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A96833	The examination of Tilenus before the triers; in order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick preacher in the Common-wealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed the tenents of the remonstrants touching those five articles voted, stated and imposed, but not disputed, at the synod of Dort. Together with a short essay (by way of annotations) upon the fundamental theses of Mr. Thomas Parker.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3343; Thomason E1625_1; ESTC R204120	128,806	312

the places cited for conditional Election and the 2. and 3. Affirmatives of this Article and the reason of the foregoing Negative To which adde Rom. 8. 13. If ye live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 6. 16. His servants ye are to whom ye obey 2 Pet. 2. 19. For of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage John 15. 6. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned Rev. 2. 5. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first works Rev. 3. 2. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die c. verse 15 16. I would thou wert cold or hot c. Judas being one of those whom the Father had given to Christ was lost John 17. 12. He had power over all Devils Luke 9. 1. Yet through covetousness he made way for Satan to enter ●n to his heart Luke 22. 3 4. See Mat. 26. 14 15 It seems that he had some title also to one of those twelve thrones Mat. 19. 28. But he forfeited his interest and never came to sit on it V. They do utterly denie that no sins of the faithful how great and grievous soever they be are imputed unto them or that all their sins present and future are forgiven them The Reason Ezek. 18. 24. When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass and sin shall he die Psal 89. 31 32. 2 Sam. 7. 14. I will visit their iniquitie with rods 2 Sam. 12. 10. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house See Psal 6. 38. 51. 8 9 10. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath thy hand is heavy upon me For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Hide thy face from my sins and blot out altmine iniquities cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me Rev. 2. 4 14. I have somewhat against thee 1 Cor. 11. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly amongst you and many sleep Amos. 3. 2. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities See the reason of the third Negative VI. They do utterly denie that true believers falling into deadly heresies and most heinous sins as adulteries and murders for which the Church according to Christs institution is forced to testifie that she cannot tolerate them in external Communion and that unless they repent they shall have no part in the Kingdome of Heaven cannot notwithstanding fall totally and finally from faith The Reason 1 Chron. 28. 9. If you forsake him he will cast you off for ever Rev. 3. 11. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown 2 ep John vers 8. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have wrought Gal. 3. 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain Mat. 16. 19. And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdome of Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt binde on earth shall be bound in heaven Heb. 6. 4 5 6. and chap. 10. 26. c. For it is impossible the Laws of the Church permits it not for those who were once inlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the son of God afresh and put him to an open shame So cha 10. 26. c. Wherefore giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity for if you do these things ye shall never fall For so an entrance shall be ministred to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ See the 2. and 3. affirmative and the 1. and 3. Negatives Note These five last Negatives the Remonstrants do reject with their whole heart and soul as enemies to pietie and goodlife Jacobus Arminius in Articulis perpendendis saith as followeth I. THat opinion which denies that true believers can or ever do fall from faith totally and finally was never accounted for Catholick from the times of the Apostles to these our times nor the contrary esteemed heretical yea the affirmative part had ever more for it II. That a believer can be assured without special revelation that he shall not fall from faith And that a believer is bound to believe that he shall not fall from faith are two points which were never accounted for Catholick in the Church of Christ nor was the denial of them ever judged heresy by the Catholick Church III. That perswasion whereby a believer doth certainly perswade himselfe that he cannot or shall not fall from faith serves not so much for comfort against despair as for to breed security directly contrary to that most wholsome feare wherewith we are commanded to work out our salvation and which is very needful in this place of temptation See Heb. 12. 15. Rom. 11. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 12. 1 Thess 5. 3. Heb. 6. 11. Gal. 6. 1. Phil. 2. 13. 1 Pet 1. 17. Rev. 3. 11. Iob 9. 28. 1 Cor. 9. 27. 1 Cor. 4. 4. IV. He that thinks he may fall from faith and thereupon fears lest he should fall therefrom is neither destitute of needful comfort nor tormented with anxiety of minde He that gives comfort and security upon any other terms doth sow pillows as in Ezek. 13. 18. c. See Ierem. 6. 14. Ezek. 13. 10. It being sufficient for comfort and freedome from anxiety to know that he shall not by any power of Satan sin and the world or any affection and infirmity of his own flesh fall from faith unless himself shall willingly of his own accord yield to temptation and neglect conscionably to work out his salvation See Ioh. 10. 28. Rom. 8. 35. to the end 1 Ioh. 5. 18. Jam. 4. 7. Rom. 6. 16. 2 Pet. 2. 19. This doctrine according to the undeniable consequence thereof will uphold the necessity of an industrious duty and the usefulness of a setled Ministery and the peace of a good Conscience And as many as walk according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Gal. 6. 16. The Postscript to the First part TILENUS Thinks fit to give this further account of his design in the foregoing papers He resolved at first onely to give the true state of the questions and nakedly

