[182] Nevertheless Luther is careful to maintain good works as the fruits of faith, though not as the _meritorious_ cause of salvation. “Having so taught of faith in Christ,” says he, “we now teach touching good works also. Seeing that by faith thou hast apprehended Christ, by whom thou art justified, go now, love God and thy neighbours; pray to God, give him thanks; preach him, praise him, confess him; be good to thy neighbour, help him, do thy duty by him. These are truly good works, flowing as they do from that faith and joy conceived in the heart by reason of our forgiveness of sins through Christ.”--Comment. on the Galatians, ii. 16. And again, “After that Christ has been apprehended by faith, and that I am become dead to the law, justified from sin, freed from death, the devil, and hell, through Christ, I do good works, I love God, I give him thanks, I exercise charity towards my neighbour. But this charity, and the works consequent upon it, neither inform my faith, nor adorn it; but my faith informs and adorns my charity. This is my theology; these my paradoxes.”--ii. 18. [183] Latimer, Serm. i. 188. [184] Milner’s Church History, iv. 404. [185] Id. iv. 406. 443. [186] Id. iv. 474. [187] Id. iv. 497. [188] Id. iv. 475. [189] Strype, Cranmer, p. 287. fol. [190] Sleidan, De Stat. Relig. pp. 329, 468, 469. [191] Milner, v. 340. [192] Bull, Opera, i. 67. fol. [193] Burnet, Hist. of Reform. ii. 37. fol. Strype’s Cranmer, p. 148. and Appendix 77. 1st. ed. [194] Witness the following passage in a letter of Erasmus to Ammonius, then at London:--“Istis hæreticis vel hoc nomine sum iniquior, quod instante brumâ nobis auxerint lignorum pretium.” [195] See his Convivium Religiosum. [196] See the quotations from Luther’s Epistles, given in Milner’s Church Hist. v. 324. [197] Ibid. v. 337. This however is a subject of regret even with Luther himself:--“Nunc cum tam magno incremento verbi non infeliciter sit repurgata doctrina pietatis, plerique perditè anhelant ad Sectas. Plerique vero non solum sacras literas sed etiam _omnes alias literas_ fastidiunt et contemnunt.--Digni certè qui ἁνοήτοις Galatis conferantur.”--Comment. in Epist. ad Galat. i. 6. [198] Utopia, ed. 12mo. p. 117. [199] Id. 224. [200] Utopia, ed. 12mo. p. 248. [201] Id. 237. [202] Id. 234. 237. [203] Id. 233. [204] Id. 243. 253. [205] Id. 262. [206] See Life of Sir T. More, Eccl. Biog. ii. 109. 112. [207] Fox’s Acts and Monuments, ii. 283. [208] Fox, ii. 275–297. Burnet’s Hist. Reform. i. 163, 164. [209] Fox, Acts and Mon. ii. 306. [210] Percy, Reliques of Ancient Poetry, ii. 285, and Warton’s Hist. of English Poetry, iii. 201. [211] Wordsworth’s Eccl. Biog. i. 286. [212] Fox, ii. 363. [213] Ibid. li. 296. [214] Fox, ii. 286. [215] Wordsworth’s Eccl. Biog. i. 292. [216] Fox, pp. 759. 1240. [217] Serm. xi. on the Gunpowder Treason. [218] Levit. xx. 21. [219] Ibid. xviii. 15. [220] Ibid. 24. [221] Matt. xiv. 4. [222] 1 Cor. vi. 1.