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
stone and setting a watch for feare lest his Disciples should come by night and steale him away and say that hee was risen What these vile miscreants vainely did in Antichristian doe you Right noble Christians in true Christian Policie Pelagius with his late-born brat Arminius hath beene oft times buried by sundry Ancient some Moderne Councels and Fathers of the Church but yet they haue alwaies risen from the dead againe to the great disquiet of all true Christian Churches If then you chance to crucifie them once againe as now wee hope wee pray you may for feare their life proue all our deathes they being the Archest Traitors to our Church our State our soules and sauing Grace you must not only see them intombed for the present though it be in graues of stone but likewise watch and seale their Sepulchres making them sure for all succeding Ages by some inexorable strict and vigilant Acts of Parliament which no Charme no Wile no Force or Policie may euade Else their Disciples will come by night againe as they haue oft times done and steale them quite away and not onely say but to our great disturbance prooue that they are once more risen from the dead So shall their last resurrection be farre worse our second danger your latter Error farre greater then the first which God forbid Now the GOD of grace and wisdome so ayde direct and guide your Honours with his Spirit in this great weighty Worke which needes an heauenly power to accomplish it that wee to our vnutterable ioy and comfort may now at last behold our drooping and declining Orthodox Religion the onely Center Pillar Bulwarke Garrison Honour Treasure and conseruer of our declining State which ebbes and flowes together with it reuiued aduanced established and secured once againe against all Forraine all Domestique hostile Forces all Stratagemes that oppugne it and that all our eyes may see with triâ—mph all Popery all Olde all Newe Pelagianisme with all the grand Fomentors and Master-springs that feede them in despight of all their new-erected and much adored Altar-Idols arraigned at your dreadfull Barre condemned at your great Tribunall executed before your faces layd dead and prostrate at your feet interred in some brasen Dungeon yea sealed vp and strictly watched with such enuironing cautelous ir-repealable and adamantine Lawes as may so presse them downe for all eternitie that they may neuer raise themselues nor yet bee raised in our Church againe Amen Amen Your Honours in all humble seruice whiles you stand for Christ Religion Church or Countrey WILLIAM PRYNNE TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHERS IN GOD THE ARCH-BISHOPS and Bishops of the Church of ENGLAND RIGHT Reuerend Fathers in God in whose pious integrity and industrious vigilancie the chiefest safety in whose vnfaithfulnesse negligence or insollidity the greatest hazard the inevitablest danger of our Protestant Church and long professed religion are suspended I here most humbly tender vnto your fatherly and pious considerations an vninterrupted Antithesis of the Church of England from her very first reformation to this present against that most venemous Semi-pelagian heresie and those Arminian Novelties which haue of late invaded yea much endangered her ancient established and professed Doctrines which your Ecclesiasticall Dignities and frequent Subscriptions to the Articles Homilies Tenents of our Church engage you in a more speciall manner to protect It is not yea it cannot be vnknowne to your grauities that olde Pelagius and Faustus who haue lyen dead and rotten in their graues 1100 yeares or more haue by a kinde of Pythagorean Metempsy chosis revived in Arminius and his followers now of late as Origen Priscillian and Iouinian did in them and not onely spoken openly against the grace of God and doctrines of our Church which is miserable but even publikely preached and written against them in our Church without any Ecclesiasticall censure or controll which is farre worse It was the complaint of a Reuerend and learned Prelate of our Church about some ten yeares since in an Epistle Dedicatorie vnto his Maiesty then Prince of Wales That the stinking vapors of Arminius whose heresies hee there learnedly encounters had beene blowne ouer from the Belgique shores vpon our English coast and so infatuated some of our Diuines that leauing the beaten and approued path of faith they betooke themselues vnto the crooked wayes and praecipices of Arminius destroying the Articles of our Religion with their Tenents which they had formerly confirmed by their owne subscription What hee lamented and condoled then we haue much more cause to complaine of now when as these contagious vapours haue not onely dangerously infected many but likewise animated some Goliahs to bid professed defiance to the host of Israel in Arminius his quarrell and to take vp armes in his defence against the oft resolued and subscribed Doctrines of their Mother Church who hath enriched them with sundry fauours and yet alas Ab Ecclesia siquidem haereseos impugnator expellitur et nutriri in sinu Ecclesiae haereticus inuenitur the impugners of Arminius his Champions haue beene questioned and molested when as they were neuer hitherto once publikely conuented by any Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction for these their dangerous Innouations When these Arminian Errours were first broached by Barret and Baro in Queene Elizabeths happy Raigne the zeale of our Reverend Prelates and Vniuersity heads was such that they forthwith proceeded iudicially against them not suffering them to rest or harbour in our Church But alas the cowardice indulgency and luke warmnesse of our age is such that those who haue succeeded them in their Episcopall Dignities not their zeale some few only excepted whose paucity indears theÌ„ more to God to man and adds vnto their praise haue scarce so much as once opened their mouths in publike against those Arminian theeues and robbers who by their secret pollicies and publike writings haue lately preyed vpon the sheepe and Doctrines of our Church But now since our religious Soueraine hath publikely professed in his late Declaration to all his louing Subiects to maintaine the true Religion and doctrine established in the Church of England of which the Anti Arminian Tenents comprised in this Antithesis are the chiefest branch without admitting or conniuing at any backsliding either to Popery or Scisme and hath called God to record that he will never giue way to the authorizing of any thing whereby any innovation may steale or creep into the Church but preserue that vnity of Doctrine and Discipline established in the time of Queen Elizabeth In whose Raigne Arminianisme was particularly exiled â—ndour Anti-Arminian Assertions settled in our Church whereby our Church of England hath stood and flourished ever since Since King Edward the 6. Queene Elizabeth and King Iames of blessed memory an implacable professed Antagonist to Arminianisme to Arminians to his dying day with all our learned Prelates Divinity
Professours authorized Writers in their raignes and our godly Martyrs in King Henry the 8. and Queene Maries dayes whose names and works I haue here particularly recorded in their order since the Fathers and Councels of the primatiue Church the primitiue and moderne Churches of England Scotland and Ireland with their seuerall established Articles Homilies Catechismes Leiturgies and Records as I haue here infallibly demonstrated together with the late dissolued Parliament haue professedly oppugned and solemnly condemned those Semi-Pelagian and Arminian grace-annihilating Errours which haue lately crept into our Church embracing authorizing and establishing their Opposite Positions as the Orthodox Catholicke and vndoubted truth Let mee now beseech your Pieties as you tender the honour of God the glory of his grace which should be dearer to you then your dearest soules as you would gaine the loue and discharge the trust of your blessed Sauiour and Master-shepheard Iesus Christ who will summon you ere long before his dreadfull Tribunall to render an account of all the stewardships and soules committed by him to your charge which we may iustly feare too many sloathfull Ministers who fish for tithes not soules do much neglect as being seldom resident at their charge which they scarce ever saw but neuer resident in their pulpits into which they seldome clime As you respect the peace and happinesse of our Church in which you are aduanced the safety and dignity of our long professed Religion to which you haue subscribed in which you haue beene borne bred and nourished the honour and popularity of our Religious Soveraign by whom you are now intrusted with Religion as with his chiefest treasure the conservation of whose purity and freedome will most ingratiate indeare his Maiesty to all his faithfull Subiects whose loue will proue his strongest guard his richest mine and best supply As you would faithfully