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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70819	Appello evangelium for the true doctrine of the divine predestination concorded with the orthodox doctrine of Gods free-grace and mans free-will / by John Plaifere ... ; hereunto is added Dr. Chr. Potter his owne vindication in a letter to Mr. V. touching the same points.	Plaifere, John, d. 1632.; Potter, Christopher, 1591-1646. Dr. Potter his own vindication of himself.	1651 (1651)	Wing P2419; ESTC R32288	138,799	346

by the interposition of some obstacle that hinders Gods influence of love from comming into the Soule But 't is manifest every mortall finne that is contrary to Gods Commandements is such an obstacle of hindring the foresaid influence because by that very act man chuseth sinne and prefers it before Gods love c. Whereby it followes that presently by one Act of mortall sinne the habit of love is lost 3. My third way to come to the true meaning of our Article was to parallel it with the twelfth of the Augustane Confession c. Art 12. Augustanae Confess Art 16. Anglicanae Confess De poenitentia docent quod lapsis post Baptismum contingere possit remissio peccatorū quocunque tempore cum convertuntur Et quod Ecclesia talibus redeuntibus ad poenitentiam absolutionem impertiri debeat Not every deadly Sin c. is unpardonable wherefore the grant of repentance is not to be denyed to such as fall into Sin after Baptisme Damnant Anabaptistas qui negant semel jnstificatos posse amittere Spiritum Sanctum Item qui contendunt quibusdā tantam perfectionem in hac vita contingere ut peccare non possint Damnantur Novatiani qui nolebant absolvere lapsos post Baptismum redeuntes ad poenitentiam After we have received the holy Ghost we may depart from Grace and fall into sinne c. Therefore they are to be condemned which say they can no more sin as long as they live here or deny place of forgivenesse to such as truly repent What need many words there is nothing more cleare than that this is the Doctrine not onely of the Church of Rome from which our first Reformers desired not to depart but where it had departed from Scripture and Antiquity But also of the Churches of upper Germany and of Denmark with which ours kept most conformity So that the Calvinists are singular and alone in their Opinion Other doctrine of our Church of like nature to this is found in the booke of Homilies especially in that which is intituled Of declining from God in the Table and of Falling from God in the booke Out of the first part whereof I transcribe but this sentence pag. 54. For whereas God hath shewed to all men that truly beleeve his Gospell his face of Mercy in Jesus Christ which doth so lighten their hearts that they if they behold it as they ought to doe bee transformed to his Image be made partakers of the heavenly light and of his holy Spirit and be fashioned to him in all goodnesse requisite to the children of God So if they after doe neglect the same if they be unthankfull unto him if they order not their lives according to his doctrine and example c. He will take away from them his Kingdome his holy word whereby he should riegne in them Out of the second part thereof I transcribe this sentence pag. 57. God will take from them the teaching of his holy word so that they shall be no longer of his Kingdome they shall be no longer governed by his holy Spirit they shall be put from the grace and benefits that they had and ever might have enjoyed through Christ they shall be deprived of the heavenly light and life which they had in Christ whilst they abode in him c. In the second tome in the Homily of Repentance the first part pag. 261 262. there is a full paraphrase upon the 16. Article according to the two parts I made of it too much to write out admitting that we may chance after we be once come to God and be grafted into his Son Jesus Christ to fall into some horrible Sinne and yet be received againe into favour defining that the Sin against the holy Ghost is a finall faling away from Christ that the promises of mercy to them that turne to God Jer. 4. Isay 55. Osee 6. ought to be understood of them that were with the Lord before and by their sinnes and wickednesse were gone away from him that David and Peter were justified yet fell horribly but by repentance were forgiven Lastly the prayers of the Church have ever beene a place from which Arguments have beene drawne thus Against them that say the Regenerate may be perfect without sinne Why then doth our Lord teach them to pray Forgive us our trespasses against them that say they cannot be tempted to evill to be overcome why doth he teach us to say Leade us not into temptation but deliver us from evill So Jerome 2. lib. Contra Iovinianum In like manner I argue if a Beleever cannot finally fall from God why doth our Church pray in the Liturgie at the buriall of the dead O God most mighty suffer us not at our last howre for any paines of death to fall from thee CHAP. XVII Of the Persevering Faith of the Elect. THe second question stated was of the Perseverance of the Elect whether it be without interruption in a perpetuall constancy or happy if it be finall that is what the state of a regenerate man is suppose him one of the Elect though knowne so to God onely under some grievous Sin into which he is fallen untill he repent Here I will first argue ex concessis and then rest in one argument out of the Scripture Our Judicious Divines that were at Dort apprehending well the danger of their Tenent that maintaine the Regenerate sinning to be still actually in the state of Salvation say very much of the evill plight of a regenerate man lapsed so much as I require no more That he is not actually reconciled untill he repent but verily in state of damnation and unapt for to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Yet some things they hold fast that they may not forsake their party altogether That which I object is that the things which they deny cannot stand together with the things they grant 1. They say first Though the Regenerate so sinning be guilty yet they are in the purpose of God to be absolved Ans So they were before they were regenerated or repented or beleeved at all Secondly That they are not dealt withall by God in rigor Ans No more are many reprobates fallen from Faith whom yet God would bring to Repentance by his long-suffering Thirdly That they have not lost jus ad Regnum but usum Juris as a leprous man hath not lost the right of his house but the Vse Ans I understand you well by a similitude but I care not for an Argument out of that place Then belike an Elect person guilty of Murther hath jus ad regnum O Sancte Paule thou speakest too loosely 1 Cor. 6. 9. Gal. 5. 21. Be not deceived I tell you that they which doe such things shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Shall they not inherit that have jus ad regnum that have right to a Kingdome Fourthly They say That their Vniversall Justification is not made void Ans Truly their former absolution from former sins