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A11078	Testis veritatis the doctrine [brace] of King Iames our late soueraigne of famous memory, of the Church of England, of the Catholicke Church : [brace] plainely shewed to bee one in the points of [brace] pradestination, free-will, certaintie of saluation [brace] : with a discouery of the grounds [brace] naturall, politicke [brace] of Arminianisme / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1626 (1626)	STC 21347.3; ESTC S4449	57,093	98

Sanct. cap. 14. search the workes of those who before this Haerisie viz. of Pelagius arose had no necessitie to busie themselues in this question so difficult to bee resolued which yet surely they would haue done if they had beene enforced to answer this kinde of men Yet he also sheweth that this Doctrine was euer at least impliedly in the faith of the Church Let him say that the Church had not at all times De bono perseuer cap. 23. in her Faith the truth of this Praedestination and Grace which now with more diligent care is defended against the new Haeretickes let him I say affirme this that dares to say that shee did not at all times pray or that she did not sincerely pray both that vnbeleeuers might beleeue or that beleeuers might perseuere His owne opinion is to be found in many of his works wherefore I onely produce one or two places for patternes De his quibus poenam seueritas iusta decreuerat c. Out of those to whom the seueritie of Iustice adjudgeth De praedest gra cap. 13. punishment according to the vnexpressible Mercy of his secret dispensation he chose out vessels which he might fit vnto Honour both deliuering some from wrath to come by a free calling and leauing other to the sentence of Iustice. Miseretur scilicet magna bonitate c. Hee hath Enchirid. al Laurent cap. 99. Mercie with Goodnesse hee hardneth without iniustice so that he that is freed may not boast of his merits neither he that is damned may complaine of any thing but his merits For Grace alone differenceth the Redeemed from the Lost whom one common cause deriued from the roote had vnited together in one masse of destruction Praedestinationem Dei nullus Catholicus c. The Praedestination Prosper ad capit Gall. capit 1. of God no Catholicke doth deny Now the faith of Praedestination is established by manifold authorities of the holy Scriptures yet vnto it it is not lawfull to ascribe any of the sinnes of men who came to their pronenesse vnto sinne not by Gods creation but by their first Fathers transgression From the punishment whereof no man is freed but only by the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ prepared and Praedestinated in the eternall counsell of God before the foundation of the world Piâ constantique doctrinâ abundanter probauit Auggustinus Id. ad excerpt Genis Resp. ad Dub. 9. c. Augustine by a godly and constant Doctrine abundantly proued that Praedestination was to be preached to the Church in which Praedestination is the preparation of Grace and Grace is to be preached in which is the effect of Praedestination and the fore-knowledge of God wherein hee fore-knewe before all ages on whom he would conferre his gifts Of which preaching whosoeuer is an impugner he is a most open defender of Pelagian pride Imò nouerunt non solùm Romanam c. They know Prosper ad Ruffin that not only the Romane and Africane Church and all the sonnes of promise through all the parts of the world doe agree with the Doctrine of this man Augustine as in the whole Faith so in the confession of Grace In his Epistle to Possessor a bishop of Africke seeking Homesda Bishop of Rome counsell of him concerning the reading of the bookes of Faustus That the Catholike Church doth maintaine the Doctrine of Saint Austine and particularly name his writing to Hillarius and Prosper in which the Doctrine of Free Praedestination is maintained and defended Haec si ita sunt vt haeretici iactitant c. If things Petrus Diaconus de incar gra Christi goe so as the Heretickes boast then haue they comprehended the vnsearchable and incomprehensible iudgements of God c. And the Scriptures deceaues vs which saith that the iudgements of God are incomprehensible But we beleeuing them to be incomprehensible doe affirme that out of one masse of perdition some are saued by the goodnesse and grace of God and others are forsaken by his most iust and secret Iudgement Deus qui hominem condidit c. God who made man Fulgentius de Incar gra in fine by his Praedestination fore-appointed to whom hee would giue the gift of illumination to beleeue and the gift of perseuerance to profit and persist and the gift of glorification to raigne who no otherwayes