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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

Wherefore wee beseech him to grant vs true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which wee doe at this present c O God make cleane our hearts within vs. O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all good workes doe proceed c. That it may please thee to giue vs an heart to loue and dread thee and diligently to walke after thy Commandements That it may please thee to giue vs true repentance and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our liues according to thy holy Word Though wee be tyed and bound with the chaine of our sins yet let the pittifulnesse of thy great mercy loose vs c. Almighty God giue vs grace that wee may cast off the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light c. O Lord raise vp thy power and come among vs and with great might succour vs that whereas by our sinnes and wickednesse wee be sore let and hindered thy bountifull grace and mercy may speedily deliuer vs c. See the Collects on the 1. 4. 5. Sundayes after the Epiphany O GOD create in vs new and contrite hearts c. Almighty God who doest see that of our selues wee haue no power to helpe our selues keepe thou vs both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our soules c. Almighty God wee humbly beseech thee that as by thy speciall grace preuenting vs thou doest put into our hearts good desires so by thy continuall helpe wee may bring the same to good effect God the strength of all those that trust in thee mercifully heare our prayers and because the weakenesse of our mortall nature can do no good thing without thee grant vs the helpe of thy grace that so we may please thee both in will and deede Lord of all power and might which art the onely author and giuer of all good things grasse in our hearts the loue of thy name increase in vs true Religion nourish vs with all goodnesse and of thy mercy keepe vs in the same Grant vs O Lord wee beseech thee the spirit to thinke and to doe alwayes those things as bee righteous that wee which cannot be without thee may by thee be able to doe according to thy will c. Lord wee pray thee that thy grace may alwaies preuent and follow vs and make vs continually giuen to all good workes O God for asmuch as without thee wee cannot please thee graunt that thy mercy may alwaies direct and rule our hearts See the 2. 6. 13. 15. and 22. Sundaie after Trinitie to the same effect Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts to keepe this Lawe Preuent vs O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious fauour and further vs with thy continuall helpe that in all our workes begunne continued and ended in thee c. My good childe know that thou art not able to doe these things of thy selfe nor to walke in the Commandements of God and to serue him without his speciall grace Almighty God who makest vs both to will and to doe the things that bee acceptable vnto thy Maiestie c. Turne vs O good God and so shall we be turned Thirdly that Christ Iesus dyed sufficiently for all mankinde but effectually for none but the Elect and true beleeuers who alone are saued by his death The sufficiency of Christs death for all mankinde is expressed in these seuerall places O God the Sonne redeemer of the World haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners Aboue all wee must giue humble and hearty thankes to God the Father c. for the redemption of the world by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ c. Almighty God our heauenly Father which of thy tender mercy diddest giue thine onely Sonne Iesus Christ to suffer death vpon the Crosse for our Redemption who made there by his owne oblation once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sinnes of the whole world c. O Lambe of God which takest away the sinnes of the world haue mercy vpon vs. thou that takest away the sinnes of the world receive our prayers Secondly in God the Sonne who hath redeemed mee and all mankinde O Sauiour of the world saue vs which by thy Crosse and Passion hast redeemed vs All this must bee vnderstood onely of the sufficiency and merit of Christs death not of the efficacie benefit and application of it which belongs to none but to the true Church of Christ euen the Elect and true beleeuers as these passages ensuing will informe vs. When thou hadst ouercome the sharpnesse of death thou diddest open the Kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers We pray thee helpe thy seruants whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud O Lord saue thy people and make thy chosen people ioyfull Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and Redeemed his people To giue knowledge of Saluation to his people for the remission of their sins His mercy is on them that feare him throughout all generations He remembring