A declaration of Christ and of his office compiledA declaration of Christe and of his offyce compylyd

Caput XIII.

What the office of à justified man is Paul declareth Tit. 2. Apparuit enim gratia salutifera omnibus hominibus erudiens nos, ut abnega impietate & mundanis concupiscentijs, sobrie, pie, ac just uivamus in hoc saeculo. Be these words Paul for biddeth all impiety and dishonest lief and showeth man that is justified what he should do. Not to live after the concupiscence of the flesh but soberly. Not unjustly and doing wrongs unto other: but rather to Prophet and do well unto all men. It sufficeth not man justly to keep his goddes, But he is bound justly to dispense his goddes with other whether they be of the ⟨image 92⟩body or of the mind religiously and not superstitiously. a notable word (pie inquit) as the word of god teacheth and not as mans laws contrary unto God's law teacheth Expectantes beatam spem &c. he provoketh men to live well and taketh his reason of the profit and commodity that followeth a godly lief which is immortal lief at the cumming of Christ to judgment: Likewise with an other argument, à liberation Christ petitum & ab honesto dedit semetipsum pro nobis &c. the son of god gave nether gold nor silver for our purgation but his own body and precious blood: it is therefore an unworthy thing and not becoming à Christian man that by fail the hath received this purgation to live à vicious and ungodly lief. But we should be an holy people and followers of good works. There is a great virtue in this word zeloten it is not, sufficient ⟨image 93⟩to work well: Except the justified man with a godly zeal and ardent desire follow this god work be gone. Therefore Paul saith zelotē calō ergō etnō operatorē bonorū operū whereby we know that all though we be delivered from the malediction, course and damnation of the law (so that we retain à true faith and with confidence in Christ, repugn sin, and over come the terrors thereof) yet are we bound to the obedience of the law, which is God's will to keep us from lyuyng ille, and the more the justified man beholdeth the law the more increaseth the knowledge of sin, the more he beholdeth the mercy of God in Christ, the more is his fail the increaseth. the law is also necessary for the justified man to teach him with what works he should exercise his faith with all, and obedience unto God. We may not chose works of our own wisdom to serve