by any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore beene or may lawfully be exercised or vsed for the visitation of the Ecclesiasticall State and persons and for reformation order and correction of the same and of all manner of Haeresies Errors Scismes and Ecclesiasticall Abuses Offences and Enormities much more haue they Iurisdiction of these things themselues else they could not collate or transferre such Iurisdiction vnto others Is it then because the worthy iudicious members of our present Parliament want learning iudgement or sufficiencie to discerne of Spirituall Truthes to vnderstand the sense and meaning of our Articles which themselues long since confirmed to distinguish Popish and Arminian Errors from receiued from vndoubted Orthodox conclusions or because they are so barbarously illiterate or irreligiously ignorant as not to know the obuious professed established and long continued Doctrines of our Church which euery catechized Country Peasant or Schoole-boy can repeate Alas what English Spanish Romish spirit can be so impudently absurd so prodigiously intoxicated as thus to idioâ—ize yea quite vnchristen the Piety and all-sufficiencie of our selected Senate the most iudicious and supreame Counsell of our King and State Can any man who knowes their most accomplished abilities their dexterity and insight in Religion so much as once conceiue such a grosse stupidity or more then damnable and vnchristian ignorance in this very flower of our Church and Pillars of our State as that the proper sence of our receiued Articles or the long-continued plaine and oft-resolued Doctrines of our Church are yet kept sealed from them What is this but to brand them all for ignorants or to stitch the Colliers or Papists blinde implicite faith vpon them to beleeue onely as our Church beleeues and yet to know no distinct particular Tenents which she doth beleeue What but to aduance our Ecclesiasticall Commissioners aboue our Parliament in admitting them to bee competent and able Iudges of Haeresie Scisme and of the sence and meaning of our Articles when as the Parliament which confirmed them are not such and to denie that priuiledge of iudging Doctrines trying spirits prouing all things distinguishing the voyce of Christ and of his Spirit from the voyce of Strangers Theeues and false seducing Spirits to the prime and choysest of Christs Flocke which is common to inseparable from the very meanest of his Lambes and Sheepe If then Parliaments haue alwayes anciently intermedled with matters of Religion by a constant iust and Legall right If there bee now no sufficient disability either in the Members Iurisdiction Skill or requisite Abilities of our present Parliament to censure or examine the Violations of our established Articles and Religion or to settle protect define declare and ratifie the proper sense and meaning of our Articles and the vndoubted Doctrines of our Church I see no cause why any Clergy men vnlesse they are guilty of Sophisticating or betraying the Truthes and Doctrines of our Church and therefore feare the doome of Parliaments from which there is no euasion should quarrell or except against your pious progresse in matters of Religion which most of all concerne vs nor yet repine at Laicks as they do for writing in their iust defence This stumbling-blocke of Parlimentary Iurisdiction in causes of Religion which stickes and takes with many being thus in briefe remoued and your present Honourable proceedings in the examination of the innouations and violations of the ancient Religion and the resolued Doctrines of our Church absolued from the vniust exceptions of ignorant obnoxious or ill-affected Spirits who only censure and dislike them It may be here demanded what Doctrines what Religion are now to be established Surely no other but those Ancient Orthodox and Dogmaticall Conclusions which the Church of England since her Reformation hath alwaies constantly embraced ratified and defended as her owne but those especially which Popery and Arminianisme haue of late inuaded Yea but how may Parliaments infallibly discerne what Tenents are our Churches genuine Doctrines when as both sides lay equall claime and title to our Church Arminians now appealing to Her aswell as their Opposers For resolution to this Quaere I shall first of all take two things as vndoubted Theories First that the Church of England hath some certaine positiue particular established receiued yea resolued Doctrines which shee may truely call her owne in which all necessary Truthes especially such wherein the very marrow efficacy life and power of grace and all true Christian comfort doe subsist are actually euidently and fully comprehended Else it will ineuitably follow that as yet shee hath no sound Religion in her and is as yet no true no Christian Church Secondly that all these seuerall Doctrines are not onely cognoscible in themselues but likewise publikly indiuidually and distinctly known in our Church else all our Articles Preaching writing and Disputes together with the bloud shedde of our famous Martyrs and all Apologies for our Religion from the beginning of reformation to this present are in vaine and wee haue yet no other but an indefinite confused Religion an ambiguous implicit Popish Faith which in truth is no Religion no Faith at all and so our danger is our condemnation shall be greater then euer Sodomes or Gomorrahs were who neuer had such meanes such light as we These two irrefragable Conclusions being thus praemised This Quaere may be thus resolued The onely infallible way to determine to finde out the ancient the vndoubted Doctrines of our Church is to compare them with the Rules of triall The originall Touch-stone by which all Theologicall Conclusions must bee examined is the Scriptures and these together with the Ancient Fathers and approued Councels wee dare to challenge as our owne if the naked truth of our Assertions were the thing in Issue But our present inquirie being of a different nature to discouer the true Ancient Doctrines of our Church and distinguish them from pestilent vpstart Errors wee must heere proceed by other Triers euen the Articles Homilies Common Prayer Booke the publike Euidences Records and Declarations with the concurrent Testimony of all the learned Writers of our Church the onely Grand-Iury-men to try the best Euidences the sole Witnesses to proue the most impartiall and able Iudges to determine the Doctrines of our Church That which all these doe ioyntly cleerely fully vote confirme approue and testifie a Parliament may safely declare and ratifie to bee that which they all or most disclaime a Parliament may iustly censure not to bee the vndoubted and resolued Doctrine of our Church If then all these giue vp their ioynt and seuerall suffrages for our Anti-Arminian Conclusions If they all passe Sentence against their opposite Arminian Errors as this present Treatise will vndenably prooue them to haue done you may confidently declare resolue re-establish the one as being exile yea damne the other as not being the Ancient receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of our English Church And why should you now
