those of these contradictorie Arminian and Anti-Arminian Assertions which are most consonant to least variant from and best warranted or confirmed by the Articles of England Lambheht and Ireland the Common-Prayer Booke and Homelies of our Church and the Cathechismes and-Recantation fote-recited must needs be the receiued established and professed Doctrine of our English Church 2 Secondly that those and those onely of the here-recorded iarring Positions which were are at first commended and transmitted to our infant Church by our religious and learned Martyrs in the dayes of Henry the VIII who then subscribed them with their hands and Sealed them with their owne blood which were afterward taught and planted in the grouth and reformation of our Church by our learned and eminent Diuinity Professors in the flourishing and religious Raigne of King Edward the VI. which were watered with the fruitfull showers of our blessed Martyrs blood in the fire and fagot-regiment of Queeneâ— Mary through the malice and cruelty of blood-sucking soule-staruing and non-preaching Prelates and haue euer since growne vp and flourished in our spredding Church in the peaceable and happy Raignes of Queene Elizabeth and King Iames of blessed memorie being alwayes publikely constantly vnanimously professedly and vncontrolablie entertained in both our famous Vniuersittes taught in our Diuinitie Schooles iustified in our Academicall Disputes preached in our Pulpits maintained propagated and recorded to posteritie as the vndoubted Doctrine of our Church not by some one or two vnorthodox ambitious time-seruing nouellizing Sycophanticall or romanized Diuines who know no other passage to their owne secure vp-rising but by religions downefall which they enterprise but by the streame current of all our Classicall orthodox eminent approued Writers from the beginning of Reformation to this present must needs be the hereditarie legitimate authorized established and professed Doctrine of the Church of England and the vndoubted truth 3 Thirdly that such of those Tenents now in issue which haue beene constantly oppugned refelled and disclaimed yea positiuely condemnedâ— by all the fore-alledged Articles Common-prayer Booke Homelies Cathechismes Recantation and by all the learned and approued orthodox Authors which our Church hath nourished and produced from her first reformation to this instant cannot bee deemed or adiudged the ancient embraced resolued or vndoubted Doctrine of our English Church These three infallible rules of tryall being thus praemised if I can now but proue that the Articles of England Lambheth and Ireland the Common-prayer Booke and Homelie of our Church the authorized Cathechisme of Edward the VI. the recantation of Barret c. together with our renowned Martyrs Vniuersities Diuinitie Schooles and Professors and the whole succession and series of all our orthodox and approued Writers from the inchoation of reformation to this present haue alwayes constantly professedly and in direct and positiue tearmes maintained iustified and patronized these seuen Anti-Arminian Positions here recorded oppugning reiecting and manifestly condemning the seuen opposite Arminian Tenents as Pelagian Popish erronious and euidently repugnant to the Scriptures and dogmaticall Resolutions of out Church it mâ—st then be forthwith yeelded to me and adiudged foâ— me That these Anti-Arminian not their ad uerse Arminian Assertions are the ancient approued resolued established and professed Doctrine of the Church of England And this by the helpe of God I come now to proue For the first of these Anti-Arminian Positions concerning the aeternity and immutability of Election and Reprobation the vnalterable praecise certaine number both of the Elect the only true Church of Christ and Reprobate in regard of Gods fore-knowledge and Decree and the Election of certaine particular persons not of all beleeuers nor yet generally of all men in the grosse It is directly positiuely and plainely taught confirmed and warranted by the fore-aledged 17. Article of our Church by the Articles of Lambheth Article 1. 3. by the Articles of Ireland Articles 12. 13. 14. 15. by the Booke of Common prayer established by Act of Parliament in our Church Proposition first figure 1. signifying the first of these Anti-Arminian Propositions to which it hath relation by the approued and setled Homelies of our Church figures 1. throughout their seuerall passages here recorded by the Cathechismes of King Edward the VI. figures 1. by Barrets Recantation and the synod of Dort Arti. 1. 2. which are punctuall in it Adde wee to these publicke irrefragable and binding Records the expresse concurrent suffrages of three of our eminent and learned Martyrs whom laborious and studious Master Fox in his Praeface to their workes printed together at London 1563. by Iohn Day which Edition I here follow hath truely stiled the cheife Ring-leaders of the Church of England to wit Master William Tyndale in his Paraeble of the wicked Mommon page 70. 77. 80. In his Answere to Master Moores Dialogue page 250. 257. 268. 290. 292. In his Answere to Master Moores second Booke cap. 3. 4. pa. 293. 294. Answere to his third Booke page 306. 307. Answere to his fourth Booke cap. 10. page 329. and in his Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. Master Iohn Frith in his Answere vnto Rastals Dialogue page 10. in his Declaration of Baptisme page 92. 93. and Master Doctor Barnes what the Church is page 248. That Freewill of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 227. 278. 279. Who maintained this Assertion in these workes of theirs and confirmed it with their blood in the dayes of Henry the VIII oppugning and condemning the contrary Descend wee vnto Edward the VI. his pious Raigâ—e here wee shall finde that learned Doctor Peter Martyr a man so eminent and famous in his age that hee was chosen and setled Diuinity Pâ—ofessor in the famous Vniuersity of Oxford my much honored Mother both by the King and State who sent for him from beyond the seas to this very purpose abundantly confirming this truth and for all its fellow Positions and copiously refuting the opposite Assertions in his laborious and learned Commentarie on the Romanes cap. 9. being nothing else as himselfe professeth in his Epistle Dedicatorie but the pâ—blicke Lectures which he read in the Vniuersitie of Oxford whiles hee was there Professor Tiguri 1559. pag 682. to 740. and in his Loci Communes Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 10. to 40. Here we may meete with his learned and intire Friend and fellow Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge by the States especiall appointment Master Martin Bucer who concurred in all points of Doctrine with him without the least dissent maintaining this and â—ts associated Positions repugning all the contrary in his Commentarie on Rom. 8. 30. cap. 9. 11. to 23. cap. 11. 2. to 6. Dedicated to our Religious Martyr Archbishop Cranmer and in sundry other of his workes both of them planting this first and all its subsequent Anti-Arminian Conclusions in both our famous Vniuersities who together with the whole Church of England as
