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A75582	The just mans defence, or, The royal conquest being the declaration of the judgement of James Arminius, Doctor of Divinity in the University of Leyden, concerning the principall points of religion, before the States of Holland and VVestfriezland / translated for the vindication of truth, by Tobias Conyers, sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.; Declaratio sententiae de predestinatione. English	Arminius, Jacobus, 1560-1609.; Conyers, Tobias, 1628-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing A3700A; ESTC R208013	52,267	187

5 Gen. 2. 17. that thou shalt dye If any of these be taken away from him the force and weight of that monition exciting him to obedience falls to the ground 1. It opposeth the Image of God in man consisting in sanctity and knowledge of him according to which man was apt able obliged to know love worship and serve God but by this Predestination intervening or rather prevening man was fore-ordained That he should be vitious and sinful i. e. That he should not know God love worship or serve him neither perform that which according to the Image of God in his aptitude potencie and obligement he stood bound to do which tant amounts this That God created man after his own Image in holiness and righteousness but fore-ordained and decreed That man should become impure injust i. e. be made conformable to the Satanical Image 2. This doctrine combats the liberty of mans will with which he was invested by his creation in that it impedes and hinders the use and exercise thereof by binding up and determining the same to one part in the doing this or that so that one of these two God which be far from us to think must be guilty of either for that he created man with freedom of will or hindred him in the exercise thereof being thus created the first chargeth him with incogitancy the last with mutability and both with being iniurious to man and himselfe 3. It 's prejudiciall to man in regard of that propensity and capacity implanted in him by his creation for the enioyment of everlasting life in as much as by this predestinatory decree it is fore-appointed that the greater part of men shall not partake of eternall bliss but fall into everlasting condemnation and that before the ordinance was passed in heaven for their creation they are deprived of satisfying their innate inclinations those concreated tendencies to life ingrafted in them by the hand of their Creator and that not by their own preceding sinne and merit but simply and alone by this Predestination Ninethly This Predestination 9. Arg. is diametrically repugnant to the act of Creation For 1. Creation is the communication Creation is made a means to put in to Execution the Decrees of good according to the intrinsecal propriety of its nature but such a Creation as hath this intent and meaning that it may be a way by which Reprobation formerly made might attain its end is not the communication of good all good is to be estimated and judged of according to the mind of the giver or the end to or for which it was given The intent of the Donor here had been damnation which must have the creature for its subject the end or event of this Creation the eternal perdition thereof in which case Creation had not been the communication of any good but a preparatory to the greatest evil and that both according to the intent of the Creator and the event of the thing according to that of our Saviour It had been Matth. 26. 24. better for that man that he had never been born 2. Reprobation savours of hatred ariseth from thence but Creation cannot proceed of hatred therefore it is no way or means appertaining to the execution thereof 3. Creation is a perfect act of God a declarative of his Wisdom Goodness and Omnipotencie therefore not subordinate to the end of any precedaneous Work or action of God but rather is to be looked upon as an act appointed necessarily antecedaneous and preceding all other actions which he either could decree or undertake for without the pre-conception of it he could not ordain the actual undertaking of any other business without its execution he could not absolve and finish any other Work 4. All the actions of God tending to the damnation of his creatures are aliens and forraigners in that God consents unto them for some other extraneous cause but Creation is the most proper act of God to which he could not be moved by any external cause being that first act of God without which indeed there is nothing else but God every thing that now is having its being by this action 5. If Creation be the way or means by which God will execute the Decree of his Reprobation then he wills more the act of REPROBATION then that of creation pleaseth himself That wch a man wils as the means must needs be less considerable by him then that which he wills as the end Arminius meaneth Elect and reprobate persons being both in Adam according to this Doctrine more in the act of condemning some of his harmless creatures then in the act of their Creation Lastly Creation cannot be a way or means to Reprobation according to the absolute purpose of God when that being finished man might still remain in obedience to Gods command and not sinne to which God had afforded sufficient strength on the one part and placed answerable impediments on the other which is in open hostility with this Doctrine of Predestination Tenthly This Predestination 10. Arg. sutes not the nature of eternal life and those Titles wherewith it is dignified in Scripture it s called the Inheritance of the sons of God but those are the onely sons Tit. 3. 7. of GOD according to Joh. 1. 12. the Doctrine of the Gospel who believe in the name of Jesus Matth. 5. 12. Christ it 's further termed The reward of obedience and of the labour of love the recompence of those Heb. 6. 10. who have fought a good fight and Rev. 2. 10. run well a crown of righteousness 2 Tim. 4. 7. c. Therefore God hath not designed eternal life to any out of his absolute decree without any respect or consideration had of faith and obedience Eleventhly This doctrine disagrees with the nature of eternall 11. Arg. death and those names put upon it by the Holy Ghost it 's stiled The wages of sin the punishment of Rom. 6. 23 eternal destruction which is reserved 2 Thes 1. 8 9. for them that know not God neither obey the Gospel of Christ eternal Matth. 25. 41. Fire prepared for the Devil and Heb. 10. 27 his Angels Fire which shall consume the Adversaries of God Therefore everlasting death is prepared for none out of the absolute decree of God without any sight or intuition of sin and disobedience Twelfthly This doctrine jarrs 12. Arg. with the nature and property of Sin and that two ways 1. Sin is known by the names of disobedience and rebellion in Scripture which finds no place in that person upon whom an unavoydable necessity of sinning by vertue of the preceding decree of God is incumbent 2. Sin is the meritorious cause of condemnation Now the meritorious cause is that which moves the will of God to reprobate according to justice it induceth God to whom sin is hateful to reject and reprobate therefore sin can be no middle