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
working in due season and through grace they obey the calling they be iustified freely they be made sonnes of God by adoption they be made like the image of his onely begotten Son Iesus Christ they walke religiously in good workes and at length by Gods mercy they attaine to euerlasting felicitie But such as are not predestinated to saluation shall finally be condemned for their sinnes 16 The godly consideration of Predestination and our election in Christ is full of sweete pleasant and vnspeakeable comfort to godly persons and such as feele in themselues the working of the spirit of Christ mortifying the workes of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing vp their mindes to high and heauenly things as well because it doth greatly confirme and establish their faith of eternall saluation to be enjoyed through Christ as because it doth feruently kindle their loue towards God and on the contrary side for curious and carnall persons lacking the spirit of Christ to haue continually before their eies the sentence of Gods predestination is very dangerous 22 By one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death went ouer all men for as much as all haue sinned 23 Originall sinne standeth not in the imitation of Adam as the Pelagians dreame but is the fault and corruption of the nature of euery person that naturally is ingendered and propagated from Adam whereby it commeth to passe that man is depriued of originall righteousnes and by nature is bent vnto sinne And therefore in euery person borne into the world it deserueth Gods wrath and damnation 25 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 we haue no power to doe good workes pleasing and acceptable vnto God without the grace of God preuenting vs that we may haue a good will and working with vs when we haue that good will 26 Workes done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his spirit are not pleasing vnto God for as much as they spring not of faith in Iesus Christ neither doe they make men meete to receiue grace or as the Schoole Authors say deserue grace of congruitie yea rather for that they are not done in such sort as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they are sinfull 31 They are to bee condemned that presume to say that euery man shall bee saued by the Law or Sect which he professeth so that he bee diligent to frame his life according to that Law and the light of nature For holy Scripture doeth set out vnto vs onely the name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saued 32 None can come vnto Christ vnlesse it bee giuen vnto him and vnlesse the Father draw him And all men are not so drawne by the Father that they may come vnto the Sonne Neither is there such a sufficient measure of Grace vouchsafed vnto euery man whereby he is enabled to come vnto euerlasting life 33 All Gods Elect are in their time inseperably vnited vnto Christ by the effect all and vitall influence of the holy Ghost deriued from him as from the head vnto euery true member of his mysticall body And being thus made one with Christ they are truely regenerated and made partalâ—ers of him and aâ— his benefits 37 By iustifying â—aith wee vnderstand not onely the common beliefe of the Articles of Christian Religion and a perswasion of the trueth of Gods word in generall but also a particular application of the gracious promises of the Gospell to the comfort of our owne Soules whereby we lay hold on Christ with all his benefits hauing an earnest trust and confidence in God that hee will be mercifull vnto vs for his onely Sonnes sake So that a true beleeuer may bee certaine by the assurance of faith of the forgiuenesse of his sinnes and of his euerlasting saluation by Christ. 38 A true liuely iustifying faith and the sanctifying spirit of God is not extinguished nor vanisheth away in the regenerate either finally or totally THE BOOKE OF Common Prayer IN this Booke of Common prayer established by Act of Parliament in our Church there are sundry passages to prooue these seuerall Anti-Arminian Positions First that God from eternity hath freely of his own accord chosen out of mankinde a certaine select number of men which can neither bee augmented nor diminished whom he doth effectually call saue and bring to glory so that none of them can perish or fall off from him and that these onely are the true Church This Conclusion wee shall see confirmed by these seuerall passages And make thy chosen people ioyfull Almighty GOD which hast knit together the Elect in one Communion and fellowship in the mysticall body of thy Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord grant vs grace so to follow thy holy Saints in all vertuous and godly liuing c. Thirdly in God the holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect people of God Almighty God with whom do liue the spirits of them who depart hence in the Lord and in whom the soules of them that bee elected after they bee deliuered from the burthen of the flesh be in ioy and felicitie c. Wee beseech thee of thy gracious goodnesse shortly to accomplish the number of thine Elect c. O Almighty and mercifull Lord which giuest vnto thy Elect people the holy Ghost as a sure pledge of thy heauenly kingdome grant vnto vs this holy spirit that he may beare witnesse with our spirits that wee be thy children and heires of thy Kingdome and that by the operation of this spirit wee may kill all carnall lusts c. Honour and praise bee giuen vnto thee O Lord God almighty most deare Father of heauen for all thy mercies and louing kindnesse shewed vnto vs in that it hath pleased thee freely and of thine owne accord to elect and chuse vs to saluation before the beginning of the world c. Almighty God c. grant that all thy seruants which shall bee baptized in this Water may receiue the fulnesse of thy grace and euer remaine in the number of thy faithfull and elect children c. See the Collect on good Fryday on the first Sunday after the Epiphany and one the 2. 15. and 22. Sundaies after Trinitie to this purpose Secondly that there is no such free-will or vniuersall and sufficient grace giuen vnto all men by which they may conuert repent beleeue and be saued if they will and that it is Gods speciall preuenting grace which must change mens hearts and giue repentance faith and all other graces to them This Orthodoxe position which ouerturnes Free-will and vniuersall grace the very center and ground work of Arminianisme is aboundantly prooued by these ensuing Prayers
