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A01181	Articles agreed on in the nationall synode of the Reformed Churches of France, held at Charenton neere Paris, in the moneth of September, 1623 Which the same ordaineth to be inuiolably kept in all the churches and vniversities of that realme.; Articles arrestez au Synode national. English	Eglises réformées de France. Synode national (1623 : Charenton-le-Pont)	1623 (1623)	STC 11295; ESTC S117189	22,438	38

the waies of the Lord which are therefore prepar'd that walking therein they may retaine the certainty of their perseverance for feare least abusing his fatherly kindnes Gods favourable countenance the contemplation whereof is sweeter to the faithful then life and the privation more bitter then death turne not againe from them and so they fall into more grievous afflictions of minde XIIII And as it hath pleased God to beginne in vs by his Grace this his work by the preaching of the Gospel even so he preserues continues and accomplishes it by the hearing reading exhortations threatnings and promises of the same Gospell as also by the vse of the Sacraments XV. This doctrine of the perseverance of the truely faithfull holy of the certainty thereof which God hath most abundantly revealed in his word to the glory of his owne name and to the consolation of godly soules and which he imprints in the hearts of the faithful is such That the flesh truely comprehends it not Satan hates it the world laughes at it the ignorant and hypocrits abuse it and the erroneous fight against it But yet so it is That the Spouse of lesus Christ hath alway most ardently loved it and mainetained it constantly as a treasure of inestimable value which God also will see that it shall continue to doe against whom no counsell nor force can prevaile To which God alone the Father Sonne and holy Ghost be honour and glory forever and ever Amen A reiection of Errours The true doctrine being thus expounded the Synode rejecteth the errours of those I. VVHo teach that the persenerance of the truly faithful is not an effect of electiō or a gift of God purchased by the death of Iesus Christ But that it is a condition of the new covenant which man before his election and peremptory Iustification as they call it ought to accomplish by his owne free will For the holy scripture testifieth That it commeth from election and that it is given the Elect by vertue of the death resurrection and intercession of Iesus Christ Rom. 11.7 The Election hath obtained it and the rest are hardened Againe Rom. 8.31.32.33.34 He which spared not his own Son but delivered him vp for vs all how shall he not giue vs also all things with him Who will bring in any accusation against the elect of God It is God that ●●stifies who shall condemne It is Christ that is dead and that more is which is raised againe who also is at the right hand of God and who himselfe maketh request for vs. Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ Shall oppression or anguish or persecution or famine 〈◊〉 nakednesse or perill or sword Nay in al these things we are more then conquerours by him that hath loved vs c. II. Who teach that God indeed provides the faithful mā of sufficient strength to persevere and that he is ready to preserue it in him if he doth his duety Neverthelesse that all things being put which are necessary for perseverance in faith and the which God will imploy for the preservation of it It stil dependeth on the freedome of mans will to persevere or not to persevere For this sentence containes in it manifest Pelagianisme and whiles it goes about to make men free it makes them sacrilegious contrary to the perpetuall consent of the doctrine of the Gospel which taketh away from man all matter of boasting and attributes the praise of this benefit to the divine grace alone And contrary to the Apostle testifying 1. Cor. 1.8 That God also will establish vs even vntill the end that we may bee vnblameable in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ III. Who teach that the truly faithful regenerat not only may fall wholly finally from iustifying faith from grace salvation but that oftentimes they doe indeed fall perish everlastingly For this opinion annulleth not only the grace of justification and regeneration but also the perpetuall preservation of Iesus Christ Contrary to the expresse words of the Apostle S. Paul Rom. 5.9.10 If Christ dyed for vs then when we were but sinners much rather then being now iustified in his blood shall we be saved from the wrath by him And contrary to the Apostle S. Iohn 1. Ioh. 3.9 Whosoever is borne of God doth no sin For the seed of Him remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is borne of God Also contrary to the words of Iesus Christ Ioh. 10.28.29 And I giue them eternal life they shall never perish Also none shall snatch them out of my hand my Father who hath given them vnto me is greater then all no man is able to snatch them out of the hands of my Father IIII. Who teach That the truely faithfull and regenerate may sin the sin vnto death that is to say the sin against the holy Ghost Forasmuch as the Apostle S. Iohn chap. 5. of his first