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A96830	Arcana dogmatum anti-remonstrantium. Or the Calvinists cabinet unlock'd. In an apology for Tilenus, against a pretended vindication of the synod of Dort. At the provocation of Master R. Baxter, held forth in the preface to his Grotian religion. Together, with a few soft drops let fall upon the papers of Master Hickman.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3336; Thomason E1854_2; ESTC R204117	284,533	643

to the Elect ONEly and that according to the counsil will and intention of the Father and this Master Baxter had under his view when he exprest so much wrath against Tilenus and therefore he confutes himself with this Confession They do indeed assert Art 2. Sect. 8. That it was onely the Elect that God the Father intended by the death of Christ effectually to bring to faith justification and salvation which is the same Doctrine with that of Election before mentioned Who ought Master Baxter this shame to betray him to this incogitancy The same Doctrine with that of Election before mentioned Why was not that Election of some certain culled out Persons as the Synod declares So we see what Master Baxters Universall Redemption comes to His Redeemed All are no more then his Elected All 't is an All in respect of kindes not of Persons But Christ is theirs to be sute according to the most Free Counsil gracious will and intention of God the Father So saith the Synod and this Master Baxter will subscribe to when he is Disputing against Tilenus though when he gets into the Pulpit he declares this to be a Doctrine of an ill influence for he saith Christ and salvation are made light of because of this disjunctive Presumption either that he is sure enough theirs already Making light of Christ pag. 21. and God that is so mercifull and Christ that hath suffered so much for them is surely resolved to save them or else it may easily be obtained at any time if it be not yet so Is it not the expresse Doctrine of the Synod and Master Baxter that Christ is sure enough the Elects and that God and Christ are resolved to save them and that this will most infallibly be obtained at God's time if it be not so yet This disjunctive presumption which he preacheth down in his Church he disputes up in his Closet And though when he is conversing with his papers inter Adversaria and drawing Diagrams concerning the Divine Decrees his good wits jump with the Synod and tells us The Father intended by the death of Christ effectually to bring to Faith justification and salvation none but the Elect yet when he hath his Crown which is his crowd of Auditors about him he forgets himself and if not his love to truth his zeale to souls transports him into other language much more patheticall then this Doctrine will allow of For thus he addresseth his exhortation to them Ibid. pag. 29.30 Beloved hearers the office that God hath call'd us to is by declaring the glory of his Grace to help under Christ to the saving of mens souls I hope you think not that I come hither to day of any other Errand The Lord knowes I had not set a foot out of doores but in hope to succeed in this work for your soules I have considered and often considered what is the matter that so many thousand should perish Now the man is in a rapture and hath quite forgotten his Decree of Reprobation when God hath done so much for their salvation and I find this that is mentioned in my Text Mat. 22.5 But they made light of it is the cause It is one of the wonders of the world that when God hath so loved the world as to send his Son and Christ hath made a satisfaction by his death sufficient for them all and offereth the benefits thereof so freely to them even without money or price that yet the most of the world should perish yea the most of those that are thus called by his word Is it one of the wonders of the world that Gods eternall and immutable Decrees concerning them should be executed Why here is the reason saith Master Baxter when Christ hath done all this men make light of it God hath shewed that he is not unwilling but your Synod hath shewed otherwise and Christ hath shewed that he is not unwilling that men should be restored to Gods favour and be saved but men are actually unwilling themselves God takes no pleasure in the death of sinners but rather that they return and live Ezek. 33.11 How came he then to reject them upon Adam's sin and deny them Grace sufficient unto salvation as you teach But men take such pleasure in sinne that they will die before they will returne The Lord Jesus was content to be their Physitian and hath provided them a sufficient plaister of his own blood but such as his Father intended should not be effectuall by your doctrine but if men make light of it and will not apply it which your Party confess they are not inabled to do what wonder if they perish after all This Scripture giveth us the reason of their perdition It is a most lamentable thing to see how most men do spend their care their time their pains for known vanities while God and Glory are cast aside and a little after Oh how should we marvell at their madnesse and lament their self-delusion who preach such contradictions Oh poore distracted world ● what is it that you run after and what is it that you neglect If God had never told them what they were sent into the world to do or whither they were going or what was before them in another world or what Decrees had past to shut them up under sin and deny them the Grace of Faith and Repentance according to your Disputations then they had been excufable but he hath told them over and over till they were weary of it This is Master Baxters preaching vein by which his vulgar flock would be ready to flatter themselves that they had their Teachers warrant to be confident that God doth earnestly intend the salvation of them all But when this pang of soul-saving zeal is over that he gets into his Polemicall strain then he disputes them out of all their hopes again for thus he proceeds If this Tilenus think that God intended the justification and Salvation of all by Christ it 's absolutely or conditionally Here I wish Master Baxter had positively spake out what it is that God intends them whom he calls the Reprobate or Non-elect if not their Justification and salvation then I know nothing else it can be but their greater condemnation and then sure he is unwilling they should be restored to his favour which is opposite point blank against Master Baxters popular exhortations But if God intended their justification and salvation absolutely they shall be saved saith Master Baxter which no Christian that I know believeth Tilenus as little Christian as you make him is of This Faith too and therefore he saith God intended this but Conditionally But then Master Baxter tells us The rigidest Anti-Arminians even Doctor Twisse doth over and over grant it you and I thank him for nothing of Justification and salvation that Christ died to procure this Common Grace that men shall be justified and saved if they will believe The Reader perhaps may be amused

