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A41142	Wilfull impenitency, the grossest selfe-murder all they who are guilty of it, apprehended, tryed and condemned in these sermons, preached at Rochford in Essex not long before his death / by ... Mr. William Fenner ...	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1648 (1648)	Wing F712; ESTC R14613	82,808	158

the Author of this following Treatise blessed be the Father of mercy the Fountaine of every good and perfect gift for his and many others fruitfull labours who may condescend to parley with poore Christians at their Tables in their Shops to follow them at the plow as Reverend Mr. Greenham was wont to doe endeavouring to rectifie and reduce them He knew how to deale wisely with subtile adversaries that he might have the more advantage against them grants them as much as he could with consistency to his owne principles that so he might the more easily confound theirs Onely you will be so candid as to consider that herein hee speakes ad populum And therefore as the ancient Fathers often useth the liberty of speaking like a Preacher rather then as a Doctor of the Chaire I reckon this a very strong argument to confute the power of Free-will to any spirituall action in a gratious manner the wofull experience of mine owne wretched heart being naturally so desperately wicked opposite to any spirituall good But this will not convince others onely by the way I would know how it comes to passe if Arminius Doctrine bee true that we have Free-will to choose that which is truly good why Arminians are not all very good men Will not this bee an aggravation against them at the dreadfull day of judgement Therefore the Lord is most admirably gratious in giving us such Masters of the Assemblies to fasten such Scripture truths as may hold us fast and close under the Covenant of Grace He was a blessing to the Colledge where he was fellow of Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge which hath bin a fruitfull nurcery to this Church and an ornament to the University and after a burning and shining light in Staffordshire He delighted much in preaching in an Evangelicall way from place to place as pitying many poore pining seduced soules under blinde and superstitious Ministers The Lord fill their hearts with compassion to them who have power in their hands to supply them that so millions do not perish for want of vision Afterwards the noble Earle of Warwick fixed him at Rochford in Essex where hee did speake and doe great things to the honour of Free Grace Hee lived there more by acting vigorously to his great Lord and Master Jesus Christ in a fewe Yeares then most of us his Brethren doe in many O that we who are left behinde in these conflicting times could more punctually and closely follow his example Jt is not studying the groundlesse fopperies of Popery nor the immersing our minds wholy into some dry disputes concerning some externalls and formes about Religion as too many do now a dayes being engaged in a party that will spiritualize us or our hearts so much as Studying and Preaching over the Covenant of Grace The mysterious and Heavenly secrets of the Gospell rightly opened and wisely applyed will by Gods blessing breed a Gospell spirit in thee leave a gratious tincture upon the spirits of Teachers and Hearers whereas possibly for want of this there may be a legall tartnesse and severity in the Spirits and Tongues of able and good men The gratious and powerfull Lord who onely teacheth to profit annoynt all his Saints with that holy unction that they may be able to discerne of things that differ clearely to distinguish betwixt truth and error And that he may to this and other happy purposes blesse abundantly this savourly acute and solid Treatise shall be the earnest Prayer of him Who is thine in and for the Lord Jesus THOMAS HILL A Table of the Contents THe reason why the wicked do not repent nor come out of their sins is not because they cannot though they cannot but because they will not Page 8. 7 Demonstrations to prove it The wicked think they have power to repent but will not do according to their thoughts ibid They will not try whether they can repent or no p. 9 They refuse the helpe which God offers them p. 10 They will not use the power which God hath given them p. 11 They grow worse by the meanes afforded them p. 13 Their Cannot is voluntary p. 14 They are content with their cannot p. 15 The first ground of the Doctrine Every man can do more good then he doth and shun more evill then he doth p. 17 This appeares by these following considerations If a man can do no more then he doth nothing can hindes him but his will ibid. If a man can do no more then he does and yet will not he must needs voluntarily hinder himselfe from doing that which he cannot p. 18 Jf a man will not do that he can neither will bee that which he cannot if he could p. 19 If a man 〈◊〉 ●ot do that he can can or can-not all is one to him all sticks at his will p. 20 If a man will not doe that which he can this will make a mans conscience when it comes to speake in sober sadnesse thanke himselfe for his perishing p. 21 Arguments to prove the first Ground p. 22 Because God doth complaine against the wicked for the voluntary doing no more good then they doe ibid. Because otherwise there were no room for prayse nor dispraise p. 23 Because there would be no roome for the Sword of the Magistrate p. 24 Because though a carnall man cannot put off the old man yet it is not his nature to commit this sin at this time and in this manner ibid. A wicked man can do more good c. Because a godly regenerate man may avoide more sin then he doth p. 25 The ground further proved by Particulars The will hath dominion over all the outward acts of the members p. 26 Every man hath naturall affections in hine by which he may doe more then he doth and shun more evill then he doth p. 27 God hath given to every man naturall counsell and naturall Reason and Prudence p. 30 That is first in order which is naturall and afterwards that which is spirituall and if a man stick there he sticks at a will-not p. 31 The second Ground Every wicked man is slothfull and negligent p. 34 Five demonstrations to prove it Every wicked man doth imagine more cannots then then there be p. 35. He makes every little difficulty a cannot when as nothing but an impossibility is a cannot p 36. A slothful man turns his very abilities into cannots 37. p He doth voluntarily naile himself unto cannots p. 38 He putteth forth by halves that power which he hath p. 39 There is more in a wicked man then by reason of sluggishnesse he putteth forth p. 40 Six Arguments to prove this It a signe it is in him p. 40 Because when God doth convert a sinner he doth not put in new powers and faculties into the soule

