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work_n	dead_a	faith_n	lively_a	5,187	5	10.6802	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25801	The practical rule of Christian piety containing the summ of the whole duty of a true disciple of Christ. Written originally in Latin by Benedictus Aria Montanus, and translated into English by A. Lovel, M.A.	Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598.; Lovell, Archibald.	1685 (1685)	Wing A3679A; ESTC R214868	74,341	284

fruits of serious Repentance as in his holy Baptism he promised But how is that performed by those who never depart from iniquity or if they do it is but for a time upon occasion of Confessing or taking the Sacrament that they may again fall into the same or more heinous crimes when notwithstanding the conditions required of a Penitent that would worthily receive the Sacrament are satisfaction and amendment of life which if sometime they set about it they soon forsake and relapse into the accursed manners of a stubborn inflexible nature but not he that beginneth Mat. 24 but he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved Isa 1. Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek Judgment relieve the oppressed Judge the fatherless plead for the widow Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow tho they be red like Crimson they shall be as Wooll Cease to do evil learn to do well saith God who comparing the noble beginnings of Christian simplicity and Piety with the subsequent corruption of manners and defect of Repentance and Obedience in his ancient People thus laments over them How is the faithful City become an Harlot It was full of Judgment Righteousness lodged in it but now Murderers Thy Silver is become dross thy Wine mixt with Water Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of Thieves are every one that loveth Gifts and followeth after Rewards they judge not the Fatherless neither doth the cause of the Widow come unto them That Faith then which is accompanied with Repentance and Obedience is the Faith whereby Men obtain the gracious promises of God not I say an idle and dead Faith but that which worketh by Charity and believes and obeys the word of God does what is commanded and is deterred by no difficulties but rather with heroick resolution and assurance performs whatever is enjoyned it as it is written Heb. 11. By Faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry Land which the Egyptians essaying to do were drowned By Faith the Walls of Jerico fell down after they were compassed about seven days By Faith the Harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the Spies with Peace And what shall I now say For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Baruch and of Sampson and of Jeptha of David and also Samuel and of the Prophets who through Faith subdued Kingdoms wrought Righteousness obtained Promises stopped the mouths of Lions quenched the violence of the Fire escaped the edg of the Sword out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in Fight turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens Women received their dead raised to life again So that the Faith of all those shewed it self in great Works it being their care and study to approve themselves to God not barely by the profession of an idle Faith but by the obedience and practice of a lively and active Faith and to omit nothing that for Godliness sake they were commanded to do and on the contrary to act nothing which Religion and Obedience taught them to shun and avoid and rather to suffer all inconveniencies and losses even to death and reproach than to violate those Precepts which the will and word of God delivered to be observed by them And therefore they also have left to Posterity patterns and examples of true Repentance and Obedience as it follows in the same place And others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of Bonds and Imprisonment They were stoned they were sawn asunder were slain with the Sword they wandred about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented of whom the World was not worthy they wandred in Desarts and in Mountains and in Dens and Caves of the Earth And these all having obtained a good report through Faith received not the Promise God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect The Apostle calls the works of those holy Men and their practice of Obedience the Testimony of Faith as well in undergoing and acting what they were commanded to act and undergo as in declining and shunning those things that were prohibited to be done and yet they obtained not the Promise that is not the full enjoyment of the Kingdom of Heaven which before the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not as yet opened that they might not be made perfect without us who came at the eleventh hour tho they were severally at several hours before us bore the heat and burden of the day and wrought diligently in the Vineyard However must the reward appointed to be paid first to those who were called at the eleventh hour be given to the idle and negligent By no means for these workmen were not called that they might be idle but rather they were rebuked that they spent almost the whole day in Sloth and Idleness Why saith the good Man of the House stand ye here all day Idle Now they are call'd idle who have no work no business to do as the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 employed by the Evangelist does clearly import Therefore they who were called and sent into the Vineyard at the Eleventh hour were not called to an idle lazy Faith only but to the exercise of a lively Faith in obedience to the Will and Commands of him that called them and to labour in the Vineyard no less than they who were called before them whose Faith hath been proved and tried in divers works much labour and pain This appears evidently by the Testimony of those who came first delivered in that excellent Parable who affirmed that the last wrought but one hour They said not that they who were called at that hour were idle in the Vineyard but that they wrought it was favour and bounty enough shewn them by the good Man of the House that having wrought less and being excused from the heat and burden of the day they first of all were rewarded by the gracious bounty of the Lord who is willing to give to the last as to the first From what hath been said then it is manifest and clear that an imputative Faith only laying hold of the Promises and otherwise lazy and unactive is not that Faith which God does require of those whom he calls to the Communion of Saints and Inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven but a lively Faith and such as exerciseth Believers in the Obedience and Observation of those things that are commanded by him that calleth them For as it is not enough to lay hold on the Promises barely by Faith unless we actually enjoy and possess the same so it is not enough neither to answer the