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A11078	Testis veritatis the doctrine [brace] of King Iames our late soueraigne of famous memory, of the Church of England, of the Catholicke Church : [brace] plainely shewed to bee one in the points of [brace] pradestination, free-will, certaintie of saluation [brace] : with a discouery of the grounds [brace] naturall, politicke [brace] of Arminianisme / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1626 (1626)	STC 21347.3; ESTC S4449	57,093	98

Bernard de lib. arb gra my words but the Apostles who attributes all the good that may possibly be vnto God and not to his owne Will euen to thinke to will and to doe If then God worketh these three things in vs that is to thinke good to will it and to performe it he worketh in vs the first indeed without vs the second with vs and the third by vs. For by sending in a good thought he preuenteth vs by changing our wicked Will hee ioynes it to him by consent and by giuing power to our consent this inward WORKER shewes himselfe outwardly in our manifest worke Post peccatum ante reparationem c. After sinne and ●… Lombard lib. 2 dist 25 Ex Hug. de S. Vict. before the restoring of Grace the Will is oppressed and ouercome of concupiscence and is weake in euill and hath no grace in good and therefore it can sinne and it cannot chuse but sinne and that damnably Operans Gracia est quae praeuenit c. Working or Id. lib. 2. dist 26. ●… operating Grace is that which preuenteth the good Will For by it the Will of man is freed and prepared that it may bee good and that effectually it may will good But cooperating Grace followeth the Will when it is good in helping it Gracia Dei mecum ostendit vt spepo quòd ipsa est causa Bradwarden de causa Dei lib. 1. cap. 40. efficiens c. The Grace of God with mee I hope will shew that Grace is properly the efficient cause of euery good act I meane Grace freely giuen which is an habite poured into the soule freely by God Vertue and chiefly the chiefest vertue Grace of Charity is no selfe EFFECTVALL than Vice But Vice effecteth euill acts wherefore Grace or Charity effecteth good acts And that I may say nothing of vices morally gotten who doth not know who doth not feele what acts one Radicall vice effecteth that law of the members that tyrant of nature that source of sinne Concupisence or the lustfullnesse of our flesh which also the Doctors often call Originall sinne A witnesse hereof is experience too common too forceable A witnesse also is the Apostle when hee saith I am carnall sold vnder sinne for what I doe I allow not For I doe not that which I would but that which I hate that I doe Seeing then that lust is so violent so effectuall so manifoldly actuous how doth Charity represse diminish and ouercome it if she doe nothing at all if she moue nothing at all if shee be altogether idle Qua Gratia non noua Voluntas creatur c. By which Grace there is not created a new will neither is the Cassander Consul●… Art 18●… will inforced being vnwilling but the will being sicke is healed being depraued is rectified and is changed from euill into good And by an inward kinde of motion is drawne that of vnwilling it may become willing and may freely consent to the Diuine calling and afterward the same Grace cooperating it may obey the will of God and by the same Grace perseuering in good workes may also through the same Grace enter into the inheritance of the heauenly Kingdome This Doctrine of the Grace of God and Free-will the sounder Schoole men strongly defended against the Pelagians among whom was Thomas Brauarden or Bradwarden called in his time the profound Doctor who wrote an excellent worke which he calleth a summe against Pelagianisme increasing in his dayes And how much many of them did attribute to Grace Bonauenture alone may testifie This saith he is the dutie of godly mindes that they attribute nothing to themselues but all to the grace of God wherein how much soeuer a man doth giue to the Grace of God hee shall not depart from pietie though by giuing much to the Grace of God hee take away something from the power of Nature or Free-will But when something is taken away from the Grace of God and that is giuen to Nature which belongs to Grace there may be danger THE DOCTRINE OF King IAMES concerning the Certaintie of Saluation and against the Apostacy or falling away of the Saints ABout the same time one Be●…tius a Scholler of the late Declar. against Vorstiue Arminius who was the first in our Age that infected Leyden with herisie was so impudent as to send a letter vnto the Arch-bishop of Canterbury with a booke intit●…led de Apostasia Sanctorum And not thinking it sufficient to auow the sending of such a booke the Title whereof onely were enough to make it worthy the fire hee was moreouer so shamelesse as to maintaine in his letter to the Arch bishop that the Doctrine contained in his booke was agreeable with the Doctrine of the Church of England Let the Church of Christ then iudge whether it was not high time for Vs to bestirre Our selues when at this Gangrene had not only taken hold amongst Our neerest Neighbours so ●… Non solùm paries