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A96833	The examination of Tilenus before the triers; in order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick preacher in the Common-wealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed the tenents of the remonstrants touching those five articles voted, stated and imposed, but not disputed, at the synod of Dort. Together with a short essay (by way of annotations) upon the fundamental theses of Mr. Thomas Parker.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3343; Thomason E1625_1; ESTC R204120	128,806	312

by works of righteousness which we had done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour 1 Pet. 1. 3 23. The father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath begotten us again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God c. See Ezek. 36. 26 27. Renewed in understanding will affections c. Ephes 4. 23. Renewed in the spirit of your mindes Col. 3. 10. In knowledge See 1 Cor. 1. 4 5. Tit. 2. 11. Acts 26. 18. To whom I send thee to open their eyes to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God Acts 15 9. God through the Holy Ghost purifying their hearts by faith Heb. 9. 14. The blood of Christ purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God 1 Pet. 1. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit and the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly 1 Thes 5. 23. To do that which is savingly good c. Mat. 7. 17 18. and chap. 12. 33 34 35. Make the tree good and his fruit good Rom. 6. 22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life See verse 18. II. They hold that the grace of God is the beginning proceeding and fulfilling of all good so as even the regenerate man himself without grace preventing exciting following and co-working cannot think will or do good or resist any temptation to ill so that the good deeds and actions which any man can conceive are to be ascribed to the grace of God in Christ Proofes out of holy Scripture That the grace of God is the beginning c. James 1. 17 18. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above John 8. 36. 2 Cor. 4. 6. If the Son shall make you free ye shall be free indeed 2 Cor. 3. 17. Where the spirit of the Lord is there is libertie Phil. 1. 6. chap 2. 13. It is God which hath begun a good work in you which worketh in you to will and to do of his good pleasure Heb. 12. 2. The author and finisher of our faith 2 Thes 2. 14. Whereunto he called you by our Gospel See verse 15 16 17. 1 Pet 5. 10. c. 2 Pet. 1. 1 3 His divine power hath given us all things that pertain to life and godliness Or resist any temptation to ill c. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand in the evil day Ephes 6. 13. Watch and pray c. Mat. 26. 41. Lead us not into temptation Mat. 6. 13. The good we do to be ascribed to the grace of God c. 1 Cor. 15. 10. By the grace of God I am what I am Gal. 2. 20. The life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God 1 Pet. 1. 3. Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope c. 1 Pet. 5. 10 11. But the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen See Rom. 1. 8. 1 Cor. 1. 4 5. Ephes 1. 3. c. Rom. 16. 25 26 27. Rev. 1. 5 6. III. They hold that to hear Gods word to be sorry for sin committed to desire saving grace and the spirit of renovation nothing of which notwithstanding can a man do without grace is profitable and needful for the obtaining of faith and the spirit of renovation Proofes out of holy Scripture St. Luke 19. 13 Negotiamini dum venio Trade till I come for whosoever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance Luke 19. 26. See Mat. 13. from v. 10 ro 17. Iohn 6. 45. See Luke 16. 11 12. chap. 19. 17. Every man that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me Rom. 10. 17. Faith cometh by hearing Acts 17. 11 12. They of Berea received the word with all readiness of minde and searched the Scriptures Therefore many of them believed Iohn 7. 17. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrin whether it be of God See Psal 25. 12 14. Psal 111. 10. Prov. 1. 7. 2 Cor. 7. 10. Godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation See Acts 2. 37 38. chap. 16. 29 30 Prov. 2. 1 2 3 4 5. If thou wilt incline thine ●ar unto wisdome and apply thine heart to understanding If thou seekest her as silver Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord Prov. 8. 17. I love them that love me and they that seek me early shall finde me Luke 11. 13. Your heavenly Father will give the spirit to them that ask him See the example of Sergius Paulus Acts 13. 7 12. Especially that of Cornelius Acts 10. 1 2 4 5 34 35. See also Gal. 3. 24. Prov. 3. 32. Iob 28. 28. 2 Tim. 2. 21. James 1. 21. 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. See the reason of the Negative following IV. They hold that effectual grace whereby a man is converted is resistible and though God doth so work upon the will by his word and the inward operation of his holy spirit as that he gives both power to believe and supernatural abilities and makes a man actually to believe yet can man of himself despise that grace not believe and so through his own default perish Proofs out of Holy Scripture Ezek. 11. 20. compared with the 21. verse I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them an heart of flesh That they may walk in my statutes and keep mine Ordinances and do them But whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations I will recompense their way upon their own heads Mat. 11. 20 21 22 23. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they repented not Woe unto thee Chorazin woe unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented long ago in sackcloath and ashes And thou Capernaum which art exalted unto Heaven shalt be brought down to Hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom it would have remained until this day Ezek. 24. 13. I have purged thee and thou wast not purged Acts 2. 41. They that gladly received his word were baptized 1 Thes 2. 13 19. See v. 19. Acts 11. 21. Ye received it not as the word of man but as it is in truth the word of God which effectually worketh also in you that believe See Rom. 1. 16. Acts 13. 46. 48. Luke 14. 16. c. Mat. 22.