after he had in the 16. and 17. verses made mention of those who sin vnto death and forbidden to pray for them presently addes in the 18. verse We know that whosoever is borne of God sinneth not to wit this kinde of sin But he that is borne of God keepeth himselfe and the Evill one toucheth him not V. Who teach that in this life one can haue no certainty of perseverance for the time to come without speciall revelation For by this doctrine the faithfull are depriu'd of the most solide consolatiō which they can haue during this life the doubtfulnesse and wavering opinions of the Romane Church are brought in againe But the holy Scripture draweth every where this certainety not from any speciall and extraordinary revelation but from the proper markes of the children of God and from his most sure promises aboue all the Apostle S. Paul Rom. 8.38 No creature shall be able to separate vs frō the loue of God which hee hath shewed vs in Iesus Christ our Lord 1. Ioh. 3.24 He which keepeth his commandements abideth in him and He in him hereby know we that he abideth in vs to weet by the spirit which he hath given vnto vs. VI. Who teach that the doctrine touching the certainety of perseverance salvation is naturally of it selfe a coushion of the flesh and hurtfull to piety good manners prayers and other holy exercises but on the cōtrary that it is a laudable thing to doubt For such men declare that they are ignorant of the efficacie of divine grace and of the operation of the holy Spirit dwelling in the Elect and contradict the Apostle S. Iohn who in expresse words saith the quite contrary 1. Ioh. 3. ver 2 dearely beloved we are now the children of God but what wee shall bee doth not yet appeare but we know that after that he shall haue appear'd we shall be like vnto him for we shall see him as he is Further more they are convinced by the examples of the Saints as wel in the Old as New Testament who albeit they were assured of their perseverance salvation did notwithstanding continue the dayly vse of praiers and other exercises of pietie VII Who teach that there is no difference betweene a temporall faith and that which iustifieth and saveth saue onely in continuance For Iesus Christ himselfe Mat. 13.20 Luk. 8.13 and in the verses following doth manifestly o●serue three other differences betweene those that belieue for a time and those that are truely faithfull when he saith that those for●●●ceiue the seed into stonie ground these into good ground or into a good heart that those haue no root these haue a firme root that those beare no fruit these bring forth their fruit in diverse and sundry measures constantly and continuingly VIII Who teach That it is no absurdity that the first regeneration being extinct a man should be borne againe the second yea often times For by this doctrine they denie the incorruptibility of the seed of God whereby we are borne againe contrary to the testimony of the Apostle S. Peter 1 Pet. 1.23 being borne a new not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible IX Who teach that Iesus Christ prayed no where for the infallible perseverance of the faithfull in faith For they contradict Iesus Christ himselfe who saith Luk. 22.32 I haue prayed for thee Peter that thy faith faile not And the Gospel of S. Iohn which witnesseth Ioh. 17.11 That Iesus Christ pray'd not onely for the Apostles but also for all those that should belieue through their word Holy Father keepe them in thy name and verse 15 I pray not that thou wouldest take them out of the world but that thou wouldest keepe them from evill FINIS

God doth not effectually aide mans wil to be converted before the wil of man mooue and determinate it selfe For the Ancient Church condemned this doctrine in the Pelagians long agoe by the Apostle Rom. 9.16 It is neither of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God who sheweth mercy and 1. Cor. 4.7 Who puts a difference betwixt thee and another and what hast thou that thou hast not received Againe Phil. 2.13 It is God which produceth in vs with efficacie both to wil to performe according to his good pleasure CHAP. IIII. Of the perseverance of the Saints The first Article THose whome God according to his purpose and decree calls to the communion of his Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ and regenerates by his holy Spirit he delivers from the dominion and thraldome of Sinne but not altogether from the flesh and body of Sinne during this life II. Whence it is that we see dayly so many sins of Infirmity and that the best workes of the Saints haue their blemishes Which continually furnishes them with matter of humbling themselues before God of having recourse to Iesus Christ crucified of mortifying the flesh more and more by the Spirit of prayer and by holy exercises of piety of sighing after and vehemently desiring full perfection vntill being disimpestred of this body of sinne they reigne in heaven with the Lambe of God III. By reason of these reliques of sin dwelling in vs and the temptation of Satan and the world those which are converted could not persist in this grace if they were left to their owne strength But God is faithfull who