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A39279	A defence of the Thirty nine articles of the Church of England written in Latin by J. Ellis ... now done into English ; to which are added the Lambeth Articles ; together with the judgment of Bishop Andrews, Dr. Overall, and other eminent and learned men upon them.; Articulorum XXXIX Ecclesiae Anglicanae defensio. English	Ellis, John, 1599?-1665.; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.; Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Church of England. Thirty-nine Articles.	1700 (1700)	Wing E587; ESTC R1641	74,086	146

Obj. 1. No body can give what he has not But wicked Ministers have not Grace and Forgiveness of Sins and therefore they can●t effectually administer the Sacraments whereby they are obtained Answ. A minister does not give Heav●y Gifts effectually as the principal efficient Cause but as the instrumental one Now the Effect ought not to be like the Instrument but the first Cause Besides he does not properly give the same Gifts but only the external Signs of them Hence God is said t● circumcise t●e Heart Deut. 3. 6. And Christ b●ptized with the Holy G●st but Jo●n with Water Mat. 3. 11. Obj. 2. God said to ●e Wicked or Ungodly M●n What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy Mouth seeing th●n hatest Instruction and cas●est my Words behind thee Psal. 50 16 17 And since God would not have wicked M●n administer Holy Things methinks 〈◊〉 Ministry s●uld be unprofitable Answ. This 50th Psalm does not speak peculiarly of Ministers but of the People of the Jews whom God chastised because they had his Law always in their Mouths and were very frequent in their Sacrifices and yet lead wicked Lives and this sort of Worship it is that is there spoken against But if the Place be applied to Ministers it may be said that the Ministry of one that leads a wicked Life is not acceptable to God in respect to the Person that administers but yet it may be efficacious and profitable in respect to the Hearers Obj. 3. A Man that is overtaken in a Fault is to be res●ored by the Spirit of Meekness Gal. 6. 1. Much more then ought a Minister in respect to his Person therefore he ought not to be chastised and deposed Answ. Wicked Ministers are to be often warned but if they will not at all obey these Admonitions they may and ought then to be deposed ART XXVII Of Baptism BAptism is not only a Sign of Profession and Mark of Difference whereby Christian Men are discerned from others that be not Christened but it is also a Sign of Regeneration or New Birth whereby as by an Instrument they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church The Promises o● the Forgiveness of Sin and of our Adoption to be the Sons of God by the Holy Ghost are visibly signed and sealed● Faith is confirmed and Grace encreased by Vertue of Prayer unto God The Baptism of young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable with the Institution of Christ. Obj. 1. God confers Grace whereby Men are grafted into the Church and there were some that were Members of the Church before their Baptism namely The Treasurer to Queen Candace Acts 8. Cornelins the Centurien Acts 10. 〈◊〉 even by their good Works shewed that t●ey were regenerate and for this Reason Baptism is not the only Sign of Regeneration nor is it o●ing solely to that that Men are grafted into the Church Answ. Although God be the principal Cause of Salvation yet this does not hinder but that Baptism may be the Means that God may make use of in bestowing Salvation And then Baptism in Infants is their first Entrance into the Church though it be not so in Persons grown up as in the Examples that are alledged But ye● Baptism is not without its Benefit even in Persons grown up inasmuch as it confirms their Faith It is true Good Works did testifie that there were many Believers but they did not so 〈◊〉 do it as publick Baptism in the Church Obj. 2. The Promises of God are most sure in themselves and do not need any Confirmation by the Sacraments Answ. The Promises of God are indeed most sure in themselves but in respect to us they do want Confirmation Obj. 3. It is the Holy Ghost that fixes in our Minds the Certainty of the Divine Promises Answ. The Holy Ghost gives us Assurance but it is by the Mediation of the Word and Sacraments Obj 4. The Faith of the Gospel which is preached to us does exclude all manner of doubtting and therefore does not need any Confirmation by the Sacraments Answ. The Faith which we preach does exclude all doubt in respect of the Object but not in respect of the Subject We know that Christ is Omnipotent and Faithful although we our selves be weak We know that a weak Faith may be true but yet that which is less liable to doubting is more perfect And then we cannot doubt that Men by Baptism and other Means may still obtain a greater measure of Faith Obj. 5. Infants are not to be baptized because Christ commands us first to teach and then baptize Mat. 28. 