downe from the father of lights Saint Paule also We are not able of oure selues to thinke anye thing that is good as it were of our selues but our abilitie commeth of God. Agayne vnto the Romaynes I knowe that in me that is to saye in my fleshe dwelleth no good thing For to will is present with me but I finde no meane to performe that which is good for I doe not that good thing which I woulde but that euill doe I which I would not Also the naturall man is not able to perceyue the thinges of the spirite of God for they are but folishnes vnto him neyther can he knowe them bicause they are spiritually discerned And 1. Cor. 12. God worketh all things in euery man. Agayne No man can say that Iesus is the Lorde but by the holy ghost Also Dauid Euery man liuing is altogither vanitie And in the 8. Chapter of Genesis The heart of man is enclined to euill euen from his youth To the Ephesians We were naturally the children of wrath euen as well as other Gregorie vpon the 7. psalme vpon the versicle Anima mea c. Forasmuch as freewill is corrupted in our first father we haue not the power to will well if we bee not ayded with the grace of God. Saint Hierome in his commentarie vpon Ieremie Chapter 23. Forasmuch as the heretikes haue accustomed to promise felicitie and to open to sinners the kingdome of heauen saying thou mayest imitate the maiestie of God so that thou be withoute sinne bicause thou hast receyued the power of free will and the intelligence and vnderstanding of the lawe by the which thou mayst obtayne that which thou wouldest Euen so the sayde heretikes doe abuse the poore simple people through fayre wordes and chieflye the yong women charged wyth sinnes who are caryed here and there with euery kynde of doctrine deceyuing thorowe flatterie all those which heare them Augustine in the 30. booke of his homilies Homilie 41. Let vs not consent vnto those which thorowe great pride go about to eleuate and extoll free will the whiche so doing doe bring more euill than good and seeke nothing but to ruinate and destroy man but let vs consider meekely that which the Apostle speaketh It is God that worketh in vs both the will and also the dede euen of his free beneuolence Let vs giue thankes vnto the Lorde our redeemer which without any merite preceding hath healed vs of our wounds sores and hath reconciled vs vnto God and redeemed vs from captiuitie and reduced and brought vs from darkenesse into light and called vs from death to lyfe c. Of merite and of good workes By grace are yee made safe throughe faith and not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes least anye manne shoulde boast himselfe For we are his workemanship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes which God ordeyned that we shoulde walke in them S. Ambrose in the first booke of Cain and Abel Chap. 7. It is the deede of a dull and slowe heart to attribute to his proper vertues that which is good or that whiche he doth obtayne of God and not to the author of grace but to esteeme himselfe to bee the author of his goodnesse There is another kinde of sinne yea lesse but of equall arrogancie and pryde that is to say of those which doe not denie God to be the distributer of goodnesse but doe thinke the goodnesse which commeth vnto them is bicause of their prudence and wisedome and that the merites of all other vertues are giuen vnto them of right And for that cause it is sayde agaynst those which haue receyued the heauenly grace that they doe not esteeme themselues in no wise to bee vnworthy to haue suche goodnesse of God When the Lorde thy God shall begyn to consume his people here in thy presence saye not in thine heart the Lorde hath brought me in to possesse this lande for my righteousnesse c. S. Barnard in the fyrst sermon of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Beleeue not that thou canst throughe any workes merite eternall life except it be giuen thee freely For who is that which can make him cleane being conceiued of filthy seede but only he which is altogeather cleane And so that which is done cannot be vndon But bicause that God doth not impute it it shall be as though it had neuer bene done Whiche the Prophet considering speaketh in this sort blessed is the man vnto whome the Lord imputeth no sinne But as concerning good workes it is most certaine that none hath them of him selfe for if the humayne nature being yet entire and whole coulde not holde it selfe in his estate how much lesse can it rayse it selfe when it is already corrupted But we doe knowe very well concerning this eternall life that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory that shall be shewed vnto vs Yea when man shall suffer them all togeather For mans merites are not suche as by them eternall life shoulde of right be due vnto them or that God doth iniury and wrong vnto some men if he doe not giue it For although I should not say that all merites are the giftes of God in somuch as man is more bound vnto God for those merytes then God is vnto man yet what are all the merites in respect of so greate glory S. Barnarde of free will. What hast thou that thou hast not receyued art thou created art thou healed art thou saued whiche of them hast thou of thy selfe whiche of them is not impossible for free will thou couldest not create thy selfe when thou wast not made nor iustifie thy selfe when thou waste a sinner c. Agayne in the same booke But if that will vpon which all merites doe depende was not in Saint Paule by what meanes did he presume that the crowne shoulde bee kept for him which he calleth the crowne of righteousnesse But it is bicause that whiche is promised thankfully is of right demaunded as a thing due Finallye he sayth I knowe him in whome I haue beleeued and am persuaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed to his keeping He doth call the promise of God the thing kept and therefore he hath beleued him which hath promised it confidently he doth aske agayne the promise the promise I say done through mercye but the which ought nowe to bee restored through righteousnesse The crowne then whiche Saint Paule hath striued for is the crowne of righteousnesse but it is of Gods righteousnesse and not of his This is trulye a iust thing that he doth restore that whiche he hath sayde but he oweth that whiche he hath promised and that is the righteousnesse of the whiche the Apostle did presume euen the promise of God. S. Barnarde vpon the Canticles sermon 47. Wherefore is that That is to the ende it doe
goodnesse are of God yea faith it selfe Againe the Apostle saith I haue obtayned mercie O true confession He doth not say I haue obtayned mercy bicause that I was faithful but to the ende that I should be faithfull I haue obtayned mercie Let vs come vnto the first works of Paule Let vs behold Saule which did wax madde let vs behold him in his crueltie let vs behold him breathing out his threatnings and thirstie after bloude This was the way of Paule Christ was not yet his way what had he in his heart What had he but euill Giue me his merites Whiche if we doe searche his merites they shall bee merites of damnation and not of deliuerance Augustine vpon the wordes of the Lorde Sermon 40. The medecine of the soule is the only propitiation for the sinnes of all that is to beleeue in Christ c. Afterwarde he saith wherefore doe the children of God whiche beleeue in him liue for they are borne of God by the adoption of grace whiche is through the faith of our Lorde Iesus Christ And therefore welbeloued it is not without cause that our Lord and Sauiour saith that same to be the only sinne of which the holy Ghost rebuketh the world to wete because they haue not beleeued in him He would then that the world should be reproued only of that sinne that they doe not beleeue only in him to wete because that in beleeuing in him all sinnes are pardoned he woulde that to be imputed by which all the other are assembled And therefore in beleeuing they are borne of God and are made the children of God for he hath giuen vnto them the power saith he to be the sonnes of God euen to them that beleeue in his name c. Chrysostome vpon the .25 chapter of Saint Mathewe 2. Tome .2 homilye Come ye blessed of my father inherite ye the kingdome prepared for you from before the beginning of the worlde bicause that you haue giuen that which you cannot haue receiue that which you shall possesse eternally for one graine that you haue sowen vpon earth you shall haue an hundreth folde asmuch in heauen For the kingdome of heauen hath not bene created suche as the righteousnesse of man could merite it but such as the power of God might prepare it for if he woulde haue created the kingdome of heauen according to the merites of mans righteousnesse Truely he would haue created it after mans workes but bicause that nowe he hath not ordayned the reward of Saintes according to the reward of men but according to his greatnesse therefore hath he prepared the kingdome of heauen in heauen before that he created the saints in heauen S. Barnarde vpon the first sermon of the Annunciation of the virgin Marie The testimonie of our conscience is our reioycing sayth the Apostle not such testimonie as the proud Pharisey had in his wicked thought and seducing his master which bare witnesse of him selfe whiche witnesse is true which the spirite doth witnesse vnto our spirite For I doe beleeue that this witnesse consisteth in three things First and aboue all things it is necessarie to beleeue that thou canst not haue remission and forgiuenesse of thy sinnes but throughe the indulgencie of god Secondly thou canst not haue any good workes except he himselfe doe giue them vnto thee Finallye that thou canst not merite eternall life for any workes and it must be giuen thee freely c. Afterwardes he sayth For we doe well know that as for eternall life the afflictions of this lyfe are not worthie of the glorie which shall be shewed vpon vs although that one only man doth abide and suffer al. For mans merites are not suche that for them eternall life shoulde be due of right or that we shoulde saye that God doth vs wrong if he doe not giue them vs by reason of them For though I shoulde holde my peace that all merites are the gifts of God insomuch that for them man is more indebted to God than God is to man What is that that all the merites doe in respect of so great glorie To conclude what is he that is more excellent than the Prophete vnto whome the Lorde doth giue so excellent a witnesse saying I haue founde a man according to mine owne heart And yet he had neede to saye vnto God Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant c. Let no man then deceyue himselfe for if he will thinke well he shall finde without all doubt that he can not with ten thousande men go to meete him whiche commeth agaynst him wyth xx thousande But these things which we haue now spoken of are not yet altogither sufficient but wee must the rather holde them for a beginning and foundation of fayth Therefore if thou beleeue that thy sinnes cannot be put or blotted out but by him agaynst whome onely thou hast sinned thou doest well But adde yet one thing more to wete that thou beleeue also that thy sinnes by him are pardoned Beholde the testimonies and witnesses which the holy ghost doth giue into our heartes saying thy sinnes are pardoned thee For euen so doth the Apostle think that man is iustified freely through fayth In lyke maner as touching merites if thou beleeue that one cannot haue them but by him it sufficeth not vntill such time as the spirite of fayth doth witnesse that thou hast them through him Euen so it is necessarie that thou haue also witnesse to wete that thou doest come therevnto thorowe Gods liberalitie For it is he which pardoneth sinnes which giueth merites and yet neuerthelesse doth giue agayne the rewarde For all his testimonies are most assured For as to the remission of sinnes I doe hold the passion of our Lord for a most strong argument For the crye of his bloude hath had greater force than the bloude of Abel in as much as he doth crie in the heartes of the electe remission of all sinnes For he was deliuered to death for our sinnes And there is no doubt but that his death is more puissant and of greater force to doe good than our sinnes are to doe euill As touching good workes his resurrection is an argument for me which hath no lesse vertue For asmuch as he is rysen againe for our iustification as touching the hope of reward his ascention serueth for a witnesse for he is ascended for our gloryfication Thou hast these three things in the psalm saying Blessed is the man vnto whome the Lorde imputeth no sinne And in another place blessed are the men whose strength is in thee Also in an other place Blessed is the man whom thou hast chosen and receiuest vnto thee that he maye dwell in thy courte such is the true glory I say which is within for that dooth departe from him whiche dwelleth in our heartes through faith But the sonnes of Adam seeking the glorye which
