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cause_n	body_n	soul_n	spiritual_a	1,721	5	6.6792	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52800	An antidote against Arminianism, or, A succinct discourse to enervate and confute all the five points thereof to wit, predestination grounded upon man's foreseen works, universal redemption, sufficient grace is all, the power of man's free-will in conversion, and the possibility of true saints published for the publick good by Christopher Ness.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1700 (1700)	Wing N441; ESTC R25504	74,295	146

must abide in the Ship It was true in Sensu Composito to wit in the Connexion of the End and Means but not In sensu diviso either that the Shipmen should not abide in the Ship or that any Man in the Ship should not be saved 2. Ludovicus the Eleventh King of France under this Temptation was convinc'd in his Sickness of his fond Saying Si salvabor salvabor by his Wise Physitian who told him If your Time be come no Physick I can give will do you good The King pondering that Saying crys out Must I use means for the good of my Body and not of my Soul Hereupon became he upon further Conference and taking Physick to be cured of Soul and Body 3. God's Decree doth not nullifie the Property of Secondary Causes in Natural Things but includes them and disposes of them to their Proper End and so in Things Spiritual God decrees that the Earth should be fruitful this doth not exclude but include that the Sun must shine upon it Showers must water it and the Husbandman must till it as his God instructs him Isa 28.26 God decrees that fifteen Years shall be added to Hezekiah's Life this made him neither careless of his Health nor negligent of his Food he said not Though I run into the Fire or into the Water or drink Poison I shall live so long but Natural Providence in the due Use of Means co worketh so as to bring him on to that Period of Time pre-ordained for him Man's Industry is subservient to God's Decree 't is call'd the Life of our Hands Isa 57.10 we may not tempt the Lord our God Ora labora admotâ manu Invocanda est Minerva 4. The Golden Chain hath so link'd the Means to the End and Sanctification in order to Salvation that God doth infallibly stir up the Elect to the Use of the Means as well as bring them to the End by the Means therefore he promises to sanctifie whom he purposes to save Ezek. 36.26,27 two of those Links to wit Predestination and Glorification are kept fast in God's Hand but the Middle Links are let down from Heaven to us on Earth that we should catch hold on them We may not pluck those Parts of the Chain out of God's Hands or break the Chain to make it Useless The Elect Lady must look to her self 2 John ver 8. though the Decree be absolute the Execution of it is not which two may not be confounded 5. The Arminian Eternal Prescience iufers as absolute a Certainty and Necessity of Events as our Predestination doth for Things must be fore-ordain'd to be before they can be foreseen that they shall be ut suprd so Men may argue from their Grounds If I be Eternally foreseen to believe I shall believe and be saved And o contra yet further they teach Men to say I can repent when I will I may be elected though I live still in Lewdness I have a Free-will to repent on my Death-bed so I may be saved This will make Men remiss indeed but to read the Heart of God towards us thus Absolutely Everlastingly Effectually and Peculiarly doth constrain and unite our Hearts to God for ever Luke 1.74,75 and 1 Cor. 6.20 Cyrus acts freely finding himself fore-ordained Isa 44.21 Objection 7. Reprobation as absolute makes Men desperate Si damnabor damnabor Let me do what I can I shall be danmed I am under a fatal Necessity Answer 1. This is to suck Poison out of a sweet Flower and to dash against the Rock of Ages this is to Stumble at the Word 1 Pet. 2.8 whereunto they were appointed and like prophane Beasts to fall into the Pit that was diggd for better purposes why hath God order'd all things by an Absolute Decree for ever It is that Men should fear before him and not make such desperate Inferences Eccles 3.14 2. The Stoical Opinion of Fate puts God in Subjection to Nature as in Homer's Jupiter Neptune ut supra over-power'd by Fate but the absolute Decree e contra puts Nature in subjection to God and does not necessitate Men to do so much Evil and no more Good tha they do as before largely for God as an Infinite Cause can influence the Will of Man Prov. 21.1 and determine it so as not to destroy the Liberty of it because he determines it in a way suitable to it 's own Nature God acting freely as the First Cause and Man acting freely as the Second Cause in Concurrence not by Constraint 3. No Man may judge himself a Reprobate in this Life excepting in that sin unto Death and so to grow desperate for final Disobedience the infallible Evidence of Reprobation cannot be discover'd till Death We are not to question the Secret Will of God which is the Rule of Events but to mind his Revealed Will which is the Rule of Endeavours and to lay our Souls under his Commands One may fulfil the secret Will of God and do ill as Judas and the Jews in killing Christ Acts 2.23 and one may cross the secret Will of God and do well as David in praying for the Life of his Child which God had decreed should then dye We must look into our own Bosoms and so know what we are in the Bosom of God 4. The Arminian Doctrine God foresaw what good Courses I would take out of my Free-will so did elect me is miserable Comfort to one whose Heart is privy to Myriads of Deviations from God and to tell Men they may be justified and sanctified c. yet for all this may become Reprobates and be damned in the end is desperate Doctrine Whereas our Doctrine is only liable to false Inferences as Christ's was Luk. 18.25 Who then can be saved not of it self but by corrupt Consequences drawn from it CHAP. XI The Second Point Universal Redemption in the sense of the Arminians cannot be a Gospel Truth for these following Arguments and Reason Argument 1. OPera Trinitatis ad extrasunt oequalia God the Father's Election God the Son's Redemption and God the Holy Ghost's Sanctification must be all of equal Extent and Latitude But Universal Redemption in the Arminian Sense makes these unequal therefore c. The Proposition is clear for the Father Word and Spirit are one as in Essence so in Willing Working and Witnessing the Redemption of Sinners Upon Earth Blood is not alone nor Witnesses alone but where Water and Spirit are also So in Heaven the Word witnesses not alone but the Father and Holy Ghost also these three agree in one 1 John 5.6,7,8 Whom the Father elects the Son redeems and the Holy Ghost sanctifies If then there be an Universal Redemption then there must be an Universal Election and an Universal Sanctification and so by consequence an Universal Salvation too That the Son redeems no more than the Father elects is evident from two Scriptures the first is John 5.23 the Son must be honoured as the Father but to say that the