a wicked Christian I desire therefore in the next place that you would make proofe of your discipline upon Tilenus Carnalis Mr. Fatalitie Herein methinks I should make no great difficultie to prevail if the power of reason can but fasten upon your understanding or the tie of religion upon your conscience or the sense of gratitude upon your heart and affections Do but reflect upon those obligations which Almighty God hath laid upon you in your Creation and Redemption He hath a fair title to your best obedience by right of dominion in regard of that excellent nature and being he freely conserr'd upon you but a stronger title if stronger may be by the right of a deer purchase made by no lower price than his own blood These obligations as common equitie hath drawn them up so with respect to the benefit that would accrew to you hereby your own ingenuitie hath drawn you on to subscribe and seal them You have been solemnly devoted unto God and listed a sworn souldier under the Banner of your Redeemer Are you under his pay and fight against his interest Do you wear his livery and eat his provisions and expect his reward and yet spend your time and strength and talents in the service of his mortal enemie How execrable is the sacriledge of this ingratitude and rebellion Remember it will not be long ere the justice of God send 's the trumpet of the Law which will be so much the shriller if it be sounded by the hollow lungs of death to give your now-secure Conscience a hot alarum and when you are once awakened with the terrour of those dreadful threatnings you will be amazed at the horrour of that apprehension when you shall behold all those shoals and swarms of sin you are guiltie of muster'd up in their several ranks and files to charge and fight against you for the momentarie and trifling pleasures whereof you have so improvidently forfeited all the comforts of a good Conscience and refreshments of the Holy Ghost with your portion in Heaven and your interest in Gods favour in exchange whereof like a foolish Merchant you have procured nothing but the coals of eternal vengeance and the flames of Hell which the crowds of your condensed sins have thrust wide open ready to swallow up and devour you unless you presently prevent it by an unfeigned repentance and universal reformation Tilenus Carnalis Sir I beseech you suffer not your zeal of a holy life to transport you beyond the rule of sacred truth lest while you pretend to honour God on earth you cast reproach upon his Eternal designs in Heaven I am jealous Tilenus Infidelis hath so disturbed your passions that you know not where you are for you have quite forgotten your Synod and your principles and I think your own name too and seem to have lost your Creed in your Commandements Recollect your senses and recal your wandring phantasie and awaken your judgement to consult the Oracle of your belief your Synod and speak accordingly for whatsoever is not of faith will be sin in you And is it not one of the Articles of that Creed which you profess that all the good or evil whatsoever that happens in the world doth come to pass by the only immutable and ineluctable decree of God and his most effectual ordinance That the first cause doth so powerfully guide and impel all second causes and the will of man amongst the rest that they cannot possibly either act or suffer sooner then they do nor in any other manner I am sorry I am no more master of my self and mine own actions that I am so divested of my libertie and carry a nature about me so debauched that I cannot chuse but suffer my self to be carried captive under the power of those sins that reign in-me but my comfort is I am assured by the judgment of such sound Divines as your self that the secret will of God which procur'd Judas's treason no less then Pauls Conversion hath so decreed it And you know it is not in my power to procure a writ of Electment to cast out that sin which came in and keeps possession by the uncontroulable order of the divine predestination I cannot get grace when God will not give it me nor keep it when he is pleased to take it away from me I have no Lure to throw out that the Dove of Heaven will vouchsafe to stoop unto the Spirit blows where he pleases inspires whom he pleases and retires when he pleases returns where he pleases And so if it comes with an intent to amend me it will be as impossible then to put him back as it is now to draw him on It were an intollerable presumption in me to make my self so much a taskmaster over the Holy Spirit as to prescribe him the time and hour when he shall effect that work for me whereunto I am able to contribute no more than to mine own birth or resurrection * Atque hec est illa tantopere in Scripturis predicata regeneratio nov a Creatio suscitatio mortuis vivificatio quam Deus SINENOBIS in nobis operatur Can. 12. art 3. 40. Synodi Dordracene I can affirm with confidence I never was so much an Atheist as to entertain the least distrustful thought of the divine power When he hath been four dayes dead and lies stinking in his grave Lazarus may be raised and the more putri'd I am in my corruptions the triumphs of the divine grace will be so much the more glorious in my restitution but it may be the last hour of the Day with mee before the Day-spring doth thus visit me In the mean while to shew my detestation of that arrogant doctrin of the Arminians I will not strive to do the least endeavour towards pietie lest by attributing some libertie to my self I should eclipse the glory of Gods grace which I acknowledge as well most free in her approaches as unresistible in her working I confess for the present my sins have brought such a damp upon my grieved spirit that he doth not afford m so much grace as to crie Abba Father Nevertheless I can call to minde I have sometimes heretofore had such heavenly motions and gratious inspirations in my heart as could be breathed from no other than the spirit of the Almighty hereby there hath been begotten in me a faith in Christ's merits not only true which can never be lost but so firm also that I am even now perswaded nothing shall be able to separate me from the love of God towards me in Christ Jesus This faith is rooted in a rock which all the powers of darkness are not able to root up though to your present apprehension for want of the fruits and blossomes of pietie and devotion it be as trees and herbs in winter which seem drie dead and withered but are not so Besides being one of God's Elect as every one is bound to believe according