discharge that great Episcopall trust and dignity which now rests vpon your shoulders not as a meere empty pompous Lordly pleasurable gainfull sloathfull or voluptuous honour not as an Epicurean Euripus See or receptacle of delight which calls men from their former humility frugality and diligence in their ministeriall function vnto a voluptuous sloathfull secular Pontificall Lordly proud vnpreaching life as most Prelates deemed it made it in S. Bernards age but as a ponderous Office a laborious Calling a heauy difficult and perpetuall Worke which summons you to feed the purchased and redeemed flocke of Christ ouer which the Lord hath made you Ouerseers with trible diligence readinesse and anxiety of heart and hand because it both redoubles your wages and augments your worke As you desire to perpetuate the dignity the respect of your Episcopall Iurisdiction which hath grown distastfull vnto many through the defaults of some As you tender your owne personall credit and esteeme with all good Christians who will reuerence you more for your piety and goodnesse then your state or greatnesse As you long to satisfie the expectation to forestall the secret iealosies and censures of our Church Kingdome here whose eyes are now intent vpon you or to avoid the irrepealable the eternall doome of Christ hereafter when all fearefull sloathfull inuigilant and lukewarme shepheards who want zeale and valour for the truth on earth shall haue their portion in the vnquenchable and fiery brimstone lake which burnes foreuer As you desire to anticipaete all future Parliamentary proceedings in matters of Religion the former which no doubt were legall iust and honourable though some repine against them being occasioned onely as most coniecture by the remisnesse conniuancy cowardice or indulgence of some Ecclesiasticall Courts in questioning in controlling the impudency the treachery and Errors of such Churchmen whose hereticall scandalous vnorthodox and pernitious doctrines Bookes and liues haue innouated and blemished our Religion embroyled and defiled our Church Let me now I pray vpon all these weighty considerations and ingagementâ— if it may stand with my Iuvinility and your venerable your hâ—ary grauity to exhort you to that duty which the ancient of dayes yea the verygrauest of our Church and State require at your hands excite your Episcopall power and providence to extirpate to exile all Semi-pelagian Errors and Arminian Nouelties all grace-defeating all Church-molesting Heresies with their chiefe Fomenters all late-erected Altars Images Tapers Crucifixes all new reuiued Popish Doctrines Ceremonies Duckings Genuflexions Easterne yea Altar-adorations complained of not long since in Parliament as you may remember with all those other corruptions and superstitious reliques which haue lately crept into our Church in despite of all our Statutes Rubricks Homilies Articles Canons and Iniunctions which prohibit them through the audacious practises of some domestique crafty Mountebanks who would slily Cozen vs of our Religion vnder the golden and holy pretence of Canonicall Devotion and withall to reestablish these Anti-Arminian orthodox Tenets of our Church which here I humbly tender to your best protections in their ancient and long enioyed purity peace and freedome that so by these religious atchieuements you may giue some publike demonstratiue actuall testimony to the world which is oft times iealous of your integrities vpon small occasions that you are all cordiall sincere and faithfull to our Religion Church and State that you are all valiant and zealous for the truth committed to your trust and that you are not onely tiâ—ular but reall Bishops well worthy to succeed those pious and victorious Prelates who haue in graven those Anti-Arminian Conclusions which I haue here contracted with their mellifluous pens and sealed them with their blood a sufficient engagement for me for them to challenge the priuiledge of your Episcopall patronage against the malignancy of all Opposers But perchance your wisdomes will obiect that by intermedling with these nice Arminian Controuersies I haue incurred the danger of his Maiesties Declaration prefixed to the late reprinted Articles therefore I must onely expect an High-Commission Censure from your Lordships not an Approbation or friendly enterteinment of this vntimely Treatise which may chance to proue distastfull vnto some To this I answere first and for the truth of it I appeale vnto your Lordships by whose advice this Declaration was at first contriued that it was neuer his Maiesties nor I thinke your Lordships intention to silence or suppresse but rather to aduance by this Declaration the ancient positiue established and resolued Doctrines of the Church of England especially those which were professed and ratified in the dayes of Edward the 6. Queene Elizabeth and King Iames of happy memory as these Anti-Arminian Positions were as is cleere by the expresse words of his Maiesties last Declaration to all his louing Subiects which well explaines the former But all these dogmaticall Anti-Arminian Conclusions which I haue published or iustified in this Antithesis are but the ancient positiue established and receiued
giuen vs by Christ. The wise man saith that in the power and vertue of the holy Ghost resteth all wisedome and all abilitie to know God and to please him We must beware and take heed that we doe in no wise thinke in our hearts imagine or beleeue that wee are able to repent aright or to turne effectually vnto the Lord by our owne might and strength For this must be verified in all men Without mee yee can doe nothing Againe Of our selues wee are not able as much as to thinke a good thought And in another place It is God that worketh in vs both the will and the deede For this cause although Hieremie had said before If thou returne O Israel returne vnto me saith the Lord Yet afterwards he saith Turne thou mee O Lord and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God And therefore that holy writer and ancient father Ambrose doeth plainely affirme that the turning of the heart vnto God is of God as the Lord himselfe doeth testifie by his Prophet saying And I will giue thee an heart to knowe mee that I am the Lord and they shall bee my people and I will bee their God for they shall returne vnto mee with their whole heart Both the Priesthood and the Law being changed wee ought to acknowledge none other Priest for deliuerance from our sinnes but our Sauiour Iesus Christ who being soueraigne Bishoppe doeth with the Sacrifice of his Body and Blood offered once for euer vpon the Altar of the Crosse most effectually cleanse the spirituall leprosie and wash away the sinnes of all those that with true confession of the same doe flee vnto him These seuerall passages quoted out of our Homilies do aboundanty testifie that ther is an eternal and immutable Praedestination of certaine men vnto eternall life out of meere grace and mercy and likewise a praetermission or reprobation of others to eternall death out of Gods meere pleasure That there is no Free-will or sufficient grace communicated vnto all men whereby they may conuert and saue themselues if they will And that man without the speciall assistance of Gods grace and Spirit is so weake and impotent that hee can neither doe nor thinke any thing that is good or prepare his heart to seeke for grace That Christ Iesus hath dyed sufficiently for all men but effectually for none but the Elect and such who are enabled through faith to apply his merits to their soules That Gods grace and Spirit doe alwayes worke effectually in the hearts of his Elect in the act of their conuersion which they can neuer finally nor totally resist And that the Elect and truely regenerate can neither fall finally nor totally from the state of grace which is firme and stable If any man desire to know more of mans imbecillity and misery since the fall which is such that he can neither will nor doe any thing that is good without Gods speciall preuenting and assisting grace a point which ouerthrowes the whole Fabricke of Arminianisme which is founded vpon mans Free-will Let him read the first and second part of the Homily of the Misery of man The Homilies of Christs Natiuitie Passion and Resurrection The first Homily on Whitsonday The first second and third part of the Homily on Rogation weeke And the first part of the Homily of Repentance where this point is so copiously handled and aboundantly confirmed that it needes no more dispute Hee that would further satisfie himselfe in the freenesse of our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification and Saluation out of meere grace and mercy without any desire merits will or workes of our owne or any thing foreseene in vs Let him reade the foresaid Homilies together with the first second and third parts of the Homilies of Saluation and Faith Hee that would bee further and more fully instructed in the point of the sufficiency value worth and merit of Christs death which was able and sufficient of it selfe to redeeme not some but all mankinde though the effect and application of it belong not to all but onely to the Elect who alone haue Faith for to apply it let him reade all these forementioned Homilies For the point of Perseuerance if any desire more copious euidences for to cleare it let him peruse the second part of those Homilies Pag. 148. 