Epi/gleofs. Pas/toTina. CHAR2.14. might be Paid, ifChrift haue thus redeemed,purged,and wafhed vs, and 527 fomade vshis owne peculiar, what neede we more, or what further re- tnaineth for vs to do? neither wanted their Libertins in tholedaies,that from the appearing ofgraceca( offal) yoakes,and thought they might doewhat they lifted. But the Apolile telleth fuch,that Chri(i never wa. fhed,redeemed,nor powred out his grace vpon any, but fuch as thereby werewrought to forwardnes, and cheerefulne(fe inall well-doing. And here( not to fpeake of the nature andneceffitie of goodworkes,becaufe that treatife is tobe referred to a fitter place) three thingsare tobe ob- cap.;.`. feruecl. Firti note, that before theApotile fpeake of goodworkes, we heare The worker ofredemption, andpurging, and wa(hing, andofa peculiar people that before rho good muti doe them: for indeede, the hell workes arc fo farre from iuftifying wortpnbeto. andpurging,that none can be goodbefore the party be iulified &pur- ged. A leper or polluted perfon in the law, might not touchor attempt any thing,for whatloeuer he touched,becameallo vncleane :fo while the whole man, cuen themindeand confcience,the fountaines fromwhence all the aL`iions iffue, arepolluted; how can any thing fireamingfronn thence be cleane and pure?voles we will fay,that one fountain` at once, can fendout fweete water and bitter: or control) holy Iob , who faith, that no man can bringu cleisnc thing out .fßlthines: Goodworkes muff be- na,oD,epin. ginne from that we are iutiified,but webeginne not to be iutificd , be- uo.Ho,oraro. caule they went before.Thewhole fcope of theEpiftle to the Romance is toprooue,that no man canby works be iutiifled beforeGod; thevery fir(i proofeofwhich conclufion is fetched hence, becaule all ure veder Rom.3.10o f:n,anddepriuedoftheglory ofGod; and fo beeing euilt trees,cannot bring forthgood fruit,arid much le(fe in this flareoffinne, vnwa(hen and vn- purged,can be zealosu ofgood works:without me,faith Chriftye can doe xo- thing;namely,no good thing:rill a man therefore be let intoChrifi, hee cannot poffibly turnehis hand,to any thing that is truely,and formally good, no more then a fient can bring forth fruit which is not fet into a fiocke,or a brooch 'which isnot fet into thevine. Secondly note, that whofocuer are iuftified and fandìified, they mull A goodeorker needs bring forth goodworkes: for elfe Chrifi áhould be frutirateof ca, orbar bringfonh his endein chofe for whom he gave himfelfe : Eph. a. to. wee Are his gooawortea. workemanfhippe,createdtogoodwork!:. We muti fitti behis workman fhip,before our feints can be goodworkmen, but beeing once his new creatures,then can we neither be idle nor ill occupied, but conuerfant in loch good workes as himfelfe bath ordained we (hould walke in. In experience we fee a manplanting good trees in his orchard , not that they fhould bebarren,or ladenwithbad fruit , but tofurnifh him with Fiore a.`
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