on Ephesians 1. page 20. 118. Of Master Thomas Dâ—axe in hiâ— Worlds Resurrection page 3. 78. Of Master Downame in his Summe of Diuinitie Booke 〈◊〉 cap. 1. page 283. to 311. Of Master Christopher Sybthorpâ— his Friendly Admonition to the praetended Catholikes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. where this point is excellently handled Of Doctor Griffith VVillams his delights of the Saints page 7. 8. 9. 92. 93. Of Master Humfrey Sydenham in his Iacob and Esau or Election and Reprobationâ— preached at Pauls Crosse and of our eminent Dort Diuines Synod of Dort Article 1. and 2. in the dayes of our late King Iames. Of Doctor William Sclater his Exposition vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians cap. 5. ver 9. 10. page 447. 448. on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 11. page 68. 69. cap. 2. ver 13. page 183. Of Master Henry Scudder in his Christians daily Walke cap. 15. sect 3. page 432. to 438. Of Doctor Iohn Bastwicke Elenchus Religionis Papisticae cap. 9. page 194. to 198. Of Reuerend Bishop Carlton Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 2. 3. Of Master Henry Burton his Plea to an Appeale page 46. to 65. and his Truth triumphing ouer Trent cap. 17. Of Bishop Dauenate Expositio in Epist. Pauli ad Coloss. page 171. Of Master Francis Rouse his Doctrine of King Iames. p. 1. to 20 Of Doctor Ward in his Concio ad Clerum page 37. 38. Of Master Iohn Yates Ihis ad Caesarem cap. 1. 2. 7. In the Raigne of our now Soueraigne King Charles All these I say doe fully suffragate to this our third Anti-Arminian Conclusion not one authorized or approued writer of our Church that euer I could meete with so much as once oppugning or contradicting any of them therefore wee may embrace it as the vndoubted truth and doctrine of our Church Hee that desires to see more of this point let him reflect vpon all the Bookes and Authors fore-quoted in the first and second praecedent Positions which will plentifully instruct and satisfie him in it For the fourth of the recited Anti-Arminian dogmaticall Propositions against Vniuersall and sufficient grace or in plaine tearines against naturall Free-will it selfe for this praeâ—ented grace in truth and substance is no other since grace is proper and peculiar vnto some and nature onely alike indifferent common vnto all men as this vniuersall grace is It is directly iustified and backed by our 9. 10. 13. 17. Articles by the expresse words of the 7. 8. and 9. Articles of Lambheth by the 15. 25. 26. and 32. Articles of Ireland by our Common Prayer Booke passages here recited p. 18. 19. 20. Position 2. which are full and punctuall to this purpose by our fore-registred Homelies and Cathechismes figures 4 By the Synod of Dort Article 3. 4. Adde wee to these Master William Tyndal Prologue on Numbers page 16. Prologue on the Romans p. 41. Parable of the wicked Mammon page 65. 70. 74. 90. The Obedience of a Christian man page 162. An Answere to Master Moores third Booke page 306. Answere to his fourth Booke cap. 2. page 321. cap. 10. page 328. 329. 337. A Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. 381. 382. 384. Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 2. page 401. cap. 4. page 416. 417. Master Iohn Prith A Mirror to know thy selfe page 83. 84. 45. Doctor Barnes That Free-will of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 266. to 280. Master Iohn Harrison Yet a cause at the Romish Fox fol. 61. 62. 63. In King Henry the VIII his Raigne Stephen Garret The summe of the Scripture cap. 7. Printed 1547. Peter Martyr Loci Communes Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 29. 38. to 48. Commentarius in Romanos 5. p. 323. 328. 329. 330. in cap. 9. page 720. to 730. in cap. 11. page 797. 965. 966. Martin Bâ—â—er Commentarie vpon Iohn 5. ver 44. On Rom. 5. the latter end of the Chapter and on Rom. 9. Master Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester Sermon 3. on the Lords Prayer fol. 134. b. Master Iohn Bradford Treatise of Election and Free-will Bishop Hooper a Martyr Epistle to the Reader before his Declaration of the tenne Commandements which place makes wholy for vs if rightly vnderstood Master Beacon his sicke mans salue page 290. Master Richard Caundish his Image of Nature and Grace cap. 1. 5. 8. 10. where this point is largely handled Master Nowels Catechisme on the Creed part 1. Master Iohn Veron his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination fol. 66. to 85. 110. 111. 112. his Apologie for the same fol. 25. to the end Master Thomas Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philosophie cap. 7. 8. Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull Epistle to the Reader and cap. 1. 3. Master Edward Deering on the Hebrewes Lecture 10. 14. Master Robert Hutton his Summe of Diuinitie of Free-will Master Iohn North-brooke his Poore mans Garden cap. 1. 4. 5. 6. Doctor Sparkes against Albines cap. 17. page 165. and his Comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience the 4. first leaues Bartimeus Andreas Sermon 2. on the Canticles page 64. to 70. Master Iohn Daniel his Excellent comfort to all Christians cap. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. Master Iohn Anwicke his Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Master Arthur Gurney his fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 13. to 45. Learned Doctor William Whitakers Aduersus Vniuersalis Gratia assertores praelectio habitae Februarij 27. Anno Domini 1594. câ—ram honoratissimis Comitibus Essexio Salopiensi Rutlandiensi illustrissimis Baronibus DD. Montioy Burrowes Compton Sheafield Riche ornatissimis Equitibus Guil. Bowes Carolus Candish Robertus Sydney Georgio Sauil multos generosos on 2. Tim. 2. 4. Hardouicâ— per Thysium 1613. Reuetend Bishop Babingtons Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1591. on Iohn 6. 37. part 1. Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Answere to the Rhemish Testament Notes on 1. Tim. 2. sect 3. on Rom. 7. sect 7. 8. on Rom. 9. sect 3. 7. and sundrie other places Doctor Fulkes Defence of the English Translations against Martin cap. 10. Mathew Hutton Arch-Bishop of Yorke De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio Doctor Some Tractatus de Tribus Quaestionibus Quaest. 1. 2. Master Greenham his 14. Sermon page 355. Godly Instructions cap. 50. sect 16. page 757. Master William Burton his Dauids Euidence Sermon 4. on Psal. 4. 12. London 1596. page 83. to 88. Master Iohn Smith his Doctrine of generall prayer for all men Master William Perkins Of the Order of causes of saluation and damnation cap. 54. Tom. 1. page 107. 112. An Exposition on the Creed page 293. to 299. Of Gods Free grace and mans Free-will page 728. to 743. Babylon the praesent Church of Rome point 1. page 558. to 561. Commentarie on Galathians 3. Tom. 2. page 249. 250. cap. 5. page 327. 338. A Treatise of Praedestination page 621. to 642. Exposition of Christs Sermon on the Mount Tom. 3.
Authors from the beginning of Reformation to the present Raigne of our gracious King Charles not one approued Author of our Church to my knowledge so much as once oppugning it How this Assertion hath beene iustified as the receiued Doctrine of out Church since his Maiesties happy Raigne the Examination of Master Montagues Appeale by Reuerend Bishop Carlton cap. 3. 4. with the ioint Attestation of him and all our fore-named Dort Diuines thereto annexed vnder all their hands page 26. Doctor Ward his Sâ—ffragium Brittanorum Concio ad Clerum London 1627. Bishop Dauenate his Expositio Epistolae Pauli ad Collossenses Cantabrigiae 1627. page 117. 118. 119. 171. 173. 390. 391. Doctor Goade and Doctor Daniel Featly in their Pelagius Rediuiuus parallel 1. sect 3. 5. Parallel 2. sect cap. 2. 1. Doctor Featly in his 2. Parallel London 1626. page 1. to 20. Master Henry Burton in his Plen to an Appeale page 39. to 60. and in his Truth triumphing ouer Trent London 1629. cap. 17. Master Yates in his Ibicad Caesarem cap. 8. 9. 10. Master Wotton in his Dangerous Plot Discouered cap. 20. Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames. page 1. to 25. And my owne Perpetuitie of a Regenerate mans estate Edit 2. page 6. to 23. can abundantly testifie since therefore this first Anti-Arminian Position hath beene alwayes thus constantly vnanimously and vncontrolably maintained by all those seuerall Martyrs Praelates Doctors and approued Writers in all the successiue Raignes of these 6. English Monarches from the beginning of Reformation to this present oppugning its opposite Arminian Thesis as erronious and repugnant to the receiued Doctrine of our English Church we may safely embrace it yeaestablish it as the vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England For the second of these Anti-Arminian Positions touching the freenesse of Gods Election and its in-dependancy on faith or will or workes or perseuerance or endeauors or any other condition or praeuious disposition in the persons elected it is vndoubtedly and manifestly warranted by the expresse words of our 13. and 17. Articles Of the 2. Article of Lambheth of the 14. Article of Ireland of our Common-prayer Booke and Homelies of the fore-cited Cathechisme and Quaestions figures which haue all relation to it of the Synod of Dort Article 1. and of Barrets Recantation in the Latine coppie section 6. where our 17. Article is verbatim recited To these I shall adde the concurrent plenary and copious attestation of Master William Tyndall Martyr in his Parable of the wicked Mammon page 70. 75. 78. 80. 88. 90. in his Answere to Master Moores Dialogue p. 259. Answere to his 2. Booke cap. 3. page 293. Answere to his 4. Booke cap. 10. page 329. cap. 11. page 331. 332. 337 in his Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. and in his Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 3. page 410. 412. cap. 4. page 416. 417. 419. Of Master Iohn Frith Martyr in his Mirrour to know thy selfe page 84. 85. in his Declaration of Baptisme page 92. 93. Of Doctor Barnes a learned Martyr in his Treatise What the Church is page 246. and that Free-will of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 274. 277. 278. 279. Of Master Iohn Harrison in his Yet about at the Romish Fox Zuricke 1543. In the dayes of King Henry the VIII Of learned Peter Martyr once Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Oxford Commentarie on the Romans 8. page 532. 533. 534. c. 9. page 700. to 714. in cap. 11. page 869. and Loci Communes Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 11. and 16. to 27. Of famous Martin Bucer once Diuinitie Reader in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Commentarie on Romans 9. ver 11. to 27. and on Rom. 11. 4. 5. 6. Of Master Hugh Latimer Martyr Bishop of Worcester in his Sermon on the third Sunday after Epiphanie fol. 312. and on the Sunday called Septuagesima fol. 325. 326. 327. Of a Booke intituled the Summe of holy Scriptures by Stephen Garret as most suppose Printed 1547. in the 2. yeere of King Edward the VI. cap. 6. Of Thomas Beacon a Diuinitie Professor afterward a Martyr in his Sickmans Salue London 1580. page 412. 413. 414. Of learned Master Iohn Hooper Bishop and Martyr in his Declaration of the 10. Commandements Epistle to the Reader written Nouember 5. 1549. London 1588. Of Master Iohn Bradford Martyr in his Briefe Summe of the doctrine of Election and Praedestination a punctuall Treatise to our praesent purpose and in this Letter recorded by Master Iohn Fox in his Booke of Martyrs page 1505. Col. 1. Of Iohn Carelesse and Master Woodman godly Martyrs Master Fox in his Martyriologe London 1596. page 1742. Col. 2. l. 40. 60. and page 1809. 1810. Col. 1. in the dayes of persecuting Queene Mary Of Master Iohn Veron in his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination and his Apologie for the same dedicated to Queene Elizabeth Of Master Iohn Fox in his Martyriologe page 1505. 1506. Of Reuerend Deane Nowel in his Cathechisme on the Creed Why we call God Father and of the holy Catholicke Church Of Master Thomas Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philosophy lib. 1. cap. 7. Of Master Robert Caundish in The Image of Nature and Grace fol. 8. fol. 45. to 57. cap. 9. fol. 100. to 110. Of Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull Epistle to the Reader and cap. 1. 2. 14. Of Master Robert Hutton Summe of Diuinitie Londâ—n 1565. cap. Of Grace and of Praedestination Of godly Master Edward Deering Lecture 9. and 27. on the Hebrewes Of Master Iohn North-brooke The â—â—ore mans Garden cap. 1. and 18. Of Master Arthur Gâ—rney A fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 39. to 47. Of Master Aâ—wicke his Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. of incomparable M Hooker Discourse of Iustification sect 29â— Of Master Anthonie Anderson A goldly Seemon of Sure Comfort page 23. to 27. Of Master Thomas Sparkes his Confortable Treatise How a man may be assured in his owne Conscience of his â—lection Of Reuerend Bishop Babington Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1590. part 1. and 3. Of profound and reaâ—â— Doctor Fulke that Hammer of Haer tickes and Châ—mpion of truth Together with Master Thomas Carth wâ—â—ght Notes on Rom. 9. sect 2. 3. 5. and on 2. Peterâ— sect 2. Of Bartim us Andreas Sermon 2. on 〈◊〉 5. page 64. 65. 66. Of learned Doctor Mathew Haâ—â—on 〈◊〉 â—â—shop of Yorke De Electione Repâ—obatione Commentatio to whom I might adde Reuerend Doctor Whitgift Arch-Bishop of Canterburie and all those other learned Praelates Doctors and graue Drâ—ines who composed the Articles of Lambetâ— anâ— Barrets Recantation fore-ciâ—ed O solid Doctor Whitakers whom no man euer 〈…〉 rence or heard without wonder Câ—gnea Cantio page 2 to 18. Of profound Master William Perkins Of the Order and causes of Election and Reprobatiâ—nâ— cap. ◠〈◊〉 51. Tom 1. page 16. 95. to