a wicked Christian I desire therefore in the next place that you would make proofe of your discipline upon Tilenus Carnalis Mr. Fatalitie Herein methinks I should make no great difficultie to prevail if the power of reason can but fasten upon your understanding or the tie of religion upon your conscience or the sense of gratitude upon your heart and affections Do but reflect upon those obligations which Almighty God hath laid upon you in your Creation and Redemption He hath a fair title to your best obedience by right of dominion in regard of that excellent nature and being he freely conserr'd upon you but a stronger title if stronger may be by the right of a deer purchase made by no lower price than his own blood These obligations as common equitie hath drawn them up so with respect to the benefit that would accrew to you hereby your own ingenuitie hath drawn you on to subscribe and seal them You have been solemnly devoted unto God and listed a sworn souldier under the Banner of your Redeemer Are you under his pay and fight against his interest Do you wear his livery and eat his provisions and expect his reward and yet spend your time and strength and talents in the service of his mortal enemie How execrable is the sacriledge of this ingratitude and rebellion Remember it will not be long ere the justice of God send 's the trumpet of the Law which will be so much the shriller if it be sounded by the hollow lungs of death to give your now-secure Conscience a hot alarum and when you are once awakened with the terrour of those dreadful threatnings you will be amazed at the horrour of that apprehension when you shall behold all those shoals and swarms of sin you are guiltie of muster'd up in their several ranks and files to charge and fight against you for the momentarie and trifling pleasures whereof you have so improvidently forfeited all the comforts of a good Conscience and refreshments of the Holy Ghost with your portion in Heaven and your interest in Gods favour in exchange whereof like a foolish Merchant you have procured nothing but the coals of eternal vengeance and the flames of Hell which the crowds of your condensed sins have thrust wide open ready to swallow up and devour you unless you presently prevent it by an unfeigned repentance and universal reformation Tilenus Carnalis Sir I beseech you suffer not your zeal of a holy life to transport you beyond the rule of sacred truth lest while you pretend to honour God on earth you cast reproach upon his Eternal designs in Heaven I am jealous Tilenus Infidelis hath so disturbed your passions that you know not where you are for you have quite forgotten your Synod and your principles and I think your own name too and seem to have lost your Creed in your Commandements Recollect your senses and recal your wandring phantasie and awaken your judgement to consult the Oracle of your belief your Synod and speak accordingly for whatsoever is not of faith will be sin in you And is it not one of the Articles of that Creed which you profess that all the good or evil whatsoever that happens in the world doth come to pass by the only immutable and ineluctable decree of God and his most effectual ordinance That the first cause doth so powerfully guide and impel all second causes and the will of man amongst the rest that they cannot possibly either act or suffer sooner then they do nor in any other manner I am sorry I am no more master of my self and mine own actions that I am so divested of my libertie and carry a nature about me so debauched that I cannot chuse but suffer my self to be carried captive under the power of those sins that reign in-me but my comfort is I am assured by the judgment of such sound Divines as your self that the secret will of God which procur'd Judas's treason no less then Pauls Conversion hath so decreed it And you know it is not in my power to procure a writ of Electment to cast out that sin which came in and keeps possession by the uncontroulable order of the divine predestination I cannot get grace when God will not give it me nor keep it when he is pleased to take it away from me I have no Lure to throw out that the Dove of Heaven will vouchsafe to stoop unto the Spirit blows where he pleases inspires whom he pleases and retires when he pleases returns where he pleases And so if it comes with an intent to amend me it will be as impossible then to put him back as it is now to draw him on It were an intollerable presumption in me to make my self so much a taskmaster over the Holy Spirit as to prescribe him the time and hour when he shall effect that work for me whereunto I am able to contribute no more than to mine own birth or resurrection * Atque hec est illa tantopere in Scripturis predicata regeneratio nov a Creatio suscitatio mortuis vivificatio quam Deus SINENOBIS in nobis operatur Can. 12. art 3. 40. Synodi Dordracene I can affirm with confidence I never was so much an Atheist as to entertain the least distrustful thought of the divine power When he hath been four dayes dead and lies stinking in his grave Lazarus may be raised and the more putri'd I am in my corruptions the triumphs of the divine grace will be so much the more glorious in my restitution but it may be the last hour of the Day with mee before the Day-spring doth thus visit me In the mean while to shew my detestation of that arrogant doctrin of the Arminians I will not strive to do the least endeavour towards pietie lest by attributing some libertie to my self I should eclipse the glory of Gods grace which I acknowledge as well most free in her approaches as unresistible in her working I confess for the present my sins have brought such a damp upon my grieved spirit that he doth not afford m so much grace as to crie Abba Father Nevertheless I can call to minde I have sometimes heretofore had such heavenly motions and gratious inspirations in my heart as could be breathed from no other than the spirit of the Almighty hereby there hath been begotten in me a faith in Christ's merits not only true which can never be lost but so firm also that I am even now perswaded nothing shall be able to separate me from the love of God towards me in Christ Jesus This faith is rooted in a rock which all the powers of darkness are not able to root up though to your present apprehension for want of the fruits and blossomes of pietie and devotion it be as trees and herbs in winter which seem drie dead and withered but are not so Besides being one of God's Elect as every one is bound to believe according