Wherefore wee beseech him to grant vs true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which wee doe at this present c O God make cleane our hearts within vs. O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all good workes doe proceed c. That it may please thee to giue vs an heart to loue and dread thee and diligently to walke after thy Commandements That it may please thee to giue vs true repentance and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our liues according to thy holy Word Though wee be tyed and bound with the chaine of our sins yet let the pittifulnesse of thy great mercy loose vs c. Almighty God giue vs grace that wee may cast off the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light c. O Lord raise vp thy power and come among vs and with great might succour vs that whereas by our sinnes and wickednesse wee be sore let and hindered thy bountifull grace and mercy may speedily deliuer vs c. See the Collects on the 1. 4. 5. Sundayes after the Epiphany O GOD create in vs new and contrite hearts c. Almighty God who doest see that of our selues wee haue no power to helpe our selues keepe thou vs both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our soules c. Almighty God wee humbly beseech thee that as by thy speciall grace preuenting vs thou doest put into our hearts good desires so by thy continuall helpe wee may bring the same to good effect God the strength of all those that trust in thee mercifully heare our prayers and because the weakenesse of our mortall nature can do no good thing without thee grant vs the helpe of thy grace that so we may please thee both in will and deede Lord of all power and might which art the onely author and giuer of all good things grasse in our hearts the loue of thy name increase in vs true Religion nourish vs with all goodnesse and of thy mercy keepe vs in the same Grant vs O Lord wee beseech thee the spirit to thinke and to doe alwayes those things as bee righteous that wee which cannot be without thee may by thee be able to doe according to thy will c. Lord wee pray thee that thy grace may alwaies preuent and follow vs and make vs continually giuen to all good workes O God for asmuch as without thee wee cannot please thee graunt that thy mercy may alwaies direct and rule our hearts See the 2. 6. 13. 15. and 22. Sundaie after Trinitie to the same effect Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts to keepe this Lawe Preuent vs O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious fauour and further vs with thy continuall helpe that in all our workes begunne continued and ended in thee c. My good childe know that thou art not able to doe these things of thy selfe nor to walke in the Commandements of God and to serue him without his speciall grace Almighty God who makest vs both to will and to doe the things that bee acceptable vnto thy Maiestie c. Turne vs O good God and so shall we be turned Thirdly that Christ Iesus dyed sufficiently for all mankinde but effectually for none but the Elect and true beleeuers who alone are saued by his death The sufficiency of Christs death for all mankinde is expressed in these seuerall places O God the Sonne redeemer of the World haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners Aboue all wee must giue humble and hearty thankes to God the Father c. for the redemption of the world by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ c. Almighty God our heauenly Father which of thy tender mercy diddest giue thine onely Sonne Iesus Christ to suffer death vpon the Crosse for our Redemption who made there by his owne oblation once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sinnes of the whole world c. O Lambe of God which takest away the sinnes of the world haue mercy vpon vs. thou that takest away the sinnes of the world receive our prayers Secondly in God the Sonne who hath redeemed mee and all mankinde O Sauiour of the world saue vs which by thy Crosse and Passion hast redeemed vs All this must bee vnderstood onely of the sufficiency and merit of Christs death not of the efficacie benefit and application of it which belongs to none but to the true Church of Christ euen the Elect and true beleeuers as these passages ensuing will informe vs. When thou hadst ouercome the sharpnesse of death thou diddest open the Kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers We pray thee helpe thy seruants whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud O Lord saue thy people and make thy chosen people ioyfull Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and Redeemed his people To giue knowledge of Saluation to his people for the remission of their sins His mercy is on them that feare him throughout all generations He remembring his mercy hath holpen his seruant Israel c. Spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud This is the bloud of the new Testament which is shed for you and for many for the Remission of sinne Grant that by the merits and death of thy Sonne Iesus Christ through faith in his bloud we and all thy whole Church may obtaine remission of our sinnes and all other benefits of his passion Now the Church the mysticall body of Christ is the blessed company of all faithfull and elect people and none else but they as the next prayer the Collect on good Fryday and the places quoted in the first Position prooue And whereas the Minister in distributing the Bread and wine saith particularly to euery man take this in remembrance that Christ dyed for thee drinke this in remembrance that Christs bloud was shed for thee it cannot imply that Christ dyed effectually for all men but the contrary that hee dyed only thus for the Elect and faithfull because our Church prohibites all such as want true faith and repentance or liue in any grosse and knowne sinnes to come to the Sacrament admitting none but true and faithfull penitents to it so that the Minister and our Church doe alwayes looke vpon all Communicants as the elect and chosen Saints of God endued with true faith and repentance and so they may well apply at leastwise in the iudgement of Charity the efficacy and merits of Christs death vnto them I will conclude this point with the passage of A Prayer necessary for all men Iesus Christ thy onely Sonne hath perfectly fulfilled thy Law to iustifie all men that beleeue and trust in him And thus much for our Common Prayer Booke Certaine Homilies appointed
