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A35959	Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing D1412; ESTC R3405	145,943	378

Grace the Doctrine whereof is to be preached by every Minister of the Gospel as well as that of Faith in Christ Yes Ezek. 12. 10. Acts 11. 18. Luke 24. 47. Make 1. 15. Acts 20. 21. Well then do not the Antinomians err who maintain That repentance is not an Evangelical grace and that it ought not to be preached by any Minister of the Gospel seing it leads us away from Christ and is many wayes hurtful and dangerous to us Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because GOD hath promised in the Covenant of Grace that he will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of Grace and Supplication which shall cause Christians under the Gospel to repent and mourn for their sins Zech. 12. 10. 2 Because Repentance is numbered among the saving graces which shall be bestowed and conferred upon Converts under the Gospel and is sometimes put for the whole Conversion of a man to GOD Acts 11. 15 16 17 18. 3 Because the Ministers of the Gospel ought to instruct those with meekness who oppose themselves if GOD peradventure will give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth 2 Tim. 2. 25. 4 Because Repentance from dead works is among the principles of the Doctrine of Christ and is a foundation which ought to be layed before the Hearers of the Gospel can go on into perfection I say layed by the Ministers of the Gospel Heb. 6. 1. 5 Because Christ himself appointed Repentance no less to be preached through the world than Remission of sins Luke 24. 47. 6 Because Christ and his Apostles preached Repentance no less than Faith Mar. 1. 15. Mat. 3. 2. Nay the whole sum of the Gospel is placed in preaching Faith and Repentance Acts 20. 20 21. Quest II. DOth a sinner namely by Repentance out of the sight and sense not only of the danger but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins as contrary to the holy Nature and righteous law of God and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent so grieve for and hate his sins as to turn from them all unto God Yes Ezek. 18. 30 Ezek. 36 31. Isai. 30. 22. Ier. 31. 18 19. Ioel 2. 12 13. Amos 5. 15. Psalm 119. 6. 59. 106. Well then do not the Antinomians err who maintain we ought not by Repentance to hate our sins to mourn for them and turn from them to God but only to believe that Christ in our stead and for us hath Repented Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because Repentance being a turning from our sins and evil ways and a turning to God and Christ being without sin could not be capable to repent in our stead 1 King 8. 35. Heb. 7. 26 27. Ioel 2. 12 13. 2 Because they that repent confess their sins and are grieved for them Ezra 10. 1. Mark 14. 72. They hate their sins 2 Cor. 7. 11. They are ashamed and confounded for them Ier. 31. 19. 3 Because Repentance is a sorrow after a Godly manner in the same very Persons that Repent wrought by God by the preaching of the Word 2 Cor. 7. 9. Acts 11. 18. 4 Because Repentance is called a renting of the heart Ioel 2. 12. And they that Repent hate and loath themselves for their abominations Ezek. 36 31. They are ashamed and confounded Ier. 31. 19. They are grieved and pricked in their Reins Psal. 73. 21 5 Because God promising Repentance to the people of the Jews being converted to Christ after their backsliding says I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have peirced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son Zech. 12. 10 And shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born But is any man so foolish as to affirm that when a man doth mourn for his first born he believes only that another man hath mourned in his stead 6 Because Faith is one thing and Repentance specially so called is another thing Mark 1. 15. Acts 20. 21. Heb. 11. 6. In which places Faith and Repentance are numbred two diverse things And it is evident likewise that Faith is the cause of Repentance but nothing can be the cause of it self Do not likewise the Papists err who maintain that we are not by Repentance converted from our sins to God which they only make an endument or quality fitting and disposing us for conversion and meriting it which say they consists in heart contrition mouth confession absolution and satisfaction By the first They have heart sorrow for sin By the second They confess their sins to the Preist By the third Which can be no part of Repentance seeing it is not a thing done by the sinner they are absolved by the Priest from theirsins By the fourth they make satisfaction for former sins in performing some good work willingly undertaken or enjoyned by the Priest after absolution as Fastings Chastising of their own bodies Pilgrimages and hearing of many Masses Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Word of God asserts no meritorious Work in us to go before our conversion Not by Works of righteousnss which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us Titus 3. 4 5 6. 2 Because the only merit of Christ is the meritorious cause of our Conversion Heb. 9. 14. 1 Cor. 6. 11. 3 Because true Repentance is the infallible Antecedent and forerunner of life 2 Cor. 7. 10. Acts 11. 18. And they who truely Repent have all their sins pardoned Acts 2. 38. Acts 3. 19. Nay Repentance is a peice of the exercise of the life of Grace here and worketh unto life and salvation hereafter But of no foregoing disposition or qualification previous to Repentance can these forecited places of Scripture be understood 4 Because Repentance and turning to God are sometimes put for the same thing and the Prophets while they study to excite and stir up the people to Repentance they signifie it by the word Conversion and turning to GOD Acts 11. 15 16 17 18 21. Ioel 2. 12 13 Esek 18. 31 32. 5 Because Whatsoever goes before our conversion to God it cannot be of Faith and therefore it must displease God Rom. 8 8 Rom. 14. 23. But true Repentance is of Faith and God delighteth in it Ier. 31. 18 19 20. 6 Because in very many places of Scripture Repentance is described by a departing from evil and a turning to God Isa. 1. 16 17. Isaiah 55. 7. Psalm 34. 14. Hos. 6. 1. 7 Because heart contrition mouth confession and satisfaction for former sins which they call Pennance as they are explained by the Papists may be found in Hypocritical Repentance as is evident from the example of Iudas and Abah Matth. 27. 4 5 6. 1 Kings 21. 27. There may be true

