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A18947	The Popes deadly wound tending to resolue all men, in the chiefe and principall points now in controuersie betweene the papists and vs. Written by T.C. and published by Master Doctor Burges, now preacher to the English troopes in the Pallatinate.	Clarke, Thomas, of Sutton Coldfield.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635.	1621 (1621)	STC 5364; ESTC S108050	185,964	236

condemned for his sinne by the Law he should not despaire because hee himselfe had fulfilled the Law for him and as Saint Paul saith Colossians 2. Colos 2.14 Colos 1.22 Hath put out the hand-writing that was against him And thereby Colos 1.22 Hath made him vnblameable and without fault in the sight of God So that hee hauing made the Law so light a burden vnto him as that although he cannot but breake it yet it shall not condemne him nor presse him downe to hell the spirituall taste whereof must needs be sweete vnto him And this I take to be the true sense and meaning of Christ For if Christ had meant that the Law had beene easie for vs to fulfill then could we haue disburdened our selues of our sinnes and needed not at all to goe for any ease to him 1 Epist 5.3 And whereas Saint Iohn saith after their Translation His Commandements be not heauie If he did meane that a regenerate man can actually and absolutely fulfill the Law then it is cleare he did meane that a regenerate man may be without sinne but then how doth this agree with his owne words Chapter 1. where he saith of himselfe and such as himselfe then was 1 Epist 1.8 If wee say wee haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and the truth it is not in vs. And Chapter 3. Sinne is the transgression of the Law 1 Epist 3.4 Therefore hee did not meane that a regenerate man can fulfill the whole Law And that indeede it may appeare yet more plainly they cannot let vs see what wee can proue by the Scriptures Rom. 7. Fathers and their owne Writers 4 The Apostle Saint Paul Romans 7 Chapter verses 14.15 describing in his owne person the state of all the regenerate saith For we know that the Law is spirituall but I am carnall The state of all the regenerate sold vnder sinne for I allow not that which I doe for what I would that doe I not but that I hate that I doe And Verse 18.19 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but I finde no meanes to performe that which is good For I doe not the good thing that I would but the euill which I would not that doe I. Againe Verses 21.22.23 I finde then by the Law that when I would doe good euill is present with me for I delight in the Law of God concerning the inner man but I see another Law in my members rebelling against the Law of my minde and leading me captiue vnto the Law of sinne which is in my members O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this death So that in the person of this regenerate man the case is made cleare that no regenerate man is able so to fulfill the Law as that he may duly claime to be iustified by it And hereof haue we also most manifest examples of the old Patriarkes euen from Noahs time Gen. 7.1 amongst whom albeit the Scripture Genesis 7. report of him to be the onely regenerate man of the last age of the first World The Patriarkes guilty of the breach of the Law yet in the 10. Chap. it is plainely declared he brake the Law of God by being drunke Also notwithstanding Lot be said to be a iust man and the onely regenerate man among the Sodomites yet it is recorded Gen. 19.33 34. Genesis 19. that he most wickedly brake the Law of God by committing incest with his owne two Daughters Abraham although he be said to be the Father of the faithfull Rom. 4.16 Romans 4. yet it is reported Genesis 12. and Chap. 20. Gen. 16.2 that he brake the Law of God twise by lying Isaac his sonne also brake the Law by lying Genesis 26. so did Iacob Isaaks sonne Gen. 12.13 Genesis 27. Also albeit the sonnes of Iacob were the Patriarkes of the 12. Tribes of the Children of Israell Gen. 35.2 yet they committed Idolatry Genesis 35. And Ruben the eldest of them committed adultery with his Fathers Concubine Gen. 35.22 Gen. 34.25 Genesis 35. Simeon and Leui committed a great murther Genesis 34. Iudah of which Tribe Christ came committed adultery with Thamar his daughter in Law Gen. 38.18 Gen. 37.18 Gen. 42.15 Exod. 4.24.25 Num. 11.10 to the 15. Genesis 38. and most of them consented to haue murthered their brother Ioseph Gen. 37. Ioseph committed idolatry by swearing by the life of Pharaoh Gen. 42. Moses brake the Law by not circumcising his sonne the eight day Exod. 4. He murmured against the Lord Numbers 11. Aaron consented to Idolatry Exodus 32. Exod. 32.2 2 Sam. 11.4.15 Dauid committed both adultery and murther 2 Samuel 11. And the whole Nation of the Iewes amongst whom were many thousand regenerate persons yet euen of the generall did our Sauiour say vnto certaine of them Iohn 7. Iohn 7.19 Did not Moses giue you a