Doctrine of the Church of England as the Booke it selfe together with two Reuerend Prelates of our Church who haue lately in two printed Letters expresly â—uerâ—ed That the Arminian Errors condemned in the Synod of Dort cannot stand with the Doctrine of the Church of England And that none can embrace Arminianisme in the Doctrine of Predestination and grace but he must first desert the Articles agreed vpon by the Church of England nor in the point of Perseverance but hee must vary from the common Tenet and receiued opinion of our best approued Doctors in the English Church will iustifie against all Opposers Therefore it is not within the intent or limitts and so not within the Danger of his Maiesties Declaration which I would not wilfully not willingly oppose Secondly I conceiue that this Declaration prohibits nothing but vnnecessary and curious Disputes vpon bare coniectures on or strained Collections from our Articles But in this Antithesis you haue onely abare historicall recitall in nature of a Catalogue of those scattered Records and writers of our Church which haue constantly oppugned these new Arminian Errors from the beginning of reformation to this present It comes not therefore within the sphere of this Declaration Thirdly his Maiesties Declaration was chiefly to suppresse all Innovations in Religion together with such vnnecessary Controuersiâ—es as might disturbe the Peace and settled Doctrines of our Church But this Antithesis serues onely to suppresse the Innouations in Relâ—gion and to allay all moderne Arminian Controuersies which interrupt our Churches Peace and Doctrines by disprouing Arminianisme to be the Doctrine of our Church in such an apparant manner that none can contradict it Therefore it is wholly with this Declaration not against it Lastly his Maiesties Declaration prohibits principally vnnecessary disputes about curious nice and needlesse Schoole-points of which men may be ignorant without great danger But I take it vnder correction that our Anti-Arminian Tenets can which the whole fabricke of our saluation the whole Doctrine and structure both of mans fall and corruptionâ— of grace and glory of Election Reprobation Predestination Vocation Iustification Sanctification Perseuerance and Glorification are suspended are no superfluous nice or curious speculations vnfit vnneedfull to be taught or published but most necessary essentiall comfortable and fundamentall Truthes in which the whole pith and marrow of Divinity the whole Doctrine of grace and mans salvation are included This all the ancient Councels ana voluminous Treatises of the Fathers in the pâ—imatiue Church this all the moderne Synods Articles Confessions Resolutions and Writings both of our owne and other Churches against Pelagius Arminius and their followers as the professed enemies of the grace and Gospell of God as Atheisticall Sectaries yea wicked pestilent and blasphemous heretiques as our late learned Soueraigne hath rightly stiled them doe abundantly testifie All which would neuer questionlesse haue waged such fierce such perpetuall and implacable wars against these Pelagian and Arminian Heresies were they suchinnoxius or triuiall Differences such vnnecessary such curious speculations as some of their Abetters who then me thinkes should be ashamed contenâ—iously to foment them to the great disturbance of our Churches peace would seeme to make them because they would more easily induce men to neglect them till they had gotten strength and then to imbrace them to their eternall ruine Since therefore these Anti-Arminian Tenets which I here onely vindicate to be the ancient genuine vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England are points of highest consequence of greatest weight and vse whence they haue beene more ab undantly patronized propagated and propugned not onely in the primitiue Câ—urch but likewise in most moderne Protestant Churches and in the Church of England then any other substantiall points of Diuinity whatsoeuer as is most apparently euident Since their opposite Arminian Errors which are in truth meere Popery and Semi-Pelagianisme at least a bridge a way and portall to them both haue beene most constantly oppugned both in the Primatiue our owne and other Reformed Churches as a dangerous and grace-nullifying Heresie And since Prosper himselfe hath expresly recorded it long agoe That St. Augustine hath constantly piously and abundantly proued that predestination in which there is the preparation of grace and grace in which there is the effect of predestination and the prescience of God by which he foreknew before all worlds on whom he would bestow his gifts of grace ought to be preached to the Church Of the preaching of which saith he I pray obserue his words and marke them well whosoeuer is an impugner he is a most apparant furtherer of Pelagian pride which I dare presume is farre from his Maiesties royall thoughts to be I may safely as I hope conclude on all these premises That this my Antithesis which I haue divulged onely for the peace and benefit of our English Church and the stopping of all Arminians mouthes who now must either holde their peace and yeeld their cause or else periuriously sacrilegiously renounce their Mother Church and these her Doctrines which they haue subscribed if not sworn to is clearly without the verge and danger of his Maiesties Declaration who neuer did intend so farre to countenance to grace an heresie so branded censured and condemned by the primitiue Church by forraigne Protestant Churches by the whole Church of England with all her learned writers from her first reformation to this present and more particularly by his Royall Father whose faith whose steps he meanes to follow as for its sake its growth and greater safety to put these established and professed Anti-Arminian Doctrines of our Church to silence which is almost the highest dignity the greatest conquest that Arminianisme can or would aspire to And now right Reuerend Fathers hauing cleared this obiection giue me leaue to close vp this Epistle with a word of exhortation which I beseech you for to suffer Remember I intreat you in the name and feare of God that you together with the rest of our reuerend and learned â—lergie are the Watchmen the Garrisons and Bulwarkes of our Israel to giue her warning of to protect and shield her against those pernicious subdolous and seducing heretiques those Popish and Arminian Aduersaries which warre against her faith her peace Gods grace our soules If you then through worldlinesse negligence sloathfulnesse Epicurisme or the sweete Syrenian songs of enchanting Mercuries begin to sleepe to slumber to remit or else giue ouâ—â— your spirituall watch and ward against these sheep like wolues friend-seeming Enemies which come for to deuoure vs If you proue dumb dogs that will not cannot barke at their approach or treacherous Centinells false posternes to beâ—ray vs to their infernall malice we must then bâ— needs surprised yea captivated destroyed in a moment through this your negligence and default but yet our blood shall be required at your
which must needes be accompanied with the very wrath and curse of God because it nullifies his fauour and disauowes his grace hath crept into them It is but a bridge an vsher vnto Popery and all Popish Ceremonies which winde themselues into our Church apace if Parliament complaints prooue true by their Arminian Agents as some new erected Altars Images Tapers and late vsurped Altar-adorations with the reuolt of sundry Arminians vnto Popery doe experimentally testifie O therefore as we tender the peace and safety of our Church and State the supportation soueraignty or aduancement of Gods Grace the peace the comfort or saluation of our endeared soules the perpetuity and perennious preseruation of our graces or the prosperity and happinesse of our declining Nation As wee desire the subuersion of the Pâ—pall or Spanish Monarchy the defeatment of all Iesuiticall combinations against our Church or State the ouerthrow and extirpation of Popery the continuance safety growth and flourishing of our precious Protestant Religion which Arminianisme and Popery vndermine almost as fast at home as Popish Policies or Spanish Forces doe abroad let vs now at 〈◊〉 lay downe these grosse Arminian Errors which haue constantly beene brandid censured and condemned by all the Euidences yea Writers of our Church embracing from and with our hearts and iudgements these Orthodox sweet and gracious Anti-Arminian