209. 261. 262. 263. and there hee shall finde it prooued That the Spirit of God doth alwaies dwell in the hearts of the Regenerate and that Dauid Solomon Noah Lot and Peter though they fell into grosse and 〈◊〉 sinnâ—â— yet they did not fall finally nor totally from the state of Grace The cauils which haue bene raised against this point vpon some passages in the Homilies of falling from God I my selfe with others haue formerly answered them in other books I therfore spare for to repeate them since the now recited passages are sufficient for to cleere this point to euidence it to the world that the Arminian Tenents are manifestly oppugned yea condemned not warranted by our Homilies These Homilies were most of them penned and composed by the Learned Archbishop of Canterbury Doctor Cranmer afterwards a Martyr A short Catechisme set foorth by King Edward the 6. his Authority for all Schoolemasters to teach Printed at London in Latine per Reginaldum Woolfium 1553. and the same yeere in English Cum Priuilegio by Iohn Day out of which I haue transcribed it verbatim from Folio 37. to 41. Scholer AFter that the Lord God had made the Heauen and Earth hee determined to haue for himselfe a most beautifull Kingdome and holy Common-wealth The Apostles and Ancient Fathers that wrote in Greeke called it Ecclesia in English a Congregation or Assembly into the which he hath admitted an infinite number of men that should be subiect to one King as their Soueraigne and onely Head him wee call Christ which is as much as to say Anointed c. To the furnishing of this Common-weale belong all they as many as doe truely feare honour and call vpon God dayly applying their mindes to holy and godly liuing and all those that putting all their hope and trust in him doe assuredly looke for the blisse of euerlasting life But as many as are in this Faith stedfast were fore-chosen Praedestinat and appointed to euerlasting life before the world was made Witnesse heereof they haue within their hearts the spirit of Christ the Author earnest and vnfailable pledge of their faith Which faith onely is able to perceiue the mysteries of God onely brings peace vnto the heart onely taketh hold on the righteousnesse that is in Christ Iesus Master Doth then the Spirit alone and faith sleepe we neuer so securely or stand wee neuer so rechlesse or slothfull so worke all things for vs as without any helpe of our owne to carry vs idle up heauen Schol I vse Master as you haue taught me to make a
difference between the cause and the effect The first principall and most proper cause of our Iustification and Saluation is the goodnesse and loue of God whereby he chose vs for his before he made the world After that God granteth vs to bee called by the Preaching of the Gospell of Iesus Christ when the spirit of the Lord is powred into vs by whose garding and gouernance wee bee led to settle our trust in God and hope for the performance of his promise With this choyce is ioyned as companion the mortifying of the olde man that is of our affection and last From the same spirit also commeth our Sanctification the loue of God and of our neighbour iustice and vprightnesse of life Finally to say all in summe Whateuer is in vs or may be done of vs honest pure true and good that altogether springeth out of this most pleasant Rocke from this most plentifull Fountaine the goodnesse loue choise and vnchangeable purpose of God he is the cause the rest are the fruits and effects Yet are also the goodnesse choise and spirit of God and Christ himselfe causes conioyned and coupled each with other which may bee reckoned among the principall causes of saluation As oft therefore as we vse to say that wee are made righteous and saued by saith onely it is meant thereby that faith or rather trust alone doth lay hand vpon vnderstand and perceiue our righteous making to bee giuen vs of God freely that is to say by no deserts of our own but by the free grace of the Almighty Father Moreouer Faith doth ingender in vs loue of our neighbour and such workes as God is pleased withall For if it bee a liuely and true faith quickned by the holy Ghost shee is the mother of all good saying and doing By this short tale it is euident whence and by what meanes wee attaine to bee righteous For not by the worthinesse of our deseruings were wee either heretofore chosen or long agoe saued but by the onely mercy of God and pure grace of Christ our Lord whereby we were in him made to doe these good workes that God had appointed for vs to walke in And although good workes cannot deserue to make vs righteous before God yet doe they so cleane vnto Faith that neither Faith can be found without them nor good Workes bee any where found without Faith And Fol. 68. Immortality and blessed life God hath prouided for his chosen before the foundations of the World were laid This Catechisme was published by King Edward the 6. his Authority in the yeere 1553. being the next yeere after the composure and publishing of the Articles of our Church which were first of all concluded vpon in the yeare 1552. being onely reuiâ—ed not framed or new composed in the yeare 1562. From whence I collect that this Catechisme is fully agreable to the true sence and meaning of our Articles and may well bee taken as a Comment or Explanation on our 16. and 17. Articles so that whatsoeuer is affirmed in this Catechisme is likewise affirmed by those Articles And if so then it is more then euident that our Articles doe point-blanke oppugne the Arminian mutabilitie of Predestination Election from Faith or Workes or any thing else foreseene in vs Free-will and vniuersall or sufficient grace the totall and finall resisting of the worke of grace and Apostasie from the state of grace together with the truth of grace in reprobates or castawayes all which are euidently refuted and condemned by this Catechisme as the figured passages will demonstrate Certaine questions and answeres touching the doctrine of Predestination Printed by ROBERT BARKER Anno 1607. and bound vp and sold with our English Bibles Question WHy doe men so much vary in matters of Religion Answere Because all haue not the like measure of knowledge neither doe all beleeue the Gospell of Christ. Qu. What is the reason thereof An. Because they only beleeue the Gospel and doctrine of Christ which are ordained vnto eternall life Qu. Are not all ordained to eternall life An. Some are vessels of wrath ordained vnto destruction as others are vessels of mercy prepared to glory Qu. How standeth it with Gods Iustice that some are appointed to damnation An. Very wel because all men haue in themselues sinne which deserueth no lesse and therfore the mercy of God is wonderfull in that he vouchsafeth to saue some of that sinnefull race and to bring them to the knowledge of the truth Qu. If Gods ordinance and determination must of necessitie take effect then what neede any man to care for hee that liueth well must needs be damned if hee be thereunto ordained and he that liueth ill must needes bee saued if hee bee thereunto appointed Ans. Not so for it is not possible that either the elect should alwaies be without care to do wel or that the reprobate should haue any will thereunto For to haue either good will or good worke is a testimony of the Spirit of God which is giuen to the Elect onely whereby faith is so wrought in them that being graft into Christ they grow in holinesse to that glory whereunto they are appointed Neither are they so vaine as once to thinke that they may doe as they list themselues because they are predestinate vnto saluation but rather they endeauour to walke in such good workes as God in Christ Iesus hath ordained them vnto and prepared for them to be occupied in to their owne comfort stay and assurance and to his glory Qu. But how shall I knowe my selfe to bee one of those whom God hath ordained to life aeternall Ans. By the motions of spirituall life which belongeth onely to the children of God by the which that life is perceiued euen as the life of this body is discerned by the sense and motions thereof Qu. What meane you by the motions of spirituall life Ans. I meane remorse of conscience ioyned with the loathing of sinne and loue of righteousnesse the hand of Faith reaching vnto life eternall in Christ the Conscience comforted in distresse and raised vp to confidence in God by the worke of his Spirit a thankefull remembrance of Gods benefits receiued and the vsing of all aduersities as occasion of amendment sent from GOD. Qu. Cannot such perish as at some time or other feele these motions within themselues Ans. It is not possible that they should for as Gods purpose is not changeable so hee repenteth not of the gifts and graces of his adoption neither doeth hee cast off those whom he hath once receiued Qu. Why then should we pray by the example of Dauid that he cast vs not from his Face and that he take not his holy Spirit from vs Ans. In so praying wee make protestation of the weakenesse of flesh which mooueth vs to doubt yet should not wee haue courage to aske if we were not assured that God
