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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

difference between the cause and the effect The first principall and most proper cause of our Iustification and Saluation is the goodnesse and loue of God whereby he chose vs for his before he made the world After that God granteth vs to bee called by the Preaching of the Gospell of Iesus Christ when the spirit of the Lord is powred into vs by whose garding and gouernance wee bee led to settle our trust in God and hope for the performance of his promise With this choyce is ioyned as companion the mortifying of the olde man that is of our affection and last From the same spirit also commeth our Sanctification the loue of God and of our neighbour iustice and vprightnesse of life Finally to say all in summe Whateuer is in vs or may be done of vs honest pure true and good that altogether springeth out of this most pleasant Rocke from this most plentifull Fountaine the goodnesse loue choise and vnchangeable purpose of God he is the cause the rest are the fruits and effects Yet are also the goodnesse choise and spirit of God and Christ himselfe causes conioyned and coupled each with other which may bee reckoned among the principall causes of saluation As oft therefore as we vse to say that wee are made righteous and saued by saith onely it is meant thereby that faith or rather trust alone doth lay hand vpon vnderstand and perceiue our righteous making to bee giuen vs of God freely that is to say by no deserts of our own but by the free grace of the Almighty Father Moreouer Faith doth ingender in vs loue of our neighbour and such workes as God is pleased withall For if it bee a liuely and true faith quickned by the holy Ghost shee is the mother of all good saying and doing By this short tale it is euident whence and by what meanes wee attaine to bee righteous For not by the worthinesse of our deseruings were wee either heretofore chosen or long agoe saued but by the onely mercy of God and pure grace of Christ our Lord whereby we were in him made to doe these good workes that God had appointed for vs to walke in And although good workes cannot deserue to make vs righteous before God yet doe they so cleane vnto Faith that neither Faith can be found without them nor good Workes bee any where found without Faith And Fol. 68. Immortality and blessed life God hath prouided for his chosen before the foundations of the World were laid This Catechisme was published by King Edward the 6. his Authority in the yeere 1553. being the next yeere after the composure and publishing of the Articles of our Church which were first of all concluded vpon in the yeare 1552. being onely reui●ed not framed or new composed in the yeare 1562. From whence I collect that this Catechisme is fully agreable to the true sence and meaning of our Articles and may well bee taken as a Comment or Explanation on our 16. and 17. Articles so that whatsoeuer is affirmed in this Catechisme is likewise affirmed by those Articles And if so then it is more then euident that our Articles doe point-blanke oppugne the Arminian mutabilitie of Predestination Election from Faith or Workes or any thing else foreseene in vs Free-will and vniuersall or sufficient grace the totall and finall resisting of the worke of grace and Apostasie from the state of grace together with the truth of grace in reprobates or castawayes all which are euidently refuted and condemned by this Catechisme as the figured passages will demonstrate Certaine questions and answeres touching the doctrine of Predestination Printed by ROBERT BARKER Anno 1607. and bound vp and sold with our English Bibles Question WHy doe men so much vary in matters of Religion Answere Because all haue not the like measure of knowledge neither doe all beleeue the Gospell of Christ. Qu. What is the reason thereof An. Because they only beleeue the Gospel and doctrine of Christ which are ordained vnto eternall life Qu. Are not all ordained to eternall life An. Some are vessels of wrath ordained vnto destruction as others are vessels of mercy prepared to glory Qu. How standeth it with Gods Iustice that some are appointed to damnation An. Very wel because all men haue in themselues sinne which deserueth no lesse and therfore the mercy of God is wonderfull in that he vouchsafeth to saue some of that sinnefull race and to bring them to the knowledge of the truth Qu. If Gods ordinance and determination must of necessitie take effect then what neede any man to care for hee that liueth well must needs be damned if hee be thereunto ordained and he that liueth ill must needes bee saued if hee bee thereunto appointed Ans. Not so for it is not possible that either the elect should alwaies be without care to do wel or that the reprobate should haue any will thereunto For to haue either good will or good worke is a testimony of the Spirit of God which is giuen to the Elect onely whereby faith is so wrought in them that being graft into Christ they grow in holinesse to that glory whereunto they are appointed Neither are they so vaine as once to thinke that they may doe as they list themselues because they are predestinate vnto saluation but rather they endeauour to walke in such good workes as God in Christ Iesus hath ordained them vnto and prepared for them to be occupied in to their owne comfort stay and assurance and to his glory Qu. But how shall I knowe my selfe to bee one of those whom God hath ordained to life aeternall Ans. By the motions of spirituall life which belongeth onely to the children of God by the which that life is perceiued euen as the life of this body is discerned by the sense and motions thereof Qu. What meane you by the motions of spirituall life Ans. I meane remorse of conscience ioyned with the loathing of sinne and loue of righteousnesse the hand of Faith reaching vnto life eternall in Christ the Conscience comforted in distresse and raised vp to confidence in God by the worke of his Spirit a thankefull remembrance of Gods benefits receiued and the vsing of all aduersities as occasion of amendment sent from GOD. Qu. Cannot such perish as at some time or other feele these motions within themselues Ans. It is not possible that they should for as Gods purpose is not changeable so hee repenteth not of the gifts and graces of his adoption neither doeth hee cast off those whom he hath once receiued Qu. Why then should we pray by the example of Dauid that he cast vs not from his Face and that he take not his holy Spirit from vs Ans. In so praying wee make protestation of the weakenesse of flesh which mooueth vs to doubt yet should not wee haue courage to aske if we were not assured that God

