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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07538	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 24. of October. 1624. By Robert Bedingfield Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church in Oxford	Bedingfield, Robert, 1597 or 8-1651.	1625 (1625)	STC 1792; ESTC S101420	26,141	48

still throwing down this top of Babell and with a criticall precisenes giuing all vnto grace When wee were children of wrath Eph. 2.13 Enemies to God Rom. 5.10 reprobate to euery good worke the same Epist the 8.1 Then was our election of grace Rom. 11.5 our vocation was according to grace 2 Timoth. 1.9 Faith was giuen vs Philip. 1.29 and our iustification was gratis Rom. 3.24 Nemo quicquam agit ad seipsum generandum no man is his own father and begetteth himself 't is as good diuinity concerning mans regeneration and second birth as it is Philosophy concerning his first and as we are iustified freely by grace so by grace also shall we be freely glorified Heauen will not be taken by violence neither shall they who shall weare the Crown of blisse euer win it they shall neuer be saued who will be their own Sauiours we may inherit we cannot purchase this Kingdome by industry we cannot by birth we shall obtain it Iacob might haue lost the blessing had he not put on the garments of his brother Esau and so shall we to if we be not clothed with Christ's righteousnes with the righteousnes of our elder brother as with a garment If our good workes were perfect yet are they not our own if they were our own yet are they not perfect if they were both perfect and our own yet could they not merit still the reward is of mercy so saith the Law Exod. 20.6 so the Gospel Rom. 8.18 Our good workes are not our own and Nature's great secretary his position is only true of the workes of Nature Arist 5. lib. Ethic cap 3. Hominem esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we worke not but God worketh in vs. Quoties enim bona agimus Deus in nobis atque nobiscum ut operemur operatur as it is in the 9 Canon of the 2 Councell of Arausica to which I add concilium Mileuitanū the 5 Canon because it hath the approbation of two Roman Popes Innocentius and Caelestinus Our works are not perfect the myrie channell muddeth the water which runneth through it the vnclean vessell maketh the wine vnsauory which is within it what God worketh in man is blemished by the pollution which is in man Tutissimum est fiduciam totam in solâ Dei misericordiâ benignitate reponere Bellarmine in his 5 book de Iustificatione 7 chap. 3 proposition how is it safest to put no confidence in merit and yet is it no danger to teach merit will they belieue that which they dare not hope Christ hath merited our saluation he hath not giuen vs power to merit it he hath satisfied and pay'd our debt he hath not giuen vs wherewith to pay or satisfie neither is our modesty humble enough if we confesse we haue receiued the power of meriting except we deny all power to merit The enemy of grace acknowledged that he had receiued his soule and the faculties of his soule his will and the ability of his will from God and yet was he still an enemy to grace So doe the Romanists still oppose Christ's merits although they deriue their power of meriting from his merits If I would confirme this doctrine with the strength of authority I could cite a cloud of witnesses nursed in their own Schoole Durand Pighius Eckius Gregorius Ariminensis all confessed by Bellarmine in his 5 book de Iustificatione 16 chap. to whom may be ioyned Marsilius Ferus Faber Stapulensis Stella all rightly quoted by our reuerend Bishop in the 2 book of his Protestants appeale 11 chap. besides the many blots which their frequent expurgations haue made in most of the auncient Liturgies and Fathers which are as good testimonies as these mens writings Nay 't is most true of Cardinall Bellarmine himselfe which Kemnitius obserueth of most of your Romish Doctors that in this argument as he is an hereticall disputing Iesuite so is hee a most Orthodoxe meditating Protestant Whose doctrine is not as the Papist maliciously imposeth the vice of the Libertine we teach indeed that the righteousnesse by which we are iustified is not inherent but imputatiue that it is not ours but Christs or if it be 't is made ours and not within vs that on our part faith onely is required and that also ' to be the gift of God Elegit eos quos voluit gratuita dei misericordia non quia fideles futuri erant sed vt essent ijsque gratiam dedit non quia fideles erant sed vt fierent Lombard in his first booke and his 41 distinction Yet doe we affirme that this faith which alone iustifieth is neuer alone Sola fides sed non fides sola as the Schoole critikiseth faith iustifieth without workes and yet is not the faith which iustifieth without workes Faith without workes is dead and faith which is dead cannot giue life eternall life It must be liuely and actiue operatiue and fruitfull wee deny it to be faith in the Puritan phrase that is a naked faith so that we require of our good workes although not a meritorious dignity to iustification yet a dutifull necessity to sanctification God begetteth not children to the Diuels image your carnall Gospellers bastard Christians and pseudo-professors are so farre from being the sonnes of God that they are not his seruants This is our doctrine this our practice for thankes be vnto God our Land is almost as rich in charity as in wealth superstition was neuer more bountifull then is Religion witnesse the Catalogue of our Founders and Benefactors with new additions now so enlarged that the Preacher is forced to be vnthankfull and cannot remember them Our Colledges newly built and now in building our Lectures daily multiplied our Libraries compleatly furnished our poore better prouided for by charity then by Statute and yet well by Statute were the Statutes well executed Our Hospitals lately Founded and yet not so lately but they begin already to be abused I am afraide some of them are so sicke that it were charity to visite them You who haue power and authority you whom God and our Benefactours haue made Visitors and Ouer-seers of their liberality let me beseech you in the bowels of Christ Iesus that you would not suffer that which bounty hath giuen to maintaine luxury or that which hath beene dedicated vnto God to be conferred vpon them who doing the deeds of darknesse and that in the light professe themselues to be the children of the Diuell so shall these houses of piety be as richly endowed with your care as with their Founders Revennues and you shall be as bountifull as their Benefactors without expence I haue now shewed you the way how eternall life is conferred vpon vs 't is freely and by gift 't is but Aske and haue and I make no quaestion but that ye are willing to petition for it that therefore ye may know to whom to direct your supplications I must shew you the Authour who is God Eternall life is the gift of