Law and yet none of you keepeth the Law 5 Wherefore vnlesse the Papists can proue that the regenerate in these dayes haue a greater measure of the spirit of grace then the Patriarkes and Prophets had and all the regenerate Iewes had nay then he whom they faine to be their founder and the chiefe regenerate man of all the Apostles had they can neuer proue that any regenerate man can liue so without sinne but that if he seeke to be iustified by fulfilling the Law hee shall bring himselfe within the curse and condemnation of it for that it saith Cursed be he that fulfilleth not all And it is most certaine Deut. 27.26 that if a man could liue so as that hee deserued to be called righteous Noah iust Lot or faithfull Abraham and to be said of him to haue walked in all the Commandements of God without reproofe and in respect of men to be a iust man before God as it was said of Zacharias and Elizabeth his wife Luke 1.6 yet shall hee finde in himselfe to haue broken the Law in some one point or other for which he had neede of a sacrifice as Zacharias had who offered continuall sacrifice as well for his owne sinnes as for the rest of the peoples as is proued in Leuiticus 16. Luke 1. and Hebrewes 7. Nay I say further Leuit. 16.6 Luke 1.8.9 Heb. 7.27 Iob 1.8 that if God himselfe should say of him as he said of that iust man Iob None is like him in the earth an vpright and iust man one that feareth God and escheweth euill Yet if he will be accepted of God as Iob was hee must confesse with Iob Iob 39.37 Iob 14 17. Iob 9.3 and say Behold I am vile Chap. 39. Mine iniquities are sealed vp as in a bag Chap. 14. If I would iustifie my selfe mine owne mouth shall condemne me If I would be perfect hee shall iudge me wicked Chapter 9. By which it is most euident that all

follow Beware saith he left there be any man that spoile you through Philosophie and vaine deceit through the traditions of men according to the rudiments of the World and not after Christ And thus much touching the first Authours of Purgatory and the first place of Scripture that the heretiques brought and Montanus and his Adherents afterwards to confirme the doctrine as also to shew how it tendeth to the vtter confounding of the vertue of Christs death and passion and faith in him and how it did corrupt the Church and confound the iudgements of some ancient writers Now let vs briefly take a view how it hath also confounded the iudgements of the Papists themselues 14 First What confusion the doctrine of Purgatory hath wrought amongst the Papists themselues for the number of hels Sillius saith There beten Aeneas saith but nine Gelasius but seauen Aquines but foure Diuers of the Papists will haue fiue of which Paradise to be one which their Paullinus saith is Abrahams bosome and is in the hell of the damned Secondly touching the place where Purgatory should be Polidore saith It is in Mount Aethne in Cicilie Another saith Saint Patrike placed it in Ireland The Manachies say It is in the Globe of the Sunne Others say It is in the Globe of the Moone Some say It is vnder the South Pole Others say It is vnder the North Pole but some others say It is vnder the City of Romes for there is a deepe hole where Christ went downe with his Crosse on his backe By which we see that hell mouth is in Rome Thirdly touching the degrees of Purgatory Lutzenburge saith Purgatory is the highest of the foure hels Va●●a saith It is the highest saue one Herolt saith It is the lowest saue one Smith saith It is the lowest of all and Cardinall Allen saith It is in the lower Romes as the best learned iudge Fourthly what Christ did in Purgatory Smith saith Christ did in his soule suffer there for the sinnes of our soules Allen saith It is blasphemie to say that the Diuels had power to torment the soule of Christ Smith saith Christ preached to the soules and brought them all out with him Martion saith Christ did not deliuer all for Abel Enoch Abraham and others durst not come at him lest he would tempt them and punish them Most of the Papists say He deliuered all But Hermes saith They came not all forth till the Apostles descended and preached vnto them also Another saith Christ deliuered the Sodomites and Kaine that reprobate Allen saith Purgatory doth not belong to any but to the faithfull The master of the Sentences saith Iust men goe not into Purgatory at all Allen saith The good must passe there-through before they come to eternall ioy Smith saith After Christs resurrection the soules went no more to Purgatory Allen affirmeth that the Apostles went thither Now as touching the element wherewith the soules are purged some say it is onely fire Allen holdeth it to be both fire and water and that they shall be tormented as well with extreame cold as heate Sir Thomas More saith In Purgatory there is no water Ruffensis saith In Purgatory there is good store of water The last question is whether Diuels or Angels be the executioners Ruffensis and Albertus say They be holy