making the world guiltlesse before God I had thought to have sent it to my Lord of Warwicke for his subcisive howers and if you judge it profitable after your perusall of it to commit it unto him from me you shall do well J am sory to hear of such a worthies sicknesse or weaknes Now Elisha the man of God was fallen sick The very words are able to strike through The Lord lend you health and strength peace and comfort and joy it is not only a matter of courtesy to pray for such as you are but of debt our very necessities duties call for it and mine more especially The Lord be mercifull to me and to many in raysing you up and make you plenus dierum and serus in coelum redire that 's all the hurt that I wish you And so I commend you to the word of his power that is able to keep you and rest Yours in the Lord Jesus WILLIAM FENNER To the Christian Reader who desireth to hold fast the forme of sound words in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus and to advance Free-Grace above Free-will MOst admirably wise and fatherly hath been the Lords care of his Churches in all ages and when there were false Prophets under the old Testament the Lord had his Jeremiahs to confute them whom he made a defenced City an Iron pillar and brazen wals against all opposition When the devill stirred up Hymmeneus Philetus and others to undermine the truths of the Gospel in the times of the new Testament the Lord raysed and accomplished his Pauls to confound them also You shall finde when the Churches of Christ are in a wildernesse condition and the serpent casts out of his mouth waters as a floud after the woman that is multitudes of unsound and Hereticall opinions the earth helped the woman and opened her mouth and swallowed the floud which the Dragon cast out of his mouth that is Jesus Christ had those here that did encounter and overthrow all false Doctrine with which the devill by his Agents endeavoured to poyson and destroy the Churches Besides the foure generall councels namely that of Nice when Arrius a Presbyter of Alexandria denying that the Son of God was consubstantiall with the Father and that there was a time when he was not was confuted and truth obtained a victory there God stirring up many learned men to oppose him And in the second that of Constantinople when there was a Macedonius who called the Holy Ghost a creature many were able by the power of truth to confound him And the third when a Nestorius who denyed that the Virgin Mary could be called the Mother of God providence ordered it so that then a councell of learned Bishops and Elders at Ephesus should blast that opinion And when an Eutiches who in a different way from Nestorius who denyed the personall Vnion of the two Natures in Christ would have the humane Nature so swallowed up by the immensity of the Divine nature in Christ that there was onely the Divine Nature in him another councell at Calcedon overthrew him God had variety of champions to contest with the most subtill and prevailing adversaries from hand to hand particularly when there was Manes Manichaei who rejected the old Testament and affirmed that man fell not by voluntary defection but of necessity because mans body was made of the prince of darknesse wherewith Austin was levened before his conversion The Lord had Chrysostome and others to hinder the spreading and prevayling of it When there was an Arrius who denyed the Divinity of Christ there should be an Athanasius raysed to overthrow him When a Macedonius to oppose the holy Ghost then a Basil to break him When a Pelagius to advance Free-will into the Throne of Free-Grace then God would rayse up an Austine that great light of the Church in his time to depose that and to restore this to its crown and dignity This Pelagius was borne in Britan the same day that Austin in Affrick he was the first presumptuous advancer of the pride of Free Will He did not thinke the grace of God to be necessary for the helping of Free Will for good things in every act This was condemned in the councell of Carthage wherein indeed to save himselfe he did aequivocate in the word grace acknowledging a naturall an exciting and after conversion an Assisting grace This Doctrine was likewise condemned in the Synod of Palestina 1200 Years agoe and therin Arminianisme kil'd before it was borne by the strength of that place 2 Tim. 1.9 This Pelagius had his Scholers Julianus and Caelestinus Iesus Christ would not then leave Austin without some Disciples to conflict with those as Chrysostome had his Oecumenius and Theophylact his Pedissequi his followers so was there a Prosper and Hilary Arelatensis to encounter the old M●ssilians and Semi-pelagians in France And when there was a Faustus Regiensis a most subtill adversary A Bishop who did closely defend Pelagianisme in two Bookes of Free-Will The Church should have a Fulgentius and Petrus Diaconus and others to oppose him Yea sentence was then given against Pelagius and Semi-pelagians in the councell of O●ange In the general that their opinions touching free-wil and free-grace were not agreeable to the Catholique faith Further about the yeare 850 one Johannes Scotus not he which wrote upon the Sentences with so much opposition against Thomas Aquinas but an other wrote a Booke against Praedestination which the Church of Leyden confuted with a godly and learned book When Godescalcus a man of the Low-Countries is reckoned in the number of this age about the yeare of our Lord 849. Because he spake of Predestination perilously to wit That those who were predestinated to Life by the decree of Gods predestination were forced to do well and those who were predestinated to condemnation were forced by the decree of God to do evil was resisted by Hincmarus and other learned men This infectious errour Pelagianisme spread into England where it was apt to take the deeper rooting because Pelagius himselfe by Birth was a Britaine But the Lord raysed learned Bradwardine Arch bishop of Canterbury and some others ●o appear in the cause of God and of Free-grace and to fortify the Churches against all Pelagians whom Augustine calls Inimicos gratiae dei and Fulgentius vasa irae dei Afterwards the subtilty of the Serpent insinuated himselfe into the Garden of the Church by the wit and learning of Faustus Socinus another Infaustus Faustus in Poland They who have opportunity to consult Socinus bookes de Ministerio and the Catechismus Cracoviensis a most subtill and dangerous booke shall finde there the seeds of Arminianisme their Helena there to be conceived however Molina and other Popish Authors contend as once the seven Cities did whose Homer was their Media Scientia They will grant a Divina