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A second parallel together with a vvrit of error sued against the appealer.
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Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.
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If any say that iustifying faith is nothing else but a confident relying on Gods mercy forgiuing our sinnes by Christ or that this confidence is the only faith whereby we are iustified let him be accursed Ib. c. 16 If any say or beleeue that hee shall certainly haue by absolute and infallible certainty the great gift of perseuerance to the end vnlesse he know and haue learned it by speciall reuelation let him be accursed Appealer ANsw. to Gag pag. 186. If we consider our own disposition wee assigne no more then probable and coniecturall assurance This Bellarmine assigneth this is enough Faction may transport a man to wrangle for more but when once they ioyne issues the difference will not bee much Much or little great or smal thus or so the Church of England is not touched that assigneth it neither Appeale page 213. I professe I am not of that opinion with you and whatsoeuer you may resolue for your crying Abba Father secundum praesentem justitiam I craue pardon I cannot thinke that you are may or can bee so perswaded secundum statum futurum Discord Church of Engl. HOmily of the passion p. 186. What meanes is that It is faith not an inconstant or wauering faith but a sure stedfast grounded and vnfained faith Pag. 187. The only meanes and instrument of saluation required of our parts is faith that is to say a sure trust and confidence in the merits of God whereby we perswade our selues that God both hath and will forgiue vs our sins and that hee hath accepted vs again into his fauour that he hath released vs from the bonds of damnation and receiued vs into the number of his elect people Et post Wee must take heed that wee doe not halt with GOD through an inconstant and wauering faith but that it be strong and stedfast to our liues end Wee must apprehend the merits of Christs death and passion by faith nothing doubting but that Christ by his owne oblâ—tion and once offering himselfe on the Crosse hath taken away our sinnes and restored vs againe into Gods fauour The point of Perseuerance hath such affinity with this point of assurance of saluation that what is wanting in this may be supplyed out of the former Parallel Al that I here obserue is that the Appealer fully accordeth with the Councell of Trent not only in the conclusion but in the very reason alleadged by the Councell for the ground thereof Of the Popes Primacy Harmony Church of Rome IN the forme of oath prescribed in the Bul of Pius 4 annext to the CouÌ„cell of Trent I acknowledge the holy Catholicke and Apostolicke Church of Rome to be the Mother and Mistresse of all Churches and I vow and sweare true obedience to the Bishop of Rome the successor of Peter the Prince of the Apostles Vicar of Iesus Christ. Bellarmin de Romano Pontif. lib. 4. c. 1. The Pope is supreame Iudge in coÌ„trouersies of faith and manners Appealer ANsw. to Gag p. 29. I could interpret S. Anselm well enough as that if a controuersie were referred by the Church or an heresie to bee corrected in the Church which touched the case of the Catholicke Church it could not be put ouer more â—itly to any one man by the Church representatiue in a Councell then vnto the Pope first Bishop of Christendome of greatest not absolute power among Bishops Discord Church of England HOm. for Whitsunday second part pag. 214. 215. First as touching that they will bee termed vniuersall Bishops Heads of all Christian Churches through the world wee haue the iudgement of Gregory expresly against them who writing to Mauritius the Emperour condemned Iohn Bishop of Constantinople in that behalf calling him the Prince of pride Lucifers successor and the forerunner of Antichrist S. Bernard agreeing thereunto saith What greater pride can there bee then that one man should preferre his owne iudgement before the whole congregation as if hee onely had the Spirit of God And Chrysostome pronounceth a terrible sentence against them affiriming plainly that whosoeuer seeketh to be chiefe on earth shall finde confusion in heauen and he that striueth for the supremacy shall not be reputed among the Seruants of Christ. Homily against wilfull rebellion 5 part pag. 308. 309. The Bishop of Rome being by the order of Gods word none other then the Bishop of that one See and Diocesse and neuer yet well able to gouerne the same did by intolerable ambition challenge not onely to be Head of all the Church dispersed through the world but also to be Lord ouer all Kingdomes of the world In this point touching the Popes Primacy though the Appealer comes not full home to the tenent of the Church of Rome yet he goeth too far pointeth at a most dangerous course of referring the iudgement of controuersies of faith that concerne the whole Church vnto the Pope Which course if with Master Mountagues good approbation we should take in the great controuersie touching the Head of the Church the Power of the See of Rome the causes of our Separation from that Church and all the controuerted points betweene vs conclamatum esset he that hath but halfe an eye might see what the issue would bee This resolution of M. Mountagu if he hold still it will bee expected that in the next edition of his booke he change the title now prefixed Appello Caesarem into Appello Papam The markes of the Beast were come out in the Pope before Anselmes time and since they are so apparent in him that other learned Diuines make the Pope whole Antichrist and the Appealer himselfe makes him halfe the Antichrist pag. 149. and an entire Apostata from Christ and his kingdome And was there no fitter Bishop in all Christendome to decide controuersies concerning the whole Church of Christ then he who is either halfe or whole Antichrist but of this point see more in the Writ of error Of Antichrist Harmony Church of Rome BEllarmine de Româ—no pontif lib. 3. c. 13. The seat of Antichrist shal be in Ierusalem not Rome for Enoch and Elias are to fight with Antichrist in Ierusalem Ibid. c. 12. Antichrist shall properly come for the Iewes and shall be receiued by them as the Messias he shall be circumcised and keepe the Sabbath for a time Ibid. cap. 18. The frensies of Hereticks are refelled by which they do not so much proue as impiously affirme that the Pope is Antichrist This conclusion is the scope of his whole third book and he and all Papists who haue written of this argument apply themselues wholly to proue that neither the Pope personally nor the Popes successiuely constitute that Antichrist described in the Apocalyps Appealer ANsw. to Gagg page 74. 75. I am not of opinion that the Bishop of Rome personally is that Antichrist nor yet that the Bishops of Rome successiuely are that Antichrist so spoken of App. p. 146. Whether the Pope of Rome or the Popes of Rome either are