all the Apostles The rocke giueth name to Peter not Peter to the rocke Mat. 16. 1. Cor. 3. Iohn 8. Mat. 16. Collo 2. 1. Iohn 5. Philip. 1. 2. Pet. 1. S. Augustine recanteth Iesus Christ hath builded his Church vpon him selfe and not vpon Saint Peter 1. Cor. 1. Gregorie vvoulde not be called vniuersall Pope Iohn 8. Rom. 3. Iohn 15. 2. Cor. 3. Galat. 5. Philip. 1. Philip. 2. Rom. 7. Man cannot be made better by the merit of his vvorkes Free vvill lost 2. Pet. 2. Iohn 8. Man is solde vnder sinne Iohn 8. Râ—â—â—â— 9. VVe ought not to defeÌ„d free vvill or nature as the vvise men of this vvorlde doe Psal. 49. Libertie lost thorovv sin Psal. 148. No good cogitation can procede from vs but by the vertue of God in vs. Psal. 95. Ezec. 18. God commaundeth that vvhich man caÌ„not and giueth that vvhich hee commaundeth Adam hath damned all his posteritie in himselfe Free vvill to doe euil but not to doe good Rom. 8. Augustine sayde that man hath freevvill but he doth vnderstande it to doe euill Iohn 15. Pro. 16. 2. Cor. 3. Catholike fayth destroyed by free vvill Psal. 81. Man naught of himselfe 1. Cor. 4. Genes 1. Iames. 1. Good vvorkes procede not of man. Free vvill deliuereth not No grace of God by free vvill nor by the lavve Rom. 9. Throughe sinne the free vvill is lost 2. Pet. 2. Iohn 15. Iohn 6. Iam. 1. 2. Cor. 3. Rom. 7. Galat. 5. 1. Cor. 2. 1. Cor. 12. Esay 26. 1. Cor. 12. Psal. 39. Genes 8. Ephes 2. VVe ought not to accorde vvith them vvhich do establish free vvill Phil. 2. 2. Ephe. 2. Nothing done by our vertue Deut. 9. VVee can through no vvorkes merite eternall lyfe Iob. 14. Psal. 32. Rom. 8. VVe receyued al things of God. 2. Tim. 1. Grace cannot bee vvhere merite hath taken place Grace doth iustifie vs freely Iohn 15. Oseas 2. VVe are indebted vnto God vvith all oure vvorkes VVe ought not to esteme our vvorkes Safetie in the vvounds of our Lord. Our merite is of the mercie of the Lorde 1. Cor. 1. The sonne of God hath taken oure proper flesh vvherby vve haue firme assurance Iesus Christ hath satisfied for our sinnes The proude reioyce in their ovvne strength To boast vpon merits is to be seperate from grace Psal. 32. Iames. 2. Good vvorkes are the fruite of fayth Rom. 8. Iohn 17. Heb. 2. Our proper flesh and our proper blud is in Iesus Christ and there vvhere hee doth reygne vve doe reygne vvith him Math. 11. Ephes 5. Genes 2. The death of Iesus Christ is our merite Genes 27. Psal. 32. Rom. 4. Rom. 3. 2. Tim. 4. 1. Cor. 15. 2. Tim. 2. He vvhich maketh him selfe righteous doth more than if he made himselfe a man. Phil. 3. Psal. 32. Rom. 3. Rom. 4. If GOD should revvarde our vvorkes he should finde them altogither vvicked vvold condemne vs. Gods righteousnesse giuen vs is ours MaÌ„ hath no righteousnesse Rom. 3. Rom. 7. Abraham iustified thorovv fayth only before the lavve Onely faith doth saue vs. Psal. 32. Mat. 13. Ephe. 2. God giueth his grace freely bicause he can finde nothing for to saue 2. Cor. 11. The righteous cannot abyde in righteousnes if he be not holpen Math. 9. Rom. 3. He vvhich doth pardon sinnes is god Ephe. 2. Free vvill lost by sin Gala. 2. If the streÌ„gth of our nature coulde iustifie vs then Christ dyed in vain Rom. 10. Psal. 100. Gene. 2. If we haue povver to iustifie our selues vve neede not pray vnto God to iustifie and make vs cleane Mat. 18. Luk. 19. 1. Cor. 4. 1. Cor. 1. 2. Cor. 10. Ierem. 9. Rom. 2. Psal. 62. Mat. 16. Apoca. 22. Galat. 5. Rom. 5. Rom. 12. Ephe. 4. 1. Cor. 12. Iam. 1. The grace of God not giuen vnto vs by our vvorkes Psal. 59. There is no Saint vvhich is vvithout sinne Psal. 143. Iob. 9. Rom. 7. The ende of vertue is but a beginning Galat. 5. Our righteousnesse is only of the mercye of God. Luk. 18. Rom. 11. Esay 40. 1. Cor. 2. Sap. 9. It behoueth that faith do ayde oure debilitie VVee are debters to God. Lam. 2. S. Paule and S. Iames are not contrarie the one to the other Rom. 4. Galat. 5. Loue cannot be ydle for it forsaketh euil and doth good 1. Cor. 13. Rom. 4. Rom. 4. Iame. 2. The meaning of S. Paule and of S. Iames and hovve vvee ought to vnderstaÌ„d them Luc. 7. The vvorkes of the lavve serue nothing for iustification Esay 64. 1. Cor. 4. 1. Tim. 1. Gala. 1. Act. 9. Iohn 6. Mat. 9. Mat. 5. All sinnes pardoned by fayth Iohn 1. Mat. 25. Mat. 19. The kingdom of heauen not created as man coulde merite but as God might prepare it 2. Cor. 1. Luk. 18. No remission of sinnes but of God. Rom. 8. 1. Reg. 16. Psal. 143. Luc. 7. Rom. 3. Let vs assure our selues to come to heauen through the gift of God. Heb. 12. Rom. 4. Remission of sinnes is through the bloude of Christ Ephe. 4. Psal. 32. Psal. 84. Psal. 65. Iames. 1. The trusting to vvorkes auaileth nothing to seke eternall life Rom. 1. 1. Cor. 1. Colos 1. Rom. 7. Rom. 11. Rom. 9. Ephes 2. Titus 3. Act. 15. 2. Par. 10. Titus 3. Philip. 1. Philip. 1. Philip. 3. Rom. 8. Esay 50. Psalm 3. Psal. 73.44.102 Ephe. 2. 1. Pet. 2. Philip. 1. Iohn 1. Psal. 36. Deut. 29. Psal. 119. Ezech. 36 Psal. 62. Ierem. 31. Rom. 3. Rom. 4. Genes 15. Galat. 3. Iam. 2. Rom. 4. Rom. 5. Rom. 11. Rom. 14. Galat. 2. Galat. 2. Galat. 3. Genes 15. Deut. 27. Abac. 2. Rom. 1. Heb. 10. Leuit. 18. Deut. 21. Galat. 3. Rom. 3. Heb. 11. 1. Pet. 1. Act. 15. Math. 9. Math. 9. Luk. 8. Iohn 6. Mar. 9. Rom. 6. Rom. 10. Rom. 10. Esay 28. 1. Cor. 1. 2. Cor. 10. Ierem. 9. Iere. 23. and 33. Act. 10. Ierem. 31. Mich. 7. Act. 4. Galat. 5. Rom. 12. Iob. 9. Iob. 10. Iob. 15. Iob. 25. Esay 64. Eccle. 7.3 Reg. 8. 2. Cor. 6. 1. Iohn 1. Esay 45. Esay 50. Esay 53. Titus 3. Ierem. 2. Ierem. 14. Esay 57. Act. 13. Iohn 1. Rom. 8. Rom. 8. Psal. 143. Prou. 24. Psal. 130. 1. Tim. 1. VVhat vvee ought to demaunde Psal. 141. Psal. 37. Philip. 2. God giueth vvill that vve may doe that vvhich hee commaundeth 1. Cor. 15. The lavve vveakened thorovv the fleshe Rom. 7. 〈◊〉 â—5 〈◊〉 Christ 〈◊〉 â—hou◠〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 vve 〈◊〉 to vâ—â—â—â—stâ—nde 〈…〉 â—ne Rom. 8. Galat. 4. Rom. 10. Rom. 10. Galat. 3. Galat. 3. Galat. 5. Galat. 3. Galat. 3. Abac. 2. Rom. 1. Galat. 3. Galat. 3. Deut. 27. Iames. 2. Pro. 24. Gala. 4. Rom. 13. Mat. 22. Galat. 5. Ephe. 2. Col. 2. Rom. 3. Rom. 5. Rom. 7. Rom. 7. To loue god vvith all our heart and our neighbour as our selfe cannot be accomplished in this life Mat. 18. It is asked againe of him vvhich hath not vvherevvith to pay as also God demaundeth
Poet flourished in the time of Maximilian the first and Alexander the .6 Pope Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus borne in the dominion of Venice a bishop flourished the yere 1501. vnder Maximilian Emperour and Pius the 3. Pope He wrate a large historie from the creation of the worlde to the yeare 1504. whiche is augmented by Gaspar Hedio Gesner Simler The order of the Councelles according to Pantaleon AT Carthage once very famous now ruinous and cleane destroyed a Citie in the kingdome of Tunes vnder the Turkes dominion were celebrated sixe Councelles The first in the yeare 360. Galienus being Emperor 32. in succession and Stephen the first Pope The seconde the yere 413. Honorius being Emperor The thirde in the yeare 429. vnder Theodosius the 2. The fourth fifth in the yeare 437. vnder the same Emperor The sixt by 217. Byshops in the yeare 459. vnder Martianus At Anticyra in Galatia was celebrated a Councell by Vitalis Bishop of Antioche the yeare 295. Diocletian being Emperour At Nice a Citie in Bithynia nowe called Nichea in Asia the lesse vnder the Turke were celebrated two Councels The first against the Arians the yeare 326. vnder Constantine the great where was established the Nicene Creede The seconde the yeare 781. vnder Constantine the sixt The Councell of Gangra nowe called Cangri in Asia the lesse was celebrated the yeare 333. vnder Constantine the great At Elyberis or Illyberis nowe called Granado in Spayne was celebrated a Coūsell in the yere 337. vnder Constantine the great by xix Bishops At Ariminum now called Rimino in the territorie of Flaminia nowe Romandiola in Italie was celebrated a Councell the yere 362. vnder Iulian the Apostata The Councell of Laodicea in Syria was celebrated the yeare 368. vnder Iulian the Apostata At Constantinople in Thrace sometime called Byzantium builded by Constantine the great nowe the chiefe seate of the Turke and called in his language Stambola were celebrated eyght Councelles The first the yeare 383. by 180. Bishops vnder Gratian the Emperour The seconde the yeare 448. vnder Theodosius the seconde The thirde in the yere 546. vnder Iustinian the first The fourth the yeare 576. vnder Iustine the seconde The fift the yeare 681. by 289. Bishops vnder Constantine the v. The sixt the yeare 695. vnder Iustinian the seconde The seuenth the yeare 726. by 330. Byshoppes vnder Leo the thirde Emperor The eyght the yeare 870. vnder Basilius Macedo Emperor of the East and Lewes the seconde of the West At Toledo in Spayne were celebrated 13. Councelles The first the yeare 393. vnder Arcadius and Honorius by 18. Byshops The seconde the yeare 470. vnder Leo the first The thirde the yeare 615. vnder Heraclius by 62. Byshoppes The fourth the yeare 632. vnder Heraclius The fifth and sixt the yeare 639. vnder Constantine the thirde The seauenth the yere 680. But according to Phrygio 640. by 30. Bishoppes vnder Constantine the fourth The eyght the yeare 666. by 59. Bishoppes vnder Constantine the fourth The ninth and tenth the yeare 675. by 16. Bishoppes vnder Constantine the fourth The xi xii xiii the yeare 692. vnder Constantine the fourth The Councell Mileuitan was celebrated at Mileuita in Aphrica against the Pelagians the yeare 418. vnder Honorius The Councell of Ephesus nowe called Epheso in Ionia in Asia the lesse was celebrated the yeare 430. by 200. Bishops agaynst the Pelagians and Nestorians vnder Theodosius the 2. At Orenge in France but excepted from the dominion of the Frenche Kings hauing a seuerall Prince were helde two Councelles The first the yeare 451. vnder Theodosius the seconde and Valentinian The seconde the same yere vnder the sayde Emperors The Councell of Chalcedon in Bythinia nowe called by the Turkes Scutari situated right ouer against Constantinople was helde the yeare 453. agaynst the Eutychians Manichees and Dioscorus by 600. Byshops vnder the reygne of Theodosius the 2. and Valentinian the 3. At Orleans in Fraunce were helde fiue Councelles The first the yeare 518. vnder Iustinus the first by 33. Bishops The seconde the yeare 550. vnder Iustinian the great The thirde the same yeare vnder the same Emperor The fourth the yeare 567. vnder Iustinus the second The 5. the yeare 572. vnder the sayde Emperour At Bracara now called Braga in Spain were helde three Councelles The first the yeare 555. vnder Iustinian the great The seconde and thirde the yeare 583. Martianus being Emperor The Laterane Councelles were seauen The first by Stephan the 3. the yere 767. vnder Leo. The seconde by Nicolaus the seconde the yeare 1058. vnder Constantine the 12. of the East and Henrie the 4. of the West The thirde by Innocentius the 2. the yeare 1138. vnder Caloioannes of the East and Lotharius the 2. of the West Emperors The fourth the yeare 1167. by Alexander the 3. vnder Emanuel of the East and Frederike of the West The fift the yeare 1205. by Innocentius the thirde in the presence of 7. Archbishoppes 412. Bishops 1300. Prelates vnder Henrie the 6. of the West and Balduine the first of the East The sixt the yeare 1446. by Eugenius the 4. vnder Frederike the 3. The seauenth the yeare 1510. by Iulius the 3. vnder Maximilian the first At Chalons in Fraunce were helde two Councelles The first the yeare 670. vnder Constantine the 4. The seconde the yeare 805. vnder Charles the first Emperour of the West and Nicephorus of the East At Wormes in Germany were 5. Councelles The first the yeare 868. vnder Lewes the seconde of the West and Basilius of the East Emperours The second the yere 1067. vnder Romanus the second of the East and Henrie the fourth of the West The thirde the yeare 1494. vnder Maximilian the first The fourth the yere 1520. vnder the sayde Emperour The fift the yeare 1536. vnder Charles the fifte FINIS The summe of the common places contayned in this Booke OF the Supper of our Lorde Iesus Christ Pag. 1. Of confession to God and of auricular confession Pag. 40. Of the power to binde and lose Pag. 46. Of free will. Pag. 51. Of merites and of good workes Pag. 70. and iustification by fayth Pag. 107. Of the Lawe Pag. 133. Of Purgatorie Pag. 147. Of the honouring of Saintes Pag. 174. Of one onely Mediator Pag. 191. Of Images whether they be lawfull in Churches of Christians or no. Pag. 201. Of fasting and meate Pag. 228. Of Mariage Pag. 243. Of Vowes Pag. 254. Of the Church and howe it may be knowen and the authoritie thereof Pag. 258. Of holy Scripture and that it is lawfull for all men to reade it Pag. 293. Of the assemblies and congregations of the faythfull Pag. 340. Of constraining no person to beleeue Pag. 347. Of persecuting Magistrates which vnder shadowe of religion doe persecute the faythfull and their torments of eternall paynes Pag. 368. Finis The Staffe of the Christian Faith. Of the holy Supper of our Lorde Iesus Christ. I Am that liuing breade which came downe from heauen If any man eate
trye and proue it selfe more strong to be full of grace when it dooth attrybute all to the grace that is the beginning and the ende otherwyse howe shall it be full of grace if it had any thing which was not of the grace There is no place where grace shall enter where meryte already hath taken place Nowe then the full confession of grace dooth signifie the fulnesse of the same grace in the soule of the confessor For if there be any thing of itselfe forasmuch as it is there it is necessary that grace doth giue place vnto it All that which thou imputest vnto meryte is taken away from grace I wyll none of the merite which putteth out grace I am afrayd of all that which is of my selfe which doth make me to be to my selfe if it be not that peradueÌ„ture rather it should be I which causeth me to be to my selfe Grace doth make me iustified freely so doth deliuer me from the seruitude bondage of sinne Ye haue not chosen mee but I haue chosen you and I haue not founde thy merytes for to chose thee but I haue preuented thee euen so then I haue espoused and marryed thee in fayth and not by the workes of the lawe I haue ioyned thee in righteousnesse but in the righteousnesse wich is through fayth and not of the lawe It resteth that you iudge right iudgement betwene thee and mee that is to say the iudgement in the which I haue fianced thee where it is manifested that thy merite hath not bene the meane but only my pleasure For beholde the iudgement that thou doe not exalt thy merit that thou do not preferre the works of the lawe that thou doe not preferre the charge of the heate of the daye But that thou doe knowe rather to haue all thy hope and trust in fayth in mercye and kyndenesse Augustine of the predestination of Saintes Mans merites shall keepe silence here which were lost in Adam and the grace of God shall reygne as it reygned by Iesus Christ Saint Augustine vpon the 139. Psalme The Saintes doe attribute nothing to their merites but all to the mercie of God. Augustine in the 2. Quinquagesima Psal. 88. When man doth see and perceyue that all that goodnes that he hath he hath it not of himselfe but of his God he doth see that all that which is praysed in him is not of his merites but of the mercy of God. Chrysostome vpon Genesis Homilie 33. All our workes whiche doe followe the thankefull calling of God are as debtes which we doe render vnto him but his benefites are of grace beneuolence and pure liberalitie S. Hilarie vpon S. Mathew in the 20. Canon vpon this place called the labourers Truly no hyre is not of gift for it is due for the worke But God hath giuen vnto all men grace freelye in iustification of fayth Augustine in his Quinquagesima psalm 137. I doe not say vnto the Lorde that he shoulde dâ—â—pise the worke of my handes It is very true that I doe seeke the Lord with my handes and am not deceyued but I doe not esteeme the workes of my handes for I doe feare that if God behold them that he should finde more sinne then meryte This onely doe I say pray and desire that he doe not despise the worke of his handes O Lorde then see and beholde thy worke in me and not mine for if thou doest see mine thou wylt condemne it if thou seest thine thou wylt rewarde and crowne