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A75616	Armilla catechetica. A chain of principles; or, An orderly concatenation of theological aphorismes and exercitations; wherein, the chief heads of Christian religion are asserted and improved: by John Arrowsmith, D.D. late master both of St Johns and Trinity-Colledge successively, and Regius professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Published since his death according to his own manuscript allowed by himself in his life time under his own hand.	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3772; Thomason E1007_1; ESTC R207935	193,137	525

I shall instance in some few more He Prov. 28. 14 Job 9. 4. that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief Who hath hardened himself against God and prospered Crying sins are commonly answered with the Eccho of roaring judgements Hardness being in genere culpae one of the greatest evils there must needs be mischief due unto it in genere penae Hereunto may be added stubbornness for when hardness is risen to an high degree both senses of discipline are obstructed the ear They resisted to hearken Zech. 7. 12. and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone The eye He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts that they should not John 12. 40. see with their eyes and understand with their hearts Also searedness with an hot iron which is the next door to hanging 1 Tim. 4. 2. such as are formerly burnt in the hand if they fall again into the hands of justice are commonly denied their book and sent to the gallows Notorious malefactours are stigmatized so are hard-hearted sinners Lastly virulency or bitterness of spirit against the waies and people of God When divers were hardened and believed Act. 19. 9. not but spake evil of that way before Omnis apostata est osor sui ordinis the multitude No such bitter enemies to religion as those that after some relentings return to their former frame of hard-heartedness as the worst travelling is when it hath freezed after a thaw so the worst conversing is with men of that spirit § 5. I am now to shew in the third place that the providence of God is an actor even in this sin and that both in partial hardness which often befalls the elect of God according to that O Lord why hast thou made us to erre from thy waies and hardened our Isa 63. 17. heart from thy fear Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance And from that which is total and final found in Reprobates of whom Paul therefore saith Whom he will he Rom. 9. 18. hardeneth and again The election hath Rom. 11. 7. obtained but the rest were blinded or hardened Now this is done divers waies I. By way of Privation As when the sun departs darkness followeth yet the Sun is no cause of darkness but the absence thereof so when God departs in that be it never so little Matth. 13. 12. suppose but restraining grace hardness followeth yet God is not the efficient of it Time was when Pharaoh had restraining grace while it lasted there were no violent hands laid upon Moses and Aaron by whose ministry all the plagues were brought upon him He is no sooner deprived of that but his cruelty is let out to the full Moses threatned with death the last time he saw his face and all pursued with a bloudy intent Pharaohs heart had somewhat of softness and malliableness in it all the while this fire remained upon the removal whereof it returned to it's own hardness and coldness as mettal would As when a man holds a staff in his hand let him but take away his manutenencie the staff falls immediately to the ground by its own poyse II. By way of Negation As when God either refuseth to give a people softning means or denieth his blessing upon them So when Moses called to all Israel and said unto them Ye have seen Deut. 29. 2 3 4 all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto all his land The great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signes and those great miracles yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day In so doing God himself is said to harden as S. Austin hath it when Dicitur Deus indurare quando non en oll●t excoecare quando non illuminat De Praed c. 〈◊〉 Non indurat Deus impertiendo mal●tiam sed non impertiendo gratiam Aug. Epist 105. he softens not and to blinde when he enlightneth not As the Sun freezeth and congealeth the water not by imparting coldness to it but by not imparting heat and shining upon it with fervent beams So it is saith the same Father in Gods hardening who doth not do it by imparting malice but by not imparting grace Neither doth this denial affix any unlawfulness upon him as the like would do upon a good man that had to give and to spare what his neighbour stood in absolute need of for it is not the same cause throughout betwixt God and man there is a mutual tie of the creatures one to another All men are made of one bloud as in the Acts they are therefore bound by the law of nature to mutual helpfulness Not so between God and the creature for the dependance and consequently the tie is not mutual We depend upon God not he upon us therefore for us not to do what he requireth is absolutely sinfull but no law bindeth him to give whatsoever is needfull for us therefore not to give it is no sin If he please to indulge it it is grace and not debt if not the clay must not contend and finde fault with the potter § 6. III. By way of Permission Hard-heartedness is one of those evils which God permitteth but approveth not and accordingly included in that speech God in times past suffered all nations Act. 14. 16. to walk in their own ways Therefore the School-men upon those Texts Deus non volens iniquitatem tu es and Psalm 5. 5. Esai 66. 4. Quod non volui elegerunt have founded a notable distinction between Velle Nolle and Non velle which is not inconsiderable here God is said to Will a thing when he so approves it as to effect it To Nill a thing when he so dislikes it as to prohibit it Non velle not to will it when he so dislikes as not to prohibit yea and not to effect it yet permits it to be for good ends Of the Lord it is truly said That he wills an heart of flesh and that he nills a heart of stone as for hard-heartedness although he frequently permit it yet we must say he is not altogether willing to have it however willing to suffer it Our temper must be that of Austin In a wonderfull and unspeakable manner even that which is Miro inessabili modo non sit praeter ejus voluntatem quod etiam sit contra ejus voluntatem Quia non fieret nisi sineret nec utique nolens sinit sed volens Aug. Enchir. l. 160. Non sineret bonus fieri male nisi omnipotens etiam de malo posset sacere bene Id. Ibid. done against his will is not done without his will for it would not be done if it were not permitted neither doth he permit it without but with

