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¹What? because faith doth always associate her self and is delighted with the sweet and joyful fellowship of most excellent virtues, & worketh always through love, shall she therefore not be alone in justifying, because she is fruitful and industrious in working? or shall she therefore not only, and alone justify us in heaven, without works, because she is full of works on earth? Or when she doth justify us in heaven before God• shall this our justification be therefore said to be ascribed to any our charity? or unto Jesus Christ? in respect of any reward? or of the only gift of God? for any our merit or deserving of works? or of the free promise of god? If God do accomplish the whole action of our justification for his promise sake, with what scriptures at the length will these Romish Rabbins underprop that their ruinous relic, shrined in their notable Council of Trent for a matter unreprovable, whereby they give the world to understand,² That eternal life is to be proclaimed to them that be good workers? Again: where they give out, that by the promise of God eternal life shall be rendered to good works as an undoubted reward. But where did God ever make any such promise, that the heavenly inheritance should be given upon any such condition ⟨p. 61⟩as a reward unto them,³ which shall offer themselves unto the dreadful Assize of the high Judge with a white stole (as they term it) of undefiled renovation? For such is the doctrine of these grave Fathers, which kind of doctrine if be too be admitted for infallible, I beseech you what need is there of Christ, or his Gospel, sithens men may so easily climb up into the kingdom of heaven by works, as it were by a pair of stairs? yea to what purpose then serveth that, which Saint Paul doth so earnestly and so often plod upon,⁴ That life everlasting is the gift of God, not of any work, least any man should boast himself?

¹What? bicause fayth doth alwayes associate her self and is delighted with the sweete and ioyful felowship of most excellent vertues, & worketh alwayes through loue, shall shee therefore not be alone in iustifying, bycause she is fruitfull and industrious in woorking? or shall shee therefore not onely, and alone iustifie vs in heauen, without woorkes, bicause shee is full of woorkes on earth? Or when shee dooth iustifie vs in heauen before God shall this our iustification bee therefore sayde to bee ascribed to anie our charitie? or vnto Iesus Christ? in respect of any reward? or of the only gift of God? for any our merit or deseruing of works? or of the free promise of god? If God doe accomplish the whole action of our iustification for his promise sake, with what scriptures at the length will these Romish Rabbines vnderprop that their ruynous relike, shrined in their notable Councel of Trent for a matter vnreprouable, whereby they giue the worlde to vnderstande,