M. Do I need to tell you? 1. Judge by this with what Face the Prelates call us Puritans or Catharists, as if we pretended to perfection, and to be without sin. And whether it be not they that are far liker to the Catharists. We confess that the best of our Prayers, Preaching or Works hath somewhat in them repugnant to the Word of God: For Gods Law is perfect, and every sin in matter, or manner, or end, or degree, is repugnant to it. Far be it from us Pharisaically to justify any Book that ever we write as if we had no sin in it. But these men that call themselves the Church of England, do not only justify a large Volume of Forms, Orders, Rubrics and Calendars, &c. but also force ⟨p. 107⟩all other men to justify it all as sinless; and he shall be no Minister that will not do it, nor a Christian Member of the Church that denieth it: As if the perfection of their works were an Article of the Creed, and necessary to Salvation to be believed. Is not this Puritanism, Pharisaical, and Justification of Works?
2. Judge by all that I have in this Book cited, whether there be nothing at all in their Books that is repugnant to the Word of God. If I have made it past all modest denial, then what a dreadful thing is this Renunciation of Repentance? when Repentance is the condition of the pardon of all our sin, even that which cleaveth to our Worship of God. But they that tell the World that their Works have no sin, yea and force all the Kingdom to stand to that justification, do in a very high degree renounce Repentance: Yea they not only forbid all men to call them to repent, or to amend any sin that is in their Book, but Excommunicate them as wicked that do it.
3. I told you before, that this Excommunicating ipso facto, is in it self, a profane subversion of the very nature of true Excommunication, which supposeth due means to convince the Person that his words or deeds are sin, and that of an intolerable degree, and that he be heard speak for himself, and be admonished and earnestly persuaded to repent; and not Excommunicated till after all this he continue impenitent. But here men are Excommunicated for saying that there is somewhat faulty in mens works, and that before ever they are heard speak for themselves, or ever told of their sin, or called to repent: I before referred you to what Spalatensis de Rep. Eccles.
M. Do I need to tell you? 1. Judge by this with what Face the Prelates call us Puritanes or Catharists, as if we pretended to perfection, and to be without sin. And whether it be not they that are far liker to the Catharists. We confess that the best of our Prayers, Preaching or Works hath somewhat in them repugnant to the Word of God: For Gods Law is perfect, and every sin in matter, or manner, or end, or degree, is repugnant to it. Far be it from us Pharisaically to justifie any Book that ever we write as if we had no sin in it. But these men that call themselves the Church of England, do not only justify a large Volume of Forms, Orders, Rubricks and Kalenders, &c. but also force ⟨p. 107⟩all other men to justifie it all as sinless; and he shall be no Minister that will not do it, nor a Christian Member of the Church that denieth it: As if the perfection of their works were an Article of the Creed, and necessary to Salvation to be believed. Is not this Puritanism, Pharisaical, and Justification of Works?
2. Judge by all that I have in this Book cited, whether there be nothing at all in their Books that is repugnant to the Word of God. If I have made it past all modest denial, then what a dreadful thing is this Renunciation of Repentance? when Repentance is the condition of the pardon of all our sin, even that which cleaveth to our Worship of God. But they that tell the World that their Works have no sin, yea and force all the Kingdom to stand to that justification, do in a very high degree renounce Repentance: Yea they not only forbid all men to call them to repent, or to amend any sin that is in their Book, but Excommunicate them as wicked that do it.
3. I told you before, that this Excommunicating ipso facto, is in it self, a prophane subversion of the very nature of true Excommunication, which supposeth due means to convince the Person that his words or deeds are sin, and that of an intollerable degree, and that he be heard speak for himself, and be admonished and earnestly perswaded to repent; and not Excommunicated till after all this he continue impenitent. But here men are Excommunicated for saying that there is somewhat faulty in mens works, and that before ever they are heard speak for themselves, or ever told of their sin, or called to repent: I before referr'd you to what Spalatensis de Rep. Eccles.