Dogmaticall Conclusions heere recorded wherein our happinesse comfort and saluation rest as the ancient established professed and vndoubted Doctrines of our Church as this whole Antithesis infallibly prooues them that so our Church and Kingdome which being diuided against themselues by these distracting opinions and other ciuill dissentions cannot stand may once more flourish in these declining turbulent and perplexing dayes and repossesse that former vnitie safety honour peace and glory which wee all desire Wee all know in what dangerous and fickle times wee liue We see the generall desolations and lamentable ouertures of Gods Church abroade Wee see Religion sincking Grace decaying Popery triumphing Arminianisme spreading Heresies and new Errors springing and getting head in euery corner We see Nation rising vp against Nation Kingdome against Kingdome Church against Church yea we may behold one Church one state one People one House yea the Members of one and the selfe same Body diuided against it selfe Looke we vpon all the Christian World abroad vpon our selues at home wee can behold nought else but the fatall Symptomes and dismall Characters of an almost ineuitable and neere-approaching confusion O therefore let vs now cast Anchor and take Sanctuary in Heauen Let vs draw neere and sticke fast vnto our God let vs cleaue inseparably to these Anti-Arminian Conclusions and Doctrines of our Church which will be our onely cordialls our all sufficient contentment our best security support and comfort in the midst of all the ruines calamities and miserable perplexities which befall the World If our Religion be but safe our Church our State our Goods our Liberties our very soules and bodies all we haue are then secure if we hold but this all else is sure if we part with this then farewel all let vs neuer expect one halcion happy day or houre more Whiles Religion flourished and grew great among vs wee were then the head of Nations the dread the honour the mirrour and paradise of the World since the Tares of Popery and Arminianisme haue sprung vp within our Church since we haue halted and declined in our Faith wee haue beene the very obloquie scorne derision and taile of all our neighbour nations Plagues haue deuoured Diuisions weakned discontents decay of Trade with sundry other grieuances impouerished vs at home Enemies tempests vnskilfulnesse and ouer-reaching Policies consumed defeated and dishonoured vs by Sea by Land abroad All our counsels haue beene infatuated our designes frustrated our hopes dashed our prayers vnanswered our Parliaments broaken vp in discontent the curse and vengeance of God hath clinged close vnto vs to our great destruction and for all this we see we finde we feele and I pray God wee may be truely sensible of it ere it bee too late Gods anger is not yet turned away but his hand is stretched out still against vs because wee reuolt from him and our long-professed and established Religion more and more Let vs therefore now at last remember whence we are falne and doe our first workes Let vs hold fast our first professed Religion constant to the ende VVe were borne we were baptized bred and nursed in it we haue growne vp safely wee haue prospered happily vnder it we haue hitherto liued in it by it Let vs now die in it yea with it for it if God calls vs to it lest we all suddenly perish consume and die eternally without it because we haue thus backe-slided from it Farewell The true endeauourer of Religions safety and our Churches Vnitie WILLIAM PRYNNE Anti-Arminianisme OR THE CHVRCH OF Englands old Antithesis to new ARMINIANISME IT is the aduice and counsell of an Ancient Father for the suppression of such Haeresies or vpstart Errors which seeke to shrowde themselues vnder the fraudulent couert of wrested and mis-applied Scriptures to examine them by to encounter them with the opinions and vnanimous resolutions of those Ancient godly Fathers who haue either dyed in Christ or suffered for Christ that so they may bee manifestly discouered without ambiguity and finally condemned without reuocation or reuiewe This Fatherly and graue Aduice of his I haue made choice to follow in the discouery both of the nouelty and falsenesse of those Arminian Tenents which would willingly harbour themselues vnder the roofe and Patronage of the Church of England whose Doctrines they of late praetend they are The issue which the Arminians and Anti-Arminians if I may so stile them are now come to ioyne and on which they must receiue their final doome is onely this Whether the Arminian or Anti-Arminian Positions be the receiued and vndoubted Doctrines of the Church of England The onely Euidences and Grand-Iury-men to try this Issue are the Articles Homilies Common-prayer Booke and the authorized Writings of all the Learned Orthodox Writers of the Church of England from the beginning of Reformation to this present If all these suffragate or passe their Verdict for the Arminians and their erronious Assertions let iudgement then be openly pronounced for them we will foorth with yeeld vp to them without any more dispute both cause and right at once But if all or either of these giue euidence against them as in truth they doe If they all yeeld vp a ioynt vnanimous verdict for Anti-Arminians and their authentique Positions I hope they shall then receiue not only a speedy and finall iudgement on their side which no subsequent Reuiew nor writ of Error shall hencefoorth reuerse but likewise a Parliamentary Decree to establish them in their ancient and long-continued peaceable possession without disturbance for all future times For triall of this waighty
Issue which will put a period to our praesent Controuersies and stablish peace and vnity both in Church and State I haue heere Epitomized into this compendious Briefe the seuerall scattered Euidences and most materiall Witnesses that the Church of England hath affoorded me to this purpose since her Reformation to this present all which giue punctuall testimony and vnanimous sentence against our new Arminian Assertions discouering them to bee not onely nouell and erronious but diametrally repugnant to the anciently established and professed Doctrine of our reformed Church as the sequell will eftsoone demonstrate The Method which I shall obserue in the legall deciding of this Issue is this First I shall set downe at large the seuerall grand Charters to wit The Articles of the Church of England The Articles of Lambheth The Articles of Ireland The Common Prayer Booke The Homilies Established in our Church The Chatechisme authorized by King Edward the 6. and Barrets Recantation which entitle the Anti-Arminian Tenents to the Church of England and the Church of England vnto them and withall disproue the meere pretended title of the Arminian Tenents to our English Church which neuer yet gaue colour or allowance to them Secondly I shall propound the Anti-Arminian Orthodox Assertions in their order applying these seuerall Charters to them as vnanswerable euidences and likewise quoting to them the workes and names of all such Orthodox and learned Writers of the Church of England from the beginning of Reformation to this present that haue hitherto come vnto my hands who giue direct and punctuall testimony either on their side or against their opposites or both as irrefragable witnesses to vindicate and proue them to be the ancient and vndoubted and the contrary Arminian Tenents the spurious and pretended Doctrines onely of the Church of England I shall begin with the first of these and in that with the established and allowed Articles of the Church of England The Articles of the Church of England agreed vpon in the Conuocation holden at London in the yeere 1552. in the raigne of Edward the 6. afterwards confirmed and repromulgated in the yeere of our Lord 1562. in the raigne