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A10180	The Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme VVhere in 7. anti-Arminian orthodox tenents, are euidently proued; their 7. opposite Arminian (once popish and Pelagian) errors are manifestly disproued, to be the ancient, established, and vndoubted doctrine of the Church of England; by the concurrent testimony of the seuerall records and writers of our Church, from the beginning of her reformation, to this present. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1629 (1629)	STC 20457; ESTC S115281	150,664	200

will either euade or else withdraw and retract his euidence when he comes to triall as he is a principal in the present controuersie so no competent Iudge or Witnesse so he hath beene 4. seuerall times impeached by the high Court of Parliament for giuing false testimony in the points in Issue besides his testimony is wauering dubious and repugnant to it selfe and it hath beene counterpleaded by diuers of our Church and generally disclaimed by most as false and spurious Therefore it doth but weaken yea betray their cause and strengthen oures The last of these being transported beyond himselfe with metaphisicall Contemplations to his owne infamy and his renowned Mothers shame I meane the famous Vniuersity of Oxford who grieues for his defection from whose duggs he neuer suckt his poysonous Doctrines as his euidence is intricate and obscure beyond the reach or discouery of ordinary capacities so it hath beene blanched and blasted by a Parliament examination excepted against by the Conuocation house answered by some disanowed by most of our Diuines his single testimony therefore especially in his owne particular case where he cannot be both a party and a witnesse too makes nothing for their title to our Church These are the only euidences and Authors to my knowledge that our Arminian Tenents can produce to interest them in our Church and these all circumstances being well confidered make flat against them since our Chuch hath vtterly disauowed and distasted them reiecting yea condemning these their writings as diametrally opposite to her established Doctrines If any Arminian can produce any other English Writers whom our Church approues to patronize these errors I shall be willing to be informed of them for my owne part I neuer met with any but with these I confesse that some would wrest Bishop Hooper to the contrary in the point of Reprobation and vniuersall redemption but in truth he is for vs not against vs in these very points if rightly apprehended howeuer he is euidently for vs in the rest But admit he were not yet he is but one his singular opinion therefore will not preiudice vs since we haue an whole Century of better more punctuall witnesses for to backe vs. Thirdly our Church hath beene so farre from reputing these her established and receiued Doctrines that she hath conuented censured such as oppugners of her Doctrine and disturbers of her peace who haue hitherto published or patronized them in their Bookes or Sermons witnesse the solemne Conuiction and Recantation of Barret Baro and others in the yeere 1595. they being the first that broached them in our Church witnesse the Recantation of Master Sympson in Cambridge in King Iames his latter time and the late conuention of one Brookes in Oxford for broaching these Arminian Tenents witnesse the proceedings in Parliament against Master Mountagues and Iacksons Arminian Bookes which are generally distasted throughout the Kingdome and can any then be so shamelesly audacious as now for to auerre them to be the vndoubted established or receiued Doctrines of our Church Fourthly the whole Armie streame and torrent of the fore-recited learned Authors of our Church both of ancient moderne and present times haue alwayes constantly professedly oppugned them as directly opposit to the established receiued Doctrines of the Church of England as stigmatical damnable old-condēned Errors first hatched by Pelagius thē nursed by his Followers fomented by Demi-Pelagians reuiued propagated by Popish Schoolemen and since that abetted by Pseudo-Lutherans Socinians Anabaptists and Arminians sects branded and condemned in our Church and can we then bee so stupendiously so damnably absurd as to affirme or iudge them the vndoubted the embraced Doctrines of our Church Certainely that which hath no Records no Euidences no authorized Writers of our Church to patronize it all of them to oppugne it that which our Martyrs neuer sealed but cancelled with their blood our first reformers neuer planted but displanted in our Church our Diuinity Professors neuer iustified but condemned in our Vniuersity Schooles that which all our Authors neuer patronized but constantly refelled as a branded Error in their writings that which both our Church and Vniuersities haue neuer constantly affirmed but solemnly enioyned men to recant as expresly contrary to the professed and resolued Doctrine of our Church cannot be the Doctrine of the Church of England But this is the case of all the fore-mentioned Arminian Errors witnesse all the praemises Therefore they cannot bee the professed and resolued Doctrine of the Church of England let Arminians vainely boast and babble to the contrary