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  • Chapter 5 - The Tree of Repentance and Its Fruits

  • from Part I - Laudianism: Where It Came From
  • Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    On Laudianism
    Published online:
    05 October 2023
    Print publication:
    19 October 2023, pp 85-92

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with the positive content of Andrewes’ divinity and the ways in which, through the practice of repentance and of good works, the Christian believer could achieve some sense of his or her own salvation. The works involved were organised under three headings: those of charity, which were directed towards fellow Christians; of piety, directed towards God through divine worship; and of chastisement, directed towards the self in response to sin, of which fasting was the leading example. Thus, in spite of what Andrewes insisted were puritan claims to the contrary, not merely faith but also works, not merely the gospel but also the law, were necessary if salvation were to be achieved. In this way something like a sense of assurance could be achieved, composed in equal parts of fear and security, anxiety and comfort. This was a position constructed (once again) against what Andrewes presented as a false (puritan) assurance, indeed a presumption, based on the false assumption that one was one of the elect.