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A20668	The collegiat suffrage of the divines of Great Britaine, concerning the five articles controverted in the Low Countries VVhich suffrage was by them delivered in the synod of Dort, March 6. anno 1619. Being their vote or voice foregoing the joint and publique judgment of that Synod.; Suffragium collegiale theologorum Magnae Britanniae de quinque controversis remonstrantium articulis. English.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Synod of Dort (1618-1619)	1629 (1629)	STC 7070; ESTC S110099	65,063	183

increase and stability as in the entrance and beginning thereof Lastly if we desire to take out of the Scriptures the true formes of speaking wee ought to call the very act of perseverance the gift of God For if the Scripture doth not only call the quality it selfe of faith the gift of God but doth declare that to beleeve is given freely to men then also ought we to acknowledge as Gods gift not onely perseverance but also the act it selfe of persevering This is most manifestly taught in the place alleaged where the Apostle saith that it was given to the Philippians not onely to beleeve in Christ but to suffer for his sake Which what other thing is it then to persevere in the faith of Christ under the Crosse of persecution To this purpose Saint Anstine Wee affirme that perseverance is the gift of God by which wee abide in Christ constantly unto the end And it is reckoned among the Errors of the Massilians that they denyed that such perseverance is given to any from which he is not suffered to stray Which Error Saint Austine refutes in his booke of Perseverance chap. 6. It remaines now that we prove this gift of perseverance to spring from the fountaine of Election to the confirming of which we will produce one argument onely That which is given out of an effectuall intention to save without faile that person to whom it is given that without question doth flow from the decree of election For what is it else to elect one then to ordaine him to obtaine salvation without faile But now such is the force and nature of this gift that we cannot conceive that perseverance is ordeined or given unto any except upon a former intention both to order and bring the same man infallibly unto salvation For whatsoever benefit doth accrue unto any by any divine grace that wholly without doubt the Author of that grace decreed to conferre upon him to whom hee vouchsafed to impart the same grace But by the immoveable purpose of God whosoever shall persevere shall bee saved Therefore to whomsoever God purposed to give perseverance it is a manifest evidence that the same man was destinated to salvation by the foregoing decree of God To this purpose is that of Mat. 24.24 Where the impossibility of being seduced in respect of certaine persons knowne to God is grounded upon this foregoing Election of them and that of Saint Paul Rom. 11.5 where the remnant of those few which fell not from God is said to be caused according to the election of grace But of this see more in Saint Austine de bon persev cap. 16. Of the certainty of perseverance in respect of our selves THE FIRST POSITION EVery faithfull man may bee certainely perswaded that through the mercy of God his Father hee shall bee kept and bee brought uvnto eternall life WEE treated before of Perseverance in respect of the certainty of the object or thing it selfe Now are wee to treat of it in respect of the certainty of the subject to wit in as much as that thing which is certaine in it selfe is also by us in whom it is brought to passe apprehended as certaine and infallible We admitting every one of the faithfull into the partnership of this benefit doe avow it to be not a priviledge afforded to a few of the faithfull but a gift bestowed on all the faithfull as they are faithfull without distinction Moreover wee say rather that the faithfull may or can have within themselves this perswasion then that they are alwaies actually so perswaded because this certaine perswasion although it proceeds from the very nature of faith yet doth it not alwaies as it might and ought put forth into action but is sometimes suppressed as wee will hereafter declare Neverthelesse here wee affirme that every true faithfull man hath in readinesse at home within himselfe alwaies and upon all occasions such a foundation sure enough whereupon if he rightly weigh his owne condition and Gods promise and custody hee may build up this actuall confidence of his owne preservation in faith unto eternall life 1 First it is not enough unto God in regard of his owne glory that he preserve us unlesse he also ascertaine us of this his preservation Blessed be God by whose power wee are preserved through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 Now we doe not particularly blesse God for those things which wee know not to have received 2 To Christ our Saviour it was not sufficient to pray that Peters faith might not faile from which prayer that gift was made certaine in it selfe unlesse Saint Peter also should know it and thereupon enjoy in himselfe the full perswasion thereof Luke 22.32 I have prayed for thee Peter that thy faith faile not 3 It is not enough for us for our comfort that we being wafted in the ship of the Church goe on towards the haven of salvation except also we be fully perswaded that we cannot by any tempest be defeated of our wished harbor It was not enough for Noah to bee shut up safe in the Arke but hee was by the promise of God secured against shipwracke for the confirmation of his confidence Gen. 6.18 With thee will I establish my covenant and thou shalt come into the Arke 4 This assurance of perswasion doth flow from the very nature of speciall faith which not onely is directly caried unto that which is promised but also doth reflect upon it selfe and its owne apprehension Of the former act are meant those speeches in the Scripture Rom. 5.1 Being justified by faith wee have peace with God Iohn 10.28 My sheepe shall never perish Of the latter those 1 Iohn 2.3 Wee doe know that we know him 1 Iohn 5.10 He that beleeveth on the Sonne of God hath the witnesse in himselfe Also 1. Cor. 2.12 We have received the Spirit which is of God that wee might know the things which are given us of God Therefore everie faithfull man through the inmost operation of his owne faith beleeves the preservation of the same faith in himselfe 5 The same is confirmed out of the testimonies of this faith Spirituall joy is a manifest evidence 1 Pet. 1.8 Beleeving ye rejoyce with joy unspeakeable and full of glory And this joy will not vanish Iohn 16.22 Your joy no man shall take away from you Also spirituall glorying Rom. 5.2 We have accesse by faith into this grace wherein we stand and boast in hope of the glory of God And this glorie is caried upon its object as present and alreadie attained although indeed it bee but future So Chrysostome upon this place Every man glories of those things which hee hath already Now because our hope of future things is as certaine and evident as of things already received the Apostle saith wee also glory of these 6 Lastly the certainty not onely of perseverance but also of the perseverer is warranted by the mutuall pledges laid downe betweene God and the