his mercy hath holpen his seruant Israel c. Spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud This is the bloud of the new Testament which is shed for you and for many for the Remission of sinne Grant that by the merits and death of thy Sonne Iesus Christ through faith in his bloud we and all thy whole Church may obtaine remission of our sinnes and all other benefits of his passion Now the Church the mysticall body of Christ is the blessed company of all faithfull and elect people and none else but they as the next prayer the Collect on good Fryday and the places quoted in the first Position prooue And whereas the Minister in distributing the Bread and wine saith particularly to euery man take this in remembrance that Christ dyed for thee drinke this in remembrance that Christs bloud was shed for thee it cannot imply that Christ dyed effectually for all men but the contrary that hee dyed only thus for the Elect and faithfull because our Church prohibites all such as want true faith and repentance or liue in any grosse and knowne sinnes to come to the Sacrament admitting none but true and faithfull penitents to it so that the Minister and our Church doe alwayes looke vpon all Communicants as the elect and chosen Saints of God endued with true faith and repentance and so they may well apply at leastwise in the iudgement of Charity the efficacy and merits of Christs death vnto them I will conclude this point with the passage of A Prayer necessary for all men Iesus Christ thy onely Sonne hath perfectly fulfilled thy Law to iustifie all men that beleeue and trust in him And thus much for our Common Prayer Booke Certaine Homilies appointed

giuen vs by Christ. The wise man saith that in the power and vertue of the holy Ghost resteth all wisedome and all abilitie to know God and to please him We must beware and take heed that we doe in no wise thinke in our hearts imagine or beleeue that wee are able to repent aright or to turne effectually vnto the Lord by our owne might and strength For this must be verified in all men Without mee yee can doe nothing Againe Of our selues wee are not able as much as to thinke a good thought And in another place It is God that worketh in vs both the will and the deede For this cause although Hieremie had said before If thou returne O Israel returne vnto me saith the Lord Yet afterwards he saith Turne thou mee O Lord and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God And therefore that holy writer and ancient father Ambrose doeth plainely affirme that the turning of the heart vnto God is of God as the Lord himselfe doeth testifie by his Prophet saying And I will giue thee an heart to knowe mee that I am the Lord and they shall bee my people and I will bee their God for they shall returne vnto mee with their whole heart Both the Priesthood and the Law being changed wee ought to acknowledge none other Priest for deliuerance from our sinnes but our Sauiour Iesus Christ who being soueraigne Bishoppe doeth with the Sacrifice of his Body and Blood offered once for euer vpon the Altar of the Crosse most effectually cleanse the spirituall leprosie and wash away the sinnes of all those that with true confession of the same doe flee vnto him These seuerall passages quoted out of our Homilies do aboundanty testifie that ther is an eternal and immutable Praedestination of certaine men vnto eternall life out of meere grace and mercy and likewise a praetermission or reprobation of others to eternall death out of Gods meere pleasure That there is no Free-will or sufficient grace communicated vnto all men whereby they may conuert and saue themselues if they will And that man without the speciall assistance of Gods grace and Spirit is so weake and impotent that hee can neither doe nor thinke any thing that is good or prepare his heart to seeke for grace That Christ Iesus hath dyed sufficiently for all men but effectually for none but the Elect and such who are enabled through faith to apply his merits to their soules That Gods grace and Spirit doe alwayes worke effectually in the hearts of his Elect in the act of their conuersion which they can neuer finally nor totally resist And that the Elect and truely regenerate can neither fall finally nor totally from the state of grace which is firme and stable If any man desire to know more of mans imbecillity and misery since the fall which is such that he can neither will nor doe any thing that is good without Gods speciall preuenting and assisting grace a point which ouerthrowes the whole Fabricke of Arminianisme which is founded vpon mans Free-will Let him read the first and second part of the Homily of the Misery of man The Homilies of Christs Natiuitie Passion and Resurrection The first Homily on Whitsonday The first second and third part of the Homily on Rogation weeke And the first part of the Homily of