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
our learned Doctor Whitakers heretofore and our iudicious Doctor Ward of late haue ioyntly testified haue euer since from the very first restitution of the Gospell to this praesent euen constantly embraced and defended them as the vndoubted truth and Doctrine of our Church Here we may meete with the constant and godly Martyr Master Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester who so admired Peter Martyrs worth and labours that he openly requested King Edward the VI. to giue him a thousand pounds insteed of his hundred markes by the yeere concurring with him and vs in this our Anti-Arminian Conclusion in his Sermons London 1584. fol. 311. 312. 325. 326. 327. Here learned and pious Master Thomas Beacon Diuinity Professor in the Vniuersitie in his Sicke Mans salue London 1680. page 271. to 275. 424. to 430. Here godly and learned Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterburie in our fore-mentioned Homelies which were most of them penned and composed by him Here Master Iohn Bradford in his Defence of Praedestination in his Treatise of Praedestination and Freewill and in his Briefe summe of the doctrine of Praedestination and Election Printed by Rowland Hall 1562. being the selfe-same yeere wherein our Articles were coÌ„posed together with Stephen Garret in his Summe of the holy Scripture London 1547. cap. 4. 6. and 7. doe fully iumpe with vs in this Conclusion which most of them confirmed with their blood Descend we lower to Queene Elizabeths Raigne here we shall not onely meete with our 17. Article composed by Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer their Schollers as Doctor Whitakers informes vs and therefore more likely to concurre with vs in all things as their Tutors did but likewise with learned Iohn Veron his Bookes dedicated to Queene Elizabeth about the beginning of her Raigne intituled A sruâ—full Treatise of Praedestination with An Apologie or defence of the doctrine of Praedestination Printed by Iohn Tisdale London where all our seuerall Anti-Arminian points are largely learnedly and punctually discussed and defended with Reuerend Master Nowell his authorized Cathechisme Creed third part The holy Catholike Church The Communion of Saints and the Forgiuenesse of sinnes with the quaestions and answers vpon it with laborious and charitable Master Iohn Fox in his renowned Booke of Martyrs Edition 7. London 1596. page 1505. 1506. With Robert Hutton in his Summe of Diuinitie London 1565. cap of Praedestination and of the Church with Iohn Daniel his Excellent Comfort to all Christians against all kinde of Calamities London 1576. cap. 27. of Praedestination and of glorification thereby with Master Thomas Palfryman one of her Maiesties Chapell in his Treatise of heauenly Philosophie London 1578. lib. 1. cap. 7. of the Free Election of God c. page 74 to 103. With Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull London 1578. Epistle to the Reader cap. 1. That Election is not generall but particular and seuerall cap. 2. That the Elect were elected before the foundation of the world and cannot finally perish cap. 3. and 4. that the Kingdome of heauen is not prepared generally for all That Christ profitteth not the Reprobate and vnbeleeuing for which his Kingdome is not praeparedâ— all punctuall to our purpose with Master Edward Dering Lecture 9. on the Hebrewes 2. ver 9. Lecture 10. on ver 13. and Lecture 27. Master Iohn Northbrooke in his Poore mans Garden cap. 1. of Praedestination and Reprobation with Master Sparke in his Comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience London 1580. Master Keilway in his Sermon of Sure Comfort London 1581. page 23. to 27. With Master Gurney in his Fruitfull Treatise betweene Reason and Religion London 1581. page 38. to 47. With Master Iohn Anwicke his Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome London 1587. cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. With Bartimeus Andreas Sermon 2. on Canticles 5. London 1595 page 64. 65. 66. With Master Iohn Smith in the Doctrine of Prayer in generall for all men London 1595. page 79. to 91. Learned and ready Doctor Fulke together with Master Cartwright Notes on the Rhemish Testament on Acts 27. sect 3. on Rom. 8. sect 8. and 9. sect 2. 3. 4. 5. on Math. 3. sect 7. cap. 13. sect 3. cap. 22. sect 2. and on Iohn 15. sect 3. Learned Master Doctor William Whitakers De Ecclesia Controuersia 2. Quaest. 1. and Cygnea Cantio Cantabrigiae Octobris 9. 1595. page 6. to 20. Reuerend and learned Doctor Matthew Hutton Archbishop of Yorke and formerly Professor of Diuinitie in Cambridge De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio Hardrouici 1613. To whom I might adde Doctor Whitgift Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with the rest of our Diuines who composed the Articles of Lambheth and Barrets Recantation formerly mentioned Robertus Somus De Tribus Quaestionibus Quaest. 1. and 3. Doctor Esteius Oratio De certitudine salutis Hardrouici per Thysium 1613. Doctor Chaderton De iustificationis fider perseuerantia non inâ—erscisa Doctor Willet De Praedestinatione Quaest. 1. 2. Synopsis Papismâ— page 904. to 922. Commentary on Rom. 8. Controuersie 16. to 21. cap. 9. Contr. 7. to 12. cap. 11. contr 1. 2. 3. Master Greenham Graue Councell and godly obseruations in his workes London 1612. page 36. 45. 122. Treatlse of Blessednesse page 207. his 14. Sermon page 255. Godly Instructions cap. 53. page 764. A Letter consolatorie page 878. 879. Master William Perkins his Order of causes of Saluation and Damnation in his workes London 1612. Tom. 1. page 76. to 114. An Exposition on the Creed page 276. to 297. Of Gods Free grace and mans Free-will page 723. A Treatise of Praedestination Tom. 2. page 606. to 641. An Exposition on Iude Tom. 3. page 316. Master Iohn Hill in his Life euerlasting Cambridge 1601. Booke 5. page 522. to 653. Where all our Arminians Tenents are in terminis confuted Reuerend Bishop Babington in his Sermon at Pauls Crosse on Iohn 6. 37. the 2. Sunday on Michaelmas Terme 1590. part 1. and 3. All these religious eminent authorized and learned wriâ—ers of our Church haue vnanimously successiuely and vninterruptedly yea most of them professedly and in terminis maintained and iustified this our first Anti-Arminian Thesis with all its following Conclusions as the orthodox truth and vndoubted doctrine of our Church oppugning and copiously refelling its contrary Arminian Tenent as Popish Romish and Pelagian during the whole Raigne of Queene Elizabeth not one authorized writer of our Church so much as once dissenting from them for ought that I can finde and shall wee now begin to quaestion whether it be the doctrine of our Church or no Descend we lower to king Iames his Raigne And here with whom may we more fitly begin then with this our learned King himselfe who in the first yeere of his Raigne in the praesence of sundry Nobles Praelates and Deanes in the Conference at Hampton Court pag. 30. and 43. makes mention both of aeternall Praedestination and Reprobation expresly aucrring That Praedestination and Elâ—ction depend
of Cambridge section 6. where our 17. Article is likewise quoted for to warrant it Our learned godly Martyrs in the Regiment of King Henry the VIII haue suffraged to this Tenent witnesse Master VVilliam Tyndalls Parable of the Wicked Mammon page 80. Col. 2. Answere to Master Moores fourth Booke cap. 10. page 329. Master Iohn Frith A Mirrour to know thy selfe page 84. and learned Doctor Barnes That Freewill of her owne strenth can doe nothing else but sin page 270. 271. 274. 276. to 283. where this point is largely handled Our learned Diuinitie Professors in King Edwards dayes are full and copious in this point witnesse Peter Martyr in his Comment in Epist. ad Romanos cap. 9. Tiguri 1559. page 697. 718. and Locorum communiuns Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 15. 28. to 32. 