and so gotten the temptation into his bosome this was to make provision for his Lust not for his Repentance and while we find him unrelenting at the crime we ought to conclude his design was to perpetuate the pleasure under a colour of legitimating the use of his Adultery and therefore 't is observable 2 Sam. 2. last cap. 12.9.10 God was angry at the after marriage as well as at the former murder and uncleannesse And this may in some sense be urged against Peter but of him more anon 2. You say You cannot imagine that the Faith of David and Peter were Habitually extirpated and they were turned unbelievers And I cannot think what ever the Papists have yet said to the contrary that a sound Christian faith is separable from Charity though a superficiall opinionative belief may Answer To the first branch of your imagination I shall say but this fo● the present we are told by the divine Revelation● that we must be judged by the w●●k 〈…〉 own performing and not by the 〈…〉 ●ods infusing 2. Misbelievers as well as Unbelievers may be in an unjustified state and if Faith without good works be dead and cannot justifie then Faith with dead works is dead and damning also 3. As to your second branch if by a sound Christian Faith you understand such a faith as you have defined a saving faith to be in some of your writings I think you will have no Papists much lesse Protestants your Adversaries but then I hope you cannot think such a Faith any more separable from chastity brotherly kindnesse or loyalty to Christ then from charity Aut yet we see these separated from the faith of David and Peter respectively Therefore the faith that they had now was not that sound Christian saving Faith 3. You ask a question and then resolve it your self thus Do you think that if David or Peter had after this sin been upon sober deliberation put to it they would not have chosen the love of God before the world or sinfull pleasure I think they would Answer 1. Doubtlesse Judas would have done so too Esau did so concerning his fathers blessing But what matters it what men would have done when woulding is too late their will having undone them 2. The neglect of sober deliberation many times betrayes men to destruction The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters Crib Isa 1.3 but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Jer. 8.6 No man repented him of his wickednesse saying what have I done Every one turneth to his course as the horse rusheth into the battell 3. Peter had an hours respite after one temptation Luk. 22.59 and so long a time is sufficient to make the killing of a man be adjudged a prepensed and willfull murder by our common Law and whose fault was it that he wanted such a sober deliberation as you speak of Why did he not put himself to it to chose the love of God He had a naturall power to do it to use your own distinction and why he had not and did not exercise a morall Power you must fetch the reason from his own or to excuse that from the will of God For Davids part he had a pritty considerable time to deliberate in Sure it was the love of pleasure not the love of God that kept him from it 4. You demand Is it likely that this one Act should turn their hearts into as Gracelesse a frame as the ungodly themselves that never were sanctified It is not likely Yet so it must be if they excussed all the Love of God Answ If they excussed all the love of God Why all the love of God I told you not long since out of your own writings that every degree of the love of God will not serve the turn but onely that which doth preponderate and prevaile And therefore though all the love of God be not excussed if that prevailing degree be excussed they remain unjustified whether or no their hearts be turned into as Gracelesse a frame as the ungodly themselves that were never sanctified But this doth follow you say and it is not likely that it should be so I answer 2. That a Gracelesse frame of heart may be so denominated either from the totall absence and privation of grace onely or else it may imply also a contracted vicious habite in opposition to Grace In the first sense I grant their hearts may be said to be turned into as Gracelesse a frame but not in the later because though their hearts may have as little grace for the present yet are they not through custome of sinning reduced to such an indisposition to receive the impressions of Grace as are the hearts of the notorious ungodly who were never sanctified And yet I must tell you 3. That as it is observed of water that hath been heat it will be congealed and freez the sooner so such as have felt the heat of that Divine fire and been inlightned and melted and warmed and refreshed by the sweet and efficacious beams and influences of that Grace they are in danger for their great ingratitude Hebr. 6. and 10. to be permitted to fall into a state more miserable and hopelesse then such as were never sanctified But 4. you alleage Is it likely that this one Act Answ 1. There are some single Acts of sin so heinous that their enormitie doth equalize the Habites of many sins and of some they do manifestly preponderate and surpasse them And such Acts though they proceed not from a habite but are onely once committed they do exclude a man from the kingdome of heaven One Act of unmercifull severity to his fellow servant brought an implacable wrath and endlesse torments upon him who had not long before received his Lords Acquittance though he had not passed a very fair Accompt to him Mat. 18.34 What more then a single Act deprived Esau of the blessing Heb. 12.16 and that sinne unto death mentioned by Saint John 1 Joh. 5.16 seems to be no more Mark 10.21 And what followed Christs unum tibi deest to the young man in the Gospel yet that was but an Omission neither But 2. why do you call it but one Act when it was so accumulatively and exceeding sinfull There was a complication of many sinnefull Acts as well in the fall of Peter as of David To that Objection Account of Persever p. 13. that Adam by one act did lose his habituall state of Grace and Relation to God becoming unholy and unjustified therefore so may we you deny the Antecedent For you say it was not by one Act but by many that Adam so far fell But sure here was no lesse if not a much greater combination of sinfull Acts in the fall of David and Peter then in that of Adam therefore neither of them ought to be contracted or extenuated into one single Act. 5. Your discourse runs on in these words