on Ephesians 1. page 20. 118. Of Master Thomas Dâ—axe in hiâ— Worlds Resurrection page 3. 78. Of Master Downame in his Summe of Diuinitie Booke 〈◊〉 cap. 1. page 283. to 311. Of Master Christopher Sybthorpâ— his Friendly Admonition to the praetended Catholikes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. where this point is excellently handled Of Doctor Griffith VVillams his delights of the Saints page 7. 8. 9. 92. 93. Of Master Humfrey Sydenham in his Iacob and Esau or Election and Reprobationâ— preached at Pauls Crosse and of our eminent Dort Diuines Synod of Dort Article 1. and 2. in the dayes of our late King Iames. Of Doctor William Sclater his Exposition vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians cap. 5. ver 9. 10. page 447. 448. on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 11. page 68. 69. cap. 2. ver 13. page 183. Of Master Henry Scudder in his Christians daily Walke cap. 15. sect 3. page 432. to 438. Of Doctor Iohn Bastwicke Elenchus Religionis Papisticae cap. 9. page 194. to 198. Of Reuerend Bishop Carlton Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 2. 3. Of Master Henry Burton his Plea to an Appeale page 46. to 65. and his Truth triumphing ouer Trent cap. 17. Of Bishop Dauenate Expositio in Epist. Pauli ad Coloss. page 171. Of Master Francis Rouse his Doctrine of King Iames. p. 1. to 20 Of Doctor Ward in his Concio ad Clerum page 37. 38. Of Master Iohn Yates Ihis ad Caesarem cap. 1. 2. 7. In the Raigne of our now Soueraigne King Charles All these I say doe fully suffragate to this our third Anti-Arminian Conclusion not one authorized or approued writer of our Church that euer I could meete with so much as once oppugning or contradicting any of them therefore wee may embrace it as the vndoubted truth and doctrine of our Church Hee that desires to see more of this point let him reflect vpon all the Bookes and Authors fore-quoted in the first and second praecedent Positions which will plentifully instruct and satisfie him in it For the fourth of the recited Anti-Arminian dogmaticall Propositions against Vniuersall and sufficient grace or in plaine tearines against naturall Free-will it selfe for this praeâ—ented grace in truth and substance is no other since grace is proper and peculiar vnto some and nature onely alike indifferent common vnto all men as this vniuersall grace is It is directly iustified and backed by our 9. 10. 13. 17. Articles by the expresse words of the 7. 8. and 9. Articles of Lambheth by the 15. 25. 26. and 32. Articles of Ireland by our Common Prayer Booke passages here recited p. 18. 19. 20. Position 2. which are full and punctuall to this purpose by our fore-registred Homelies and Cathechismes figures 4 By the Synod of Dort Article 3. 4. Adde wee to these Master William Tyndal Prologue on Numbers page 16. Prologue on the Romans p. 41. Parable of the wicked Mammon page 65. 70. 74. 90. The Obedience of a Christian man page 162. An Answere to Master Moores third Booke page 306. Answere to his fourth Booke cap. 2. page 321. cap. 10. page 328. 329. 337. A Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. 381. 382. 384. Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 2. page 401. cap. 4. page 416. 417. Master Iohn Prith A Mirror to know thy selfe page 83. 84. 45. Doctor Barnes That Free-will of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 266. to 280. Master Iohn Harrison Yet a cause at the Romish Fox fol. 61. 62. 63. In King Henry the VIII his Raigne Stephen Garret The summe of the Scripture cap. 7. Printed 1547. Peter Martyr Loci Communes Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 29. 38. to 48. Commentarius in Romanos 5. p. 323. 328. 329. 330. in cap. 9. page 720. to 730. in cap. 11. page 797. 965. 966. Martin Bâ—â—er Commentarie vpon Iohn 5. ver 44. On Rom. 5. the latter end of the Chapter and on Rom. 9. Master Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester Sermon 3. on the Lords Prayer fol. 134. b. Master Iohn Bradford Treatise of Election and Free-will Bishop Hooper a Martyr Epistle to the Reader before his Declaration of the tenne Commandements which place makes wholy for vs if rightly vnderstood Master Beacon his sicke mans salue page 290. Master Richard Caundish his Image of Nature and Grace cap. 1. 5. 8. 10. where this point is largely handled Master Nowels Catechisme on the Creed part 1. Master Iohn Veron his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination fol. 66. to 85. 110. 111. 112. his Apologie for the same fol. 25. to the end Master Thomas Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philosophie cap. 7. 8. Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull Epistle to the Reader and cap. 1. 3. Master Edward Deering on the Hebrewes Lecture 10. 14. Master Robert Hutton his Summe of Diuinitie of Free-will Master Iohn North-brooke his Poore mans Garden cap. 1. 4. 5. 6. Doctor Sparkes against Albines cap. 17. page 165. and his Comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience the 4. first leaues Bartimeus Andreas Sermon 2. on the Canticles page 64. to 70. Master Iohn Daniel his Excellent comfort to all Christians cap. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. Master Iohn Anwicke his Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Master Arthur Gurney his fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 13. to 45. Learned Doctor William Whitakers Aduersus Vniuersalis Gratia assertores praelectio habitae Februarij 27. Anno Domini 1594. câ—ram honoratissimis Comitibus Essexio Salopiensi Rutlandiensi illustrissimis Baronibus DD. Montioy Burrowes Compton Sheafield Riche ornatissimis Equitibus Guil. Bowes Carolus Candish Robertus Sydney Georgio Sauil multos generosos on 2. Tim. 2. 4. Hardouicâ— per Thysium 1613. Reuetend Bishop Babingtons Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1591. on Iohn 6. 37. part 1. Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Answere to the Rhemish Testament Notes on 1. Tim. 2. sect 3. on Rom. 7. sect 7. 8. on Rom. 9. sect 3. 7. and sundrie other places Doctor Fulkes Defence of the English Translations against Martin cap. 10. Mathew Hutton Arch-Bishop of Yorke De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio Doctor Some Tractatus de Tribus Quaestionibus Quaest. 1. 2. Master Greenham his 14. Sermon page 355. Godly Instructions cap. 50. sect 16. page 757. Master William Burton his Dauids Euidence Sermon 4. on Psal. 4. 12. London 1596. page 83. to 88. Master Iohn Smith his Doctrine of generall prayer for all men Master William Perkins Of the Order of causes of saluation and damnation cap. 54. Tom. 1. page 107. 112. An Exposition on the Creed page 293. to 299. Of Gods Free grace and mans Free-will page 728. to 743. Babylon the praesent Church of Rome point 1. page 558. to 561. Commentarie on Galathians 3. Tom. 2. page 249. 250. cap. 5. page 327. 338. A Treatise of Praedestination page 621. to 642. Exposition of Christs Sermon on the Mount Tom. 3.
sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered c. with verse 34. 35. doe infallibly proue not by the internall regenerating operation of his spirit the onely thing in quaestion which they could not resist Secondly I answer with Saint Augustine and Peter Lumbard That the meaning of these words is not that those whom Christ would gather did resist or disobay his call but that Heirusalems Rulers with the Scribes and Phareses were vtterly vnwilling that Christ should gather those whom he did call The summe and drift of these words is onely this I by ministry would haue gathered Hierusalem and her Sonnes vnto me but you Scribes and Phareses for to them alone not to Hierusalem was this speach directed as the whole series of the chapter from the 2. verse to the end doth irrefragably witnesse would not permit me for you withstood my ministry yea those that I did conuert and call it was against your wills who agreed that of any man did confesse that I was Christ he should be thrust out of the Synagouge This is the whole scope and substance of the place which concludes but this against vs. The Scribes and Phareses did resist Christs ministry in hindering him from preaching to the people Or Christ did conuert men against the Phareses wils therefore the Elect may finally totally resist the inward working power of the Spirit in the very Act of their conuersion a grosse Non-sequitur which hurts not this conclusion All whom Christ effectually called when he was on earth as Andrew Peter Mathew Luke and the rest of his Disciples did readily leaue all to follow him without the least resistance or delay therefore all who are thus inwardly called by his grace and spirit doe so now For the seuenth of these our Anti-Arminian conclusions touching the totall and finall perseuerance of the Saints and that true sauing faith and grace are proper yea peculiar to the Elect alone and not communicable vnto Reprobates It is euidently warrented and proued by our 17. Article figure 7 by the 5. Article of Lambheth and the 12. 13. 15. 33. and 38. Articles of Ireland which are expresse and punctuall in it by the common prayer Book the Homelies and the Chatechismes fore-recorded figures 7 by Barrets Recantation section 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. and by the Synod of Dorts Resolution Article 5. Adde we to these by way of Testimony the copious vnanimous and concurrent attestation of Master William Tyndall Prologue on the Epistle to the Romansâ— page 42. Parable of the wicked Mammon page 69. 70. 74. 75. 78. Praeface to the Obedience of a Christian man p. 99. In the Treatise it selfe p. 169. An Answer to Sir Thomas Moores Dialogue page 257. 258. 259. 260. 261. 266. Answer to Master Moores 2. Booke cap. 3. 4. page 293 294. Answer to his 3. Booke page 307. Answer to his 4. Booke cap. 10. page 329. cap. 11. p. 330. 331. 334. to 338. A Pathway into the holy Scripture page 384. An Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 2. p. 402. c. 3. page 410. 412. cap. 5. page 423. An Exposition on the 6. of Iohn page 460 462. Of Master Iohn Frith Martyr An Answer to my Lord of Rochester page 55. An Answer to Rastals 3. chapter page 71. 72. 73. A Myrrour to know thy selfe page 84. Of Doctor Barnes That Faith onely iustifieth before God page 235. 242. Of Master Robert Legate his Catechisme betweene the Husband and Wife what the Catholicke Church is And betweene the vnlearned man and truth in the raigne of Henry the 8. Of Peter Martyr Commentary in Rom. 5. p. 233. 234. in cap. 8. page 533. to 558. Locorum Commu Classis 3. cap. 3. sect 46. 47. Of Martin Bucer Commentary on Mat. 7. ver 13. cap. 16. ver 18. cap. 24. ver 24. in Iohannem cap. 4. 14. cap. 6. ver 30. to 64. cap. 10. ver 27. 28. cap. 14. 16. 17. In Romanos 8. c. 30. to the end Of Bishop Latimer in his Sermons fol. 141. 142. 180. 226. 258. 312. 326. 327. 328. Of Master Iohn Bradford his defence of Praedestination where this point is pithily and particularly discussed and his Letter in the booke of Martyrs page 1505. Col. 1. Of Iohn Carelesse Martyr Ibid. p. 1742. Of Master Thomas Beacon the Sicke mans salue p. 271. 272. 273. 274. 424. 425. 426. 427. Of Stephen Garret The summe of the holy Scriptures printed 1547. cap. 4. 7. 8. 13. in the dayes of King Edward the 6. Of Reuerend Master Nowel in his authorized Catechisme on the 3. petition of the Creed the holy Catholicke Church the Communion of Saints the forgiuenesse of sinnes Of Master Iohn Fox his Booke of Martyrs London 1597. p. 1506. Col. 1. l. 74. 80. In his sermon at Pauls Crosse printed Cum priuilegio London 1570. fol. 19. 20. Of Master Iohn Veron in his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination fol. 40. to 63. 79. 106. to 110. Where this our conclusion is largely proued Of Master Iohn Daniell his Excellent comfort to all Christians cap. 3. 4. 5. 6. 27. Of Master Thomas Palfryman in his Treatise of heauenly Philosophie lib. 1. cap. 7. 8. Of Master Edward Deering in his 7. 10. 14. 16. 18. 24. and 27. Lectures on the Hebrues Of Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull cap. 1. 2. 3. 4. Of Learned Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Notes on the Rhemish Testament Notes on Luke 8. sect 1. on Romans 11. sect 2. on 1. Tim. 1. sect 2. on Apocalipse 2. sect â—2 Of Learned and Godly Bishop Babington Exposition on the 12. Article of the Creed Life euerlasting page 259. 260. in his works at large In his profitable Exposition on the Lords prayer page 127. 128. 194. to 203. 222. with his Sermon at Pauls Crosse. 1591. part 1. and 3. p. 273. c. Of Solid Doctor Whitakers Responsio ad 8. Rationes Campiani De Paradoxis lib. 18. De Ecclesia Controuersia 2. Quaest. 3. cap. 2. p. 146. and Gygnea Cantio p. 17. to 25. Of Doctor Sparkes Answer to Iohn De Albines Discourse against Haeresies cap. 34. page 281. to 285. and in his comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience London 1580. of Master Robert Keilway Sermon of sure Comfort 1580. page 22. to 27. and 46. to 85. Of Master Iohn Vdall his Peters Fall London 1589. Sermon 2. Of Master Arthur Gurney his Fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 45. 46. 47. Of Master Iohn Anwicke Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Bartimeus Andreas Sermon 2. on Canticles 5. page 64. to 70. Of Master Iohn Northbrooke his poore mans spirituall Garden cap. 1. and 18. Of Learned Mathew Hutton Arch-Bishop of Yorke De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio page 41. 42. 43. Of Doctor Esteius De Certudine salutis perseuer antiae Sanctorum non interrupta Oratio Cantabrigiae habita page 45. to 64. Of Doctor Robert Some
