A09453:167
A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
Doctrine 4 › Objections of Papists.Doctrine 4 › Obiections of Papists.
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II. Object. The Scripture saith in sundry places, that men are blessed which do good works. Psal. 119. 1. Blessed is the man that is upright in heart, and walketh in the law of the Lord. Ans. The man is blessed that endeavoureth to keep Gods commandments. Yet is he not blessed simply, because he doth so; but because he is in Christ, by whom he doth so: and his obedience to the law of God is a sign thereof.
II. Obiect. The Scripture saith in sundrie places, that men are blessed which doe good workes. Psal. 119. 1. Blessed is the man that is vpright in heart, and walketh in the law of the Lord. Ans. The man is blessed that endeauoureth to keepe Gods commandements. Yet is he not blessed simply, because he doth so; but because he is in Christ, by whome he doth so: and his obedience to the lawe of God is a signe thereof.
III. Object. When man confesseth his sins and humbleth himself by prayer and fasting, Gods wrath is pacified and stayed: therefore prayer and fasting are causes of justification before God. Ans. Indeed men that truly humble themselves by prayer and fasting, do appease the wrath of God: yet not properly by these actions, but by their faith expressed and testified in them, whereby they apprehend that which appeaseth ⟨p. 99⟩Gods wrath, even the merits of Christ, in whom the father is well pleased; and for whose sake alone he is well pleased with us.
III. Obiect. When man confesseth his sinnes and humbleth himselfe by praier and fasting, Gods wrath is pacified and staied: therefore prayer and fasting are causes of iustification before God. Ans. Indeede men that truely humble themselues by praier and fasting, doe appease the wrath of God: yet not properly by these actions, but by their faith expressed and testified in them, whereby they apprehend that which appeaseth ⟨p. 99⟩