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A20668	The collegiat suffrage of the divines of Great Britaine, concerning the five articles controverted in the Low Countries VVhich suffrage was by them delivered in the synod of Dort, March 6. anno 1619. Being their vote or voice foregoing the joint and publique judgment of that Synod.; Suffragium collegiale theologorum Magnae Britanniae de quinque controversis remonstrantium articulis. English.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Synod of Dort (1618-1619)	1629 (1629)	STC 7070; ESTC S110099	65,063	183

alone that man should come unto him And this grace he placed in him in whom wee also have obtained this our lot who were predestinated according to his purpose THE THIRD POSITION FAith Perseverance and all gifts of grace leading home unto salvation are the fruits and effects of Election WE acknowledge in some men certaine gifts of grace which are to be reduced to the common supernaturall providence of God But those gifts which have an infallible connexion with glory and doe worke effectually for the obtaining thereof as justifying faith and persevering are the very effects of eternall election Act. 13.48 As many as were ordained to eternall life beleeved Tit. 1.1 The faith of the Elect of God 1 Pet. 1.5 We are kept by the power of God by faith unto salvation By this predestination of the purpose of God they are faithfull who are fore-ordained unto eternall life The predestination of God is the preparation of grace and grace is the very effect of predestination When therefore God promised to Abraham that the Gentiles should beleeve in his seed he made not this promise with respect to the power of our will but out of his owne predetermination for hee promised that which hee himselfe would doe and not what men would doe Hath he not said Not of workes but of him that beleeveth Hee hath taken wholly even this from man that he might attribute the whole to God Let us understand the vocation by which they are made the Elect not as if they were chosen because they had beleeved but they are chosen that they may beleeve For if they were therefore chosen because they had beleeved they had chosen him first be beleeving in him that they might so come to be chosen These gifts of God are given to the Elect who are called according to the purpose of God of which kinde of fruits these are namely both to begin to beleeve and to persevere in faith to the end of this life THE FOVRTH POSITION THe decree of Election is definite not conditionall it is irrevocable and immutable so that the number of the Elect can neyther be increased nor yet diminished IN predestination the meanes to salvation are no lesse absolutely decreed than salvation it selfe For howsoever salvation in the execution thereof dependeth upon the conditionall use of the means yet the will of God electing unto salvation is not conditionall incomplete or mutable because hee hath absolutely purposed to give unto the Elect both power and will to performe those very conditions namely repentance faith obedience and perseverance For the Decree of God predestinating cannot bee conceived after this forme I will choose Peter to eternall life if it shall so happen that he doth beleeve and persevere But rather after this manner I doe choose Peter unto eternall life which that he may infallibly obtaine I will give unto him persevering faith 2 Tim. 2.19 The foundation of God standeth sure God knowes who are his Rom. 9.11 That the purpose of God might remaine according to election Rom. 11.28 29. Beloved according to Election For Gods gifts and calling are without repentance This adoption of the sonnes of God this fulnesse of the Gentiles was foreknowne and preordained in Christ which from the beginning unto the end is built up with liuing and choice stones Of these stones not one is cast out not one lessened not one snatched away Erroneous Opinions or unsound Doctrines concerning Election which we reject THE FIRST THat the Decree by which God hath purposed in Christ and for Christ to save those which repent and beleeve unto the end is the whole and entire decree of predestination unto salvation TRue indeed this is Gods decree declaratorie of salvation to be proclaimed to all equally and without difference as also prescribing the manner by which the elect are to be brought to salvation But in this the whole fabricke of Gods praedestination set downe in the holy Scriptures is not explained For the decree of predestination doth inferre some certain particular persons to be predestinated those being knowne to God and severed from others by this very decree of Election Matt. 20.16 Many are called but few are chosen Rom. 11.5 A remnant according to Election 2 Tim. 2.19 The Lord knowes who are his But the above-named decree doth predestinate no mā de facto or by certaine event it severeth none frō the rest it writeth no name in the booke of life Though such a decree bee established yet might all men notwithstanding bee reprobates God might neither have now nor haue had nor have hereafter any Church upon earth Which absurditie being granted not only that promissory decree might faile Matt 28.30 I am with you alwaies unto the end of the world but even the whol Scriptures might be annihilated which doth necessarily suppose a church in being to which and for which the Scripture was indited Lastly if there were no other decree of predestination then this Christ himselfe should not be appointed by any fore-going decree of God to be for certaine the head of the Church because to him there should be no members infallibly assigned neither could Christ be said infallibly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to have the preheminence as a King except there were given unto him by the positive decree of God some who were to be certainly his subiects When yet the Scripture doth no lesse intimate unto us the certaine and irrespective decree of God in making Christ our head King then it doth concerning his taking our flesh and suffering for us The Apostle Eph. 1. hauing set downe the mystery of our Redemption by Christs Passion Resurrection Ascension presently adds vers 22. as flowing from the same decree and gaue him to bee the head ouer all things to the Church which is his body Lu. 1.33 Of his kingdome there shall be no end Act. 2.30 God hath made him Lord. This predestination of the Saints is nothing else then Gods foreknowledge and preparation of those benefits by which they are most certainly freed whosoever are freed THE SECOND ERRORNEOVS OPINION THat the peremptory Election of particular persons is made upon the fore sight and consideration of their faith in Christ and of their perseverance in the same faith as upon a Condition fore-required in electing FAith foreseene and perseverance in faith doe follow the decree of vocation according to Gods good purpose But such vocation doth depend upon the foregoing decree of predestination Rom. 8.30 Those whom hee predestinated those he hath called Act. 13.48 As many as were ordained to eternall life beleeved 1. God foresees no man as persevering in faith and holinesse unto the last gasp but him whom he decreed by his foregoing will so to keepe but him whom he really guideth and directeth through his whole course of life and preserveth in the way of salvation by an operation and speciall protection flowing from Gods foresaid will Iohn 10.28 29. My sheepe shall