it and in deede all the good works which I haue are come from thee S. Barnard vpon the canticles sermon 61. Where shall those that are weake find true rest and saftye but in the woundes of our sauiour I doe dwell there so much the more safely for that he is puyssant to saue The worlde is nigh vnto me to trouble me my body doth molest and griue me the deuill also lyeth in wayght to catche me I wyll not fall bicause that I am stayed vpon a sure rocke If I haue greuously sinned my conscience is troubled but it shall not be confounded when I shal remember the woundes of the Lorde c. Afterwarde he concludeth saying my meryte is the mercye of the Lorde I am not poore of merytes whilest that the Lorde is ritch in mercye So muche the more as the mercyes of the Lord are great so much the more do I abound in merits Shall I sing my righteousnesse O Lord I wyll remember thine only righteousnesse for the same is myne forasmuche as thou hast bene made for me the righteousnesse of God thy father S. Barnarde vpon the psalme Who so dwelleth c. sermon 15. psalm 91. Behold all the merytes of man is to put all his hope and trust in him whiche doth saue man wholy Augustine vpon the .88 psalm in his fyrste treatise I might despayre bicause of my great sinne and through my infinite negligences if the sonne of God had not taken our fleshe Afterwarde he sayth all my hope all the assurance of my confidence is put in his precious bloud the which hath bene shedde for vs and for our saluation In him my poore hart doth take breath And trusting altogither in him I desire to come vnto thee O father hauing not my righteousnesse but that of thy sonne Iesus Christe Augustine writing vnto Boniface the .3 booke Chapter 5. All the faithfull people which doe sigh and grone vnder the burthen of their corruptible fleshe and inclosed with this present life haue this only hope that we haue a mediator to say Iesus Christe whiche hath satisfied for our sinnes Augustine vpon the .32 psalm and the .109 psalm The Lorde is faithfull who made him selfe debter vnto vs not in taking any thing of vs but in promising vs all thinges freely Augustine in the first Quinquagesima psalm 31. O what are you which secretely doe take pleasure or delight in your owne vertue O proude infidells which doe reioyce your selues in your strengthes If you doe beleeue hereafter in him which doth iustifie the wicked your fayth shall be compted for righteousnesse Reioyce you righteous in God and be mery and wherefore Bicause you are righteous and whereof are ye righteous The same is not through your merytes but through the grace of God whereof are you righteous But for bicause he hath iustified you by fayth and knowledge the which without your merytes he hath giuen vnto you Also in the same booke Vnto him sayth the Apostle whiche doth the workes the higher is not imputed according to grace but according to the debt If thou wilt seperate thy selfe from grace boste thy selfe of thy merytes Truly God doth knowe very well what thou art and what thing he ought to giue vnto euery one And he whiche dooth not good workes and which after many euills that he hath done beleeueth in God who iustifieth the sinner whiche beleeueth in him his fayth will
fight If he hath not giuen it what is that that thou sayest in another place I haue laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which is in me In that then that he hath ayded thee and that he hath giuen vnto thee thou hast fought a good fight and hast fulfilled thy course and hast kept the fayth Pardon mee Apostle I doe knowe nothing of thine owne but the euils Pardon me Apostle we doe speake it bicause that thou hast taught it I do heare him which confesseth himselfe and I doe not finde that he is vnthankfull Truly in all that thou art instructed of thy selfe we can knowe nothing but euill Then when God doth crowne thy merites he crowneth nothing but his giftes to the ende that none be waxen proude of such fayth or of such puritie in good workes through his free will. Augustine vpon the wordes of the Apostle sermon .15 Thou shalt doe the worke of God not only bicause thou art a man but also bicause thou art iust and righteous for it is better to be righteous then to be a man if God hath made thee a man and that thou makest thy selfe righteous thou doest a better thing then God hath done But God hath made thee without thy selfe for thou hast giuen no consent vnto God for to make thee how shouldest thou consent which wast not then borne He then which hath made thee without thy selfe doth he not iustifie thee without thy selfe He hath then made him which giueth not his consent but he iustifieth him whiche giueth thereunto his wyll and consent yet he doth iustifie thee to the ende it shoulde not be thine owne righteousnesse and that thou shouldest not turne thy selfe to hurt detryment and vnto filthynesse And shouldest be found in him not hauing thy owne righteousnesse which is by the law but that which is of God through the fayth of Iesus Christ that is to say the righteousnesse of fayth for to knowe it and also to knowe the vertue of his resurrection and the fellowshippe of his afflictions and that same vertue shall be the fellowshippe of the afflictions of Christe that shall be thy vertue Augustine in the first Quinquagesima in the Prologue of the .31 psalm Who be those that are blessed Are not those they in whome God did finde no sinne No for he did finde it in all men for all haue sinned and are destitute of the glory of God. If then sinne be found in all it followeth that none are founde blessed but those whose sinnes are pardoned Therefore hath he euen so praysed the same Abraham beleeued God and it was rekened vnto him for righteousnesse but vnto him which doth the worke that is to say which doth presume of workes and which by the meryte of the same saith that the grace of faith is giuen vnto him The rewarde is not imputed according to the grace but according to the debt What is this but that our rewarde is called grace if that be grace it is giuen freely What is this that is giuen freely It is that thou hast done no good thing and yet the forgiuenesse of thy sinnes is giuen vnto thee if thy workes be considered they shal be founde all wicked and euill if God should render that which is due to such workes truely he shoulde condemne them God doth not render vnto thee the punishment due but he doth giue thee grace which is not due vnto thee Augustine in the fyrst Quinquagesima vpon the .31 psalme verse Lorde I haue hoped in thee O Lorde deliuer me and redeeme me through thy righteousnesse For if thou doe consider my righteousnesse thou condemnest me deliuer me through thy righteousnesse for the righteousnesse of God is ours when it is giuen vs but it is called the righteousnesse of God to the ende that man doe not esteeme or thinke to haue righteousnesse of him selfe For as the Apostle saith vnto him which beleeueth in him which iustifieth the infidell or vnbeleeuing man What is he that iustifieth the infidell He which maketh the infidell righteous What is he that is not saued freely Is it he vnto whome the sauiour doth finde nothing for to crowne him but for to condemne him He doth not finde the merytes of goodnesse but he findeth the merites of euill if he doe as moste truly it is purposed and set foorth by the rule of the lawe the sinner ought to be damned if he doe after that rule whome shall he deliuer For he hath found them all sinners he is come alone without sinne who hath foūd vs sinners The same the Apostle speaketh saying all men haue sinned and are destitute of the glorie of God he doth deliuer thee and not thou thy selfe bicause thou canst not deliuer thy selfe whereof dost thou vaunte and boste thy selfe Wherefore dost thou presume of the lawe and of righteousnesse Dost thou not see that which shall heale thee inwardly is against thee Dost thou not heare the rebell and the confesser and him which desireth ayde and helpe in the battayle saying O wreatched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death the grace of God through our Lorde Iesus Christe wherefore the grace bicause that it is giuen freely without merytes preceeding but the benefites of God haue preuented it S. Ambrose vpon the Epistle vnto the Romains chapter 34. Bicause that without the workes of the lawe faith is reputed for righteousnesse vnto him which beleeueth that is to say vnto the gentill which beleeueth in Christ as it was reputed vnto Abraham how then doe the Iewes thinke to be iustified by the workes of the lawe of the iustification of Abraham seeing Abraham to be iustified not through the workes of the lawe but only through faith The lawe then taketh no place when the infidell is iustified only through faith before God according to the purpose of the grace of God. Euen so ought it to be ordayned to the ende that the lawe doe cease and that we demaund only faith of the grace of God for our health and saluation As also Dauid saith confirming the same by the example of the Prophet The blessednesse of man is in him vnto whome God imputeth righteousnesse without workes He calleth those blessed vnto whome God hath confirmed the same that without labour and without any obseruations through faith only they are iustified with God he declareth then the blessednesse of the time in whiche Christe was borne as also the Lord did saying That many Prophetes and iust men haue desired to see those thinges which ye see and haue not seene them and to heare those things which ye heare and haue not heard them Augustine vpon the words of the Lord in the mountayne Sermon 7. O thou Christian take heede take heede I say of pride for although that thou be a follower of the Saintes yet repute alwayes euery thing to the grace
made miserable bicause that we haue proued what power we haue without god Beholde man was made good and through free will he was made euill Then when shall the wicked man be a good man in forsaking God through free will. He being good coulde not kepe himselfe good Nowe he being euill can he make himselfe good When hee was good he coulde not keepe himselfe good And when he is euill he sayth I do make my selfe good What doest thou being euill when thou art lost being good except that he which continueth alwayes good doe not repayre and amende thee Augustine writing vnto Paulinus 106. Epistle What is he which shal seperate vs from that masse or burthen of perdition and from that fight but only he which is come to saue that whiche was lost Of whome also the Apostle being asked say who is he that doth iudge or discerne thee where if man say it is my fayth it is my will it is my good worke It may be answered him agayne and what hast thou that thou hast not receyued If thou hast receyued it why reioycest thou as though thou hadst not receiued it And yet neuerthelesse all this is sayde not that man shoulde reioyce but hee that reioyceth shoulde reioyce in the Lorde and not of workes to the ende that none doe exalte himselfe not that good workes are frustrate thorowe that faythfull cogitation Howe is it that God will rewarde euery man according to his deedes And that vnto euery man which doth good shall be rendred prayse honor and peace but bicause that workes are of grace and not grace of workes for faith which worketh by loue is nothing worth if the loue of God bee not spreade abroade in our heartes by the holy Ghoste which is giuen vnto vs yea we haue not that faith if God doe not deale to euery man the measure of faith c. Augustine writing to Valentin 46. Epistle Euery good gift and euery perfecte is from aboue and commeth downe from the father of lightes and let no man say that the grace of God is giuen vnto him eyther by the merites of workes or by the merite of his prayer or by the merites of his faith And that he doe not esteeme that to be true which the Heritickes say that the grace of God is giuen vnto vs according to our merites the which is altogither false But the grace and mercie of God doth conuerte man of whom the Psalmist sayeth The mercie of my God shall goe before me to the ende that he that is an infidell be iustified that is to say that of an infidell he be made a righteous man and that he doe begin to haue good merites the which God shal crowne when the world shall be iudged Augustine in his booke of the true definition of faith There is neyther Saint nor righteous man which is without sinne and yet neuerthelesse he leaueth not of nor ceaseth therefore to be holy and iuste inasmuche as through affection hee holdeth sanctification for we are not holy through the force and strength of mans nature but we doe obtayne sanctification through the grace of God whiche dooth ayde and helpe our purpose And therefore all the Saintes truely doe declare them selues to be sinners for truely they haue inough for to lament and bewayle And although that their consciences doe not rebuk them yet they haue to lament bicause of the nobilitie and vnconstancie of nature subiecte to preuarication S. Ierome against the Pelagians A certayne man of our writers hath very well affirmed the Philosophers to be the Patriarkes of Heriticks to haue defiled the puritie of the Church through peruerse doctrine insomuch as that they doe not knowe that which they speake of mans fragilitie or weakenesse Whereof should earth and ashes bost them selues In asmuch cheifely as of them the Apostle speaketh saying I see another law in my members c. And againe I doe not that good thing which I would but that euill doe I which I would not If he doe not that which he woulde how can that be true whiche is sayde that man may bee without sinne if he will By what reason may he be that which he will when the Apostle affirmeth that he cannot accomplishe and fulfill that which he desireth When I shall thinke my selfe to be come to the ende of vertues then shall I but beginne the onely perfection of men is to acknowledge them selues imperfect Chrysostome in his imperfect worke Chapter 6. If euery one doe consider the motions or mouinges of his flesh he shall be founde to do no goodnesse for all goodnesse is accomplished of vs in gainesaying and speaking against our selues bicause that the nature of the fleshe is contrary to goodnesse S. Ierome against the Pelagians firste booke Then are we righteous when we doe confesse our selues to be sinners and our righteousnesse is not of our owne proper mertie but consisteth in the mercy of God for the Scripture saith the righteous man is an accuser of him selfe in the beginning of the worde S. Barnard in his .5 Sermon of dedication Who shall be saued Say the Apostles to the Sauiour And he saide vnto them things which are vnpossible with men are possible with god This is all our trust this is all our consolation this is all the reason of our hope but we whiche are already certayne and sure of the possibilitie what doe we determine of the wil Who knoweth whither he be worthy of loue or hatred Who hath knowen the minde of the Lorde Or who was his counseller Now it is here necessary for vs that fayth doe helpe vs It behoueth here that the truth doe ayde vs insomuche as that which is hid from vs in the heart of the father be reueled vnto vs by his holy spirite and that his spirite in giuing witnesse doth perswade our spirites and mindes that we are the children of God that he doth perswade vs in calling in iustifying vs freely through faith c. Gregory in his morales .22 booke 6. Chapter There are also some men who in doing any good thing doe forget incontinently their sinnes and doe fasten the eye of the hart in the consideration of the good works that they doe therby doe esteme thinke themselues already holy wherefore among the goodnesse that they do they take away the remembrance of their faults in the which peraduenture they are yet stil wrapped who if they did consider diligentlye the rigours of the Iudge they woulde more feare their euils then they woulde reioyce of their imperfect goodnesse They ought to regarde rather that they are debters of thinges that they ought to doe that they haue not payed by their good workes the parte already due And so after the manner of the trauayler we ought by no manner of meanes to regarde or marke what way we haue walked in but what way we haue yet to