the Sower London 1623. p. 413 to 452. Of Master Iohn Downam Summe of Diuinity lib. 2. cap. 1. 6. and 7. and his Christian Warfare lib. 2. c. 13. to 22. Of Master Timothy Rogers his Righteous mans euidence for Heauen London 1621. p. 236. 237. 246. Of Caleb Dilechampius Vindictiae Solomonis Cantabrigiae 1622. Of Reuerend Bishop Hall Contemplation Volume 6. lib. 17. Solomons Defection p. 1274. in his workes at large Of Eminent Doctor Prideaux in his Ephesus Backsliding and Lectura 6. De perseuerantia Sanctorum Oxomae 1621. Iulij 7. in Vesperijs Comitiorum Of Master Samuei Crooke in his Guide to true Blessedresse Edit 3. p. 44. 45. 60. 68. 78. Of Master Samuel Smith his Dauids blessed man London 1623. Edit 7. page 222. to 227. and his Chiefe Shepheard p. 96. 97. 98. 486. 487. Of Master Thomas Couper Growing in Grace London 1622. p. 15. 346. to 379. Of Master Iohn Frewen Grounds of Religion London 1621. Quaest. 13. and 23. Of Doctor Griffith Williams in his Delights of the Saints London 1622. page 157. to 186. Of D. Thomas Iackson the raging Tempest stilled p. 319. to 345. Of Doctor William Gouge his whole Armor of God p. 256. 286. Of Master Ezechtel Culuerwell Treatise of Faith p. 489. to 506. Of Master Cleauer Sermon on Iohn 6. v. 26. 27. Doctr. 4. Of Doctor Francis White now Bishop of Norwich Reply to Fisher. page 49. to 55. 80. 82. 84. 87. 102. 167. 168. 200. Of Learned Master Thomas Gaetiker his Gaine of Godlinesse Dauids remembrance the lust mans Ioy and signes of Sincerity Of Doctor Carlton the late Reuerend Bishop of Chichester Doctor Dauenat Bishop of Salesbury Doctor Goade Doctor Balcanquel and Doctor Ward See Suffragium Brittanorum and the Synod of Dort Article 5. to which they haue all subscribed their names in the raigne of our late Soueraigne King Iames. Of Learned Master Richard Bernard his Rheemes against Rome page 303. to the end Of Reuerend Bishop Dauenat Expositio Epistolae Pauliad Collossenses cap. 1. v. 23. p. 144. 145. c. 3. v. 8. p. 364. 365. v. 8. p. 368. c. 4. v. 14. p. 519. Of Master Iohn Rogers Doctrine of Faith p. 319. to 345. Of Master Scudder in his Christians daily walke Edit 2. cap. 15. sect 7. Of Master William Pemble his Vindiciae Gratiae p. 34. 35. 36. Of Master Robert Bolton Generall Directions for the Comfortable walking with God p. 22. 23. 24. Of Master Iohn Barlow Exposition on 2. Tim. 1. p. 135. 278. 279. 367. 368. 369. 374. Of Doctor Ward Concio ad CleruÌ„ suffr Bri. Arti. 5. Of M. William Sparkes his Mistery of godlinesse Oxoniae 1629. c. 2. Of Doctor Thomas Goade Pelagius Rediuiuus Of Acute and learned Doctor Featly 2. Parallel page 21. to 95. Of Master Henry Burton of Christ-Church in Oxford in his Melancholie Edit 3. p. 641. Of Master Samuel Ward in his Balme from Gilead to recouer Conscience p. 56. 78. Of Master Henry Burton of St. Martins in Friday street his Plea to an Appeale p. 6. to 40. and his Truth triumphing ouer Trent cap. 17. Of Master Iohn Weemse his Portraiture of Gods image in man London 1627. c. 16. where this point is pithily handled Of Sir Christopher Sybthorpe his friendly Aduertisement to the Catholickes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. Of Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames. p. 39. to 98. Of Master Yates his Ibis ad Caesarem p. 104. to 157. Of Reuerend Bishop Carlton Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 5. 6. 7. 8. with the ioynt affections of all our Dort Diuines being men of note and eminency in our Church and of my owne Perpetuity of A Regenerate mans estate to omit the late printed workes of some other moderne Authors formerly quoted All these recited Writers of our Church being one hundred and more in number haue all of them in substance most of them in terminis euen purposely copiously vnanimously constantly and professedly defended the totall and finall perseuerance of the Saints as the vndoubted Doctrine of our Church oppugning and largely reselling the Pelagian Popish and Arminian Haeresie of the Saints Apostacie and of true grace in Reprobates which is peculiar to the Elect alone Neuer was there any one point of Doctrine which our Church embraceth so copiously maintained so abundantly seconded and backed with a constant and vninterrupted streame and series of Authorites and printed Records as this no orthodox member of our Church so much as once impeaching it no spurious or rotten member since Barrets publike Kâ—cantation so much as once oppugning it in any authorized worke Master Mountagues and Doctor lacksons onely excepted which all men generally dislike Therefore we may now without all Quaestion or dispute declare resolue and finally adiudge it to be the ancient established and vndoubted Doctrine of our Church taking all such for Pelagians Papists Arminians yea pestilent Haeretickes atheisticall Sectaries and dangerous Innouators as King Iames hath long since doomed and adiudged them to our hands who haue beene are or shalbâ— so audaciously praesumptuous as either publickely in words or wrighting to oppugne it You haue seene now Christian Readers these 7 Anti-Arminian Positions infallibly irrefragably proued to bee the ancient established professed and resolued Doctrine of the Church of England by the seuerall yet vnanimous Articles of England Lambheth and Ireland by the Common prayer Booke and Homelies authorized in our Church the Catechisme allowed by King Edward the 6. the Quaestions and Answ. of Praedestination bound vp and printed with our ancient Bibles the famous Synod of Dort the Recantation of Barret and by the vnanimous punctuall full and copious testimonie of all the eminent learned godly and renouned Writers Martyrs Pillers and Fathers of our Church from the very infancy of her reformation to this praesent not one of them so much as as once oppugning the truth or orthodoxie of all or any of them and shall wee may mee can we now be so ridiculously absurd so audaciously irreligious as once to question whether they are the receiued Doctrines of our Church or no Doutlesse if the Church of England hath any Truthes or Doctrines in her these must these cannot but be they since I dare boldly auerre because I doubt not but to proue it that no points of Doctrine whatsoeuer no not the points of Iustification by faith alone of Transubstantiation or of the Sacrament in both kinds haue beene more punctually frequently vnanimously and copiously defended then all or most of these who haue all the learned of our Church their open and professed Aduocates If any man now be so strangly obdurated so wilfully blinded with Popish Arminian Errors that he will not yet subscribe vnto these euident and most apparant orthodox conclusions not yet acknowledge them for the ancient the vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England let him giue me leaue to vouch some other Praecedents and Records which shall force him to confesse it