to these blessed truthes wherein the very marrow of all true Christian comfort yea the strength the ground and certainety of our Saluation rest though some haue ●leited them as meere curious and nice Disputes as now to question yea silence and restraine them when they haue thus long kept her in such peace and glory as no former age hath euer matched nor subsequent dayes ha●e hopes to parallell What shall we thus requite the Lord for these his documents wherein his incomprehensible Wisdome Freedome Mercy Iustice Power Grace and glory shine foorth in greatest luster as after all the good they haue brought vpon vs to dis-inherit them of their ancient Freedome and by certaine Politike and insensible gradations to shoulder them out of our Church that so Popery and Arminianisme the fertile mothers of all licentious dissolutenesse may possesse their throne Shall wee thus repay our blessed Martyrs for all their glorious sufferings as now for to dis-martyr yea vncrowne and tread them vnder foot by disputing or doubting these Theologicall positions which they haue canonized and sealed to vs with their bloud Shall we thus retaliate the very Pillars of our Church and Patrons of our Faith euen all our learned Writers as to brand them for illiterate erronious and seducing Nouellers to their eternall infamy in rooting vp these fundamental Truths which they haue planted or re-implanting those Pelagian Arminian Popish Errors which they all haue laboured to extirpate Shall we now proue so vnnaturall to our Mother Church as to rip vp her wombe that bare or cut off her duggs that nourished vs in offering violence to these her sacred Assertions which did at first begette vs vnto grace and now cheerish and prepare vs vnto glory Or shall wee bee so iniurious so destructiue to our owne distressed soules as to strippe them naked of all coelestiall comforts to vnbottome them of all their hope and stay or to leaue them destitute of Saluation in depriuing them of all these sweete and rauishing cordialls in dis-lincking that Golden that Adamantine chaine of Gods immutable and free Election whereon their very happinesse comfort and Saluation are alone suspended Let this let this bee far from all our thoughts at leastwise from our practise Farre be it from any of vs especially from you right Christian Worthies intrusted with the care and safety of Religion as to question or doubt of these Orthodox these sweet Conclusions so long estated so oft resolued in our Church without any retractation or controll Your onely care your worke is now to defend to settle them not dispute them to damne yea quite extirpate their opposite Arminian Errours which like Tares spring vp apace among vs and ouergrow our Wheate not to honour countenance or equalize them with them by putting them both to triall to question censure and condemne their audacious open Aduersaries their secret dangerous Master-vnderminers who are of different rankes and must be dealt with in a various manner not to discusse their verity of which our Church was neuer yet suspitious in the least degree Proceede therefore as you Gods name be blessed haue already done to inquire out the Heads the Nurseries rootes and grand Protectors of our Popish our Arminian mungrell rabble which swarme like Locusts in our Church of late combining both together as is iustly feared to eate out our Religion by degrees to spoile vs of these temporall immunities of those coelestiall treasures of Gods sauing truth which are farre dearer to vs then our dearest soules and when you haue once discouered them as you may quickely doe since practise fame and iealousie haue made them so notorious it will be worth your labour to hew them downe with speede both root and branch at once else all your superficiall hacking of some smaller Issues will but increase their growth augment their strength and multiply their fruit their branches and al-daring practises when the time the feare of lopping are but passed ouer Trampling we know on Camomile stalkes doth but make them grow the thicker spread the faster it is the breaking not the bruising of the roote that kills it The mowing down of weedes of grasse the lopping off of lesser branches doth neuer hinder but aduance their growth not lessen but augment their number The rootes must first bee stocked vp or else the blades the stalkes the branches will not cannot wither or giue ouer budding Strike therefore at the roots as well as at the branches of these preuailing Factions else all your lopping will turne but into pruning your launching into festring your medicine into poyson to kill our Church the Patient but strengthen her diseases which haue hitherto got ground vpon vs by all those former Parliamentary lenitiues and verball purges which your Medicinall skill applyed to them It is noted of Pelagianisme of which the doctrinall part of Popery in the points of Grace and the whole body of Arminianisme are the reuiued ashes and new-raysed Goasts that it tooke its rise in England Pelagius the Father of it being himselfe a Brittaine and a Monke of Bangor What a regained Honour were it to our Nation What an inutterable benefit to our Church What a glory to this your Honourable and great Assembly if you could now at last eternally interre it in the soile that bare it and make its ancient now its second wombe its last its endlesse Graue It was said by one of note some fewe yeeres past and I wish it may be Prophetically true at least Tulit malum hoc sustulit Brittania● That England had both hatched and destroyed this monster of old of new Pelagianisme which Arminius and his followers had then newly raised from Hell to which it was of old condemned But alas we see its liuing and springing vp like Hydraes heades It s former ouer-indulgent decapitations both at Dort at home being but a blood-letting to increase its future vigour not a fatall blow to bring it to its finall period because it cut not off those master-veines which gaue greatest though but hidden life and growth vnto it O therefore giue and strike it and its Arminian Issue now at last a finall fatall and heart-killing blow which needes no iteration and bury them this once so deepe so sure that they may neuer neede a second Funerall But how you will say may this bee done I will informe you in a word or two It is Storied of the chiefe Priests and Pharises who were euer the greatest and most imbittered enemies to Christ and his Apostles as their successors who will needes be stiled Priests haue since bene to his members that hauing crucified our blessed Sauiour because they would bee sure to keepe him from rising from his graue againe according to his promise they did not onely suffer him to lye intombed in a rocky Sepulchre to the doore of which there was a great stone rolled but they likewise went and made the Sepulchre sure sealing the