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A10180 The Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme VVhere in 7. anti-Arminian orthodox tenents, are euidently proued; their 7. opposite Arminian (once popish and Pelagian) errors are manifestly disproued, to be the ancient, established, and vndoubted doctrine of the Church of England; by the concurrent testimony of the seuerall records and writers of our Church, from the beginning of her reformation, to this present. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1629 (1629) STC 20457; ESTC S115281 150,664 200

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3 There is a pre-determined and certaine number of the Predestinate which can neither be augmented nor diminished 4 Qui non sunt Praedestinati ad Salutem necessario propter peccata sua damnabuntur 4 Those who are not Predestinated to Saluation shall be necessarily Damned for their sinnes 5 Vera viva iustificans Fides Spiritus Dei iustificantis non extinguitur non excidit non euanescit in Electis aut finaliter aut totaliter 5 A true liuing and iustifying Faith and the Spirit of God iustifying is not extinguished it falleth not away it vanisheth not away in the Elect either finally or totally 6 Homo vere Fidelis id est Fide iustificante praeditus certus est plerophoria Fider de Remissione peccatorum suorum salute sempiterna sua per Christum 6 A man truely Faithfull that is such ●one who is endued with a iustifying Faith is certaine with the full assurance of Faith of the Remission of his Sinnes and of his Euerlasting Saluation by Christ. 7 Gratia salutaris non tribuitur non communicatur non conceditur vniuersis hominibus qua seruari possint si velint 7 Sauing grace is not giuen is not Communicated is not granted to all men by which they may be saued if they will 8 Nemo potest venire ad Christum nisi datum ei fuerit nisi Pater eum traxerit omnes homines non trahuntur a Patre vt veniant ad Filium 8 No man can come vnto Christ vnlesse it shall be giuen vnto him and vnlesse the Father shall draw him and all men are not drawn by the Father that they may come to the Sonne 9 Non est po●itum in arbitrio aut po●estate vniusc●iusque hominis servari It is not in the Will or Power of euery one to be saued These Articles of Lambheth how euer some may chance to slight them as the Resolutions of some priuate m●n yet they were vnanimously composed and approued by both our Right Reuerend and Learned Archbishops Whitgift and Hu●ton by the Bishops of London and Bangor and by sundry other of our most eminent Diuines and that not rashly or vnadvisedly but vpon serious debate and mature deliberation and being afterwards sent to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge for the allaying of some Arminian Controuersies there raysed by master Barret whose publique Recantation I haue heere inserted and abetted by one Peter Baro a Frenchman Lady Margarets Professor in that Vniuersitie they were there receiued with such an vnanimous approbation of the whole Vniuersitie that those Arminian Tenents were foorthwith abandoned and Baro forced to forsake his place since whose departure to this present the Diuinitie Professors of this our Famous Vniuersitie haue constantly adhered to these Conclusions as the vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England What respect the Reformed Churches abroad haue giuen to these Articles or Assertions Let famous Thysius who hath twice published them Hardrouici 1613. and quoted the Fathers to them together with learned Bogerman President of the late famous Synod of Dort in his 107. and 108. Notes vpon the second part of Grotius Fran●ke●● 1614. p. 183. 184. testifie who both recite and repute them as the receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England What approbation they haue had with vs at home their vnanimous approbation by the Vniuersitie of Cambridge at first their insertion into the Articles of Ireland agreed vpon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Clergie of Ireland in their Conuocation hol●en at Dublin 1615. where all or most of them are recited verbatim as any man may see that will compare them The mentioning of them in the Conference at Hampton Court where his Maiestie of blessed memory was moued to insert them into the Book● of Articles and vnderstanding not what these Assertions of Lambheth were was informed that by reason of some Controuersies arising in Cambridge about certaine points of Diuinitie my Lords Grace of Canterbury assembled some Diuines of especiall note to set downe their opinions which they drew into nine Assertions and so sent them vnto the Vniuersitie for the appeasing of those quarrels Their honourable recitall by the late Reuerend and learned Bishop of Chichester Doctor Carlton in his Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale Edition 2. cap. 2. pag. 8. 