A godlye and learned treatise wherein is proued the true iustificacion of a Christian manne to come frely of the mercy of god in Christ, without the deseruyng of man by his merites: and also how good workes oughte to bee done [and] what be true good works in dede. Whereunto is ioyned a co[n]ference betwene the law and the gospel, very profitable for al men to exercise themselues therin.
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- A godlye and learned treatise wherein is proued the true iustificacion of a Christian manne to come frely of the mercy of god in Christ, without the deseruyng of man by his merites: and also how good workes oughte to bee done [and] what be true good works in dede. Whereunto is ioyned a co[n]ference betwene the law and the gospel, very profitable for al men to exercise themselues therin.
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- Werdmüller, O.
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- [Wesel? :: H. Singleton?,
- 1555?]
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"A godlye and learned treatise wherein is proued the true iustificacion of a Christian manne to come frely of the mercy of god in Christ, without the deseruyng of man by his merites: and also how good workes oughte to bee done [and] what be true good works in dede. Whereunto is ioyned a co[n]ference betwene the law and the gospel, very profitable for al men to exercise themselues therin." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13920.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.
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The contentes of the boke.
- ☞ The. 1. Chapter. ☞ The autors intent in iustifica∣cion.
- ☞ The. 2. Chapter. ☞ The significations & descrip∣tion of the terme, iustifieng.
- ☞ The. 3. Chapter. ☞ Who is the mediatour & how he delyuereth vs.
- ☞ The. 4. Chapter. ☞ That Christ taketh away our synnes, and that so we are recōci∣led to god, proued by the scripture
- ☞ The. 5. Chapter. ☞ Christe beareth our synnes, when his iustice is made oures, which is don by faith on our side.
- ☞ The. 6. Chapter. ☞ That the maner of iustifica∣cion is on our behalfe by faith.
- ...
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- ... ☞ The. 7. Chapter. ☞ These sayenges: we are iusti∣fyed by the grace of god, or by christes merites, or by faith: be all one.
- ☞ The. 8. Chapter ☞ By fayth onelye are we iusti∣fied: which terme, onelye, is not of mans braine inuented.
- ☞ The. 9. Chapter. ☞ Iustification is taken from al maner of works, whether they be of the lawe, or of grace.
- ☞ The. 10. Chapter. ☞ Faith iustifieth not in yt it is a worke, but in that it trusteth to yt mercye of god through Christ.
- ☞ The. 11. Chapter. ☞ That no man is iustyfyed by works, whether they go before or after iustificacion, is proued by the nature of works.
- ☞ The. 12. Chapter. ☞ The nature of iustifycacyon
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- argueth, that faith and not works iustifie.
- ☞ The. 13. Chapter. ☞ Faith is not without workes, but what place they haue in the churche, and whence they spryng in vs.
- ☞ The. 14. Chapter. ☞ That we doe not wel, tyl god dwell in vs to worke good works in vs, and how rightwysenes is a¦scribed to workes.
- ☞ The. 15. Chapter. ☞ How gods workes in vs are called ours, but so yt we can chal∣lenge naught for them, but for an other cause.
- ☞ The. 16. Chapter. ☞ The. 2. sortes of men, that the Apostles had to do with, which make them seme to varie in iustifi¦cacyon.
- ☞ The. 17. Chapter. ☞ The termes, rewardes or me∣rites,
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- examined by the scripture.
- ☞ The. 18. Chapter. ☞ The rule to measure good works, that thei may be good in¦dede, and not of our good in∣tent onelye.
- ☞ The. 19. Chapter. ☞ The exposition of the. 10. com∣maundementes, which are the ly∣mites of our good works.
- ☞ The. 20. Chapter. ☞ That ye lord requyreth naught els of vs but the workes of the. x. commaundementes.
- ☞ The. 21. Chapter. ☞ That the foresayd proprietes of good workes are requysite in¦dede to workes, is declared more playnlye by the scripture.
- ☞ The. 22. Chapter. ☞ The conclusion or peroration,
FINIS.