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A66393	The difference between the Church of England, and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late book, intituled, An agreement between the Church of England, and Church of Rome.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1687 (1687)	Wing W2701A; ESTC R38648	38,428	98

the Homily shews The third part of the Homily of Salvation The meaning of this Proposition or saying We be justified by Faith in Christ only according to the meaning of the old ancient Authors is this we put our Faith in Christ that we be justified by Him only that we be justified by Gods free Mercy and the Merits of our Saviour Christ only and by no vertue or good Works of our own The Church of Rome The Council of Trent Justification is not only the Remission of Sins but the Sanctification and Renovation of the inward man from whence a man of unjust is made just If any one shall say That men are justified either by the only imputation of Christs rightousness or by the alone Remission of our Sins excluding the Grace and Love which is spread in their Hearts by the Holy Ghost and doth inhere in them or that the Grace by which we are justified is only the favour of God let him be accursed It s call'd our Righteousness because we are justified by it inhering in us If any one shall say That the wicked is justified by Faith alone so that he understands nothing else to be required which may co-operate to obtain the Grace of Justification and that it is not at all necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the motion of his own will let him be accursed The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Placeth the nature of Justification in the forgiveness of Sin. 1. Saith Justification is not only the forgiveness of Sin but also that it is the Sanctification of our natures confounding Justification with Sanctification and that whoever holds the contrary is accursed 2. Saith We are accounted Righteous only for the merit of Christ. 2. Saith We are justified by a righteousness inhering in us The 12 th Article of the Church of England Of good Works Albeit that good Works which are the Fruits of Faith and follow after Justification cannot put away our Sins and endure the Severity of Gods Judgment yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a Tree discerned by the Fruit. Homily of good Works And first of Fasting To have any Affiance or to put any Confidence in our Works as by merie and deserving of them to purchase to our selves and others Remission of Sin and so consequently everlasting Life is meet Blasphemy of Gods Mercy and great Derogation to the Blood-shedding of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Sermon of Salvation part 3. Our own Imperfection is so great through the Corruption of Original Sin that all is unperfect that is within us Faith Charity Hope Dread Thoughts Words and Works and therefore not apt to merit or deserve any part of our Justification for us The Church of Rome The Council of Trent Justified persons are esteemed to have truly deserved eternal life If any one shall say The good Works of the justified are so the gifts of God that they are not also the good Merits of the person justified or that by the good Works which are done by him through the Grace of God and merit of Christ he doth not truly Merit an increase of Grace eternal Life and the obtaining of eternal Life if he shall depart in Grace and also an increase of Glory let him be accursed The Rhemists Annotations This place convinceth for the Catholicks that all good Works done by God's Grace after the first Justification be truly and properly Meritorious and fully worthy of everlasting Life and that thereupon Heaven is the due and just Stipend Crown or Recompence which God by his Justice oweth to the persons so working by his Grace for he rendreth or repayeth Heaven as a just Judg and not only as a merciful Giver and the Crown which he payeth is not only of Mercy or Favour or Grace but also of Justice The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The best Works are imperfect and cannot endure the severity of God's Judgment 1. The good Works of the justified do truly merit eternal Life 2. To put any confidence in our Works and to think they merit everlasting Life is blasphemy 2. Whosoever saith they do not properly merit is accursed The 13 th Article of the Church of England Of Works before Justification Works done before the Grace of Christ and the Inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasant to God forasmuch as they Spring not of Faith in Jesu Christ neither do they make men to receive Grace or as School Authors say deserve Grace of Congruity Yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they have the nature of Sin. The Church of Rome It was a common Opinion in the Church of Rome that Works done before the Grace of Christ do make men meet to deserve Grace of Congruity or that man by the power of Nature can dispose himself for Justification Of this Opinion were Scotus Durandus Biel Cajetan c. Council of Trent If any one shall say That all Works before Justification for whatever reason they are done are truly sins or deserve the hatred of God Let him be accursed The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Works done before Justification do not deserve Grace of Congruity 1. Works done before Justification do merit it of Congruity 2. Works done before Justification have the nature of Sin. 2. Whoever shall say Works done before Justification are truly Sins is accursed The 14 th Article of the Church of England Of Works of Supererogation Voluntary Works besides over and above God's commandments which they call works of Supererogation cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety For by them men do declare that they do not only render unto God as much as they are bound to do but that they do more for his sake than of bounden Duty is required ‡ Whereas Christ saith plainly When ye have done all that are commanded to you say we are unprofitable Servants Second Part Of the Sermon of good VVorks Which Sects and Religions in the Church of Rome had so many hypocritical and feigned VVorks in their State of Religion as they arrogantly named it that their Lamps as they said run always over able to satisfie not only for their own Sins but also for all their Benefactors Brothers and Sisters of Religion as most ungodilly and trustily they had perswaded the Multitude of ignorant People keeping in divers places as it were Marts or Markets of Merit being full of their Holy Relicks Images Shrines and VVorks of overflowing Abundance ready to be sold. The Church of Rome The Catechism In this the goodness and clemency of God is to be praised who hath granted to our weakness that one may satisfie for another

