But external offices or ministerie, without a wel disposed mind, and sincere vertues producing Good workes necessarie.Good workes, did neuer iustifie anie man. Gen. 4.And therfore Cains Sacrifice, offered with a peruerse mind, was not respected by God, as Abels was: wherupon he becomming worse and more malicious, God sharply reproued his anger and enuie, conceiued without iust cause, saying: If thou dost wel, shalt thou not receiue againe: but if thou dost il, shal not thy sinne forthwith be present at the dore? cleerly shewing that euerie one shal receiue according to his workes.
This place also euidently sheweth Freewil.Freewil, yea in a wicked man. For this expostulation had neuer been vttered by our most reasonable Lord and Master, if Cain had been depriued of freewil. For he might haue excused himselfe, and must needs haue been holden excused, if he had been forced to doe as he did. But God charged him as inexcusable, and as one that knew, or ought to know, that he had freewil. And doth further inculcate that he had, and should haue power and freewil ouer his concupiscence, to correct the same if he would, saying: The lust therof shal be vnder thee, and thou shalt haue dominion ouer it. Li. de seruo arbit. li. 2. Instit. ca. 2. par. 8.So that no sinner, be he neuer so wicked, much lesse a iust man, lacketh freewil. Yet Luther abhorreth the very word, and Caluin wished it out of the world.
Temporal punishment due for sinne remitted.Temporal punishment is proued to be due for sinne remitted, by that both death and other penalties are inflicted by Gods iustice vpon men, after iustification, Gen. 3.and by the particular punishments laid vpon Adam and Eue, confessing their faults.
PurgatoriePurgatorie is also proued by the same iustice of God. For when anie dieth penitent, and yet haue not made ful satisfaction, they must suffer for that remaineth after death, and be purged, before they can enter into rest. Mat. 5.Which remnant of debt our B. Sauiour calleth The last farthing, and saith, it must be payed. The lewes also at this day hold the doctrine of Purgatorie by tradition. Prayer for the dead.And consequently they Pray for soules departed, not only to God, but also to the ancient Patriarchs (which likewise sheweth And to Saints.Inuocation of Saints) in these wordes: Officio pro de sanctis.Yee fathers which sleep in Hebron, open to him the gates of Eden, that is of Paradise, which was planted in Eden. Sepulchers of Patriarchs religiously conserued.And Hebron is the place where Adam was buried, and his sepulcher religiously conserued in the time of Iosue, Ios. 14. Gen. 23aboue 1500 yeares after his death. The same is the place which Abraham bought, and there buried Sara: where also himselfe, and Isaac, and Iacob were buried: l. 2. Antiquit.and to which finally the bodies of the twelue sonnes of Iacob were translated from Sichem, as Iosephus writeth. And Sichem also was specially honoured, because such persons had been buried there, Epist. ad Pamachas S. Hierome witnesseth of his owne knowledge in his time.
Enoch translated aliue.Againe by religious care of burying the dead in this first Age, Enoch was more certainly knowen to be Translated aliue, and not to be dead. Gen. 5.
Heb. 11.For the seuentie Interpreters and S. Paul say He was not found, which importeth that they sought diligently for him, and that his bodie could not be found, for God translated him.
