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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27157	An antidote against Arminianisme, or, A plain and brief discourse wherein the state of the question in all the five infamous articles of Arminius is set down, and the orthodox tenets confirmed by cleere scripturall grounds by R.B.K.	R. B. K.	1641 (1641)	Wing B156; ESTC R31267	24,771	136

AN ANTIDOTE Against ARMINIANISME OR A plain and brief discourse wherein the state of the Question in all the five infamous Articles of Arminius is set downe and the Orthodox Tenets confirmed by cleere scripturall grounds Framed of purpose for the capacity of the more simple sort of People BY R. B. K. LONDON Printed for SA GELLIBRAND MDCXII TO THE AEQuITABLE READER THe shortnesse of the following Treatise admits not long prefacing It has been much wisht and long expected from the learned Divines of this Land that a plaine and short Manuall of the chiefe Controversies should have been published whereby the people might be fore armed against the invasion of seducing spirits which everie where are but too frequent Long agoe too much stuffe of this kind is provided for Scholars These have but too many and too big Volumes of Controversies alwaies at their hand but our people are not so furnisht either with sword or buckler as need were which makes them to their shame and griefe when they run counter with adversaries which they cannot choose but oft to doe lie open to wounds The children of this world are in this as in many other things wiser than the children of light the Iesuits let not their Proselites have any lack of their Encheiridia their Vade mecum their little pocket Books of controversie to enable them both to strik and keep when they meet with our people These yeares bygone too much time hath been lost among us on Ceremonies and Disciplinarie Questions It has bin the policy of Satan to hold us intent and busy on these out-sconces that so the main fortresses of Antichrist should stand safe without assault Would to God that our too too long and hot skirmishes about purging of the ditches of Bishops and Ceremonies had not cast open at our backs the gates of our great Towers and given opportunitie to our Enemie to undermine the verie foundations of our Church These unhappy Questions are now we trust neare to a blessed end from the one half of this Isle Bishops and Ceremonies are commanded by the King and State not the Church only to goe packing into perpetuall banishment The like justice is shortly expected for the reforming of the other halfe The world knows that Bishops and Ceremonies have bin more troublesome to England than to Scotland or any other people in the Earth Shall any doubt of the Kings equall benignitie to all his Subjects or of the State of England their wisdome to be no lesse provident for the welfare of their Country than they have lately seen their Neighbours with his Majesties full consent carefull for theirs Being therefore we trust on our farewell to these noisome shadows and all the unluckie disputations which have followed and still will follow them where ever they go to dwell hereafter wee expect to attend alone upon the substance both of our Truths and our Enemies Errours Of all the Errours which in too great a number doe corrupt England this day these which are called after the infamous name of Arminius are the most prevalent For to propagate that Heresie as King Iames was wont boldly to call it not only numbers of the Iesuits and other Romish Seminaries doe employ their labours but the prime Bishops all the Clergie who had any mind to preferment have for a long time devoted their tongues and pens and that this evill seed might prosper and spread by the calumnious informations of that mad Prelate who now is in a faire way to receive quickly some part of his deservings an Edict was published discharging any to oppose that pestilence or to pluck up that Cockle While therefore the Learned may be pleased to demit themselves for the good of the people while some gracious Divine may be moved to take leisure for the publishing of some short and plain System of all or of the most materiall Controversies it were good that some little thing were done in this beginning of our glorious Liberty from Episcopall Oppression for the arming of the godly against the errors of Arminius which so malepertly these bygone yeares have bin blowne abroad and the opposition thereto hath beene so strictly discharged so severely punished while a better comes the subsequent Treatise will serve somewhat for that end Of its worth let every man pronounce according as hee finds In its first birth it was a speech delivered upon a short warning in the generall Assembly of Glasgow 1638 and there not mislik't Since that time it hath not increased much in stature If the feature of it please any intelligent eye it is easie in a few nights for any to make the members of it grow so great and long as you will but it is the Authours opinion that treatises intended to the fore-named ends are the more handsome and serviceable the more short and simple they be and the more unprofitable unpleapleasant the more accurate and long Howe-ever such as it is enjoy it who will misregard it who please AN Antidote against ARMINIANISME A Naked recitatiō of the Canterburian Errours which was the sum of my preceding Treatise could neither have been pleasant nor profitable to the intelligent Reader without the addition of some Antidote against The Coherence of this Antidote with the former self-conviction them unlesse the times had craved a cleere and present view as in a vive Table of the Tenets wherewith this troublesome faction in a dissimulate way for many yeares hath gone about to deceive themselves and so many others as by any means they were able to draw in their snare It was necessary that all or most of their absurd doctrines should be drawne together in one Map and set before the eyes of the World in their owne shape as the Authors themselves in their own words had expressed them to the end the Fathers of such monsters being confounded at the sight of such mishapen Brats should not so much deny and disclaime their owne children for this in so cleere evidence of convincing proofe had been but to manifest by the effronted impudency of a brazen face the judiciall hardnesse of a cauterised Conscience as professe before the World their deep and sincere griefe for their former wickednesse in producing such unhappy mischievous creatures the very sight wherof is so loathsome and horrible That Table also was needfull to be made for this end that all wel-minded men who had any sparke of Zeale to the truth of God beholding as in a cleere Glasse the innumerable Heterodoxies of the Canterburian party might not onely keepe them selves free from their pestilentious infection but also bee stirred up at last with all fervency of spirit to have all lawfull meanes imployed for the chasing away out of this Isle to the land of darknesse in an everlasting banishment all such abominations And now lest these who beside the deciphering of the mysteries of that faction are desirous of a particular refutation of their wicked Errours should