114. â—xpositio◠〈◊〉 Creed page 277. to 299. A Treatise of 〈◊〉 Tom. 2. page 606. to 641. Exposition on lude 〈◊〉 page 516. 517. Of Master Greenham A Treatise of 〈◊〉 sednesse page 207. Of Doctor Robert Some 〈◊〉 of Praedestination and Tractatus De Tribus Quaâ—tâ—onâ—buâ— Quaest. 1. and 3. Of Master Iohn Hill Life euerlaâ—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 page 526. 527. 528. in the Raigne of blessed Elizabeth 〈◊〉 our late learned Soueraigne K. Iames. ConfereÌ„ce at HaÌ„toâ— Court page 43. Where his Maiestie expresly deliuereth his Royall Resolution of this point in these puctuall â—earmes Praedestination and Election depends not vpon any qualities actions or workes of man which be mutable but of Gods eternall and immutable Decree and purpose in which Resolution hee constantly continued till his death as his Commentary on the Lords Prayer and the Reuelation his Declaration against Vorstius his Approbation of the Synodicall Resolutions and Conclusions at Dort and his Conference with two of our English Diuines about a month before his death newly published by Doctor Daniel Featly page 31. 32. will fully euidence Of laborious and learned Doctor Willet Commentarie on Rom. 8. Controuersie 16. 17. 18. cap. 9. Controuersie 7. 8. 10. cap. 11. Controuersie 3. Synopsis papismi page 881. 904. to 908. 918. to 922. Of eminent and incomparable Doctor Reinolds Thesis 4. and Apologia Thesium sect 14. to 23. of Master Thomas Bell in his Downefall of Poperie London 1608. Article 5. page 61. in his Catholicke Triumphe London 1610. cap. 9. page 244. to 448. Of learned Doctor Robert Abbos late Bishop of Salisburie Lectura 1. De Gratia Perseuerantia Sanctorum sect 3. De Veritate Gratia Christi Iuly 8. 1615. sect 12. to the end Octobris 15. 1615. sect 5. 6. 7. 8. Oratio 4. eodem Anno Octobris 29. sect 6. Animaduersio in Thampsoni Diatribam cap. 4. 5. Of Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on the 17. Article Proposition 5. Of Doctor Field Of the the Church lib 1. cap. 1. to 7. Of Master Samuel Hieron Abridgement of the Gospell in his workes part 1. page 104. 105. The worth of the water of life page 203. 204. The spirituall Son-ship page 370 371. Of Doctor Iohn White Way to the true Church Digressio 41. sect 43. 44. 45. 49 Defence of the way cap. 21. 25. 38. sect 6. 10. to 16. Sermon at Pauls Crosse sect 8. Of Doctor Francis White now Bishop of Norwitch in his Orthodox cap. 8. Of Doctor Crakenthorpe in his Sermon of Praedestination Of Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Artic. 1. and 2. Of Doctor Griffith Williams Delights of the Saints part 1. page 68. 69. 70. 93. Or Doctor Sclater Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1â—09 An Exposition on the Thessalonians lately published cap. 5. v. 9. 10. page 438. to 455. on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 11. page 67 cap. 2. verse 13. page 178. to 190. Of Master Elnathan Parre Grounds of Diuinitie Edit 4. page 285. to 341. Of Master Draxe in his Wolds Resurrection page 3. 78. 110. Of Master Samuel Crooke Guide to Godlinesse sect 4. and 17. Of Mast 1 Iohn Downame Summe of Diuinitie lib. 2. cap 1. and 6. Of Master Paul Baine Commentarie on Ephesians 1. page 71. to 150. where this point is largely handled Of Master Elton and Master Randall in their Sermons on Romans 8. 29. 30. Of Doctor Boyes Whitâ—unday Euening prayer page 940. to 944. in his workes Of Master Robert Yarrow Soueraigne Comfort for a troubled Conscience cap. 28. to the end of cap. 36. Of Doctor Benefield De Sanctorum perseuerantia lib. 2. cap. 18. 20. Of Master Humfry Sydenham his Iacob and Esanâ— preached at Pauls Crosse 1622. part 1. Of Sir Christopher Sybthorpe in his friendly Aduertisement to the praetended Catholiâ—kes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. Of eminent and acute Doctor Prideaux Lecture Oxontae in Comitijs Anno 1616. De absoluto Decreto Of Master Nathaniel Bifield in his Treatise of the Promises cap. 11. 13. Exposition on the Colossians cap. 3. ver 12. page 74. 75. Of Master Thomas Wilson Exposition on Romans 9. ver 11. 12. Of incomparable Doctor Vsher now Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland his Answere to the Iesuites Challenge of Free-will page 464. to 492. With all our famous Dort Diuines Synod of Dort Arcicle 1. iâ— the Raigne of famous King Iames. â— Oâ— Reuerend and learned Bishop Carlton Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 3. 4. Of learned Doctor Dauenat Bishop of Salisburie Expositie Epistolae â—aulâ— ad Colossenses cap. 3. ver 12. page 390. 391. Of solid Doctor Ward Concio ad Clerum Cantabrigiae Ian. 12. 1625. page 30. to 33. Of acute Doctor Featly his 2. Parallel page 1. to 14. and in his and Doctor Thomas Goads ioint Pelaguos Rediuiuuâ— Of Master Henry Burton Plea to an Appeale page 39. to 71. Truth triumphing ouer Trent cap. 17. Of Doctor Iohn Bastwicke Elenchus Religionis Papisticae cap. 8. 9. and 11. Of Master Yates Ibis ad Caesarem part 1. cap. 6. 7. 8. 10. 18. part 2. cap. 1. 2. 3. Of Master Wotton A Dangerous plot Discouered cap. 19. 20. Of Master Francis Rouse The Doctrine of King Iames page 1. to 25. Of Master Richard Scudder The Christians daily walke Edit 2. London 1628. page 431. 439. 613. 615. Master William Pemble in his Vindiciae gratiae page 38. to 44. Of Master Thomas Vicars in his Pusillus Grex Oxoniae 1627. Of M. Richard Bernard Rheemes against Rome p. 311. 312. Of Master Iohn Barlow Exposition on the 2. Tim. 1. 9. and cap. 2. 19. 20. 21. Of Doctor Sclater Exposition on the Epistles to the Thessalonians sore-cited All these most Reuerend eminent and learned Martyrs Praelates Doctors Diuines and Writers of our Church in these their seuerall workes and ages haue punctually and copiously concurred in the vnanimous defence and confirmation of this our second Anti-Arminian Conclusion oppugniâ—g refuting the contrarie Arminian Position as Pelagian Semi-Pelagian Popish Arminian erronious and opposite to the receiued Doctrine of our Church not one authorized Author or Orthodox Writer of our Church so much as one dissenting from them therefore we may vndoubtedly receiue it declare it and adiudge it as the established resolued and professed Doctrine of our English Church The third of these fore mentioned Anti-Arminian Conclusions touching the absolutenesse immutabiliâ—ie and impulsiue or primarie cause of the Decrâ—e not of the Act or execution of Reprobation or Non-election is necessarily implied and raised from our 17. Article as Doctor Whitakers and others haue obserued it is fully warranted and proued by the 1. and 4. Articles of Lambeth which well explaine our 17. Article in this point as learned Doctor Prideaux hath obserued by the 11. 12. and 14. Articles of Ireland by our fore-named Homelies figures 3 by the Cathechisme of Praedestination figures 3 by the Synod of Dort Articles 1. 2. and by the expresse worâ—s of Barrets Recantation composed by the Vniuersitie Heâ—ds
The Obedience of a Christian man page 130. 131. Prologue to the Exposition vpon the 5. 6. and 7. of Mathew page 185. Col. 1. An Answer to sir Thomas Moores Dialogue page 257. 292. An Answere to Master Moores 3. booke page 307. Answere to his 4. booke cap. 11. page 333. A Pathway into the holy Scriptures page 380. 382. Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 2. page 394. 401. A Treatise vpon Signes and Sacraments page 443. Master Iohn Friths Answere vnto Rastals Dialogue page 10. 14. 22. An Answere vnto sir Thomas Moore page 48. 49. Answere to Rastals 3. chapter page 71. A Declaration of Baptisme page 93. The mind of Saint Paul on the 10. chapter of the 1. of the Corinthians page 161. Doctor Barnos What the Church is page 243. to 247. That Free-will of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 278. in the dayes of King Henry the VIII Master Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester in his Sermons fol. 125. 126. 164. 165. 178. 208. 215. 224. 270. 288. 295. 297. b. a pertinent and full place 299. 308. 323. 326. 327. Stephen Garret The Summe of the holy Scripture cap. 7. Peter Matyr Locorum Communium Classis 3. cap. 1. sect 44. 45. 46. 47. Commentar in Romanos cap. 5. page 266. to 274. 328. 329. cap. 9. page 708. 726. to 730. cap. 11. page 866. Master Martin Bucer Comment on Rom. 5. and 11. and on Iohn 10. page 17. Bishop Hooper Epistle to the Reader before this Declaration on the 10. Cōmandements a place which some doe wrest to the contrary conclusion but let all Episcopall mistakers of this godly Bishop reade his Declaration on the 8. Commandement fol. 75. 76. and then they must either disclaime this Author or subscribe to our Conclusion Master Thomas Beacon his Sicke mans salue page 235. to 259. 273. 274. to 279. 413. 414. 425. 426. Iohn Carelesse Martyr a deare friend of Bishop Latimers Booke of Marryrs page 1742. Col. 2. number 50. Master Iohn Fox his first Sermon at Pauls Crosse fol. 12. Master Richard Caundish his Image of Nature and grace cap. 7. 8. 10. Reuerend Deane Nowels Cathechisme on the Creed part 1. 2. 3. Master Iohn Veron his Treatise of Praedestination fol. 60. to 112. and his Apologie for the same fol. 25. to the end Master Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philophie Epistle Dedicatorie and lib. 1. cap. 7. 8. Master Iames Price his Fanne of the faithfull cap. 1. to 10. where this point is largely debated Master Edward Deering Lecture 9. and 27. on the Hebrewes Master Robert Hutton his Summe of Diuinitie of the Church and of life euerlasting Master Thomas Sparkes his Comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience the 4. first leaues Master Iohn Daniel his Excellent Comfort against Calamitie cap. 5. 6. 7. 8. Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Notes on the Rhemish Testament on 1. Tim. 2. 4. sect 3. 4. on cap. 3. sect 10. and in the places fore-quoted in the former Conclusion Master Iohn Anwicke Meditation on Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Master William Burton in his Sermon of of the Churches loue Master Arthur Gurney his Fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion page 40. 45. Godly Bishop Babington An Exposition of the Catholicke Faith page 232. 239. Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1591. on Iohn 6. 37. D. Whitakers Aduersus Gratiam vniuersalem Lectura 1594. and Cygnea Cantio page 14. Doctor Robert Some Tractatus De tribus Quaest. Quae. 1. Master William Perkins Of the Order of causes of saluation and damnation cap. 54. Tom. 1. page 108. to 112. An Exposition on the Creed page 293. to 299. A declaration of spirituall Disertions page 415. Commentary on Galathians 3. 8. 22. Tom. 2. page 249. 250. A Treatise of Praedestination page 621. to 642. with all the places quoted in the former point of vniuersall and sufficient grace where this point is largely handled Master Iohn Hills Life euerlasting lib. 4. Quaest. 3. 4. 5. of the Grace of God p. 347. to 352. Quaest. 3. 4. 5. of the loue God page 365. to 382. Master Greenham in his Treatise of Blessednesse page 207. his 14. Sermon page 355. his 17. Sermon page 377. Doctor Reinolds Apologia Thesium sect 12. to 23. Doctor Willet in his Excellent Treatise De gratia vniuersali in his Synopsis Papismi page 881. to 918. Commentarie on Rom. 5. Quaest. 38. 39. and Controuersie 26. Doctor Abbot Bishop of Salisbury in his seuerall Lectures De veritate gratiae Christi page 15. to 82. Master Draxe his Worlds Resurrection page 110. 111. Master Brightman on Apocalipse 1. 5. and cap. 5. 9. 10. Doctor Iohn Whites Way to the true Church sect 3. Number 3. page 6. Number 6. Page 50. 