19. But Infants cannot be taught Ans. That place is to be understood of such Persons as are grown up that are capable of Learning and no● of Infants Besides the Word in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 does not properly signifie to teach but to make Disciples and this may be spoken of Infants The Children of the Jews were without any appointment circumcised and the same Reason holds for baptizing Christian Infants Obj 6. T●se who believe not are to be with-held from Baptism but Infants do not believe because they have no Knowledge of Good or Evil Deut. 1. 39. Answ. All these places relate to Persons grown up And then besides the Faith of Parents is though● sufficient for their Children why may not the Faith of another as well be sufficient to them as the Sin of another be imputed to them ART XXVIII Of the Lord's Supper THE Supper of the Lord is not only a Sign of the Love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another But rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's Death Insomuch that to such as rightly worthily and wi●h Faith receive the same the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ And likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partak● of the Blood of Christ. Transubstantiation ●r ●he Change of the Substance of Bread and W●e in the Supper of the Lord cannot b● proved by Holy Writ but it is r●pugnant to the plain Words of Scripture ●verthroweth the Nature of a Sacrament and has given occasion to many Superstitions The Body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Supper only after a Heavenly and Spiritual manner And the Mean whereby the Body of Christ i● received and eaten in the Supper is Faith The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's Ordinance reserved carryed about li●ted up or worshipped Obj. 1. Transubstantiation is f●unded on the very Wo●ds of the Institution Mat. 26. 26. and these must signifie a true c●ange of the Bread and Wine Answ. In the Holy Supper there is not a Substantial but a Sacramental Change Obj. 2. The same thing which was exhibited by Christ to his Disciples to be eaten and drank was given and s●ed for us for the Remissi●n of our Sins But i● was

Vertue nor the Common-wealth The thing at last ended thus That the Archbishop should beg Pardon for what had been done so unadvisedly and ●ould promise to write to Cambridge to hinder these 〈◊〉 Ar● fro● being any further published or sprea●●road which also he did But a long while after as it seems there was a Copy found a●ongst W●itaker's Papers whereby at length this Work was made publick against the consent of the Authors After these Articles were made Baron continued both in his Professorship and in his Opinion but Whitaker died a few days after the Assembly at Lambeth At length Baron his Three Years being out for by the way according to the ancient Insti●ution the Professors were to continue in that Lecture but Three Years quitted his Office and retired to his private Studies After these two between whom the Contention arose Dr. Jo● Ove● a most I earned Man was made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He sollow●d that way of ●aking which determ●nes That sufficient Grac● is offered to every Man and that Christ died 〈◊〉 All. In every good th●g Grace does opera●e first and then in the next ●lace Free-Will informed and a●tuated by Grace Grace that Grace does operate in an 〈◊〉 manner and that not by binding up Men after a natural way to particular Actions 〈◊〉 Tha● justisying Grace is not consistent with deadly Sins before actual Repent● As to that ob●ure Controversie about Predestination he behaved himself so as to condemn neither the former nor the latter Opinion of St. Austin as thinking there was no great matter of difference between them especially since St. Austin himself has said after the Dispute arose betwixt him and Pel●ins that he had the same Thoughts then as he formerly had when he opposed the Manici●s and that now he had not so much changed his O●ion as his way of Speaking What happen'd afterwards under the Reign of King J●mes the First First 〈◊〉 1603. may be seen in Dr. 