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A96830	Arcana dogmatum anti-remonstrantium. Or the Calvinists cabinet unlock'd. In an apology for Tilenus, against a pretended vindication of the synod of Dort. At the provocation of Master R. Baxter, held forth in the preface to his Grotian religion. Together, with a few soft drops let fall upon the papers of Master Hickman.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3336; Thomason E1854_2; ESTC R204117	284,533	643

we are intitled to after faith be held upon such terms then much more that Adoption which follows it Here then you and Tilenus are agreed but I doubt it will not hold long For if the question be asked whether every Regenerate man will infallibly perform this condition you answer in the affirmative and indeed according to your doctrine he cannot do otherwise unlesse you take up your distinction for fashion sake and say that quoad se he may fail in that performance but respectu Dei 't is impossible because to speak openly and plainly 't is not he that doth it and how comes it then to be his duty and rewardable but God by an insuperable power Preface Section 9. according to his absolute purpose to cause this condition in him Let us come at last to your reasons 1. I do not finde you say any mention of them David and Peter or any others that were twice Regenerated or sanctified in Scripture * Then there can never be any other truly Prodigall son but onely Adam Answ 1. Then all those of whose pollutions and backslidings Almighty God so bitterly complains in Scripture were either not regenerated and sanctified at all and then it would be somewhat strange Isa 1.21 2 Pet. 2.18.19 Ezek. 16.38 with 60. Jer. 18.11 with 13. Jer. 2.12 13. that a most wise God should complain that men had corrupted themselves and polluted their wayes who never had been sanctified or else that they did all perish in such their pollutions and backslidings and this will seem no lesse strange then the other to any considering person who attends to it without prejudice That after so many earnest invitations and wooings to return Jer. 3.12 Isa 1.18 Hose 2.7 with 14. Jer. 3.1 12 14. Hos 14.4 and such a gracious reception given by Almighty God to such returners that notwithstanding al this every Revolting and backsliding person should be damned is to me utterly incredible 2. The Metaphor of Regeneration may deceive us For it signifies the production of new Qualities and new Relations as you say Treatise of Conversion pag. 8. I may adde new Capacities too For consider the whole world as lying in wickednesse dead in trespasses and sinnes under the curse of the Law and the sentence of Gods wrath Christ coming to take away this curse and make expiation for that sin and to appease that wrath may very well be said to have begotten us again to a new hope in respect of that capacitie which we were put into by the benefit of his death and resurrection † 2 Tim. 1 9 10. 1 Pet. 1.3 even before our embracing of the Gospel The Resurrection is called a Regeneration too as Beza and Deodati interpret that Text Mat. 19.28 Regeneratio sumitur pro illa die qua electi incipient novam vitam vivere i. e. Cùm animo corpore fruentur illà haereditate coelesti saith Beza and Deodati to the same purpose so that you see the Scripture mentions a twofold regeneration But this last will not serve our turn and therefore I shall reflect upon what you grant as the Doctrine of the Synod in your 33. Sect. They deny not you say but men may fall from a present capacity of salvation and under the necessity of a renewed Repentance to put them again into a present capacity But say I after a lapse into grosse and foul sins which are said to corrupt and defile and pollute the soul especially upon any aboad in them there is and must be a production of new qualities as well as a new capacitie if that new capacitie doth not rather consist in such qualities therefore in that case this being a Regeneration the man so lapsed is twice Regenerated 3. How can there be an actuall iteration of the travell of the Ministery about the very same persons without a possible iteration of the new birth Yet we see the Apostle to the Galatians Gal. 3.2 c 5.4 c. 4.6 who had received the Spirit and were in a state of Grace God having sent the Spirit of his Son into their hearts crying Abba Father all which are sufficient evidences of their Regeneration yet to these he saith My little children of whom I travell in birth again Gal. 4.19 Deodati Annot Eng. untill Christ be formed in you That is saith Deodati My little children for whom I indure great pains and anguishes as a woman that is in travell untill such time as Christs pure doctrine is re-establisht amongst you as I had planted it to frame in your souls a living image of Christ in righteousnesse and true holinesse And what can you make of this but regeneration 4. You do confesse All those five words viz. Conversion Repentance Regeneration Sanctification Vocation Treatise of Conversion pag. 6. are used in Scripture to expresse the same work upon the soul and there is another word Ibid. pag. 8. you put in a page or two after the New-creation But what more frequent in holy Scripture then at least the implyed-iteration of Conversion Repentance Sanctification and the new creation For Conversion take that place Hosea 14.1 O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity Faln from what from one wickednesse to another No from the grace and favour of God vers 4. I will heal their backslidings I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him Let us also consider that of the Prophet Jer. 3.1 If a man put away his wife and she go from him and become another mans shall he return unto her again shall not the land be greatly polluted yes according to that Law made and provided on that behalf Deut. 24.1 2 3. But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return again to me saith the Lord. Where we may take notice 1. What their Relation was to God He was married unto them vers 14. and to be a wife sure is as near a relation and imports as great an indearement as to be sonnes and daughters 2. What their transgression was fornication which in a spirituall sense as relating to God was Idolatry and that doth ipso facto alter the state and rescind the Covenant whence it was that Moses finding the people playing the Harlot with the Calf to intimate that the Covenant betwixt them and their God was cancel'd and made void he broke the Tables in pieces Yet 3. God invites them to a restitution return again to me saith He and more fully Vers 12 14. Turn O back-sliding children saith the Lord for I am married unto you and though I might give you a finall bill of divorce for your backsliding and Idolatry yet I will take you again upon your repentance So that here we have some at least that were converted a second time from a state of aversion from God and therefore they were twice Regenerated What exceptions you will make against these instances as relating to a