of Prohibited Books with the Rules made by the Fathers of the Tridentine Synod approved by the Authority of Pius IV. Anno 1564. Seeing it is manifest by experience if the Holy Bible be permitted to be read every where without difference in the Vulgar Tongue that more prejudice than benefit doth redound from thence through the rashness of men let it therefore be at the pleasure of the Bishop or Inquisitor that with the advice of the Parish-Priest or Confessor they may grant the reading of the Bible translated by Catholick Authors to such as they shall understand will by such reading receive no prejudice but an increase of Faith and Piety which License let them have in writing But whosoever shall without such License presume to read or have such Bibles he may not have the Absolution of his Sins before he has returned them to the Ordinary The same Index being enlarged by Sixtus V. and reviewed and published by order of Clement VIII Anno 1595. there is added the following Observation about the foresaid Rule It is to be considered about the above written fourth Rule of Pope Pius IV. that there is no new power given by this Impression and Edition to the Bishops or Inquisitors or Superiors of Regulars of granting a License to buy read or keep the Bible published in the Vulgar Tongue seeing the power of granting such Licenses of reading or keeping Vulgar Bibles or any parts of them hath been taken away by the command and use of the Holy Roman Church and the whole Inquisition as also all Summaries and Historical Compendiums of the said Bibles and Books of Holy Scripture written in any Vulgar Tongue which truly is inviolable to be observed So that the power of granting such Licenses and the Liberty of reading the Scripture in the Vulgar Tongue is wholly taken away and accordingly we are told it is so ordered by the General Inquisition of Spain From all which we may observe The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation 1. All saving Truth is in Books written and Traditions unwritten 2. Whatsoever is not read in Scripture nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any Man to be believed as an Article of Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation 2. The Church doth receive and regard unwritten Traditions with the like Piety Reverence as the Books of the Old and New Testament And if any one shal knowingly contemn those Traditions he is accursed 3. In the name of the Holy Scripture is understood those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whose Authority was never any doubt in the Church And the other the Apochrypha the Church doth not apply to establish any Doctrine 3. The Books of Scripture are the five Books of Moses c. Tobias Judith Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Baruch the two Books of Maccabees c. And if any one shall not receive these whole Books with all their parts for Canonical he is accursed 4. The Scripture were intended for and are to be read by all 4. The Scriptures ought not to be read by the Vulgar 5. The Scriptures are useful for all 5. If the Bible is permitted to be read by all more prejudice than benefit doth arise from it 6. The Church is a Witness and Keeper of Holy Writ 6. It belongs to the Mother Church of Rome to judg of the Sense and Interpretation of Scripture The 7 th Article of the Church of England Of the Old Testament The Old Testament is not contrary to the New for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ who is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man. The Council of Trent The Saints reigning with Christ do offer Prayers to God for Men and it is good and profitable to invoke them The most Holy Mother of God by her Intercession doth reconcile God to Sinners She is the Mother of Mercy and Advocatress of the Faithful The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Christ is the only Mediator between God and Man. The Virgin Mary and Saints are Mediators in Heaven See more Article 22. The 9 th Article of the Church of England Of Original or Birth Sin. Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians do vainly talk but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every Man that naturally is ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam c. The Church of Rome The Council of Basil. We do define and declare c. the Doctrine that declares the glorious Virgin Mary to have been always free from Original and Actual Sin Holy and Immaculate is to be approved retained and embraced by all Catholicks as pious and consonant to Ecclesiastical Worship the Catholick Faith Right Reason and Holy Scripture and that for the future it shall be lawful for none to Preach or Teach the contrary The Council of Trent This Holy Synod doth declare That it is not its Intention to comprehend in this Decree concerning Original sin the blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mary the Mother of God but that the Constitutions of Pope Xystus IV. of happy memory are to be observed under the Penalties therein contained which it doth inforce Of the Sense of these two Councils in this matter see Joh. Baptistae de Lezana Apol. pro immacul Concept cap. 13. The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Original Sin is the fault and corruption of the nature of every person naturally ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam So that none is excepted but our B. Saviour The Virgin Mary was free from Original and Actual Sin. The 11 th Article of the Church of England Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted Righteous before God only for the Merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own Works and deservings Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine and very full of comfort as is more largely express'd in the homily of Justification The first part of the Homily of Salvation Because all Men be Sinners and therefore can no Man by his own Acts Words and Deeds seem they never so good be justified and made righteous before God but every Man is constrained to seek for another Righteousness or Justification to be received at Gods own Hands that is to say the forgiveness of his Sins And this Justification or Righteousness the forgiveness of our Sins which we so receive of Gods Mercy and Christs Merits embraced by Faith is taken accepted and allowed of God for our perfect and full Justification Faith doth not shut out Repentance Hope Love Dread and the Fear of God to be joyned with Faith in every Man that is justified but it shutteth them out from the office of justifying that is meritously as