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The faith of the Chvrch of England concerning Gods work on mans will pvblikely confirmed by the svbscriptions of all the famous martyrs, and divines thereof : faithfully gathered out of the authenticke records of the Chvrch / by Francis Tayler ...
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Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.
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Ghost doth regenerate and newly forme us to the endeavour of innocency and holinesse quest 173. which we call newnesse of life Faith is the gift of God quest 180. and a singular and excellent gift The Holy Ghost hath wrought faith in my heart by the preaching of the Gospel quest 249. CHAP. VIII Of the purification of the heart MOrall perswasion goes before any intent in man to purifie his owne heart If then this latter act of purifying the heart which must necessarily follow the intention of purging be attributed to God then must he needs doc more in the cenversion of a sinner then morally to perswade him to purge his owne heart Now that this act is ascribed to God the bookes can witnesse O God make cleane our hearts within us Short prayers after the Creed Letany From all blindnesse of heart from pride vaine-glory and hypocrisy from envy hatred and malice Good Lord deliver us Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit Coll. on circumcision of Christ that our hearts being mortified from all worldly and carnall lusts c. Create and make in us new and contrite hearts Coll. 1. day of Lent Coll. 3. on good Friday Coll. on Tuesday in Easter Have mercy upon all Jews Turkes Infidels and Hereticks and take from them all ignorance hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickednesse that we may c. Grant that we may be presented to thee with pure and cleane mindes Collect. on the Purif of the virgin S. Mary Coll. on S. Matthews day Coll. on S. Lukes day Hom. of Inform of them which take offence c. Part. 2. end Serm. for Rogat week Part. 3. Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires and inordinate love of riches May it please thee by the wholesome medicines of Lukes doctrine to heale all the diseases of our soules God therefore for his mercies sake vouchsafe to purifie our mindes through faith in his Sonne Jesus Christ and to instill the heavenly drops of his grace into our hard stony hearts to supple the same that we be not contemners and deriders of his infallible word In Gods Spirit shall we be meet vessels to receive the grace of Almighty God For it is he that purgeth and purifieth the minde by his secret working CHAP. IX Of the externall effect of grace IF the externall effects of grace come not altogether from the spirituall power put into us at the first nor from the perswasions of the Ministers but God is said to worke in us the deed as well as the will to doe well and we taught to pray to God for such effectuall grace as may produce good effects outwardly then it follows that the grace it self cannot be wrought in us onely by morall perswasion but must be wrought in us by divine operation Now whither the outward effects of grace be wrought by Gods assisting spirit or no let the authentick records of our Church speak O Lord open thou our lips Short prayers after the Lords Pr. Letany and our mouth shall shew forth thy praise That all Bishops Pastours and Ministers of the Church may both by their preaching and living set forth and shew true knowledge and understanding That it may please thee to give the Magistrates grace to execute Justice and to maintain truth Letany That it may please thee to give us an heart diligently to live after thy commandements Letany That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to heare meekly thy word Letany and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit That it may please thee to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit Letany to amend our lives according to thy holy word Grant that we evermore serve thee in holinesse and purenesse of living Prayer in the Letany before the prayer for the King Prayer for the King Prayer for the Bishops Coll. on 1. Sund. after Epiph. Coll. on 5. Sund. after Epiph. Coll. on 1. Sunday in Lent Coll. on Sun before East So replenish the King with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alway walk in thy way That Bishops and Curats and all Congregations committed to their charge may truly please thee poure upon them the continuall dew of thy blessing Grant that thy people which call upon thee may have grace and power faithfully to fulfill what they know they ought to do Lord we beseech thee to keep thy Church continually in the true Religion Give us grace to use such abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions Mercifully grant that we both follow the example of Christs patience Receive our prayers 2. Coll. on good Friday that every member of thy holy Congregation in his vocation and ministry may truly and godly serve thee As by thy speciall grace preventing us Collect. on Easter day thou didst put in our minde good desires So we beseech that by thy continuall help we may bring the same to good effect Grant that we may daily endeavour our selves Coll. on 2. Sund. after Easter Coll. on 3. Sund. after Easter Coll. on 1. Sunday after Trinity to follow the blessed steps of Christs most holy life Grant unto all them that be admitted into the fellowship of Christs religion that they may follow all such things as be agreeable to their profession Because the weaknes of our mortall nature can do no good thing without thee grant us the help of thy grace that in keeping of thy commandments we may please thee both in will and deed Grant us Lord we beseech thee Coll. on 9. Sund. after Trinity the Spirit to think and do alwayes such things as be rightfull that we which cannot be without thee may by thee be able to live according to thy will Almightie and mercifull God of whose onely gift it cometh Coll. on 13. Sund. after Trinitie that thy faithfull people do unto thee true and laudable service Because the frailtie of man without thee cannot but fall Coll. on 15. Sund. after Trinity Coll. on 17. Sund. after Trinity lead us to all things profitable to our salvation Lord we pray thee that thy grace may alwayes prevent and follow us and make us continually to be given to all goods works Lord we beseech thee to keep the Church in continuall godlinesse Coll. on 22. Sund. after Trinity that it may be devoutly given to serve thee in good works Grant unto us all Coll. on S. Andr. day that we being called by thy holy word may forthwith give over our selves obediently to fulfill thy holy commandements Grant that we may follow thy holy doctrin that Saint Paul taught Coll. on Convers of S. Paul Coll. on S. Barn Let us not be destitute of thy manifold gifts nor yet of grace to use them alway to
