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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

wrath may be vpon lesser sinnes yea a hot wrath may be vpon a Saint ●…or greater 〈◊〉 but a whole displeasure is not vpon him except he had a who●…e reigne of sinne and from that as I shewed before a Saint is preserued For there is still a seede of Grace remaining and with that seede God cannot be angry yea he still loueth it and where this loue remaines there the wholenesse of wrath is abated so much as is the measure of this remaining loue Neither is this without the word of God For God himselfe when he hath said of a Saint I will be his Father and he shall 2. Sam. 7. 14. be my sonne he saith also If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rods of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him as I tooke it from Saul God when he was angry with Iehosaphat Hee told him by the Prophet Shouldst thou helpe the vngodly c. Therefore is wrath vpon thee from the Lord. Yet withall God forgat 2. Chron. 19. ●… not the seede of Grace in his heart Neuerthelesse there are good things found in thee thou hast prepared thy heart to seeke the Lord. So though there be a measure of wrath and God in measure contend with these branches Esay 27. 8. of sinne yet the roote of grace remaining Grace also remaineth As long as the seede of God remaineth so long vnion with God remaineth and as long as vnion with God remaineth so long a man is in the state of grace and cannot be wholly in the state of displeasure But as millions of sinnes lying vpon the Sonne of God brought with them such a heauy displeasure of God that in regard of the anguish and plague of it to which he was deliuered vp he cryed out My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee and yet as concerning vnion God had not forsaken him so also in the sonnes of God vnited to this Sonne though for some single sinnes a great wrath may arise and God in regard of outward feeling may seeme to forsake them yet that vnion still remaineth and whom God hath thus knit together no man can put asunder In Christ that became sinne for vs all the sinnes of the Saints and vnion with God were not incompatible wherefore sinnes and vnion with God are not incompatible And though this vnion was Hypostaticall and our a lower vnion yet from that Hypostaticall vnion our vnion is deriued and that vnion safegards and preserueth the vnion deriued from it His vnion is the Rocke on which our vnion being built that Rocke preserueth the Church vnited vnto it The strength of Christs vnion is not the weaknesse Math. 16. 18. Math. 7. 25. Ioh. 14. 19. Ioh. 17. ●…0 c. ●… Pet. 2. 5. 6. 7. but the strength of our vnion and in his safe vnion our vnion is safe against the gates of Hell And this is the very point that accuseth and conuinceth their horrible blasphemy that say wee are no safer by vnion with Christ who was God and man then by generation from Adam who was but a man that had not vnion with God But perchance some will obiect this is a dangerous doctrine to be taught That Saints cannot fall from the State of Grace And why Because men will presume But let the obiectors remember that the question is whether it be true or vntrue not whether there may be ill vses made of it For if it be true then this is iust Gardiners argument against whole relying on the merits of Christ because the people would breake out at this gappe and leaue buying of heaven with their owne merits So might wee argue that the Grace of God may not be taught because some turne it into wantonnes no●… men send their sonnes to the Vniversity because knowledge puffeth vp But let not Gods truth be muzled vp with carnall policy especially let not truth bee denyed to bee truth because flesh and blood makes ill vses of a spirituall truth But secondly I deny that this doctrne is dangerous to breede carelesnesse in obedience yea it is a spurre and encouragement vnto obedience For if wee consider how it is deliuered and to whome it is deliuered and with what cautions and conditions it is to be delivered it will be found to be a doctrine most comfortable and most advantagable vnto holinesse The vsuall manner of delivering it is by the way of incouragement vnto obedience Euen the whole Law is inforced vpon this ground I am the Lord that hath delivered thee from the house of bondage thou shalt haue no other Gods but me c. which agrees iust with the song of Zacharie That wee being deliuered from our enemyes might serue God without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse c. In the next place we may consider that this Doctrine only appertaineth to the Regenerate To them only it can be so deliuered that it may bee received Now the Regenerate haue in them a godly nature a spirit of loue and the loue of God being shewed and sealed to them the spirit of loue in them is enflamed to a more seruent loue of God And the more a man loues God the more will hee keepe his Commandements So that it is most true which S. Iohn speakes Hee that hath this hope purgeth himselfe as God is pure But the cleane contrary is said by these men He that hath this hope defileth himselfe 〈◊〉 the 1. Ioh. 3. 3. Deuill is filthy In the last place let vs take notice what cautions conditions are annexed vnto this Doctrine God knoweth our frame and he seeth that by nature wee are nothing but flesh Ioh 3. 6. And even after Regeneration there is a great remainder of the flesh even in the Regenerate Now this flesh is apt to be puffed vp not vpon this onely but vpon any excellencie of the Spirit knowledge Revelation yea vpon the grace of God yea vpon humilitie it selfe Therefore God hath certaine scourges for his childrē to beate downe this flesh from presuming and exalting it selfe aboue measure Whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth and hee Heb. 13. ●… scourgeth every sonne whom hee receiueth Hee hath scourges of diverse sortes he scourges them in their estates he scourges them in their bodies he scourgeth them in their mind yea in their soules themselues He scourgeth them by men hee scourgeth them by Devils he scourges them by good Angels he scourgeth them by his owne hand even by hiding his face by withdrawing his comforts by sending terrours into their soules so that no scourge almost is wanting but only Hell yea their is not wanting a kind of temporall Hell but only a Hell eternall Dauid is scourged with the death of the sonne of his sinne with the rebellion of another sonne with the rayling of Shim●…i with an exclusion from the Royall Citie So that hee wept as he went vp and had his head couered and he went ●…refoote he was called A bloody