36. being Lectures read in the Uniuersitie of Oxford by King Edwards appointment and earnestly desired by diuers of the Vniuersitie for the presse as himselfe records in his Epistle Dedicatorie together with Master Martin Bucer in his Commentarie on the selfesame Chapter ver 11 to 24. Whence eminent Doctor VVhitakers in his Cygnea Cantio pa. 15. informes vs That Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer of honourable memorie did professe this Doctrine of absolute and irrespâ—ctiue Reprobation in both our famous Vniuersities and that our Church which was most abundantly watered with the fountaines of these two eminent Diuines in the dayes of King Edward the VI â—â—d alwayes hold it since the restitution of the Ghospell to her This then was the receiued Doctrine of our Church in King Edwards dayes as our 17. Article which was then composed together with our Homelies forequoted will euince there being no approued Writer of our Church now extant that did oppugne it in that age and should we begin to doubt it now If any obiect that Master Iohn Bradford in his Summe of the Doctrine of Praedestination and Reprobation affirmes that our owne wilfulnesse sinne and contemning of Christ are the cause of Reprobation therefore this doctrine was not then so generally receiued I answere First that Master Bradfords explanation of himselfe in the subsequent liâ—es will take off this obiection For he informes vs that he speakes only of the second cause of Reprobation that is of the execution not of the Decree of Reprobation which is onely sinne not of the first cause of it the thing we haue now in quaestion which we cannot comprehend it being the vnsearchable will of God which we should not search into further then God doth giue vs leaue in his VVord Secondly that Master Bradford speakes this onely to silence Reprobates and damned men aduising them to looke first vpon their owne sinnes which bring damnation and Gods hatred on them not vpon Gods secret Decree of Reprobation which as it doth not impose a necessitie of sining vpon men so it neuer brings daâ—â—ation on them but for sinne M. Bradford then speaking only of the actuall execution of Reprobation not of the Decree it selfe of the secondary cause of it not of the first which is onely the vnsearcheable will of God makes wholy for our present Tenent not against it The selfe-same answere may be giuen to that of Bishop Hooper in his Epistle to the Christian Reader praefixed before his Declaration of the Commandements where he writes thus The cause of reiection or damnation is sinne in man which will neither receiue the promise of the Gospell c. Where reiection is put for the execution of Reprobation or actuall damnation as this disiunctiue or explanatorie coniunction or the cause of reiection or damnation and this marginall note The cause of damnation in man annexed to it due infalliblie demonstrate of which euery man doth readily acknowledge sinne to be the onely cause not for the Decree of Reprobation which hath no other primarie moouing or impulsiue cause but Gods meere will and pleasure these writers then make wholy for vs not against vs if rightly vnderstood This was the constant Tenent and resolution of our eminent Diuines in Queene Elizabeths dayes witnesse Iohn Veron his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination and the Apologie for the same where it is largely proued all obiections and cauils against it being there fully answered witnesse Master Iohn Fox his Martiriologe page 1506. line 50. Master Thomas Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philosophy cap. 7. Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull cap. 1. 3. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Master Iohn North-brooke his Poore mans Garden cap. 1. Master Arthur Gurney his Fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 38. to 42. Master Anwicke his Meditations of Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. Learned Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Answere to the Rhemish Testament Notes on Rom. 9. sect 2. 3. 5. Master Edward Deering on the Hebrewes Lecture 9. Reuerend and godly Bishop Babington Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1590. part 1. and learned Matthew Hutton Arch-Bishop of Yorke De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio together with Arch-Bishop Whitguift and all those learned Praelates Doctors and Diuines who composed the Assertions of Lambheth and Barrets Recantation Iudicious and solid Doctor VVhitakers in his Cygnea Cantio page 3. to 18. Master VVilliam Perkins his Treatise of the Order of causes of Election and Reprobation cap. 7. 50. 51. Tom. 1. page 16. 95. 114. his Exposition on the Creedâ— p. 277. to 299. and Treatise of Predestination Tom. 2. page 608. to 641. his Exposition on the Epistle of Iude ver 4. Tom. 3. page 516. 517. and Master Iohn Hills Life euerlasting lib. 5. p. 599. to 612. where this our praesent Assertion is punctually maintained Of learned King Iames himselfe Meditation on the Lords Prayer and Conference at Hamptâ—n Court page 30. 43. Of Doctor Robert Abbot late Bishop of Salisbury and Diuinity Professor in Oxford Oratio quarta De Veritate gratiae Christi October 1615. sect 6. Of Doctor Iohn VVhites Way to the Church Digression 41. sect 44. 45. 49. and Defence of the way cap. 25. sect 10. to the end where this point is learnedly handled Of Doctor Francis VVhite now Bishop of Norwitch in his Orthodox cap. 8. paragraph 1. 2. Of Doctor Crackenthorpe in his Sermon of Praedestination Of Doctor VVillet in his Commentary on Romans 8. Controuersie 16. cap. 9. Controuersie 7. 9. 10. 11. and Synosis Papismi page 881. 882. 913. 920. Of Doctor Field Of the Church-Booke 1. cap. 4. Of Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Articulus 1. and 2. Of Doctor Benefield De Perseuerantia Sanctorum lib. 2. cap. 18. 20. Of Doctor Prideaux De Absolut Decreto Lectura 1. Of Master Thomas VVilson Exposition on Romans cap. 9. v. 11. 12. to 27. and cap. 11. ver 7. Of Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on the 17. Article Proposition 4. and 5. Of master Samuel Crooke in his Guide â—ect 4. and 9 Of Master Elnathan Parre Groâ—â—ds of Diuiniâ—â— page 211. to 309. Of Master Paule â—ayne Commentarie
The intire Church of England consists of three grand members The Church of Ireland the Church of Scotland and the Church of England the mother or mistres of the other two If then I can vncontroulable euidence that these three seuerall Churches did constantly heretofore and doe as yet vnanimously acknowledge defend and iustify these our Anti-Arminian Conclusions the victory triall and points in praesent issue must be yeelded to me For the Church of Ireland it s out of quaestion that she hath alwayes both in ancient and moderne ages concluded with vs. For in ancient times in the points of the immutabisity aeternity and freenesse of Gods Election the praedetermined number of Gods Elect the infallible certainety of their effectuall calling and saluation Reprobation Freewill and vniuersall grace we shall finde Saint Gallus Sedulius and Claudius three ancient Irish Fathers and with them the ancient Irish Church concurring fully with vs and with St. Augustine in these our orthodox positions as that Reuerend learned and incomparable Irishman Doctor Vsher Arch-Bishop of Ardmagh the honor of our Church and glory of his Nation hath euidently and largely proued in his Epistle of the Religion professed by the ancient Irish bound vp at the end of Sir Christopher Sybthorpes workes page 7. 8. 9. to which I will referre you What the moderne Doctrine of the Church of Ireland is the fore-recorded Articles of Ireland composed in the Conuocation at Dublin in the yeere 1615. which conclude in terminis for vs together with Bishop Vshers Answer to the Iesuits Challenge his now recited Epistle and Sir Christopher Sybthorpes Aduertisement cap. 7. 8. sufficiently euidence so that both the Primatiue and praesent Irish Church are wholy fully for vs point-blancke against our Opposites That the ancient and moderne Church of Scotland hath suffragated vnto our Conclusions it is vndeniablie euident by their vnanimous and generall Confession of the true Christian faith and religion subscribed by King Iames himselfe his houshold with sundry others at Edenborough the 28. of Ianuary in the yeere 1581. being the 14. yeere of his Maiesties raigne Articles Of Originall sinne Of Election of Faith in the holy Ghost Of the cause of good workes Of the Church of the immortality of the soule by M. Knox in his Answ. against the Aduersaries of Gods Praedestination by Master Rollocke Rector of the Vniuersitie of Edinburgh his Commentary on the Ephesians cap. 1. 2. 3. and 5. and on Psalme 51. By Master William Cowper Bishop of Galloway in Scotland once Minister of Perth in his Heauen opened on Rom. 8. v. â—9 28. to the end and in sundry other of his workes By Master Iohn Weenise his Portraiture of the Image of God in man cap. 16. of Freewill where all or most of these Arminian pointâ— are pithily discussed By Sharpius a learned Scot Professor of Diuinity now in Dyon Tractatus De Iustificatione cap. 5. and Syntagâ—â—a Theologiae who all concurre vnanimously with vs in these our praesent conclusions which they professedly and pertinaciously maintaine and iustify That the Primatiue Church of England hath suscribed to our praesent Assertions her ancient publicke opposition to Pelagianisme her Bede her Anselme her Bradwardine and Wickliffe testify in that they constantly adhaered to St. Augustines and so to our Assertions as the vndoubted truth oppugning these now Arminian then Pelagian Tenents as dangerous and grace-opposing errors as their places quoted in the margent and in part recited in my Perpetuity p. 257. 