proximus iam ardebat not onely the next house was on fire but did also beg in to creege into the bowels of Our owne Kingdome It is true that it was Our hard hap not to heare of this Arminius before hee was dead and that all the Reformed Churches of Germanie had with open mouth complained of him But as soone as Wee vnderstood of that distraction in your State which after his death hoc left behinde him Wee did not faile taking the opportunitie when your last extraordinary Ambassadors were here with Vs to vse some such speaches vnto them concerning this matter as We thought fittest for the good of your State and which Wee doubt not but they haue faithfully reported vnto you For what need Wee make any question of the A●…gancy of these Hereticks or rather Atheisticall Sectaries 〈◊〉 you when one of them at this present remaining in your Towne of Leyden hath not onely presumed to publish of late a blasphemous booke of the Apostasie of the Saints but hath besides beene so impudent as to send the other day a copie thereof as a g●…odly present to our Arch-bishop of Canterbury together with a letter wherein hee is not ashamed as also in his booke to lye so grossely as to 〈◊〉 that his Heresies contained in the said booke are agreeable with the Religion and profession of the Church of England For these respects therefore haue wee cause enough very hartily to request you to roote out with speed those Heresies and Schismes which are beginning to bud forth amongst you which if you suffer to haue the Reynes any longer you cannot expect any other issue thereof then the curse of God infamy throughout all the Reformed Churches and a perpetuall rent and distraction in the whole Body of your State His Maiestie doth exhort you seeing you haue heretofore ●…id taken Armes for the libertie of your Consciences and haue so much indured in a violent and bloudie warre the space of fortie yeeres

the earnest which they now receiue they are as certaine of it as if they were already crowned and reigning c. Bernard saith who is iust but he that returneth loue to God who hath loued him which is done when the Spirit by Faith REVEALETH to a man the eternall PVRPOSE of GOD concerning his FVTVRE SALVATION Dr. Reynoldes was a man indifferently well esteemed by some for his learning in the place where he liued and not accused by any that I knew for not being orthodoxe in any point of the Doctrine of our Church Yet Salomons saying is true That the Race is not to the swift c neither is fauour stil to men of skill wherfore as when a Countrey-Gentleman would borrow money in this Citie though his estate be neuer so great in the Countrey yet commonly hee must hauea Citizen bound for him that is knowne to the Cittie so since Doctor Reynoldes though well knowne for his learning in the place where he liued yet perchance may faile to haue trust among some men I must take leaue to get a surety for him euen one that is liuing and whose wordes I thinke will be taken in the Citie The man whome I produce to giue his word for Dr. Reynoldes is Doctor Francis White Deane of Carlile I haue already indeede produced him for a witnesse but now I produce him for a surety yea since he can here be a witnesse also let him be both a witnesse and a surety First therefore I take him as a witnesse of Perseuerance in that which I formerly cited out of him That our Tenet concerning Praedestination is no other then what Saint Austen and his Schollers maintained against the Pelagians Now it may plainly appeare by diuers of Saint Austens workes that the Praedestination taught by Saint Austen gaue to the praedestinaite an infallible perseuerance a perseuerance by which a Saint could not but perseuere And that I may not send away my Reader presently to reade or buy the workes of Saint Austen let him but looke backe to the allegation of Doctor Fulke and there he shall plainly see that which here I tell him so that thence will arise a plaine Argument The Tenet of our Church concerning Praedesti nation is the Doctrine of Saint Austen But the Doctrine of Saint Austen teacheth a Praedestination that giues a sure and infallible Perseuerance Therefore the Tenet of our Church teacheth a Praedestination that giues a sure and infallible Perseuerance Neither may aman dare to meddle with any thing but the Conclusion for the former proposition is guarded by Doctor White and the second by Saint Austin and Doctor Fulke But Doctor White comes somewhat nearer and RePly to Fisher. Proues that A member of Christ and the Catholicke Church in the Creede which consists of the true members of Christ can neuer fall away vnto damnation and therefore must needs be possessed of finall perseuerance That Church or the Catholicke Church in the Creede hath the remission of sinnes and life eternall and passeth not to Hell Ioh. 10. 