51. Defence of the Way cap. 25. sect 1. to the end Sermon at Pauls Crosse sect 8. Doctor Francis White Bishop of Norwitch his Orthodox cap. 8. Paragraph 2. Doctor Field of the Church Booke 1. cap. 4. Master Samuel Hieron Abridgement of the Gospell page 100. to 110. 121. 123. 124. Doctor Doue Bishop of Peter-burrow in his Sermon on 1. Tim. 2. 4. where he discusseth this point largely and confutes Huberus Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on Article 17. Proposition 4. 5. 9. Master Stokes Doctrine of Repentance page 167. to 173. Master Yarrow Soueraigne Comfort for a troubled conscience cap. 36. Doctor Crakentborpe Sermon of Praedestination page 14. to 20. Master Elton on Rom. 8. 30. and on Colossians 1. page 87. 88. Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Articulus 2. Master Wilson Exposition on Romans 5. ver 18. 19. on Rom. 6. ver 3. 4. on cap. 9. ver 29. 33. Doctor Iohn Boyes Postils on Christmas day page 800. Exposition on the Creed page 23. 24. 25. Postil on the fourth Sunday in Lent page 268. 269. 270. On Innocents day page 614. to 618. Master Bifields Exposition on the Coloss. cap. 1. ver 6. page 55. ver 12. page 98. 99. ver 14. page 108. 109. Master Samuel Crooke in his Guide sect 4. 9. 10. 12. 18. 19. Doctor Prideaux Lectura 3. De gratia vniuersali Oxoniae in Comitijs Iulij 11. 1618. Doctor Benefield De Sanctorum perseuenantia lib 2. cap. 18. 20. Master Sweeper in his Sermon on Prouerbs 12. 16. 1622. Master Humphrey Sidenham in his Iacob and Esau. Master Iohn Downames Summe of Diuinitie lib. 2. cap. 1. 2. 6. Master Elnathan Parre Grounds of Diuinitie page 275. to 280. Sir Christopher Sibthorpe his Friendly admonition to the Catholickes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. Doctor Thomas Taylors Praeface to the Reader in his Treatise on Psal. 32. Master Paul Baines Commentarie on Ephesians 1. page 114. 115. Doctor Griffith Willams his Delights of the Saints page 30. to 42. to whom I might adde all our Dort Diuines in the Raigne of our learned King Iames. Reuerēd Bishop Carltons Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 3. 4. 9. Learned Doctor Dauenate Bishop
the Sower London 1623. p. 413 to 452. Of Master Iohn Downam Summe of Diuinity lib. 2. cap. 1. 6. and 7. and his Christian Warfare lib. 2. c. 13. to 22. Of Master Timothy Rogers his Righteous mans euidence for Heauen London 1621. p. 236. 237. 246. Of Caleb Dilechampius Vindictiae Solomonis Cantabrigiae 1622. Of Reuerend Bishop Hall Contemplation Volume 6. lib. 17. Solomons Defection p. 1274. in his workes at large Of Eminent Doctor Prideaux in his Ephesus Backsliding and Lectura 6. De perseuerantia Sanctorum Oxomae 1621. Iulij 7. in Vesperijs Comitiorum Of Master Samuei Crooke in his Guide to true Blessedresse Edit 3. p. 44. 45. 60. 68. 78. Of Master Samuel Smith his Dauids blessed man London 1623. Edit 7. page 222. to 227. and his Chiefe Shepheard p. 96. 97. 98. 486. 487. Of Master Thomas Couper Growing in Grace London 1622. p. 15. 346. to 379. Of Master Iohn Frewen Grounds of Religion London 1621. Quaest. 13. and 23. Of Doctor Griffith Williams in his Delights of the Saints London 1622. page 157. to 186. Of D. Thomas Iackson the raging Tempest stilled p. 319. to 345. Of Doctor William Gouge his whole Armor of God p. 256. 286. Of Master Ezechtel Culuerwell Treatise of Faith p. 489. to 506. Of Master Cleauer Sermon on Iohn 6. v. 26. 27. Doctr. 4. Of Doctor Francis White now Bishop of Norwich Reply to Fisher. page 49. to 55. 80. 82. 84. 87. 102. 167. 168. 200. Of Learned Master Thomas Gaetiker his Gaine of Godlinesse Dauids remembrance the lust mans Ioy and signes of Sincerity Of Doctor Carlton the late Reuerend Bishop of Chichester Doctor Dauenat Bishop of Salesbury Doctor Goade Doctor Balcanquel and Doctor Ward See Suffragium Brittanorum and the Synod of Dort Article 5. to which they haue all subscribed their names in the raigne of our late Soueraigne King Iames. Of Learned Master Richard Bernard his Rheemes against Rome page 303. to the end Of Reuerend Bishop Dauenat Expositio Epistolae Pauliad Collossenses cap. 1. v. 23. p. 144. 145. c. 3. v. 8. p. 364. 365. v. 8. p. 368. c. 4. v. 14. p. 519. Of Master Iohn Rogers Doctrine of Faith p. 319. to 345. Of Master Scudder in his Christians daily walke Edit 2. cap. 15. sect 7. Of Master William Pemble his Vindiciae Gratiae p. 34. 35. 36. Of Master Robert Bolton Generall Directions for the Comfortable walking with God p. 22. 23. 24. Of Master Iohn Barlow Exposition on 2. Tim. 1. p. 135. 278. 279. 367. 368. 369. 374. Of Doctor Ward Concio ad CleruÌ„ suffr Bri. Arti. 5. Of M. William Sparkes his Mistery of godlinesse Oxoniae 1629. c. 2. Of Doctor Thomas Goade Pelagius Rediuiuus Of Acute and learned Doctor Featly 2. Parallel page 21. to 95. Of Master Henry Burton of Christ-Church in Oxford in his Melancholie Edit 3. p. 641. Of Master Samuel Ward in his Balme from Gilead to recouer Conscience p. 56. 78. Of Master Henry Burton of St. Martins in Friday street his Plea to an Appeale p. 6. to 40. and his Truth triumphing ouer Trent cap. 17. Of Master Iohn Weemse his Portraiture of Gods image in man London 1627. c. 16. where this point is pithily handled Of Sir Christopher Sybthorpe his friendly Aduertisement to the Catholickes of Ireland cap. 7. 8. Of Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames. p. 39. to 98. Of Master Yates his Ibis ad Caesarem p. 104. to 157. Of Reuerend Bishop Carlton Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 5. 6. 7. 8. with the ioynt affections of all our Dort Diuines being men of note and eminency in our Church and of my owne Perpetuity of A Regenerate mans estate to omit the late printed workes of some other moderne Authors formerly quoted All these recited Writers of our Church being one hundred and more in number haue all of them in substance most of them in terminis euen purposely copiously vnanimously constantly and professedly defended the totall and finall perseuerance of the Saints as the vndoubted Doctrine of our Church oppugning and largely reselling the Pelagian Popish and Arminian Haeresie of the Saints Apostacie and of true grace in Reprobates which is peculiar to the Elect alone Neuer was there any one point of Doctrine which our Church embraceth so copiously maintained so abundantly seconded and backed with a constant and vninterrupted streame and series of Authorites and printed Records as this no orthodox member of our Church so much as once impeaching it no spurious or rotten member since Barrets publike Kâ—cantation so much as once oppugning it in any authorized worke Master Mountagues and Doctor lacksons onely excepted which all men generally dislike Therefore we may now without all Quaestion or dispute declare resolue and finally adiudge it to be the ancient established and vndoubted Doctrine of our Church taking all such for Pelagians Papists Arminians yea pestilent Haeretickes atheisticall Sectaries and dangerous Innouators as King Iames hath long since doomed and adiudged them to our hands who haue beene are or shalbâ— so audaciously praesumptuous as either publickely in words or wrighting to oppugne it You haue seene now Christian Readers these 7 Anti-Arminian Positions infallibly irrefragably proued to bee the ancient established professed and resolued Doctrine of the Church of England by the seuerall yet vnanimous Articles of England Lambheth and Ireland by the Common prayer Booke and Homelies authorized in our Church the Catechisme allowed by King Edward the 6. the Quaestions and Answ. of Praedestination bound vp and printed with our ancient Bibles the famous Synod of Dort the Recantation of Barret and by the vnanimous punctuall full and copious testimonie of all the eminent learned godly and renouned Writers Martyrs Pillers and Fathers of our Church from the very infancy of her reformation to this praesent not one of them so much as as once oppugning the truth or orthodoxie of all or any of them and shall wee may mee can we now be so ridiculously absurd so audaciously irreligious as once to question whether they are the receiued Doctrines of our Church or no Doutlesse if the Church of England hath any Truthes or Doctrines in her these must these cannot but be they since I dare boldly auerre because I doubt not but to proue it that no points of Doctrine whatsoeuer no not the points of Iustification by faith alone of Transubstantiation or of the Sacrament in both kinds haue beene more punctually frequently vnanimously and copiously defended then all or most of these who haue all the learned of our Church their open and professed Aduocates If any man now be so strangly obdurated so wilfully blinded with Popish Arminian Errors that he will not yet subscribe vnto these euident and most apparant orthodox conclusions not yet acknowledge them for the ancient the vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England let him giue me leaue to vouch some other Praecedents and Records which shall force him to confesse it
Issue which will put a period to our praesent Controuersies and stablish peace and vnity both in Church and State I haue heere Epitomized into this compendious Briefe the seuerall scattered Euidences and most materiall Witnesses that the Church of England hath affoorded me to this purpose since her Reformation to this present all which giue punctuall testimony and vnanimous sentence against our new Arminian Assertions discouering them to bee not onely nouell and erronious but diametrally repugnant to the anciently established and professed Doctrine of our reformed Church as the sequell will eftsoone demonstrate The Method which I shall obserue in the legall deciding of this Issue is this First I shall set downe at large the seuerall grand Charters to wit The Articles of the Church of England The Articles of Lambheth The Articles of Ireland The Common Prayer Booke The Homilies Established in our Church The Chatechisme authorized by King Edward the 6. and Barrets Recantation which entitle the Anti-Arminian Tenents to the Church of England and the Church of England vnto them and withall disproue the meere pretended title of the Arminian Tenents to our English Church which neuer yet gaue colour or allowance to them Secondly I shall propound the Anti-Arminian Orthodox Assertions in their order applying these seuerall Charters to them as vnanswerable euidences and likewise quoting to them the workes and names of all such Orthodox and learned Writers of the Church of England from the beginning of Reformation to this present that haue hitherto come vnto my hands who giue direct and punctuall testimony either on their side or against their opposites or both as irrefragable witnesses to vindicate and proue them to be the ancient and vndoubted and the contrary Arminian Tenents the spurious and pretended Doctrines onely of the Church of England I shall begin with the first of these and in that with the established and allowed Articles of the Church of England The Articles of the Church of England agreed vpon in the Conuocation holden at London in the yeere 1552. in the raigne of Edward the 6. afterwards confirmed and repromulgated in the yeere of our Lord 1562. in the raigne of Queene Elizabeth and since that ratified by King Iames 1604. and by our gracious Soueraigne King Charles in the yeare 1628. ARTICLE 2. THe Godhead and Manhood were ioyned together in one person neuer to be diuided whereof is one Christ very God and very Man who truely suffered was Crucified dead and buried to reconcile his Father to vs and to be a sacrifice not onely for Originall guilt but also for all actuall sinnes of men ARTIC 9. ORiginall sinne standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians doe vainely talke but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of euery man that naturally is ingendred of the off-spring of Adam whereby man is very farre gone from originall Righteousnesse and is of his nature enclined to euill so that the flesh lusteth alwaies contrary to the spirit and therefore in euery person borne into this world it deserueth Gods wrath and damnation And this infection of nature doth remaine yea in them that are regenerated where by the lust of the flesh called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some doe expound the wisdome some sensualty some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subiect to the Law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that beleeue and are Baptised yet the Apostle doth confesse that concupiscense and lust hath of it selfe the nature of sinne ARTIC 10. THe condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turne and prepare himselfe by his owne naturall strength and good workes to faith and calling vpon God Wherefore wee haue no power to doe good workes pleasant and and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Christ preuenting vs that wee may haue a good will and working with vs when we haue that good will ARTIC 13. VVOrkes done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasant to God forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Iesu Christ neither do they make men meet to receiue grace or as the Schoole-Authors say deserue grace of congruitie yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to bee done wee doubt not but they haue the nature of sinne ARTIC 15. CHrist in the truth of nature was made like vnto vs in all things sinne onely excepted from which hee was cleerely voide both in his flesh and in his Spirit Hee came to be a Lambe without spot who by sacrifice of himselfe once made should take away the sinnes of the world and sinne as Saint Iohn saith was not in him c. ARTIC 16. NOt euery deadly sinne willingly committed after Baptisme is sinne against the holy Ghost and vnpardonable Wherefore the grant of Repentance is not to bee denyed to such as fall into sinne after Baptisme After wee haue receiued the holy Ghost wee may depart from grace giuen and fall into sinne and by the grace of God wee may arise againe and amend our liues And therefore they are to bee condemned which say they can no more sinne as long as they liue heere or deny place of forgiuenesse to such as truely repent From this Article some Arminians haue endeuored to iustifie their Doctrine of the totall and small Apostasie of the Saints from grace Yet the Conference at Hampton Court pag. 24. together with learned Doctor Whitakers in his Cygnea Cantio October 9. An. Dom. 1595 Cantabrigie ex Officina Iohannis Legat. 