torment Be ye ioyfull and reioyce to be enrovvled in their bande for to beare vvith them the yoke of Iesus Christ perseuere valiantly in the doctrine that you haue already receiued for no man can hurt you Ought vve not greatly to reioyce of this that the persecuting tyrantes can doe our bodyes no more hurt then a vvolfe or theefe of the vvoods vvhich can but murther or kill vs Let vs reioyce for our names are vvritten in heauen VVe haue yet this good turne thankes be vnto our good God therefore that the persecutors can do vnto vs no vvorse then to to put and place vs vvith our good God in the company of Angelles and all the blessed soules in heauen VVhat is he that vvould not desire to goe playe vvith so happy a company eternally and vvithout ende Yea to be in glory vvhich the eye hath not seene and eare hath not heard neyther hath entred into mans minde the thinges vvhich God hath prepared to such as loue him Againe forasmuch as they esteeme and court vs so vvicked and abhominable and crye so spitefully after vs as after the vvickedest people of all the vvorld to make vs and our doctrine odious vnto the people They commaund them not to heare or harken vnto vs they make the simple people beleeue vvhen they haue them vnder confession that if they doe not accuse vs they shall be damned Their craft subtiltye and enuye agaynste the truth is to be maruayled at In the meane time I vvould vvillingly that they vvould accord and agree vvith vs to conferre their doctrine vvith ours their crosse and persecution vvith ours their lyfe vvith ours theyr church vvith ours By that means vve should plainly see vvhether they be the childrē of God or vve First of all haue not vve the baptisme purely administred as vve doe reade that the Apostles haue administred it vvithout any inuentions of men but onely according to the vvord of God Let one reade the Scriptures and he shall see vvho it is that hath added to the Sacramentes eyther vve or they Furthermore let men behold the persecutions that they suffer for their doctrine the number is soone counted for there is not one vvhich hath suffred death for their doctrine neuerthelesse Iesus Christ hath promised that his church shal haue persecution in the vvorld saying ye shall be hated of all men for my name Hovv can they be hated of all men sith that they be in all places the best vvelcome Hovv commeth it that one shoulde thinke to doe sacrifice vnto God in putting them to death I did neuer knovve any I doe accord and agree in this that they are often times taken prisoners but it is in the good feastes and bankettes and in the best seates of the table and vvhereas the children of God are burned vvith fire they here are burned throughe the heate of VVine Their innocent fleshe is hevven and cut in peeces but it is at the table vpon their treachers They are rotten and consumed vvith the Goute of Naples insomuch that they fall in peces They are melted and melted againe many times in a yeere Besides all the dangers they put them selues into both day and night to runne after other mens vvyues in great danger of their life And yet some vvill say that they are not persecuted It appeareth that they be for one shall see a great many more among them to dye Martyrs of the paines that vve did speake of euen novv then of their naturall diseases or sicknesses They are then Martyres no man can denie yea but it is of the diuell and vvhat is he that doubteth of it And as concerning their life it is knovven vvell inough and manyfested vnto all men Their good vvorkes and godly fruites vvhat it bringeth in all places destroying and corrupting all the vvorlde asvvell spiritually as corporally This I am sure of that forasmuch as I haue touched and medled but vvith the doore of their kitchin they vvill say I am a vvicked Hereticke But vvhat then Shoulde I hold my peace for their menaces and iniuries No no God forbid but rather I vvill crye vvith open mouth after them bicause they haue so corrupted and destroyed the Lordes Vineyard Alas alas my God vvhat is he that ought not but to lament and vveepe vvith bloudy teares seeing all the vvorld to be so led into the bottome of hell so many poore soules led to perdition O Lord regard thy poore people haue some pitie and compassion on them for vvhom thy sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ hath offred to thee his body and bloud in a sacrifice and suffer not that thy poore sheepe be so put as a pray for to be deuoured of al beastes For vve are dayly assaulted vvith so many ennemyes that sathan riseth agaynst vs for to make vs forsake and abandon our Lord Iesus Christ and to renounce his Gospell One day vve haue vvarre agaynst the Heretickes Anabaptistes an other day agaynst Libertines Epicures Arians Dauidistes and agaynst dissemblers and consequently against the vvorshippers of the fathers through vvhose zeale the children of God are put to death Haue not vve then great neede of vveapons It appeareth yea if vve vvould not be taken in their snares as many at this day are through the iust iudgement of God. Therefore if there be any time to pray or to vvatch it is novve Let vs then vvatch and praye to the end vve may auoyde all those dangers and perseuer and continevve to the ende You haue bene the first of your citie dearely beloued I also doe hope in the Lord you shall not be the last But as you haue bene vntill novv the example and myrror of the poore ignorant people to dravve them to the true light of the spirite I doe hope through the grace of God that nothing shall hinder you to continevve vnto the end on so holy a vvorke For the poore ignorant people seeing the peace and vnitie and the promptnesse and good courage that is in you to receiue the holy doctrine are constrayned through your holy life and conuersation to come vnto the knovvledge of Iesus Christ and consequently to saluation Forasmuch then as the Lord doth vnto you dayly so much good or shevveth vnto you so much of his grace shevving vnto you from day to day his maruaylous vvorkes set to so your handes in the vvorke of the Lord so long as he giueth you time and life that you doe not leaue for your children that shall come after you an euill example of life but instruct them in that holy doctrine that you haue receiued to the ende they may knovve after your death that they had fathers and mothers that feared God and vvell instructed in his vvord and that they haue not receyued the gospell in their mouthe onely but also in their handes And that they vvere not dissemblers but true confessors of the name of God. Dispose and bestovve then vvhilest you haue time so vvell your affayres and
Doest thou thinke that the keyes of the kingdome of heauen are onely giuen vnto Peter and that none other of the blessed shall receyue them Augustine vpon the wordes of the Lord in S. Mathew in his 13. sermon Thou art then Peter and vppon this rocke which thou hast confessed vpon this rocke whiche thou hast knowne saying thou art Christe the sonne of the liuing God I will builde my church Vpon me I will buylde thee and not me vpon thee For those men which woulde be buylded vpon men doe saye I holde of Paule and I holde of Apollos and I holde of Cephas that is to saye rocke and the other which will not be builded vpon Peter but vppon the rocke doe saye I holde of Christ c. Iesus Christ is the heade of the church reade Ephes 4. Colos 1.2 Reg. 22. Augustine in his 3. booke of Baptisme the 3. Chap. And they are the wordes of S. Cyprian in the counsell of Carthage None of vs truly is establyshed Byshoppe of Byshoppes or none shall compell his companions by cruell tyranny through necessitie to come thereunto Gregory wryting to Eulogius Byshoppe of Alexandria in the 7. booke .3 Epistle Behold how you haue wrytten to me you haue put this worde of pryde in calling me vniuersall Pope but I pray your holinesse to call me no more so hereafter For all that which is giuen vnto an other aboue reason is taken from you Concerning my selfe I doe not repute that for honor wherein I doe see the honor of my bretheren weakened For my honor is that the estate of the vniuersall Church and of my bretheren be mainteyned in theyr strength If your holynesse doe call me vniuersall Pope you confesse that you are not in part of that which you attribute and giue vnto me for the whole Of free wyll of the merites of workes and of iustification by faith Iesus Christ sayth whosoeuer committeth sinne is the seruant of sinne Rom. 6. 2. Peter 2. All haue sinned and haue neede of Gods mercie Also Iesus Christ sayth without mee ye can doe nothing We are not apt to thinke any thing as it were of our selues but our abilitie commeth of God. The flesh ryseth agaynst the spirit and the spirite agaynst the flesh and these thinges are contrary one to an other so that ye cannot doe the same thinges that ye woulde Also he which beganne a good worke in you shall goe foorth with it vntill the day of Iesus Christ Agayne it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deede according to his pleasure Likewyse I doe not that good thing which I would but that euill doe I which I would not Augustine in his Enchiridion to Laurence Chapter .29 This part of mankinde vnto whome God hath promised deliueraunce and the euerlasting kingdome can it be made better by his workes No no for what good can he doe which is lost but asmuch as he shall be deliuered from his perdition Can he doe by his free wyll the same the same also he cannot doe For man ill vsing his free wyll did lose him selfe and his free wyll and as he which killeth him selfe whiles he is liuing killeth him selfe but in putting him selfe to death he liueth no more and cannot rayse him selfe vp agayne when he is dead so when he hath sinned by his free wyll bicause that sinne hath bene victoryous hath free wyll ben loste For of whome soeuer a man is ouercom vnto the same he is in bondage This is truly the sentence of S. Peter And bicause that it is true I praye you what may be the liberty of a seruant that is in bondage but when he doth take pleasure to sinne For he serueth freely which doth willingly the wyll of the Lorde and therefore he is free to sinne which is the seruant of sinne and no man shall be free to doe iustly if first being deliuered from sinne he doe not begin to be the seruant of righteousnesse This is the true liberty for the bond of the worke that is wel done and also it is the faithfull bondage bicause of the obeying of the commaundement But from whence shall this libertie to doe well come vnto the man which is brought vnder and solde but by him who hath redeemed him of whom it is sayd if the son make you free then are ye free in deede Augustine vnto Paulinus in the .106 Epistle Let no man stumble agaynst the stumling stone as in defending subtelly free wyll and nature euen as the Philosophers of this world haue done with great force for to be esteemed or for to thinke to great the blessed life by vertue of theyr owne proper wyll Let such people then take heede to make through wysedome of wordes the crosse of Christe vayne and that the same be not vnto them to stumble against the stumbling stone For when humayne nature abydeth in that integryte in the which it hath bene made yet it cannot in any wise keepe it if his creator doe not ayde him Forasmuch then as it cannot keepe the health and saluation that it hath receiued without the grace of god How can it receiue that which it hath lost S. Augustine in the 107. Epistle vnto Vitalis If we will in deede defend free wyll let vs not fight against that whereof it is free for he which gaynsayeth the grace by the which our wyll is made free for to decline from euill and for to doe good he would that his free will be yet bond and captyue When man was in honor he did not vnderstand it he was compared vnto the beastes and was made like vnto them Augustine in his booke of corrections grace the 12. Chapter Now then forasmuch as that greate liberty is lost through the demeryte of sinne euen so doth remayne and abyde the infirmytie for to be ayded and holpen with greater giftes in truth It hath pleased God so to the ende cheifely to quenche the pryde of mans presumption that all flesh that is to say euery man should not glorie in himselfe before him c. The Counsell Mileuitan in two Canons Free will weakened to the first man can Canon 1 not be repayred and amended but thorow the grace of baptisme the which after that it is lost cannot be restored agayne but by him whiche hath power to giue it Wherefore the truth sayth if the sonne make you free then are you free in dede The seconde Canon sayeth God doth Canon 2 worke so in the heartes of men and to free will that if there be any godly cogitation any deliberation tending to the honor of God and any motion of good will all the same proceedeth from god For by him we may doe some good thing and without him we can doe nothing Augustine writing to Valentine of grace and free will. Chap. 18. To the end it should not seeme that men should doe any
