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Fifty Godly and Learned Sermons (The Decades)
Fifty godly and learned sermons divided into five decades, containing the chief and principal points of Christian religion, written in three several tomes or sections, by Henry Bullinger minister of the church of Tigure in Switzerland. Whereunto is adjoined a triple or three-fold table very fruitful and necessary. Translated out of Latin into English by H.I. student in divinity.Fiftie godlie and learned sermons diuided into fiue decades, conteyning the chiefe and principall pointes of Christian religion, written in three seuerall tomes or sections, by Henrie Bullinger minister of the churche of Tigure in Swicerlande. Whereunto is adioyned a triple or three-folde table verie fruitefull and necessarie. Translated out of Latine into English by H.I. student in diuinitie.
London: printed by Henry Middleton for Ralph Newberrie, 1577London: printed by Henry Middleton for Ralphe Newberrie, 1577
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
After this again they allege the words of the Apostle Paul, where 1he saith: If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains out of their place, and yet have not charity, I am nothing. For upon this they infer: Therefore not faith only, but also charity: yea, rather charity than faith doth justify.
After this againe they alledge the wordes of the Apostle Paul, where 1he saith: If I haue all faith, so that I can remoue mountaines out of their place, and yet haue not charitie, I am nothing. For vpon this they inferre: Therefore not faith onely, but also charitie: yea, rather charitie than faith doth iustifie.
- 1An other objection.An other obiection.
But we say that Paul in this sentence doth neither deny that faith alone doth justify, nor yet doeth attribute the justification of the Saints to charity. For when we affirm that we are justified by faith, or when we make faith the cause of justification, (which thing must be by often repetition beaten into our memories) we do not understand that faith, as it is a virtue in us, doth work, and by the quality that sticketh to us, doeth merit righteousness in the sight of God: but so often as we make mention of faith, we understand the grace of God exhibited in Christ, which is through faith freely applied to us, and received as the free gift of God bestowed upon us. And in that sense doeth Paul use the name of faith, when he affirmeth that faith doth justify. But in this place of the thirteenth Chapter to the Corinthians he doth not so take the name of faith, but putteth it for the power of working miracles, as is manifest by that which followeth, where he saith: So that I can remove mountains. That faith doeth not comprehend Christ wholly, but only the power in showing of miracles.