shutting of him up under sin and condemnation IIII. For unless God had created some he had not had upon whom he might bestow eternall life and bring upon everlasting death had not he created them in righteousness and sanctitie God himselfe had been the Author of sin and so had been deprived of the right of punishment to the praise of his Iustice and salvation for the honour of his mercy unless they themselves had sinned and by the merit thereof rendered themselves guilty of Death there could have been no place to demonstrate either Justice or Mercy 5. The meanes fore-ordained These are the special means for the putting into execution the decree of election are these three First The preordination or the giving of Jesus Christ a mediatour and Saviour who should purchase by his merit for all and onely the Elect life and lost righteousness and by his vertue communicate the same Second Their vocation to faith outwardly by the word inwardly by his spirit in the mind affections and will by an operation so efficacious that the elect person must needs assent and yeeld obedience thereunto in so much as he is not in any capacity able not to beleeve this his Calling or not to be obedient thereunto Hence comes to passe their justification and sanctification by the blood and spirit of Christ and in like manner all their good workes and this by the same forementioned force and necessity Third meanes to be is the Keeping the Elect in the faith sanctitie and zeale of good works or the donation of the perseverance to them whose vertue is to be this that the beleeving and elect persons do not onely not sin with that plenitude and wholeness of will or not fall Totally from faith or grace but they Cannot sin with that full bent of mind neither Can they totally or finally fall away from faith or grace received 6. The two * Vacotion perseverance last of these means belonging onely to the adult elect person of ripe years but for the children of beleevers who pass out of this life and never come to maturity of age God leads them a shorter way to salvation if they belong to the number of the elect which God onely knows by giving Christ a Saviour to them and them to Christ who saves them by his blood and holy spirit without actuall faith and perseverance and this according to the promise of the Covenant I will be your God and the God of your seed 7. The means appointed to These proper to the decree of Reprobation put into execution the decree of reprobation are partly proper to All the reject and reprobate whether they have lived to ripeness of years or died before their maturity partly peculiar to Some of them onely Means Common to them all is their dissertion in sin by the suspension of that saving grace which is sufficient and necessary to salvation and this hath two branches 1. God not being willing that Christ should die for them neither * i. e. He neither dignitate pretii died for them in regard of the value of the price Nor voluntate propositi God never intending that hee should shed his blood for them Quoad Voluntatem Antecedentem according to his Antecedent will as some call it or Quoad Sufficientem according to the sufficient or the valew of that reconciliatory Price which was never offerd for the Reprobate either in respect of the divine decree or the vertue and efficacy of it The 2. branch Gods unwillingness to communicate the spirit of Christ to them without which 't were impossible for them to be made partakers of him and his benefits 8. The means Peculiar to some of them onely is that obduration which befalls Adult persons for their often enormous violation of the Law of God repudiation of the Grace of the Gospel To the executing the first * For their violation of the law of God induration appertains the witness of their minds to the righteousness of the Law by knowledge illumination and conviction it not being possible for the Law not to detaine them in unrighteousness onely but necessary to the rendring them inexcusable To the execution of the second * For their refusing the grace of the Gospel obduration God makes use of their calling by the preaching of the word which is to be both insufficient and ineffectuall as well in regard of the decree of God as the event thereof This vocation is to be either externall onely which they neither will nor can obey or internall whereby some of them are raised in their understandings to embrace and beleeve the things they heare yet with such a faith as the devils endowed with beleeve and tremble some of them are carried on further even after a manner to desire to taste of the Heavenly Gift these being the most miserable of all who are therefore taken up on high that their fall may be the greater it being impossible that this event should not befall them necessitated to returne to their vomit and to fall away from the f 〈…〉 9. From this decree of election and reprobation divine and the administration of the means appertaining to the execution of both it followes that the elect should necessarily be saved so as they are not in any possibility of perishing and the reprobates unavoidably damned so as 't is utterly impossible for them to be saved and that out of the absolute purpose of Gods preceding all things and causes which are in things or could result from things This Opinion by some of those that adhere thereunto is judged the foundation of Christianity Sa●vation and the certainty thereof in which the sure and undoubted consolation of all beleevers giving them a peaceable conscience is founded and upon which the praise of the grace of God leaneth in so much as the contradicting this doctrine is surely to rob God of the glory of his grace to attribute the merit of salvation to the free-will and power of man which savours of Pelagianisme these being the causes pretended why they labour so anxiously to retaine the purity of this doctrine in their churches and oppose themselves to all alterations repugnant there unto For my part to speake what I thinke freely with the Salvage of a better judgement I am of that minde That this doctrine of predestination containeth in it many things false impertinent and discrepant with it selfe which Universally to run thorough time permits me not but I shal leave it to be examind in grosse in its latitude There 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are foure speciall heads in my view and those of the greatest weight in this doctrine I shall first declare them then give you my own judgement concerning them They are these First That God hath Absolutely and precisely decreed the salvation of some particular men by his mercy or grace and the condemnation of others by his justice without any sight or intuition in this