Open thy mouth wyde and I shal fill it And although that we cannot open the mouth except it be through the ayde of him without whome we can doe nothing Neuerthelesse wee doe open it through his ayde and through our worke but the Lorde doth fill it without our worke By and by after he sayeth God doth many good things in man which man doth not But man doth none which God doth not to the ende that man doth them Augustine vpon Saint Iohn in the 49. treatise Chap. 9. Let no man then flatter himselfe for of himselfe he is a deuill but of God he is blessed And what is that to be of himself but of sinne Cast awaye the sinne which is of thee thy righteousnesse sayth he is of me For what hast thou that thou hast not receyued Augustine in his contemplations of the soule with god Chap. 18. O Lorde I doe confesse as thou hast taught me that I am no other thing but altogither vanitie and a shadow of death and but a darke earth vayne and voyde the which without thy blessing doth not encrease and bring forth anye fruite but confusion sinne and death If I haue had any good thing I had it of thee All that which I haue receyued is from thee or I had it of thee If I doe any thing that is right that is through thee But when I am fallen I am fallen through my selfe and had alwayes remayned in the myre if thou hadst not lifted me vp I had bene alwayes blinde if thou hadst not illuminated mee When I did fall downe I shoulde neuer haue bene raysed vp againe if thou hadst not giuen me thy hande And afterwarde also when thou hadst raysed me vp I shoulde haue fallen agayne if thou hadst not sustayned mee I had bene oftentimes lost if thou hadst not gouerned me Euen so O Lorde euen so thy mercie hath alwayes gone before me in deliuering me from all euill keeping me from those that be past and in keeping me from those that be present and in defending and preseruing me from those whiche are to come breaking also in peeces before mee the snares of sinners in taking awaye the occasions and the causes for if thou hadst not done vnto me those things I had done all the sinnes of the worlde For O Lord I doe knowe verye well that there is no sinne that euer man hath done but that an other man dothe the same if the creator of whome man is made be absent But thou hast done it so to the ende that I doe not that which thou hast forbidden and hast shed out in me thy grace to the ende that I may beleeue in thee c. Augustine in his .2 boke of the remission of sinnes Chapter 18. Men doe take payne to finde in our wyll some goodnesse which is ours and not of God but I doe not knowe howe they can finde it Saint Barnarde in the first homily of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary As touching good workes it is moste certayne that no man hath them of him selfe for if the humaine nature could not continue in his state when it was whole and perfect how much lesse can it rayse it selfe nowe in that it is marred and corrupted It is most certayne that all thinges drawe to their beginning asmuch as is possible for them Augustine vnto Vitalis in the 107. Epistle Aunswere I pray thee how saith the Apostle in giuing thankes to God the father which hath made vs fitte to be of the company of Saintes in light if it be not he which doth deliuer our free will but that the free will doth deliuer it selfe We doe render then faulsly thankes vnto the father as if he did that which he doth not and he hath erred whiche hath sayde that he doth make vs fitte Aunswere how we haue our free will for to deliuer vs from euill and for to doe good and when free wyll was vnder the power of darkenesse From which darkenesse if God hath deliuered vs as saith the Apostle truely he hath made the wyll free wherefore it followeth that euen as men are not faythfull but by free wyll Neuerthelesse they are made faithfull through the grace of God which hath deliuered free will from the power of darkenesse And so the grace of God is not denyed but is declared to be verytable and true although no merytes of men preceede it And free will is so defended that it is affirmed by humylitie and not ouerthrowen by pryde Then the grace of God is not geauen in the nature of free will nor in the lawe nor in doctryne as the wicked and peruerse Pelagian hath set foorth But is geiuen to all the workes through the will of him of whome it is wrytten O Lord God thou doest seperate from thy wyll the soule that is wylfull for we haue lost free wyll for to loue God through the greatnesse of the first sinne c. Afterwardes he sayth in that we doe beleeue in God or in that we doe liue faithfully it lyeth not then in mans will or running but in the mercy of God nor that we ought to wyll nor runne but bicause that he doth in vs both the wyl and the running Let vs not say then that the grace is the loue but let vs acknoweledge the grace which doth cause the doctrine and learning to profit for where that grace is absent we doe see that the same doth hinder and let the learning Augustine in his fyrst booke against Pelagius and Celestine Whosoeuer hath heard and learned of the father commeth vnto me The wyll of mā is so ayded not only in this that it doth knowe what it must doe but hauing knowen what it doth And therefore when the Lorde doth teach through the grace of his spirite he doth teach in such sorte that not only euery one doth see that which he hath learned in the knowledge thereof but of will he doth desire it and of worke fulfill it Augustine in the .3 booke vpon the wordes of the Apostle .3 sermō And in his booke of the spirite and the letter Chapter 3. How are these wicked men proude of free wyll before they are free or of their strength if they are already free they doe not consider that in this word of free wyll is signified a libertie For where the spirite of the Lorde is there is libertie If then they be the seruantes of sinne how doe they bragge and bost to haue free wyll For of whome soeuer a man is ouercome vnto the same is he in bondage If they are already deliuered how doe they boste them selues as it were of their proper workes Are they so free that they would not be the seruantes of him which sayth without me ye can doe nothing Iesus sayth No man can come vnto me except the father which hath sent me drawe him Saint Iames Euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue and cōmeth
iustifie him Euen as Dauid sayth Blessed is the man whome the Lorde accepteth and iustifieth without workes and how is he iustified But forasmuch as he receiueth of God righteousnesse and what righteousnesse the righteousnesse of fayth the which God giueth without any good workes preceeding but not without good workes following after for righteousnesse of fayth profiteth not if after the fayth receiued man doth not exercise him selfe in all good workes In the same I doe not account thy workes good what soeuer they be if they doe not proceede from the good roote of fayth In the same God doth not giue vnto thee the payne and punishment whiche thou hast well deserued but he doth giue vnto thee the grace not deserued nor due He oweth vnto thee punishment and he giueth vnto thee mercie and doth pardon thee Begin then to be in fayth through the forgiuenesse of thy sinnes Gregorie vpon Ezechiel the first boke homilie 7. Then our iust aduocate doth defende vs for iust at the iudgement bicause that we shoulde acknowledge our selues and accuse our selues as vniust Let vs not then trust in our weepings nor in our works but in the allegation of our aduocate Augustine in his booke of meditations Chap. 14. This is lyfe eternall that they knowe thee to be the only very God and whome thou hast sent Iesus Christ through a right fayth and through workes worthy of fayth For thy inestimable loue exceedeth all knowledge the which thou hast shewed vnto vs throughe thy pietie and goodnesse vnto vs whiche are vnworthy For thy sonne our God in no sort toke the Angels but he tooke the seede of Abraham being made like in all things vnto vs without sinne This is verily all my hope and all my trust for the porcion of euery one of vs is to the same Iesus Christ our Lorde that is to saye the fleshe and the bloude and so where my porcion doth reygne there I doe beleeue that I shall reygne there where my flesh is glorified there I doe know my selfe to be glorified there where my bloude doth beare rule there I doe knowe that I shall rule Although I be a sinner yet I doe not distrust of the communication of this grace and if my sinnes do hinder or let it my substance doth require and aske it And if my offences doe shut me out the communion of the nature doth not dryue me backe but our Lord God is meeke and lowly and loueth his fleshe and his members and his bowels in himselfe which is God and in Iesus Christ our Lorde most meeke and louing and gentle in whome we are raysed vp and are already ascended into heauen and already sitting in the celestiall place Our fleshe doth loue vs and we haue in him the prerogatiue of our bloude for we are his members and his fleshe and finally he is our heade of whome all the bodie doth depende as it is written bone of my bones and fleshe of my flesh and they shall be two in one fleshe this mysterie here is great I saye in Christ and in the congregation sayth the Apostle Augustine in his manuel Chap. 22. All my trust and hope is in the death of my Lorde his death is my merite my refuge my helth my life my resurrection my merite is the mercy of god I am not poore of merite so long as the Lorde of mercie shall be in being if the mercies of the Lorde are great I am great in merites the more puissant he is for to saue so much the more am I assured Augustine in his manuel Chap. 23. I haue committed a great sinne and do feele my selfe culpable of a great many of sinnes and yet I will not despayre For where sinnes haue abounded grace hath more abounded He which hopeth not to haue pardon of his sinnes he denyeth that God is mercifull he doth great iniurie vnto God which distrusteth of his mercy as much as he can he denyeth that God hath loue truth and strength in whiche things consisteth all my hope that is in the loue that he hath towards me to make me his adoptiue sonne in the veritie of his promise and in the puissaunce of his redemption Let my foolishe thought nowe thinke and murmure as long as it will saying but what art thou and what is this glorie and by what merites thinkest thou to haue it Then I doe aunswere in good fayth I doe knowe verye well vnto whom I submit my selfe and that through great loue he hath made me his adoptiue sonne and is true in his promises and of power to fulfill them and it is lawfull for him to doe all that pleaseth him I cannot then bee afrayde of the multitude of my sinnes if I doe remember the Lordes death S. Ambrose in the booke of Iacob and of blessed life Euen as Iacob hauing not of his meate the eldershippe hid him selfe vnder the habite of his brother and apparayled him selfe with his coate the which did giue a most sweete sauour and in this manner presented him selfe vnto his father to receiue to his profite the blessing vnder the person of another so it is necessary that we doe cloth our selues and put on the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ through fayth and that we doe hide our selues vnder the deuine purite of our eldest brother if wee will be accepted and taken for righteous before God And truly the same is the true verytie for yf we doe appeare before God not clothed with the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ without doubte we shall be iudged worthy of eternall damnation S. Ambrose vpon the .4 chapter of the Epistle to the Romaines They are manifestly blessed vnto whom without laboure or without any workes iniquities and wickednesse are pardoned and the sinnes couered not requiring of them any works of penance but that they doe beleeue onely Ambrose vpon the 3. Chapter of the Epistle to the Romaines They are iustified freelye throughe his grace bicause that not doing anye thing and not rendring the lyke by onely fayth they are iustified through the gift of God. Augustine in his boke of 50. homilies Homilie 14. The Lord will giue vnto me the crown as a iust and righteous iudge For hee which beholdeth after that he hath beheld the worke cannot deny the reward I haue fought a good fight that is a worke I haue fulfilled my course that is a worke I haue kept the fayth that is a worke There remayneth for mee the crowne of righteousnesse that is the rewarde But thou doest nothing to the rewarde and in the worke thou hast not wrought alone thou hast the crowne of him but the work is of thee and yet it is not but throughe the ayde of him I haue fought I haue ended and fulfilled my course I haue kepte the fayth He doth rewarde the goodnesse but what goodnesse Such as he hath giuen Hath not he giuen vnto thee to fight a good
