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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63552	The faith of the Chvrch of England concerning Gods work on mans will pvblikely confirmed by the svbscriptions of all the famous martyrs, and divines thereof : faithfully gathered out of the authenticke records of the Chvrch / by Francis Tayler ...	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing T276; ESTC R10772	33,137	62

be left altogether to his own will and made his owne onely keeper To dreame of attaining to a perfect keeping of Gods law here on earth without a great power in mans will were to set a man quite beyond the Cape of all good hope It is not then an unnecessary labour to play the midwife and to cut this navell-string of free-will and send these Arminian impes abroad into the wide world to cry for foode Vndermining was ever held a more sure and lesse dangerous way to overthrow cities then the tempest of Canons If the foundation of Arminianisme berased by the plaine doctrine of our Church the walles of it must with Dagon fall downe before the Arke The proofes are all upon record The words are therefore set downe least the Adversary should complaine of forgery or the reader be to negligent to search them out himselfe The Lord guide us all to the knowledge of his truth dispell the mists of errors confirme his servants in love and peace on earth and bring us to glory in heaven Thine in Christ Iesus FRANCIS TAYLER Clapham The faith of the Church of England concerning Gods worke on mans will The Preface IN all disputations the first thing to be done is to set out the right state of the question Which if it be misunderstood men fight with their owne shadowes We agree often in words when we differ in the sence Our conclusion that we must drive at throughout the whole worke must be this that God works alwayes powerfully and effectually upon the will of man in the regeneration of a sinnner Nothing is difficult but the terme of effectuall working whereby we doe not understand onely in a generall sence that some effect or other follows upon Gods work nor yet that regeneration follows after Gods worke oftentimes for so it may though it be not an effect of it Neither do we intend that God so takes advantage of the time place affection and disposition of a man that he offers grace to him in such a point of time as he knowes that mans will is inclined to receive it for this were to commend Gods wisdome in regenerating of us but to deny any worke of his power in it and to make regeneration not Gods worke but the worke of mans will Our meaning plainely is that in the worke or regeneration God works so powerfully upon mans will that regeneration infallably followes as an effect of it and that this kind of working powerfully is onely found in such as are elected before and all in whom God works thus are by that powerfull work of his regenerated So that the cause of their regeneration is not any way their own will but Gods powerfull working in them by his spirit Neither doth God work thus in any other but such as prove converts for if he did work so powerfully in others they would have been regenerated also In a word there is a particular powerfull work of Gods Spirit in his elect only whereby they all and onely they are truly regenerate In others there may be illumination and some weak motions to goodnesse in their wills but alwayes in effectuall because they are left to mans will and God doth not so work in them as he doth in his elect Where God powerfully works there regeneration necessarily follows where he doth not there it cannot follow We will reduce all to fourteen heads all which confirme the former conclusion against the power of mans will and demonstrate Gods powerfull work The proofe of each is the words of the records Sometimes we shall make use of the title in some prayers given to God because we doubt not but the wisdome of the Church in her prayers would give such titles to God as were most answerable to the things in those prayers desired of God The conclusion is let the Reader well weigh the heads themselves and the arguments brought to prove them and conclude in his own soule which is the doctrin of the Church of England CHAP. I. Of our own insufficiency WE will begin with our own insufficiency to any good and shew what matter the books allow us to set it out so farre forth as arguments may be taken from thence to prove an effectuall work of God upon the will of man in the work of regeneration Where in generall I observe that the books put no difference in unregenerate men but make all their wills alike dead in sins and trespasses unable to beleeve untill they be quickened by God Which takes away the new Arminian conceit that where the Gospel is preached there is a power given to all that heare it even before regeneration to beleeve if they please by the use of which power some do beleeve others that have as much power will not use it to beleeve in Christ The books that make all alike dead in sins auke to goodnes till they be actually regenerate acknowledge no such difference This is but a trick to avoyd the odious names of naturall power in the will and Pelagianisme It is a monstrous opinion in nature that a thing should have a naturall inbred motion wrought in it before any life be wrought in it so is it in grace that their should be