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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

them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Prov. 1. 28. Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not finde me Numb 14. 40. c. They rose up early in the morning saying we will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised for we have sinned viz. in refusing to go up at his command see 1 Cor. 10. 6 11. Heb. 3. 18. with chap. 4. 11. And Moses said it shall not prosper But they presumed to go up and were discomfited Heb. 12. 17. Afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance in his Father who had past away the blessing from him though he sought it carefully with tears If these places do not make a saving repentance especially after grievous sins see Acts 8. vers 22. and an obstinate continuance in them somewhat doubtful yet doubtless they implie a difficulty and the more difficult the more doubtful So do the places following Mat. 12. 43 44 45. He taketh seven other spirits more wicked then himself and they enter in and dwell there And the last state of that man is worse than the first 2 Pet. 2. 20. Compare this with verse 1. c. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning Heb. 6. 4 5 6. For it is impossible i. e. very difficult as Luke 17. 1. or Luke 18. 27. If they fall away to renew them again unto repentance See the last Negative precedent Ecclus 5. 5. Concerning propitiation be not without fear to adde sin unto sin Rom. 2. 4 5. Despisest thou the riches c Luke 13. 24. Strive to enter in at the straight gate for many I say unto you will strive to enter in and shall not be able V. They hold that the true believer may for the present be assured of the integritie of his faith and conscience and for that time may and ought to be assured of his salvation and the saving love of God towards him Proofs out of holy Scripture 1 John 1. 7. If we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all our sin 1 John 2. 3. And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his Commandements 1 John 3. 14. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren 1 John 5. 2 3. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his Commandements and his commandements are not grievous Gal. 6. 4. But let every man prove his own works and then shall he have rejoycing in himself 1 Iohn 3. 21. If our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 2 Cor. 1. 12. Our re●oycing is this the testimonie of our conscience that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie not with fleshly wisdome but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world Rom. 5. 1 2 5. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us 1 Ioh. 4. 13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because He hath given us of his spirit Rom. 8. 16. The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit that we are the Children of God For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live For as many as are led by the spirit of God they are the sons of God ver 13 14. Isa 32. 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietness and assurance for ever VI. They hold that the true believer may and ought to be assured for the time to come that in the use of watching and prayer and other holy exercises he may persevere in faith and that Gods grace shall never be wanting thereto But how he may be assured for the time to come that he himselfe shall not be wanting to do his duty but that he shall in the actions of faith piety and charity as beseems the faithful persevere in this school of Christian wa●●●re they see not nor think it necessary that a believer should be assured thereof Proofs out of Holy Scripture In the use of watching and prayer c. Eph. 6. 11 13 to 19. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil having done all to stand 2 Thess 5. 17. pray without ceasing Watch and pray Matth. 26. 41. ch 24. 13. with the 42. Luke 12. 35 36 37. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and ye your selves like unto men that wait for their Lord. Luke 21. 34 36. Take heed lest at any time your hearts be over-charged with surfeting and drunkenness and the cares of this life Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour Whom resist stedfast in the faith James 4. 7. Resist the devil and he will flee from you 1 Iohn 5. 18. He that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not Heb. 6. 11. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end That Gods grace shall never be wanting Psal 23. 6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life Rom. 8. 38. For I am perswaded that neither death nor life c. shall separate us from the love of God Phil. 1. 6. He which hath begun a good work in you Iohn 15. 2 7 10. Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall aske what ye will and it shall be done unto you See Luke 11. 13. Acts 5. 32. ver 10. If ye keep my Commandements ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my fathers Commandements and abide in his love Rom 6. 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace 2 Cor. 12. 9. My grace is sufficient for thee 1 Iohn 4. 4. Ye are of God little children and have overcome them the false teachers because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world But how assured for the time to come that he himself shall not be wanting c. For 1. Man is many