of Queene Elizabeth and since that ratified by King Iames 1604. and by our gracious Soueraigne King Charles in the yeare 1628. ARTICLE 2. THe Godhead and Manhood were ioyned together in one person neuer to be diuided whereof is one Christ very God and very Man who truely suffered was Crucified dead and buried to reconcile his Father to vs and to be a sacrifice not onely for Originall guilt but also for all actuall sinnes of men ARTIC 9. ORiginall sinne standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians doe vainely talke but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of euery man that naturally is ingendred of the off-spring of Adam whereby man is very farre gone from originall Righteousnesse and is of his nature enclined to euill so that the flesh lusteth alwaies contrary to the spirit and therefore in euery person borne into this world it deserueth Gods wrath and damnation And this infection of nature doth remaine yea in them that are regenerated where by the lust of the flesh called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some doe expound the wisdome some sensualty some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subiect to the Law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that beleeue and are Baptised yet the Apostle doth confesse that concupiscense and lust hath of it selfe the nature of sinne ARTIC 10. THe condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turne and prepare himselfe by his owne naturall strength and good workes to faith and calling vpon God Wherefore wee haue no power to doe good workes pleasant and and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Christ preuenting vs that wee may haue a good will and working with vs when we haue that good will ARTIC 13. VVOrkes done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasant to God forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Iesu Christ neither do they make men meet to receiue grace or as the Schoole-Authors say deserue grace of congruitie yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to bee done wee doubt not but they haue the nature of sinne ARTIC 15. CHrist in the truth of nature was made like vnto vs in all things sinne onely excepted from which hee was cleerely voide both in his flesh and in his Spirit Hee came to be a Lambe without spot who by sacrifice of himselfe once made should take away the sinnes of the world and sinne as Saint Iohn saith was not in him c. ARTIC 16. NOt euery deadly sinne willingly committed after Baptisme is sinne against the holy Ghost and vnpardonable Wherefore the grant of Repentance is not to bee denyed to such as fall into sinne after Baptisme After wee haue receiued the holy Ghost wee may depart from grace giuen and fall into sinne and by the grace of God wee may arise againe and amend our liues And therefore they are to bee condemned which say they can no more sinne as long as they liue heere or deny place of forgiuenesse to such as truely repent From this Article some Arminians haue endeuored to iustifie their Doctrine of the totall and small Apostasie of the Saints from grace Yet the Conference at Hampton Court pag. 24. together with learned Doctor Whitakers in his Cygnea Cantio October 9. An. Dom. 1595 Cantabrigie ex Officina Iohannis Legat. 1599. pag. 20. Profound Doctor Feild in his answere to Theophylus Higgons Part. 1. cap. 3. 2. Part. Sectio 2. Edition 2. at Oxford by William Turner 1628. pag. 834. Reuerend and solid Doctor Robert Abbot late Bishop of Sarum in his Animaduersio in Thompsoni Diatribam cap. 27. Londini 1618 p. 218. Laborious Doctor Benefield De Perseuerantia Sanctorum lib. 1. cap. 15. Francofurti 1618. pag. 162. to 167 Reuerend and religious Doctor Carleton late Bishop of Chichester in his Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale Edit 2. p. 135. 136. 137. Acute Doctor Daniel Featly in his Second Parallel London 1626. pag. 22. 23. 24. Industrious Master Henry Burton in his Plea to an Appeale London 1626. p. 13. 14. 15. Master Wotton in his Dangegerous Plot discouered or his Answere to Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 12. London 1626. p. 42. 43. 44. 45. Studious Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames c. Edit 1. London 1626. p. 43. to 48. Facetious Master Yates in his Ibis ad Caesarē London 1626. part 4. c. 15. p. 134. 135. 136. To omit mine owne Perpetuitie of a Regenerate mans Estate Edit 2. London 1627. p. 309. to 319. All these I say together with Master Thomas Rogers his authorized Analisis on this Article confesse and prooue the meaning of this
Tractatus de tribus Quaestionibus Quaestio 3. p. 85. to 93. Of Doctor Chaderton De Iustificationis coram Deo fidei iustificantis Perseuerantia non intercisa page 94. to 112. to whom I might adde those seuerall Bishops Doctors and Deuines which composed Barrets Recantation and the Articles of Lambheth which conclude in terminis for vs. Of Godly and experimentall Master Greenham Graue Counsels and Aphorismes Addition 2. and 3. in his workes at large London 1612. p. 46. 51. 63. sect 24. p. 68. His first Sermon Quench not the Spirit p. 246. to 250. His 14. Sermon p. 341. Exposition on Psal. 119. page 382. 495. 496. Godly Instructions cap. 32. page 694. cap. 53. page 764. A Letter against hardnesse of heart p. 864. A Letter consolatorie p. 876. Of Edwin Arch-Bishop of Yorke Sermon on Luke 1. page 74. 75. sect 14. Of Solid and Scholasticall Master William Perkins Exposition on the Creed Tom. 1. of his workes p. 254. 282. 283. Treatise of Disertions p. 417. Reformed Catholicke point 3. page 562. 563. c. Of Gods Free Grace and mans Free Will page 738. 739. A Treatise of Praedestination Tom. 2. page 636. 637. 638. Exposition on Iude verse 1. Tom. 3. page 487. 488. Of incomparable Hooker Discourse of Iustification sect 26. Sermon of the Perpetuity and certainty of faith in the Elect. Sermon 1. on Iude. sect 10. to 15. Of Master William Burton in his Dauids Euidence 1596. Sermon 5. p. 102. to 115. Of Master Iohn Hill in his Life euerlasting lib. 5. cap. 2. Quaest. 4. 5. 6. cap. 3. Quaest 21. and of Reuerend Master Phillips Sermon on Romans 8. ver 15. 16. in the raigne of blessed Queene Elizabeth Of Learned King Iames of happy memory in his Declaration against Vorstius page 15. 18. 19. 26. 35. where he stiles the Arminian Assertion of the Apostasie of the Saints a wicked Doctrine a blasphemous Haeresie directly contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England and Bertius his Booke of the Apostasie of the Saints a blasphemous Booke the very Title whereof were enough to make it worthy the fire branding Bertius with the name of an Haretique and Atheisticall sectorie Of eminent learned and renowned Doctor Reinolds Thesis 4. sect 23. 24. Defensio Thesium sect 17. 20. Censura Librorum Apochryph Praelectio 207. and conference at Hampton Court page 41. 42. 43. Of Reuerend and learned Doctor Robert Abbot late Bishop of Salisbury once Regius Professor of Diuinity in Oxford in his Answer to Bishop part 1. cap. 12. part 2. cap. 3. De perseâ—erantia Sanctorum Lectura 1. read publickely in the Diuinity Schooles of Oxford Iuly 10. 1613. in the Act time and Animaduersio in Thompsoni Diatribam Of profound Doctor Field of the Church booke 1. cap. 3. 6. 7. 8. Answer to Theophylus Higgons 1. part cap. 3. 2. part sect 2. page 832. 833. 834. Of iudicious Doctor Bulckley in his Apologie for the Religion established in the Church of England London 1608. page 62. 64. 196. Of Acute Doctor William Sclater in his Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 17. 1609. on Hebr. 6. 3. 4. 5. 6. London 1610. and in his Exposition on the 1. Epistle of the Thessalonians cap. 1. ver 4. page 30. ver 5. page 39. 40. 44. cap. 3. ver 13. page 251. c. 5. ver 9. 10. p. 436. to 455. ver 19. p. 596. ver 20. p. 535. 536. v. 24. p. 524. 