1599. pag. 20. Profound Doctor Feild in his answere to Theophylus Higgons Part. 1. cap. 3. 2. Part. Sectio 2. Edition 2. at Oxford by William Turner 1628. pag. 834. Reuerend and solid Doctor Robert Abbot late Bishop of Sarum in his Animaduersio in Thompsoni Diatribam cap. 27. Londini 1618 p. 218. Laborious Doctor Benefield De Perseuerantia Sanctorum lib. 1. cap. 15. Francofurti 1618. pag. 162. to 167 Reuerend and religious Doctor Carleton late Bishop of Chichester in his Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale Edit 2. p. 135. 136. 137. Acute Doctor Daniel Featly in his Second Parallel London 1626. pag. 22. 23. 24. Industrious Master Henry Burton in his Plea to an Appeale London 1626. p. 13. 14. 15. Master Wotton in his Dangegerous Plot discouered or his Answere to Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 12. London 1626. p. 42. 43. 44. 45. Studious Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames c. Edit 1. London 1626. p. 43. to 48. Facetious Master Yates in his Ibis ad Caesarē London 1626. part 4. c. 15. p. 134. 135. 136. To omit mine owne Perpetuitie of a Regenerate mans Estate Edit 2. London 1627. p. 309. to 319. All these I say together with Master Thomas Rogers his authorized Analisis on this Article confesse and prooue the meaning of this
Article to be sound and Orthodox warranting no totall nor finall Apostasie from the state of Grace as Papists or Arminians would from thence collect but onely a lapse into some criminall or scandalous act of sinne which may and doth sometimes befall the very best and deerest of Gods Saints Since then these seuerall Orthodox members and learned Writers of our Church haue anciently and lately made this authentique Exposition of this Article which none but Papists or Arminians haue hitherto oppugned and since the Articles of Lambheth Artic. 5. together with the Articles of Ireland Artic. 38. which doubtlesse would neuer vary from the genuine and natiue meaning of this Article haue wel explaned and ratified it with these two termes yet neither finally nor totally I hope all English Protestants will subscribe to this Construction onely and reiect all others as spurious and vnsound ARTIC 17. PRedestination to life is the euerlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the World were layd hee hath constantly decreed by his counsell secret to vs to deliuer from curse and damnation those whom hee hath chosen in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ to euerlasting saluation as vessells made to honour Wherefore they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season they through grace obey the calling they bee iustified freely they bee made the Sonnes of God by adoption they bee made like the Image of his onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ they walke religiously in good workes and at length by Gods mercy they attaine to euerlasting felicitie As the godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet pleasant and vnspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feele in themselues the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the workes of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing vp their minde to high and heauenly things aswell because it doth greatly establish and confirme their Faith of eternall Saluation to be enioyed through Christ as because it doth feruently kindle their Loue towards God So for curious and carnall persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to haue continually before their eyes the sentence of Gods Predestination is a most dangerous downefall whereby the Deuill doth thrust them either into desperation or into rechlesnesse of most vncleane liuing no lesse perillous then desperation c. From this Article solid and learned Doctor Whitakers in his Cygnea Cantio pag. 16. 17. Master Thomas Rogers in his authorized Analisis on the 17. Article commonly solde and bound vp together with the Articles Reuerend Bishop Carlton in his examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 10. Edit 2. Pag. 99. Master Yates in his Ibis ad Caesarem Part. 1. cap. 1. 2. 3. part 2. cap. 1. Sect. 5. pag. 35. c. Master Henry Burton in his Answere to an Appeale pag. 28. 36. 37. 42. 44. 49. Master Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames. pag. 43. to 48. Master Wotton in his Dangerous Plot Discouered cap. 19. 20. pag. 126. 127. Together with Doctor Thysius in his Comment or Collation on the Articles of Lambheth Hardrouici 1613. c. who haue copiously analised and explained this 17. Article haue raised these Orthodoxe Anti-Arminian Conclusions which are directly grounded on and warranted by this Article as they there affirme 1 That there is a Predestination of certaine men vnto aeternall life and a praeterition or Reprobation of others vnto death 2 That this Praedestination both to life and death are from aeternity 3 That they are altogether immutable and vnchangeable 4 That not all men but certaine onely are Praedestinated to be saued 5 That these who are Praedestinated vnto Saluation can neuer perish nor yet fall finally or totally from the state of grace 6 That in Christ Iesus some are Elected to Saluation and not others not of any foresâ—ene â—aith or Works or Will or Merit in themselues but out of the meere good will and pleasure of God himselfe 7 That they who are Elected to Saluation are in their due time called according to Gods purpose both outwardly by the Word and inwardly by the Spirit which call they all obey and not resist 8 That the Predestinate are both freely iustified by Faith and sanctified by the holy Ghost heere and shall likewise be glorified in the life to come 9 That the consideration of Praedestination and its Doctrine is to the godly wise most comfortable anâ— ioyfull and dangerous to none but curious and carnall persons All which Conclusions are Diametrally repugnant to the now Arminian Tenents ARTIC 18. THey also are to bee had accursed that presume to say that euery man shall bee saued by the Lawe or Sect which he professeth so that hee bee diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature For holy Scripture doth set out vnto vs onely the Name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saued ARTIC 29. THe wicked and such as be voide of a liuely faith although they doe caâ—nally and visibly presse with their teeth as St. Augustine saith the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ but rather to their condemnation doe eate and drinke the signe or Sacrament of so great a thing ARTIC 31. THe Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemptionâ— proputation and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole World both originall and actuall and there is none other satisfaction for sinne but that alone The nine Assertions or Articles of Lambheth composed and agreed vpon at Lambheth-House on the 20. day of Nouember in the yeere of our Lord 1595. by Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Bishop of London Richard elect Bishop of Bangor Doctor Tyndall Deane of Elie Doctor Whitaker professor of Diuinitie in Cambridge and sundry other Reuerend and learned Diuines there present with the concurrent approbation of the right Reuerend and learned Prelate Mathew Archbishop of â—orkâ— for the determining of certaine Arminian points of Controuersie that then arose in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1 DEus ab Aeterno Praedestinauit quosdam ad vitam quosdam Reprobauit ad Mortem 1 GOD from Eternitie hath Praedestinated certaine men vnto Life certaine men he hath Reprobated vnto Death 2 Causa mouens aut efficiens Praedestinationis ad Vitam non est praeuisio Fidei aut perseuerantiae aut bonorum operum aut ullius rei quae insit in personis Praedestinatis sed sola voluntas beneplaciti Dei 2 The moouing or efficient cause of Predestination vnto Life is not the foresight of Faith or of perseuerance or of good-workes or of any thing that is in the persons Predestinated but onely the good will and pleasure of God 3 Praedestinatorum praefinitus certus est numerus qui nec augeri nec minui possit
3 There is a pre-determined and certaine number of the Predestinate which can neither be augmented nor diminished 4 Qui non sunt Praedestinati ad Salutem necessario propter peccata sua damnabuntur 4 Those who are not Predestinated to Saluation shall be necessarily Damned for their sinnes 5 Vera viva iustificans Fides Spiritus Dei iustificantis non extinguitur non excidit non euanescit in Electis aut finaliter aut totaliter 5 A true liuing and iustifying Faith and the Spirit of God iustifying is not extinguished it falleth not away it vanisheth not away in the Elect either finally or totally 6 Homo vere Fidelis id est Fide iustificante praeditus certus est plerophoria Fider de Remissione peccatorum suorum salute sempiterna sua per Christum 6 A man truely Faithfull that is such â—one who is endued with a iustifying Faith is certaine with the full assurance of Faith of the Remission of his Sinnes and of his Euerlasting Saluation by Christ. 7 Gratia salutaris non tribuitur non communicatur non conceditur vniuersis hominibus qua seruari possint si velint 7 Sauing grace is not giuen is not Communicated is not granted to all men by which they may be saued if they will 8 Nemo potest venire ad Christum nisi datum ei fuerit nisi Pater eum traxerit omnes homines non trahuntur a Patre vt veniant ad Filium 8 No man can come vnto Christ vnlesse it shall be giuen vnto him and vnlesse the Father shall draw him and all men are not drawn by the Father that they may come to the Sonne 9 Non est poâ—itum in arbitrio aut poâ—estate vniuscâ—iusque hominis servari It is not in the Will or Power of euery one to be saued These Articles of Lambheth how euer some may chance to slight them as the Resolutions of some priuate mâ—n yet they were vnanimously composed and approued by both our Right Reuerend and Learned Archbishops Whitgift and Huâ—ton by the Bishops of London and Bangor and by sundry other of our most eminent Diuines and that not rashly or vnadvisedly but vpon serious debate and mature deliberation and being afterwards sent to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge for the allaying of some Arminian Controuersies there raysed by master Barret whose publique Recantation I haue heere inserted and abetted by one Peter Baro a Frenchman Lady Margarets Professor in that Vniuersitie they were there receiued with such an vnanimous approbation of the whole Vniuersitie that those Arminian Tenents were foorthwith abandoned and Baro forced to forsake his place since whose departure to this present the Diuinitie Professors of this our Famous Vniuersitie haue constantly adhered to these Conclusions as the vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England What respect the Reformed Churches abroad haue giuen to these Articles or Assertions Let famous Thysius who hath twice published them Hardrouici 1613. and quoted the Fathers to them together with learned Bogerman President of the late famous Synod of Dort in his 107. and 108. Notes vpon the second part of Grotius Franâ—keâ—â— 1614. p. 183. 