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cause_n	act_n	faith_n	justification_n	3,419	5	9.8335	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86881	Animadversions and considerations upon a sheet, printed for Francis Smith containing a confession of the faith of several catapædobaptists, whose names are thereunto subscribed. As also the absurdities of the doctrine of arminianism, free-will, and general redemption; and that it is a popish doctrine; and their objections briefly answered. By J. H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3666A; ESTC R224279	30,889	102

parts for one may be supposed to be erronious Now what is more cruel than false worship Ergo the Magistrate is to punish false Worshippers or else he must not punish all evil doers forasmuch as such are the greatest evil doers in quality if not in quantity or number But here lies a Falacy occult to most mens judgments false worship say they consists in mode or manner of worship not considering that the greatest evil in worship lies in the substance not in the mode For false worship consists either in the substance as in a false Faith and false Principle or else in false mode or manner of worship the last is bad but the former worst of all because it is the ground of the latter the latter though true is but a form of godliness if the former be wanting Hence all Arrians Socinians and the greatest part of Rattabaptists Arminians Free-willers General Redemptionists Conditional Decretists and Quakers err in the former though some of them may not in the latter therefore at best have but a form of godliness and from such we are commanded to turn away for the Power consists in true Faith and true Principles and true love to God and Man both arising from the diphthongued Union between the Soul and the Man Christ Jesus by the Spirit of the Lord and then mode order and disciplinal method will be soon rectified if the Premises be truly grounded or else not The Doctrine of Quakers Pelagians Arminians Grotians Pharisees Assidians Papists and Justitiaries ABsurdities from your Errours arising That God gave his Son for all Universally upon condition that they believe repent and obey him and so Election upon condition of something in the Creature either naturally as restored by Christ at once as the Pelagians or else wrought in them by the Spirit upon the assent of their free will as the Papists and Council of Trent only by Gods fore-knowledge ab Eterno but not determination and free act and without considering any thing in the Creature and particular free Personal Election from Eternity meerly of good pleasure without any thing in the Creature but to be wrought in the Elected as the purchase of Christs Blood after Election 1. You make Christ the Minister of sin Gal. 2.17 for you make man's act of Faith Repentance and Obedience the formal cause of their Justification not only without which sine quâ non but by which they are justified before God and not by Christs Merits only But man's act of Faith repentance and obedience is sin and filthy rags Isay 64.6 Phil. 3. Ergo that which is sin you make to justifie and consequently Christ must be then the Minister of sin if his Righteousness alone be not sufficient to justifie being imputed by God and received by Faith for something that is sinful and of man's must help to justifie and Christs Merits only make it passable and acceptable so then Christs Merits makes sin passable and acceptable for all our righteousness is but filthy rags Is 64.6 Phil. 3. dung and dross yea loss which is worse than sin for man hath no righteousness except it be wrought in him by the assistance of the Spirit therefore it must be that righteousness wrought in man that the Prophet means and the Apostles for in him we live move and have our being Acts 17. Now the major is proved by all the Testimonies and Writings of Arminians Baptists of that Sect and Pelagians and Papists and is notoriously known The minor is made good from Isay 64.6 and Phil. 3. Ergo the COnclusion is true That they make Christ the Minister of sin The second Absurdity is That those of this Errour do make the Souls of Men before Christ's coming mortal and to dye with the Body which is contrary to the Apostle Phil. 1.23 24. worse than the Papists their Purgatory For a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon and agreeable to Atheists Stoicks and Heathens Besides it makes all Christ's Sufferings on the Cross as they say to remove the first Covenant of perfect works and to bring in a Lex remediens a milder Law to be only Temporal Punishment For such as was our Deliverance such was his Passion 1 Thes 1. ult to deliver us from the Wrath to come did he die Ergo our first death is both Eternal and Temporal Again such was Gods promise to Adam had he stood such was his punishment if he fell But if he had stood he had life Eternal Ergo falling Eternal death besides The wages of Sin is Death Rom. 5. and Rom. 6. ult and James 1.13 14 15. But all man's Sin entered with his first fall Rom. 5.12 Ergo the first fall is the ground of Eternal Death And that Unbelief only is the cause of Damnation is a Lye against the Scriptures For 't is true Unbelief is the cause of all sins efficiently And Sodom and Gomorrah were damned instrumentally for Adultery and Fornication Ep. Jude 2. Pet. 2. and not instrumentally and directly for Unbelief in the Son of God Yea Originally because they were reprobated from Faith effectual Calling and Glory 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. and because he did not taste death for them nor deliver them because they were not elected ab eterno 2 Thes 2.13 1 Thes 5.9 John 22.40 Heb 2.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That by the Grace of God he might taste Death for every Son The third Absurdity is 2 Tim. 2.19 then by these mens Doctrine the Foundation of God is not sure if the acceptance of Christ and his Merits depend on mans Free-will for conditional is not certain for Faith is no condition on mans part but a Necessary Qualification wrought in the Elect to apply his Grace and purchased by his Blood too and wholly wrought by his Spirit in them as effectual Calling Rom. 9. Fph. 2. Cratia non offertur Deo singulis animo communicandi eam sed solis Electis Piscator against Papists The fourth Absurdity is That God's Grace is not free which is by his word declared to be most free Rom. 7. and Rom. 4. not at all of our works wrought in us for then it is not free Now Election is the top of his free Grace from whence flows all the other Justification and effectual Calling and Glory Rom. 8.29 30 31 c. for if it be upon any condition in us then it is not free but it is most free Ergo upon no condition in or by us at all Acts 13.48 None can believe but who are pre-ordained to live Ephes 2.8 9 10. The Elect are created unto good works according to his good pleasure Phil. 2. Huberus and Hemingius the great Jesuits and Patrons of this Sophistry say non absolué statuit sed defixit in Christo ut credant in eo salvi fiant but predestination is de scientia Dei voluntate ejus and Act of his Will Ephes 1.4 7. as well as of