or shall be in time Acts 15. 18. Iohn 21. 17. Heb. 4. 13. But all things which come to pass in time could not have been infallibly known from eternity but in the Decree of his divine Will 2. From Gods natural way of working in time 1 Cor. 12. 6. Rom. 11. 36. whence it is evident that God worketh effectually and immediately in time all things which are done but he worketh by his will those things which he will have to be in time after that manner and in that time how and when they come to pass Psal. 115. 3. But that Act of willing cannot happen to God in time but hath been in him from all eternity because God is unchangeable Iames 1. 17. 3 By enumerating several instances concerning which the Scripture affirms particularly that they have been decreed by GOD as the sufferings and death of Christ Acts 2. 23. The glorifying of those that are to be saved Eph. 1. 4 5. 1 Thes. 5. 9. And the foreordaining the rest to damnation to be punished for their sin Iude v. 4. The like may be said of other things which come to pass in time see Psalm 33. 11. Psalm 115. 3. Isaiah 46. 10. Prov. 19. 21. That the Liberty and Freedom of the will and contingency of events is consistent with the Decree is clear from Acts 2. 23. Acts 3. 17 18. Acts 4. 27 28. Gen. 45. 5. Quest. II. IS the Decree of Predestination namely the Decree of Election and Reprobation absolute from the meer good will and pleasure of God Yes And is it particular concerning a certain number of Persons Yes 2 Tim. 2. 19. Iohn 13. 18. Well then do not the Lutherians and Arminians err who maintain the Decree of Predestination to be general and conditional depending upon persevering Faith which they affirm depends upon the will of man and foreseen infidelity and want of faith Yes Do not likewise the Papists and Socinians err who maintain the Decree of Predestination to be general and to depend upon good and evil works with Perseverance in them Yes By what arguments are they confuted 1 From the Apostle Paul who maketh the good will and pleasure of God the only cause why this man is chosen and another as worthy rejected and casten off Rom. 9. 11 12 13 14 15. Where he moves an objection against the justice of God and answers it 2 Because our blessed Saviour assignes it to the good will and pleasure of God that to some the mysteries of Faith for their conversion are revealed and that they are hid from many others who are nothing worse but in some respect better Matth. 11. 25 26. 3 Because a man of himself hath no good thing in him whereby he may be differenced from another but what he hath freely gotten from God 1 Cor. 4. 7. 4 Because the grace of Regeneration justifying Faith effectual Calling and perseverance to the end are given to all the Elect and to them only according to the eternal Decree of God and therefore are Effects not Causes or pre-required conditions of Election Rom. 8. 30. Acts 13. 48. Matth. 24. 24. 2 Tim. 1. 9. Iohn 15 16. Eph. 1. 3 4 5. Matth. 13. 11. Rom. 11. 6 7. Quest. III. HAth it pleased God according to the unsearchable Counsel of of his own will whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth for the glory of his Soveraign power over his creatures to pass by and to ordain the rest of mankind to dishonour and wrath for their sin to the praise of his glorious Iustice Yes Rom. 9. 17 18 21 22. Iude verse 4 Matth. 11. 25 26. 2 Tim. 2. 19 20. Well then do not many of the Quakers and others err who maintain that God never ordained any man to perish eternally Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because Christ thanked his Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because he had hid those things from the wise and prudent and had revealed them unto Babes Matth. 11. 25 26. 2 Because the Scripture faith to Pharo even for this same purpose have I raised thee up that I might shew my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the Earth Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardneth Hath not the Potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour What if God willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Rom. 9. 17 18 21 22. 3. Because in a great house there are some vessels to honour some to dishonour 2 Tim. 2. 19 20. 4. Because the Apostle Iude says there are some who of old were ordained to this condemnation ungodly men Note that the cause of this reprobation is not mans sin but the absolute will and good pleasure of God Mans sin indeed is the cause why God will punish but no occasion why he did ordain to pass by or to punish man This Decree is just because God has power over man as the Potter hath power over the clay Neither is the end of this Decree the condemnation of the creature but the manifestation of Gods Justice Lastly sin is the effect of mans free will and condemnation is the effect of Justice but the Decree of God is the cause of neither Quest. IV. ARE any other redeemed by Christ effectually called justifyed adopted sanctifyed and saved but the Elect only No Iohn 17. 9. Rom. 8. 28. Iohn 6. 64 65. Iohn 10. 26. Iohn 8. 47. 1 Iohn 2. 19. Well then do not the Papists Quakers Socinians and Arminians err who maintain That all men even Reprobates are redeemed by Christ and that many Reprobates are effectually Called Iustified Sanctified and Adopted Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 From the Golden Chain which cannot be loosed mentioned by the Apostle Paul Rom. 8. 30. Whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified 2 Because those and those only believe whom GOD hath ordained to Life Eternal Acts 13. 48. Titus 1. 1. 3 Because Christ himself says to the Iews but ye believe not because ye are not of my Sheep My Sheep hear my voice and I know them Iohn 10. 26 27 28. Ye are not of my Sheep that is of the Elect which the Father hath given me 4 Because Christ would not pray for the World but for the Elect only Iohn 17. 9. 5 Because the Election or Elect have obtained it and the rest were blinded namely who are not elected and effectually called Rom. 11. 7. 6 Because Christ says greater love hath no man than this that a man should lay down his life for his Friends Such a love he never had to Reprobates whom he professes he never knew Iohn 15. 13. with Matthew 7. 23. 7 Because according to the Scripture Christ died