Repentance where this point is so copiously handled and aboundantly confirmed that it needes no more dispute Hee that would further satisfie himselfe in the freenesse of our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification and Saluation out of meere grace and mercy without any desire merits will or workes of our owne or any thing foreseene in vs Let him reade the foresaid Homilies together with the first second and third parts of the Homilies of Saluation and Faith Hee that would bee further and more fully instructed in the point of the sufficiency value worth and merit of Christs death which was able and sufficient of it selfe to redeeme not some but all mankinde though the effect and application of it belong not to all but onely to the Elect who alone haue Faith for to apply it let him reade all these forementioned Homilies For the point of Perseuerance if any desire more copious euidences for to cleare it let him peruse the second part of those Homilies Pag. 148. 209. 261. 262. 263. and there hee shall finde it prooued That the Spirit of God doth alwaies dwell in the hearts of the Regenerate and that Dauid Solomon Noah Lot and Peter though they fell into grosse and 〈◊〉 sinn●● yet they did not fall finally nor totally from the state of Grace The cauils which haue bene raised against this point vpon some passages in the Homilies of falling from God I my selfe with others haue formerly answered them in other books I therfore spare for to repeate them since the now recited passages are sufficient for to cleere this point to euidence it to the world that the Arminian Tenents are manifestly oppugned yea condemned not warranted by our Homilies These Homilies were most of them penned and composed by the Learned Archbishop of Canterbury Doctor Cranmer afterwards a Martyr A short Catechisme set foorth by King Edward the 6. his Authority for all Schoolemasters to teach Printed at London in Latine per Reginaldum Woolfium 1553. and the same yeere in English Cum Priuilegio by Iohn Day out of which I haue transcribed it verbatim from Folio 37. to 41. Scholer AFter that the Lord God had made the Heauen and Earth hee determined to haue for himselfe a most beautifull Kingdome and holy Common-wealth The Apostles and Ancient Fathers that wrote in Greeke called it Ecclesia in English a Congregation or Assembly into the which he hath admitted an infinite number of men that should be subiect to one King as their Soueraigne and onely Head him wee call Christ which is as much as to say Anointed c. To the furnishing of this Common-weale belong all they as many as doe truely feare honour and call vpon God dayly applying their mindes to holy and godly liuing and all those that putting all their hope and trust in him doe assuredly looke for the blisse of euerlasting life But as many as are in this Faith stedfast were fore-chosen Praedestinat and appointed to euerlasting life before the world was made Witnesse heereof they haue within their hearts the spirit of Christ the Author earnest and vnfailable pledge of their faith Which faith onely is able to perceiue the mysteries of God onely brings peace vnto the heart onely taketh hold on the righteousnesse that is in Christ Iesus Master Doth then the Spirit alone and faith sleepe we neuer so securely or stand wee neuer so rechlesse or slothfull so worke all things for vs as without any helpe of our owne to carry vs idle up heauen Schol I vse Master as you haue taught me to make a

man c. 16. with my owne Perpetuity p. 100. 101. 621. in the raigne of our gracious King Charles who all giue full particular and copious testimony to this conclusion Certainely he who shall but seriously suruay these seuerall Scriptures Gen. 17. 1. I am the Almighty God Gen. 18. 14. Is any thing to hard for the Lord 1. Chron. 29. 11. 12. Thine O Lord is the greatnesse and the power and the glory and the victory and the maiestie thine is the kingdome O Lord and thou art exalted as head ouer all Both riches and honour come of thee and thou raignest ouer all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand it is to make great and to giue strength vnto all 2. Cron. 20. 6. Art not thou God in Heauen and rulest not thou ouer all the Kingdomes of the Heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee Iob 9. 4. 12. 19. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardned himselfe against him and bath prospered Behold he taketh away● who can hinder him who will say vnto him what dost thou If I speake of strength loe he is strong cap. 12. 13. to 25. With him is wisedome and strength hee hath counsell and vnderstanding Behold he breaketh downe and it cannot be built he shuteth vp a man and there can be no opening he leadeth away Counsellers spoyled and maketh the Iudges fooles he looseth the bond of Kings and girdeth their loyues with a girdle he leadeth Princes away spoyled and ouerthroweth the mighty hee powreth contempt vpon Princes and weakneth the strength of the mighty he increaseth the Nations and destroyeth them he inlargeth the Nations and straitneth them againe he taketh away the hearts of the chiefe of the people of the earth c. cap. 23. 