28. Aug. de Doctr Christi lib. 3. cap. 32. Againe The testimonies of St. Austen obiected by the same Aduersary which are that the Catholicke Church is the Body of Christ whereof he is the Head and that out of this Body the holy Ghost quickneth no man make altogether against himselfe For none are vitall Members of Christs mysticall Body but Iust and Holy persons And it is the same Fathers Doctrine Impii non suntreuera corpus Christi wicked persons are not in Deed Veritie the Body of Christ. And in another place In corpore Christi non sunt quod est Ecclesia quoniam non potest Christus habere membra damnata They are not in Christs Body because Christ CANNOT haue DAMNABLE members Thus are Christs members sure of Salvation because safe from damnation they cannot be damned therefore they must be saved and I thinke that they will not deny that finall perseverance is an inseparable companion of Salvation And now wee come to another place in the same worke which though it begin in Witnessing yet it ends in Suretiship It that is still The Catholicke Church in the Creede is the Church builded upon the Rocke against which the gates of Hell shall not preuaile either by Herisie Tentation or Mortall sinne Matt. 16. 18. Matt. 7. 24 And if it bee a meere fancie to hold this then Gregory the great with many ancient Father were fantasticks for teaching in this manner Which to make good there are many citations adioyned Aug de Ci●…it Dei lib 20. cap 8. Nunquam ab illo ecclesia sed vcetur praedestinata electa ante constitutionem mundi Origin Trac 1 Mat Vnumquodque peccatorum c. portae sunt Inferorum Vna Inferorum porta vocatur scortatio C●…mmultae sunt neque recenceri numero possint Inferorum portae nulla porta Inferorum valet aduersus petram aut Ecclesiam quam Christus super illam aedificat Gregor Morall lib. 28. cap. 6 Sanctam Ecclesiā de Sanctis in aternum perman suris constructam nullis huius vitae persecutionibus superandam Ipse super quem ●…dificata est euidenter ostendit cum ait Port●… Inferi non praeualebunt aduersus eam Ambr in Luc lib. 2. cap. 3. Bern in Cant serm 7●… Dr. Raynold de Script Eccles. Thess. 4 confirme the same at large Thus are we referred to Doct. Reynolds by this learned man and therefore we may safely passe on to see what hee sayes Neither is this Reference meerely generall and learge but punctuall to this very poynt of the finall Perseuerance of the Saints A more generall commendation hee hath besides of this same worke when he sayes The aduersaries haue made no Reply to Doctor Reynoldes Theses Neither are any endued with sanctification but those whome God hath Elected that they should bee Saints And to true Sanctification Iustification concurreth But God Iustifieth onely the Elect and Iustifiing Faith by which the Hearts are purified is the Faith of the Elect of God The wicked are not beeleeuers in the Apostolicall vse of that word For whosoeuer beeleeueth shall bee saued and the end of Faith is the saluation of the soule And howsoeuer they may bee called beeleeuers for a profession of faith or for a temporary Faith yet they are not redeemed as those which are grounded on Christ For those that are Redeemed are made Kings and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God which is the Pr●…per prerogatiue of Saints And they that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did vp on Christ haue built houses grounded vpon the Ro●… which shall neuer fall Thes. 4. which is the very same wherevnto D White referred the Reader The 〈◊〉 Doctrine of Finall perseuerance 〈◊〉 againe confirmed in the Apologie of these Thes●… Master Hooker As Christ being raised from the dead dyeth no more death hath no more power ouer him so the iustified man be ing allyed to God in Iesus Christ our Lord doth as necessarily from that time

alwayes liue as Christ by whom he hath Ioh. 14. 19. life liueth alwayes I might if I had not other where largely done it already shew by many and sundry manifest and cleare proofes how the 〈◊〉 and opera●…ns of life are sometimes so indiscer●…ble and so secret that they seeme stone dead who notwithstanding are still aliue vnto God in Christ. For as long as that abideth in us which anima teth quickneth and giueth life so long wee liue and wee know that the cause of our Faith abideth in vs for euer If Christ the Fountaine of life may flit and leaue his habitation where he once d●…elleth what shall become of his promise I am with you to the worlds end If the Seed of God which contayneth Christ may be first conceiued 1. Pet. 1. and then cast out how doth S. Peter terme it immortall 1. Ioh. 39. How doth S. Iohn affirme it abideth If the Spirit which is guen to cherish preserue the seed of life may be giuen and taken away how is it the EARNEST of our INHERITANCE vntill Redemption If the Iustified ●…rre a●… he may and neuer come to vnderstand his error God doth sa●…e him through generall repentance but if he fall into H●…risy he calleth him at one time or other by actuall Repentance but from 〈◊〉 which is an inward direct deny all of the foundation 〈◊〉 preser●…eth him by speciall providence foreuer Discourse of Iustification Thus haue the Fathers and Doctors of our Church plainly shewed the Doctrine of our Church And this last witnesse a man beyond all exception of Schisme or Partialitie the enimies of this Doctrine being Iudges hath strongly confirmed and established it Yea he hath cut off that Goli●… Head which commonly marcheth against the hoast of God to terrifie