performed in Deed than he hath ordained in his vnchangeable Will The truth of which Praedestination by which the Apostle witnesseth that we are Praedestinated in Christ before the foundations of the world if any man refuse to receaue with the beleife of the heart or to speake with the confession of his mouth if before the last day of this present life hee doe not cast off the stubbornesse of his error whereby he rebelleth against the true and liuing God it is plaine that hee doth not pertaine to their number whom God in Christ freely chose and Praedestinated before the foundation of the world Nemo ergo perscrutari appetat c. Let no man bee Gregory the great Moral in Iob lib. 29. cap. 15. earnest to search why one is chosen when another is reiected or why one is reiected when another is chosen because the face of the deepe is couered and Saint Paul himselfe witnesseth that his iudgements are vnsearchable and his wayes past finding out There is a two fold Praedestination either of the Isidore Hispalensis Seut lib. 2. cap. 6 Elect vnto rest or of the Reprobate vnto death Both are done by the iudgement of God so that hee euer causeth the Elect to follow heauenly and inward things and by forsaking the Reprobate he suffereth them to follow earthly and outward things Beda expoundeth the ninth to the Romanes in the sense and sentences of Saint Austin and therefore concurreth in the same Doctrine of Praedestination Praedestinatio non solùm bo norum est c. Praedestination Anselme de Concor praesc pradest is not only of good but it may be said also of euill as God is said to doe the euill which hee doth not because he permits it For he is said to harden a man when he doth not soften him and to lead into tentation when he doth not deliuer Therefore it is not vnfit that hee should thus Praedestinate while he doth not amend euill men nor their euill deeds But yet he is said more specially to foreknow good things because in them he makes that they be and that they be good but in the euill things he makes but their being not the euill of their being Nonergo ideo misertus est Deus c. God did not Idem in Rom. 9. take mercie on Iacob because hee willed and runned but therefore Iacob willed and runned because God had mercie on him Let it be sufficient for thee who yet liuest by Faith and not seeing perfectly but knowing only in part to know and beleeue that God doth saue none but

for the profession of the Gospell that now hauing gotten the vpper hand of your miseries you would not suffer the followers of Arminius to make your actions an example for them to proclaime to the world that wicked Doctrine of the Apostasie of the Saints It is all worthy of deepe consideration and among if not aboue the rest 1. The opinion that this great and wise King had of this Doctrine of The Apostasie of the Saints Hee saith of a booke so intituled The Title ●…re enough to make it worthy the fire And he call●… him Hereticke and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that published this booke The booke also Hee termeth A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Apostasie of the Saint●… And by his Ambassadour He calls it That wicked Doctrine of the Apostasie of the Saints 2. What agreement this booke and Doctrine had with the Doctrine of the Church of England Here of the King saith Hee was shamelesse to maintaine in his letter to the Arch bishop that the Doctrine contained in his booke was agreeable with the Doctrine of the Church of England And againe A letter wherein he is not ashamed as also in his booke to lye so grossely as to auow that his Heresies contained in the said booke are agreeable with the Religion and profession of our Church of England 3. The dangers that arise from this kinde of Doctrine Arminius left behinde him a distraction in the State And you cannot expect any other issue thereof then the curse of God infamy throughout all Reformed Churches and a perpetuall rent and distraction in the whole Body of your State 4. The councell that was both taken and giuen hereupon It was high time to bestirre our selues when as this Gangreene had not onely taken hold on our neerest Neighbours but did also begin to creepe into the bowels of Our owne Kingdome And For these respects therefore haue Wee cause enough very hartily to request you to root out with speed these Heresies and Schismes which are beginning to bud forth amongst you I may adde hereunto the Doctrine of the Articles of the Church of Ireland which fitly may here be inserted as both looking to King Iames vnder whose Authority and protection it came forth and was maintained and looking to the Doctrine of the Church of England