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love_n	believe_v	faith_n	heart_n	5,328	5	5.2153	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03769	Of the expresse vvorde of God A shorte, but a most excellent treatyse and very necessary for this tyme. Written in Latin, by the right reuerend, lerned, and vertuous father Stanislaus Hosius, Bishop of VVarmia, Cardinal of the Holy Apostolyke See of Rome, and of the presidents in the late general councel holden at Trent. Newly translated in to English.	Hozjusz, Stanisław, 1504-1579.; Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598, attributed name.	1567 (1567)	STC 13889; ESTC S116558	106,428	242

proffitteth nothing As S. Pawll him self also teacheth VVho defyneth not euery faith wherby wee beleeue yn God but that only to be the helthsome and true euāgelical fayth which workyth by loue VVherby how litle or nothing that fayth auayleth which some thinke sufficient to saluation he so farre foorth shewyth that hee sayth If I haue neuer so myche fayth so as I be able to remoue mountaynes owt of their places and yet haue not charitee I am nothing But wher this faith full charitee worketh ther no doubt is good life For the fulnes of the lawe is Charitee Thus farre S. Augustyn Behould I pray yow how owld this heresie is which sayth Only faith is sufficient to saluation For it sprang euen whill Pawll yet leeuyd and was sought to be prouyd and mayntened euē by the expresse word of God vtteryd by that his elect vessell Pawll the Apostle when yett this was neuer the mynde of S. Pawll but as Saint Peter writeth some vnlernyd and vnconstant heades peruertyd the meanyng of his wordes And what for Gods loue dooth Sathan ells now allso more earnestly seeke by his members to beate into the eares and myndes of men but that they should hold for suertye that only fayth suffiseth both to iustification and to saluacion If Peter then at that tyme complaynyd of the peruertyng of Pawl his wordes How myche more would he now complayne when this most pestilent doctrine is with syche vehemencye sett foorth when it is obtruded to the eares and eyes of men with these most pernicious wordes That the Gospell may not suffer to heare any preaching of good workes That the sheepe of Christ quakyth when he hearyth them namyd of the preacher That faythe may not abyde any good workes to stand nere her That they which are coueryd as it were with good workes can hardly enter into heauen for that workes following after iustification are vncleane Yea and the best good worke is very synne That they are pestylent teachers and that it is a Roote budding nowght but Gawll owt of the newe Testament to vexe consciences with workes and that there can not be together in the Churche a teacher of fayth and of workes This so vnpure and wicked doctrine yf Peter should heare cloked with the name of the Gospel yf Pawl should heare these wicked men vawnt them selues that they had drawen this doctryne owt of his Epistles wherin it appearyth he did so carefully recommend vnto vs good workes and stirre vp all faithfull mē to vse and embrace them what thinke wee would they bothe saye and doo therunto But herofinowgh For in this place wee mynded no more but to shewe that euen in the Apostles tyme allso ther wanted not some which shrowded their lewde deceytes vnder the name of the Ghospell and which of the very wordes of S. Pawll by peruerting the sense therof fearyd not to professe and sett forward a contrary doctrine So that if first against Christ the very auctor of the scriptures Sathan feared not to bring the scriptures and agaīst Pawl him self to bring by his members Pawll his owne wordes wrestyd into a reprobat sense who can myche merueil if in thies latter dayes he hathwith more impudence attemptyd the same Tertullian is a very owld writer not lōg after the Apostles tyme. He wrote a notable booke of prescriptions against heretikes wherin he shewyth that this was a great word in their mouthe Seeke and yee shall fynd Searche the Scriptures And therin he exhorteth the faythfull that they would yet make some end of their seeking and therwith all preferryth fayth before trauail in the scriptures In the end he vseth these wordes Of the scriptures doo heretikes taulk very myche To the scriptures they counsell vs as though they could not otherwise geue aduyse touching matters of fayth but owt of the lettres and wordes of faith Now therfore come wee to the purpose For to this end did we direct and bend the entree of our taulke that euen here wee may Ioyne vpon that poynt wher vnto our aduersaryes so earnestly call vs. Scripture they pretend and with this their bowld countenaunce they moue some very muche But in the very conflict they wery the strong they take the weake and the indifferent they send awaye with scruple of mynd Then by and by he addeth what is to be done to them whē they shrowd them selues vnder the scriptures Thus sayth he do wee at the first encownter stoppe them that in dede they are not to be admitted to any disputatiō at all of the scriptures That if their force