walke in we ought then rather to behold the goodnesse which we haue not yet done then those of which we doe reioyce our selues to haue already done and the elect are often times tempted with such vices and oftentimes it is rysen in their heartes to bring them in remembraunce of all the goodnesse that they haue done and to reioyce themselues of the band of assurance But if they be truly elected they will turn awaye their eyes from thinking of the same wherein they doe please themselues and keepe backe in them all the ioy of the goodnesse which is alreadye done and be sorie for those which they knowe to be by no maner of meanes done They doe esteeme themselues vnworthye and they onely do not see their goodnesse which are of all men seene by good example c. Of iustification of Fayth Augustine in the first Quinquagesima in the prologue of the 31. psal TRuly the Apostle Saint Iames in his Epistles hath praised the works of Abraham agaynst those which woulde not do any good and which presume them selues of fayth of which Abraham Saint Paule hath praysed his fayth and yet the Apostles are not contrarie the one to the other but he speaketh of the work which is knowne to all men that is to saye that Abraham did offer his sonne vnto God for to doe sacrifice That is a great worke but that is of fayth I doe prayse the buylding of the worke made vpon the foundation but I doe beholde the foundation of faith I doe prayse the fruite of the good and iust worke but I acknowledge the roote in fayth For if Abraham did those things without right fayth nothing woulde haue profited him whatsoeuer worke it hadde bene Furthermore if Abraham did keepe so the fayth that when God commaunded him to offer his sonne for sacrifice hee thought in himselfe I will not doe it and yet neuerthelesse I doe beleeue that God will deliuer me although that I doe contemne and despise his commaundements Fayth without workes shoulde be deade and shoulde abyde as a drie roote barren and without fruite What then we ought not to preferre workes before fayth that is to say nothing is sayde to be well done before fayth although that they are esteemed of men prayse worthye yet notwithstanding they are vayne And me thinketh that they are like vnto great strengths and vnto the easie course out of the waye Let none then esteeme his workes c. Afterwardes he sayth Let vs not then obiect the Apostle Saint Iames to Paule but the same Paule to himselfe and let vs say vnto him by this worde thou doest suffer vs somwhat to sinne without punishment when thou sayest wee doe esteeme man to bee iustified thorowe fayth withoute workes but thou wilt saye to the same faith worketh by loue How am I so much assured by the same if I doe nothing yea I shall not bee counted by the same to haue trust in the good fayth if I doe not worke by loue O Apostle I doe heare thee wilt thou here prayse vnto me fayth without workes But loue is the worke of fayth which loue cannot be ydle that it doe forsake all euill and doe all the good that it can And what maketh loue Declyne from euill and doe good Praysest thou then fayth without works And thou sayest in another place If I had all fayth so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places and yet had not loue I were nothing then if fayth doe not profite any without loue and that there where loue shall be it behoueth that it work for faith worketh by loue howe then is man iustified without workes The Apostle aunswereth O thou man therefore haue I sayde this thing vnto thee that thou doe not presume of thy workes and that thou doe not thinke to haue receyued the grace of fayth thorowe the merite of thy works Presume not then of workes before fayth acknowledge that fayth hath founde thee a sinner and if the fayth which hath founde thee a sinner hath made thee righteous then it doth finde him an infidell whiche it hath made righteous The fayth sayth he is counted for righteousnesse vnto him which beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vngodly Augustine in his booke of the 83. questions 76. Chapter If any man doe departe out of this life immediatly after that he hath beleued the iustification of faith abideth with him and commeth not to him by any workes precedent or going before for it is not giuen through merite but through grace nor through workes following bicause that he is not permitted to be in this life and therefore the two sentences of the two Apostles Paule and Iames are not contrary the one to the other For the one saith that man is iustified through faith without workes And the other saith that faith is dead without workes for Paule speaketh of workes whiche goe before faith and Iames speaketh of works which doe followe faith Origene vpon the Epistle to the Romans 3. booke 3. Chapter The onely iustification of God sufficeth so that he which beleeueth onely is iustified when in deede no workes shall be done by him For the thefe was iustified through faith without the workes of the lawe and vpon that faith the Lorde did not demaunde what that is that he had done before and did not tarry after that he had beleeued what worke he shoulde doe but receiued him as iustified throughe the onely faith for to enter with him into paradise Also that woman which is receited by the Euangelist the which did heare at Iesus feete thy sins are forgiuen thee And again thy faith hath saued thee go in peace But also in many places of the gospell Iesus Christ hath vsed such wordes where he sayth that the cause of saluation is the faith of him which beleeueth Man then is iustified through faith vnto whome the workes of faith serue nothing at all for iustification But where faith is not which iustifieth the beleeuing man when any one shall haue the workes of the law neuerthelesse bicause they are not buylded vpon the foundation of faith although that in appearance they are good yet they cannot iustifie the worke if it be without faith the which is the marke and token of those which are iustified of god And what shall he be which wyll boste him selfe of his righteousnesse when he heareth God and the Prophet saying all our righteousnesse are as a menstruous cloth wherefore the only right glorye is in the fayth of Christ Augustine in his .50 homilies homily 17. Peace be vnto the bretheren and loue with the faith of God our Father and of our Lorde Iesus Christ What hast thou that thou hast not receiued If thou hast receiued it why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receiued it Did Abraham so reioyce He reioysed of faith what is the full and perfect faith The same which beleeueth that all our
commeth from man will not haue that whiche commeth from one only God and therfore in seeking it outwardly they haue no glory in them selues but rather in an other Sixtus Pope of Rome in his Epistle to the first tome of the Councels He that is doubtfull in the faith is an infidell wherefore let vs esteeme and iudge those which doe commaund vs to doubt of the fauour of God towardes vs not only to contende and striue againste the sentence of the true Catholicke church but also to giue euill counsell to the health and saluation of the church S Barnard in his .5 Sermon in Quadragesima It may be that some doe not seeke through humilitie euerlasting life but as in the trust and confidence of their workes and merits I do not say this that grace receiued doth not giue boldnesse to praye but it must not be therefore that in the same they haue their hope and trust to obtayne it for that only doth giue the giftes promised to the ende that of the mercy of God which giueth those thinges we may hope yet for greater thinges Let then those thinges which doe belong to our only necessities be restrayned the prayer which is made for the temporall thinges and that which is made for the vertues of the soule sequestred from all impurite and vncleanenesse be only attentife towardes the good will of god And that whiche is made bicause of eternall life let it be made or done in all humilitie presuming as he must of the only deuine mercie Grace be with you and peace from God our father and from the Lord Iesus Christe O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death The grace of God through Iesus Christe our Lorde Euen so at this time the remnante is left through the election of grace if it bee of grace then it is not of workes or els were grace no more grace But if it be of workes then is it no more grace or els were workes no longer workes By grace are ye made safe throughe fayth and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes least any man shoulde boast of himselfe Also That we being iustified by his grace shoulde be made heyres according to the hope of eternall lyfe Saint Peter sayth why tempt ye God to laye a yoke on the Disciples neckes which neyther our fathers nor we were able to beare but we beleue that through the grace of the Lorde Iesus Christ wee shall be saued euen as they doe God doth not saue vs of the deedes of righteousnesse which we wrought but of his mercie He which began a good worke in you shall go forth with it vntill the day of Iesus Christ Vnto you it is giuen for Christe that not onely ye shoulde beleeue on him but also suffer for his sake He sayth agayne And as touching the righteousnesse whiche is in the lawe I was without reproche But the thinges which were vauntage to me I counted losse for Christes sake yea doubtlesse I thinke all things but losse for that excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lorde for whome I haue counted all things losse and do iudge them but dung that I might winne Christ and might be founde in him that is not hauing mine owne righteousnesse which is of the law but that whiche is throughe the fayth of Christ I meane the righteousnesse which commeth of God through fayth c. I am nowe ready to be offred and the tyme of my departing is at hande I haue fought a good fight and haue fulfilled my course and haue kept the fayth From henceforth is layde vp for me a crowne of righteousnesse which the Lorde that is a righteous iudge shall giue me at that day not to me only but vnto all them also that loue his comming But nowe in Christe Iesus ye whiche once were farre of are made nye by the bloude I say of Christ It is God which worketh in vs bothe the will and also the dede euen of his free beneuolence To as many as receyued him to them he gaue power to bee the sonnes of God euen to them which beleeue in his name which are borne not of bloude nor of the lustes of the fleshe nor of the lust of man but of God. In thy light shall we see light Your eyes haue seene great miracles and wonders and yet the Lorde hath not giuen you an heart to perceyue nor eyes to see nor eares to heare O Lorde giue me vnderstanding open myne eyes for to beholde the wonderous things of thy lawe Gzechiel speaking in the person of God sayth A newe heart will I giue you and a newe spirite will I put into you as for that stonie heart I will take it out of your bodie and giue you a fleshie heart I will giue my spirite among you and cause you to walke in my commaundements to kepe my lawes and to fulfill them As for men they are but vayne if they be put in the ballaunce they are lighter than vanitie it selfe Conuert thou me and I shall be conuerted for thou art my Lorde God yea as soone as thou turnest me I shall reforme my selfe Therefore we gather that a man is iustified by faith without the deedes of the lawe Againe Abraham beleeued God and it was counted to him for righteousnesse To him that worketh the rewarde is not reckened of fauour but of duety But to him that worketh not but beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vngodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Also for if they whiche are of the lawe bee heires then is faith but vaine and the promise of none effect c. Therefore by faith is the inheritance giuen that it might come of fauour and the promesse might be sure to all the seede that is not to them only which are of the lawe but also to them which are of the faith of Abraham Then being iustified by faith we haue peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ by whom also we haue accesse through faith vnto this grace wherein we stand and reioyce in hope of the glorye of God. Bicause of vnbeleefe they are broken of and thou standest stedfast by faith Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne We know that a man is not iustified by the deedes of the lawe but by the faith of Iesus Christ euen we I say haue beleeued in Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faith of Iesus Christ and not by the deedes of the lawe bicause that by the deedes of the lawe no flesh shal be iustified I doe not abrogate the grace of God for if righteousnesse commeth of the lawe then Christ dyed without a cause So ye knowe that they which are of faith are the children of Abraham for the Scripture sawe afore hand that God would iustifie the
Gentils through fayth and therefore preached before hande the Gospell vnto Abraham saying in thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed so then they which be of fayth are blessed with faythfull Abraham For as many as are vnder the deedes of the law are vnder the curse For it is written Cursed is euerye man that continueth not in all things that are written in the booke of the lawe to fulfill them And that no man is iustified by the lawe in the sight of God it is euident For the iust shall lyue by fayth and the lawe is not of fayth but the man that shall fulfill those things shall liue in them Nowe Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the lawe when he was made accursed for vs. For it is written Cursed is euery one that hangeth on a tree That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Iesus Christ and that we might receyue the promise of the spirite through fayth But the Scripture hath concluded all things vnder sinne that the promise by the fayth of Iesus Christ shoulde be giuen to them that beleeue c. For ye are all the sonnes of God by fayth in Christ Iesus Galat. 3. De poenitentia Distinction 3. chap. which beginneth Totam c. And we are iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus whome God hath set forth to be a pacification through fayth in his bloude to declare his righteousnesse in that hee forgiueth the sinnes that are passed Without fayth it is impossible to please God. In whome euen nowe though yee see him not yet doe ye beleeue and reioyce with ioye vnspeakable and glorious receiuing the end of your faith the saluation of your soules c. And God which knoweth the heartes bare them witnesse in giuing vnto them the holy Ghost euen as he did vnto vs and he put no difference betwene them and vs seing that with faith he purified their heartes S. Ierome vpon Sophon Chapter 3. They doe seeke the righteousnesse the which is not but Christ alone Iesus Christ sayeth Daughter bee of good comfort thy fayth hath made thee whole Agayne Beleeue ye that I am able to doe this And they sayde vnto him yea Lorde Then touched he their eyes saying according to your fayth bee it vnto you Also Daughter be of good comforte thy fayth hath made thee whole goe in peace Also What shall we doe that wee might worke the workes of God Iesus aunswered and sayd vnto them This is the worke of God that ye beleeue on him whom he hath sent Likewise all things are possible to him that beleeueth The wages of sinne is death but the gyft of God is eternal life through Iesus Christ our Lorde If thou shalt confesse with thy mouthe the Lorde Iesus and shalt beleeue in thine heart that God raysed him vp from death thou shalt be saued For the beleefe of the heart iustifieth and to confesse with the mouth saueth a man. Who soeuer beleeueth on him shal not be ashamed But ye are of him in Iesus Christ who of God is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption that according as it is written He that reioyceth shoulde reioyce in the Lorde This is the name that they shal call him euen the Lorde our righteous maker To him giue all the Prophets witnesse that through his name all that beleeue in him shall receyue remission of sinnes For among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued Ye are gone quite from Christ as many as are iustified by the lawe and are fallen from grace Let no man esteeme of himselfe more then it becommeth him to esteeme but that he discretely iudge of himselfe according as God hath dealt to euery man the measure of fayth How shoulde I then aunswere him or what wordes shoulde I finde out agaynst him yea though I be righteous yet will I not giue him one worde agayne but meekely submit my selfe to my Iudge If I will iustifie my selfe myne owne mouth shall condemne me If I will put forth my selfe for a perfect man he shall proue mee a wicked doer for that I shoulde be an innocent my conscience knoweth it not yea I my selfe am weary of