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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75582	The just mans defence, or, The royal conquest being the declaration of the judgement of James Arminius, Doctor of Divinity in the University of Leyden, concerning the principall points of religion, before the States of Holland and VVestfriezland / translated for the vindication of truth, by Tobias Conyers, sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.; Declaratio sententiae de predestinatione. English	Arminius, Jacobus, 1560-1609.; Conyers, Tobias, 1628-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing A3700A; ESTC R208013	52,267	187

The Just Mans Defence OR The Royal Conquest BEING The Declaration of the Judgement of James Arminius Doctor and Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden Concerning THE PRINCIPALL POINTS of Religion before the States of Holland and VVestfriezland Translated for the Vindication of Truth by Tobias Conyers sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge Magna est veritas praevalebit LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1657. TO HIS HIGHNESS Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of Great Britain and Ireland Great Sir I Presume the dedication of these papers without any Apologie to your Lordship having been already presented to States and Princes not that your Highness in whom so many princely vertues are constellated stood in need of a translation but that an obvious Dialect might supersede the pains of an Original Traverse and remit unto your Lordship all possible time to satisfie the importunity of those affairs which do publickly solicite you for a dispatch of them Had not the concernments of truth been of greater importance to me then any personal consideration though I am not stupidly insensible I should have been loth my Lord But in as much as the name of Arminians is violently obtruded upon us who beleeve that Christ died for all and tasted death for every man according to the Scriptures whereby our persons are indevoured to be rendered odious and the blessed word of the kingdom in our mouths scandalous and offensive I judged it reasonable to offer the authors judgment to English view not that I desire the Translation of his should be lookt upon as the interpretation of mine being never yet drawn by any inquisitory examinination to a full approbation or dislike of it but that I might put an opportunity into the hands of indifferent men of resolving themselves that Arminius was no such monster in religion as some men have attempted to represent him and that his name stands undeservedly blotted in the Ecclesiastick Rolls of continual obloquie It was a worthy essay of Your Highness upon occasion at Whitehall That it was not so much what a man held but how he held it A religous calenture hath alwaies been a dangerous maladie in the Eye of State-Physitians I am confident the Doctor in this draught of himself will abundantly please you in whom Learning and Ingenuity Piety and Moderation contend together for the mastery and this by the happy ducture of christian Principles which if the like tenderness candour and modesty had been used by the Reformed Churches in Scotland and Geneva they had not given that cause by their faction and disobedience to the Duke of Savoy and other persons of great and lesser quality to complain of them and indevour the extirpatation of their religion Witness those sad Massacres in France that lately in Piemont so fatal to the Hugonets barracado'd from the stroke of justice with their own engines It would not become me to unravell this bottom hoping by the timely interposure of Your Lordships wisdome and goodness with the care and prudence of those noble Patriots about you we may not have ground in things of less alloy to expostulate in our own Country It s well known my Lord what countenance the Scriptures carry with the doctrine of general atonement and how much it looks like the doctrine of the Church of England so we call it and that the major part of the Bishops and Doctors during the Episcopal Hierarchy were deeply babtized thereinto and the late King himself yet did they never discountenance piety and learning in men of the contrary judgment either in Country or University by rendering them uncapable of imployment either Civil or Ecclesiastick or draw them to recant their opinions before their institution and induction into any place witness the credit and promotion of Sibbs Preston Pridjeux Holdsworth Bromrig Love Hall c. Nay great Strafford president of the Court in the North did in the hearing of some persons who are still living testimonies thereof publickly rebuke some Ministers of the Arminian party so called though he himself a great promoter of that interest for bearing themselves high upon court favour and told them it was the will of his master and the Doctors of the Church that all moderation should be used herein The Scoene is altered these pluck't off the stage and your Lordship taken up I should be highly injurious to those many sacred vows and protestations your Highness hath so often made for Christian Liberty should I entertain a thought you would act your part with less tenderness and indulgency than any of those that have had their fatal Exit My Lord You have been a man of War Liberty was that Motto in your Ensign which encouraged the Soldiers of Christ to fight and pray under you for which I make no question victory came so often and lighed upon your banner I beseech you by the mercies of God and by what ever is dear or near unto you that you would not expose us by your authority to the wills of those who are so straitned in their principles as their affections in brotherly toleration are shut up against us likewise but that all your Acts of Grace like the Orders of Heaven issuing out from your great Master may impartially look to the good of all I cannot with the zeal of Arminius petition your Highness for a National Synod and to establish Ecclesiastick Sanctions by civill authority left in have the same event or somwhat An. 1618 1619. worse with the Dort-Conference but salving the honor and consciences of those Gentlemen the commissioners for Approbation of Ministers I must needs think the nature of Orthodox and Heterodox would be better prov'd by a subscription to a known Confession of Faith drawn up in Scripture terms phrases according to which the Preachers of the Gospel might ought to frame and level their judgments and doctrines then by the sudden and extempore resolves to a few unpredimeditated Questions till the present occasion lockt up in the breasts of some particular men And this I am bold to offer to your Lordship not as to one of Machiavells Princes who will not follow Religion too close at the heels or to a Roman Gallio who careth for none of these things but as to a good Josiah whose heart melted at the hearing of the Law and covenanted with his God to take away all the abominations out of all the Countreys that pertained 2 Chron. 34 35. to the Children of Israel That no Pharaoh Necho may come up against you and the people of this Land but that peace and prosperity may attend You and your Name be as apretious oyntment poured out upon the inhabitants of Zion is the unfeigned Prayer of My Lord Your Highness's most humble Servant Tobias Conyers June 5. 1655. To the CHRISTIAN READER IT s the chief intent of the Author as far as I can