184. testifie who both recite and repute them as the receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England What approbation they haue had with vs at home their vnanimous approbation by the Vniuersitie of Cambridge at first their insertion into the Articles of Ireland agreed vpon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Clergie of Ireland in their Conuocation holâ—en at Dublin 1615. where all or most of them are recited verbatim as any man may see that will compare them The mentioning of them in the Conference at Hampton Court where his Maiestie of blessed memory was moued to insert them into the Bookâ— of Articles and vnderstanding not what these Assertions of Lambheth were was informed that by reason of some Controuersies arising in Cambridge about certaine points of Diuinitie my Lords Grace of Canterbury assembled some Diuines of especiall note to set downe their opinions which they drew into nine Assertions and so sent them vnto the Vniuersitie for the appeasing of those quarrels Their honourable recitall by the late Reuerend and learned Bishop of Chichester Doctor Carlton in his Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale Edition 2. cap. 2. pag. 8. 9. 10. By learned Doctor Benefield De Perâ—euerantia Sanctorum lib. 1. cap. 15. p. 162. to 167. By Maâ—â—er Francis Rouse in his Doctrine of King Iames p. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mr. Iohn Browne in his Appendix to the Life of Queene Elizabeth where they are likewise Printeâ— By Mr. Thomas Vicars in his Pusillies Grex Oxoâ—iae 1627 p. 31. By Abdias Asheton in Vita Gulielmi Whitakeri Cantabrigiae 1599. p. 43. who all repute and deeme them the Orthodox and vndoubted Doctrine of the Church of England All these recited Euidences I say doe abundantly confirme the truth the honour and Orthodox Authority of these Articles or Assertions which were neuer yet impeached by any Orthodox English Diuine as different from oâ—â— 39. Articles or varying from the receiued Doctrines of our Church And therfore especially since the Articles of Ireland thus approue them we may safely embrace them as the vndoubted and anciently receiued Doctrines of our English Church Articles of Religion agreed vpon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Cleargie of Ireland in the Conuocation holden at Dublin in the yeere of our Lord God 1615. 11 GOd from all eternitie did by his vnchangeable counsell ordaine whatsoeuer in time should come to passe Yet so as thereby no violence is offred to the wills of the reasonable creatures and neither the libertie nor the contingencie of the second causes is taken away but established rather 12 By the same eternall counsell God hath predestinated some vnto life and reprobated some vnto death of both which there is a certaine number knowen only to God which can neither be increased nor diminished 13 Predestination to life is the euerlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were layed he hath constantly decreed in his secret counsell to deliuer from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ vnto euerlasting saluation as vessels made to honor 14 The cause mouing God to predestinate vnto life is not the foreseeing of faith or perseuerance or good workes or of any thing which is in the person predestinated but onely the good pleasure of God himselfe For all things being ordained for the manifestation of his glory and his glory being to appeare both in the works of his Mercy and of his Iustice It seemed good to his heauenly wisedomee to choose out a certaine number towards whom he would extend his vndeserued mercy leauing the rest to be spectacles of his iustice 15 Such as are predestinated vnto life be called according vnto Gods purpose his spirit
not vpon any qualities actions or workes of man which be mutable but vpon God his aeternall and immutable Decree and purpose then which determination of his approued and applauded by all there present nothing can be more full and punctuall to our present Conclusion Moreouer hee likewise brands Arminianisme with the name of HERESIE Arminians with the stile of Atheisticall sestaries and PESTILENT HERETICKES who dare take vpon them that licentious libertie to fetch againe from hell the ancient haeresies long since condemned or else to inuent new of their owne braine contrary to the beliefe of the true Catholicke Church a stigmaticall Impresse which our Arminians shall neuer be able to claw off againe in his Declaration against Vorstius London 1612. page 15. 19. 22. neere the middest of his peaceable Raigne And as if all this were not sufficient in a priuate Conference with two learned Diuines not long before his death now published by his speciall command hee christened our Arminiâ—ans with the name of new Pelagians being thus as you see a professed enemie to them and their Opinions both in the beginning middle and end of his most peaceable Raigne as his speciall care in conuenting the famous Synod of Dort and his approbation of all their dogmaticall Resolutions super-added to these three former euidences will at large declare As this our learned King and King of learning thus constantly displayed himselfe against Arminianisme in generall this our Arminian Error in particular so all our learned Writers of his age as men doe commonly conforme their iudgements to their Princes Tenents did worthâ—ly suffragate to his and these our Anti-Arminian Conclusions witnesseâ— our famous Doctor Reinolds who alone was a well furnisht Librarie full of all faculties of all studies of all learning whose memorie whose reading were neere to a miracle as one well obserues in his Thesis 4. in Schola Theologica tractata Nouember 2. 1579. sect 23. to 27. and Apologia Thesium sect 12. to 23. Londini 1602. being the first yeere of King lames his Raigne witnesse learned and scolasticall Doctor Field of the Church Booke 1 cap. 3. 4. 7. 8. 10. Booke 3. Appendix cap. 14. Edit 2. Oxford 1628. p. 33. Master Thomas Draxe in his Worlds Resurrection London 1609. pag. 2. 3. 23. 78. Master Trendall his Arke against the Dragons flood London 1608. page 4. 6. Master Thomas Rogers Chaplein to Archbishop Bancroft in his Analysis on the 39. Articles intituled The faith doctrine and religion professed and protected in the Realme of England and Dominions of the same perused and by the lawfull Authoritie of the Church of England allowed to be publicke Proposition 1. 2. 3. 4. on Article 17. Master Turnball Sermon 1. on Iude 1. 2. Godly and painefull Master Samuel Heiron in his Spirituall Sonneship 1. part of his workes London 1620. page 365. to 372. Learned Doctor Iohn White in his Way to the true Church London 1610 Digression 40. sect 49. page 270. in his Defence of the way cap. 25. sect 10. to the end London 1624. page 128. to 138. Sermon at Pauls Crosse March 20. 1615. sect 8. Learned Doctor Robert Abbot Bishop of Salisbury and Regius Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Oxford in his Diuinitie Lecture in the Vniuersitie Schooles Oxoniae Iuly 10. 1613. sect 1. 2. 3. 4. in his other three Lectures 1614. and 1615. London 1618. Animaduersio in Thompsoni Diatribam cap. 5. Master Brightman on the Reuelation cap. 3. ve 8. cap. 17. ver 8. cap. 21. 27. Master Richard Stocke in his Doctrine and vse of Repentance London 1610. page 167. to 172. Learned Doctor Benefield late Lady Margarets Professor in the Vniuersitie of Oxford De Sanctorum perseuerantia lib. 2. cap. 18. 20. Francofurti 1618. page 260. 261. Learned Doctor Crackenthorpe in his Sermon of Praedestination preached at Saint Maries in Oxford London 1620. Master Thomas Wilson in his Exposition vpon the Romanes cap. 9. ver 11. 12. to 29. and cap. 11. ver 5. 6. 7. 8. Edition 2. London 1627. page 348. 380. 444. to 460. Doctor Iohn Boyes late Deane of Canterburie in his Exposition of the Epistle on Innocents day and on Psalme 104. on Whitsunday Euening in his workes London 1622. page 613. 614. 625. 941. Master Samuel Crooke in his Guide Edition 4. London 1625. section 4. 9. and 17. Learned Doctor Ames in his Coronis ad collationem Hagiensem Lugduni Batauorum 1618. Articulus 1. and 2. Eminent and renowned Doctor Prideaux in his Lecture 1. Iuly 6. in the Vniuersity Schooles at Oxford where hee then was and now is Regius Professor of Diuinity Learned Sir Christopher Sybthorpe in his Friendly Aduertisement to the Catholickes of Ireland Dublin 1623. cap. 7. 8. page 153. to 214. Master Adams in his Churches Glorie on Hebr. 12. 23. page 65. to 90. Master Elnathan Parre in his Grounds of Diuinitie Edit 4. London 1622. page 281. to 309. Master Robert Yarrow in his Soueraigne comfort for a troubled conscience London 1619 cap. 38. 29. page 352. c. Godly and learned Master Paul Bayne in his Commentarie on Ephesians 1. London 1618. page 64. to 256. Doctor Griffith Williams in his Delights of the Saints London 1622. page 7. to 70. Master Iohn Downame in his Summe of sacred Diuinitie lib. 2. cap. 1. page 283. to 310. cap. 6. page 399. Master Humphery Sydenham in his Iacob and Esau or Election and Reprobation preached at Pauls Crosse March 4. 1622. London 1627. Master Iohn Frewen in his Grounds of Religion London 1621. Quaest. 13. page 278. 279. 280. Learned Doctor Francis White now Bishop of Norwitch in his Orthodox London 1624. page 105. 108. and in his Conference with Fisher page 49. to 55. Godly and painefull Master Byfield in his Treatise of the Prâ—mises cap. 13. page 386. 387. and in his Exposition on the Collossians cap. 3. ver 12. page 75. Doctor Sclater Sermon at Pauls Crosse 1609. on Hebr. 6. 4. 5. Exposition on I. Epistle of the Thessalonians cap. 1. ver 5. page 39. 40. cap. 5. ver 9. 10. page 438. to 455. ver 24. page 556. 557. Exposition on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 10. p. 53. 54. Adde we as a Corrollarie and Conclusion to all these the Resolution of our eminent Dort Diuines to wit Doctor Carlton late Bishop of Chichester Doctor Dauenat now Bshop of Salisbury Doctor Goade Doctor Ward Lady Margarets Professor in Cambridge Doctor Belcankwell Deane of Rochester which concurres with this our Position in terminis condemning the contrary as crronious and haereticall as the English Synod of Dort approued of by King Iames Article 1. and 2. throughout Doctor Wards Suffragium Brittanorum London 1627. Articulus 1. and 2. together with the Synod it selfe Printed in folio Article 1. 2. Theologorum magnae Brittanniae Sententia doe at large declare Thus hath this our present Position beene constantly maintained as the vndoubted truth and doctrine of our Church by all the fore-quoted
page 117. 118. 187. 219. 230. 242. 243. Commentarie on Hebr. 11. Tom. 2. 3. page 165. 166. Exposition on the Reuelation c. 2. ver 7. page 280. 281. on cap. 3. ver 4. page 333. 334. where this point is fully and excellently discussed Doctor Iohn Hill Life euerlasting Booke 4. Quaest. 4. 5. page 348. 349. 350. In the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth Doctor Reinolds Apologia Thesium sect 12. to 23. Doctor Andrew Willet in his Excellent Treatise De gratia Vniuersali where this point is purposely debated in his Synosis papismi page 881. to 918. Commentary on Rom. 5. Quaest. 38. 39. and Controuersie 23. Master Francis Trigge his true Catholicke cap. 1. page 27. to 44. Doctor Abbot Bishop of Salisbury in his seuerall Lectures De veritate gratia Christâ— against Arminius and his followers read in the Diuinitie Schooles of Oxford whiles hee was there Regius Professor London 1618. page 15. to 82. Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on Article 10. Proposition 1. 2. 3. Master Samuel Heirons Abridgement of the Gospell page 157. 158. Master Stocke The Doctrine and vse of Repentance page 169. to 171. Master Paul Baynes Commentary on Ephes. 1. page 352. to 380. Doctor Iohn Whites Way to the Church Digressio 41. 42. Defence of his way cap. 25. sect 10. 15. 16. 17. Sermon at Pauls Crosse section 8. Doctor Francis White Bishop of Norwitch in his Orthodox cap. 9. page 106. 107. 108. Doctor Field of the Church Booke 1. cap. 4. Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Article 2. 3. Doctor Crakenthorpe in his Sermon of Praedestination Doctor Doue Bishop of Peterburrow in his Sermon against Vniuersall grace on 1. Tim. 2. 4. where he confutes Huberus Doctor Prideaux Lectura 3. 4. De gratia Vniuersali Doctor Benefield De Sanctorum Perseuerantia cap. 18. 20. Doctor Griffith Williams his Delights of the Saints page 30. to 42. Master Elton on Colossians 1. Edit 2. p. 87. 88. on Ro 8. v. 30. M. Samuel Crooke his Guide sect 8. 9. 10. 12. 18. 19. Doctor Thomas Taylor on the 32. Psalme Epistle to the Reader M. Elâ—athaâ— Parre Grounds of Diuinity page 240. 241. Master Thomas Wilson on Rom. 3. ver 10. on cap. 5. ver 15. 16. 17. on cap. 8. ver 33. on cap. 9. ver 16. Master Thomas Draxe in his Worlds Resurrection page 110. 111. Master Sweeper in his Sermon against Vniuersall grace Master Humphrie Sydenham his Iacob and Esau part 1. 