Appeale pleadeth against the Articles of Lambheth and iustifieth the Doctrine of Barret Baro and Thomson auerring the same to be the Doctrine of the Church of England This he doth not by naming of those men whose names he knew would bring no honour to this cause but by laying downe and iustifying their doctrines and suggesting that they who maintained the doctrines contained in the Articles of Lambheth are Caluinists and Puritanes So that those Reuerend Arch-Bishops Whitgift and Hutton with the Bishops of our Church who then liued are in his iudgement to be reiected as Puritans The question is Whether of these two positions wee must now receiue for the doctrines of our Church that which Barret Baro and Thompson would haue brought in which doctrines were then refuted and reiected by our Church Or that doctrine which the Bishops of our Church maintained against these men which doctrine hath been since vpon diuers occasions approued If ther were no more to be said I dare put it to the Issue before any indifferent Iudges Thus far this reuereÌ„d Bp. whose testimony alone might sufficiently determine our present Controuersie The third witnesse is Doctor Samuel Ward in his Concio ad Clerum preached in St. Maries in Cambridge Ianuary 12. 1625. page 45. This also saith he I can truely adde for a conclusion that the Vniuersall Church hath alwayes adhaered to St. Augustine in these points speaking before of some Anti-Arminian conclusions all which are fully related in his Suffragium Brittanorum annexed to this Clerum euer since his time till now the Church of England also from the beginning of reformation and this our famous Academie with al those who from thence till now haue with vs enioyed the Diuinity Chaires if we except one forraigne French man to wit Peter Baro one I say who by the vigilancy of our Ancestors and the large authority of the most Reuerend Arch-Bishop Whitgist was compelled to renounce his chaire haue likewise constantly adhaered to him And if to him then certainly to vs as the 2. part of his 7. To me which makes wholy for vs will infallibly euidence By these three seuerall testimonies it is abundantly euident that our Diuinity Professors and first reformers of Religion in King Edward the 6. his dayes our Reuerend and learned orthodox Diuines that either suffered or escaped Martyrdome in Queene Maries dayes our Bishops Diuines and learned Cleargie who composed our Articles in Queene Elizabeths dayes our famous Vniuersities of Oxford and Cambridge with all their Diuinity Professors from the beginning of reformation to this present excepting Baro who was conuented and in a manner expelled for his erronious Tenents together with the whole Church of England from her first reformation to this instant haue constantly approued vnanimously embraced and resolutely maintained our Anti-Arminian conclusions as the vndoubted resolutions and Doctrines of our English Church and will any man now be so audaciously absurd as to call them into question whether they are the Doctrines of our Church or no Not to speake of Master Samuel Ward or Master Carpenter or M. Deubtie or other of our late vnrecited writers who condemne Arminianisme in the grosse not yet to mention any of the fore-quoted Authors my 4th Euidence to proue our Anti-Arminian Tenents the vndoubted Doctrines of our Church is the authorized translating and printing in our English dialect not only of St. Augustines cheife workes against the Pelagians but euen of Caluin Beza Zanchius Bucaniâ—â— Trelcatius Bastingius Vrsin Kimedoncius Piscator Fayus Olenian Iunius Reniger and Moulins workes against the Pseudo-Lutherans and Arminians who passe for orthodox and approued Authors in our Church whom some stile a Caluinist Certainely if the Doctrine of our English Church were various from these Authors Tenents they being the greatest Anti-Arminians this day exstant their names would neuer be so venerable their workes not so highly esteemed in our Church as to be thus englished authorized sold and printed here among vs as we know they are without controll Since then our Church hath thus indenized and adopted these forraigne Authors with their Anti-Arminian Writings since she thus claimes them for and rankes them with her owne her Doctrines questionlesse are the same with theirs and so wholy ours not our Arminian Opposites whom all these pointblancke oppugne You haue seene now pious Readers what plentifull numerous punctuall full and faire Euidences Records and witnesses of all sorts and ages our Anti-Arminian Tenents haue produced to vindicate and proue themselues the ancient established professed resolued and vndoubted Doctrines of the Church of England Let vs now examine on the other side what euidences what testimonies these Arminian Errors can rake vp together to intitle themselues vnto our Church First of all they haue none of the fore-quoted Articleâ— Homâ—lies Common prayer Booke Chatechismes Synâ—d or Recantation no publike record or monument of our reformed Church to iustify them Yea all these as our Church hath alwayes hitherto expounded them doe positiuely condemne them for insufferable and branded Errors Secondly there is neuer a Martyr neuer a Diuinity Professor in either of our Vniuersities Baro a spurious Frenchman excepted neuer an orthodox or approued English Writer that I know off from the beginning of Reformation to this instant that can giue in any euidence in one particular point much lesse in all points on their side being rightly vnderstood where as we haue produced a whole Century of Authors if not more against there The only Authors that they can produce and those but partiall maimed and obscure witnesses not intire or perspicuous are Peter Baro in Queene Elizabeths Thompson in King Iames and M. Mountague and Iackson in King Charles his raigne men branded and condemned in our Church The first of these being an exortique Frenchman was solemnely conuented and censured for his erronious Bookes and Tenents first at Lambeth by the composers of the Lambheth Articles and afterwards in the Vniuersity of Cambridge by all the heads of Houses vpon the complaint of diuers Batchellors of Diuinity vpon which heâ— was forced to forsake that Vniuersity and our Kingdome too This branded and illegall witnesse then being at the very best a forraigner doth only marre not helpe their cause The second was but an Anglo-Belgicus a dissolute ebrious and luxurious English-Dutchman his Booke was denyed Licens here as being contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England and being printed at Leyden after his death for want of licens here it was presently refelled by a reuerend and learned Prelate of our Church Doctor Robert Abbot Bishop of Salisbury whose Booke now extant was imprinted by authority and dedicated to our royall Soueraigne then Prince of Wales If then the life or posthumus Booke of this second Witnesse be examined his testimony will but cast not further not aduance their right The third of these Witnesses who was lately rumored to disclaime his testimony and
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-condeÌ„ned Errors first hatched by Pelagius theÌ„ 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 heâ—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 lâ—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