priests mouth Mal. 2. 7. Hence we have these Caveats not only take heed how you hear and what you hear but also whom you hear for many false Prophets are gone out into the world 1 John 4. 1. and therefore try the spirits whether they are of God ibid. What need all these caveats and so much ado if the ministery of the word hath no influence or energie into our faith and regeneration and the work of grace in us Mr. Knowlittle But we see the Scripture every where ascribes the work of faith conversion and regeneration in us to the power and gift of God to Christ and to the Holy Ghost Mr. Takeo'trust The Scriptures do attribute to Almighty God that which he doth mediately by any of his creatures or Ministers Joh. 4. 1. Jesus is said to have baptized moe disciples than John yet in the next verse 't is said that Iesus baptized not but his Disciples See Iohn 6. 45 46. with Luke 10. 16. 2 Cor. 5. 19. 1 Thess 4. 8. Heb. 12. 25. Act. 5. 39. ch 7. 51. Though the ministery of the word be instrumental in the work of grace in us yet must we acknowledge the blessed Trinity the chief cause and author thereof and are bound alwayes to render them the honour of that efficacy that is wrought by this instrument because all the light force and efficacy which appears therein flowes from God alone and had not been in it at all if He had not as it were implanted it therein We have this treasure in earthen vessels as the Apostle in a like case 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. 2 Cor. 3. 3 4 5. Certainly there we have it and God associates what other divine internal aids he pleaseth with it Mar. 16. 15 20. Rom. 15. 16 19. To Him therefore we must ascribe the glory who hath annexed such an excellency of power to such otherwise weak and feeble instruments 2 Cor. 10. 4. Dr. Absolute Leave your wrangling Gentlemen that we may dispatch Mr. Tilenus one may or other Have any of you any more objections against him Mr. Indefectible He holds the possibility of the Saints Apostacy notwithstanding the decrees and promises of God to the contrary and concludes David's Adultery and Murder to be wilfull wasting deadly sins and inconsistent with the state of Regeneration so that should a godly man through the frailty of the flesh suffer the like infirmity he would be ready to discourage and grieve his spirit telling him he had forfeited his interest in Gods favour and lay under a damnable guilt liable to the wrath of God and the torments of hell and so in danger to bring him to desperation if he does not forsak his sin and mortifie his lust and bring forth fruits meet for repentance upon his admonition Mr. Narrowgrace Which was worse then that to my minde he flouted the Divines of the Synod saying if their doctrine were well improved it would prove an Antidote against the power of Death and teach a man how to become immortall even in this life Mr. Impertinent That slipt my Observation I pray' what was it he said Mr. Narrowgrace It was to this purpose If the Elect cannot be cutt off in the state of imp●nitency notwithstanding they fall into most grievous sins then saith he let them abandon themselves to some horrid lust or course of impiety and they shall be sure to be immortal Mr. Indefectible But we know the Elect cannot do so They have a principle within them and a guard without them to defend and secure them from such courses They are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1. 5. There is their guard and their inward principle that inclines and moves them you have 1 Joh. 3. 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God Dr. Dubius Under Correction Sir I conceive man is never immutably good till he arrives in heaven As long as he converseth here below he is like other sublunary things subject to change Quod Angelis Casus hominibus mors The reason is besides temptations from without to allure and draw him He hath a twofold principle a new or an old man within him the flesh and the spirit in Con estation Gal. 5. 7. The flesh lusteth against the sp it and the spirit against the flesh This Conflict is in the regenerate And that he hath liberty to side with either of these parties and so to change I think cannot be denied He hath a liberty through Gods grace to side with the spirit against the flesh and hereupon he is exhorted to abstain from fleshly lusts to mortifie his earthly members and to walk in the spirit his liberty to side with the flesh is but too evident And therefore the words CANNOT SIN must be taken not Physicè but Ethicè Not for a natural impotency but a moral one he cannot do it Legally or at averseness of minde which notwithstanding is capable of being altered 'T is said of Christ sometimes that Id possumus quod jure possumus He could doe no mighty work Mark 6. 5. and so 't is said that the brethren of Joseph could not answer him Gen. 45. 3. And the Angel could doe nothing against Sodom till Lot were escaped into Zoar. Gen. 19. 22. See Ios 24. 19 21. And 't is usual in our common speech to say we cannot do a thing when the thing is not impossible to be done but only it is unlawful or inconvenient for us to do it If we set aside the inconvenience and step over the hedge of the law as many times we do we can finde power enough to do it And so it is here Therefore to that of our Saviour Mat. 7. 18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit S. Hierome addeth Quamdiù in bonitatis studio perseverat as long as it perseveres in the study and love of goodnesse Thus he that is born of God whiles he acteth according to the nature of the principles of his new birth and studies to follow and resemble his heavenly Father He cannot deliberately yield to any kinde of sin Haec non admittet omnino qui natus è Deo fuerit non futurus Dei filius si admiserit saith Tertullian He that is born of God will not at all admit such sins as these he shall not be a childe of God if he doth admit them As for that guard you mention out of St. Peter They are kept by the power of God We must consider that we are to add a guard of our own to it as is required Jud. ep ver 20 21. But ye beloved building up your selves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost Keep your selves in the love of God And S. Peter addes through faith 1 Pet. 1. 5. The Psalmist saith Except the Lord keepeth the City the watchman waketh but in vain but he doth not say the