571. Exposition on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 3. p. 7. v. 10. p. 53. 54. v. 11. p. 66. to 71. c. 2. v. 13. p. 178. to 190. c 3. v. 3. p. 229. to 234. Of Laborious and learned Doctor Willet Commentary on Romans 5. Controuersie 3. on cap. 6. Controu 7. on cap. 8. Con. 17. 19. on cap 9. Cont. 16. on c. 11. Con. 21. and Synopsis Papismi page 64. 65. 448. 923. 924. 925. Of Godly Master Richard Rogers in his 7. Treatises Treatise 2. cap. 20. Treatise 6. cap. 2. 3. 4. 5. Of Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on the 17. Article Proposition 3. Of Master Francis Trigge true Catholicke cap. 5. London 1602. p. 150. to 187. Of Master Wotton Triall of the Rhomish Clergies title of the Church London 1608. page 212. and in his Dangerous Plot discouered London 1626. cap. 11. 12. page 37. to 81. Of Master Iohn Trâ—ndall His Arke Against the Dragons flood London 1608. page 4. 5. 22. Of Master Stocke in his Doctrine of Repentance London 1610. p. 167. 168. 169. 170. Of Master Brightman on the Reuelation cap. 3. v. 5. 11. 12. cap. 13. 8. cap. 17. 8. c. 20. 6. 15. and cap. 22. 11. Of Godly M. Heiron in his Abridgment of the Ghospell Sermon 1. in his workes at large London 1620. part 1. page 102. 109. The worth of the water of Life p. 205. 206. The spirituall Sonship page 308. 365. to 374. A caueat and comfort for beleeuers page 623. to 627. and Penance for sinne part 2. p. 64. 65. Of Learned and Solid Doctor Iohn White in his way to the true Church Digression 42. 43. and his Defence of the way cap. 16. sect 4. Of Master Thomas Wilson Sermon of Perseuerance 1608. In his Exposition on Romans 8. v. 30. c. 5. v. 2. c. 11. v. 29. Of Master Wilcocks Exposition on Psal. 1. 3. on Psal. 37. 23. 24. on Psal. 125. Of Master Draxe his Worlds resurrection p. 42. 56. 57. 66. 67. 77. 78. Of Acute Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Article 5. Of Learned Doctor Crakenthorpe Sermon of Praedestination London 1620. p. 26. 30. 31. 32. and Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Archiepiscopum Spalatensem cap. 78. Master Richard Web in his Sermon intituled The Lot and partion of the Righteous London 1616. Master Paul Bayne in his triall of a Christians Estate on Heb. 10. 39. London 1618. and in his Commentary on Ephesians 1. p. 109. 110. 302. 306. 307. 393. 402. 403. Master William Cowper his â—ight way to Eternall glory on Rom. 8. p. 342. 355. 356. 362. 363. 370. and in his Glorification of a Christian p. 448. 449. 455. 456. 457. Master William Harrison in his Sermon of Deaths aduantage little regarded London 1602. p. 14. 15. Master Nathaniel Byfield Discourse of the Promises cap. 13. and Exposition on Colossians 1. p. 93. 144. 145. Master Randall in his Sermons on Romans 8. Master Elton his Sermons on Rom. 8. 30. intituled the Triumph of a Christian. Master Elnathan Parre his Grounds of Diuinity Edit 3. page 220. D. Iohn Bayes late Deane of Caunterbury in his workes London 1622. p. 189. 483. 768. 928. Master Bradshaw Commentary on 2. Thess. 3. 3. 4. 5. Sir Iohn Haywood in his Dauids Teares on Psal. 32. v. 4. sect 12. 15. 16. Of Learned Doctor Benefield De Perseuerantia Sanctorum Libri 2. Of Master Robert Yarrow A Soueraigne Comfort for a troubled Conscience cap. 38. to the end of the Booke p. 352. to 439. Of Doctor Thomas Taylor in his Parable of
Appeale pleadeth against the Articles of Lambheth and iustifieth the Doctrine of Barret Baro and Thomson auerring the same to be the Doctrine of the Church of England This he doth not by naming of those men whose names he knew would bring no honour to this cause but by laying downe and iustifying their doctrines and suggesting that they who maintained the doctrines contained in the Articles of Lambheth are Caluinists and Puritanes So that those Reuerend Arch-Bishops Whitgift and Hutton with the Bishops of our Church who then liued are in his iudgement to be reiected as Puritans The question is Whether of these two positions wee must now receiue for the doctrines of our Church that which Barret Baro and Thompson would haue brought in which doctrines were then refuted and reiected by our Church Or that doctrine which the Bishops of our Church maintained against these men which doctrine hath been since vpon diuers occasions approued If ther were no more to be said I dare put it to the Issue before any indifferent Iudges Thus far this reuereÌ„d Bp. whose testimony alone might sufficiently determine our present Controuersie The third witnesse is Doctor Samuel Ward in his Concio ad Clerum preached in St. Maries in Cambridge Ianuary 12. 1625. page 45. This also saith he I can truely adde for a conclusion that the Vniuersall Church hath alwayes adhaered to St. Augustine in these points speaking before of some Anti-Arminian conclusions all which are fully related in his Suffragium Brittanorum annexed to this Clerum euer since his time till now the Church of England also from the beginning of reformation and this our famous Academie with al those who from thence till now haue with vs enioyed the Diuinity Chaires if we except one forraigne French man to wit Peter Baro one I say who by the vigilancy of our Ancestors and the large authority of the most Reuerend Arch-Bishop Whitgist was compelled to renounce his chaire haue likewise constantly adhaered to him And if to him then certainly to vs as the 2. part of his 7. To me which makes wholy for vs will infallibly euidence By these three seuerall testimonies it is abundantly euident that our Diuinity Professors and first reformers of Religion in King Edward the 6. his dayes our Reuerend and learned orthodox Diuines that either suffered or escaped Martyrdome in Queene Maries dayes our Bishops Diuines and learned Cleargie who composed our Articles in Queene Elizabeths dayes our famous Vniuersities of Oxford and Cambridge with all their Diuinity Professors from the beginning of reformation to this present excepting Baro who was conuented and in a manner expelled for his erronious Tenents together with the whole Church of England from her first reformation to this instant haue constantly approued vnanimously embraced and resolutely maintained our Anti-Arminian conclusions as the vndoubted resolutions and Doctrines of our English Church and will any man now be so audaciously absurd as to call them into question whether they are the Doctrines of our Church or no Not to speake of Master Samuel Ward or Master Carpenter or M. Deubtie or other of our late vnrecited writers who condemne Arminianisme in the grosse not yet to mention any of the fore-quoted Authors my 4th Euidence to proue our Anti-Arminian Tenents the vndoubted Doctrines of our Church is the authorized translating and printing in our English dialect not only of St. Augustines cheife workes against the Pelagians but euen of Caluin Beza Zanchius Bucaniâ—â— Trelcatius Bastingius Vrsin Kimedoncius Piscator Fayus Olenian Iunius Reniger and Moulins workes against the Pseudo-Lutherans and Arminians who passe for orthodox and approued Authors in our Church whom some stile a Caluinist Certainely if the Doctrine of our English Church were various from these Authors Tenents they being the greatest Anti-Arminians this day exstant their names would neuer be so venerable their workes not so highly esteemed in our Church as to be thus englished authorized sold and printed here among vs as we know they are without controll Since then our Church hath thus indenized and adopted these forraigne Authors with their Anti-Arminian Writings since she thus claimes them for and rankes them with her owne her Doctrines questionlesse are the same with theirs and so wholy ours not our Arminian Opposites whom all these pointblancke oppugne You haue seene now pious Readers what plentifull numerous punctuall full and faire Euidences Records and witnesses of all sorts and