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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96833	The examination of Tilenus before the triers; in order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick preacher in the Common-wealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed the tenents of the remonstrants touching those five articles voted, stated and imposed, but not disputed, at the synod of Dort. Together with a short essay (by way of annotations) upon the fundamental theses of Mr. Thomas Parker.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3343; Thomason E1625_1; ESTC R204120	128,806	312

act not ours and so not obedience for he hath no superior much less doth he work it immediately and irresistibly Mr. Efficax The Prophet acknowledgeth that the Lord worketh all our works in us Isa 26. 12. Tilenus If the text were to be read in us there were some small colour for your pretension but in the original it is for us and therefore rejecting the sense which you would put upon the words some understand all the benefits which God had bestowed upon them answerable to the former part of the verse Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou hast wrought c. others understand it of their afflictions and distresses in opposition to that former branch of the verse and agreeable to the verse following other Lords have had dominion over us But if you would have the meaning of that or any other place of Scripture to be this that God doth immediately and irresistibly produce all our spiritual works which are works as well of duty as of grace in us and that he hath tied himself by Covenant and promise so to do as is affirmed by some then it will undeniably follow that God himself being so ingaged ought to believe and repent and pray and do all other necessary good in us as Servetus said the fire burns not the sun shines not bread nourishes not but that God alone doth immediately all these things in his Creatures without having given them such properties and then sure it were fitter for the preacher to direct his admonitions to God alone that he would perform his undertaken work in mens hearts by his omnipotency unto which they may never finde ability to make resistance But the truth is it standeth not with Gods wisdome neither doth he ever use to work upon the will of man after this manner and that for three reasons Mr. Dubius I pray let us hear them clearly from you Tilenus First then though speaking of his absolute power God can compel and necessitate the will of man and so we do not make him stronger then God as is very weakly concluded by some yet he will not because he will not violate that order which he hath set in our Creation He made man after his own image invested him with a reasonable soul having the use of understanding and the freedome of will he indow●d him with a power to consider and deliberate to consult and choose and so by conquence he gave him dominion over himself and his own actions that having made him Lord of the whole world he might not be a slave to himself but imprimis animi sui possessione regnaret might first exercise his soveraigntie in the free possession of his own minde saith Tertullian To force his will were to destroy the nature of his Creature which grace is not designed to do but only to heal and assist it and therefore God deals with manas a free Agent by instructions and commands by promises and threatnings by allurements and reproofes by rewards and punishments So true is the saying of that fathet Nemo invitus fit bonus With this accords the Son of Syrach Ecclus 15. 14. to 17. God made man from the beginning and lefe him in the hand of his Counsel If thou wilt keep the Commandements and perform acceptable faithfulness He hath set fire and water before thee stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wilt Before man is life and death and whether him liketh shall be given him Mr. Knowlittle That text is Apocryphal and therefore will not serve your turn if you produce it to confirm a point of faith Tilenus My second reason shall confirm it out of the authentick Canon and it shall be this viz. because God will have our faith and our repentance and his whole service wherein we ingage our selves to be a work of our own choice as t is said of Mary she had chosen the good part and hereupon our Saviour propounds the quaere John 5. 6. Wilt thou be made whole And so the Prophet Jeremiah before him Jer. 13. and the last O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be God doth not necessitate nor irresistibly determin his people's will but only directs and conjures and assists them to make the best choice Deut. 11. 26. Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse and more fully Chap. 30. verse 15. See I have set before thee this day life and good death and evil and vers 19. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life And this is rendered as the reason of mans rejection Prov. 1. 29. Because ye did not choose the fear of the Lord. Mr. Narrowgrace By this reason you make man to have freewil Tilenus Under favour Sir 't is not I but it was God that made him to have it and he that denies all freedome of will to man deserves no other argument then a whip or a cudgel to consute him Sure the smart would quickly make him finde libertie enough to run from it Our wosul experience tells us we have too much freewil to do evil and Scripture teacheth us plainly that we have libertie in moral things Numb 30. 13. 1 Cor. 7. 36 37. and for the service of God and things spiritual our Saviour Christ saith Iohn 8. 36. If the son shall make you free and he doth so by the ministry of his Gospel Vers 32. yee shall be free indeed and sin shall have no more dominion over you unless ye yield your selves up to the power of it Rom. 6. 14. with the 16. Ioshuah was so well assured hereof that he puts it to the peoples choice Ios 24. 15. which implies their libertie to serve the Lord or other Gods Yet were not they under so great means as we are your self acknowledged even now out of the Philippians that God worketh in us to will and to do which signifies a libertie else it could not signifie an abilitie whereupon St. Paul saith Phil. 4. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am able to do or suffer all things Mr. Narrowgrace The Apostle addeth in that place through Christ strengthening mee for without Christ we can do nothing Iohn 15. Tilenus Nothing spiritual that puts us into possession of Heaven or accompanies salvation but observe 't is not through Christs forcing but through Christ strengthening mee The grace and the abilitie is from Christ but 't is our part and duty to actuate that abilitie and cooperate with that grace and therefore it will be worth your notice to observe that what God promiseth to do himself in one place He commands the very same things to be done by us in another to intimate that although the power of acting be derived from his assistance yet the Act it self as it is a duty depends upon our cooperation Thus Circumcision of the heart is promised as from God Deut. 30. 6.