Angels but Sir Thomas More saith They be Diuels Therefore Christian Reader I now referre the matter to be iudged by thee whether the Doctrine of Purgatory be such as any in his right wits will thinke he may build his faith thereon or beleeue that there is any such purging place And the rather for that it tendeth to the vtter ouerthrow of the power of all that Christ hath done for mans saluation and whereof that errour of prayers for the dead is an appendix CHAP. XIII The conclusion of the former twelue Chapters Containing an answere vnto two sorts of Papists the one affirming that we are iustified and saued by the workes of of the Law the other that wee are saued by faith and workes together That because no man can fulfill the Law no man can be iustified by the Law That God was not vniust in giuing such a Law as he knew no man was able to fulfill That to seeke to merit saluation is the high way to damnation 1 SO farre and wide Christian Reader as the Romish iurisdiction and Kingdome of Antichrist did extend it selfe this Doctrine of iustification by faith without the workes of the Law was impugned Some teaching that men by their good workes are iustified and for their good workes saued Others that we are iustified and saued by faith and workes together to both which we answere 2 All good workes are said to be the workes of the Law because God commaunded them in his Law for diuers good ends and purposes the iustification by which confisteth of two parts First in not omitting any one thing whatsoeuer the Law hath commanded Secondly in not committing any one thing whatsoeuer the Law hath forbidden which as it is in Leuiticus the eighteenth Chapter Leuit. 18.5 If a man doe he shall liue in them But contrariwise if he doe not obserue and doe all and also doe nothing to the contrary hee is so farre from being iustified by the Law that he is accursed and condemned by it 3 The affirmatiue part is proued in the seauen and twentieth Chapter of Deuteronomie Deut. 27.26 Where it is said Cursed be hee that confirmeth not all the wordes of this Law to doe them and all the people shall say So be it The negatiue part is proued Ezek. 18.11.13 Ezekiel Chap. 18. in these words If he doe any one of these things though he doe not all shall he liue seeing he hath done all these abhominations he shall surely die the death By which it is cleare that whosoeuer omitteth any one thing which the Law requireth or committeth any one thing whatsoeuer the Law prohibiteth hee is culpable of the whole And this is it which the Apostle Saint Iames saith Chapter 2. Whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Law Iames 2.10 and yet faileth in one poynt is guiltie of all Therefore now the question is whether any man can thus absolutely fulfill the Law Wee say no man can Contrariwise the Papists say that a regenerate man may And their Doctor Master Harding will proue it both by the words of Christ and also of the Apostle Saint Iohn * M. Harding in Apol. chap. 19. Diuis 1. The words of Christ Matthew 11. after their Translation be these My yoke is sweete and my burden light And the words of Saint Iohn 1. Epistle 5. Chapter be these His Commandements be not heauy Now the words of Christ that goe before those his words be these Come vnto me all ye that are weary and laden and I will ease you And then it followeth Take my yoke vpon you c. Shewing that if any were afflicted in his conscience and found himselfe

of the matter and the meanes saith * Ambrose vpon 1 Cor. first Chap. In Christ Iesus is grace giuen for as much as this with GOD is decreed that who so beleeueth in Christ is saued sola fide by faith onely without workes receiuing freely forgiuenesse of sinnes And thus wee see the case to stand cleare that faith without workes is the onely meanes of iustification and saluation 18 Now then Christian Reader this doctrine of iustification by faith in Christ without workes being so easie and clearely to bee proued the truth is it not a Worlds wonder to see that so many wise and learned men should impugne it And that a Cardinall one of the Popes Pen-men Master Allen should ascribe so much vnto good workes as to say x In D. Fulkes answere Page 239. They cleanse before hand stayeth the soule from death and lifteth it vp vnto eternall life Regard not the iangler that will say mens workes doe not purge sinne and winne heauen Which doctrine being true what is it but that wee are iustified and saued by the workes of the Law whereby not onely all those testimonies of the ancient Fathers are proued false but also all those Scriptures which before we cited are confounded and these that follow which shew that we are iustified and saued onely by faith in Christ without workes are to no purpose 19 Saint Paul Ephesians 2. saith Ephes 2.8 For by grace are yee saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes lest any man should glorie in himselfe Also Galatians 2. he saith We which are Iewes by nature Galat. 