lie in scripture we must knowe howe they come by it Therefore must wee see to whom of right apperteyneth the possession of the scriptures to the end he be not allowed therunto to whom in no sorte it belongeth And lest any should thinke he wrote thus as hauing mistrust in his cause he foorthwith goeth forward in this sort This would I not haue browght foorth for geuing suspicion of diffidence or of desier to haue any other the state of the cause if the case stood not so as heerin we owght obedience to the Apostle ▪ who forbiddeth to enter into questions or to lend our eares to newe and straunge voyces For an heretike sayeth the Apostle must be taulked with after one Reprehension not after disputation For in this did the Apostle forbid disputation in that he apoynted an heretike to be rebuked and in that respect only to be taulked with and that but once because he is not to be esteemed as a Christiā Nor should be rebuked after the manner of a Christian once or twyse or by testimony of ij or iij. witnesses but is a man therfore and in that respect to be rebuked for that he is suche a person as owght not to be disputed with And because allso conference of scriptures with suche a one profitteth nothing but only stirreth choler and troubleth the brayne Agayne this heresie admitteth not some scriptures and if it allowe some yet doth it peruert the same by some addition or detraction to the defending of that it would proue or yf it receyue some scriptures yet will it not receyue them full and whol And if it doo yet will it turne them by inuēting some newe and contrary exposition No lesse ouerthwarteth the Truthe a bastarde Glose then a corrupted text Variable preiudices must nedes refuse to acknowledge those things wherby they are ouerthrowen To those things they leane which either faulsly they haue patched together or haue bene occasioned of ambiguous wordes and doubtfull texts VVhat shalt thow profit thowe that art best excersised in the scriptures when what so euer thow defendyst he shall denye and what so euer thow denyest he shall defend Thow losest but thy voyce in contending with him and gainest nowght but vnquyetnes of mynd in hearing his blasphemyes The partye if any suche be for whos

the most greuous cryme of horrible idolatry But to retourne wher wee leeft I trust wee haue sufficiently shewyd that the word which is now by heretikes set to sale to the vnlerned multitude for the expresse word of God is not in deed the word of God but the word of the diuel frō the which the mindes of all good men ought to abhorre and to flee from as a deadly poyson according to the wordes of the Prophets and Apostles which styll crye vnto vs Flee from idolls Nowe is it tyme to blowe the retraict but that we meane first a litle to discusse vnto you what is the expresse word of God to the end that when you knowe the same the expresse word of the diuell may the better be discerned There are truly in the scriptures many wordes of God but they all make but one word of God which is Loue for al the lawe sayth the Apostle is fulfylled in this one word And in this dependeth not only the whole lawe but allso the prophetes as Christ him self witnesseth The fulnes of the lawe therfore and the end of all the commaundements is Charyte For therunto is referred euery one of the commaundements Seeke none other thing sayth S. Augustine in any of the scriptures let no man geue you any other precept VVhat so euer is darke in the scripture Charyte lyeth hiddē therī and what so euer is playne in the scripture there allso is Charyte open and playne This precept of Charitee is aboue and ouer al the heauens and ouer al bookes All bookes are subiect and vnder this euery toung of holly men and euery mocyon of the dispensors of God and of the mynde and body ▪ serueth vnder this onsigne what so euer thou hast and hast not this it proffiteth thee nothing Other thinges yf thou haue not yet haue this and thou hast fulfylled the lawe If this alone be absent all is emptye ▪ yf this alone be present all is full This only it is which suffiseth to saluation and is so necessary to saluation as ther is no meane wherby a man may hope to atteyne the same without charitee This word therfore which dooth consummat and abbreuiat this liuely and sauing word this word of Charitee and Loue is so expresse and playne that Clemens Alexandrinus sayth It may be learned euen without the scriptures for that it is a certayn lawe of the spirite written in the hartes of the faythful be they neuer so simple and vnlerned No man therfore can be so dull as not to vnderstand this word neither shall any man be excused thorough ignoraunce therof This is that word wherof the Psalmist speaketh saying Thy word is a candle to my feet and a light vnto my pathes VVherof he allso speaketh wher he sayeth Thy precept is cleer geuing light to the eyes In deed the eyes of our hart are lightned by Charitee as on the other syde they be blynded by coouetousnesse VVhither the coouet ousnesse or desyer be of the flesh or of the eyes or of prayse and glory VVher that is there is