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A11078	Testis veritatis the doctrine [brace] of King Iames our late soueraigne of famous memory, of the Church of England, of the Catholicke Church : [brace] plainely shewed to bee one in the points of [brace] pradestination, free-will, certaintie of saluation [brace] : with a discouery of the grounds [brace] naturall, politicke [brace] of Arminianisme / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1626 (1626)	STC 21347.3; ESTC S4449	57,093	98

the earnest which they now receiue they are as certaine of it as if they were already crowned and reigning c. Bernard saith who is iust but he that returneth loue to God who hath loued him which is done when the Spirit by Faith REVEALETH to a man the eternall PVRPOSE of GOD concerning his FVTVRE SALVATION Dr. Reynoldes was a man indifferently well esteemed by some for his learning in the place where he liued and not accused by any that I knew for not being orthodoxe in any point of the Doctrine of our Church Yet Salomons saying is true That the Race is not to the swift c neither is fauour stil to men of skill wherfore as when a Countrey-Gentleman would borrow money in this Citie though his estate be neuer so great in the Countrey yet commonly hee must hauea Citizen bound for him that is knowne to the Cittie so since Doctor Reynoldes though well knowne for his learning in the place where he liued yet perchance may faile to haue trust among some men I must take leaue to get a surety for him euen one that is liuing and whose wordes I thinke will be taken in the Citie The man whome I produce to giue his word for Dr. Reynoldes is Doctor Francis White Deane of Carlile I haue already indeede produced him for a witnesse but now I produce him for a surety yea since he can here be a witnesse also let him be both a witnesse and a surety First therefore I take him as a witnesse of Perseuerance in that which I formerly cited out of him That our Tenet concerning Praedestination is no other then what Saint Austen and his Schollers maintained against the Pelagians Now it may plainly appeare by diuers of Saint Austens workes that the Praedestination taught by Saint Austen gaue to the praedestinaite an infallible perseuerance a perseuerance by which a Saint could not but perseuere And that I may not send away my Reader presently to reade or buy the workes of Saint Austen let him but looke backe to the allegation of Doctor Fulke and there he shall plainly see that which here I tell him so that thence will arise a plaine Argument The Tenet of our Church concerning Praedesti nation is the Doctrine of Saint Austen But the Doctrine of Saint Austen teacheth a Praedestination that giues a sure and infallible Perseuerance Therefore the Tenet of our Church teacheth a Praedestination that giues a sure and infallible Perseuerance Neither may aman dare to meddle with any thing but the Conclusion for the former proposition is guarded by Doctor White and the second by Saint Austin and Doctor Fulke But Doctor White comes somewhat nearer and RePly to Fisher. Proues that A member of Christ and the Catholicke Church in the Creede which consists of the true members of Christ can neuer fall away vnto damnation and therefore must needs be possessed of finall perseuerance That Church or the Catholicke Church in the Creede hath the remission of sinnes and life eternall and passeth not to Hell Ioh. 10. 28. Aug. de Doctr Christi lib. 3. cap. 32. Againe The testimonies of St. Austen obiected by the same Aduersary which are that the Catholicke Church is the Body of Christ whereof he is the Head and that out of this Body the holy Ghost quickneth no man make altogether against himselfe For none are vitall Members of Christs mysticall Body but Iust and Holy persons And it is the same Fathers Doctrine Impii non suntreuera corpus Christi wicked persons are not in Deed Veritie the Body of Christ. And in another place In corpore Christi non sunt quod est Ecclesia quoniam non potest Christus habere membra damnata They are not in Christs Body because Christ CANNOT haue DAMNABLE members Thus are Christs members sure of Salvation because safe from damnation they cannot be damned therefore they must be saved and I thinke that they will not deny that finall perseverance is an inseparable companion of Salvation And now wee come to another place in the same worke which though it begin in Witnessing yet it ends in Suretiship It that is still The Catholicke Church in the Creede is the Church builded upon the Rocke against which the gates of Hell shall not preuaile either by Herisie Tentation or Mortall sinne Matt. 16. 