13. 14. But he is in one minde who can turne him and what his soule desireth euen that he doth for he performeth the thing that is appointed cap. 33. 11. 12. 13. 16. 17. He putteth my feet in the stockes c. I will answer thee that God is greater then man why dost thou striue against him for he giueth not account of any of his matters he openeth the eares of men and sealeth their instruction that he may withdrawe man from his purpose and hide pride from man he keepeth backe his soule from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword cap. 37. 7. 12. He sealeth vp the hand of euery man that all men may know his worke It is turned round about by his counsels that they may doe whatsoeuer hee commandeth 〈◊〉 vpon the face of the world in the earth cap. 40. 8. 9. Wilt thou also disanul my iudgements hast thou an arme like God or canst thou thunder with a voyce like him c. 42. 2. I know that thou canst doe euery thing and that no thought can be with-holden from thee Psal. 33. 9. 11. He spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast The counsell of the Lord standeth for euer the thought of his heart to all generations Psal. 47. 2. 3. The Lord most high is terrible hee is a great King ouer all the earth Hee shall subdue the people vnder vs and the Nations vnder our feete Psal. 115. 3. But our God is in Heauen he hath done whatsoeuer he pleased Psal. 135. 6. Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased that aid ●e in Heauen and in Earth c. Prou. 21. 1. 30. The Kings heart is in the hands of the Lord as the Riuers of water hee turneth it whether soeuer he will There is no wisedome no vnderstanding nor counsell against the Lord. Eccle. 9. 1. The righteous and the wise and their worke are in the hand of God Isay 14 27. The Lord of Hoasts hath purposed and who shall disanul it surely as I haue thought so shall it come to pas and as I haue purposed so shall it stand Isayah 41. 10. to 29. Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand and his arme shall rule for him he shall feed his flocke like a Shepheard he shall gather his Lambs with his arme and carrie them in his bosome and shall gently lead those that are with young Behold the Nations are as the drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballance behold hee taketh vp the lles as a very little thing All Nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him lesse then nothing and vanity It is he that sitteth on the circle of the earth and the inhabitants thereof are as Grashoppers that stretcheth out the Heauens as a Curtaine That bringeth the Princes to nothing and maketh the Iudges of the earth as vanity yea they shall not be planted yea they shall not be sowen yea their stocke shall not take roote on the earth and he shall also blow vpon them and they shall wither and the whirlewind shall take them away as stubble To whom then will yee liken me or shall I bee compared saith the holy one Lift vp your eyes on high and behold who hath created those things That bringeth out their Hoasts by number he calleth them all by their names by the greatnesse of his might for that hee is strong in power not one faileth cap. 43. 12. 13. I am God I am he and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand I will worke and who shall let it Ieremiah 18. 6. O house of Israel cannot I doe with you as this Potter saith the Lord behold as the clay is in the Potters hand so are yee in my hand saith the Lord c. cap. 32. 27. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me cap. 49. 19. He shall come vp like a Lyon from the swelling of Iordan against the habitation of the strong but I will suddenly make him runne away from her and who is a chosen man that I may appoint ouer her for who is like me and who will appoint me the time Ezechi 22. 14. Can thine heart indure or can thine hands be strong in the dayes that I shall deals with thee I the Lord haue spoken it and will doe it cap. 36. 24. 25. 26. 27. I will take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all Countryes and will bring you againe to your owne Land Then will I sprincle cleane water vpon you and you shall be cleane from all your filthynesse and from all your Idols will I cleanse you A new heart also will I giue you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stonie heart out of your flesh and I will giue you an heart of flesh and I will put my Lawes within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and yee shall keepe my iudgements and doe then Dan. 2. 20. 21. Blessed be the name of God for euer and euer for wisedome and strength are his