nothing but meer darcknesse nothing but a fowll dimnesse On the other syde wher Charite is ther is a shining light yea so cleer and bryght that nothing can be darke to him that hath charite Therfore it is very well sayd of S. Augustine Let him loue and haue charite that will come to the knowledge of God In vayne cometh he to reading meditation preaching or praying which loueth not But because loue and charite can not be perfect in any other place then in that heauenly contrey of the blessed sainctes therfore the knowledge of him shall in the end ther allso and no wher ells become perfaict Here in the meane tyme in part wee knowe and in part wee prophecy VVherfore yf any man marueyll why as emōg other heretikes so allso emōg the Confessionistes them selues ther is so great a myst and darcknes that after the manner of the Andabates they fyght wyncking or in the darke and can not atteyne to the knowledge of the truth let him now cease wondring synce he hath learned this to be the cause therof that they be destitute of that Charitee which only geueth light to the faithful For they would neuer haue deuided vnitee yf they had not first lost Charite which is the bond of peace and vnitee But for this cause are they destitute of Charite for that they be full of couetous desire as of many other thinges so chieffly of prayse and vayne glory According to that is written by the Poet he is a rare mā that can geue ouer and renounce his owne wyt Nothing so myche hindreth the fynding out of the truth as pryde which is the moother of all heresies For ther are euer brawles emong prowde men But to attayne to the truth ther is none other waye but humillite by the which Charitee is noorisshed and vnitee reteyned And that humillitee is sayth S. Augustine the first second and thyrd vertue and so foorth how often so euer you should aske of me that aunswer would I styll make as it is writtē Demosthenes somtyme spake of pronunciation By this way synce heretikes walke not who can myche marueil though they can not atteyne to the knowledge of the cleer truth VVhat a reuell kepe they both with vs and emong themselues about the expresse word of God Yet in the meane tyme can they not see that which is the most expresse clere and playne thing in all the scriptures and as clere as the sunne shinyng and which alone to haue lerned doth abundantly suffise vs to saluation to wit Charitee For that is the somme and end of the whole scripture as is very wel written by S. Augustine saying VVho so euer thinking him self to vnderstand the holy scriptures and euery part therof and yet by that vnderstanding doth not buyld vp this dooble Charitee toward God and his neyghbour he vnderstandeth nothing But who so euer draweth out therof syche an vnderstanding as is proffitable to the building vp and working of Charitee though he speake not the very same which he whom he readeth may be proued to haue ment in that place yet for so myche as he is deceyued by syche an vnderstanding as yet worketh Charitee he is not hurtfully deceyued neither dooth he therin alltogether lye but he is so deceyued as a man which hauing lost his waye dooth yett by coasting co me to that place wherunto that direct waye would haue brought him S. Augustine aduyseth in reading of the scriptures so to vnderstand them as Charitee be wrought therby yf wee will not erre to destruction But doo these men which now a dayes haue nothing more in their mowth then the scriptures and the expresse word of God apply their vnderstanding to this end that they labour to worke and buyld vp nothing but Charitee Nay whoo seeth not that they doo vtterly all

aungells of heauen wil vouchfafe to help them vp to heauen VVho when they haue all a leeke cutt them selues of voluntarely from the body of Christ that the heauenly Aungells haue then nothing to doo with them it is more certayn then that it may be doubted of Now therfore haue wee seen how Sathan assaulted Christ with the expresse word of God And hath he not doon the same also by his lymmes mēbers agaīst the same Christ the sonne of God Did he not labour by the expresse word of God to shew that Christ was not only no prophett but allso worthy to dye wee reade in the Gospell that when the Iewes heard the word of Christ some sayd this is a ꝓphet some others this is Christ yett were there not some emong them that sayd What Shall Christ come owt of Galilee Doth not the scripture saye Christ cometh of the seed of Dauid and foorth of the Castle of Bethleem where Dauid was The Phariseys allso said to Nicodemus Searche the scriptures and see that owt of Galilee shall aryse no prophette Yett not content therwith by the scriptures which they browght foorth to denye him to be a prophett they cryed out farther saying VVe haue a lawe and by that lawe he owght to dye because he hath made himself the sonne of God VVho will not be astonyed when he readeth these thinges The membres of the diuell browght foorth the lawe and the prophetts against the very auctor and lord of the lawe and the prophetts And as to them it seemed proued by the expresse