18. Matt. 7. 24 And if it bee a meere fancie to hold this then Gregory the great with many ancient Father were fantasticks for teaching in this manner Which to make good there are many citations adioyned Aug de Ci●…it Dei lib 20. cap 8. Nunquam ab illo ecclesia sed vcetur praedestinata electa ante constitutionem mundi Origin Trac 1 Mat Vnumquodque peccatorum c. portae sunt Inferorum Vna Inferorum porta vocatur scortatio C●…mmultae sunt neque recenceri numero possint Inferorum portae nulla porta Inferorum valet aduersus petram aut Ecclesiam quam Christus super illam aedificat Gregor Morall lib. 28. cap. 6 Sanctam Ecclesiā de Sanctis in aternum perman suris constructam nullis huius vitae persecutionibus superandam Ipse super quem ●…dificata est euidenter ostendit cum ait Port●… Inferi non praeualebunt aduersus eam Ambr in Luc lib. 2. cap. 3. Bern in Cant serm 7●… Dr. Raynold de Script Eccles. Thess. 4 confirme the same at large Thus are we referred to Doct. Reynolds by this learned man and therefore we may safely passe on to see what hee sayes Neither is this Reference meerely generall and learge but punctuall to this very poynt of the finall Perseuerance of the Saints A more generall commendation hee hath besides of this same worke when he sayes The aduersaries haue made no Reply to Doctor Reynoldes Theses Neither are any endued with sanctification but those whome God hath Elected that they should bee Saints And to true Sanctification Iustification concurreth But God Iustifieth onely the Elect and Iustifiing Faith by which the Hearts are purified is the Faith of the Elect of God The wicked are not beeleeuers in the Apostolicall vse of that word For whosoeuer beeleeueth shall bee saued and the end of Faith is the saluation of the soule And howsoeuer they may bee called beeleeuers for a profession of faith or for a temporary Faith yet they are not redeemed as those which are grounded on Christ For those that are Redeemed are made Kings and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God which is the Pr●…per prerogatiue of Saints And they that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did vp on Christ haue built houses grounded vpon the Ro●… which shall neuer fall Thes. 4. which is the very same wherevnto D White referred the Reader The 〈◊〉 Doctrine of Finall perseuerance 〈◊〉 againe confirmed in the Apologie of these Thes●… Master Hooker As Christ being raised from the dead dyeth no more death hath no more power ouer him so the iustified man be ing allyed to God in Iesus Christ our Lord doth as necessarily from that time

Sanct. cap. 14. search the workes of those who before this Haerisie viz. of Pelagius arose had no necessitie to busie themselues in this question so difficult to bee resolued which yet surely they would haue done if they had beene enforced to answer this kinde of men Yet he also sheweth that this Doctrine was euer at least impliedly in the faith of the Church Let him say that the Church had not at all times De bono perseuer cap. 23. in her Faith the truth of this Praedestination and Grace which now with more diligent care is defended against the new Haeretickes let him I say affirme this that dares to say that shee did not at all times pray or that she did not sincerely pray both that vnbeleeuers might beleeue or that beleeuers might perseuere His owne opinion is to be found in many of his works wherefore I onely produce one or two places for patternes De his quibus poenam seueritas iusta decreuerat c. Out of those to whom the seueritie of Iustice adjudgeth De praedest gra cap. 13. punishment according to the vnexpressible Mercy of his secret dispensation he chose out vessels which he might fit vnto Honour both deliuering some from wrath to come by a free calling and leauing other to the sentence of Iustice. Miseretur scilicet magna bonitate c. Hee hath Enchirid. al Laurent cap. 99. Mercie with Goodnesse hee hardneth without iniustice so that he that is freed may not boast of his merits neither he that is damned may complaine of any thing but his merits For Grace alone differenceth the Redeemed from the Lost whom one common cause deriued from the roote had vnited together in one masse of destruction Praedestinationem Dei nullus Catholicus c. The Praedestination Prosper ad capit Gall. capit 1. of God no Catholicke doth deny Now the faith of Praedestination is established by manifold authorities of the holy Scriptures yet vnto it it is not lawfull to ascribe any of the sinnes of men who came to their pronenesse vnto sinne not by Gods