out quickly and compel them to come in Rev. 22. 17. The spirit and the Bride say come And let him that heareth say come And let him that is athirst come And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely Isa 55. 1. Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters Rev. 3. 20. Behold I stand at the door and knock Prov. 1. 20. c. Wisdome crieth without she uttereth her voice in the streets How long ye simple ones Turn you at my reproof Behold I will pour out my spirit unto you c. 3. His reception Iohn 6. 37. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out Mat. 11. 28. Come and I will refresh you Rev. 3. 20. He shall sup with me 4. His options 1. For the time past Psal 81. 9 10 11 12 13 14. But my people would not hear O that my people had hearkned unto me Isa 48. 17 18 19. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest goe O that thou hadst hearkened to my Commandements then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the Sea 2. For the future Deut. 5. 29. O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep my Commandements alwayes that it might be well with them Deut. 32. 29. O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their later end 5. His precations and beseechings Isa 65. 2. Rom. 10. 21. I have spread out my hands a posture of prayer Exod. 9. 29. Psal 63. 5. all the day unto a rebellious people 2 Cor. 5. 20. God doth beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead Be ye reconciled unto God 6. His obtestations Deut. 30. 19. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore chuse life that both thou and thy seed mayest live Isa 1. 2. Hear O heavens and give eare O earth c. 7. His complaints Micha 6. 3. O my people what have I done unto thee and wherein have I wearied thee testifie against me Ier. 2. 5. What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain Ier. 2. 31. Have I been a wilderness c. 8. His Lamentations Ier. 4. 14. O Ierusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayest be saved how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee Mat. 23. 37. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Luke 19. 41 42. He beheld the city and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace 9. His expostulations Ezek. 18. 31 32. Cast away from you all your transgressions and make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will ye die O house of Israel Ier. 13. last 10. His increpations and exprobrations Iohn 5. 40 with 34. These things I say that ye may be saved And ye will not come to me that ye might have life Rom. 2. 4. Despisest thou the riches of his goodnes not knowing that the goodness of the Lord leadeth thee unto repentance Ier. 13. last Woe unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean When shall it once be 11. His Comminations and threatnings Ezek. 18. 30. Therefore will I judge you O house of Israel every one according to his wayes saith the Lord God repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine Ier. 18. 10 11. Now therefore go to speak to the men of Judah saying thus saith the Lord behold I frame evil against you and devise a device against you return ye now every one from his evil way and make your wayes and your doings good 12. His oath and Protestation Ezek. 33. 11. As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel Are not these arguments of seriousness Judg. 13. 23. If the Lord were pleased to kill us he would not have shewed us all these things nor have told us such things as these See the Reason of the fifth Negative What the Remonstrants do not hold touching the said Articles viz. Gods grace and Mans Conversion I. THey do not hold that all Zeal Care and Study for the obtaining of Salvation which a man shall use before he hath faith and the spirit of renovation is vain and to no purpose much lesse that 't is rather hurtful than profitable and fruitful to him The Reason 1. The neglect hereof is complained of Isa 64. 7. There is none that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee Isa 44. 19. Iob 35. 10 11. But none saith where is God my maker Who teacheth us more then the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser then the fouls of heaven See Ier. 5. 24. ch 8. 6. No man repented him of his wickednesse saying what have I done 2. This neglect is threatned Luke 16. 10 12. He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much If therefore you have not been faithful in that which is anothers c. Rom. 1. 21. Because when they knew God they glorified him not as God 3. This is a duty expected even of the Heathens Act. 17. 27. That they should seek the Lord if haply they might feel after him and finde him 4. And 't is commanded He that hath an ear to hear let him hear Isa 46. 8. Remember this and shew your selves men Jam. 1. 5. If any of you lack wisdome let him aske of God Strive to enter in at the streight gate Ier. 4. 3. Luke 3. 4 6. Prepare the way of the Lord. Hos 10. 12. 5. This is commended as a disposition and preparative to faith in Christ and the spirit of renovation Mat. 13. 10 11 12. To him that hath shall be given To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdome of heaven Mat. 11. 5 25 26. Thou hast revealed them to babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight Iohn 10. 27. Iohn 3. 21. But he that doth truth cometh to the light Luke 8. 15. That on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart having heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit with patience Mark 19. 14. Of such is the kingdome of God 6. This care and study is incouraged Mat. 12. 20. He will not quench the smoaking flax nor break the bruised reed Isa 55. 1. Mat. 11. 28. Ho