word of God he was not only not a prophett but one worthy of death as a wicked transgressor of the lawe So that if against Christ him self when he yett walked emong men ther was so earnest fyghting not only by the diuel him self but by his members allso and that with the very sworde of the scriptures what shall wee thinke may not be doon against vs selly men Or what will not Sathan presume and not hope to cōpasse which thought assuredly he could euen by the very scriptures teache that Christ not only was no prophett but also worthy of death Nowe therfor is this made playne that the diuell feared not euen with the weapons of scripture to assault Christ the sonne of God lyuing here on earth and looke what sence he drewe foorth therof that would he haue to be takē for the expresse word of God But what did he not euen with the same tooles sett on the Apostles yes ▪ and that very sore For what ells shewe these wordes of of S. Pawll Suche fauls Apostles are subtyll workmen trāsfiguring themselues into the Apostles of Christ And no marueill For euen Sathan transfigurith him self in to an aungell of light It is not myche therfore if his ministers transforme them selues in to the leeknes of the ministers of Iustice How properly S. Pawll heer paynteth owt the fauls Apostles of his tyme They woldyn no wyse seeme to preache ay other thing then Christ and the Gospell But as the heretikes of our age woold pull from the Churche the Catholike doctryn so woold they haue doon the name of the Gospell from Pawlls preaching and woold seeme to arrogat the same vnto them selues Dooth not S. Pawll openly signifie this whē he thus wryteth vnto the Galathians I marueyll you are so sone caryed away from him which caullyd you vnto the grace of Christ yn to an other Gospell which is but one not diuers Only some there be which trooble you and woold turne the Gospell of Christ VVhich place Iohn Chrisostom the true and faythfull Interpreter of S. Pawll expownding saieth Suche is the slaight of the diuell not to laye open the snares wherin hee seekyth to cache and intangle men For if they had sayd departe from Christ yee Galathians they wold haue auoyded thē as wicked and corrupt deceauers But now suffring them as it were to remayne in their faith and in the meane tyme couering their frawd with the name of the Gospell the vnderminers without any daunger with great bouldnes vndermined the house whil by the spreding of these veyls their right names wer couered Sins therfor they termyd their fraud the Gospel S. Pawl also striueth against the name etc. You see now howe euē at that tyme as in this our age some cloked their deceyt with the name of the Gospell and called their frawde the Gospel That which they taught and not which Pawll preached they would haue to seeme the Gospell and with this honest pretēce casting a colour before men they labored to crepe into their myndes So doth Sathan to snare mē alwayes vse some shrowd and doth not streight waye to vse the phrase of the cōmō people shewe his hornes but layeth the forthe name of holly scripture of the word of God of the Gospell that he may the more easely drawe men before they beware in to his nettes But it becomyth not faithful folcke by and by to be moued with suche masked Sprittes nor if a man call his owne trechery the Gospell straight way for suche to repute it The same Pawll allso remembryth writing vnto the Thessaloniās that there were some which feared men by an Epistle sent as it were from him as though the day of the lord were euē then at hād when yett by S. Pawll no such thing had bene writtē But where as he in his former epistle to thē had thus written VVe which lyue which remayne to the comyng of our lord shal not come befor them which haue slept to those his wordes they fastned that straunge sence which he neuer mēt So allso euē whyle Pawll yet lyued some were not affrayd to misconster his wordes For thus S. Peter the Apostle writeth of Pawlls Epistles That some things therin be hard to be vnderstanded which vnlernyd and wauering persons do depraue as they doo allso some other scriptures to their owne damnation If then whyle Pawll yet liued on the earth there were some found which turned and misconstrued his wordes what wonder is it if after so many ages past sins his death they haue been and yet be handled in lyke sorte But what that was which vnlernyd and wauering persons sowght in Pawlls epistles to peruert S. Augustin teachith in that his booke which he intituled of faith and workes For where Pawll had writtē wee thinke man to be iustified by fayth without the workes of the lawe some lewde and vnlernyd persons sayth he so tooke these wordes that with a certayn wicked securitee and carelesnes they cast awaye both them selues and others whyle they gathered heerby that to obteyn Saluatiō only faith suffised which thing he sayeth was the cause that the other Apostolicall Epistles of Peter Iohn Iames and Iuda are chieffly bent and directyd against that opiniō so as they very strongly buyld and mayntayn the cōtrary VVhich is that faith without workes