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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

The Examination of TILENVS 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 LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivie-Lane 1658. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE EXAMINATION OF TILENVS in VTOPIA The Praefatory Epistle Viro pari familiari meò M. S. P. MY dear and good friend these Papers come now to your hands to give you assurance that my many late discourses upon the subjects here treated of were in good earnest What ever it was that occasioned the forming of my conceptions into this shape there is nothing in the world hath had a greater hand if so it may be said of motives to give them birth than your Passionate opposition For I am weary of those debates by word of mouth wherein men of much zeal and prejudice grow so hot and so far transported that instead of solid arguments advancing orderly under the command of sober Reason they can Levy no other forces but froath and choler to assist them That I may no more break the peace in this kinde with you nor indanger making the least flaw in that dear friendship that hath by so long a conversation grown up to so great a height betwixt us I have resolved to take this calmer course to give an account of some grounds of my present perswasions wherein I differ from your judgment Perhaps they may sometime or other finde your affections so quiet your understanding so well awakened and your Will so Willing to stand neuter till these truths have a fair and full hearing that they may make a better impression than hitherto they have had opportunity to do upon you And because I remember in some heat of dispute you have thrown some things upon me which were not so much faults in me as prejudices and scandals taken up by your self I shall briefly wipe them off that such rubs being removed out of your way you may have the less objection to fright you from a further inquiry into the Articles under question And now I beseech you in the first place to upbraid me no more with the errours of my education for so I must now account them because the greater the prejudices were which were instil'd into me against these doctrines the greater you ought to conclude the light to be which hath wrought this my present conviction of their truth and induced me to imbrace them against all the charmes of interest and secular advantages wherewith the world tempts us to the contrary Unconstancy one of your other charges I confess is sometimes Culpable but may we not say so too of Constancy many times which is therefore resembled somwhere to a fullen Porter who keeps out better company oftentimes than he lets in Our happiness that will be unchangable commenceth in a change and 't is our duty to turn from darkness to light though we be called inconstant for it We were not born with our eyes open neither shall we ever see far if we look no further than that prospect which some few admired writers have set before us The new man which we are to put on is renewed in knowledge Col. 3. 10. If we receive our illumination regularly from heaven that is given according to the capacity of the subject We have a dawning first but the progress of our light holds a proportion with the sedulity of our studies We are never too old to learn in Christ's School But the great scandal you say is to profess my self a disciple to such Masters What Masters do you mean I call no man Master on Earth in this sense nor ever will give any so great a dominion over my faith as to swear allegiance to his doctrines I would others were as free from this yoak of bondage But yet I know 't is not only a thing commendable but a duty to march after the standard of truth what hand soever carries it before us And who do you think were the bearers of it If you enquire into their learning even their adversaries being Judges they were as lights shining in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation Phil. 2. 15. and if you examine their lives for piety and justice they were blameless and harmless as becomes the sons of God not more polite in their intellectuals than unreproveable in their morals but very eminent in both And they have declared their virtues as well in a way of Passive obedience as Active What professors were ever more constant and cheerful in their sufferings for the word of God and for the testimony which they held having been taught it according to their full perswasion as the truth is in Jesus Ephes 4. 21. They have been banished imprisoned c. Insomuch that one of them bespeaks his fellow souldiers in this Conflict after this manner Vos societatis Apolog. pro Confess in Praefat. ad finem nostroe decora ac lumina quorum vincula iam non in Belgio tantum sed penè ubique per totum orbem Christianum celebria facta sunt qui patientiâ vestrâ iam per tot annos invicta atque infracta adversari is totique adeo mundo fidem fecistis Conscientiam Remonstrantibus Pluris esse quam quicquid uspiam carum est in mundo It a Pergite c. You the lights and glory of our society whose bonds are famous throughout the whole Christian world whose invincible patience hath given proof to your very adversaries and all the world besides that the Remonstrants value their conscience above all things whatsoever March on with me saith he to the mark By honour and dishonour by evil report and good report as deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live as chastened and not killed as sorrowful yet alwayes rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things 2 Cor. 6. 8 9 10. Thus far he But you will say non poena sed causa 't is not the suffering but the cause that makes a man a Martyr and those men run after the errour of Pelagius who was condemned by the Antient Fathers as an enemie to the grace of God To this I shall return Arminius his own solemn protestation Inspiciantur capita omnia Pelagianoe doctrinoe Examen Thesium Gomari pa. 156. 157. prout illa in Synodis Milevitana Arausicana Hierosolymitana enarrantur condemnantur etiam ut à Pontifice Romano Innocentio referuntur adparebit posse quempiam Relagianam doctrinam improbare tamen doctrinoeisti Gomari sc de Praedestinatione non accedere and a little after Profiteor intereà me Pelagiana dogmata quae ipsis imponuntur à