what they will Lastly that which sundry ancient Councels Fathers and moderne Synods haue positiuely censured and condemned as a pestilent dangerous and grace-destroying Error and not so much as one ancient Orthodox Councell Father or moderne Synod euer ratified as the ancient Catholicke and vndoubted truth can neuer be reputed the professed established and vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England But sundry ancient Orthodox Councels Fathers and moderne Synods haue positiuely censured and condemned these very Arminian Tenents as a pestilent dangerous and grace-destroying Error and not so much as one ancient Councel Orthodox Father or moderne Synod euer ratified them as the ancient Catholicke vndoubted truth Therefore they can neuer be reputed the professed established and vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England The affirmatiue part of my Assumption the Councels Fathers and Synods quoted in the margent with sundry others which I haue at large recited in my Perpetuity of a Regenerate mans estate page 213. to 270. to which I shall referre you doe fully warrant For the negatiue part let our Arminians disproue it if they can since I must needs affirme that I know not so much as one ancient Councell or moderne Synod no nor yet one orthodox Father of the Primatiue Church vnlesse Faustus an absolute Semi-Pelagian though in shew a professed Anti-Pelagian may be reputed orthodox when as both Protestants and Papists haue hitherto branded him as vnsound and Haeterodox in his Tenents that did euer yet maintaine or iustify these Semi-Pelagian or Arminian Errors If then they were neuer the receiued or approued Doctrines but the branded Haeresies of the Primitiue Church if they were neuer yet confirmed and setled in any Christian Church by any one nationall or generall Councell whether ancient or moderne though they haue beene censured and condemned by diuers they cannot be the established the vndoubted Doctrines of the Church of England You haue he●re good Christian Readers both heard and seene the seuerall Euidences and Witnesses which Anti-Arminianisme and Arminianisme can produce to intitle themselues vnto the Church of England to which they both of late l●y claime You haue seene the Articles of England Lambheth and Ireland the Common prayer Booke and Homelies established in our Church The authorized Catechisme of King Edward the 6. The Questions and Answers of Predestination The Synod of Dort The

which must needes be accompanied with the very wrath and curse of God because it nullifies his fauour and disauowes his grace hath crept into them It is but a bridge an vsher vnto Popery and all Popish Ceremonies which winde themselues into our Church apace if Parliament complaints prooue true by their Arminian Agents as some new erected Altars Images Tapers and late vsurped Altar-adorations with the reuolt of sundry Arminians vnto Popery doe experimentally testifie O therefore as we tender the peace and safety of our Church and State the supportation soueraignty or aduancement of Gods Grace the peace the comfort or saluation of our endeared soules the perpetuity and perennious preseruation of our graces or the prosperity and happinesse of our declining Nation As wee desire the subuersion of the P●pall or Spanish Monarchy the defeatment of all Iesuiticall combinations against our Church or State the ouerthrow and extirpation of Popery the continuance safety growth and flourishing of our precious Protestant Religion which Arminianisme and Popery vndermine almost as fast at home as Popish Policies or Spanish Forces doe abroad let vs now at 〈◊〉 lay downe these grosse Arminian Errors which haue constantly beene brandid censured and condemned by all the Euidences yea Writers of our Church embracing from and with our hearts and iudgements these Orthodox sweet and gracious Anti-Arminian Dogmaticall Conclusions heere recorded wherein our happinesse comfort and saluation rest as the ancient established professed and vndoubted Doctrines of our Church as this whole Antithesis infallibly prooues them that so our Church and Kingdome which being diuided against themselues by these distracting opinions and other ciuill dissentions cannot stand may once more flourish in these declining turbulent and perplexing dayes and repossesse that former vnitie safety honour peace and glory which wee all desire Wee all know in what dangerous and fickle times wee liue We see the generall desolations and lamentable ouertures of Gods Church abroade Wee see Religion sincking Grace decaying Popery triumphing Arminianisme spreading Heresies and new Errors springing and getting head in euery corner We see Nation rising vp against Nation Kingdome against Kingdome Church against Church yea we may behold one Church one state one People one House yea the Members of one and the selfe same Body diuided against it selfe Looke we vpon all the Christian World abroad vpon our selues at home wee can behold nought else but the fatall Symptomes and dismall Characters of an almost ineuitable and neere-approaching confusion O therefore let vs now cast Anchor and take Sanctuary in Heauen Let vs draw neere and sticke fast vnto our God let vs cleaue inseparably to these Anti-Arminian Conclusions and