19 20 21. It pleased the father by him to reconcile all things to himself Tit. 3. 4. After that the kindness and pity of God our Saviour towards man appeared Iohn 12. 47. For I came not to judge the world but to save the world Iohn 15. 13. Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his friend Rev. 1. 5. He loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. The love of Christ Constraineth us c. II. They hold that Christ by the merit of his death hath so far forth reconciled God the Father to all mankinde that the Father by reason of his Sons merit both could and would and did enter and establish a new and gracious Covenant with sinful man liable to Condemnation Proofes out of Holy Scripture 2 Cor. 5. 19. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them Col. 1. 21 22. And you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minde by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death Isa 49. 8. I will give thee for a Covenant of the people i. e. A mediator and foundation of the Covenant of grace Deodat Annot Isa 53. per tot verse 10 11 12. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin He shall see his seed and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many Act. 10. 43. To him give all the Prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins See Ier. 31. 31 33 34. ch 33. 8. Mich. 7. 18 19 20. with Hebr. 8. 6. c. He is the Mediator of a better Covenant which was established upon better promises viz. I will put my lawes into their minde and I will be mercifull to their unrighteousness c. Hebr. 9. 14 15. c. How much more shall the blood of Christ and for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance See chap. 10. per totum chap. 7. 22. chap. 12. 24 25. III. They hold that though Christ hath merited reconciliation with God and pardon of sins for all and every man yet according to the tenour of the new and gracious Covenant none is indeed made partaker of the benefits purchased by the death of Christ otherwise then by faith nor are a mans sins pardoned before he actually believes in Christ Proofes out of holy Scripture None made partakers otherwise then by faith Romans 3. 24 25. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud Heb. 11. 6. But without faith it is impossible to please God Romans 9. 33. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be confounded 1 Timothy 4. 10. He is the Saviour specially of those that believe Col. 1. 19. to the 23. For it pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things unto himself And you hath he now reconciled to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight If ye continue in the faith c. Heb. 3. 6 14. We are made partakers of Christ if we hold fast c. Heb. 9. 15. He is the Mediator that by means of death they which are called Cum Eventu might receive the promise of eternal inheritance Iohn 1. 12. But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name See Gal. 3. 22. Nor are a mans sins pardoned before he believes Acts 10. 43. To him give all the Prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins See Acts 26. 18. Chapter 13. 39. See John 3. 36. Rom. 3. 21 22. The righteousness of God without the law is manifested even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe Romans 4 3 24. Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness and it shall be imputed to us also if we believe See the whole Chapter Gal. 2 26. We have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ Gal. 3. 11. See Gal. 3. 22. The just shall live by faith Romans 5. 1. Being justified by faith we have peace with God See Acts 2. 38. Isa 53. 11. IV. They hold that only they for whom Christ died are bound to believe that Christ died for them and if there were any for whom Christ died not they should not be bound to believe he died for them or condemned for not believing yea if there were any such Reprobates they should rather be bound to believe that he died not for them Proofs out of Scripture Only they bound to believe c. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. with 21. ye were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ who was manifest for you who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God Iohn 14. 1 2 3. Believe also in me Why I goe to prepare a place for you and I will receive you to my selfe See 1 Cor. 15. 2 3. with the 14 verse Whence it followes that they for whose sins Christ died not and for whose justification he rose not again to them preaching is vain and their faith is vain for they do but believe an untruth and lean upon the staffe of a broken reed Accordingly as was alleaged above Maccovius saith A man must first believe Christ to be his Saviour which he cannot be unless he hath died for him and that must be the reason why he placeth his faith in him Rather believe that he died not for them For Deut. 29. 29. Those things which are revealed belong to us And Luke 24. 25. O fooles and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken If it be a revealed truth that Christ died not for the Reprobates then are they bound to believe he died not for them But if it be not a truth revealed why is it then preached and urged as an Article of faith What they doe not hold touching Christs death I. They do utterly deny that the price of Redemption which Christ tendered unto God his Father was not according to the decree will and grace of God the Father paid for all and every man that so the greatest part of mankinde should by an absolute and antecedent decree of God be precisely shut out from the participation of the benefits of Christs death The Reason 1. Mat. 18. 11. Luke 19. 10. Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost 2 Cor. 5. 19. God was