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law_n	faith_n	justification_n	work_n	32,098	5	6.7418	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13883	A supplication made to the Priuy Counsel by Mr Walter Trauers	Travers, Walter, 1547 or 8-1635.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1612 (1612)	STC 24187; ESTC S121052	14,436	27

teacheth that righteousnes wherby we are righteous in Gods sight is an inherent righteousnesse which must needes be of our owne works and cannot be vnderstoode of the righteousnesse inherent only in Christs person and accounted vnto vs. Moreover hee taught the same time that neither the Galathians nor the Church of Rome did directly overthrow the foundation of iustification by Christ alone but only by consequent and therefore might well bee saved or else neither the Churches of Lutherans nor any which hold anie manner of errour could bee saved because saith he everie errour by consequent overthroweth the foundation In which discourses and such like hee bestowed his whole time more which if he had affected either the truth of God or the peace of the Church he would truely not haue done Whose example could not draw me to leaue the Scripture I tooke in hand but standing about an houre to deliver the doctrine of it in the end vpon iust occasion of the text leaving sundrie other his vnsound speeches and keeping me still to the principall I confirmed the beleeving the doctrine of iustification by Christ only to be necessarie to the iustification of all that shoulde bee saved and that the Church of Rome directlie denieth that a man is saved by Christ or by faith alone without the workes of the law Which my answere as it was most necessarie for the service of God and the church so was it without anie immodest or reprochfull speech in Mr Hooker whose vnfound and willfull dealings in a cause of so great importance to the faith of Christ and salvation of the Church notwithstanding I knew well what speech it deserved and what some zealous earnest man of the spirit of Iohn and Iames surnamed * Mark 3 17. Boanerges sonnes of thunder woulde haue saide in such a case yet I chose rather to content my selfe in exhorting him to revisite his doctrine as * 2. Sam. 7.2.3.4.5 Nathan the Prophet did the devise which without consulting with God hee had of himselfe given to David concerning the building of the Temple and with * Gal. 2.11.14 Peter the Apostle to indure to be withstoode in such a case not vnlike vnto this This in effect was that which passed betweene vs concerning this matter the invectiues I made against him wherewith I am charged which rehearsall I hope may cleare me with all that shall indifferently consider it of the blames laid vpon me for want of duty to Mr Hooker in not conferring with him whereof I haue spoken sufficiently alreadie and to the high commission in not revealing the matter to them which yet now I am further to answere My answere is that I protest no contempt nor willfull neglect of any lawfull authoritie staide me from complaining vnto them but these reasons following First I was in some hope that Mr Hooker notwithstanding he had beene overcarried with a shew of charitie to preiudice the truth yet when it should bee sufficientlie proved would haue acknowledged it or at the least induced with peace that it might be offered without either offence to him or to such as would receiue it either of which would haue taken away anie cause of iust complaint When neither of these fel out according to my expectation and desire but that he replyed to the truth and obiected against it I thought hee might haue some doubtes and scruples in himselfe which yet if they were cleared hee would either embrace some doctrine or at least suffer it to haue his course which hope of him I nourished so long as the matter was not bitterlie and immodestlie handled betweene vs. Another reason was the cause it selfe which according to the parable of the tares which are said to bee sowne amongst the wheat sprung vp first in his grasse Therefore as the servants in that place are not said to haue come to complain to the Lord till the tares came to shew their fruits in their kind so I thinking it yet but a time of discovering of it what it was desired not their sickle to cut it downe For further answer it is to be considered that the cōscience of my duty to God and to his Church did bind me at the first to deliver sound doctrine in such points as had beene otherwise vttered in the place where I had now some yeares taught the truth Otherwise the rebuke of the * 〈…〉 Prophet had fallen vpon mee for not going vp to the breach and standing in it and the * 〈…〉 perill for answering the blood of the Cittie in whose watch-tower I sate if it had bin surprised by my default Moreover my publike protestation in being vnwilling that if any were not yet satisfied some other more conveniēt way might be taken for it And lastly that J had resolued which I vttered before to some dealing with me about the matter to haue protested the next Saboth day that I would no more answere in that place any obiections to the doctrine taught by any meanes but some other way satisfie such as should require it These I trust may make it appeare that I failed not in duty to authoritie notwithstanding I did not complaine nor giue over so soone dealing in the case If I did how is he cleere which can alleage none of all these for himselfe who leaving the expounding of the Scriptures and his ordinary calling voluntarily discoursed vpō schoole points and questions neither of edification nor of truth who after all this as promising to himselfe and to vntruth a victory by my silence added yet in the next Saboth day to the maintenance of his former opinions these which follow That no additament taketh away the foundation except it be a privatiue of which sort neither the workes added to Christ by the Church of Rome nor circumcision by the Galathians were as one denieth him not to be a man that saith he is a righteous man but hee that saith he is a dead man whereby it might seeme that a man might without hurt adde workes to Christ and pray also that God and S. Peter would saue him That the Galathians case is harder then the case of the Church of Rome because the Galathians ioined circumcision with Christ which God hath forbidden and abolished but that which the Church of Rome ioined with Christ were good workes which God hath commanded wherein he cōmitted a double fault one in expounding all the question of the Galathians and consequently of the Romans and other Epistles of circumcision only and the ceremonies of the law as they doe who answer for the Church of Rome in their writings contrary to the cleere meaning of the Apostle as may appeare by many strong and sufficient reasons the other in that hee said the addition of the Church of Rome was of workes commanded of God whereas the least part of the workes whereby they looked to merit was of such workes and most were of supererogation and of workes which God never