Doctrines of our Church which will be our onely cordialls our all sufficient contentment our best security support and comfort in the midst of all the ruines calamities and miserable perplexities which befall the World If our Religion be but safe our Church our State our Goods our Liberties our very soules and bodies all we haue are then secure if we hold but this all else is sure if we part with this then farewel all let vs neuer expect one halcion happy day or houre more Whiles Religion flourished and grew great among vs wee were then the head of Nations the dread the honour the mirrour and paradise of the World since the Tares of Popery and Arminianisme haue sprung vp within our Church since we haue halted and declined in our Faith wee haue beene the very obloquie scorne derision and taile of all our neighbour nations Plagues haue deuoured Diuisions weakned discontents decay of Trade with sundry other grieuances impouerished vs at home Enemies tempests vnskilfulnesse and ouer-reaching Policies consumed defeated and dishonoured vs by Sea by Land abroad All our counsels haue beene infatuated our designes frustrated our hopes dashed our prayers vnanswered our Parliaments broaken vp in discontent the curse and vengeance of God hath clinged close vnto vs to our great destruction and for all this we see we finde we feele and I pray God wee may be truely sensible of it ere it bee too late Gods anger is not yet turned away but his hand is stretched out still against vs because wee reuolt from him and our long-professed and established Religion more and more Let vs therefore now at last remember whence we are falne and doe our first workes Let vs hold fast our first professed Religion constant to the ende VVe were borne we were baptized bred and nursed in it we haue growne vp safely wee haue prospered happily vnder it we haue hitherto liued in it by it Let vs now die in it yea with it for it if God calls vs to it lest we all suddenly perish consume and die eternally without it because we haue thus backe-slided from it Farewell The true endeauourer of Religions safety and our Churches Vnitie WILLIAM PRYNNE Anti-Arminianisme OR THE CHVRCH OF Englands old Antithesis to new ARMINIANISME IT is the aduice and counsell of an Ancient Father for the suppression of such Haeresies or vpstart Errors which seeke to shrowde themselues vnder the fraudulent couert of wrested and mis-applied Scriptures to examine them by to encounter them with the opinions and vnanimous resolutions of those Ancient godly Fathers who haue either dyed in Christ or suffered for Christ that so they may bee manifestly discouered without ambiguity and finally condemned without reuocation or reuiewe This Fatherly and graue Aduice of his I haue made choice to follow in the discouery both of the nouelty and falsenesse of those Arminian Tenents which would willingly harbour themselues vnder the roofe and Patronage of the Church of England whose Doctrines they of late praetend they are The issue which the Arminians and Anti-Arminians if I may so stile them are now come to ioyne and on which they must receiue their final doome is onely this Whether the Arminian or Anti-Arminian Positions be the receiued and vndoubted Doctrines of the Church of England The onely Euidences and Grand-Iury-men to try this Issue are the Articles Homilies Common-prayer Booke and the authorized Writings of all the Learned Orthodox Writers of the Church of England from the beginning of Reformation to this present If all these suffragate or passe their Verdict for the Arminians and their erronious Assertions let iudgement then be openly pronounced for them we will foorth with yeeld vp to them without any more dispute both cause and right at once But if all or either of these giue euidence against them as in truth they doe If they all yeeld vp a ioynt vnanimous verdict for Anti-Arminians and their authentique Positions I hope they shall then receiue not only a speedy and finall iudgement on their side which no subsequent Reuiew nor writ of Error shall hencefoorth reuerse but likewise a Parliamentary Decree to establish them in their ancient and long-continued peaceable possession without disturbance for all future times For triall of this waighty

And he changeth the times and seasons hee remoueth Kings and setteth vp Kings c. cap. 4. 34. 35. And I blessed the most High and praysed him that liueth for euer whose dominion is an euerlasting dominion and his Kingdome is from generation to generation And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and he doth according to his will in the armie of Heauen and among the Inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say vnto him what dost thou cap. 5. 23. The God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy wayes hast thou not glorified Acts 5. 38. 39. But if this counsell be of God yee cannot ouerthrow it least happily yee be found euen to fight against God cap 6. 10. And they were not able to resist the wisedome and the spirit by which he spake cap. 11. 17. For as much then as God gaue them the like gift as he did vnto vs who beleeued on the Lord Iesus Christ who was I that I could withstand God Ioh. 5. 21. For as the father raiseth vp the dead quickneth them euen so the Sonne quickneth whom he will Iohn 6. 