that will be presumptuous where he hath little interest It is argument enough that the sinne hath gotten a great force in a man when it is presumptuous Upon this account it is that our Criminall prayes so earnestly at another time Psal 19.14 Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me Upon which words Amesius saith In Psal 19. Talia flagitia non constunt cum timore Dei Such crimes cannot consist with the fear of God Indeed he infers from thence that the servants of God are not inthral'd to such contumacies And it is true in sensu composito as they are and whilest they are Gods servants But if they betake themselves to the service of another Master his lusts then they will do Shall a man need to serve an Apprentiship to the trade of sin before he can merit the title of being a servant to it His servants ye are to whom ye obey saith the Apostle Suppose David had onely been surprized at first with the beauty of the woman though indeed those sins whose horrid enormity is so great that the very light of nature commands us alwaies to be in arms and stand upon our guard against them can never be excused or extenuated upon the account of a surprizall But put case I say he had been surprized at first yet upon whose command was it 1. That after sufficient time of recollection and advisement when he should have been at prayers he sent Messengers and sure some preface of courtship was used to flatter and seduce her and so took her and lay with her 2 Sam. 12. 2. That he afterwards sent for her husband from his duty in the Leaguer 3. That he advised him so earnestly to go home and wash his feet and sent a messe of meat after him 4. That he blamed him under a pretence of pity that he went not down to his house 5. That he bad him tarry till the morrow and then invited him to an entertainment where he made him drunken 6. That he laid so cunning a plot to murder him whom he had so lately debauched that he was scarce awakened or at least scarce recovered out of his distemper and then wrote a letter with so much formality to Joab to acquaint him how he should manage and carry on this projected stratagem and lastly that he sent it by Uriah's own loyall hand making him carry the Warrant for his own unworthy and treacherous execution At whose command I say did David do all this Was it not at the command of Lust and then did he not obey her as her servant What clearer evidence can there be in the world then this to prove that sinne hath got the Dominion over a man I 'le offer you but one argument more from the doctrine of Saint John 1 Joh. 3.9 10 12 14 15 17. verses Take it in this form No man that is not of God that hath not eternall life nor the love of God abiding in him but is of the Devil and abideth in death no such man is in the state of justification But David guilty of the matter of Vriah is such a man viz. not of God not having eternall life not the love of God abiding in him but is of the Devil and abideth in death Therefore c. The Major is undeniable being the expresse words of S. John The Minor is thus proved out of the same Apostle He that committeth sin and doth not righteousnesse that loveth not his brother that shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him that not onely hates but actually murders him like Cain for the satisfaction of his lust he is not of God hath not eternall life nor the love of God abiding in him but is of the Devill and abideth in death But David in the matter of Uriah committeth sin doth not righteousnesse loveth not his brother shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him and actually murders him Ergo. The Major is again the expresse words of S. John and the Minor is proved evidently by the History which containeth the matter of Fact 2 Sam. 11. I am the more confirmed in the certain truth of this doctrine by reflecting upon the scope and method of the Apostles discourse upon it Having represented the great priviledge of Adoption he proceeds to declare that this priviledge is to be preserved by a purity of soul and life suitable to that state and because 1 Joh. 3. v. 4. to 17. as he urgeth injustice and uncharitablenesse are altogether inconsistent with it therefore he earnestly dissuades from them as a most certain means conducing to the forfeiture of the benefit thereof Beloved Ibid. v. 2. now are we the sonnes of God saith he by inchoation adopted into that state of speciall grace and favour to give probation of our filiall ingenuity and obedience in purifying our selves that we may be advanced to a due and fitting capacity for the glorious presence and communion of the Holy God Thus we are now the sons of God but it doth not yet appear what we shall be for that glory is not yet revealed in us neither have we yet performed the condition which is required to qualifie and dispose us for it Aug. doth distinguish betwixt sons by Regeneration and sons by Praedestination as in your Ac. of Persev pag. 16. 1 Pet. 1.14 15. for we must withdraw our selves from all pollutions and be devoted by a speciall separation to his service As obedient children not fashioning our selves according to the former lusts in our ignorance but as he which hath called us is holy so must we be holy in all manner of conversation Wherefore come out from among them Heathenish pollutions and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you And will be a father unto you 2 Cor. 6.17 18. and ye shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty This Priviledge of Adoption is not absolutely our own free-hold our tenure in it is conditionall no lesse than that of being his house and his Disciples which imports the same benefit under diversified expressions and this condition is the sincere and constant performance of our faithfull duty and service Heb. 3.6 14. Joh. 8.31 Rom. 2.7 which consists in a course of holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our life Luk. 1.75 according to the covenant made with Abraham All the Divines that I have met with at least to my best remembrance do set Justification before Adoption in order of nature if not of time and yet you your self confesse Aphor. of Justif distinct 21. Those onely are his practicall conquering Disciples who actually persevere Disp of Sacram. pag. 94. that that justification of which the person hath true possession though it be ours actually after faith yet 't is but conditionally viz. upon condition of perseverance in faith and sincere obedience If that Justification which