9. 10. By learned Doctor Benefield De Per●euerantia Sanctorum lib. 1. cap. 15. p. 162. to 167. By Ma●●er Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames p. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mr. Iohn Browne in his Appendix to the Life of Queene Elizabeth where they are likewise Printe● By Mr. Thomas Vicars in his Pusillies Grex Oxo●iae 1627 p. 31. By Abdias Asheton in Vita Gulielmi Whitakeri Cantabrigiae 1599. p. 43. who all repute and deeme them the Orthodox and vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England All these recited Euidences I say doe abundantly confirme the truth the honour and Orthodox Authority of these Articles or Assertions which were neuer yet impeached by any Orthodox English Diuine as different from o●● 39. Articles or varying from the receiued Doctrines of our Church And therfore especially since the Articles of Ireland thus approue them we may safely embrace them as the vndoubted and anciently receiued Doctrines of our English Church Articles of Religion agreed vpon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Cleargie of Ireland in the Conuocation holden at Dublin in the yeere of our Lord God 1615. 11 GOd from all eternitie did by his vnchangeable counsell ordaine whatsoeuer in time should come to passe Yet so as thereby no violence is offred to the wills of the reasonable creatures and neither the libertie nor the contingencie of the second causes is taken away but established rather 12 By the same eternall counsell God hath predestinated some vnto life and reprobated some vnto death of both which there is a certaine number knowen only to God which can neither be increased nor diminished 13 Predestination to life is the euerlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were layed he hath constantly decreed in his secret counsell to deliuer from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ vnto euerlasting saluation as vessels made to honor 14 The cause mouing God to predestinate vnto life is not the foreseeing of faith or perseuerance or good workes or of any thing which is in the person predestinated but onely the good pleasure of God himselfe For all things being ordained for the manifestation of his glory and his glory being to appeare both in the works of his Mercy and of his Iustice It seemed good to his heauenly wisedomee to choose out a certaine number towards whom he would extend his vndeserued mercy leauing the rest to be spectacles of his iustice 15 Such as are predestinated vnto life be called according vnto Gods purpose his spirit
Recantation of Barret The Concurrent consent of all our Godly Learned Eminent and most admired Martyrs Writers and Diuinity Professors from the beginning of reformation to this present The Resolution and iudgement of both our famous Vniuersities Oxford and Cambridge yea the ancient and modern Churches of Ireland Scotland and England with all their orthodox and learned members giuing testimony too and iudgement for the one but disintitelling disauowing and sentencing the other which can finde no full no punctuall Euidence no competent indifferent orthodox compleat or absolute but only branded censured and recanting Witnesses which cut the very nerues and heart-strings of their cause to giue them any colorable title to any seeming right or interest in our Church Which then of these irreconcilable incompliable Assertions are the ancient receiued established and resolued Doctrines of our Church be yee the Iudges Certainely that which hath no full no pregnant Euidences no legall or vnattainted Witnesses to iustify or cleare its right or claime that which was altogether vnknowne and neuer heard off in our Church till now of late that which is yet in Quaere in further search and discouery and so not yet beleeued by its owne best studied Aduocates the case of rotten Pelagian Arminianisme can neuer be that which hath all these fore alleaged Charters and testimonies to strengthen and confirme its right the case and happy condition of Anti-Arminianisme must of necessity be the true the genuine and vndoubted Doctrine of our Church Let vs therefore now at last without any further scrutinie of debate exile this spurious and cursed Arminianisme which hath lately drawne the very curse and wrath of God with sundry fatall iudgements on vs out of our Church and state let vs once more adiudge sinke it to the very depths of Hell to which it was of old condemned as a most pernicious turbulent discomfortable desperate blasphemous and grace-oppugning Heresie and since England I meane Pelagius a Brittaine and a Monke of Bangor was the first that bred it let her be now the first to ruine it As for our Anti-Arminian