a time which a man putting away soone after makes shipwrack concerning faith that is either concerning the doctrine of faith by maintaining errors as both Bertius and the Appealer haue done or concerning the act of a temporary faith by ceasing to beleeue and professe the faith Thirdly it is to be noted that the Apostle saith not losing but putting away a good conscience which words may be most properly meant of such who hold faith and notwithstanding put away a good conscience that is gladly embrace the promise of the Gospell and remission of their sinnes by faith but reiect the condition vpon end for which grace is offered Tit. 2. 12. To deny vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world such are all carnall Gospellers who beleeue well but liue not accordingly Fourthly the phrase making shipwracke doth not import the vtter losse of faith for many things that fall out of the ship by wrack are recouered again and saued and therefore Tertullian in his book de Poenitentiâ elegantly calleth repentance Tabulam post naufragium A board or broken peece of the ship on which after ship wracke a man may as they did Act. 27. 44. Escape safe to land Plerique naufragio liberati exinde repudium naui mari dicunt Dei beneficium salutem suam scil memoriâ periculi honorant Most men that haue escaped in shipwrack renounce both ship and sea and by remembrance of their former danger more highly prize Gods benefit and their saluation Lastly this Obiection may be retorted against the Aduersary thus If those who are here said to make shipwracke of faith are not to be thought to haue fallen away finally from grace and saluation but rather the contrary then this place maketh nothing for the finall Apostasie of true beleeuers But those who are here said to make shipwracke of faith are not to be thought to haue fallen away finally from grace and saluation but rather the contrary Therefore this place maketh nothing for the finall Apostasie of true beleeuers The first Proposition is euident the Assumption is thus confirmed Those who were deliuered to Satan by the Apostle for their amendment and that their spirit might be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus are not to be thought to haue fallen finally from grace and saluation But those who are here said to make shipwracke of faith to wit Hymeneus and Alexander were deliuered to Satan by the Apostle for their amendment 1 Tim. 1. 20. and that their spirit might be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus 1 Cor. 5. 5. Therefore those who are here said to make shipwracke of faith are not to bee thought to haue fallen finally from grace and saluation ARMINIANS BERTIVS pag. 25. Apostasie is proued by this phrase of Scripture to fall away from grace Galath 5. 4. Whosoeuer of you are iustified by the Law yee are fallen b from grace Bertius pag. 29. 2 Pet. 2. 20. For if after they haue escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ they are again c intangled therein and ouercome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning For it had beene better for them not to haue knowne the way of righteousnesse than after they haue knowne it to turne from the holy commandement giuen vnto them But it is hapned vnto them according to the true prouerbe The dogge is turned to his owne vomit againe and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire Bert. pag. 12. To Saints irrecouerable destructiō is threatned Heb. 6. 4. It is impossible for those who were once inlightned and haue tasted of the heauenly gift and were made partakers of the holy Ghost haue tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they d fall away to renue them againe vnto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselues the Sonne of God afresh and put him to an open shame APPEALER APPEALE pag. 160. Galat. 5. 4. Saint Paul spake not vpon supposition of impossibilitie yee are abolished from Christ whosoeuer are iustified by the Law yee are fallen from b grace Ibidem pag. 160. 161. Nor in point of onely Heresie wa◠faith by them lost but also of good liuing and conuersation 2 Pet. 2. 20. where those that had escaped the filthinesse of the world therefore washed and made cleane through the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ therefore iustified truly by saith are yet c intangled againe therein and ouercome Therefore lapsed from faith as is expressed vers 21 and 22. ensuing Ibid. pag. 164. Beside if faith had cannot be lost the dog cannot be said to returne vnto his vomit nor the swine to wallowing in the mire Idem pag. 161. I adde but one of them Heb. 6. 4. It is impossible that they which were once enlightned and haue tasted of the heauenly gift and were made partakers of the holy Ghost and haue tasted of the good word of God and of the power of the world to come if these were not iustified they know not who were if these had no faith where was it to be found if they d fall away should be renued againe by repentance seeing they crucifie againe the Sonne of God vnto themselues and make a mocke of him b To the place Galath 5. 4. wee answer First the maine scope and drift of the Apostle is to confute those among the Galathians who went about to ioyne Iudaisme with Christianisme Legall righteousnesse with Euangelicall these the Apostle shewes cannot stand together For the one consisteth in the perfect fulfilling of the Law Rom. 10. 5. the other in forgiuenesse of sinnes Rom. 4. 7. The proper meaning therefore of the words is that whosoeuer seekes for iustification by the Law that is the workes of the Law is fallen from grace that is hath lost his claime by the couenant of grace or is excluded from all hope of obtaining mercy and grace for such a one is become a debtor to the whole Law that is cannot bee iustified to wit by the couenant of workes vnlesse hee fulfill the whole Law which no man is able to doe Secondly Grace is sometime taken for a reward of free gift and so it is opposed to merit sometime it is taken for supernaturall habits infused putting a man in grace and fauour with God or making him gratious and so it is opposed to nature sometime it is taken for the doctrine of free remission of sinnes by Christ or couenant of grace and so it is opposed to the Law or couenant of works and that it is taken in the last sense in this place is euident by the antecedents and consequents and the very opposition to the Law in this fourth verse Gal. 5. Thirdly admit the word Grace were here taken for the grace of regeneration or iustification as the Aduersaries would haue it yet the Text maketh nothing for them