my life Thou hast graunted me lyfe and done me good and the diligent heede that thou tookest vpon me hath preserued my spirite c. If I doe wickedly wo is me therfore If I be righteous yet dare I not lift vp my heade so full am I of confusion and see mine owne miserie What is man that he shoulde be cleane what hath he which is born of a woman whereby he might be knowen to be righteous Beholde there is no trust in hys Saintes yea the very heauens are not cleare in his sight Howe much more then an abhominable and vile man which drinketh wickednesse like water But how may a man compared vnto God be iustified Or how can he be clean that is borne of a woman We are all as an vncleane thing and all our righteousnesse are as the clothes stayned or a menstruous cloth There is not one iust vpon earth that doth good and sinneth not Verely in the Lord is my righteousnesse and strength To him shal men come but all they that thinke scorne of him shal be confounded And the whole seede of Israell shall be iustified and praysed in the Lorde The Lorde helpeth me therefore shall I not be confounded I haue hardened my face like a flint stone for I am sure that I shall not come to confusion Mine aduocate speaketh for me who will then goe with me to lawe My righteous seruant shall with his wisedome iustifie and deliuer the multitude for he shall beare away their sins c. We being iustified by his grace should be amde heires according to the hope of eternall life Yet darest thou say I am giltlesse Tushe his wrath cannot come vpon me behold I wyll reason with thee bicause thou darest say I haue not offended O howe euill will it be for thee to abyde it when it shall be knowen how oft thou hast gone backwarde Doubtlesse our owne wickednesse rewarde vs but Lorde doe thou according to thy name thoughe our transgressions and sinnes be many and haue sinned against thee They that put their trust in me shall inherite the land and haue my holy hill in possession Be it knowen â—nto you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenesse of sinnes and that from all sinnes from which you could not be iustified by the lawe of Moyses by him euery one that beleeueth is iustified And of his fulnesse haue all we receyued euen grace for grace Which he predestinated before them also he called and whoÌ„ he called them also he iustified
agaynst the Pelagians 5. booke There is but two wayes that is one to damnation and one to saluation Augustine in his Enchiridion 108. Chapter The time then which is betwene the death of man and the latter resurrection the soules are receyued into secrete receptacles euen as euery one is worthy eyther of rest or of miserie according to that that he hath deserued when it liued in the flesh Augustine of the Citie of God .10 boke 24. Chapter Speaking vnto Porphyrius a Platonist He hath not known Iesus Christ to be the beginning throughe whose incarnation we are purged In the same booke Chapter 22. We haue then victorie in his name who hath taken mans fleshe and hath liued without sinne to the ende that he being the Priest and the sacrifice was made the forgiuenesse of sinnes that is to saye by the mediator of God and men the man Iesus Christ through whom the purgation of our sinnes is made we are restored agayne with god For men are not seperated from God but through sinne of which the purgation is not done in our life through our vertue but through Gods diuine mercie through his clemencie not through our power for the same vertue which is called ours whatsoeuer it be is graunted vnto vs through his goodnesse Reade Lactantius Firmianus 6. booke 3. Chapter of the institutions agaynst the Gentiles and Idolaters There is but two wayes the one of vertue the other of sinne which leadeth vnto hell Augustine of the Trinitie .4 booke 13. Chapter By his death that is to saye throughe one onely and moste true sacrifice whiche hath bene offered for vs he hath purged and hath abolished and put out all the faultes for the whiche the principalities and powers doe detayne vs for to bee punished and hath called vs through his resurrection vnto a newe lyfe we which are predestinated he hath iustified those whom he called and hath glorified them whome he iustified Augustine in his Enchiridion vnto Laurence Chapter 66. Some men beleeue that those also whiche haue not abandoned the name of Christ and whiche haue bene baptised in his Churche and haue not bene cut of from the same through any schisme or heresies that in whatsoeuer sinnes they haue liued the which they haue not defaced and blotted out through penaunce nor redeemed through almes but shall perseuer and continue in them continually vntil the last day of this life shall be saued through the fire Although that according to the greatnesse of their sinnes and misdeedes that fire shall be diuturnall not eternall But me thinketh that those which beleeue that and notwithstanding are catholikes are deceyued through mans beneuolence For the holy Scripture if one doe loke in it answereth an other thing S. Ierome vpon the Prophet Esay 65. Chapter He which shall not obtayne pardon of his sinnes whilst that he liueth in this body and shall so depart out of this life hee perisheth to God and leaueth to bee although that he ryse vnto himselfe in paines Augustine writing vnto Macedonius 54. Epistle There is no other place for to correcte the manners then in this life for after this life euery one shall haue that he hath here gotten Againe in this world the mercye of God helpeth those which doe repent but in the world to come repentance profiteth not but we must render and giue account of our workes Libertie of repentance is only giuen vnto vs in this life after the death there is no licence of correction nowe is the time of mercye afterward shall be the time of iudgement Augustine vpon S. Iohn 12. treatise Expounding the wordes of Christ hee which beleeueth not is already iudged Also the iudgement is not yet appeared but the iudgement is already done And the Lorde knoweth those which are his and knoweth those which shall abyde looking for the crowne of glorye and those whiche abyde looking for the fire S. Chrysostome in the .2 sermon of Lazarus Make readye the woorkes for the ende and prepare thy selfe to the waye And if thou hast taken by violence anye thing from anye man restore it and make restitution and saye with Zachaeus if I haue taken any thing from any man by forged cauillation I restore it him foure double And if thou art angry with any man reconcile thy selfe before that thou cummest to iudgemente paye here all thinges to the ende that without trouble or molestation thou mayest see that iudgement All the while that we be here in this life we haue a most faire and shining hope but when we shall be departed and deade we shall no more repent nor doe penance nor washe and clense the sinnes that wee haue committed Afterwardes he saith truly he which shall not in this lyfe washe and clense his sinnes in the other lyfe he shall finde no consolation Saint Cyprian agaynst Demetrian 1. Treatise Beleeue and ye shall liue and ye which doe persecute vs for a certayne time bee ioyfull with vs for euer When one shall depart from hence he shall haue no more place of repentaunce nor no more effect of satisfâ—â—tion Here is the lyfe lost or wonne Here is conquered the eternall health through the veneration of God and through the fruite of faith and so long as one shall abyde in this lyfe no repentance is to late c. S. Ierome in his .7 Tome vpon Ecclesiastes 9. Chapter Bicause that before he hath sayde that the heartes of men are full of wickednesse and shame and after that all these things doe ende when they doe die nowe he maketh an ende of the same and repeateth that as long as men doe liue they may be made righteous but no occasion of good workes is giuen after death For the sinner that is alyue maye be better than the righteous whiche is deade If he will passe into the vertues of him or verily he maye be better than he which reioyceth in his wickednesse and in his strength and shame the which is deade and maye be better than he howe poore or base soeuer he be Wherefore Bicause that those that be liuing for feare of death may doe good workes But the deade can nothing adde to that that they haue once caried away with them from this life c. Chrysostome vnto the people homily .69 and .70 and vpon S. Iohn 11. Chap. and vpon the Hebrues 2. chapter 4. Homelye Let vs not bewayle without reason those that are deade but let vs bewayle those which are dead in sinne Those are worthy of sorowe and of teares For what hope hath he to be gone with his sinnes where it is not giuen him to put of the sinnes Ambrose in the first Tome of the goodnesse of the dead chap. 2. The holy man Dauid hasted him selfe to goe out of the place of his pilgrimage saying I am a stranger and a pilgrimme with thee as all my forefathers were and therefore as a pilgrimme he
worde be of spirituall things and let vs take in our handes Gods bookes and calling togither our neyghbors sprinkle with heauenlye wordes oure owne selues and of the assistentes that thereby we may chase and driue away the treasons and assaultes of the diuell S. Ierome in his first Tome vnto Marcellus perswading him to goe to Bethleem In the towne where Iesus was borne there are none but rusticall people where ye shal here nothing but singing of psalms in euery place the ploughman holding the plough by the tayle singeth Alleluya The mower to passe away the time singeth psalmes the Vine dresser with his hooke cutting the vine singeth some thing of Dauid these are the songes of this prouince these are as we say commonly the songes of loue Athanasius vpon the Epistle vnto the Ephesians .6 Chapter Ye fathers moue not your children to wrathe c. he addeth the cause of the obeying of the fathers commaundement and sheweth vnto the parents how they should make their children obedient and ready to doe that that they are bydde If thou wylt saith he that thy children doe obey thee accustome them vnto heauenly wordes and saye not that it belongeth vnto the Monkes to vnderstand holy letters For truely it is the office rather of euery christian and chefelye of him which medleth and hath to doe with the affayres and businesse of this worlde And the more that he hath neede of the greater healpes the greater neede hath he to vnderstand it for he is more prouoked with the assaults of this world This then is greatly for thy profite that thy children may heare read holy Scriptures for thereby they shall learne to honor father and mother But thou doest the contrary thou bringest vp thy children in the doctrine of panims and gentiles of whiche they shall learne moste wicked thinges the which shall not be so when they are instructed in the heauenlye Scriptures Primasius Byshop of Vtica in Africa disciple of S. Augustine vpon the Epistle to the Collos 3. chapter Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously c. Here is most amply declared that the laye people ought also to haue the word of God not only simply but also aboundantly and plenteously and they ought also to admonishe and teach the one the other Athanasius vpon the .3 Chapter of the Collossians Let the worde of Christe dwell in you plenteously in all wisedome He declareth the way by the which we may giue thanks in all things For if the worde of God sayth he dwell in you that is to say the doctrine or heauenly commaundementes and admonitions by the which he instructeth vs to despyse this lyfe we cannot greatly esteeme earthly riches Truly we shoulde not fall or bee ouercome with to grieuous things but to beare all things stoutly and manfully rendring thankes vnto God although there happen aduersities For he hath not sayde let the word of God be in you simply but let it dwell in you plenteously For if we doe abound in the knowledge of the holy Scriptures we shall easly beare trybulations paines and calamities and all other manner of euill Theophilacte vpon the .6 chap. to the Ephesians If thou wylt saith he that thy children should obey thee instruct them in the word of our Lorde and saye not that it dooth belong onely vnto the Monkes to reade the Scriptures For it belongeth aswell vnto euery christian and cheefely vnto all those which haue to doe in this worlde S. Ierome vpon the .6 chap. vnto the Ephesians If he doe commaund the Ephesians being laye men and vnto many that are occupyed in the businesse and affaires of this life as we see among the people to teach their children in all discipline and admonition of the Lorde what oughte wee to thinke or iudge of the priestes of whose order he hath written vnto his disciple Timothe saying hauing children subiect in all reuerence c. S. Ambrose vpon the .2 Epistle vnto Timothe 3. chapter All scripture giuen by inspiration of god c. It is manifeste that all scripture of which God is said to be the author to be profitable For it is giuen to that ende that it may profite the ignorant and amend the disformed creatures drawing the wicked into all good workes For in profitting a little and little to the newe man it will make him the man of God. Chrysostome vpon the .2 Epistle vnto Timothe .3 chapter Thou hast saith he through me the Scriptures if thou doest desire to learne any thing of them thou mayest learne it If he did write those thinges vnto Timothe who was full of the holy ghoste howe much more ought we to thinke that it is spoken vnto vs. Lactantius Firmianus in the Proeme of his heauenly institutions We which haue receiued the Sacrament of true religion for asmuch as the truthe is reueled vnto vs and that we may followe God the doctor of sapyence and wysedome let vs call vnto that heauenlye banket all men vniuersally without anye difference eyther of kinde or age for there is no meate sweeter and more delectable vnto the soule then the knowledge of the truthe S. Augustine in the .6 chapter of the vtilitie and profyte of beleeuing All that which is in the Scriptures is high and heauenly all is truth and moste fitte and holsome doctrine beleeue me for to fill and satisfie the spirites in such sorte that euery one may drawe out that which is sufficient for him so that he drawe it deuoutly and holily according as true religion requireth Augustine of true religion .51 chapt about the letter E. In forsaking sayeth he the open and Poeticall trifles and foolishnesse let vs feede and comfort our spirite in treating and considering of holy scriptures The which spirite being wearye and to muche ouercome with the heate hunger and thirst of vayne curiositie and things to no purpose desireth to bee refreshed and comforted with vain fantasies as of goodly and daintie meates Chrysostome vpon S. Iohn 5. Tome .10 Homilie first Chapter Before I doe come to intreate of the wordes of the Gospell I would request of you one thing which I woulde not haue you to despyse For I doe not demaunde of you heauie things nor such as are hard to be done neyther that which is onely profitable to me but a great deale more to you What is then the request that I demaunde That one day in the weeke or at the least vpon the Sundayes and Festiuall dayes ye be diligent to haue in youre handes before the preaching the Gospell which we doe reade vnto you and to repeate them often in your houses searching diligently the vnderstanding thereof and noting that which is easie or obscure and harde in them and that which seemeth to haue contrarietie yet notwithstanding hath not and after that ye haue throughly examined it bee very attentiue to those Sermons by whiche meane shall come great profite both to you