God careth for The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LXX hic eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year That land was then the onely habitation of Gods Church and besides a lively type of the Catholick Church which was afterwards to be spread over the whole face of the earth whence it is that beleevers in all places were styled inward Jews and the Circumcision Rom. 2. end Philip. 3. 3. This continual care of God over his Church and the members thereof appeareth I. From the provision made by him for inferiour creatures So our Saviour argueth Behold the fowls of the air for they Matth. 6. 26. sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly father feedeth them Are ye not much better then they They have no caterers to bring in provision from them no barns to fetch provision out of yet want it not but go cheerfully on chirping continually because God feedeth them and that sometimes in a way little less then miraculous if that be true which is reported by some good writers namely that when the young ravens are forsaken of their dams and left bare out B. Andrews pattern of Catechistical doctrine pag. 60. of their own dung there ariseth a worm which creepeth to their mouths and becomes nourishment to them § 2. II. From the conduct of Israel after the flesh in former times A breviate of that Nations story will presently let us understand how they were brought into that land whereof this place in Deuteronomy speaketh and cared for there by a thousand providences Time was when Joseph was raised up to be a nursing father to them that by a most remarkable dispensation He had been formerly sold into Egypt was imprisoned without cause cast as Junius thinketh into that prison whereunto such were put as had most highly offended the king to be sure into one where his feet were burt Psal 105. 17 18. in the stocks and he laid in irons Had not his prison-house been so bad it is like he should not have had opportunity to make himself known to butler and baker of Pharaoh who were his fellow-prisoners The butler being restored to his place according to Josephs interpretation of his dream forgets to acquaint Pharaoh with him till all other means had been used to quiet the kings minde and none found effectual then he speaketh and then is Joseph speedily advanced Being so he becometh a preserver of the Church in his father brethren and their families Afterwards when there was risen another generation that knew not Joseph and the king of Egypt had set himself by force and art to extinguish Israel the bush although burning was not consumed in the midst of the fire their burdens were increased yet their persons multiplied and Moses ere-long raised up to deliver them out of their bondage A man preserved by the daughter of that Pharaoh whom he was called to destroy and by that means brought up at court yea instructed there both in the Art and Government and in all the learning of the Egyptians Under his conduct God did for them as one Prophet speaketh terrible things which they looked not for Puls them out of Pharaohs bosome in spite Isa 64. 3. of his heart at their departure sendeth them laden away with the jewels and treasures of Egypt maketh a passage for them through the sea and accompanieth their hosts into the wilderness There providence fetcheth them water out of a rock then which nothing drier and bread from heaven which is wont to grow out of the earth There their food is Manna Quails a cloud and pillar of fire their guides when this servant of God was dead up steps Joshua in his room bringeth them into and settleth them in the promised land which proved to them after their settlemement by lot an habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness A land flowing not onely with temporal but also with spiritual milk and honey after Solomon had erected a magnificent Temple for them which was the wardrobe of those ceremonies wherewith God was then to be served Then were they as the Psalmist hath it abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Gods house and made to drink of the river of his pleasures But their sins having at length cast them out of that good land and occasioned the burning of their Temple God left them not destitute of his help but ordained for them sundry refreshments in the time of their captivity This among others in Esthers time King Ahasuerus under whom they then were in a state of captivity had his sleep taken from him would spend the time not in this or that exercise but in reading of all books cals for that of the Chronicles of all places hath that read to him which concerned a good service done by Mordechai a Jew doth not onely take notice of it but enquire what reward had been given him understanding he had received none causeth Haman his favourite to be called putteth him upon doing singular honour in the view of all men to this Mordechai giveth his wife Queen Esther occasion of impleading this Haman discovering his plot against all the Jews and preventing that massacre of them which should speedily have been executed Yea providence went on to work so happily in the hearts of those Monarchs who then held them captives as not long after to proclaim their deliverance and liberty for them to rebuild both Jerusalem and the Temple which they also attempted Whilest the second Temple was building by Herod not so magnificent as the former yet in some respect more glorious if Josephus misinform us Nunquam interdiu nè interrumperetur aedificatio pluisse Joseph Antio Judaic lib. 15. cap. 14. not for the space of almost ten years it never rained all that while in the day time the providence of God so ordering it lest the work should be interrupted Yea so remarkable was the power and greatness of God in assisting the builders then that we finde him in Haggai and Zechary their Prophesies which were both written about that time frequently styled by that name The Lord of hosts particularly five times in four verses of Haggai Thus saith the Lord of hosts yet once Hagg. 2 6 7 8 9. it is a little while and I will strike the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land And I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory saith the Lord of hosts The silver is mine and the gold is mine saith the Lord of hosts The glory of this latter house shall be greater then of the former saith the Lord of hosts and in this place will I give peace saith the Lord of hosts That which raised the glory of this second above that of the first Temple was the personal presence of Jesus Christ in it His coming