creation but by their first Fathers transgression From the punishment whereof no man is freed but only by the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ prepared and Praedestinated in the eternall counsell of God before the foundation of the world Piâ constantique doctrinâ abundanter probauit Auggustinus Id. ad excerpt Genis Resp. ad Dub. 9. c. Augustine by a godly and constant Doctrine abundantly proued that Praedestination was to be preached to the Church in which Praedestination is the preparation of Grace and Grace is to be preached in which is the effect of Praedestination and the fore-knowledge of God wherein hee fore-knewe before all ages on whom he would conferre his gifts Of which preaching whosoeuer is an impugner he is a most open defender of Pelagian pride Imò nouerunt non solùm Romanam c. They know Prosper ad Ruffin that not only the Romane and Africane Church and all the sonnes of promise through all the parts of the world doe agree with the Doctrine of this man Augustine as in the whole Faith so in the confession of Grace In his Epistle to Possessor a bishop of Africke seeking Homesda Bishop of Rome counsell of him concerning the reading of the bookes of Faustus That the Catholike Church doth maintaine the Doctrine of Saint Austine and particularly name his writing to Hillarius and Prosper in which the Doctrine of Free Praedestination is maintained and defended Haec si ita sunt vt haeretici iactitant c. If things Petrus Diaconus de incar gra Christi goe so as the Heretickes boast then haue they comprehended the vnsearchable and incomprehensible iudgements of God c. And the Scriptures deceaues vs which saith that the iudgements of God are incomprehensible But we beleeuing them to be incomprehensible doe affirme that out of one masse of perdition some are saued by the goodnesse and grace of God and others are forsaken by his most iust and secret Iudgement Deus qui hominem condidit c. God who made man Fulgentius de Incar gra in fine by his Praedestination fore-appointed to whom hee would giue the gift of illumination to beleeue and the gift of perseuerance to profit and persist and the gift of glorification to raigne who no otherwayes performed in Deed than he hath ordained in his vnchangeable Will The truth of which Praedestination by which the Apostle witnesseth that we are Praedestinated in Christ before the foundations of the world if any man refuse to receaue with the beleife of the heart or to speake with the confession of his mouth if before the last day of this present life hee doe not cast off the stubbornesse of his error whereby he rebelleth against the true and liuing God it is plaine that hee doth not pertaine to their number whom God in Christ freely chose and Praedestinated before the foundation of the world Nemo ergo perscrutari appetat c. Let no man bee Gregory the great Moral in Iob lib. 29. cap. 15. earnest to search why one is chosen when another is reiected or why one is reiected when another is chosen because the face of the deepe is couered and Saint Paul himselfe witnesseth that his iudgements are vnsearchable and his wayes past finding out There is a two fold Praedestination either of the Isidore Hispalensis Seut lib. 2. cap. 6 Elect vnto rest or of the Reprobate vnto death Both are done by the iudgement of God so that hee euer causeth the Elect to follow heauenly and inward things and by forsaking the Reprobate he suffereth them to follow earthly and outward things Beda expoundeth the ninth to the Romanes in the sense and sentences of Saint Austin and therefore concurreth in the same Doctrine of Praedestination Praedestinatio non solùm bo norum est c. Praedestination Anselme de Concor praesc pradest is not only of good but it may be said also of euill as God is said to doe the euill which hee doth not because he permits it For he is said to harden a man when he doth not soften him and to lead into tentation when he doth not deliuer Therefore it is not vnfit that hee should thus Praedestinate while he doth not amend euill men nor their euill deeds But yet he is said more specially to foreknow good things because in them he makes that they be and that they be good but in the euill things he makes but their being not the euill of their being Nonergo ideo misertus est Deus c. God did not Idem in Rom. 9. take mercie on Iacob because hee willed and runned but therefore Iacob willed and runned because God had mercie on him Let it be sufficient for thee who yet liuest by Faith and not seeing perfectly but knowing only in part to know and beleeue that God doth saue none but