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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11078	Testis veritatis the doctrine [brace] of King Iames our late soueraigne of famous memory, of the Church of England, of the Catholicke Church : [brace] plainely shewed to bee one in the points of [brace] pradestination, free-will, certaintie of saluation [brace] : with a discouery of the grounds [brace] naturall, politicke [brace] of Arminianisme / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1626 (1626)	STC 21347.3; ESTC S4449	57,093	98

wisdome to bee foolishnesse So the Owle thinkes day to bee night and the sunne to bee a cause of blindnesse but the Night goes for day and the setting of the Sunne to bee the Spring of the morning Therefore the witt of man offended with the purity of this spirituall doctrine hath invented a doctrine of its owne which exceedingly agreeth with the wit of man that bare it for here though not in a better case the Mother is the Nurse The wit of Man hath made a Foard in the depths of God it hath found out the wayes that are past finding out and where St. Paul cryes out O depth there they leade along their schollers that they passe through it allmost with dry feete The plot of Election and Grace is discovered and these men will tell you the reasons of Gods Counsell Neither is it a new devise of mine to accuse Mans wisdome of this folly it hath long since beene done yet will I bring a witnesse whom I may call an Oracle of these last times a man of the most sound and definite Iudgment that these latter Ages haue brought forth And his discovery may very well serue for a remedy The Diuines of greatest name held that Article of free Praedestination for Orthodoxe and the contrary for Hereticall because good writers of the Schoole as Saint Thomas Scotus and others did commonly thus beleeue That God before the foundation of the world out of the vniuersall masse of mankind by his onely and meere mercy did chuse some to glory to whom he prepared effectuall meanes for the obtaining of the same and this is called to Pradestinate And of these there is a certaine and determined number which is not to d ee increased c. Yet this opinion was oppugned by other Diuines but of lower note who called it hard cruell horrible and impious as that which made God to bee an accepter of persons c. The first sentence indeede comprehending a great mystery and secret doth humble the minde of man and while on the one side it presentes to man the deformity of sinne and on the other side the excellency of Gods grace it wholly fixeth him vpon God The second opinion is more plausible popular glittering and agreeable to the pride of mans heart and in this respect it was acceptable to the Fryers professing more the Art of preaching then the sound knowledge of Diuinity It did also seeme more probable to the Courtiers as being agreeable to reasons of policy And indeede those Who defended it because they relyed on reasons meerly humane they preuailed with men of humane wisdome but when the matter came to bee tryed by testimonies of Scripture then their cause soone fell to the ground Hist Concil Trid Lib 2. So wee see here the same Author leades vs to a second Politick grounds of Arminianisme ground of Arminianisme which is Policy It were too long for a worke which I intended to bee short to insist on the seuerall sorts of Policy in which this error hath beene rooted and from which it hath sprung vp and spread abroad the branches of it My Author hath discouered one of the Friers it serues their turne best for Rhetoricall perswasions and plausible declamations And I wish other Clergy-men had not also their Politicke endes and did not seeke to get glory to themselues by selling the glory of God No question it were an outward and seeming glory to them if when a man hath killed the seed of God in him they without any seed of God could make this man to liue againe to enter into heauen not being regenerated that is hauing wholly lost his Regeneration But in these gaines God looseth for his seede looseth the glory of being incorruptible that corruptible man may get the glory of God But I hasten to another Policy and that is The plot of 3 bringing in Popery Whosoeuer will bring in Popery into a country strongly fixed in the Protestant Doctrin must not presently fly in the face of the whole Protestant Doctrine but his onely way is to worke into it by these degres of plausible Arminianisme euen to put in these little theeues they seeme litle to naturall men into the window of a Church then they may vnlocke the dores of a Church and let in all Popery Our Religion is contained in diuers seuerall Articles they run vpon one Thred of Establishment Authority now if you can cut this Thred but in one place and breake through the Authority which established thē you may easily see that all the rest like beades will run out But here a word may serue to the wise Fourthly Arminianisme being a kind of twilight 4 and a double-faced thing that lookes to two Religions at once Protestantisme and Popery hee that is in it is like him that stands in the borders of two adioyning Kingdomes who is ready to dwell in either as either serues his turne best So that an Arminian is like a flying fish if preferment be among the birds he is ready to fly after it with the birds and if it be among the fishes then among the fishes he will swimme after it Fiftly it seemes to be a factious ground wherevpon 5 Politicke men may worke their owne ends that I may vse the wordes of one that perchance will be more pleasing to some and one that seemes to acknowledge such a thing de facto Did no wiser men or man worke vpon perhaps exasperated mindes or exasperate MONTAGVES Appeale p. 42. mindes to worke vpon as it hath hapned else-where in pointes of controuerted Diuinity called into question or maintained on Foote that Religion may serue for a stalking horse to catch fooles and bee pretended to serue Turnes For I yet hasten to a Sixth Policy and that is a fearfull one even a Policy to loose Religion Land and all For there is not a Policy more advantagable to the Spaniard then to bring in Division into a Land by bringing in Arminianisme This is not wordes but deedes which I speake For even this Division had almost forfeited the Low-countryes to the Spaniard And whom the warres of so many yeares did make still stronger the peace of a few yeares with Arminianisme had almost brought to ruine And it is well knowne to some that haue travelled that this very Counsell hath beene given to the King of Spaine by an execrable Author for the destruction of England and the Low-countryes even to bring in this doctrine which now hath gotten the name of Arminianisme But farre bee it from vs so to devide our selues by opinions that wee should make our selues weake and our enemies strong Let vs much rather like brethren which quarrelled before cast away the quarrels and ioyne together against a common Enemy both of Church and State Let vs striue to put our selues into the same Religion into the same vnity wherein God protected and prospered vs against this deuourer of Europe and his Inuincible