2. 3. Doctor Boyes his Postills 4. Sunday after Easter pag. 317. to 320. on Saint Markes Day page 685. 686. Master Iohn Dâ—wnams Summe of Diuinitie lib 1. cap. 17. lib. 2. cap. 1. 2. 3. Sir Christopher Syhthorpe his Friendly Aduertisement c. cap. 7. 8. together with all our Dort Diuines Article 2. 3. 4. of that Synod in the Raigne of King Iames. D. Dauenat Bishop of Salisbury his Expositio ad Epist. Coloss. cap. 1. ver 5. page 45. verse 12. page 78. 80. ver 27. page 171. 172. 173. cap. 2. ver 3. page 266. 267. Bishop Carltons Examination of Master Montagues Appeale cap. 2. 3. 4. Doctor Goade his Pelagius Rediuinus Doctor Warde his Concio ad Clerum Doctor Featly his 2. Parallel page 14. to 20. Learned Bishop Vshâ—rs Answere to the Iesuites Challenge page 464. to 492. Of the Religion professed by the ancient Irish page 7. 8. Master Richard Bernard his Rheemes against Rome Proposition 29. page 247. 248. Master Francis Rouse his Doctrine of King Iames page 25. to 39. Doctor Sclaters Exposition on the first of the Thessa-Ionians page 300. 301. 438. to 455. on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 3. page 5. 6. ver 10. page 53. 54. cap. 2. ver 13. page 180. to 191. Master Anthony Woottons Defence of Master Perkins cap. of Free-will and A Dangerous plot discouered c. cap. 7. 8. 20. Master Vicars in his Pusillus Grex. Master Yates in his Ibis ad Caesarem part 2. cap. 7 page 157 c. Master William Pemble in his Vinditiae Gratiae page 54. to 112. where this point is largely and excellently discussed Master Henry Burton his Plea to an Appeale page 65. to 90. and Truth triumphing ouer Trent cap. 17. to which I might adde all those learned Authors of our Church who haue copiously discussed the point of Free-will with all the Authors in the three former Positions and my owne Perpetuitie of a Regenerate mans estate page 9. to 38. All these I say doe fully testifie that there is no such Free-will or vniuersall and sufficient grace deriued vnto all men by which they may repent belieue and be saued if they will themselues Now because this vniuersall Grace or Free-will in man is the onely center vpon which the whole fabricke of Arminianisme is erected by the vndermining of which alone the whole superstruction both of Pelagianisme Popery Arminianisme and Libertinisme are vtterly subuerted I will briefely oppugne it with these seuerall atheisticall blasphemous absurd and dangerous consequences which will necessarily result and issue from it and those conditionall and secondary Decrees of Praedestination which are built vpon it First it ouerturnes the euerlasting and irreuersible Decrees of Election and Reprobation for if euery man may beleeue repent and be saued if he will himselfe then it ineuitably followes that there is no aeternall nor immutable Decree of Praedestination either way whence our Arminians to support this rotten Idoll of Free-will are forced to maintaine a conditionall mutable generall and confused Decree of Praedestination onely which in truth is no Decree not absolute immutable and particular by which they vtterly abolish the whole Decree and Doctrine of Praedestination and then marke the consequence If no Praedestination no vocation no iustification no faith no saluation Praedestination being the originall fountaine of all these and the maine foundation both of grace and glory as the Scriptures and all Writers teach vs. Secondly it makes the fickle wauering and vnconstant will of man the very basis and ground-worke of all Gods immutable and aeternall Decrees concerning man where as God onely workes and orders all things as the Scriptures certifie vs according to the counsell of his owne will not according to the bent and inclination of our wills by which it subordinates God to man and subiects his aeternall purposes and vnalterable Decrees to sundry mutabilities to his dishonour and our great discomfort Thirdly it makes man an independent creature and exempts him wholy from the disposing and ouer-ruling prouidence of his great Creator it makes the great controwler of the world a bare spectator not an orderer or disposer of humane actions it causeth God with all his counsels and designes to daunce attendance vpon the will of man not man to depend vpon the soueraigne will and pleasure of his God for whose onely will and pleasure he was at first created as if God were made for man not man for God Fourthly it constitutes an absolute and independent being and will
their accomplishment The wheeles in a clocke the spheeres in heauen the water and the mill haue contrary motions yet they concur and sweetly accord in the same effect without any contrariety The strings of an Instrument voyces in a Quire haue different sounds yet they make vp one pleasant and harmonious consort the stones in a building the roomes in an house the members of a haeterogenious body are discrepant and various in themselues yet they all accord meete in one intiretie So the secret and reuealed will of God if wee sunder or disioine them may seeme to iarre and contradict themselues but if wee consider the one as subordinate to the other and so linke them both together we shall find them sweetly clasping and kissing each the other without the least dissent the one of them effecting and fulfilling the designes and purposes of the other without any clash or iarre which answers those Arminian cauâ—ls to the full which say we set Gods wills at variance by our doctrines And thus much for our fist Conclusion The sixt of our praecedent Anti-Arminian Tenents ' touching the totall and finall resistance of Gods grace in the Elect in the very Act of their Conuersion is fully ratified and confirmed by our 10. and 17. Articles by the 8. Article of Lambheth by the 13. 14. 15. 16. 32. and 33. Articles of Ireland by the Booke of Common prayer Position 1. and 2. by the Homelies the Chatechisme of Edward the 6. with the Questions and Answers of Praedestination Figures 6 and the Synod of Dort Article 3. 4. The particular and punctuall witnesses of this truth now follow to wit Master William Tindall Prologue on the Romans page 48. Col. 2. 8. 0. Col. 2. Preface to the obedience of a Christian man page 99. An Answer to Master Moores Dialogue page 259. 260. 266. A path-way into the holy Scriptures page 382. Prologue to the Exposition of the first Epistle of Saint Iohn page 389. An Exposition on the 6. of Iohn page 460. Master Iohn Frith A Declaration of Baptisme page 90. Doctor Barnes That Freewill of her owne strength can doe nothing but sinne page 283. 274. 276. Master Robert Legat in his Chatechisme betweene Man and Wife what the holy Catholicke Church is and betweene truth and the vnlearned man Wesel 1545. in the dayes of King Henry the 8. Learned Peter Martyr Commentary in Romans cap. 5. page 327. 328. cap. 9. p. 690. 694. 728. 729. 732. 733. Master Martyn Bucer Commentary on Math. 23. 37. on Iohn 6. 37. 44. on Romans 8. 30. and on cap. 4. 5. 6. Master Iohn Bradford his Doctrine of Praedestination Master Thomas Beacon his Sicke mans salue page 426. in King Edwards Raigne Master Iohn Veron his Treatise of Praedestination and Apologie for the same Master Thomas Palfryman Treatise of heauenly Philosophie cap. 7. 8. Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull cap. 12. Master Edward Deering on the Heb. Lect. 9. 10. 14. Master Anthony Anderson Sermon of sure comfort p. 23. to 27. Master Thomas Sparkes Comfortable Treatise for a troubled conscience the 4. first leaues Bartimeus Andreas Sermon 2. on the Canticles p. 64. to 70. Master Iohn Daniel his excellent comfort to all Christians cap. 4. 5. 7. Master Iohn Anwicke Meditations on Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Master William Burton Sermon of the Churches loue Master Arthur Gurney his fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion page 45. Bishop Babington Exposition on the Lords prayer Petition 6. page 194. 195. Sermon at Pauls Crosse on Iohn 6. 37. part 1. and 2. Mathew Hutton Arch-Bishop of Yorke De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio p. 22. 23. 24. 36. Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Notes on Rom. 8. sect 8. Master William Perkins of Gods grace and mans freewill Tom. 1. page 720. c. Commentary on Galathians 1. Tom. 2. p. 178. 179. and on cap. 6. page 374. Master Iohn Hell his Life euerlasting Booke 3. Quaest. 9. p. 273. to 277. in Queene Elizabeths Annals Doctor Reinolds Apologia Thesium sect 13. 14. 15. Doctor Willet Comment on Romans 8. Controuersie 18. and on cap. 9. ver 19. 20. Reuerend Doctor Robert Abbot Bishop of Salisbury De veritate Gratiae Christi Oratio 2. Iulij 8. 1615. sect 2. Learned Doctor Thomas Morton Bishop of Couentry and Litchfield his Protestants Appeale Londini 1610. lib. 2. cap. 10. sect 4. 5. 10. 11. where he proues this to be the Doctrine not onely of Protestants but of the Learnedest Papists Doctor Field of the Church Appendix to the 3. booke cap. 10. of Freewill Doctor Iohn White Way to the Church Digression 41. 42. Defence of the Way cap. 25. sect 21. 22. Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on the 17. Article Proposition 6. 7. Master Heiron The Backward parts of Iehouah Sermon 2. p. 173. Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Artic. 3. where this point is well discussed and excellently proued Doctor Priâ—eaux De Conuersionis modo Lectura 4. Master Paul Bayne Commentary on Ephesians 1. 19. p. 352. to 371. where this point is pithily proued Master Elton on Rom. 8. v. 30. Master Thomas Wilson Exposition on Rom. 8. ve 30. on Rom. 9. ver 19. 20. Doctor Crakenthorpe Sermon Predestination Doctor Boyes Postil on Saint Stephens day page 304. on the Epistle on Simon and Iudes day page 767. Sir Christopher Sybthorpe his Friendly admonition to the praetended Catholickes of Ireland cap. 8. Master Samuel Crooke his Guide sect 18. Master Iohn Downame Summe of Diuinity lib. 2. cap. 1. Incomparable and learned Doctor Visher Arch-bishop of Ardmagh Answer to the Iesuites challenge Of Freewill page 464. c. Master Humphsrey Sydenhaâ— in his Iacob and Esau with all our eminent Dort Deuines in the raigne of famous King Iames. Reuerend Bishop Carlton Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 3. 9. 14. Learned Doctor Dauenate Bishop of Salisbury Expositio in Epist. Pauli ad Colossenses c. 1. ver 12. p. 78. ver 28. p. 182. Doctor Sclater Exposition on the 1. Epistle of the Thessalonians cap. 4. v. 9. p. 300. 301â— cap. 5. v. 9. 10. p. 437. to 454. on Epistle 2. c. 1. ver 13. p. 180. 187. 188. v. 14. p. 199. Doctor Ward Suffragium Brittanorum Artic. 3. 4. and Conciâ— ad Clerum 1625. where this point is solidly proued Doctor Goade and Doctor Featly in their Pelagius Rediuiuus and Doctor Featly his second Parallel of Freewill p. 14. to 21. where this position is featly handled Master Rouse his Doctrine of King Iames. p. 25. to 48. Master Wotton his Dangerous Plot discouered cap. 7. 8. Master Williams Pemble his Vindiciae Gratiae p. 140. to 157. where this controuersie is neatly discided Master Yates his Ibis ad Caesarem part 2. cap. 7. p. 157. to 168. M. Henry Burton his Plea to an Appeale p. 63. to 77. Truth triumphing ouer Trent c. 17. M. Weemse his Portraiture of the image of God in
sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered c. with verse 34. 35. doe infallibly proue not by the internall regenerating operation of his spirit the onely thing in quaestion which they could not resist Secondly I answer with Saint Augustine and Peter Lumbard That the meaning of these words is not that those whom Christ would gather did resist or disobay his call but that Heirusalems Rulers with the Scribes and Phareses were vtterly vnwilling that Christ should gather those whom he did call The summe and drift of these words is onely this I by ministry would haue gathered Hierusalem and her Sonnes vnto me but you Scribes and Phareses for to them alone not to Hierusalem was this speach directed as the whole series of the chapter from the 2. verse to the end doth irrefragably witnesse would not permit me for you withstood my ministry yea those that I did conuert and call it was against your wills who agreed that of any man did confesse that I was Christ he should be thrust out of the Synagouge This is the whole scope and substance of the place which concludes but this against vs. The Scribes and Phareses did resist Christs ministry in hindering him from preaching to the people Or Christ did conuert men against the Phareses wils therefore the Elect may finally totally resist the inward working power of the Spirit in the very Act of their conuersion a grosse Non-sequitur which hurts not this conclusion All whom Christ effectually called when he was on earth as Andrew Peter Mathew Luke and the rest of his Disciples did readily leaue all to follow him without the least resistance or delay therefore all who are thus inwardly called by his grace and spirit doe so now For the seuenth of these our Anti-Arminian conclusions touching the totall and finall perseuerance of the Saints and that true sauing faith and grace are proper yea peculiar to the Elect alone and not communicable vnto Reprobates It is euidently warrented and proued by our 17. Article figure 7 by the 5. Article of Lambheth and the 12. 13. 15. 33. and 38. Articles of Ireland which are expresse and punctuall in it by the common prayer Book the Homelies and the Chatechismes fore-recorded figures 7 by Barrets Recantation section 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. and by the Synod of Dorts Resolution Article 5. Adde we to these by way of Testimony the copious vnanimous and concurrent attestation of Master William Tyndall Prologue on the Epistle to the Romansâ— page 42. Parable of the wicked Mammon page 69. 70. 74. 75. 78. Praeface to the Obedience of a Christian man p. 99. In the Treatise it selfe p. 169. An Answer to Sir Thomas Moores Dialogue page 257. 258. 259. 260. 261. 266. Answer to Master Moores 2. Booke cap. 3. 4. page 293 294. Answer to his 3. Booke page 307. Answer to his 4. Booke cap. 10. page 329. cap. 11. p. 330. 331. 334. to 338. A Pathway into the holy Scripture page 384. An Exposition on the first Epistle of Iohn cap. 2. p. 402. c. 3. page 410. 412. cap. 5. page 423. An Exposition on the 6. of Iohn page 460 462. Of Master Iohn Frith Martyr An Answer to my Lord of Rochester page 55. An Answer to Rastals 3. chapter page 71. 72. 73. A Myrrour to know thy selfe page 84. Of Doctor Barnes That Faith onely iustifieth before God page 235. 242. Of Master Robert Legate his Catechisme betweene the Husband and Wife what the Catholicke Church is And betweene the vnlearned man and truth in the raigne of Henry the 8. Of Peter Martyr Commentary in Rom. 5. p. 233. 234. in cap. 8. page 533. to 558. Locorum Commu Classis 3. cap. 3. sect 46. 47. Of Martin Bucer Commentary on Mat. 7. ver 13. cap. 16. ver 18. cap. 24. ver 24. in Iohannem cap. 4. 14. cap. 6. ver 30. to 64. cap. 10. ver 27. 28. cap. 14. 16. 17. In Romanos 8. c. 30. to the end Of Bishop Latimer in his Sermons fol. 141. 142. 180. 226. 258. 312. 326. 327. 328. Of Master Iohn Bradford his defence of Praedestination where this point is pithily and particularly discussed and his Letter in the booke of Martyrs page 1505. Col. 1. Of Iohn Carelesse Martyr Ibid. p. 1742. Of Master Thomas Beacon the Sicke mans salue p. 271. 272. 273. 274. 424. 425. 426. 427. Of Stephen Garret The summe of the holy Scriptures printed 1547. cap. 4. 7. 8. 13. in the dayes of King Edward the 6. Of Reuerend Master Nowel in his authorized Catechisme on the 3. petition of the Creed the holy Catholicke Church the Communion of Saints the forgiuenesse of sinnes Of Master Iohn Fox his Booke of Martyrs London 1597. p. 1506. Col. 1. l. 74. 80. In his sermon at Pauls Crosse printed Cum priuilegio London 1570. fol. 19. 20. Of Master Iohn Veron in his Fruitfull Treatise of Praedestination fol. 40. to 63. 79. 106. to 110. Where this our conclusion is largely proued Of Master Iohn Daniell his Excellent comfort to all Christians cap. 3. 4. 5. 6. 27. Of Master Thomas Palfryman in his Treatise of heauenly Philosophie lib. 1. cap. 7. 8. Of Master Edward Deering in his 7. 10. 14. 16. 18. 24. and 27. Lectures on the Hebrues Of Master Iames Price his Fanne of the Faithfull cap. 1. 2. 3. 4. Of Learned Doctor Fulke and Master Cartwright Notes on the Rhemish Testament Notes on Luke 8. sect 1. on Romans 11. sect 2. on 1. Tim. 1. sect 2. on Apocalipse 2. sect â—2 Of Learned and Godly Bishop Babington Exposition on the 12. Article of the Creed Life euerlasting page 259. 260. in his works at large In his profitable Exposition on the Lords prayer page 127. 128. 194. to 203. 222. with his Sermon at Pauls Crosse. 1591. part 1. and 3. p. 273. c. Of Solid Doctor Whitakers Responsio ad 8. Rationes Campiani De Paradoxis lib. 18. De Ecclesia Controuersia 2. Quaest. 3. cap. 2. p. 146. and Gygnea Cantio p. 17. to 25. Of Doctor Sparkes Answer to Iohn De Albines Discourse against Haeresies cap. 34. page 281. to 285. and in his comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience London 1580. of Master Robert Keilway Sermon of sure Comfort 1580. page 22. to 27. and 46. to 85. Of Master Iohn Vdall his Peters Fall London 1589. Sermon 2. Of Master Arthur Gurney his Fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion fol. 45. 46. 47. Of Master Iohn Anwicke Meditations vpon Gods Monarchie and the Deuils Kingdome cap. 6. 7. 10. 11. Bartimeus Andreas Sermon 2. on Canticles 5. page 64. to 70. Of Master Iohn Northbrooke his poore mans spirituall Garden cap. 1. and 18. Of Learned Mathew Hutton Arch-Bishop of Yorke De Electione Reprobatione Commentatio page 41. 42. 43. Of Doctor Esteius De Certudine salutis perseuer antiae Sanctorum non interrupta Oratio Cantabrigiae habita page 45. to 64. Of Doctor Robert Some
Tractatus de tribus Quaestionibus Quaestio 3. p. 85. to 93. Of Doctor Chaderton De Iustificationis coram Deo fidei iustificantis Perseuerantia non intercisa page 94. to 112. to whom I might adde those seuerall Bishops Doctors and Deuines which composed Barrets Recantation and the Articles of Lambheth which conclude in terminis for vs. Of Godly and experimentall Master Greenham Graue Counsels and Aphorismes Addition 2. and 3. in his workes at large London 1612. p. 46. 51. 63. sect 24. p. 68. His first Sermon Quench not the Spirit p. 246. to 250. His 14. Sermon p. 341. Exposition on Psal. 119. page 382. 495. 496. Godly Instructions cap. 32. page 694. cap. 53. page 764. A Letter against hardnesse of heart p. 864. A Letter consolatorie p. 876. Of Edwin Arch-Bishop of Yorke Sermon on Luke 1. page 74. 75. sect 14. Of Solid and Scholasticall Master William Perkins Exposition on the Creed Tom. 1. of his workes p. 254. 282. 283. Treatise of Disertions p. 417. Reformed Catholicke point 3. page 562. 563. c. Of Gods Free Grace and mans Free Will page 738. 739. A Treatise of Praedestination Tom. 2. page 636. 637. 638. Exposition on Iude verse 1. Tom. 3. page 487. 488. Of incomparable Hooker Discourse of Iustification sect 26. Sermon of the Perpetuity and certainty of faith in the Elect. Sermon 1. on Iude. sect 10. to 15. Of Master William Burton in his Dauids Euidence 1596. Sermon 5. p. 102. to 115. Of Master Iohn Hill in his Life euerlasting lib. 5. cap. 2. Quaest. 4. 5. 6. cap. 3. Quaest 21. and of Reuerend Master Phillips Sermon on Romans 8. ver 15. 16. in the raigne of blessed Queene Elizabeth Of Learned King Iames of happy memory in his Declaration against Vorstius page 15. 18. 19. 26. 35. where he stiles the Arminian Assertion of the Apostasie of the Saints a wicked Doctrine a blasphemous Haeresie directly contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England and Bertius his Booke of the Apostasie of the Saints a blasphemous Booke the very Title whereof were enough to make it worthy the fire branding Bertius with the name of an Haretique and Atheisticall sectorie Of eminent learned and renowned Doctor Reinolds Thesis 4. sect 23. 24. Defensio Thesium sect 17. 20. Censura Librorum Apochryph Praelectio 207. and conference at Hampton Court page 41. 42. 43. Of Reuerend and learned Doctor Robert Abbot late Bishop of Salisbury once Regius Professor of Diuinity in Oxford in his Answer to Bishop part 1. cap. 12. part 2. cap. 3. De perseâ—erantia Sanctorum Lectura 1. read publickely in the Diuinity Schooles of Oxford Iuly 10. 1613. in the Act time and Animaduersio in Thompsoni Diatribam Of profound Doctor Field of the Church booke 1. cap. 3. 6. 7. 8. Answer to Theophylus Higgons 1. part cap. 3. 2. part sect 2. page 832. 833. 834. Of iudicious Doctor Bulckley in his Apologie for the Religion established in the Church of England London 1608. page 62. 64. 196. Of Acute Doctor William Sclater in his Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 17. 1609. on Hebr. 6. 3. 4. 5. 6. London 1610. and in his Exposition on the 1. Epistle of the Thessalonians cap. 1. ver 4. page 30. ver 5. page 39. 40. 44. cap. 3. ver 13. page 251. c. 5. ver 9. 10. p. 436. to 455. ver 19. p. 596. ver 20. p. 535. 536. v. 24. p. 524. 571. Exposition on Epistle 2. cap. 1. ver 3. p. 7. v. 10. p. 53. 54. v. 11. p. 66. to 71. c. 2. v. 13. p. 178. to 190. c 3. v. 3. p. 229. to 234. Of Laborious and learned Doctor Willet Commentary on Romans 5. Controuersie 3. on cap. 6. Controu 7. on cap. 8. Con. 17. 19. on cap 9. Cont. 16. on c. 11. Con. 21. and Synopsis Papismi page 64. 65. 448. 923. 924. 925. Of Godly Master Richard Rogers in his 7. Treatises Treatise 2. cap. 20. Treatise 6. cap. 2. 3. 4. 5. Of Master Thomas Rogers Analysis on the 17. Article Proposition 3. Of Master Francis Trigge true Catholicke cap. 5. London 1602. p. 150. to 187. Of Master Wotton Triall of the Rhomish Clergies title of the Church London 1608. page 212. and in his Dangerous Plot discouered London 1626. cap. 11. 12. page 37. to 81. Of Master Iohn Trâ—ndall His Arke Against the Dragons flood London 1608. page 4. 5. 22. Of Master Stocke in his Doctrine of Repentance London 1610. p. 167. 168. 169. 170. Of Master Brightman on the Reuelation cap. 3. v. 5. 11. 12. cap. 13. 8. cap. 17. 8. c. 20. 6. 15. and cap. 22. 11. Of Godly M. Heiron in his Abridgment of the Ghospell Sermon 1. in his workes at large London 1620. part 1. page 102. 109. The worth of the water of Life p. 205. 206. The spirituall Sonship page 308. 365. to 374. A caueat and comfort for beleeuers page 623. to 627. and Penance for sinne part 2. p. 64. 65. Of Learned and Solid Doctor Iohn White in his way to the true Church Digression 42. 43. and his Defence of the way cap. 16. sect 4. Of Master Thomas Wilson Sermon of Perseuerance 1608. In his Exposition on Romans 8. v. 30. c. 5. v. 2. c. 11. v. 29. Of Master Wilcocks Exposition on Psal. 1. 3. on Psal. 37. 23. 24. on Psal. 125. Of Master Draxe his Worlds resurrection p. 42. 56. 57. 66. 67. 77. 78. Of Acute Doctor Ames Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem Article 5. Of Learned Doctor Crakenthorpe Sermon of Praedestination London 1620. p. 26. 30. 31. 32. and Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Archiepiscopum Spalatensem cap. 78. Master Richard Web in his Sermon intituled The Lot and partion of the Righteous London 1616. Master Paul Bayne in his triall of a Christians Estate on Heb. 10. 39. London 1618. and in his Commentary on Ephesians 1. p. 109. 110. 302. 306. 307. 393. 402. 403. Master William Cowper his â—ight way to Eternall glory on Rom. 8. p. 342. 355. 356. 362. 363. 370. and in his Glorification of a Christian p. 448. 449. 455. 456. 457. Master William Harrison in his Sermon of Deaths aduantage little regarded London 1602. p. 14. 15. Master Nathaniel Byfield Discourse of the Promises cap. 13. and Exposition on Colossians 1. p. 93. 144. 145. Master Randall in his Sermons on Romans 8. Master Elton his Sermons on Rom. 8. 30. intituled the Triumph of a Christian. Master Elnathan Parre his Grounds of Diuinity Edit 3. page 220. D. Iohn Bayes late Deane of Caunterbury in his workes London 1622. p. 189. 483. 768. 928. Master Bradshaw Commentary on 2. Thess. 3. 3. 4. 5. Sir Iohn Haywood in his Dauids Teares on Psal. 32. v. 4. sect 12. 15. 16. Of Learned Doctor Benefield De Perseuerantia Sanctorum Libri 2. Of Master Robert Yarrow A Soueraigne Comfort for a troubled Conscience cap. 38. to the end of the Booke p. 352. to 439. Of Doctor Thomas Taylor in his Parable of