his will And again He is so good as that he would never suffer evil if he were not so Omnipotent as to bring good out of evil IV. By way of presenting objects of which our corruptions make a bad use Esaias his Evangelical Ministry made the heart of that people fat and made their Isal 6. 10. ears heavy and shut their eyes The hotter the Sun is wont to shine the more the dunghil is wont to sent Men grow hardest under the most Gospel ministry So under mercies of all sorts He that observeth the passages of Pharaohs story shall finde that his corruptions took many occasions from the carriage of things to harden him yet more and more After he had been freed from two or three several plagues by Moses his prayer upon his hypocritical relentings he might perhaps begin to think that the God of Israel was such an one as might be deceived with fair shews and so fear him less It pleased God not to strike Pharaoh himself with any plague by Twiss Vind. part 2. p. 94. the hand of Moses nor to suffer his people to rise up against him and free themselves by main force This might happily tend to his further hardening and put him upon saying If he be so great a God why doth he not smite me in mine own person or carry out his people without me Besides the same plague was never twice inflicted he saw that and might think when one plague was over that would not come again and there could not come a worse then that the God of Israel had surely done his worst already Come we to the last scene of his Tragedy after Israel was departed things were so carried as to cram his corruption and to make his heart fatter then before The Hebrews are all found in a place with the sea before them and great mountains on each side Their being so pent encourageth Pharaoh and his host The sea is ere long divided for Israel the waves stand as walls on either side the people passe through as on dry land Why should not the sea might he think make way for me as well as for them The prey is now in view let go this one opportuty they are gone for ever If the waves stand up but a while longer as they have done a good while already the day is ours They pass on and perish § 7. V. By way of tradition to Satan Who although he have not any power of enforcing yet hath a notable slight of perswading and by this means of Non babet potentiam cogendi sed ast utiam suadendi hardening No doubt but Pharaoh being deluded by the Magicians who were suffered to counterfeit the same miracles which Moses did was thereby hardened through the operation of Satan We reade of an evil Spirit from 1 Sam. 16. 15. God troubling Saul and after that of many hard-hearted prancks by him plaid such as never before and of John 13. 2. the divels having put into Judas his heart to betray Christ after which he was restless till he had done it As they must needs go our Proverb saith whom the divel drives 'T is strange how that mans spirit declined into further and yet further degrees of hardness but less strange if we consider that the divel was entred into him Judas was first a cunning dissembler the disciples suspected themselves as soon as him and therefore said Master is it I Afterward a secret thief for he bare the bagge and filched then a bold traytour What will ye give and Hail Master In the conclusion a desperate self-murderer as the most interpreters judge in making away himself VI. By way of delivering men up to their own lusts Hear God of his own people My people would not hearken to my voice and Israel would none of me So I gave them Psal 81. 11 ●2 up unto their own hearts lusts and they walked in their own counsels how much more is this true of God's enemies Pharaoh by name See how these three lusts of his Idolatry Ambition and Covetousness concurred to the making of him so hard-hearted towards God so hard to be prevailed with by Moses As an Idolater he was loath to receive a message from the God of Israel whom he knew not Vid. Twiss vindici part 2. pag. 94 c. Who is the Lord said he that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go As an Ambitious Prince it went to his heart to have Moses control him in his own dominions and to admit the commands of any superiour Lord Thus saith the Lord Let my people go was as fire to his bones and enraged him who would not hear of any lord over that people but himself As a Covetous man he was loth to have so fat a collop cut off his flank to hear of parting with a people by whose pains in making bricks he had such daily comings in VII By way of infliction and penalty One sin is often made the punishment of another and hardness the punishment of many sins oft reiterated When Exod. 9. 34. Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased he sinned yet more and hardened his heart he and his servants The harder they were the more they sinned and the more they sinned the harder they were Affected hardness is frequently followed with inflicted hardness Men by customary sinning make their hearts as an adamant stone so Zech. 7. 12. the phrase is in Zechary of which it is said Incidit gemmas sed non inciditur ipse Hircino tantùm sanguine mollis erit That is It cuts all stones It self is cut of none It softned is by bloud of goats alone Unregenerate persons of hard hearts usually grieve their godly friends who are cut at the heart to see their obstinacy as Christ grieved for the Pharisees hardness Mark 5. 〈◊〉 At non inciditur ipse But such an one cannot heartily grieve for himself His heart till it come to be steeped in the bloud of Christ who is that Scape-goat in Leviticus relenteth not or not to purpose It were easie to add much more but I shall now shut up all concerning this proposition God hardeneth Grave est auditu non facile recipit hoc pia mens non quia quod dicitur non bene dicitur sed quia quod bene dicitur non bene intelligitur Hugo de S. Victor lib. 1. de sacram part 4. cap. 12. with the saying of Hugo de sancto Victore concerning that God willeth evil This is irksome to the ear and a pious minde doth not easily receive it but the reason is not because what is said is not well said but because what is well enough said is not half well understood EXERCITATION 4. Exerc. 4. Objections against and Corollaries from the foregoing propositions The least things provided for Luthers admonition to Melancthon Maximilians address