mercifully confirmes them in the grace which he hath once given them and mightily conserues them to the end IIII. Now albeit this power of God fortifying and conserving the truely faithfull in his Grace be too great to be overcome of the flesh yet they that are cōverted are not alway so conducted and mooved by God but that they may by their own fault turne aside in some particular actions from the conduct of Grace be seduced by the lusts of the flesh to obey them VVherefore it behoveth they watch alwaies and pray that they be not ledd into temptation which if they do not they not only may be carryed away of the flesh the world and of Sathan into sinnes yea grievous and feareful finnes but some times they are so carried away by the iust permission of God As the dolefull fals of David Peter and other holy persons mentioned in the Scripture doe sufficiently prooue V. Meane-while by such sinnes they grievously offend God make themselues guilty of death grieue the holy spirit interrupt the course of the exercise of faith most fearefully wound their consciences loose for a while the sense of Grace vntill Gods fatherly visage shine vpon them a new when by earnest repentance they returne againe into the right way VI. For God who is rich in mercy according to the vnchāgeable purpose of Election withdrawes not vtterly the Holie Spirit from those that are his no not in their grievous fals nor suffers them to fall so farre as to loose the grace of adoption and the state of justification or to commit the sin vnto death or that against the Holy Ghost and so being vtterly forsaken of him to cast themselues headlong into everlasting perdition VII For in these fals God first conserues in them this his immortal seed whereby they are regenerated that it be not lost or wholy reiected Then he renewes them truely and effectually by his VVord and Spirit to the end that they repent and be grieved at heart and according to God for their sins that with a contrite and broken heart they desire and obtaine remission in the bloud of the Mediatour by saith that they feele againe the grace of God reconcil'd vnto them that they adore his mercies and faithfulnes that for the future they more carefully worke out their salvation with feare and trembling VIII So then it is not by their merits nor strength but by the free mercy of God that they doe not wholy loose faith and grace nor continue and perish finally in their fals which not only might easily come to passe but would also doubtlesse in respect of themselues but in respect of God it cannot possibly be forasmuch as his counsaile cannot change nor his promise faile nor the calling according to purpose be revoked nor the merit intercession and preservation of Iesus Christ be annulled nor the seale of the holy spirit be made vaine or abolished IX Touching this preservation of the Elect vnto salvation the perseverance of the truely faithfull in faith the faithfull themselues may be and are assured according to the measure of faith whereby they belieue for most certaine that they are and ever shall continue true liuely members of the church and that they haue the remission of all their sins and life everlasting X. And therefore this certainety growes not from any particular revelation over and aboue beside the word but proceeds from faith in Gods promises which hee hath most abundantly revealed in his word for our consolation from the testimonie of the holy spirit who beares witnes with our spirit that we are the children of God heires Rom. 8.16.17 Finally from an earnest and holy study of a good conscience and of good workes And if the elect of God were destitute in the present world of this solid consolation that they shall obtaine the victorie and of this infallible earnest of eternall glory they were then of all men most miserable XI Meane while the scripture testifieth that the faithfull during this life are to fight against divers doubts of the flesh and that then when they are afflicted with grievous temptations they doe not alway feele in themselues this ful consolation of faith and this certainety of perseverance but God the father of all consolation suffers thē not to be tempted beyond their strength but with the temptation giveth such an issue that they are able to abide it 1. Cor. 10.13 And by the holy spirit doth againe awaken in them the certainety of perseverance XII Now so farre is it that this certainety of perseverance should make the truely faithfull prowd and plunge them into carnall securitie that rather it is the true roote of humilitie of filiall reverence of true piety of patience in all conflicts combats of ardent praiers of constancie vnder the crosse and in the confession of the truth and lastly of solid ioy in God so that the consideration of this benefit is to them a spurre to incite them vnto a serious and continual exercise of thankfulnesse and good works as appeareth by the testimonies of the Scripture and by the examples of the Saints XIII Also when the assurance of perseverance begins to reviue in them that are raised from some fall it begets not in them a carelesnesse or neglect of piety but rather a farre greater care heedfully to obserue