that they doe not assault and afflict vs againe but to auoyde and giue the repoulse through the continual reading of the scriptures to the darts of the diuell comming a farre For if we be alwayes hurt take no remedy what hope of health shall we haue Doest thou not see the workers of mettal goldsmythes coyners and all those which doe exercise any occupacion to haue all the instrumentes of their occupacion readye and to lacke none Although that honger constrayneth them and pouertie doth afflict them they had rather to suffer all thinges then to sel any instrument of their occupacion for to nurrish them yea many had rather to borrowe mony vpon vsurye then to lay to gage any little instrument of their science or occupacion and for a good cause for they doe knowe that after that they haue solde it the occupacion shoulde be vnprofitable and all the foundation of their gayne taken away but in hauing them it may be that in time they will paye that they haue borowed of another in vsing alwayes their occupation But if they doe sell them to other before they haue payde that they doe owe they haue not whereby to excogitate or inuent any thing to helpe their hunger and pouertie Truly it behoueth vs to be of such courage for euen as to them the Hammers Anuiles and Tongs are instruments of their Artes euen so the bookes of the Apostles and Prophets are instruments of the Arte and waye of saluation and all Scripture being heauenly inspired is profitable And euen as they finishe all that they doe take in hande to doe by those instruments euen so truly by those bookes we frame our soule and amende and correct it when it is wicked and renue it when it is waxen olde For those can but onely by their Arte giue formes and fashions to things for they cannot chaunge nor alter the substaunce of the mettall neyther make golde of siluer but onely giue them their figures to be like But it is not so with thee but thou mayst doe more for thou mayest sometime of a vessell of wood make a vessell of golde of which thing S. Paule is witnesse speaking after this maner In a great house are not onely vessels of gold and of siluer but also of woode and of earth some for honour and some for dishonour But if a man purge himselfe from such fellowes he shall be a vessell sanctified vnto honor meete for the Lord and prepared vnto all good works Wherfore let vs not be negligent to buye vs bookes that we receyue not woundes in our heartes and let vs not lay vp our gold in the earth but let vs furnishe our selues with a treasure of spirituall bookes Truly when that golde aboundeth greatly then it deceyueth greatly those which possesse it but great store of bookes gotten togither doe bring great vtilitie vnto those that haue them euen as weapons in the roial assemblies although that none doe vse them yet neuerthelesse they giue great assurance vnto them which dwell in the house where they are when neyther theeues nor breakers of wals nor anye wicked persons dare not assayle the house Euen so in any house where these spirituall bokes shall be from them all the force of the deuill is driuen awaye and great consolation and comfort commeth vnto those that dwell there for the onely beholding of bookes maketh vs the slower to sinne And although that we haue done some things that are prohibited and haue defiled our selues the conscience doth condemne vs more sharplye when wee are come vnto the house and haue behelde the bookes and are made slower to committe at another time such things agayne If we doe persist in holynesse wee are made surer and stronger by the bookes For as soone as any hath touched the Gospell he hath by and by withdrawne his spirite from worldly things by the beholding of them and if he reade diligently the soule is by such meanes purged made better no otherwise thā being in the holy secrets it imploieth it selfe to holy things God speaking vnto it by such scriptures What thē say they if we vnderstand not that which is contayned in the bokes truly although thou vnderstād not that which is hid yet neuerthelesse great holines cōmeth of such reding For it cannot be that thou be ignoraunt of it altogither For trulye the grace of the holy spirite hath so dispenced and moderated it to the ende that the Publicanes and sinners makers of Tabernacles Pastors and Apostles Idiotes and the vnlearned shoulde be saued by those bookes And to the ende that none of those Idiotes might excuse themselues alledging the difficultye thereof he woulde that those things whiche are spoken shoulde be easie at the first sight and that the labourers seruants women wydowes and the most ignorante of all men should receiue some gaine and profite of the reading that they did heare For those whom God hath reputed from the beginning worthy of the grace of the holy spirite haue not done all these things through vayne glorie as gentilles but to the saluacion and healthe of the hearers Truely the Philosophers being ignorant of Christe good orators and composers of bookes not seeking that which profiteth all men but tending to make them selues esteemed although they haue saide some thing that is profitable yet not withstanding obscuritie hath kept it hid as in a certayne kinde of foolish wysedome but the Apostles and the Prophets haue done altogither therwyse expounding vnto all men the bookes clearly and manyfestlye that they haue written as publicke doctors of the worlde in such sort that euerye one may learne the thinges which are spoken by the onely reading That whiche the Prophet did pronounce saying al shall be taught of God and from thence foorth shall no man teache his neighbour or his brother and say know the Lorde But they shall all knowe me from the loweste vnto the hyest I brethren when I came vnto you came not in gloriousnesse of wordes or of wysedome shewing vnto you the testimonye of God And agayne my wordes and my preachinges was not with entising words of mans wysedome but in shewing of the spirite and of power And againe That which we spake is not the wisedome of this worlde neyther of the rulers of this worlde whiche goe to noughte For vnto whome are not all the thinges that are in the gospell manyfest who would haue a maister for to learne hearing any of these wordes Blessed are the meeke blessed are the mercifull blessed are the pure in heart and such other thinges The signes miracles and historyes are not they knowen and manyfest vnto euery one That is a colour and a cloked excuse of their slothfulnesse to saye thou vnderstandest not the thinges which are there how canst thou a-thing at all vnderstand when thou wilt not but with great paine lightly see it Take the bookes in thy handes reade all the hystory and keeping in memory
heauen Pag. 3. Bodie of Christ in likenesse of breade Pag. 4. Bodie of Christ called breade Pag. 22. Bodie of Christ not consumed Pag. 24. Bodie of Christ but in one place Pag. 25. Bodie of Christ offred once for all Pag. 37. Bookes of the Machabees Pag. 173. Bookes of the Apostles Pag. 321. Bookes holy to be had Pag. 309. Bookes spirituall Pag. 222. Bookes their profite Pag. 223. Burners of Christes bodie Pag. 24. C. Canons Pag. 24. 28. 30. 36. 161. 169. 172. 214. 216. 222. 230. 246. 248. 251. 268. 269. 271. 278. Chayre of Moyses Pag. 279. Chastitie Pag. 247. Children obedient Pag. 301. 303. Children vvell instructed Pag. 302. Christ the vertue of god Pag. 316. Christ the only heade Pag. 280. Christians giuen to dyce Pag. 298. Christians theyr idlenesse Pag. 297. Christians small account of faith Pag. 295. Christians not content Pag. 337. Christians theyr ignorance Pag. 295. Church the true Pag. 263. 261. Church of the wicked Pag. 258. Church where Pag. 260. Church of our time Pag. 263. Church of the wicked mightie Pag. 263. Church rent by priestes Pag. 266. Chrysostome his opinion Pag. 316. Clement Pag. 245. Commaundements of God what Pag. 56. 134. Commaundements how perfected Pag. 140. Commandements bring humilitie Pag. 144. Commaundements greate Pag. 143. Compulsion of no effect Pag. 352. Compulsion no pleasure Pag. 353. Confession auricular abolished Pag. 43. Confession not before men Pag. 43. Confession to God onely Pag. 40. Counsell of Basill Pag. 29. Counsell of Toledo Pag. 161. 216. 233. 276. Counsell of Constantinople Pag. 215. 248 Counsell of Gangres Pag. 248. 256. 278. Counsell of Nice Pag. 249. 247. 21. Counsell of Anticyra Pag. 248. Counsell of Ariminum Pag. 275. Counsel of Oreng Pag. 256. Counsell of Illyberis Pag. 276. 214. 216. Counsell of Carthage Pag. 274. 275. 276. Counsell of Orleans Pag. 276. Counsell of Chalons Pag. 276. Counsell of Chalcedon Pag. 276. Counsell Lateran Pag. 276. Counsell Mileuitan Pag. 55. Counsell of Laodicea Pag. 174. Counsell of Ephesus Pag. 275. Counsell of VVormes Pag. 271. Counsell of Braga Pag. 230. Counsell the authoritie Pag. 275. Custome not followed Pag. 288. Custome follower Pag. 288. Cuppe ministred to the laye Pag. 29. D. Daughters their education Pag. 314. Daughter to eschew the world Pag. 315. Deacons maryed Pag. 250. Deade haue nothing common Pag. 164. Dead nothing profiteth Pag. 162. Death of Christ Pag. 84. Doctrine of men Pag. 281. Doubt Pag. 283. Doubt of secrets Pag. 151. Drinke sanctified Pag. 22. Deuill ouerthrowen Pag. 165. Deuill his dwelling Pag. 218. F. Fast without workes Pag. 241. Fast of the Grecians Pag. 241. Faith onely saueth Pag. 93. Faith the helpe Pag. 105. Faith without lawe Pag. 112. Faith the suretie Pag. 261. Faith the thinges concerning Pag. 277. Faith newe Pag. â—78 Faith rendred Pag. 296. Faith the excellencie Pag. 333. Faithfull not compelled Pag. 244. Figure none of god Pag. 202. Flesh of Christ Pag. 214. Flesh and bloud of man Pag. 8â— Flesh agaynst fleshe Pag. â—â—â— Flesh of Christ without sinne Pag. 1â—7 Flye from the meeke none Pag. 361. Flye the wicked Pag. 362. Flight commaunded Pag. 360. Flight reproched Pag. 360. Flight of the Saints Pag. 362. Foole fashioneth god Pag. 206. Forgiuenesse of god Pag. 116. Forgiuenesse in the bloud of Christ Pag. 118. Forgiuenesse in this world Pag. 156. Freewill condemneth Pag. 52. Freewill to doe ill Pag. 59. Freewill destroyeth faith Pag. 61. Freewill not to be defended Pag. 53. Freewill deliuereth not Pag. 65. Freewill lost Pag. 67. Freewill established Pag. 69. Freewill naught Pag. 70. G. Gift of god Pag. 118. God descended from heauen Pag. 58. God giueth the demaund Pag. 344. Good thought Pag. 55. Good workes Pag. 72. 117. Good workes not of our vertue Pag. 71. Gospell in the heart Pag. 188. Gospell dispensed Pag. 268. Gospell the suretie Pag. 292. Gospell contayneth all Pag. 292. Gounes for the deade Pag. 163. Grace seperated from merite Pag. 75. Grace iustifieth Pag. 75. Grace hindered Pag. 81. Grace free Pag. 94. Grace worketh goodnesse Pag. 94. Grace of the Heretickes Pag. 102. Grace easeth Pag. 135. Gregorye his doubt Pag. 271. H. Heretickes spared Epiphanius Pag. 227. Hereticks their bookes Pag. 286. Hilarye Pag. 249. Hoc Pag. 11. I. Idolaters Christians Pag. 185. Iesus Christ seene with the eye Pag. 192. Iesus Christ where Pag. 25. Iesus builder of the Church Pag. 49. Iesus our purgatory Pag. 152. Images not lawfull Pag. 201. 215. Image caruers Pag. 208. Images doe not shew god Pag. 207. Image of God the honor Pag. 210. Image the pilgrimage Pag. 210. Images of Christ Pag. 213. Images not to seeke god Pag. 215. Images pleasing god Pag. 218. Image honorers Pag. 216. 221. Images burnt Pag. 222. Image rent Pag. 225. Images hurtfull Pag. 215. 223. Iudgement giuen Pag. 157. Iudgement not auoyded Pag. 178. Iust Pag. 95. Iustification not by nature Pag. 100. Iustified freely Pag. 86. Iustification Pag. 88. Iustification by faith Pag. 93. K. Keyes of the Church Pag. 46. Keyes of Peter Pag. 47. Kyll Pag. 351. 360. L. Law of the two tables Pag. 145. Law for the proude Pag. 145. 144. Lent. Pag. 234. Life Pag. 156. Life lasting profiteth Pag. 158. Loue of god Pag. 140. Loue not idle Pag. 109. M. Man naught Pag. 62. Man vnder sinne Pag. 53. Man separated from god Pag. 154. Man wise despised Pag. 355. Man profiteth not by force Pag. 252. Mariage forbidden Pag. 244. 253. Mediatour Iesus Pag. 192. Mediatour not man Pag. 194. Merite of men Pag. 75. Monkes their life Pag. 231. N. New alliance Pag. 1. O. Offering of candelles Pag. 213. P. Pelagians Pag. 141. Popes Pag. 270. 271. 272. Prayer Pag. 196. Prestes Pag. 45. 166. 249. 265. 335. R. Religion Pag. 208. Righteousnesse Pag. 103. 144. 86. Righteousnesse of God ours Pag. 79. S. Sacraments Pag. 19. 39. Sacrifice Pag. 36. Saint hath sinne Pag. 103. In Saints no hope Pag. 184. 181. Scripture hath no fault Pag. 282. 279. 285. Scripture in the heart Pag. 299. 313. Scriptures forbidden Pag. 300. 301. 302. 334. 222. Scriptures the profite Pag. 303. 304. 305. Scriptures no excuse Pag. 308. 309. 310. 317. Scriptures the necessitie Pag. 318. 323. Scripture spirituall Pag. 16. Scripture life Pag. 335. Signes for the signified Pag. 39. Soules of the good 151. 153. of the wicked Pag. 153 163. Soules of the dead Pag. 181 Supper Pag. 3. 4. Supper of the sicke Pag. 7. 8. Supper the signification Pag. 20. Supper in two kindes Pag. 27. Supper of bread not kept in the pix Pag. 29. Supper called Eucharistia Pag. 31. called a Sacrafice 35. not changed Pag. 20. Songes filthy Pag. 338. T. Torments of the wicked Princes Pag. 377. Truth not vanquished Pag. 338. V. Vengeance of Christ Pag. 377. 381. Village of Christ Pag. 301. Virginitie Pag. 252. W. VVill of good thinges Pag. 69. VVoman of Canaan Pag. 196. VVoman maryed Pag. 312. VVoman honour of the husband Pag. 312. VVord reiected Pag. 280. VVorkes condemne vs Pag. 77. VVorkes not esteemed Pag. 77. VVorkes of ours haue no life Pag. 72. VVorshyppe of Saintes Pag. 180. 188. 190. 200. 209. VVorshipp onelye the true god Pag. 212. VVorshippe of Helena Pag. 213. VVorshippers of images Heretickes Pag. 215. VVorshippe of infidels Pag. 220. VVoundes of Christe Pag. 78. FINIS