are Liberati gratia but not Liberi natura fréed by grace but not frée by nature and so likewise Iustificati gratia iustified by grace not iust by nature S Paule sayth the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirite and the spirite contrary to the flesh these are contrary one to the other so that ye can not doe what ye would Where