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A22061 The letters which Iohan Ashwel priour of Newnham Abbey besids Bedforde, sente secretely to the Bishope of Lyncolne in the yeare of our lord M.D.xxvii. Where in the sayde priour accuseth George Ioye that tyme beinge felawe of Peter college in Cambridge, of fower opinio[n]s: with the answer of the sayed George vn to the same opinions. Joye, George, d. 1553.; Ashwell, John, d. 1541? 1531 (1531) STC 845; ESTC S109050 30,257 49

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testifinge it in vs that he is our God our father to vs an almighty helper and deliuerer and that we are receyued in to his favour by the dethe and meretis of his sonne Iesus Christe our saviour vpon the which beliefe ād assuered persuasion we love him so ernestly agene that we ceasse not the occasion and tyme offrede to fulfill his plesures in doinge the workes of loue or charite to our neghbours Of this lively faithe Paule speaketh alwayes which by love is mighty in operacion ad Gala. 5. and mente no more deade faithe in this his sentēce A man is iustified bi faithe thē he mente of a deade man whē he alledged the prophete Abaku●saing the rightwise shal liue of his faithe for dede faith geueth no life ¶ To be iustifyed orto be made rightwyse before God by this faithe is nothinge els but to be absolued frome sinne of God to be forgeuen orto haue no sinne imputed vnto him of God ¶ The rightwysnes which is allowed before God that cometh of faithe is sometimes in scripture called his mercie or fauour towerd vs in vs wherby he is moued for Christis bloudis sake to promise vs forgeuenes And sometimes it is takē for his truthe faithfulnes in the performīge of his promise of this is he called iuste or rightwise faithful and true Vv●erfore the scripture comenly ioyneth these two wordes mercie Truthe or faithfulnes togither especially in the Psalmes as I noted in the argument of the. 89. Psalme and as Dauid praieth God in the. 31. Psal. to deliuer him for his rightwisnes sake that is for his mercies sake or for his truthes sake in the. 5. Psal. lorde ledemeforthe for thy rightwisnes sake The mercy wherby God is moued to promise vs his benefits goth before and his truthe in performinge feloweth nowe the maner of the scripture is to vse the one for the tother as the kingdome of heauē for the gospel which gothe before is the knowlege of the waye to the kingdome and because of hearinge the worde cometh faith Ro. 10. therfore to heare in scripture is sometimes takē for to beleue as Iohan in the. 6. Euery man that hath harde and is learned of my father cometh to me that is to saye euery man that beleueth on the father c. in the same ca. He that cometh to me shalnot hōger which saing the sentence folowing expoundeth thus He that beleueth in me shal neuer thirste or shal be euer satisfied here to come to Christe whiche foloweth faith in him is taken for to beleue in him ād sometime that at gothe before is taken for that at foloweth as maye apere wel to them that are excercised in readīg of holy scripture as the keye of knowleg and the gospel ar al one for that one comeh of the tother Farthermore Paule in the. 9. .10 ca. to the Ro. ī the. 3. to the Philip. declareth two maner of rightwisnesses one he calleth the rightwisnes of the lawe or our owne rightwisnes the tother the rightwisnes of god or of faithe the rightwisnes of the the law is that at is gotē bi workes of the lawe the rightwisnes of faithe is that wherby God of his mercie rekeneth vs righwise for our faythe 's sake Outwarde workes shewe vs rightwise before the worlde but faithe iustifieth vs before God Abrahams vtwarde dede in obainge God and going forth to offer his sonne Isaac Genesis 22. and Iames. 2. was a testimony of his faith and declared him rightwise before men aft●r the rightwisnes of the lawe but his faith iustified hī before God longe before yer Isaac was borne Gene. 15. Also we ar iustified before God only in that we ar chosen in Christe before the wolrde was created Ephe. 1. Of the whiche election ād iustifica●●● our faithe when god geueth it vs certifieth our hartes aftirwarde whē our faith brekethforth ī to good workes for trwe faith cānot be ydle than ar our workes a testimony before men of our faithe so that our faithe is a secrete and a suer persua●ion to our selfe of our election before God and our workes that procede of faithe ar a testimony of our faith to the worlde of the which vtward workes the worlde iugeth vs rightwise a●tir the rightwisnes of the law But here let men take hede leste they despise the rightwisnee of faithe ●s heresie stāde to the rightwisnes of their owne workes Of whō thꝰ speaketh Paule Ro. 10. They ar ignorāt of the rightwisnes which is alowed before God go aboute to stableshe their owne rightwisnes wherfore they ar not vnder the righwisnes of God There Paule as I poynted you to before bringeth in Moses Leuiti 18. in Deutero 30. describinge these two rightwisnes as one cōtrarie to the tother of the whiche descripciō I wil not here tarye rede the places ād Paules pistle to the Ro. to the Gala. vnderstande it if god wil geue it yowe This is therfore Paules sentence to the Romans in the thirde chapter Vve suppose that a man is iustified by faithe with oute the workes of the lawe vnderstanding it of iustificacion and of that rightwisnes that is of liuely faith ād alowed before God as I haue declared it before And for the probaciō of this sentence the Prophetes Christe his awne selfe and his Apostles spente al their labours and liues ād especially Paule labouring above al other to confirme it as it apereth in his pistles and especially in his pistle to the Romans Vvheryn he layed this sentence of the iustifyinge by faith at the beginninge as his principal proposition and chefe foundation grounded of the testimonie of Abaku● the Prophete Agenste the which proposicion the Iwe whiche sought for the rightwisnes of workes as nowe do the false Christen a non obiected saing as you do nowe If faith ōly iustifieth wherfore the is the lawe with so many good workes cōmaunded vs to fulfil it Paule answerthe By the lawe come men in to the knowledge of their sinnes And because ye shulde vnderstand that by the lawe he mēte the moral lawe not the ceremonial He gaue exāple ī the. 7. ca. of the moral law saīg I had not known that cōcupiscēse had bē sinne except the law had saide Thou shalnot luste And nowe therfore saith he Rom. 3. the rightwisnes of God is made manifeste with oute the lawe by the Gospel frome faith to faithe which rightwisnes was sometime preached of the Prophetes and proued by the testimony of the lawe And nowe a● men iustified frely by Goddis mercy and by the redempcion that is in Jesu Christe thorowe faith in his bloude c. Ro. 3. Then agene obiecteth the Iwe as nowe dothe the Christē in the beginnīge of the 4. ca. Vvhat thē shal we saye to Abrahā our father aftir the flesshe what gote he bi his workes Vvas he not iustified bi them If Abraham saith Paule were iustified by his workes so hath he