Conclusions the ancient hereditarie and vnquestionable Doctrines of the Church of England and the chiefest treasure ioy and comfort of our soules without which all other comforts and contentments are vnpleasant let vs lodge them in our hearts in throne them in our soules settle them in our iudgements claspe them in our affections and so perpetuate and establish them in our Church that all the pollices and powers of Hell all the stratagems and powder-plots of Rome all the combinations and complotments of forraigne Enemies or domestique Traytors for such are all those Iesuited and Popish factors who goe about to innouate Religion or to withdraw vs from the doctrines now established in the Church of England as these Tenents are may neuer be able to vnsettle or draw them into question any more These Anti-Arminian Tenents they are the very ioy of our hearts the life of our soules the foundation of our eternall blisse the onely Euidences and Assurances that we haue to intitle vs to saluation if these once faulter or proue false our ioy our spirituall comfort the very grace and glory of God and our saluation are indangered if we come once to lose but these the whole ioy the treasure comfort crowne and happinesse of all true Christians yea the whole frame and structure of Gods grace and the mysteries of our saluation are vtterly subuerted and brought quite to ruine And shall we then forgoe these truthes which are farre more neare and deare vnto vs then our dearest soules when we haue thus long thus constantly thus abundantly professed them These these are the orthodox and sweete dogmaticall Resolutions which our Martyrs blood haue sealed our first Reformers of Religion setled our Ancestors embraced our Artic●es confirmed our Vniuersities professed our Church beleeued our Ministers subscribed our Protestant Kings and Queenes defended our Preachers published our Laity receiued our Parliament particularly voted owned and protected our Writers propagated and professedly maintained against all Hereticall oppugners whatsoeuer which they would neuer haue done had they beene meere curious scoole-points nicities or needlesse speculations onely as some repute them and we our selues long since acknowledged yea readily entertained as our owne vndoubted and professed Doctrines and shall we then disclaime or doubt them now These are those blessed gracious and tutelary Doctrines which haue thus long guarded and secured both our Church and State These are the Bulwarks which haue a long time kept out Popery and Romish tyranny from that haue preserned peace and vnity in our Church which now is almost ouer-runne with Popery and Arminianisme with sundry Errors and Diuisions since these haue fallen to decay and lost their credit with vs. These were the truthes that secured vs from the Spanish Armado in 88● from the barbarous vnnaturall and infernall Powder-treason in 1605. the very memory of which should make al Papists Priests Iesuits with their bloudy Anti-Christian Religion which now creepes in vpon vs for euer execrable to all English hearts These were the procurers of our ancient glory and renown of our prosperity and welfare our victories and triumphs both by Sea and Land these made vs honorable wealthy happy and victorious for 60. yeeres and vpward and we had yet no doubt continued such had we not of late reuolted from them and giuen harbor to those Popish those pestilēt Arminian errors which haue wasted both our Church and state and plunged them into such a gulfe of sundry miseries as is like to swallow them vp at once vnles the power of heauen proue their rescue and shall we then begin to waiue them or forsake them now These are the immortall seed which did beget vs at first these the sincere milke that nourished vs these the strong meat that must corroborate vs these the celestiall cordialls which must comfort vs in all our deiections these the Ancre which must secure and hold vs vp from sinking in the middest of all our troubles these the Armor that must shield vs in all our spirituall combates yea these are the Doctrines which must beget and perfect grace within vs which must conuert and saue our soules In these were wee and ours borne in these haue we liued and if we euer hope for any grace or glory peace or safety any present or future happinesse o● prosperity for our selues or our posterities after vs in these let vs and oures liue and dye FINIS Leo Epistolarum Decreta●●●um Epist. 75. cap. 1. Nullus vltra sin●tur impet●re qu● non tamhumanis quam diuinis s●nt statuta decretis ne vere digni sint Dei munus amittere qui de veritate ●ipsi●s ausi fuerint dubitare Gentle Reader I shall desire thee to correct these few materiall Errataes which by the improuidence of the Printer and Corrector haue escaped the Presse