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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06990	A treatise of the sin against the holy ghost made by M. Augustine Marlorate. Translated out of French to the great consolation of all such as repent them of their sinnes, and to the astonying of of [sic] those that mock and despise the gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ; Traité du péché contre le Saint Esprit. English.	Marlorat, Augustin, 1506-1562.	1570 (1570)	STC 17410; ESTC S102682	17,651	42

and Galathiās to whom he writeth thꝰ Awake to liue righteously sin not for sōe haue not the knowledge of god And also My little children of whom I trauail in birth again vntil Christ be foūd again in you Such and like exāples teach vs rather to prouoke by all menes possible such as are out of the right way to return back again to commit thē to the mercy of God then to cast them of as desperate or to beseech God to ouerthrowe and confound them except wee haue some certain reuelation as they had of whom we spake before If then any haue abused the benefits of God and namely the knowledge of the Ghospel and afterwarde be stricken with the feeling of their sin and oppressed with the iudgement of God if they repent and séek to reconcile thē selues to the Church let not vs be so cruel as to shut vp the entry of the kingdome of Heauen from them séeing that the very Angels are more ioyfull for a sinner that repenteth him then for nintie and nine iust men which néed no amendmēt of life Further more before we cōclude it is necessary that the Readers be admoni●●ed that in any wise they abuse not that which hath béen spokē as if we would giue libertie to scoffers mockers to dally with God to forsake the troth as oft as they list for the nature malice of mē seeketh alwaies these wicked extremityes neuer kéepeth measure in deuine heauēly thingꝭ but findeth alwaies somwhat to carp at to blame the pure doctrin of the troth As If we declare what the Scripture teacheth touching election and reprobation that is that God hath chosen some yea before the foundatiō of the world to giue them eternall life and that this election is frée and that God hath mercy on whome he wil haue mercy and whom he wil he hardeneth straight waies the carnall naturall man which comprehendeth not the thingꝭ the are of the spirit of God concludeth thervpon the we need not to passe for wel liuing For if I be saith he predestinat to saluation euerlasting life I cannot perish séeing the the chosen are out of daunger and contrary wise if I be a reprobate I can not force the wil of God which hath appoīted me to perdition so the flesh wil take occasiō to liue at pleasure as if the end of our election were not the we should be holy without blāe before him in loue And if we say as the troth is the faith iustifieth that our work cānot satisfy the iudgemēt of god to obtaī grace righteousnes yea whē we haue done all that is commaunded vs to doo we must confesse our selues to be vnprofitable seruants straight waies they cry out that this doctrin is falce and hereticall that it maketh men carelesse and slouthful to doo good woorks seeing that if the opinion of merit be taken away we shal neuer doo any thing with good courage But these poore ignorant men or rather Hipocrites consider not that when we attribute to faith the meanes of iustifiing we comdemne not good woorks whiche are the effects and frutes therof seeing that a true and liuely faith woorketh by charitie and that the end of our vocation is that we walke in newnesse of like For that it is written Euery frée that bringeth not foorth good frute shal be hewen down and throwen into the fire Also Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good woorkꝭ and glorifie your father which is in heauen Also If a mā abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and withereth and men gathereth them and cast them into the fire and then burn And S. Paule saith Belooued bréethern be you stedfast vnmoouable abundant alwaies in the woork of the Lord for asmuch as ye knowe that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. And again We are his woorkmanship created in Christe Iesus vnto good woorks which God hath ordayned that we should walke in them In an other place Do these things saith hee and the God of peace shal be with you And speaking of Iesus Christe he saith Who gaue him self for vs the hee might redeme vs frō all iniquitie purge vs to be a perticuler people vnto himself zealously giuen to good woorks S. Péeter also writeth after this sort Haue your cōuersation honest among the Gentles that they which speake euil of you as of euill dooers may by your good woorks which they shall see glorify God in the day of the visitation To be short the whole Scripture teacheth vs to bestowe the time of our whole life in dooing good woorks séeing that we are like trees planted to glorify God and that he hath not called vs to vncleannesse but vnto holinesse And neuerthelesse the same Scripture therwithall teacheth vs the we are saued by grace through faith and that not of our selues for it is the gift of God not through woorks lest any man should boast him self For I count that the afflictions of this presēt time are not worthy of the glory whiche shal be shewed vnto vs. And euen as of these two former points man goeth about to conclude and maliciously to gather that it is in vain to endeuer to walke in holynesse of life so likewise I knowe that some may so take the contents of this treatise touching the repentance of sinners as if we would qualify the sin of those which after knowledge of the truth of the gospel stick not shamefully to ronounce and forsake the same either vnder pretence of wekenesse or fear of men or torments or losse of goods or honors of this world or any other cause what so euer it be But when we go about to bring again those that are gone astray into the right way of saluation it is not to giue occasion to others to stray out of the way When we teach those that ar sick or hurt a méet remedy to heal them it is not to cause such as are whole to giue thē selues sōe deadly wound to see if the remedy which we taught the other wil help them When we receiue the strayed shéep into the flock of Christe it is not to make the other which were there long before to depart out and to say that they wil come into the flock again as oft as they list Again when we set foorth to the sinner what so euer hee be the blood of Iesus Christe wich is ready to clense his conscience from the woorks of death to serue the liuing God it is not to giue any occasion to abuse the same or to tread it vnder feet For he that despiseth Moses law dieth without mercy vnder two or three witnesses Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be worthy whiche treadeth vnder foot the Sonne of God and counteth the blood of the Testament as an vnholy thing