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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10194	The perpetuitie of a regenerate mans estate VVherein it is manifestly proued by sundry arguments, reasons and authorities. That such as are once truly regenerated and ingrafted into Christ by a liuely faith, can neither finally nor totally fall from grace. It is also proued, that this hath beene the receiued and resolued doctrine, of all the ancient fathers, of all the Protestant churches and writers beyond the seas, and of the Church of England. All the principall arguments that are, or may be obiected against it, either from Scripture, or from reason, are here likewise cleared and answered. By William Prynne Gent: Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1626 (1626)	STC 20471; ESTC S115319	355,787	462

then you shall bee a peculiar treasure vnto me aboue all people then incounter it with that of Ezech. 36. 27. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and yee shall keepe my iudgements and doe them Goe through all the Scriptures and you shall not meete with any condition which God requires of vs but you shall likewise finde that he hath promised to performe the same condition for vs and in vs. Wherefore set downe the conditionall places first which are first in order and in nature and then the absolute promises of God to performe the same conditions for vs and so all the Scriptures will bee fully recon●…led Secondly to this obiection of yours I answer that the only end and scope of all those places which you obiect for to defend your answer is only to incite and stirre men vp to perseuerance and to an holy boldnesse and cheerefulnesse in the wayes of God and in the constant profession of Religion they were neuer spoken to that end to which you wrest them to feare and to discourage men or to proue that they might fall quite away from grace when once they were in truth regenerated For that of Math. 24. 13. Marke 13. 13. Hee that endureth to the end hee shall be saued and that of Gal. 6. 9. Let vs not bee weary of well-doing for in due time wee shall reape if wee faint not and that of Reu 2. 10. Bee faithfull to the death and thou shalt receiue the crowne of life and those other places of this nature they are but so many exhortations and incouragements to goe on and perseuere in a Christian resolution and in a constant practice and profession of religion maugre all afflictions crosses persecutions and scandalls whatsoeuer as the contex●…s doe most plainely manifest They were spoken only to this purpose and they are no more in substance but this There are many afflictions many troubles and crosses many persecutions losses scandalls and diffamations that will befall you euen for the very profession and practice of religion Yet let not all these discourage you from going on in a constant and settled course of holinesse for though these losses crosses afflictions persecutions and scandalls doe befall you yet they shall not hurt or disaduantage you you shall be no loosers by them for you shall be saued you shall reape the fruites of all those suffrings at last what euer you loose on earth it shall bee recompenced to you in heauen these light and momentary afflictions which here you suffer shall purchase for you a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory Goe on therefore as you haue begun hold on your way and perseuer in grace vnto the end for then you shall receiue a full reward for all that you haue done or suffered This is the only end and scope of the Holy Ghost in all those texts of Scripture this was the only end for which they were spoken and recorded to incourage and prouoke the Saints of God to a constant and finall perseuerance in grace and holinesse How grossely then doe you abuse and wrest these Scriptutes when as you make no other vse of them but to quench the smoking flaxe and breake the bruised reed to discomfort and deiect the hearts and soules of weake and tender Christians and to discourage them in the wayes of holinesse when as you proue vnto them from those places that they may finally and totally fall from grace Certainly if the chiefe and only meaning of the Holy Ghost in all these places is but to incourage and stirre men vp to perseuerance as it is most plaine and euident that it is you doe but crosse the very scope the very sense and meaning of the holy Ghost when as you racke and wrest those places to this your present purpose which the holy Ghost did neuer thinks of or intend vnlesse that you will make the holy Ghost an ambiguous equivocator like vnto your selues If therefore you will take those places in their genuine and proper sense and as they are intended as being so many incouragements and helpes to constant and finall perseverance they are so farre from making for you that they make much against you If now you doe obiect that you are forced to maintaine this doctrine of the Apostacie of the Saints and so by consequence this euasion to free God from iniustice and from being author of or party to mens sinnes For if God should absolutely without any condition on our parts promise for to keepe vs from falling from him and yet should suffer vs for to fall from grace as wee seee he doth oft times then wee should make God himselfe vniust in not fulfilling of his promise Wherefore that wee may free God from iniustice euen in this behalfe wee say that notwithstanding all those promises of God are absolutely and positively pronounced yet they are all suspended vpon the freedome and libertie of our owne wills hauing this inclusiue condition annexed to them If wee our selues will continue righteous And so when as we fall away from grace out of the libertie and freedome of our owne wills the sinne and blame lights only vpon our owne heads which else would rest on Gods I shall answer you in the words of holy Iob Will you speake wickedly for God and talke deceitfully for him will yee accept his person will yee contend for God as if God did need your helpe and counsell for to free him from iniustice and were not able for to cleare himselfe without this helpe and shift of yours Well admit that you doe God some seruice in it in cleering of his iustice yet how much is God beholding to you for your paines who in freeing of him from iniustice doe rob him of his mercy goodnesse honour power wisdome truth and iustice to For if God should suffer his chosen and his best beloued Saints to fall away from him and so to perish where then were his mercy and his gracious goodnesse If he should suffer those to fall whom he hath vndertaken to preserue and keepe from falling where then were his honour his truth his wisdome his iustice or his power If hee should suffer those to fall and perish for whom Iesus Christ hath shed his pretious blood that so they might not perish but haue euerlasting life if God should suffer them to loose that grace and that heau●…ly inheritance which Christ hath purchased for them where then were this his iustice which you labour to maintaine Doubtlesse this paradox and shift of yours it robs the Lord and strips him naked of all his glorious and most sacred attributes yea it depriues him of his very Diety so that whiles you seeke to doe the Lord a fauour in vindicating of his iustice by this your cauell and euasion you doe him all the wrong that may be If then you would free God from iniustice and reserue his very Diety and all his