37. 44. All that the Father giueth me shall come vnto me No man can come vnto me except my Father who hath sent me draw him Rom. 8. 28. 30. To them that are called according to his purpose Moreouer whom he did praedestinate them he also called whom he called them he iustified whom he iustified them he glorified cap. 9. 19. 20. 21. Thou wilt say then vnto me why doth he yet complaine for who hath resisted his will Nay but O Man who art thou that disputest against God shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus hath not the Potter power ouer the clay of the same lumpe to make one Vessell to honour and an other to dishonour c. cap. 11. 7. 36. The election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded For of him and for him and to him are all things 2. Tim. 1. 9. who hath saued vs and called vs with an holy calling according to his owne purpose and grace which was giuen vs in Christ Iesus before the world began 2. Cor. 10. 4. 5. For the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling downe of strong holds casting downe Imaginations and euery high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bringeth into captiuity euery thought to the obedience of Christ. 1. Cor. 10. 22. Doe we prouoke the Lord to iealousie are we stronger then he Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able euen to subdue all things to himselfe He that shall vnfainedly meditate on all these seuerall texts of Scripture together with Ephe. 1. 19. 20. That you may know what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to vsward who beleeue according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his owne right hand in the heauenly places cap. 2. 1. 5. 6. And you hath hee quickned who were dead in trespasses and sinnes and hath raised vs vp together and made vs to sit together in heauenly places with Christ. Iohn 5. 25. Verily verily I say vnto you that the houre is comming and now is that the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall liue Rom. 4. 17. God who quickneth the dead and calleth those things that be not as though they were Phil. 2. 13. It is God that worketh in you both the will and the deed of his good pleasure can neuer once conceit that any of the Elect can either finally or totally resist the inward regenerating and renewing grace of Gods spirit in the worke and Act of their conuersion in which they are meerely passiue The conuersion of a soule to God is a new creation it is wrought not by bare alluring obiects or reasons praesented to the vnderstanding as Arminians dreame but by the Almighty power of God by the selfe same power that raised Christ Iesus from the dead by the effectuall and mighty power of the holy Ghost and by the soueraigne power and authority of Christ himselfe and can any elected persons heart be found so stupendiously obdurate as to withstand the whole shocke and power of the Trinity when they come with a resolution to conuert and change it not to force it Certainely that God who made the hearts and wils of men at first can change them at his pleasuro that blessed Sauiour of ours who hath power ouer all flesh to rule and order them at his will who when he was here on earth had so much soueraignty and Diuinity in him as to raise the dead to heale the sicke the blind and lame to allay the raging stormes the waues and windes at pleasure to command the very Deuils yea legions of Deuils with authority and power and to eiect and dispossesse them by his meere command he that can controll the very world it selfe and all the creatures both in Heauen Earth or Hell can easily conuert and turne the hearts of all his children in a moment as he hath done alwayes hitherto there being not one of the Elect that did euer yet withstand his inward call without any difficulty or resistance If any obiect that of Acts 7. 51. Yee stifnecked and of vncircumcised hearts and eares you haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost with that of Mat. 23. 37. How often would I haue gathered thy children as the Hen gathereth her chicken vnder her winges and ye would not which ●eeme for to oppugne this Conclusion To the first of these I answer First that this text speaks onely of the reprobate and stiffenecked Iewes of vncircumcised hearts and eares who cannot but resist the externall profers of Gods grace not of the elect and chosen of God among the Iewes three thousand of which were conuerted at one Sermon Secondly the spirit which these Iewes did here resist was the spirit of prophesie not of regeneration it was the word of the holy Ghost vttered by those prophets which they slew and stoned ver 52. which sounded onely in their eares not the renuing and regenerating operation of Gods spirit which wrought effectually in their hearts Thirdly this was onely an externall resistance of the holy Ghost in others not an intrinsecall opposition of him or of his operations in themselues therefore it s nothing to the point in quaestion To the second I answer First that Christ here speaks only of a gathering of them by the externall ministry of his Prophets and messengers which they stoned as the former part of the verse O Hierusalem Hierusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are