261. c. will more at large declare The ancient Church of England and these her famous writers were professed Anti-Pelagians therefore Anti-Arminians What this our Church hath beene of latter times the fore-recited euidences and Authors doe abundantly testify I need not here repeat it I will therefore onely adde some further euidences to proue our Anti-Arminian positions to be our Arminian noualties not to be the ancient receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of our Church My first of these more full and puctuall euidences is the ingeminated confession and reiterated protestation of of the Heades of the Vniuersity of Cambridge in a memorable Letter of theirs purposely written about the suppression of these new Arminian errors to their honoured Chancellor and subscribed with their seuerall hands March 8. 1595. which Letter I haue truely transcribed out of the originall Coppy remaining in the hands of Doct. G who can produce it if occasion serue in sorâ—e as followeth RIght Honourable our bounden dutie remembred Wee are right sorry to haue such occasion to trouble your Lordship but the peace of this Vniuersity and Church which is deare vnto vs being brought into perill by the late reuiuing of new oppinions and troublesome Controuersies amongst vs hath vrged vs in regard of the places we here sustaine not onely to be carefull for the suppressing the same to our powers but also to giue your Lordship further information hereof as our Honourable head and carefull Chancellor About a yeere past amongst diuers others who here attempted publikely to teach new and strange opinions in Religion one Master Barret more boldly then the rest did preach diuers Popish Errors in Saint Maries to the iust offence of many which he was inioyned to retract but hath refused so to doe in such sort as hath beene praescribed him with whose fact and opinions your Lordship was made acquainted by Doctor Some the deputis Vice-Chancellor Hereby offence and diuision growing as after by Doctor Baroes publike Lectures aâ—d doterminations in the Schooles contrary as his Auditors haue informed to Doctor Whitakers and the sound receiued truth euer since her Maiesties raigne Wee sent vp to London by Common consent in Nouember last Doctor Tyndall and Doctor Whitakers men especially chosen for that purpose for conference with my Lord of Canterbury and other principall Diuines there that the controuersies being examined and the truth by their consents confirmed the contrary Errors and the contentions thereabout might the rather cease By whose good trauell with sound consent in truth such aduice and care was taken by certaine propositions containing certaine substantiall points of Religion taught and receiued in this Vniuersity and Church during the time of her Maiesties raigne and consented vnto and published by the best approued Diuines both at home and abroade for the maintaining of the same truth and peace of the Church as thereby wee inioyâ—ed here great and comfortable quiet vntill Doctor Baroe in Ianuary last in his Sermon Ad Clerum in Saint Maries contrary to restraint and commandement from the Vice-Chancellor and the Heads by renewing againe these Opinions disturbed our peace whereby his Adhaerents and Disciples were and are much emboldened to maintaine false Doctrine to the corrupting disturbing of this Vniuersity and Church if it be not in time effectually praeuented For remedy hereof we haue with ioynt consent and care vpon complaint praeferred
for other litterall scapes which doe not vitiate the â—ence I hope thou wilt pardon them of course Errata page 13. l. 22. p. 46. l. 2. p. 49. l. 34. p. 51. l. 4. p. 54. l. 34. p. 80. l. 2. p. 81. s. p. 111. l. 34. p. 121. l. 30. p. 136. l. 6. for p. 43. to 48. conuinced wordes of for all this Psal. 2. Esteâ—â— enioyned Errâ—s reade page 54. conuented workes or all his Phil. Esteius enioyed Errors a Pluralities Nonresidents Commendaes which are tollerated and admitted by the Statute of 25. H. 8. cap. 16. 20. 61. 1 2. Phil. Mary cap. 8. 21 H. 8. c. 13. et 28. c 13. are dissalowed by the Common Law * Epistle Dedicatory to Mr. Cozens his cozening Deuotions b See Mr. Iohn Northbrooke his Poâ—re maÌ„s Garden cap 48 BB Iâ—wels Defence of the Apologie paâ—t 2. c. 2. Diuision 1. â— 522. c BB. Bilson of Christian subiection and Antichristian Rebellion part 3. neere the the end where this point is largely prooued c 2. H. 4. c. 15. 2. H. 5. cap. 7. 25. H. 8. c. 14. 31. H. 8. c. 8. 14. 32. H. 8. c. 15. 25 34. H. 8. c. 1. 1. Marâ—ae Sess. 2. c. 2. 1. z. Phil. Mar. cap. 8. * 28. H. 8. c. 10 34. H. 8. cap. 1. 1. Ed. 6. c. 1. 2. 3. Ed 6. cap. 10. 11. 12. 5. 6. Ed. 6. cap. 1. 3. 12. 1. Eliz. c. 1â— 2. 13. Elizâ— c. 12. 8. Elizâ— cap. 1. d See the History of the Waldenses Booke 1. c. 1â—â— e BB. Iewel BB. Bilson and Mr. Northbrooke letter C and Mr. Tyndall Obedience of a Christian man pag. 137. 138. f 23. H. 8. c. 14. g 1 Eliz c. 2. h 27. H. 8. cap 15. 3 4. Ed. 6. cap. 11. i 1 Eliz. c. 1. 13. Eliz. c. 12. See ca. 32. H. 8. cap 15. 31 H. 8. c. 14. k 13. Eliz. c. 12 l See Doctor Whites way to the Trâ—e Church Digresse 2. m Acts 17. 11. Iohn 7. 17. ca. 10. 4. 10. 15. 27 1 Cor. 12. 10. 1 Thes. 5. 21. 1 Iohn 4. 1. 2. 3 2 Iohn 6. 7. 10. Gal. 1. 7. to 11. Math. 7. 15. 2 Pet. 3. 17. a Math. 11. 21. to 25. Luke 10. 12. to 16. * Three of their bookes were not lycensed * Gal. 1. 6. cap. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. * The Articles of Ireland coÌ„posed 1615. the Synod of Dort 1619. 1620. haue resolued al these points in terminis b Eusebius Eccles. Hist. l. 4 cap. 15. Niceph Calist Eccles. Histor. l. 3. c 34. * Mr. Tyndall with whom we begin our Catalogue was Martyred in the yeere 1536. Iohn Frith in the yere 1533. Dr. Barnes in the yeare 1541. King Edward was crowned in the yeare 1546. So that these points haue continued in our Church well-nigh an 100. yeares c Isay 51. 3. * Prisca pareÌ„nescit aequalem posterâ— nullum Exhibitura dies praeteritis mâ—liâ—r maâ—orque futuris CaÌ„bdeni Brittan pag. 160. d Sunt enim quidam qui sustissime damnatas impietates adhuc liberius defendendas putant et surt qui occultius penetrant domos et quod in aperto non clamare metuunt in secreto seminare non quiescunt Sunt autem qui omnino siluerunt magno timore compressi sed adhuc corde retinent quod ore iam proferre non audent qui tamen possent fratribus ex â—rioreipsius dogmatis defensione esse notissimâ—â— Proinde alii seueriusâ— coercendi alii vigilantius vestigandâ— alii tractandi guidem lenius sed non segnius sunt docendâ— vt si non timentur ne perdant non tamen negligantur no pereant Aug. Epist. 105. Sixto It was his speech of the old I may as truly apply it to our new Pelagians e Illustris olim protulit Britannia dogma hoc superâ—â—â—â— c. Festus Hommius in Coâ—onidem Gulielmiâ— Arnesij f Hierom. aduersus Pelagium ad Câ—isiphontem Argumentum Prosperi Cronichâ—n Bibliothecha PatruÌ„ Tom. 5. pars 3. pag 1â—2 Bede Ecclesiast Hist Gentis Anglorum lib. 1. c. 10. Meredith HaÌ„mers Chronograph p. â—89 g Festus HoÌ„mius in Coreâ—idem Gulielâ—â—i Amesiâ—â— 1618. * Multae dum leuiter corriguntur saepius maiorae coâ—surgunt Cabilonense Concil 1â— Can. 13. h Math. 27. 60 to the end a Concilium Palestinumâ— Africanum Arausicyaum b Synod of Dort 1619. 1620. Conuocation of Ireland 1615. in their Articles then composed * Hierom. contra Pelagianos Augustin 7. Tom-pars 2. Prosper Fulgentius Bernard Orosius Bradwardine a Inâ—egritas praesidentium salus est subditotum Nam totius familiae Domini status et ordo nutabit si quod requiritur in corpore non inveniatur in capite Leo Epist 87 cap 1 b Oâ—osius De Libertate Arbitrij Apolog contra Pelagium stiles it Nefaria haeresis venatissimorum dogmatum abominatio serpens suffocansque halitus c Beneficium datur propter officium Concil Lateran sub Leone 10 Sess 9 â—urius Concil Tom 4. pag 635 B. d See Plutarch De his qui sero a Numine puniuntur Diogenes Laert lib 8. Pythagoras Platonis Phaedon Tertullian de Anima Hierom Epist. 59. cap. 2. e Haec venenatissimorum dogmatum abominatio habet etiam nunc viventes mortuos mortuosque viventes NaÌ„ Crigines Priscillianus et Iovinianus olim apud se mortui in his vivunt et non solum vivunt verum etiam loquuntâ—r nunc vero Pelagius et Caelestius in his viventes mortui ecce adversus Ecclesiam quod mi erum est et quod multo mâ—erius est in Ecclesia palam sibilant c Orosius de Libertate Arbitrii contr Pelag. Bibl. Patrum Tom 15 p 144. f Teterrimus halâ—tus nostras quoque partes nescio quo ventoâ—â— impetu perflavit et Theologos nostâ—os nonnullos ita de nentarit vt relicto fi lei trito et probaâ—o tramite â—n Arminii ansractas et praecipicia se commiserint et dogmate etiamnum destruant Articulos Religionis quos prius propria subscriptione confirmarunt Robertus Abbot Epise Salisbuciensis De Gratia et Persev â—anctoruâ— Epist. Dedâ— g Stat ergo Goliah proh dolor in Ecclesia superbia immanissimus carnah potentia tumidus omnia se per se posse confidens et non solum stat verum et provocat simulque per dies plurimos sanctum Israel manifesti timoris exprobrat Orosius contra Pelag Apologia h Orosius Ib. i See pag. 10. to 14. 120 to 123. 127 128 129. k See pag 42. to 48. 120. to 1â—5 l Fugit mercenarius a râ—ctitudine iustâ—tiae a defensione Ecclesiae a liberatione Patriae vel amore blandientis vel timore persequentis Bernard ad Pastores Sermo Col. 1730 D. m Et quidem isti sortiti sunt ministerii locum sed non zelum Successores omnes cupiunt esse imitatores pauci Bernard Sermo ad Cleâ—um in Concilio Rhemensi Col. 1727 1728. sermo super Cantica Col. 802. D. n Operarii quanto rariores in terris tanto
