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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36871	The history of the English and Scotch presbytery wherein is discovered their designs and practices for the subversion of government in church and state / written in French, by an eminent divine of the Reformed church, and now Englished.; Historie des nouveaux presbytériens anglois et escossois. English	Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.; Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.; Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.; Playford, Matthew.	1660 (1660)	Wing D2586; ESTC R17146	174,910	286

some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subject to the Law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that beléeve and are baptized yet the Apostle doth confesse that concup●scence and lust hath of it self the nature of sinne X. THe condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and good works to faith and calling upon God Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Christ preventing us that we ma● have a good will and working with us when we have that good will XI WE are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ by faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are notified by faith onely is a most wholesome Doctrine and very full of comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Iustification XII ALbeit that good works which are the fruits of faith and follow after Iustification cannot put away our sinnes and endure the severity of Gods ●udgement yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ and do ●pring out necessarily of a tru● and ● holy faith in so much that by them a lively ●aith may be as evidently knowen as a ●ree discerned by the ●●utt XIII WOrks 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 receive grace or as the School-Authors say deserve grace of congruity yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they have the nature of sinne XIV VOluntary Works besides over and above Gods Commandments which they call works of Sup●rer●gation cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety For by them men do declare that they do not onely render unto God as much as they are bound to do but that they do more for his sake then of bounden duty is required Wheras Christ saith plainly When ye have done all that are commanded to you say We are unprofitable servants XV. CHrist in the truth of our nature was made like unto us in all things sinne onely except from which he was clearly void both in his flesh and in his Spirit He came to be a Lamb without spot who by sacrifice of himself once made should take away the sinnes of the world and sinne as Saint Iohn saith was not in him But all we the rest although baptized and born again in Christ yet offend in many things and if we say we have no sinne we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us XVI NOt every deadly sinne willingly committed after Baptisme is sinne against the holy Ghost and impardonable Wherefore the grant of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sinne after Baptisme After we have received the holy Ghost we may depart from grace given and fall into sinne and by the grace of God we may arise again and amend our lives And therefore they are to be condemned which say they can no more sinne as long as they live here to deny the place of forgivenesse to such as truly repent XVII PRedestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were laid he hath constan●ly ●ec●éed by his counsel secret to us to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honour Wherefore they which be indued 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 be iustified freely they be made Sons of God by adoption they be made like the Image of his onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ they walk rel●giously in good works and at leng●h by Gods mercy they attain to everlasting felicity As the godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternall salvation to be enjoyed through Christ as because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God So for curious and carnall persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to have continually before their eyes the sentence of Gods predestination is a most dangerous down fall whereby the devil doth thrust them either into desparation or into retchlessenesse of most unclean living no lesse perilous then desparation Furthermore we must receive Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expresly declared unto us in the Word of God XVIII THey also are to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall be saved by the Law or sect which he professeth so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saved XIX THe visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithfull men in the which the pure Word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duely minister according to Christs Ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same As the Church of Hierusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred So also the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their living and manner of ceremonies but also in matters of faith XX. THe Church hath power to decr●e Rites or Ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith And yet it is not lawfull for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to Gods Word written neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another Wherefore although the Church be a witnesse and a keeper of holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to inforce any thing to be beléeved for necessity of salvation XXI GEnerall Councels may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may erre and sometime have erred even in things pertaining unto God Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority unlesse it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture XXII THe Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory Pardons worshiping