them out of their assurance of Finall perseverance and certaine Saluation For he sheweth that the truely iustified after their errors are saued either by generall or actuall repentance but from Infidelitie Fundamentall Errors they are preserued for euer And Dr. Overall seemes to ioyne in one harmonie with this doctrine of M Hooker saying the like for Errors of life that this other did for errors in beleife In the Conference at Hampton Court these are his words Those which were called and iustified according to Gods purpose and Election howsoeuer they might and did sometimes fall into greiuous sinnes c. were in time renewed by Gods Spirit vnto a liuely Faith and Repentance and 〈◊〉 iustified from those sinnes and the wrath and Curse and Guilt annexed thereunto So that the obiection now adayes vrged was long since prevented with an answer and should haue kept silent the mouth of it being stopped For to what purpose is it to aske and obiect What if a iustified man commit a great sinne and dye without Repentance When it hath ben answered long since that Iustification hath such a Repentance annexed to it as shall suffice to wash away the guilt and wrath of those Error●… sinnes into which the iustified shall fall If true Iustification and 〈◊〉 Repentance goe still together and 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 what a strange question is that which rayseth an obiection from Iustificatiō separated from Repentance I●… it lawfull for them to make a Iustification of their owne severed from Repentance and to raise an obiection thence against our Iustification conioyned with repentance This is a meere deceit to argue from things ill divided against things well conioyned Yea cursed are they that put a sunder what God hath knit tog●…thhr King Iames said in the Conference at Hampton Court It was hypocrisie and not true iustifiing faith that was seuered from Repentance If then true Iustifiing Faith and Repentance be not seuered their argument against perseuerance taken from iustifiing Faith seuered from Repentance is a meere imaginarie and fantasticall argument For they imagine a severing of things not indeed severed and then they raise an argument from the seperation which is onely in their owne braines and not in the thing So that the ambition and vtmost hope of such an argument is onely this If such a thing were that indeed is not then that would not be that indeed is If iustifiyng Faith were wholly severed from Repentance as it is not then perseverance would not be Persverarance Wee haue seene out of S. Austen Our Church Doctors that the same Election which Decreeth to the Saints glory Salvation Decreeth also perseverance Now Perseverance must needes haue that sufficient Repentance without which it cannot be perseverance And therefore the same Decree that decreeth Perseverance must needes also Decree that Repentance without which Perseverance cannot be And in deede one and the same Seede of God Decreed to all the Elect is an immortall seede both of repentance and perseverance Briefely then though a man were to be excluded from Salvation for not performing a condition yet if he be sure to performe the cōdition he is still sure of Salvation As on the other side if he be sure of Salvation then he is sure to performe the condition without which he cannot be sure of Salvation Now those whom our Article saith God hath cōstantly Decreed to bring to Salvation they are sure of Salvation And therefore are they sure of that Repentance and all other conditions or qualifications without which they cannot be sure of Salvation Perchance the same matter in Mr. Hookers words will be Discourse of Iustification of more authority Our Saviour when he spake of the sheepe effectually called and truely gathered into his fold I giue vnto them Eternall life and they shall never perish neither shall any pluck them out of my hands In promising to saue them he promised no duobt to preserue them in that without which there can be no Salvation as also from that by which it is recoverably lost But in a second place let the questioners giue mee leaue to aske them a question Whether in this their damning of men regenerate that doe not particularly repent for euery great sinne they doe not bring in a Doctrine of despaire For if one of these great sinnes euer happen to be forgotten it is the very case of sinne against the Holy Ghost There remaineth no more sacrifice for Heb. 10. sinnes but a certaine fearefull looking for of Iudgement and fiery indignation A sinne forgotten cannot be for given There is no salvation without particular Repentance no●… no particular Repentance without patticular Remembrance Againe wee know that some liue in an innumerable variety of grea horrible sinns such as S. Paul reckons 1. Cor. 6. 9. Now if these men after come to repent it is impossible for them to remember their numberlesse particular sinns which they haue committed and to apply to them a particular repentance Then by the same reason it seemes to mee it were impossible they should be saued But if God accept a generall repentance of them it were good to bring some place of Scripture which saith that