lerem 6. Ambros. De Vocatione Gentium libâ— 2. cap. 9. Folio 267. 5 5 * Part. 1. pag. 7. to 13. * Part. 2. Pag. 167. to 234. * Part. 1. pag. 13. to 29. a Perpetuitic of a Regenerate mans estate Edit 2. p. 322. to 329. b Mr. Wottons Dangerous plot discouered c. 11. sect 8. 9. p. 45. to 49. Mr. Yates Ibis ad Câ—â—sarem 2. Part. p. 133. to 140. 1 1 7 7 1 1 7 7 2 2 1 1 6 6 4 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 6 6 7 7 1 1 7 7 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 2 2 6 6 4 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 * The Heads therefore of the Vniuersity of Cambridge who composed this Recantation were of this opinion that the 17. Article doth make the will of God not sinne the true and primary cause of Reprobation therefore they recited it at large in the Latine Copy * They were vndoubtedly of their opinion in these points now controuersed * Therefore of their opâ—nion in our present Tenents * Allegauit dictas posiâ—â—onessaâ—sas erroneas repugnantesesse religioni in regno Angliae publica legâ—tima authoritate receptae stabilitae These are the words of the Articles exhibited against him by the Vice-chancellor * Habita matura deliberatione necnon visis et diligenter examinatis positionibus praedictis quia manifesto constabat positionesâ— praedictas errorem et falsitatem in se continere necnon aperte repugnare Religionâ— in Ecclesia Anglicana receptae ac stabilitae ideo iudicaberunt c. These are the expresse words of the Order entred in the Vniuersity Register * BB Carlton his Examination of Mr. Mountagues Appeale cap. 2 a Ephes. 1. 4. 2. Tim. 1. 9. ler. 1. 5. c. 31. 3 b Psal. 33. 11. Psa. â—9 28 33 34. Esa. 14. 24. 27. Mal. 3. 6. Rom. 9. 11. 2. Tim. 1. 9. c. 2. 19. Ephe. 1. 9. 11. c Mat. 20. 16. c. 24 40 41. Luke 17. 36. Ro. 9. 27. c. 11. 5 d Ephe. 4. 13. Rom. 8. 30. 2. Tim. 2. 19. Iohn â— 19. Reu. 21. 27. e Heb. 11. 23. and all Protestant 〈…〉 that write of the Church f Roâ— 9. 11 17. Iude 4. Mat. 24. 40. 41. g Exod 33. 19. Iohn 5. 11. Mat. 8. 2 3. c. 11. 27. Luk. 10. 21. Deut 7. 8. Hosea 14. 4. 1. Sam 12. 22. Iames 1. 18. Ro 9 11 to 27. c. 1â— 5. Eph 1 5 9 11. c. 2. 5 8. 2. Tim 1 9. h Deu. 7. 6 7 8 Eze. 16 6. Ro. 9. 11. 16. Mat. 24. 40. 41. Mal. 1. 2 3. i Cor 1. 26. 27 28. Ro. 11. 5 6 Mat. 25. 41 42. Rom. 2. 9. k Mat. 11. 25. c. 24. 40. 41. Luke 17. 38. Ro. 9. 11. 13. 17. to 33. Mal 1 2 3. l Ier 10. 2â— Pro. 16. 1. 9. Isay. 26. 12. Iohn 1â—5 5. 2. Cor. 3. 5. Psal. 2. 1â— Iohn 6. 44 m 1. Ioh. 2 1 2 n Mat 1. 21. Ioh 10â— 11 15 17. Eph. 1. 4 7 c. 5. 25 26. 27. Reu. 5. 1. c 5. 9. 10 see my Perpetuity â— p. 29. o Cant. 1. 4. Ro 8. 30. c. 9. 19 Rom 3. 7 Acts 16. 1. c â—6 1. 9 Eph 1. 10 19 Iohn 6. 37 1. Thes. 1. 4 5 6 9. Iob 9. 4 12. Psalâ— 115. 3. Psal. 135 6. Pro. 21. 1. 30. â—say 54. 21. c. 43. 13 see God no Imposter p 7. q Titus 1. â— Acts 13. 48. Rom. 11 7. r Psal. 37 24 Psal. 145 14 see my Perpetuity of a Regenerate mans estate * Quicquid vel omnes vel plures vâ—o â—odemque sensu manifeste frequenter perseueranter velut quodam sibi con 〈◊〉 Magistrorum Concilio acciâ—â—â—ndo teneÌ„dâ— tradeÌ„do firmauerint id prâ— indubitato certo ratoque habeatur Quicquid â—ero quaÌ„uis ille sanctus doctus quaâ—â—uis Episcopus quarauis Confessor Martyr praeter omnes autetiam contra omnes senserit id inter propriâ—s occultas priuatas opâ—â—â—â—â—culas a communis publicae generalis sententiae autheritate secretuÌ„ sit ne cum â—umo salutis aeternae-pericuâ—o iuxta sacrilegaÌ„ haereticorum scismaticoruÌ„ coÌ„â—uetudinem vniuersalis dogmatis veritate diâ—â—issa vnius hoÌ„inis noâ—itium sectemur errorem Vinâ—eÌ„tius LerineÌ„â—is CoÌ„tra hereses cap. 39. The probate of the first Anti-Arminian position to bee the vndoubted doctrine of the Church of England a 2. 3. Edw. 6 cap 1. 19. 3. 4. Ed. 6. cap. 10. 5. 6. Edw. 6. cap. 1. 1. Eliza. c. 1. 13. Eliz. cap. 12. b See Article 35. Henry the 8. Edward the 6. c See the Oration of his life and death before his Loci communes d Peter Martâ—â— Epistola nuncuÌ„patoria in Romanos Oratio de â—ita morte Petri Martiris prefixed to his Loci Communeâ— accordingly a Cignea Cantio Cantabrigiar Octo. 9. 1595. p. 15. 16. b Concio ad Clerum Cantabrigiae Ianu. 12. 1625. p. 45. c First sermon before King Edward Fol. 58. Queene Eliz. d Cignea Cantio p. 16. King Iames. * See his Meditation on the Lords Prayer his Paraphrase on the Reuelation c. 13. 8. c. 17. 8. * Meaning Pelagianisme * See Pelagiâ—â— Rediuitius Epistle to the Reader and King Iames his Cygnea Cantio newly printed Lâ—n 1619. p. 32. a Quicquid ciuitatis princept in honore habucrit necesse est iâ—sdem rebuâ— consentaneam reliquorum ciuium sententiam esse Aristotle Polit. l. 2. c. 9. p. 140. Nemo suos haet est aulae natura potentis sed Domini mores Caesaria nus habâ—t Martial Epigram l. 9. Epigr. 61. b Honestissimum â—st maiorum vâ—â— stigiasequi recte si praecesserim Plinie Epist. lib. 5. Epist 8. c Bishop Hall Epist. Decad 1. Epist â— * King Charles * See the Authors quoted in the 2. 3. Thesis next ensuing as punctuall to this purpose 2 Anti-Arminian Assertion 2. the constant proued to bee and received Doctrine of the Church of England * Henry the 8. * Edwa. the 6. * Queene Mary * Queene Elizabeth * So is he stiled by â— Hall Epist. decadâ— 1. Epist. 7. * B. B. Hall Epist Decad 1. Epist. 7. * See his Religion professed by the ancient luth p. 8. 9. accordingly The third Anti-Arminian position proued * See page 8. 9. * Lectâ—ra 1. De Absoluto Decreto sect 10 p. 25. * Henry the 8. * Edw the 6â— * Certe Regis auspicijsâ— a quae hic â—eges Oâ—onij postremoeius tempore docuiâ— cumque a menon peteretur tantum â—edessagitaâ—â—tur vtopuâ— extarâ—t acquie i. Queene Eliz. * King Iames. * King Charles The 4th Antâ— Arminian Conclusion ratified Peter Martyr Coment in Ro. 11. p. 96â— c. 5. p. 321. a Rom. 11. 5â— 7. c 9. 11. 13 1. 21. 23. 27 29. Mat. 11. 13 15. 16. Deut. 10. 15. c. 26. 18. Psal. 147. 19. 20. b Quicquid natura tradit aequale est omnibus statim Incertum est inequale quicquid ars tradit ex aequo venit quod natura
distribuit Seneca Epist. * Edward 6. Tom 2. 3. p. 249. 250. * King Iemes * King Charles a See Rom. 8. 29. 30. c. 11. 5. 6. 7. Eph. 1. 3. to 13. 2. Tim. 1. 9. c. 2. 19. 1. Thes. 5. 9. 2 Thes. 2. 13. 14. b Eph 1. 9. 11. c Rom 11. 36. Col. 1. 16. Reu. 4. 11. Pro. 16 4. 4. g Iob. 9. 5. to 13. Psal. 115. 3. Psal. 135. 6. Dan. 2. 21. c. 4. 25. 35. c. 5. 2â— 23. Pro. 22 1. Ionah 1. 14. Isay 46. 10. Reu. 4. 11. h Haback 1. 16 Mal. 1. 2. Psa. 44. 3. Isa. 63. 5 i Deu. 7. 6. c. 14. 1. c. 28. 16. Psal. â— 5. 4. Psa. 1. 7. 19. 20 2. Sam 7. 8. to 29. 1. Chr. 17. 21. 22. 23. Ester 6. c. 6. 7 8. 9. Mat. 13 11 c. 24. 40. 41. Ro 9 11. to 28. c. 11. 4. to 13. c. 8. 28. 29. 30 Iohn 6. 37 c. 10. 4. to 18. 26. 27. c 17. 6 to 13. Eph. 1. 2. to 1â— 2. Thes. 2. â— 13. Titusâ— 1. 2. Tim. 1. 9 c. 2. 19. k Ro. 2. 24. c. 6. 23. l Ro. 11. c. 6. Eph. 2. 8. 9. Titus 3. 5. De. gratia non erit gratia vllâ—â—odo nisi graâ—â— ita fuerit omni 〈◊〉 Aâ—gusâ— De peccato Originis cap. 2â— m Mat. 6. 10. Rom. 5. 21. Col. 3. 15. See my Perpetuity p. 203. 204. n Iohn 3. 8. Acts 1. 6. 7 8. o See my Petpetuity p Psal. 31. 15. Dan. 5. 31. Acts 17. 20. 2. Cro. 20. 6. Psa. 44. 3. Deu 9. 4. to 9. Psa. 115. 1. Ro. 16 39. 2. Cor. 3. 5 q Eph. 2. 1. to 7 r Iohn 15. 5. s Psa. 2. 13. t Isay 26. 12. v 2. Cor. 3. 5. x Iohn 6. 44. y 1. Cor. 4. 7. z 1. Cor. 15. 10. a Pro. 21. 1. Iob 9. 12. Dan. 5. 23. b See M. Bernard Rheemes against Rome p. 247. 10 252 c August De Corrept gratia cap. 10. 11. 12. d Mat. 10. 8. c. 13. 11. Acts. 5. 31. Ro. 5. 15. 16 17 c. â— 29. 1. Cor. 12. 8. 9 10. Eph. 2. 8. c 3. 8. c. 4 7. Iam. 1. 17. 1. Pet. 5. 10. e Gal. 5. 22. 23. Rom. 8. 23. f Frustra sem per oramus si in nostro arbitrio est faccre quod volumus Heir Aduers Pelagianos l. 2. c. 6. 3. See August De Bono Perseu c. 2. 23. g Rom. 3. 27. Eph. 2. 9. h Psal. 115. 1. Rom. 2â— 9. Eph. 1. 5 6 12. 14. Phil. 1. 11. h Canti 4. 12. i See Mar. 13. the whole chapter cap. 3. 12. c. 25. 32. to the end Iohn 11. 17. 8. 9. 11. chapters Eph. 1. 6. k Rom. 3. c. 5. l 7. l See Rom 4. 16. Iohn to 27 28. 2. Tim. â— 12. 1 Pet. 4. 5. 1. Cor. 2. 5. Tunc nostra cogitatio consirmatur quando omne quod agimus quasi supra stabilene solidâ— ssimaâ—â— petram Domini adiutorio deuoluâ—mus eique cuncta reputamus Heirom Aduers Pelagianos l. 3. c. 3. o 18 See Hierom Orosius contra Pelagianos August De Bono perseuerantiae cap. 2. and throughout his 7. Tom. part 2. p See Ro. 5. 