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A12496	A playne declaration made at Oxforde the 24. daye of July, by mayster Richarde Smyth, Doctor of diuinite, vpon hys Retractation made [and] published at Paules crosse in London, in the yeare of our lorde God, D.D.xlvii. the xv. daye of May	Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.; Smith, Richard, 1500-1563. Godly and faythfull retractation. aut	1547 (1547)	STC 22824; ESTC S104734	11,143	44

redeme man kynde taking away our synnes pacifying the indignation of his father and cancellyng thobligation that was agaynst vs In which Sacrifice makyng vnto his father our sayde Sauyoure Ihesus Christ as saynt Paule sayth playnly to the Hebrewes was not a preest after the order of Aaron forasmuch as he was of another Trybe and also that preesthod was impertite and vnprofitable bringyng nothyng too perfection But our Sauyour Christ made his sacrifice vpon the Crosse parfectly absolutely and with the most hyghest perfection that could be somuch that after that one oblation and sacrifice for syn made by hym but once only nother he nor any other creature shuld at any tyme after make any mo oblacions for the same And for as that saynt Paule sayth he was called an eternall preest of the order of Melchysedech and not of Aaron This fayth ought euery man and woman vndoubtedly to beleue and openly to professe vpon payne of euerlastyng dampnation and also too dye in this professyon if case shall so requyre The which moast holsome moast necessary doctrine of our fayth I not dilygently consideryng as many tymes too right great clerkes lerned men in much writynge in lyke mattiers it hath chaunced to say too far The infirmite and weakenesse of men beyng suche that seldome in many words error hath escaped So in my boke of the Sacrifice of the masse I dyd incircumspectly rashly write and set furth too the people that Christ was not a preest after the order of Melchisedech whan he offred him selfe vpon the Crosse too his father for our synnes but was a preest after the order of Aaron And that when Christ dyd offer his owne body too his father after thorder of Melchisedech 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 it may not be vnderstand of the sacrifice of the crosse but of the sacrifice that Christ made at his Maundy in forme of bread and wyne To the which in dede saynt Paules doctrine is contrary both in other places and in thepistle ad Hebreos very manifestlye agaynst whom who without doubt had the very spirite of God Neither it becommeth nor I wyl not willingly teach or defend any thinge Wherfore you shall impute that good Audience too the frailtye of mans nature and too my negligent marking hauing at th●● tyme rather a respecte too a fantasy that then I had in my mynde than too the trew and infallible doctrine of scripture And moreouer in the same my booke I sayd not only that the Sacrifice of the masse is the selfe same substaunce of christe but also the selfe same oblacion or offeryng of our sauyoure Christes very flesh and blood which him self once offrid to his father on the crosse to appease his wrath And that the preestes do continually and daily in the masse offre not onely the selfe same body of Christ but also to the same effecte that Christ dyd offre himselfe to his father at his Maundy Of the which wordes and doctrine if they be not very warely circumspectly reade and more fauorably taken then the wordes as they lye may well bere it might be gatherd that preestes herein be egall with Christ Preestes of thorder of Melchisedech appeasing the wrath indignation of the father of heauen crucifying or offeryng Christ to the same effecte that Christ in his owne persone dyd vpon the crosse which is a blasphemy intolerable to be herd of christen eares For Christ as saynt Paule sayth was but once offered once gaue vp himselfe for the redemption of our synnes on good friday on the crosse nor neuer before nor after was offered for vs but in a sacrament and as a commemoration of the same And so of the Maundy or Supper of our Lorde Christ himself sayth Hec quotiescūque feceritis in meam commemorationem sacietis Ones he dyed for our synnes and once agayne he rose for our iustification He dyeth no more his sacrifice was so good so ful so pleasant so precious to god that there needed no more oblatiōs to appease god nor only for the synnes past but also for all the synnes to the day of Doome There neede no more sacrifices no more offerers but as hauyng a respect and a remembraunce of that most holy most perfyte and most entier Lambe then for euer offred vp for vs. But these before sayd I can not deny but spoken of me and written And as I do not now lyke theym so at thexample of saint Austen and other good doctors I am not ashamed to retracte theym call theim agayne condempne theim For when I folowed myne own inuention not directed by Scripture I began as the nature of man is to wander and at the last went cleane contrary too Gods woord Wherfore I hertely exhort euery man as touchyng matiers of faith to founde the same vpon Gods certeyn trew and infallyble woorde lest by doyng the contrary they fall into superstition idolatry other manyfold errers as I my self sometyme and many other