〈◊〉 Book 〈◊〉 about that Matter For there Dr. Reynolds with the rest that opposed the Bishops amongst other things which they thought did mightily tend to the puri●y of the Church of England they requested this also that the Lambeth Articles might be put into the Confession But King James would not grant their Request thinking that such sort of Desinitions did not tend to the Peace of the Church The Articles of Predestination and the Heads adjoyning proposed at Lambeth by Dr. Whitaker I. GOD has from all Eternity predestinated s●e to Life and reprobated some to De●h II. The effi●ient Cause of Predestination is not a Fore●ght of Faith or Perseverance or good Works or of an other thing that is in ●he Person predestinated but it is the sole absolute and simple Will of God III. Of those that are Predestinated there is a determinate and certain Number which can neither be increased nor 〈◊〉 IV. Those who are not predestinated to Salvation shall of necessity be condemned for their Sins V. A true lively and justifying Faith and the sanctifying Spirit of God is neither extinguished nor lost nor does it depart from those that have been once partakers of it either totally or finally VI. A truly faithful Man that is one that is indued with justifying Faith is certain with a certainty of Faith of the forgiveness of his Sins and of his eternal Salvation by Christ. VII Grace sufficient to Salvation is not afforded communicated or granted to ail Men whereby they may be saved if they will VIII No Man can come to Christ unless it be given him and unless the Father draw him and all Men are not so drawn by the Father that they may come to the Son IX It is not put in the Will or Power of every Man to be saved All these Propositions are either plainly inserted in the Book of Articles and were always approved of in our Church or else they may by a necessary Consequence be drawn and collected from the Articles The Articles proposed at Lambeth as they were drawn up by the Reverend Dr. Whitaker in his own Hand writing and presented to the Bishops and other Divines at Lambeth The Articles proposed at Lambeth as they were drawn up by the Bishops and other Divines and of the sense wherein they were admitted and approved of I. GOD has from all Eternity predestinated some to Life and reprobated some to Death I. THis Article was admitted in the same words for if by the first some be meant Believers and by the second some Unbelievers Here is no occasion of Contention but it is a very true Article II. The efficient Cause of Predestination is not a foresight of 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 or good Works or of any other thing that is in the Persons predestinated But it is the sole absolute and simple Will of God II. The moving or ef● Cause of Pred●tion to Life is not a foresight of F●h or 〈◊〉 or Good Works or of any other thing that is in the Persons Predestinated but it is the sole Will of God that is well pleased In this second Article there was added by the Lambeth Divines 1. moving 2. to Life 3. The sole absolute and simple Will of God is changed into The sole Will of God that is well-pleased and that not without good reason For the moving Cause of Predestination to Life is not Faith but the Merit of Christ since God designed Salvation for those that are to be saved not for their Faith but for the sake of Christ. The word moving agrees properly to Merit and Merit is in the Obedience of Christ and not in our Faith These words to Life are added because altho a foresight of Infidelity and Impenitency be the Cause of Predestination to Death and so likewise of any thing else which is in the Persons predestinated to Death yet there is no Cause of Predestination to Life but the sole Good-Will and Pleasure of God according to that of St. Austin The Cause of Predestination is sought for and not found but the Cause of Reprobation is sought for and sound too The absolute and simple Will of God signifies something more than the sole Will of God that is well-pleased For the Will of God well-pleased is Conditional God would have us to do well if we would not be wanting to his Grace and it has pleased God to sa● all Men if they would believe III. Of those that are Predestinated there is a determinate and certain number which can neither be increased nor 〈◊〉 III. In this Article there is nothing changed for it is most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be understood 〈◊〉 Fore-knowledge 〈◊〉 which is never 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for neither 〈◊〉 nor sewer can be sav● than those whom G● did foreknow IV. Those who are not predestinated to Salvation shall of necessity be condemned for their Sins In this Article there is nothing changed for it is most true God having determined not to forgive Sins but to such as believe But if you would so interpret this and the former Article