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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.
Moreover, in the very same chapter 1to the Gala. he saith: I despise not the grace of God: for if righteousness come of the law, then Christ is dead in vain. For if we in our selves had had any thing whereby we might be saved, what needed the Son of God to take our flesh, to suffer and to die? But for because the Son of God being incarnate, did suffer and die, and died not in vain: therefore in our flesh there was nothing that could obtain salvation for mankind. Wherefore the only Son of God is our Saviour for ever: and by true faith maketh us partakers of his salvation.
Moreouer, in the very same chapter 1to the Gala. he saith: I despise not the grace of God: for if righteousnesse come of the law, then Christ is deade in vaine. For if we in our selues had had any thing whereby we might be saued, what néeded the sonne of God to take our flesh, to suffer and to dy? But for bycause the sonne of God being incarnate, did suffer and die, and died not in vaine: therefore in our fleshe there was nothing that could obtaine saluation for mankinde. Wherfore the only sonne of God is our Sauiour for euer: and by true faith maketh vs partakers of his saluation.
- 1Christ died not in vainChrist died not in vaine
Paul in the very beginning of his Epistle to the Rom. doth prove that all 1men are sinners, that in men there remaineth no strength for them to be saved by, and that the law of God it self, doth dig up the knowledge of offences, that is, doth apply them, bring them to light, and make them manifest, but doth not take them away, blot them out, or utterly extinguish them: and that therefore, God for his own goodness sake, to the end that the work that he hath made, should not altogether perish, doth justify the faithful freely by faith in Jesus Christ. I will rehearse a few of the Apostles own words. The righteousness of God (saith he) is declared without the law, being witnessed notwithstanding by the law and the Prophets, the righteousness of God, I say, cometh by faith in Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference. For all have sinned & have need of the glory of God: but are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. These words of the Apostle, I suppose, are most manifest to them that believe. He plucketh justification from our own merits & strength, and attributeth it to grace, whereby the Son of God is given to the world, unto the punishment of the cross, that all they that believe that they are redeemed by the blood of the Son of God, may be justified. Again the Apostle immediately after, addeth: Therefore we hold that man is justified by faith without the works of the law. Upon the neck of this again, he argueth thus. Is he the God of the Jews