a power wrought in mans will whereby of it own free inclination it should be able to live spiritually or not to live as it list yea which is more absurd be able to move it self in the highest spirituall action that can be before it be actually regenerate or have in it any true spirituall life Now let the words of the book declare mans insufficiency and let every one collect from thence Gods-powerfull operation in mans conversion FAith giveth life to the soule Sermon of good works Part. 1. and they be as much dead to God that lack faith as they be to the world whose bodies lack souls Sinne is come into the world Sermon two of the Passion and so come that it cannot be avoided It cannot be chosen but we must needs fall often That which is born of the Spirit Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 3. is spirit as who should say Man of his own nature is fleshly and carnall corrupt and naught sinfull and disobedient to God without any spark of goodnesse in him without any vertuous or godly motion onely given to wicked thoughts Sermon for Rogat week Part. 1. 2 Cor. 3.5 Sermon of Repentance Part. 1. and evill deeds Paul brings in his beliefe we be not saith he sufficient of our selves as of our selves once to think any thing but all our ablenesse is of Gods goodnesse We must beware and take heed that we do in no wise think in our hearts imagine or beleeve that we are able to repent aright or to turn effectually unto the Lord by our own might and strength Ioh. 15.5 For this must be verified in all men without me ye can do nothing 2 Cor. 3.5 Again of our selves we are not able as much

minds be presented unto thee by Jesus Christ our Lord. Coll. on Purif of virg Mary Gen. confess before receiving the Commu Grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newnesse of life to the honour and glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Conclusion THus have I shewed out of the authentick records of our Church what is the judgement thereof about the power of mans will and Gods effectuall work upon the same in mans regeneration True it is many of these places speak of men already regenerate Which is so farre from weakning the argument that it makes it the stronger For if that man that in the judgement of the Church is alive in grace be so imperfect that he have often need of new and effectuall grace and help of God to go forward how much need had he then of an effectuall work of Gods grace in regenerating him who by the judgement of the same Church was dead in sinnes and trespasses before yea as dead to grace for so are the words of the Homilies as they are to the world that want souls It may be thought superfluous to collect so many testimonies divers whereof differ but in words and agree in sence This have I done because of the weight of the cause and the rather because the publique doctrin of the Church is by some said to be on the other side It may be some few testimonies might have been slighted but such varietie out of so many severall records must needs shew to every indifferent person the constant doctrin of the Church which way it runs It may also stop the mouthes of such as pretend a few seeming and misconceived places to the contrary I might have made a world of Syllogismes if I would have proceeded scholastically But I had rather lay down the naked doctrin of the Church for learned and unlearned to peruse reduced to divers heads all tending to one end and that for the ease and better understanding of the reader If it be said that I have sometimes set down the same words in severall places the answer is at hand I did it for sundry reasons One while the place was fruitfull and out of divers words did afford divers reasons belonging to severall heads Another while the place could not well be understood without coherence so that I was compelled to set down the words precedent though I had made use of them elsewhere Lastly sometimes the words were doubtfull to which head they did belong or rather seemed to me to belong to both and so have I placed them accordingly If any yet object further that the places may admit of another interpretation and may at least some of them so be understood as they may make for the adverse part I answere there are many of them plaine enough that cannot easily be misconstrued Other places must be interpreted by them that are plaine The Scripture it selfe the voyce of our Father is wrested daily to a contrary sence and no marvaile if the voyce of our Mother the Church may be so abused also Let the Reader by that reason and grace that God hath given him endeavour to understand which is the right sense of the words I have added nothing of mine owne save the state of the question at first and the relation that every argument or head hath to the question in the beginning of every Chapter Lesse I could not adde without injury to the cause More I would not least I should be tedious to the Reader or lie more open to the exceptions of such as are otherwise minded who cannot now except against my words without wounding the Church whose words I have faithfully reported Thus I commend the cause to God whose it is and to the Church of God whom it concernes beseeching God so to worke in every member of it by his effectuall grace that we may consent in judgement and agree in affection on earth till we come to perfection in heaven FINIS