whether he would vse his grace well and beleeue the Gospell or no and as hee saw a man affected so did praedestinate chuse or refuse him But the Analysis it selfe plainely according to the Article rectifieth this disorder and makes Iustification Sanctification and Glorification to flow from Praedestination so that Praedestination depends not on them Diuers be the effects of Praedestination but chiefely 7. Proposition it bringeth to the elect Iustification by Faith in this life and in the life to come Glorification alwayes a conformitie to the Image of the only begotten Sonne of God both in suffering here and inioying immortall glorie hereafter The heauenly wisedome of our Church in this point is so fully and plainely expressed by her selfe that shee needes not to bee iustified of her children yet ex abundanti I adde one or two Testimonies but first admonishing the Reader to take notice of the Doctrine of the Church of Ireland before set downe and withall to beware that hee thinke not two Doctrines to bee taught in these Churches but one Before Augustines time many great and worthy Doctor Field of the Church lib. 3. cap. 9. Prelates and Doctors of the Church not hauing occasion to enter into the exact handling of that p●…t of Christian Doctrine did teach that men are Predestinate for the fore-sight of some things in themselues And Augustine himselfe in the beginning of the conflicts with the Pelagians was of opinion that at the least for the foresight of Faith men are Elected to Eternall life which afterward he disclaymed as false and erroneous and taught that mans saluation dependeth on the efficacie of that grace which God giueth and not his purpose of sauing vpon the incer●…tainty of mans will This Doctrine of Augustine was receiued and confirmed in the Church against the Pelagians and Semi-pelagians Thus is our Doctrine the Doctrine of the Church vpon aduise and due examination the other Doctrine is the errour of those that had not duely entred into the exact handling of this point Now to follow an errour when the truth is vpon due tryall cleared and brought to light brings that sentence to passe which Vincent Li●…m cap. 11. Lirmensis pronounceth Absoluuntur Magistri condemnantur discipuli The Masters are freed and the Schollers are condemned For the one erred by infirmitie and wanting the occasion of not-erring the others erre out of more wilfulnesse and stumble in the day time hauing a faire occasion of not-erring of not-stumbling Doctor Fr White Deane of Carlile acknowledgeth the Doctrine of St. Augustine to bee the Doctrine of the Church of England in these words Although our Tenet concerning Praedestination bee no Reply to Fisher. pag. 275. other then Saint Austin and his Schollers maintained against the Pelagians Now Saint Austins opinion is presently to appeare in his owne words as defore it hath beene shewed by Doctor Field And in the point of Free-will we shall see that the most learned and iudicious King IAMES yeelds this consent by name to the same Saint Augustine Thus is there a perfect harmonie betweene this great King the Church of England and the Catholicke Church which that wee may more euidently see on the part of the Catholicke Church behold here what shee teacheth by her chiefe Fathers Doctors and Teachers THE DOCTRINE OF THE Catholicke Church concerning Election or Praedestination taught by the Fathers and subscribed by Doctors and Schoole-men NVm putatis ô Viri nos unquam haec in Scripturis Iustin Martyr Dial cum Tryph. Iud. intelligere potuisse c. Doe you thinke O men that wee could euer haue vnderstood these things in the Scriptures except wee had receiued grace by the will of God who willed that wee should vnderstand these things of which grace you being destitute that is the Iewes haue vnderstood none of them that it might be fulfilled which is taught by Moses They haue prouoked me by strange Gods c. And I will prouoke them by that which is no Nation Dialog cum Tryph. Nos elegit Deus c. And againe God Elected vs and was made manifest to them that sought him not Behold saith hee I am the God of a Nation which God anciently promised to Abraham when hee told him that he should be the Father of many Nations Elegit Deus non natura c. God did Elect not those Iraneu●… lib. ●… cap. 34. that are better by nature but those that are worse Id. lib. 3. cap. 33. Praedestina●…it Deus c. God Predestinated the first naturall man that he should be saued by the spirituall man And hee proues his saluation to be necessaey Cap. 38. Neque ad hoc pretijs aut ambitu c. Neither is there Cyprian 〈◊〉 Mors. need of money industry and mans hand that mans chiefest dignitie or power should be gotten by some excellent worke but it is the free and ready gift of God As freely as the Sunne shineth the Fountaine watereth the showre moystneth so doth the heauenly Spirit Powre it selfe into vs. Iacobus Apostolus docuis c. Iames the Apostle Athanaesius Cent. Arrian 4. hath taught Of his owne will begate hee vs by the word of truth therefore of all the regenerate yea and of all that by creation were generated it is the will of God by the word of God that doth create and regenerate whatsoeuer pleaseth him Quoniam animarum Medicus c. Because the Physitian Hillary in Psal. 48. of soules came not to call the iust but sinners to repentance therefore hee ORDAINED that whatsoeuer was worst in euery company should bee soonest CALLED The worst of all men that inhabite the earth were the Heathen and they are preferred first to be Called Non volentis c. Perseuerance is not in him that Ambrose in Psal. 118. Serm. 10. willeth nor in him that runneth For it is not in the power of man but in God that sheweth Mercie that thou shouldst be able to accomplish that which thou hast begun Et si longe est à peccatoribus salus c. And againe Though saluation befarre from the wicked yet let 〈◊〉 Serm. 20. no man despaire because many bee the Mercies of God Those that by their owne sinnes are perishing by the Mercie of God are freed I will haue mercie saith he on whom I will haue mercie He hath appeared plainely to them that sought him not he hath called those that fled from him Non eliguntur Paulus c. Paul and those which are Hierrme ad Ruffin lib. 1. like him are not Elected because they were holy and vnspotted but they are Elected and Praedestinated that in their liues afterward in good-workes and vertues they might be holy and vnspotted But though before this time the Fathers had not clearely discouered nor deliuered the Doctrine of Praedestination it ought to be no preiudice to the Doctrine For What need is there that we should bee driuen to Austin de praedest