8. 9. 10. c. 8. 32. where this argumentation is vsed q 1. Sam. 2. 25 Prou. 16 4. Mal. 1. 2. Isay 6. 9. 10. Mat. 13. 11. to 18 c. 7. 13. 14. c. 20. 16. Luke 16. 23. 24. Acts 14 16. Ro. 9. 11 to 30. c. 11. 2. to 11. Iohn 17. 12. Iude 4. r Isay 14. 24. 27. Num. 23. 19. 20. Psal. 33. 11. Ro 9 11. 1. Tim. 2 19. s Effectus â—onest Latior sua causa a Mat 7. 16. b Ezen 16. 44. c Mat. 7. 17. 18. d Iohn 3. 6. e Non â—â—â—tingit idem per idem esse simul fieri nihil est ergo sua ipsius causa ClemeÌ„ Alexandrinus Strom. lib. 7. p. 161. f Iohn 15. 4. 6. c 17. 2. c. 6. 53. 57 58 c. 11. 25 c. 14. 19. Ro. 6 8. Gal 2 20 c. 5 25. 1. Pet. 2 4. 5. 1 Iohn 5. 11. 12. 13. De spiritâ— Christi non viuit nisi corpus Christi quod est ecclesia August Tract 26. in Iohan. Epist. 50. * 〈◊〉 21. a Ro 9. 19. to 26. b Rom. 11. 33 O altitudo Petrus negat Latrocredit O altitudo Quaeris rationem ego expauescam altitudinem T is ratiocinare ego mirer Tu disputa ego credam AltitudineÌ„ video ad pro funditatem non peruenio Paulus dicit inscrutabilia sunt indicia eius tu scrutarivenisti Hic dicit Inuestiga biles suÌ„t viae eius tu inuestigare venisti si inscrutabilia scrutari inuestigabilia vestigare venisti crede iam perijsti August De Verbis Apost Ser. 20. Vid. lb. t Tu ipse qui perfectam Deo aequalem in hominibus iustitiam iactitas peccatorem te esse confiteris responde miâ—i velis an nolis carere peccato sivis quare iuxta sententiam tuaÌ„ non imples quod desideras sin autem non vis conteÌ„ptorem to praeceptorum Dei esse demonstras Si contemptor vtique peccator peccatori dixit Deus quare tu enarras iustitias meas c. Heirom Aduers Pelag. Ad Ctesiphontem cap. 4. m Acts 13. 16. Psa. 147. 19. 20 n Potest inquit esse sine peccato potest esse perfectus si voluerit quis enim Christianorum non vult esse sine peccato aut quis perfectioneÌ„ accusat sisufficit â—i velle statim sequitur posse si velle praecesserit nullusque Christianorum est qui nolit esse sine peccato omnes ergo sine peccato erunt quia vtique omnes cupiunt esse sine peccato HeiroÌ„ Aduers Pelagianos Ad Ctesiphontem cap. 4. * Luk. 13. 2â— * Natura non suscipit magâ—â— minus * Idem qua ideÌ„ semper facit idem Kecker System Log. lib. 1. c. 14. p. â— 24. The fift Anti-Arminian Position proued Henry the 8. * Edw. the 6. * See the Epistle to Bishop Latimer his Sermons * Queene Eli. * King Iames. * See Animaduersio in Tâ—oÌ„psoni Diatr bamâ— cap. 4. * King Charles a Hebr. 2 9. 2. Cor. 5. 14. 15. 1. Iohn 2 2. 1. Tim. 2. 4. 6. b Iohn 10. 11. 15. 17. c. 15. 1â— c Iohn 17. 9. d Acts 20. 28. Ephes. 5. 25 26 27. e Eph. 1. 4. 6. 7. Ro. 8. 33. 34. 1. Pet. 1. 2. 18. f Isay 53. 10. 11. c. 10. 22. 23. Ro. 9. 27. 29. c. 11. 26. g Mat. 1. 21. Lukeâ— 54 68. Isay 46. 13. Psal. 46. 13. h Isay 1 27 c. 28 16 c. 46. 13 c. 50. 20. Rom 11 26. i Iohn 11. 52. k Eph. 5. 25. to 30. l Rom. 9 33. Ioh 3 14 15 16. m Heb. 5 9 c. 7. 15. n Isay 53 10. 11. Mat. 20 28 c. 26 28. n August Respâ—nsio ad Articulos sibi salso impositon Articul 1. o August Enchirâ—deo c. 103. Fulgetâ—â— De Incarnat Gratia Iesu Christi c. 31
Peter LuÌ„bard Distincti 46. p August De Correct Gratie cap. 14. Fulgentius De Incarnat Gratia Dom. Iesu Christi c. 31. q Sec. 1. r Fulgentius De Incarnat Gratia Dom. Iesu Christi c. 31. August De Natura Gratia cap. 41. De Nuptijs concupiscentia l. 2. c. 27. Contra. Iulianum l. 6. c. 12. De Praedestâ—â—â—al one Saâ—â—clorum cap. 8. s Mar. 16 15 16. Titus 2. 11. 12. 1 Tim. 2. 4. Col. 1. 6. 23. t Phil. 2 7 8. He. 2 14. 16â— 17 u 2. Tim. 2. 25 Ro. 11. 1 to 8 â— Tim 2. 4. x Ro. 8 29 to 35. lam 1 18. Hebr. 12. 22 23. 24. y Heb. 2. 16. 17. z Gal. 3. 22. 24. 89. cap. 4. 4. to 8. a See Mat. 13. Gal. 1 2. Reu. 2 3. b Mat. 13 24 to 33. c Mat. 3. 12. d Mat. 25. 32. 33. e Mat. 13. 7. He. 6. 4. f Mat. 13. 5. g Ps. 1 19. 119. h 2. Sa. 23. 6. i Iohn 17. 12. k Mat. 7. 6. Phil. 3 2. 2. Pet 2. 22. Reu. 22. 15. l 2. Pet. 2. 22. Psa. 49. 12. 10. l 2. Pet. 2. 22. Psa. 49. 12. 10. m Reu. 21. 27. * See God no Imposter n 1. Cor. 15. 21. 22. o Phil. 2. 7. to 11. Rom. 14. 9. 10. 11. * 2. Tim. 4. 8. Iames 1. 12. Obiection Answer y 1. Tim. 2. 4. z Heb. 2. 9. a Rom. 2. 12. 14. 15. Iohn 9. 41. c. 15. 22. Acts 14. 16. 17. c. 17. 30. 31. b Mar 16. 16. Iohn 3 â— 16. 18. 6. c Gal. 5 â— 4. Iohn 3. 18. 36 Mat. 16. 16. Eph. 2 â— 2 12. d Acts 2. 37. 8. c 3â— 19 c. 16. 30. 21. c. 22. 16. 2. Cor. 5. 20. g Gen. 22 1 to 19. Heb. 11 17. 18. 19. h Gen. 22 16. 17. i Ionah 3. 4. 5. k Exo. 33. 19. Ro. 9. 15. 17. l 2. Cron. 20. 20. Iuke 24. 25. Gal. 6. 16. Iohn 10. 21. 2. Pet. 1. 19. The 6. Anti-Arminian position proued Henry the 8. * Edward 6. * Queene Eli. * King Iames. * King Charles a Psal. 51. 10. 2. Cor. 5. 17. b Rom. 1. 16. 1. Cor. 1. 18. c. 4. 5. 2 Cor. 4. 7. Eph. 1. 19. 20 c Eph. 1. 19. 20. cap. 2. 1. 5. 6. Rom. 6. 4. 5. d Ro 15. 13. 19 Ep. 3. 20. 1 The. i. 5. 2. The. 1. 11 2. Tim. 1. 7. 8. e 2 Cor. 12. 9. Eph. 6. 10. 2. Pet. 1. 3. 16. f Facit voâ—enteâ— ex nolentibus Deus Inclinat corum corda vt hoc velint habeÌ„s sine dubis huÌ„anorum cordium quo placeret inclinandoruns omnipotentissimam potestate August De Praedest Sanct. lib. c. 8. 20. De Corrept Gra. tia cap. 14. g 2. Cor. 3. 18. Pro. 21. 1. h Iohn 17. 2. Mat. 28. 18. Ps. 19. i Mat. 11. 5. Iohn 11. 44. k Lu. 5. 13. 24-25 Mat. 10. 5. l Mat. 8. 26. 27 Mar 7. 37. m Lu. 4. 35. 36 n Mar. 5. 8. to 13. o 2. Ch. 20. 6. Phi. 2. 10-11 * See Master Carpenters Achithephel London 1629. p. 25. to 35. Obiect Answer p Acts 2. 37. to 42. q v. 52. Mat 23. 34. 35. 1. Thes. 2. 16. r Enchirideon cap. 97. s Lib. 1. Distinacio 46. t t Sec Iohn 7. 1. 8. u Iohn 9. 22. x Mat 4. 18. to 23. c. 9. 9. Mar. 1. 16. to 21. c. 2. 14. The 7th Anti-Arminian proposition confirmed * Henry the 8 * Edward 6. * Queene Eli. * All these are collected and set out by Thysius Hardrouici 1613. * King Iames. * King Charles * Declaration against Vorstius p. 15. 18. 19. 16. 35. The Church of Ireland a Elegit nos in Christo ante constitutioneÌ„ musde praedestinatione seilicet aeterna non creatione temporaria sed vocatione gratuita vel indebita gratia c. Sermo SaÌ„cti Galli habitus Constantiae Bibliobeeca patruns Tom. 6. part 2 p. 714. A. B. b Sedulius in Romanos 9. in Ephes. 1. 2. c Claudius lib. 1. in Mathew The Church of Scotland * This is bound vp at the end of the Harmonie of Confessions The Church of England a For which read Bede Ecclesia Hist. lib. 1. cap. 10. 17. 21. b Expositio in Romanos 5 8. 9. 11. in Eph. 1. 2. in 2. Tim. 1. 9. c. 2. 19. in 1. Pet. 1. c Expositio in Rom. 5. c. 8. 19. to 3â— in Eph. 1. 1. to 11. in 2. Tim 1. 9. 2. 19. d De Causa Dei l. 1. â— 3. where our points are learnedly discussed e See Surius Concil Tom. 3. p. 91â— 919. a Here Barrets fore-recited Recantation is iustified b The Doctrine of the Church of England then was against Arminians Baroe Ergo. now c The Arti. of Lambheth then were coÌ„posed by the coÌ„mon coÌ„sent of the Vniuersity of Cambridge d To wit The Articles of Lambheth e The Arti. of LaÌ„bheth therefore in the iudgement of these Heads containe in them the ancieÌ„t receiued vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England not any nouel or singular opinions f The Arti. of Lambheth were then receiued and approued by the Vniuersity of Cambridge where they then likewise printed * The Vniuersity Vice-Chancellor Heads of Cambridge vpon their receite of the Artic. of Lambheth restrained men from preaching Arminianisme therfore they were inforce credit with them g Arminianisme was then reputed corruption h Arminianisme theÌ„ was not only displeasinâ— to the heads but likewise to the whole Vniuersity i Arminianisme is then contrary tâ— the Doctrine of the Church of England agreâ—able to Popery k I would our heads in our Vniuersities out Bishops and Clergie were as carefull and zealous in this nature now as these were then l These heads were no Arminians m Anti-Arminianisme theÌ„ is the truth yea the ancieÌ„t and prâ—fessed Doctrine of our Church n Arminianisme is then but a Bridge or Vsher vnto Popery and a meanes to draw Subiects from the Kings allegeance o Anti-Arminianismei the ancient receiued Religion of the Vniuersity of Cambridge and the Church of England and shall we now reiect or quaestion it p Anti-Arminianisme was thâ—n made no Quaere amoÌ„g the heads of Cambridge as it is now q Arminianisme was then an Error it was then it is now the fore-runner nurse mother of Popery this their now our experience witnesse * Hardrouici 1613. * Responsio ad Notas Bogermâ—mi pars 2. c. 24. p. 566. to 570. * And doe we not find it so * And is it not then dangerous for our King State to tollerate it * See page 42 to 48. * See p. 54. 55 69. 126. 127. * These Lectures are dedicated to our Kings Maiestie then Prince of Wales and so are Doctor Prideaux his Lectures following * Cygnea Cantio Octobris 9. 1595 P 15. 16. * Marke this passage well See Bishop Abbot in ThoÌ„psoni Diatribam Praefatio Lectori cap. 1. accordingly * Doctor Whitakers