ages our Anti-Arminian Tenents haue produced to vindicate and proue themselues the ancient established professed resolued and vndoubted Doctrines of the Church of England Let vs now examine on the other side what euidences what testimonies these Arminian Errors can rake vp together to intitle themselues vnto our Church First of all they haue none of the fore-quoted Articleâ— Homâ—lies Common prayer Booke Chatechismes Synâ—d or Recantation no publike record or monument of our reformed Church to iustify them Yea all these as our Church hath alwayes hitherto expounded them doe positiuely condemne them for insufferable and branded Errors Secondly there is neuer a Martyr neuer a Diuinity Professor in either of our Vniuersities Baro a spurious Frenchman excepted neuer an orthodox or approued English Writer that I know off from the beginning of Reformation to this instant that can giue in any euidence in one particular point much lesse in all points on their side being rightly vnderstood where as we haue produced a whole Century of Authors if not more against there The only Authors that they can produce and those but partiall maimed and obscure witnesses not intire or perspicuous are Peter Baro in Queene Elizabeths Thompson in King Iames and M. Mountague and Iackson in King Charles his raigne men branded and condemned in our Church The first of these being an exortique Frenchman was solemnely conuented and censured for his erronious Bookes and Tenents first at Lambeth by the composers of the Lambheth Articles and afterwards in the Vniuersity of Cambridge by all the heads of Houses vpon the complaint of diuers Batchellors of Diuinity vpon which heâ— was forced to forsake that Vniuersity and our Kingdome too This branded and illegall witnesse then being at the very best a forraigner doth only marre not helpe their cause The second was but an Anglo-Belgicus a dissolute ebrious and luxurious English-Dutchman his Booke was denyed Licens here as being contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England and being printed at Leyden after his death for want of licens here it was presently refelled by a reuerend and learned Prelate of our Church Doctor Robert Abbot Bishop of Salisbury whose Booke now extant was imprinted by authority and dedicated to our royall Soueraigne then Prince of Wales If then the life or posthumus Booke of this second Witnesse be examined his testimony will but cast not further not aduance their right The third of these Witnesses who was lately rumored to disclaime his testimony and
by any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore beene or may lawfully be exercised or vsed for the visitation of the Ecclesiasticall State and persons and for reformation order and correction of the same and of all manner of Haeresies Errors Scismes and Ecclesiasticall Abuses Offences and Enormities much more haue they Iurisdiction of these things themselues else they could not collate or transferre such Iurisdiction vnto others Is it then because the worthy iudicious members of our present Parliament want learning iudgement or sufficiencie to discerne of Spirituall Truthes to vnderstand the sense and meaning of our Articles which themselues long since confirmed to distinguish Popish and Arminian Errors from receiued from vndoubted Orthodox conclusions or because they are so barbarously illiterate or irreligiously ignorant as not to know the obuious professed established and long continued Doctrines of our Church which euery catechized Country Peasant or Schoole-boy can repeate Alas what English Spanish Romish spirit can be so impudently absurd so prodigiously intoxicated as thus to idioâ—ize yea quite vnchristen the Piety and all-sufficiencie of our selected Senate the most iudicious and supreame Counsell of our King and State Can any man who knowes their most accomplished abilities their dexterity and insight in Religion so much as once conceiue such a grosse stupidity or more then damnable and vnchristian ignorance in this very flower of our Church and Pillars of our State as that the proper sence of our receiued Articles or the long-continued plaine and oft-resolued Doctrines of our Church are yet kept sealed from them What is this but to brand them all for ignorants or to stitch the Colliers or Papists blinde implicite faith vpon them to beleeue onely as our Church beleeues and yet to know no distinct particular Tenents which she doth beleeue What but to aduance our Ecclesiasticall Commissioners aboue our Parliament in admitting them to bee competent and able Iudges of Haeresie Scisme and of the sence and meaning of our Articles when as the Parliament which confirmed them are not such and to denie that priuiledge of iudging Doctrines trying spirits prouing all things distinguishing the voyce of Christ and of his Spirit from the voyce of Strangers Theeues and false seducing Spirits to the prime and choysest of Christs Flocke which is common to inseparable from the very meanest of his Lambes and Sheepe If then Parliaments haue alwayes anciently intermedled with matters of Religion by a constant iust and Legall right If there bee now no sufficient disability either in the Members Iurisdiction Skill or requisite Abilities of our present Parliament to censure or examine the Violations of our established Articles and Religion or to settle protect define declare and ratifie the proper sense and meaning of our Articles and the vndoubted Doctrines of our Church I see no cause why any Clergy men vnlesse they are guilty of Sophisticating or betraying the Truthes and Doctrines of our Church and therefore feare the doome of Parliaments from which there is no euasion should quarrell or except against your pious progresse in matters of Religion which most of all concerne vs nor yet repine at Laicks as they do for writing in their iust defence This stumbling-blocke of Parlimentary Iurisdiction in causes of Religion which stickes and takes with many being thus in briefe remoued and your present Honourable proceedings in the examination of the innouations and violations of the ancient Religion and the resolued Doctrines of our Church absolued from the vniust exceptions of ignorant obnoxious or ill-affected Spirits who only censure and dislike them It may be here demanded what Doctrines what Religion are now to be established Surely no other but those Ancient Orthodox and Dogmaticall Conclusions which the Church of England since her Reformation hath alwaies constantly embraced ratified and defended as her owne but those especially which Popery and Arminianisme haue of late inuaded Yea but how may Parliaments infallibly discerne what Tenents are our Churches genuine Doctrines when as both sides lay equall claime and title to our Church Arminians now appealing to Her aswell as their Opposers For resolution to this Quaere I shall first of all take two things as vndoubted Theories First that the Church of England hath some certaine positiue particular established receiued yea resolued Doctrines which shee may truely call her owne in which all necessary Truthes especially such wherein the very marrow efficacy life and power of grace and all true Christian comfort doe subsist are actually euidently and fully comprehended Else it will ineuitably follow that as yet shee hath no sound Religion in her and is as yet no true no Christian Church Secondly that all these seuerall Doctrines are not onely cognoscible in themselues but likewise publikly indiuidually and distinctly known in our Church else all our Articles Preaching writing and Disputes together with the bloud shedde of our famous Martyrs and all Apologies for our Religion from the beginning of reformation to this present are in vaine and wee haue yet no other but an indefinite confused Religion an ambiguous implicit Popish Faith which in truth is no Religion