The Obedience of a Christian man page 130. 131. Prologue to the Exposition vpon the 5. 6. and 7. of Mathew page 185. Col. 1. An Answer to sir Thomas Moores Dialogue page 257. 292. An Answere to Master Moores 3. booke page 307. Answere to his 4. booke cap. 11. page 333. A Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. 382. Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 2. page 394. 401. A Treatise vpon Signes and Sacraments page 443. Master Iohn Friths Answere vnto Rastals Dialogue page 10. 14. 22. An Answere vnto sir Thomas Moore page 48. 49. Answere to Rastals 3. chapter page 71. A Declaration of Baptisme page 93. The mind of Saint Paul on the 10. chapter of the 1. of the Corinthians page 161. Doctor Barnos What the Church is page 243. to 247. That Free-will of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 278. in the dayes of King Henry the VIII Master Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester in his Sermons fol. 125. 126. 164. 165. 178. 208. 215. 224. 270. 288. 295. 297. b. a pertinent and full place 299. 308. 323. 326. 327. Stephen Garret The Summe of the holy Scripture cap. 7. Peter Matyr Locorum Communium Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 44. 45. 46. 47. Commentar in Romanos cap. 5. page 266. to 274. 328. 329. cap. 9. page 708. 726. to 730. cap. 11. page 866. Master Martin Bucer Comment on Rom. 5. and 11. and on Iohn 10. page 17. Bishop Hooper Epistle to the Reader before this Declaration on the 10. Cōmandements a place which some doe wrest to the contrary conclusion but let all Episcopall mistakers of this godly Bishop reade his Declaration on the 8. Commandement fol. 75. 76. and then they must either disclaime this Author or subscribe to our Conclusion Master Thomas Beacon his Sicke mans salue page 235. to 259. 273. 274. to 279. 413. 414. 425. 426. Iohn Carelesse Martyr a deare friend of Bishop Latimers Booke of Marryrs page 1742. Col. 2. number 50. Master Iohn Fox his first Sermon at Pauls Crosse fol. 12. Master Richard Caundish his Image of Nature and grace cap. 7. 8. 10. Reuerend Deane Nowels Cathechisme on the Creed part 1. 2. 3. Master Iohn Veron his Treatise of Praedestination fol. 60. to 112. and his Apologie for the same fol. 25. to the end Master Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philophie Epistle Dedicatorie and lib. 1. cap. 7. 8. Master Iames Price his Fanne of the faithfull cap. 1. to 10. where this point is largely debated Master Edward Deering Lecture 9. and 27. on the Hebrewes Master Robert Hutton his Summe of Diuinitie of the Church and of life euerlasting Master Thomas Sparkes his Comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience the 4. first leaues Master Iohn Daniel his Excellent Comfort against Calamitie cap. 5. 6. 7. 8. Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Notes on the Rhemish Testament on 1. Tim. 2. 4. sect 3. 4. on cap. 3. sect 10. and in the places fore-quoted in the former Conclusion Master Iohn Anwicke Meditation on Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Master William Burton in his Sermon of of the Churches loue Master Arthur Gurney his Fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion page 40. 45. Godly Bishop Babington An Exposition of the Catholicke Faith page 232. 239. Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1591. on Iohn 6. 37. D. Whitakers Aduersus Gratiam vniuersalem Lectura 1594. and Cygnea Cantio page 14. Doctor Robert Some Tractatus De tribus Quaest. Quae. 1. Master William Perkins Of the Order of causes of saluation and damnation cap. 54. Tom. 1. page 108. to 112. An Exposition on the Creed page 293. to 299. A declaration of spirituall Disertions page 415. Commentary on Galathians 3. 8. 22. Tom. 2. page 249. 250. A Treatise of Praedestination page 621. to 642. with all the places quoted in the former point of vniuersall and sufficient grace where this point is largely handled Master Iohn Hills Life euerlasting lib. 4. Quaest. 3. 4. 5. of the Grace of God p. 347. to 352. Quaest. 3. 4. 5. of the loue God page 365. to 382. Master Greenham in his Treatise of Blessednesse page 207. his 14. Sermon page 355. his 17. Sermon page 377. Doctor Reinolds Apologia Thesium sect 12. to 23. Doctor Willet in his Excellent Treatise De gratia vniuersali in his Synopsis Papismi page 881. to 918. Commentarie on Rom. 5. Quaest. 38. 39. and Controuersie 26. Doctor Abbot Bishop of Salisbury in his seuerall Lectures De veritate gratiae Christi page 15. to 82. Master Draxe his Worlds Resurrection page 110. 111. Master Brightman on Apocalipse 1. 5. and cap. 5. 9. 10. Doctor Iohn Whites Way to the true Church sect 3. Number 3. page 6. Number 6. Page 50. 51. Defence of the Way cap. 25. sect 1. to the end Sermon at Pauls Crosse sect 8. Doctor Francis White Bishop of Norwitch his Orthodox cap. 8. Paragraph 2. Doctor Field of the Church Booke 1. cap. 4. Master Samuel Hieron Abridgement of the Gospell page 100. to 110. 121. 123. 124. Doctor Doue Bishop of Peter-burrow in his Sermon on 1. Tim. 2. 4. where he discusseth this point largely and confutes Huberus Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on Article 17. Proposition 4. 5. 9. Master Stokes Doctrine of Repentance page 167. to 173. Master Yarrow Soueraigne Comfort for a troubled conscience cap. 36. Doctor Crakentborpe Sermon of Praedestination page 14. to 20. Master Elton on Rom. 8. 30. and on Colossians 1. page 87. 88. Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Articulus 2. Master Wilson Exposition on Romans 5. ver 18. 19. on Rom. 6. ver 3. 4. on cap. 9. ver 29. 33. Doctor Iohn Boyes Postils on Christmas day page 800. Exposition on the Creed page 23. 24. 25. Postil on the fourth Sunday in Lent page 268. 269. 270. On Innocents day page 614. to 618. Master Bifields Exposition on the Coloss. cap. 1. ver 6. page 55. ver 12. page 98. 99. ver 14. page 108. 109. Master Samuel Crooke in his Guide sect 4. 9. 10. 12. 18. 19. Doctor Prideaux Lectura 3. De gratia vniuersali Oxoniae in Comitijs Iulij 11. 1618. Doctor Benefield De Sanctorum perseuenantia lib 2. cap. 18. 20. Master Sweeper in his Sermon on Prouerbs 12. 16. 1622. Master Humphrey Sidenham in his Iacob and Esau. Master Iohn Downames Summe of Diuinitie lib. 2. cap. 1. 2. 6. Master Elnathan Parre Grounds of Diuinitie page 275. to 280. Sir Christopher Sibthorpe his Friendly admonition to the Catholickes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. Doctor Thomas Taylors Praeface to the Reader in his Treatise on Psal. 32. Master Paul Baines Commentarie on Ephesians 1. page 114. 115. Doctor Griffith Willams his Delights of the Saints page 30. to 42. to whom I might adde all our Dort Diuines in the Raigne of our learned King Iames. Reuerēd Bishop Carltons Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 3. 4. 9. Learned Doctor Dauenate Bishop