although I doo not come hyther too accuse any man yet I perceyue of 〈◊〉 tyme haue doone Wherfore these my two bookes the one of the Sacrifice of the masse and thother of the Traditiōs vnwritten in those poyntes before rehersed all other wherin they be not full cōsonent to scripture I forsake renounce 〈…〉 erroneous and agaynst the trew woord of God Requiring the good christen reder whosoeuer shall rede theym to geue no further 〈◊〉 vnto theym then I wold my false That is not to take as vndoubted truth all that is therin written but as written of a man 〈…〉 falleth to be so 〈…〉 be consonaunt to scripture 〈◊〉 they be not agaynst scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 humane persuasion which may either be so 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈…〉 sone shall 〈…〉 consonaunt to scripture 〈…〉 〈…〉 that I muche 〈◊〉 〈…〉 that I wrote them in th●se pointes And I desyre euery man that hath any of the sayd bokes ●s 〈◊〉 of theym and to gyue no 〈◊〉 to th●…m in all such thinges in them written as be not consonant to the scripture as they auoyde occasion 〈◊〉 and tendre the truthe 〈…〉 and his glory 〈…〉 Amen 〈…〉 vnderstand● 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 of my doc●●●●… which I preached here in 〈…〉 ●eportinge 〈…〉 that th●se .iiii. thin●… to 〈…〉 y● 〈…〉 the ●●rites of christ 〈…〉 persone and the worthines of the worke The truth is they dyd mistake me applieng those wordes to our iustification whiche I spake of the workes of a man that is alredy iustified But to thintente that no man hereafter shal wauer or doute of my faith and conscience in the matter of iustification This is my certaine true doctrine therein wherein I am fully resolued and persuaded whiche I haue euer taughte syns I haue ben a teacher of the scripture purposing god willing euer to remaine in the same This I saye and affirme good audience that this saienge that we be iustified by onely fayth in Christ is no newe inuented saieng or proposition but many tymes vsed of the best and moste auncient doctours as Origen saint Basyl saint Chrysostome Ambrose S. Barnarde and diuers other m●●and is a sure and vndoubtfull truthe spoken of them in this meaninge and sence to seclude and put awaye the merites of al mens dedes how good so euer they semed to be and onelye to ascribe the glorye and merite of our iustification to Christ and to his holy bloud and passion by which we are sanctified redemed made good So that it was of thē vsed to abate our pryde and to take away our glory that we shuld truely acknowledge in vs the benefite of god the weaknes imbecillitie and insufficiencie of our selues not that a Christian mā may contemne or dispise good workes or that we shulde thinke a christē mās lyfe to be an ydle a sluggishe lyfe destitute of the feare of god hope repentaunce charitie prayer fastyng almes dedes and all good workes and obedience to the commaundementes of god But that we shulde acknowledge that when we haue done al that euer we can do that we are but vnprofitable seruauntes haue deserued no thankes for oure workes or merites but by the mere grace and goodnes of god through the merites only of his dereste beloued sonne Christ Iesus Which doctrine that onely fayth in Christ doth thus iustifie is true catholyke and a necessarye doctrine to be taught to christen men in this maner The whiche doctrine the moste parte of all which I haue redde of the auncient doctors do confesse and teache And therfore it may after this sort iustly and truly be set forth publyshed and taught also among vs christen men although this sayeng hath ben euyl taken and depraued of some as false and erronious And if a man in dede shulde thynke thus that beleuinge well yf a man myght do so and doynge euyll or doinge nothinge at all accordinge to his belefe and profession hauynge tyme and space therto yet he shold be saued he surely thinketh folyshly and madly and so as neuer lerned man wrote or thoughte that was a christen man and in his right wyttes For scripture is playne He that loueth God kepeth his commādemētes And they that be Christes shepe heare his voice and do therafter wherfore they that take prechers teachinge that we be iustified by onlye faith as though they wold haue them do no good workes they take thē wrongfully folyshly contrary to their true meaninge and vnderstande them not whose meaninge is as I suppose to shew the wekenes of man and the goodnes of god the infirmite of vs the benefyt of christ the imperfectnes of our workes tha boundaunt grace of our sauiour tha batynge of our pride the glory of the crosse of Christ mans weakenes and gods power And in veray deede all our workes fastynge praiers almes deades paines tormentes pouertie abstinence and all kynde of suffring which a man is able to do or abyde is not able to deserue or to get remission of sinne For it is only the mere mercy and great liberalite of almightye god thorowe onely deathe of his sonne Iesus Christ that frely pardoneth our offences and maketh vs acceptable to him In whom we beleuynge faythfully and puttynge al oure confidence and truste in him and fully and firmely cleauynge to him can not be deceaued but on his backe and with him we shal be caried into the house of his father in heauen