no Faith at all and so our danger is our condemnation shall be greater then euer Sodomes or Gomorrahs were who neuer had such meanes such light as we These two irrefragable Conclusions being thus praemised This Quaere may be thus resolued The onely infallible way to determine to finde out the ancient the vndoubted Doctrines of our Church is to compare them with the Rules of triall The originall Touch-stone by which all Theologicall Conclusions must bee examined is the Scriptures and these together with the Ancient Fathers and approued Councels wee dare to challenge as our owne if the naked truth of our Assertions were the thing in Issue But our present inquirie being of a different nature to discouer the true Ancient Doctrines of our Church and distinguish them from pestilent vpstart Errors wee must heere proceed by other Triers euen the Articles Homilies Common Prayer Booke the publike Euidences Records and Declarations with the concurrent Testimony of all the learned Writers of our Church the onely Grand-Iury-men to try the best Euidences the sole Witnesses to proue the most impartiall and able Iudges to determine the Doctrines of our Church That which all these doe ioyntly cleerely fully vote confirme approue and testifie a Parliament may safely declare and ratifie to bee that which they all or most disclaime a Parliament may iustly censure not to bee the vndoubted and resolued Doctrine of our Church If then all these giue vp their ioynt and seuerall suffrages for our Anti-Arminian Conclusions If they all passe Sentence against their opposite Arminian Errors as this present Treatise will vndenably prooue them to haue done you may confidently declare resolue re-establish the one as being exile yea damne the other as not being the Ancient receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of our English Church And why should you now
particular sinnes are freely forgiuen him neither doeth it follow hereupon that that Petition of the Lords prayer to wit forgiue vs our Trespasses is needlesse for in that Petition we aske not onely the guist but also the increase of Faith Sixtly these words escaped me in my Sermon viz. As for those that are not saued I doe most strongly beleeue and doe freely protest that I am so perswaded against Caluin Peter Martyr and the rest that sinne is the true proper and first cause of Reprobation But now being better instructed I say that the Reprobation of the wicked is from Euerlasting and that that saying of Augustine to Simplician is most true viz. If sinne were the cause of Reprobation then no man should be elected because God doeth foreknow all men to bee deâ—iled with it And that I may speake freely I am of the samâ— mind and doe beleeue concerning the Doctrine of Election and Reprobation as the Church of England beleeueth and teacheth in the booke of the Articles of Faith in the Article of Predestination Last of all I vttered these words rashly against Caluin a man that hath very well deserued of the Church of God to wit that he durst presume to lift vp himselfe aboue the High and Almighty God By which words I confesse that I haue done great iniurie to that most learned and right godly man and I doe most humbly beseech you all to pardon this my rashnesse as also in that I haue vttered many bitter words against Peter Martyr Theodore Beza Ierome Zanchius Francis Iunius and the rest of the same Religion being the Lights and Ornaments of our Church calling them by the odious names of Caluinists and other slanderous termes branding them with a most grieuous marke of reproach whom because our Church doth worthyly reuerence it was not meet that I should take away their good name from them or any way impaire their credit or dâ—hort others of our Cuntrey-men from reading their most learned workes I am therefore very sorry and grieued for this most grieuous offence which I haue publikely giuen to this most famous Vniuersity which is the Temple of true Religion and sacred receptacle of Piety And I doe promise that by Gods helpe I will neuer hereafter offend in the like sort and I doe earnestly beseech you Right worshipfull and all others to whom I haue giuen this offence either in the former Articles or in any part of my said Sermon that you would of your courtesie pardon mee vpon this my repeâ—tance That the authoritie and consequence of this precedent Recantation may bee more fully manifested I will briefely relate both the occasion and the carriage of it One Maister Barret of Kayes Colledge Preaching a Concio ad Clerum in Saint Maries Church in Cambridge on the 29. day of Aprill 1595. made bold to vent these then Pelagian and Popish but now both Popish and Arminian Tenents which are here recanted which gaue such generall offence vnto all the Auditors that on the 5. of May next following about nine of the clocke in the fore-noone hee was conuented for the publishing of these Erronious Tenents and his reuiling of Caluin Beza Peter Martyr Luther Iunius Zanchius and others before all the Heads of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge to wit Master Doctor Some Doctor Duport Doctor Goade Doctor Tindall Doctor Whitaker Doctor Barwell Doctor Iegon Doctor Preston Maister Chaderton and Maister Clayton Thomas Smith the publique Notary of the Vniuersitie being there present who appointed him to appeare againe before them at three of the clocke in the afternoone at which time Dr. Duport being then Vicechanceller read openly certaine Articles containing the positions which Maister Barret had broached in his foresaid Sermon alleaging these his assertions to bee Erronious false and opposite to the Religion receiued and established in the Kingdome of England by publique and lawfull Authoritie to which Articles he required Maister Barret to giue an answere who confessed that he had published in his Sermon the-Positions comprised in the said Articles but with all denied them to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon the Vicechancellor and the forenamed heads entring into a mature deliberation and diligently weighing and examining these Positions because it did manifestly appeare that the said Positions Were false erronious and likewise manifestly repugnant to the Religion receiued and established in the Church of England adiudged and declared that the said Barret had incurred the penaltie of the 45. Statute of that Vniuersity De Concionibus and by vertue and tenor of that Statute they decreed and adiudged the said Barret to make a publike Recantation in such words and forme as should bee prescribed vnto him by the Vice-chancellor and the said Heads or any three or two of them or ese vpon his refusall to recant in this manner to be perpetually expelled both from his Colledge and the Vniuersitie binding him likewise in an assumpsit of forty pounds to appeare personally vpon two dayes warning before the said Vice-chancellor or his Deputy at what time and place they should require Afterwards this Barret was re-summoned before the Vice-chancellor Doctor Goade Dr Tindall Dr. Barwell and Doctor Preston his assistants who deliuered him this praecedent Recantation in writing admonishing and peremptorily enioyning him on Saturday following being the 10. of May immediatly after the Clerum ended to goe vp in person into the Pulpit of Saint Maries where hee had published these errors and there openly in the face of the Vniuersity to read and make this Recantation which he did accordingly Not long after this Palinodium Master Barret to shew that these positions are but a bridge to Popery departs the Vniuersitie and gets beyond Sea where he as Bertius and some other Arminians since haue done turnes a professed Papist After this he returned into England where he liues a Laymans life being still an open dangerous violent and most pernicious and seducing Papist as some men of credit in these very termes haue informed me who both know and will auerre him to be such a one This is the true Relation and carriage of this Recantation which I haue taken verbatim out of a Transcript of the Vniuersitie Register of Cambridge vnder the Registers owne hand wherein all the passages of it are entred and recorded for the benefit of posteritie For the recantation it selfe of which Thysius and others make some mention it was fairely Printed and Published in Queene Elizabeths dayes some Copies of it being yet extant in the very selfesame words and forme as here you see it And that none may suspect it to be forged or corrupted I haue a transcript of it in Latine taken out of an Originall Coppy vnder Master Barets owne hand which agrees verbatim with this English one onely in this they differ that our 17. Article is at large recited in the Latine Coppy in the ende of the 6. Section wheras as