since it were an intollerable and impudent iniury to the wisdome and religious knowledge of those times to say that betweene them there was not a harmonie All Gods elect are in their time inseparably vnited vnto Article of Ireland Num. 33. Christ by the effectuall and vitall influence of the Holy Ghost deriued from Him as from the Head vnto euery true member of his Mysticall Body A true liuely iustifying Faith and the sanctifying Num. 38. Spirit of God is not extinguished nor vanisheth away in the Regenerate either finally or totally THE DOCTRINE OF THE Church of England for Certaintie of Saluation THe Church of England teacheth the certaintie of Saluation and she hath done it so constantly and and generally that it will be very hard to produce any one of her Sonnes that durst before very late dayes to affirme and defend to the contrary by any publike worke and writing Shee hath taught this Certaintie by her owne Articles Shee hath re-enforced it by an exposition of Her Articles it hath beene explained and enlarged by Articles of Lambeth it hath beene taught by Her most eminent Sonnes the Reverend Fathers the Bishops of this Church and the Professors of Divinitie who are trusted by her to deliver her true thoughts and Tenents in Divinitie to her children And wee see that it hath also beene sealed vp and settled in Articles of the Church of Ireland betweene which Church and the Church of England to make a contraritie and opposition is a thing of extreame danger and absurditie And first for her owne Articles In the Article of Praedestination our Church teacheth the Certaintie of Saluation diuers wayes One way by making Saluation to depend on such a constant and sure Election that it bringeth the Elect constantly to Salvation A constant Decree of Election brings the Saints constantly assuredly through the way of Saluation vnto the wayes end even Salvation it selfe This constant bringing of the Elect to Saluation wee may finde in these words God hath constantly Decreed by his Counsell secret to Article 17. vs to deliuer from Curse and damnation those whom hee hath chosen in Christ out of Man-kinde and to bring them by Christ to euerlasting Saluation From hence is it plaine and easie to argue Those whom God hath constantly Decreed to bring to Salvation they are constantly and certainly brought to Saluation But here God hath constantly Decreed to bring his Elect to Saluation Therefore the Elect of God are constantly and certainely brought to Saluation And that this bringing to Salvation is not in the wayes end only but in the way it selfe the particulars by which the Elect are brought to Salvation plainly shew which are to follow in the next consideration But here by the way let vs note that this bringing to Salvation by a constant and certaine Decree carries with it a certaine and assured Salvation even by the confession of the Enemies of it For in this very respect because it induceth a certaine and constant Salvation they reiect it as that which crosseth their inconstancie and mutabilitie of Salvation This Doctrine of certaintie crosseth their doctrine of Incertaintie and therefore their doctrine of incertaintie crosseth and reiecteth this doctrine of Certainty For well they know that it must be a certaine Saluation which is wrought and brought to passe by a constant and absolute Decree of Election Therefore to plant this Apostacie and that men though Elected may haue leaue to fall from Saluation if they will they make an Election which follow●…th a man vpon the condition of his sore-seene perseverance So that as in the doctrine of our Church a constant Decree of Election constantly bringing to Salvation must needs withall giue a finall perseverance in the state of grace their Doctrine not enduring this constant perseuerance and saluation issuing from a constant Decree of Election haue deuised an Election that waites vpon man to see whether hee will giue to himselfe finall perseuerance by his owne Free-will An Election by which no man is actually Elected vntill hee be no man that is vntill hee be parted the soule from the body But as I said before our Doctrine may be knowne to be a Doctrine of Certaintie that doth oppose and reiect this falling away because the fallers away doe oppose and reiect it there being indeed an incompatibility betweene a constant Decree that brings men constantly to Saluation and a dependant and contingent Decree that waites on mans vncertaine Will to see whether his will will finally perseuer and so bring his owner to Election A second way by which our Church teacheth the certaintie of Saluation in this Article is this Because shee sayeth the same grounds