2.15.16 and not sinners of the Gentiles know that a man is not iustified by the workes of the Law but by the faith of Iesus Christ euen wee I say haue beleeued in Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faith of Iesus Christ and not by the workes of the Law Galat. 3.23.24.25.26 because that by the workes of the Law no flesh shall be iustified And chap. 3. he saith Before faith came wee were kept vnder the Lawe and shut vp vnto the faith which should afterwards be reuealed wherefore the Law was our Schoolemaister to bring vs to Christ that wee might be made righteous by faith But after that faith is come wee are no longer vnder a Schoolemaister for ye are all the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus And therefore as he saith Romans 4. Roman 4. If they which are of the Law bee heires faith is made voyde and the promise of God is made of none effect And yet as he saith Galatians 2. I doe not abrogate the grace of God for if righteousnesse be by the Law then Christ died without a cause So that by the doctrine of the Romish Church we see plainely that faith is made voyde the promise of God made of none effect the death of Christ needlesse and the whole matter of our iustification and saluation to consist onely in our owne deseruings And indeede to the very same effect are these words of their Cardinall Allen y Allen in Fulke pag. 154 The death of Christ doth not discharge vs of satisfaction for our sinnes nor of any other good worke whereby a man may procure his owne saluation Also the Pope saith thus in Bernardine Rosetus * Bernard We can demerite eternall life with works Therefore we ought to presume and hold for a certaintie that after this life wee shall assuredly haue eternall life for the reward of good workes And in the Summary de Grat. Sanct. Good workes demerite three things namely eternall life increase of grace and remission of sinnes 20 Truely I cannot but admire to see that men which would faine be saued will either be saued by that onely meanes whereby they shall be damned or else they will not be saued For by the workes of the Law wee see they will procure their owne saluation purge their soules from sinne deliuer them from death and lift them vp into euerlasting life And therefore as they depend vpon the Law so they must looke to haue the reward of the Law which is the curse and condemnation of it For as Saint Paul sayth Galat. 3.10 Galatians 3. As many as are of the workes of the Law are vnder the curse for it is written Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things which are written in the Booke of the Law Galat. 5.4 to doe them And chapter the fift he sayth Yee are abolished from Christ whosoeuer are iustified by the Law yee are fallen from grace Rom. 9.30.31 And Romans 9. he sheweth this to be the cause of the condemnation of the Iewes For sayth he What shall wee say then that the Gentiles which followed not righteousnesse 32. haue attained vnto righteousnesse euen the righteousnesse which is of faith but Israel which followed the Lawe of righteousnesse could not attaine to the Law of righteousnesse Wherefore sayth hee because they sought it not by faith 33. but as it were by the workes of the Law for they haue stumbled at the stumbling stone as it is written Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and a Rocke to make men fall and euery one that beleeueth in him shall not be ashamed But therefore the same iudgement is fallen vpon them Iohn 9.39 which Christ sheweth Iohn 9. himselfe came to inflict vpon those obstinate Iewes and Scribes and Pharises who sought saluation by the workes of the Law and not by faith in him I am come sayd he vnto iudgement into this world that they which see not might see and that they which see might be made blinde And this blindnesse we see to be now in the Papists For notwithstanding the Apostle Saint Paul saith plainely thus of Christ 2 Corinth 5. God made him to be sinne for vs that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him they cannot see how this righteousnesse should serue the turne For as their Cardinall Allen sayth y In the said booke pag. 154 The death of Christ doth not discharge vs of satisfaction for our sinnes nor of any other good worke whereby a man may procure his owne saluation And further for those that cannot attaine vnto satisfaction the second part of our first Chapter doth shew that the want that is in them is made out by the ouer-plus of the righteousnesse of others For as the sayd Cardinall saith z In the said book pag. 239. The Church of God hath instructed thee that all workes whereby man may procure helpe to himselfe or others be the workes of the faithfull And thus we see that the same iudgement which Christ laid vpon the Iewes Scribes and Pharises he hath laid vpon them that they so little accounting of him should trust to be made righteous by themselues and others that so they might be depriued of his righteousnesse 21 Againe the Apostle Saint Paul 1.