The honey-combe of free justification by Christ alone collected out of the meere authorities of Scripture and common and unanimous consent of the faithfull interpreters and dispensers of Gods mysteries upon the same, especially as they expresse the excellency of free justification / preached and delivered by Iohn Eaton ...

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The honey-combe of free justification by Christ alone collected out of the meere authorities of Scripture and common and unanimous consent of the faithfull interpreters and dispensers of Gods mysteries upon the same, especially as they expresse the excellency of free justification / preached and delivered by Iohn Eaton ...

Author

Eaton, John, 1574 or 5-1641.

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London :: Printed by R.B. at the charge of Robert Lancaster ...,

1642.

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Justification -- Early works to 1800.

Sermons, English.

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Contents

• title page
• A briefe Advertisement To the Reader.
• The Preface to the Reader.
• The Contents of this Treatise ac∣cording to the order of the Chapters.
• errata
• THE Honey-Combe of Free Iustification by Christ.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. 11.
  • CHAP. III. Of the parts of Iustification, and first of the first part, and excellency thereof.
  • CHAP. IV. Objections answered, and the justifying faith described and cleered.
  • CHAP. V. Wherein other Scriptures Objected, are cleered, and answered.
  • CHAP. VI. Wherein is contained an answer to the objection of the examples of David, and such like persons as were Iustified; and yet God saw, and took notice of sin in them, and punished them for the same.
  • CHAP. VII. Containing Answeres to certaine Rea∣sons Objected.
  • CHAP. VIII. Containing Answers to three other Reasons Objected.
  • CHAP. IX. Containing an Antidote against doubting, to kindle faith, that so our faith may be a preservative against all Objections of the world, the flesh, and the Devill, whatsoever.
  • CHAP. X. Of the second part of Free Iustification, making the true Beleever compleatly, sufficiently, and perfectly holy and righteous in the sight of God freely.
  • CHAP. XI. That the true Beleever is not only made righteous, but also compleatly, fully, sufficiently, and perfectly righteous in the sight of God freely.
  • CHAP. XII. That the justified children of God, are so perfectly and ex∣cellently righteous before God, that they are made glorious in the sight of God.
  • CHAP. XIII. The Faith of Iustification strengthened.
  • CHAP. XIIII. Of the Vtility and Majestie of Free Iusti∣fication.
  • CHAP. XV. Of foure other excellent benefits wrought upon us by Free Iustification.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of the other foure fruits, or effects declaring the Vtility and Majesty of Free Iu∣stification.
• Free Justification was first enjoyned to be diligently taught for the Reformation of the Church, by King Henry the eighth, but was by King Edward the sixth, and Queene Elizabeth, princi∣pally established by Parliament; and singled out from all the rest of the established Articles of Religion; and reduced into Ser∣mons and Homilies, to be (after the Peoples sight of their lost estate, and wofull misery by sin,) principally taught, and chief∣ly knowne, and understood of all the Subjects and Commons of the Land, for these foure causes especially.
  • Certaine fundamentall Positions, or Doctrines of Religion, tending to peace, and to the reducing of Popish Arminians, and Anabap∣tisticall Ministers, and people, to the true saving faith; and to the established Protestant Doctrine of the Church of England, by the Godly authority, and publique consent of Parliament, to be faithfully taught, and diligently observed, and kept of all the subjects, for the quieting of their consciences, in the assurance of their free salvation by Jesus Christ, and for the suppressing of the Romish Antichrist in all Superstitions, Errors, Sects, and Schisms, for the beating down of sin, and all vitiosnesse of life out of the Land (for the maintaining, and keeping of peace and unity in the matters of Religion, by the pure preaching of the Law, and of the Gospel) as followeth in these five Poynts, or Positions.
  • But here mark and observe for the distinguishing of these five points:
  • Summa summae, the short and long, and upshot of all is this:
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