A14136:168
The Obedience of a Christian Man
The obedie[n]ce of a Christen man and how Christ[n] rulers ought to govern, where in also (if thou mark diligently) thou shalt find eyes to perceive the crafty conveyance of all jugglers.The obedie[n]ce of a Christen man and how Christe[n] rulers ought to governe, where in also (if thou marke diligently) thou shalt fynde eyes to perceave the crafty conveyance of all iugglers.
At Marlborow in the lande of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the second day of October. Anno. M.CCCCC.xxviii, by me Hans luft i.e. J. Hoochstraten, 1528At Marlborow in the lande of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the seconde daye of October. Anno. M.CCCCC.xxviii, by me Hans luft i.e. J. Hoochstraten, 1528
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How faith justifieth before God in the heart and how love springeth of faith and compelleth us to work / and how the works justify before the world and testify what we are and certify us that our faith is unfeigned and that the right sprite of God is in us / see in my book of the justifying of faith and there shalt thou see all thing abundantly. Also of the 1controversy between Paul and James see there. Never the later / when Rochester saith / if faith only justified / then both the devils and also sinners that lye still in sin should be saved / his argument is not worth a straw. For nether ⟨p. lxvij⟩the devils 2nor yet sinners that continue in sin of purpose and delectation / have any such faith as Paul speaketh of. For Pauls faith is to believe Gods promises. Faith saith he Ro. x. Cometh by hearing and hearing cometh by the word of God. And how shall they hear without a preacher / and how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written (saith he) how beautiful are the feet that bring glad tidings of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. Now when sent God any messengers unto the devils to preach them peace or any good thing: The devil hath no promise: he is therefore excluded from Pauls faith 3The devil believeth that christ died / but not that he died for his sins. Nether doeth any that consenteth in the heart to continue in sin / believe that Christ died for him For to believe that christ died for us / is to see our horrible damnation and how we were appointed unto eternal pains and to feel and to be sure that we are delivered therefrom through Christ in that we have power to hate our since and to love Gods commandments. All such repent & have their hearts loosed out of captivity and bondage of sin and are therefore justified through faith in christ. Wicked sinners have no faith but imaginations and opinions about Christ as our school men have in their principles / ⟨image 68⟩about which they brawl so fast one with another. It is another thing to believe that the king is rich and that he is rich unto me / and that my part is therein: and that he will not spare a penny of his riches at my need / when I believe that the king is rich I am not moved.