The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes

ANNOTATIONS CHAP. X.

••. The iustice of God.]* 1.1 The iustice of God, is that vvhich God giueth vs through Christ the Ievves ovvne or proper iustice, is that vvhich they had or chalenged to haue of them selues and by their ovvne strength, holpen onely by the knovvledge of the Lavv vvithout the helpe or grace of Christ.

6. The iustice of faith] The iustice vvhich is of faith, reacheth to the life to come, making man assured of the truth of such Articles as concerne the same▪ as, of Christs Ascension to heauen,* 1.2 of his Descending to Hel, of his comming dovvne to be Incarnate, and his Resur∣rection and returne againe to be glorified: by vvhich his actions vve be pardoned, iustified, and saued, as by the Lavv vve could neuer be.

8. The vvord of faith.] The vvord of faith is the vvhole Lavv of Christ, concerning both life and doctrine,* 1.3 grounded vpon this, that Christ is our Sauiour, & that he is risen againe. Vvhich point (as al other) must both be beleeued in hart, and also be confessed by mouth▪ for though a man be iustified invvardly vvhen he hath the vertues of faith, hope, and cha∣ritie from God: yet if occasion be giuen, he is also bound to confesse vvith his mouth, and by al his external actions, vvithout shame or feare of the vvorld, that vvhich he invvardly beleeueth:* 1.4 or els he can not be saued. Vvhich is against certaine * old Heretikes that taught, a man might say or doe vvhat he vvould, for feare or danger, so that he kept his faith in hart.

14. Hovv shal they inuocat?] This maketh not (as Heretikes pretend) against inuocatiō of Saincts:* 1.5 the Apostle saying nothing els, but that they can not inuocate Christ as their Lord and Maister, in vvhom they do not beleeue, and vvhom they neuer heard of. For he speaketh of Gentils or Pagans, vvho could not inuocate him, vnlesse they did first be∣leeue in him. To the due inuocation of Christ, vve must knovv him and our duties to him. And so is it true also that vve can not pray to our B. Ladie nor any Sainct in heauen, til vve beleeue and knovv their persons, dignitie, and grace, and trust that they can help vs. But if our aduersaries thinke that vve can not inuocate them, because vve can not beleeue in them: let them vnderstand that the Scripture vseth also this speach, to beleeue in men: and it is the very Hebrew phrase, vvhich they should not be ignorant of that bragge thereof so much. Exod. 14, 31. They beleeued in God and in Moyses▪ and •• Paral. 20, 20. in the Hebrevv. Ep. ad Thi∣lem. v. 5. And the ancient fathers' did read in the Crede indifferently, I beleeue in the Catholike Church▪ and, I beleeue the Catholike Church, Conc. Nicen. apud Epiphan, in fine Ancorat, Hieron. contr. Lucif. Cyril. Hieros. Cathec. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

15. vnlesse they be sent.)* 1.6 This place of the Apostle inuincibly condemneth al the prea∣chings, vvritings, ordinances, innouations and vsurpations of Church; pulpit, & vvhat∣soeuer our nevv Euangelists haue intruded them selues and entered into by the vvindovv: shevving that they be euery one from the highest to the lovvest, false prophets, running and vsurping, being neuer lavvfully called. Vvhich is so euident in the Heretikes of our daies that the Caluinists confesse it in them selues,* 1.7 and say that there is an exception to be made in them, because they found the state of the Church interrupted.

20. That asked not.]* 1.8 That Christ vvas found of those that neuer asked after him, it pro∣ueth that the first grace and our first iustification is vvithout merites. That God called so continually and earnestly by his Prophets and by other his signes and vvonders, vpon the Ievves,* 1.9 and they vvithstood it: free vvil is proued, and that God vvould haue men saued, and that they be the cause of their ovvne damnation them selues.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Gods iustice, & the Ievves ovvne iustice.
• * 1.2

  Iustice of faith.
• * 1.3

  Open cōfession & protestation of our faith is sometime neces∣sarie.
• * 1.4

  Euseb. li. 6 c. 31 histor. Eccles.
• * 1.5

  The place allea∣ged against in∣uocatiō of Sain∣ctes, ansvvered.
• * 1.6

  Preachers not lavvfully called not sent.
• * 1.7

  Confes. des Egli. de France.
• * 1.8

  The first iustifi∣cation of mere grace.
• * 1.9

  Free vvil.