The intire Church of England consists of three grand members The Church of Ireland the Church of Scotland and the Church of England the mother or mistres of the other two If then I can vncontroulable euidence that these three seuerall Churches did constantly heretofore and doe as yet vnanimously acknowledge defend and iustify these our Anti-Arminian Conclusions the victory triall and points in praesent issue must be yeelded to me For the Church of Ireland it s out of quaestion that she hath alwayes both in ancient and moderne ages concluded with vs. For in ancient times in the points of the immutabisity aeternity and freenesse of Gods Election the praedetermined number of Gods Elect the infallible certainety of their effectuall calling and saluation Reprobation Freewill and vniuersall grace we shall finde Saint Gallus Sedulius and Claudius three ancient Irish Fathers and with them the ancient Irish Church concurring fully with vs and with St. Augustine in these our orthodox positions as that Reuerend learned and incomparable Irishman Doctor Vsher Arch-Bishop of Ardmagh the honor of our Church and glory of his Nation hath euidently and largely proued in his Epistle of the Religion professed by the ancient Irish bound vp at the end of Sir Christopher Sybthorpes workes page 7. 8. 9. to which I will referre you What the moderne Doctrine of the Church of Ireland is the fore-recorded Articles of Ireland composed in the Conuocation at Dublin in the yeere 1615. which conclude in terminis for vs together with Bishop Vshers Answer to the Iesuits Challenge his now recited Epistle and Sir Christopher Sybthorpes Aduertisement cap. 7. 8. sufficiently euidence so that both the Primatiue and praesent Irish Church are wholy fully for vs point-blancke against our Opposites That the ancient and moderne Church of Scotland hath suffragated vnto our Conclusions it is vndeniablie euident by their vnanimous and generall Confession of the true Christian faith and religion subscribed by King Iames himselfe his houshold with sundry others at Edenborough the 28. of Ianuary in the yeere 1581. being the 14. yeere of his Maiesties raigne Articles Of Originall sinne Of Election of Faith in the holy Ghost Of the cause of good workes Of the Church of the immortality of the soule by M. Knox in his Answ. against the Aduersaries of Gods Praedestination by Master Rollocke Rector of the Vniuersitie of Edinburgh his Commentary on the Ephesians cap. 1. 2. 3. and 5. and on Psalme 51. By Master William Cowper Bishop of Galloway in Scotland once Minister of Perth in his Heauen opened on Rom. 8. v. â—9 28. to the end and in sundry other of his workes By Master Iohn Weenise his Portraiture of the Image of God in man cap. 16. of Freewill where all or most of these Arminian pointâ— are pithily discussed By Sharpius a learned Scot Professor of Diuinity now in Dyon Tractatus De Iustificatione cap. 5. and Syntagâ—â—a Theologiae who all concurre vnanimously with vs in these our praesent conclusions which they professedly and pertinaciously maintaine and iustify That the Primatiue Church of England hath suscribed to our praesent Assertions her ancient publicke opposition to Pelagianisme her Bede her Anselme her Bradwardine and Wickliffe testify in that they constantly adhaered to St. Augustines and so to our Assertions as the vndoubted truth oppugning these now Arminian then Pelagian Tenents as dangerous and grace-opposing errors as their places quoted in the margent and in part recited in my Perpetuity p. 257. 261. c. will more at large declare The ancient Church of England and these her famous writers were professed Anti-Pelagians therefore Anti-Arminians What this our Church hath beene of latter times the fore-recited euidences and Authors doe abundantly testify I need not here repeat it I will therefore onely adde some further euidences to proue our Anti-Arminian positions to be our Arminian noualties not to be the ancient receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of our Church My first of these more full and puctuall euidences is the ingeminated confession and reiterated protestation of of the Heades of the Vniuersity of Cambridge in a memorable Letter of theirs purposely written about the suppression of these new Arminian errors to their honoured Chancellor and subscribed with their seuerall hands March 8. 1595. which Letter I haue truely transcribed out of the originall Coppy remaining in the hands of Doct. G who can produce it if occasion serue in sorâ—e as followeth RIght Honourable our bounden dutie remembred Wee are right sorry to haue such occasion to trouble your Lordship but the peace of this Vniuersity and Church which is deare vnto vs being brought into perill by the late reuiuing of new oppinions and troublesome Controuersies amongst vs hath vrged vs in regard of the places we here sustaine not onely to be carefull for the suppressing the same to our powers but also to giue your Lordship further information hereof as our Honourable head and carefull Chancellor About a yeere past amongst diuers others who here attempted publikely to teach new and strange opinions in Religion one Master Barret more boldly then the rest did preach diuers Popish Errors in Saint Maries to the iust offence of many which he was inioyned to retract but hath refused so to doe in such sort as hath beene praescribed him with whose fact and opinions your Lordship was made acquainted by Doctor Some the deputis Vice-Chancellor Hereby offence and diuision growing as after by Doctor Baroes publike Lectures aâ—d doterminations in the Schooles contrary as his Auditors haue informed to Doctor Whitakers and the sound receiued truth euer since her Maiesties raigne Wee sent vp to London by Common consent in Nouember last Doctor Tyndall and Doctor Whitakers men especially chosen for that purpose for conference with my Lord of Canterbury and other principall Diuines there that the controuersies being examined and the truth by their consents confirmed the contrary Errors and the contentions thereabout might the rather cease By whose good trauell with sound consent in truth such aduice and care was taken by certaine propositions containing certaine substantiall points of Religion taught and receiued in this Vniuersity and Church during the time of her Maiesties raigne and consented vnto and published by the best approued Diuines both at home and abroade for the maintaining of the same truth and peace of the Church as thereby wee inioyâ—ed here great and comfortable quiet vntill Doctor Baroe in Ianuary last in his Sermon Ad Clerum in Saint Maries contrary to restraint and commandement from the Vice-Chancellor and the Heads by renewing againe these Opinions disturbed our peace whereby his Adhaerents and Disciples were and are much emboldened to maintaine false Doctrine to the corrupting disturbing of this Vniuersity and Church if it be not in time effectually praeuented For remedy hereof we haue with ioynt consent and care vpon complaint praeferred
Diuinity in the yeere 1627. which I shall here set downe in briefe as I find them printed QVESTIONES IN SACRA THEOLOGIA DISCVTIENDAE OXONâ—â—IN VESPERâ—S SEPTIMO DIE IVLH AN. DO 1627. Quaestiones inceptoris Accepti Frewen An Praedestinatio ad saluteÌ„ sit propter praeuisam fidem Neg. Praedestinatio ad salutem sit mutabilis Neg. Gratia ad salutem sufficiens concedatur omnibus Neg. Quaestiones inceptoris Cornelij Burges An Veri fideles possint esse certi de sua salute Aff. Fides semâ—l habita possit amitti Neg. Vera sides caedat in Reprobum Neg. Quaestiones inceptoris Christophori Potter An Eâ—â—icatia gratiae pendeat a libero influxu Arbitrij Neg. Christus Diuinae iustitiae vice nostra propriâ— integre satiffecerit Aff. Ipse actus fidei 〈◊〉 credere imputetur nobis in institiam sensu proprio Neg. All these recited testimonies of this my famous Mother Vniuersity who hath constantly bent her selfe against Arminius and his Followers together with the late conuinction of one Brookes a yong vngrounded Diuine before her Heads for broaching some Arminian Tenents in a Sermon at Saint Maries doe vndoubtedly proue our Anti-Arminian Assertions thus constantly defended professed and resolued by her chiefe Professors the vnquaeâ—tionable and receiued Doctrines of our Church That which both our Vniuersities haue constantly embraced professed patronized since the reformation to this preseÌ„t must needs be the ancient receiued and vndoubted Doctrine of our Church But both our Vniuersities haue euer from the beginning of Reformation to this present euen constantly embraced professed and protected our Anti-Arminian positions but oppugned their Arminian opposites this the present with the praecedent and subsequent euidences will infallibly demonstrate Therefore they must needs be the ancient receiued and vndoubted doctrine of our Church My 3. Euidence is the expresse confession of three reuerend Diuines of speciall note and credit in our Church The first of them is famous Doctor Whitakers who informeth vs in his last Sermon That the Church of England euer since the Ghospell was restored to 〈◊〉 hath alwayes held and embraced this opinion of Election and Reprobation which he there and we here maintaines This Bucer saith he in our Vniuersity this Peter Martyr at Oxford haue professed two eminent Diuines who haue most abundantly watered our Church with their streames in the dayes of King Edward whose memories shall be alwayes honourable among vs vnlesse we will be most vngratefull This opinion their Auditors in both our Vniuersities the Byshops Deanes and other Diuines who vpon the aduancement of our famous Queene Elizabeth to the Crowne returned either from exile or were released from the prisons into which they had beene thrust for the profession of the Ghospell or saued from the hands of persecuting Bishops those by whom our Church was reformed our Religion established Popery thrust out and quite destroyed all which we may remember though few of this kinde be yet liuing This opinion I say they themselues haue held and commended vnto vs in this faith haue they liued in this they dyed in this they alwayes wished that wee should constantly continue And shall wee then renounce this Opinion or quaestion whether it be the Doctrine of our Church or no Lastly I appeale saith he to our confession in which I am perswaded the same Doctrine which I haue this day handled is not obscurely deliuered not only because all our Articles were composed by the Disciples of Bucer and Martyr but euen out of the very words and meaning of the Confession and so he proceeds to proue his Doctrine to be warranted by our 17. Article by 5. seuerall Arguments The second Witnesse is Reuerend Bishop Carlton in his Examination of Master Mountagues Appeale cap. 2. where he writes thus The Church of England was reformed by the helpe of our learned and Reuerend Bishops in the dayes of King Edward the sixt and in the beginning of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth They who then gaue that forme of reformation to our Church held consent in Doctrine with Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer being by authority appointed Readers in the two Vniuersities and with other then liuing whom they Iudged to be of best learning and soundnesse in the reformed Churches and of the Ancients especially with St. Augustine and were carefull to hold this Vnity amongst themselues and with the reformed Churches For that these worthy Bishops who were in the first reformation had this respect vnto P. Martyr and M. Bucer it is apparent both because the Doctrine of our Church doth not differ from the Doctrine that these taught and because that worthy Arch-Bishop Cranmer caused our Leiturgy to be Translated into Latine and craued the consent and iudgement of M. Bucer who gaue a full consent thereto as it appeareth in his workes Inter opera Anglicana And P. Martyr being likewise requested writeth in his Epistles touching that matter his iudgement and consent of the gouerment and discipline of our Church This vniformity of Doctrine was held in our Church without disturbance as long as those worthy Bishops liued who were employed in the reformation For albeit the Puritanes disquieted out Church about their conceiued Discipline yet they neuer mooued any quarrell against the Doctrine of our Church which is well to be obserued For if they had embraced any Doctrine which the Church of England denied they would assuredly haue quarrelled about that aswell as they did about the Discipline But it was then the open confession both of the Bishops and of the Puritanes that both parts embraced a mutuall consent in Doctrine onely the difference was in matter of inconformity Then hitherto there was no Puritane Doctrine knowne The first disturbers of this vniformity in Doctrine were Barret and Baroe in Cambridge and after them Thompson â—arret and Baroe began this breach in the time of that most Reuerend Prelate Arch-Bishop Whitgift Notwithstanding that these had attempted to disturbe the Doctrine of our Church yet was the vniformity of Doctrine still maintained For when our Church was disquieted by Barret and Baro the Bishops that then were in our Church examined the new Doctrine of these men and vtterly disliked and reiected it And in the point of Predestination confirmed that which they vnderstood to bee the Doctrine of the Church of England against Barret and Baro who oppugned that Doctrine This was fully declared by both the Arch-Bishops Whitgift of Canterbury and Hutton of Yorke with the other Bishops and learned men of both Prouinces who repressed Barret and Baro refuted their Doctrine and iustified the contrary as appeareth by that Booke which both the Arch-Bishops then compiled The same Doctrine which the Bishops then maintained was at diuers times after approued as in the Conference at Hampton Court as will be hereafter confirmed And againe it was confirmed in Ireland in the Articles of Religion in the time of our late Soueraigne Articulo 38. The Author of the