THE FAITH OF THE CHVRCH OF ENGLAND CONCERNING GODS WORK ON MANS WILL. PVBLIKELY CONFIRMED BY THE SVBSCRIPTIONS OF ALL the Famous Martyrs and Divines thereof Faithfully gathered out of the Authenticke Records of the CHVRCH By Francis Tayler B. in D. and Rector of CLAPHAM in SVRREY LONDON Printed by I. L. for Nicholas Bourne at the South entrance to the Royall Exchange 1641. TO Sir EDWARD DERING of Surenden-Dering in the County of Kent Knight and Baronet and one of the Knights chosen by that County to serve in the Commons House of Parliament SIR THat little interest I have in Kent was the first motive that incited me to desire your worships acquaintance And the report of your zeale for the establishing of Religion and our lawfull liberties encreased this desire The courteous entertainment and familiarity you have since vouchsafed me hath made me bold to present this ensuing Treatise to the view of the world under your protection whom God hath enabled to judge truly of it to defend it The truth is that of late years the Law and the Gospell have bin so dressed both in the Pulpit in the Presse that we neither knew what we beleeved nor what we had Our interest in heaven and in earth were like to be both alike unknowne unto us in a little time The Proverbe is Evill manners beget good Lawes So our good God can bring good out of will The Mystery of Babylon hath wrought among us by upholding the Arminian tenets under colour of pulling downe Puritanes to take away the faith of Protestants Andrews Bilson Whitakers Perkins Calvin Beza have beene strange names Peter Lumbard Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure have bin too familiar in our Vniversities and Pulpits The silence enjoyned in Pulpits and Presses hath burst out on the wrong side while the right side might neither speake nor write Our hope of correcting these disorders next under our great God and our most gracious Soveraigne is in the two Honourable Houses of Parliament Of one of which your Worship is a member My suit then is that your last workes may be better then your first and that as you have been a meanes to discover our by-paths so you will be an instrument to reduce us to our first love Let us know what we have beleeved that know not what wee doe beleeve If you please to move the Honourable House that the Records of our Church may be searched by certaine grave Divines and the writings of our elder and soundest Writers now out of date may be reviewed and a summe of our Religion ever since the reformation professed collected out of these I suppose it will be a great meanes to quiet our troubles and appease our differences at home and to regaine us a good opinion with other Churches abroad Some of which have thought so ill of us as that they have forbidden their young Students to come into England as I have heard from a young man of excellent parts who adventured to come hither being sent from Berne into Holland I have endeavoured to give some light to this businesse in this Treatise wherein I shew the judgement of our Church in one maine point upon which all or the most part of Arminianisme depends I could wish I might be a shoing-horne to draw on men better able to doe the like against all new opinions of Arminianisme Socinianisme and Popery which are thought to grow secretly among us and shew themselves by fits in Preaching and Printing I beseech Almighty God to incline the hearts of all to whom he hath given parts to further this great work of setling the grounds of our Religion by a sweet Harmony This will be for Gods glory the honour of our Church the good of our posterity and the stopping of the mouths of our Adversaries who trumpet out our dissentions for their owne advantage Sir my request is that you would favourably accept this small Present and that God would blesse it to the furtherance of the publike good So praying for the true well-fare of you and all yours I rest Clapham Febr. 20. 1641. At your Worships service in the Lord FRANCIS TAYLOR Fourteene books publikely allowed out of which all these proofes are taken 1. The Book of Common Prayer 2. The Book of Ordination 3. The Book of Articles with the Commenmentary of Mr. Thomas Rogers Chaplain to Archbishop Bankcroft 4. The first Book of Homelies 5. The second Book of Homelies 6. The Catechisme allowed by authoritie 7. Prayer on August 5. 8. Prayer on November 5. 9. The thanksgiving for the ceasing of the plague 1604. 10. Prayers for ceasing of the rainy weather 1613. 11. Prayers on the Kings day March 27. 12. Prayers in the Fast 1625. 13. The thanksgiving for the ceasing of the plague that yeere 14. Prayers in the Fast 1626. Fourteene heads to which all the proofs in this Treatise are to be referred 1. Our owne insufficiency to any good 2. Gods omnipotency shewed in our conversion 3. Gods speciall grace 4. Gods working in infants 5. The giving of internall grace to men 6. The receiving of grace 7. The internall effect of grace 8. The purification of the heart 9. The externall effect of grace 10. Gods governing us 11. Gods preserving us in godlinesse and from sinne 12. The progresse of the regenerate 13. The prayers of holy men 14. Gods grants To the Reader WOnder not Christian Reader that so much paines hath been taken to search the authenticke records of this our famous Church of England for the worke of God upon the will of man That over-large power given by the Adversary to the will of man hath been the navell-string whereby the misbegotten bratts of Arminianisme have beene nourished while they lay lurking in the wombe of nature It is in vaine to talke of predestination out of faith foreseene if there be no power in mans will to beleeve It is as if a Physitian should foresee that a man mortally sicke would of himselfe recover but give him nothing to recover him How can God foresee that such a man mill beleeve who hath no power to doe it unlesse God give it him Gods generall intention to save all men by Christ will not serve the turne unlesse there be in every man a power to apply Christs death unto them Otherwise it is like Physicke prepared for a dead man that cannot take it To say that faith is wrought in us onely by Gods morall swasion is ridiculous if it be not in our power to doe as we are exhorted in all things To teach that Gods work in mans conversion is such as may be frustraed of the saving effect by mans will resisting when God hath done as much as he nseth to doe in regenerating men is absurd unlesse it be left every way indifferent to man to beleeve or not to beleeve and he have power indifferently to doe either It seeme as strange to affir me that the regenerate may totally fall from grace unlesse he