Authors from the beginning of Reformation to the present Raigne of our gracious King Charles not one approued Author of our Church to my knowledge so much as once oppugning it How this Assertion hath beene iustified as the receiued Doctrine of out Church since his Maiesties happy Raigne the Examination of Master Montagues Appeale by Reuerend Bishop Carlton cap. 3. 4. with the ioint Attestation of him and all our fore-named Dort Diuines thereto annexed vnder all their hands page 26. Doctor Ward his Sâ—ffragium Brittanorum Concio ad Clerum London 1627. Bishop Dauenate his Expositio Epistolae Pauli ad Collossenses Cantabrigiae 1627. page 117. 118. 119. 171. 173. 390. 391. Doctor Goade and Doctor Daniel Featly in their Pelagius Rediuiuus parallel 1. sect 3. 5. Parallel 2. sect cap. 2. 1. Doctor Featly in his 2. Parallel London 1626. page 1. to 20. Master Henry Burton in his Plen to an Appeale page 39. to 60. and in his Truth triumphing ouer Trent London 1629. cap. 17. Master Yates in his Ibicad Caesarem cap. 8. 9. 10. Master Wotton in his Dangerous Plot Discouered cap. 20. Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames. page 1. to 25. And my owne Perpetuitie of a Regenerate mans estate Edit 2. page 6. to 23. can abundantly testifie since therefore this first Anti-Arminian Position hath beene alwayes thus constantly vnanimously and vncontrolably maintained by all those seuerall Martyrs Praelates Doctors and approued Writers in all the successiue Raignes of these 6. English Monarches from the beginning of Reformation to this present oppugning its opposite Arminian Thesis as erronious and repugnant to the receiued Doctrine of our English Church we may safely embrace it yeaestablish it as the vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England For the second of these Anti-Arminian Positions touching the freenesse of Gods Election and its in-dependancy on faith or will or workes or perseuerance or endeauors or any other condition or praeuious disposition in the persons elected it is vndoubtedly and manifestly warranted by the expresse words of our 13. and 17. Articles Of the 2. Article of Lambheth of the 14. Article of Ireland of our Common-prayer Booke and Homelies of the fore-cited Cathechisme and Quaestions figures which haue all relation to it of the Synod of Dort Article 1. and of Barrets Recantation in the Latine coppie section 6. where our 17. Article is verbatim recited To these I shall adde the concurrent plenary and copious attestation of Master William Tyndall Martyr in his Parable of the wicked Mammon page 70. 75. 78. 80. 88. 90. in his Answere to Master Moores Dialogue p. 259. Answere to his 2. Booke cap. 3. page 293. Answere to his 4. Booke cap. 10. page 329. cap. 11. page 331. 332. 337 in his Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. and in his Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 3. page 410. 412. cap. 4. page 416. 417. 419. Of Master Iohn Frith Martyr in his Mirrour to know thy selfe page 84. 85. in his Declaration of Baptisme page 92. 93. Of Doctor Barnes a learned Martyr in his Treatise What the Church is page 246. and that Free-will of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 274. 277. 278. 279. Of Master Iohn Harrison in his Yet about at the Romish Fox Zuricke 1543. In the dayes of King Henry the VIII Of learned Peter Martyr once Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Oxford Commentarie on the Romans 8. page 532. 533. 534. c. 9. page 700. to 714. in cap. 11. page 869. and Loci Communes Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 11. and 16. to 27. Of famous Martin Bucer once Diuinitie Reader in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Commentarie on Romans 9. ver 11. to 27. and on Rom. 11. 4. 5. 6. Of Master Hugh Latimer Martyr Bishop of Worcester in his Sermon on the third Sunday after Epiphanie fol. 312. and on the Sunday called Septuagesima fol. 325. 326. 327. Of a Booke intituled the Summe of holy Scriptures by Stephen Garret as most suppose Printed 1547. in the 2. yeere of King Edward the VI. cap. 6. Of Thomas Beacon a Diuinitie Professor afterward a Martyr in his Sickmans Salue London 1580. page 412. 413. 414. Of learned Master Iohn Hooper Bishop and Martyr in his Declaration of the 10. Commandements Epistle to the Reader written Nouember 5. 1549. London 1588. Of Master Iohn Bradford Martyr in his Briefe Summe of the doctrine of Election and Praedestination a punctuall Treatise to our praesent purpose and in this Letter recorded by Master Iohn Fox in his Booke of Martyrs page 1505. Col. 1. Of Iohn Carelesse and Master Woodman godly Martyrs Master Fox in his Martyriologe London 1596. page 1742. Col. 2. l. 40. 60. and page 1809. 1810. Col. 1. in the dayes of persecuting Queene Mary Of Master Iohn Veron in his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination and his Apologie for the same dedicated to Queene Elizabeth Of Master Iohn Fox in his Martyriologe page 1505. 1506. Of Reuerend Deane Nowel in his Cathechisme on the Creed Why we call God Father and of the holy Catholicke Church Of Master Thomas Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philosophy lib. 1. cap. 7. Of Master Robert Caundish in The Image of Nature and Grace fol. 8. fol. 45. to 57. cap. 9. fol. 100. to 110. Of Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull Epistle to the Reader and cap. 1. 2. 14. Of Master Robert Hutton Summe of Diuinitie Londâ—n 1565. cap. Of Grace and of Praedestination Of godly Master Edward Deering Lecture 9. and 27. on the Hebrewes Of Master Iohn North-brooke The â—â—ore mans Garden cap. 1. and 18. Of Master Arthur Gâ—rney A fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 39. to 47. Of Master Aâ—wicke his Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. of incomparable M Hooker Discourse of Iustification sect 29â— Of Master Anthonie Anderson A goldly Seemon of Sure Comfort page 23. to 27. Of Master Thomas Sparkes his Confortable Treatise How a man may be assured in his owne Conscience of his â—lection Of Reuerend Bishop Babington Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1590. part 1. and 3. Of profound and reaâ—â— Doctor Fulke that Hammer of Haer tickes and Châ—mpion of truth Together with Master Thomas Carth wâ—â—ght Notes on Rom. 9. sect 2. 3. 5. and on 2. Peterâ— sect 2. Of Bartim us Andreas Sermon 2. on 〈◊〉 5. page 64. 65. 66. Of learned Doctor Mathew Haâ—â—on 〈◊〉 â—â—shop of Yorke De Electione Repâ—obatione Commentatio to whom I might adde Reuerend Doctor Whitgift Arch-Bishop of Canterburie and all those other learned Praelates Doctors and graue Drâ—ines who composed the Articles of Lambetâ— anâ— Barrets Recantation fore-ciâ—ed O solid Doctor Whitakers whom no man euer 〈…〉 rence or heard without wonder Câ—gnea Cantio page 2 to 18. Of profound Master William Perkins Of the Order and causes of Election and Reprobatiâ—nâ— cap. ◠〈◊〉 51. Tom 1. page 16. 95. to