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A03411	The arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience Occasioned vpon an inditement preferred by the soule of man against the prodigals vanity and vaine prodigality. Explained, applyed, and tryed in the historie and misterie of that parable. From whence is drawne this doome orthodoxicall, and iudgement divine. That no earthly vanity can satisfie mans heavenly soule. ...	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.; Hobson, Robert.; Henderson, Robert, 17th cent.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 13538.5; ESTC S103944	228,566	364

of their Crownes and lives or both no more did he deprive him of his Heavenly Kingdome by his repentance being reprived and pardoned what needs moe witnesses to adde water to the Sea or light to the Sunne THOMAS AQVINAS in his m Opose 20 〈◊〉 Regimine principis lib. 3. c. 8. Opuscula BONAVENTVRE HVGO CARDINALIS CARTHVSIANVS in their Coments on Ecclesiastes SOTO Maior in his Preface before the Canticles VINCENTIVS BELLOVACENSIS in his glasse of n L. 2. c. 84. Hystories SIXTVS SENENSIS in his o Lib. 8. Heres 7. Bibliotheke the learned Iesuite p Prolegom in Eccles LORINVS with other moderne Papists besides Protestants and more ancient than all these ALBINVS Schoole-master to CHARLES the Great with many moe frō these and other Arguments perswade themselves of his sound Conversion and conclude his salvatiō The Arguments or rather opinions and conceits of BELLARMINE and other Papists of his Reprobation being as weake as false and uncharitable being not worth recording or if I should relate them as one saith in the like case to relate them is to confute q Recitasse est confutusse See M. Prins Book of the Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate Pag. 393 them Mole ruunt suo they fall of themselves all their force may be referred to two heads First that this repentance of SALOMON which I so urge is no where recorded in Scripture therefore he repented not The Argument holds together like ropes of sand 1. The repentance of NOAH LOT and SAMPSON as I sayd is not recorded therefore were they not repentant It 's as untrue as uncharitable 2. The Scripture speakes some things ipsissimis verbis in plaine words some things by necessary r Jlliricus l. 2. in Clavi Scriptura consequence and so SALOMONS repentance as also the repentance of SAMPSON and GIDEON for in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Ch. 11. v. 32. they are approved for their Faith so is NOAH vers 7. Now as there is no reall mother without a child so no iustifying faith without Repentance being both united by the true object of Faith himselfe Mark 1. v. 15 So ADAMS repentance is not recorded yet beleeving the promises Gen. 3.15 Of necessity he could not but ſ Colligit August Ep. 99 ex c. 10 Sapien. v. 1. repent for though there may be a legall repentance without Faith as in t Gen 4.13 CAIN u Mat. 27.3 IVDAS * Historia Fusius recitatur a Grineo de Apostas pag. 151 A Lud. Rabbi de Martyrib et a Lonicero in Theatro exemp f 101 102. FRANCIS SPIRA and usually in the Reprobates yet there can be no Evangelicall Repentance without saving Faith nor no saving Faith without Repentance more than a true Sunne without light or fire without heate now SALOMON being so excellent a Type of the Messias could not in all probability but beleeve the Messias and in the Messias therefore as PICVS MIRANDVLA well notes in his Apologie for ORIGEN by the Testimony of x Comment in c. 3. Gen. HENRICVS DE ASIA the Schooleman it 's no good Argument to say any is damned because the Scriptures reveale theyr sinne but for some causes secret never unjust silence their sorrow since also SALOMONS repentance may be registred by some other Writers as NATHAN AHIIAH IEEDO who writ his life and Acts whose workes are now perished iniuria incuria temporum by the iniquity of the Times The second Dart that 's shot against SALOMONS sincerity is that in his time he did not purge out the Idolatry that was in his Kingdome pull'd not downe the Alters and Idols which by his permission if not approbation his Heathenish Wives had erected as did y 2. Chr. 33 15 Manasses upon his repentance as a sincere hart would have done after the example of z 1. Kin. 15.12 Asa a 2. Chr. 30.14 Ezekias b 2. Kin. 22 43. Iehosophat c Or Vzzah 2. Ch. 26.4.5 Azarias and others this knot some thinke is hard to loose but the satisfactiō that may be received is only this 1. That his not reforming of Religion in every thing exactly and precisely is no true Argument that he was not converted no more than the pulling downe of Groves and Idols is alwayes a note of sincerity for whose zeale was hotter this way than d 2 King 9. C. 10. per totum Iehues yet where have we a more formall Hypocrite 2. Even e V. 28.29 in the times of the best of the Kings of Israel and Iudah as you shall see in these nominated as the Canker in their Roses there was ever something amisse in the matter of Religiō some high Places or other untaken away as even in the time of MANASSES after his repentance the people did Sacrifice still in the high Places 2. Chron 33. v. 12.13.17 3. His f So 2. King 12.3 sincere Ioash reformed not all Wives were so wedded according to the Nature of that Sexe to their Idolatries that he could not disswade them would not perhaps displease g Quam infelix est Gynacocratia Polypragmosu● mulierū in Ecclesiasti is et politicis instant Pencerus in Chrō Bodinus l. 6. de Rep. c. 5. pag. 11●4 1115 the withall the people being setled in their Leas and frozen in their dregs as too obstinate and pertinatious he could not perhaps with that facility do what otherwayes he would and should even as GIDEON was overswayed and resisted when he went about to pull downe the Altars and cut downe the Groves of h Iudg. 6.27.30 Baal perhaps as the sonnes of i 2. Sam. 16 10. ZERVIAH once for his Father DAVID There were some too hard for him too many like Tobiah and k Nehem. 4.1.2.3 Samballat too neare him and deare to him were perhaps ill affected or Idolatrously infected to hinder the effecting of this weighty and worthy worke the supplanting and eradicating of all kinde of Idolatry and Idolaters out of his Kingdome These mysts dispersed these Cloudes remooved the Sunne of this truth shines cleare that Salomon was sanctified and consequently saved yea that he was gracious with God and his Church even when he pronounced this his Verdict of Vanity if I would use more inartificiall l Argumentum Jnartificiale ex authoritate apud Ramum Arguments from Authorities or Achillean from Scriptures and reasons to prove my Assertions no Paradoxe but Orthodoxe I could with m In his hystory Ecclesiasticall Peter Comestor conclude my positions from that Promise which the Lord made to his Father David 2. Sam. 7.12.13.14 of establishing the Throne of SALOMON and that the Lord would bee his Father Which Promise n Comment in 2. Sā c. 7. Paul Burgensis and a Glosse of the Decretals perswade themselves was made to DAVID rather concerning the Heavenly Kingdome of Salomon and his aeternall beatitude then of his temporall Kingdome since he was named the