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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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To God there is satisfaction •or sins,1 but the death of Christ alone, as Saint ⟨image 23⟩John saith: he (Christ) is the satisfaction for our sins.2 Hereto agreeth the saying of S. Paul: God made Christ to be sin (that is, a satisfactory sacrifice) for sin, which knew no sin, that we by his means should be that righteousness, which before God is allowed.3 God requireth of us repentance, faith, and amendment of life, when we have gone astray: but to satisfy the justice of God for those our sins we are not able, though all righteousness of the whole world should be offered up to God of one man for one sin that he had committed against God, in whose sight the stars are not pure, nor the Angels of heaven free from imperfection, if they should be compared with the pureness and perfection of God. Therefore to make satisfaction to GOD for our sins, Christ came down, took our frail nature upon him, dyed for our wickednesses, and rose again for our Justification. And this his satisfaction is counted our satisfaction, if we believe in him:4 as it is written: Be it known unto you (ye men and brethren) that through this man (CHRIST) is preached unto you the forgiveness of since, and that by him all that believe, are justified from all things, from the which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. There is an other kind of satisfaction, that concerneth our neighbour, whom we have offended either in word or in deed. That satisfaction ought in this behalf to be made, no man that feared God, denieth. Yea we plainly affirm, that whosoever hath offended his neighbour, and seeketh not to be reconciled unto him, ⟨image 24⟩by making due satisfaction unto him to the uttermost of his power,5 whether it be in word or in deed: that person is far from the true Christianity. If the offence be in word: satisfaction must be made in word. If it be in deed: then must the satisfaction be made in deed likewise, after the example of Zachee, which said: If I have done any man wrong: I restore him four fold. Sixteenthly, Free will is denied to be in us,