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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

the places cited for conditional Election and the 2. and 3. Affirmatives of this Article and the reason of the foregoing Negative To which adde Rom. 8. 13. If ye live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 6. 16. His servants ye are to whom ye obey 2 Pet. 2. 19. For of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage John 15. 6. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned Rev. 2. 5. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first works Rev. 3. 2. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die c. verse 15 16. I would thou wert cold or hot c. Judas being one of those whom the Father had given to Christ was lost John 17. 12. He had power over all Devils Luke 9. 1. Yet through covetousness he made way for Satan to enter ●n to his heart Luke 22. 3 4. See Mat. 26. 14 15 It seems that he had some title also to one of those twelve thrones Mat. 19. 28. But he forfeited his interest and never came to sit on it V. They do utterly denie that no sins of the faithful how great and grievous soever they be are imputed unto them or that all their sins present and future are forgiven them The Reason Ezek. 18. 24. When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass and sin shall he die Psal 89. 31 32. 2 Sam. 7. 14. I will visit their iniquitie with rods 2 Sam. 12. 10. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house See Psal 6. 38. 51. 8 9 10. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath thy hand is heavy upon me For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Hide thy face from my sins and blot out altmine iniquities cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me Rev. 2. 4 14. I have somewhat against thee 1 Cor. 11. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly amongst you and many sleep Amos. 3. 2. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities See the reason of the third Negative VI. They do utterly denie that true believers falling into deadly heresies and most heinous sins as adulteries and murders for which the Church according to Christs institution is forced to testifie that she cannot tolerate them in external Communion and that unless they repent they shall have no part in the Kingdome of Heaven cannot notwithstanding fall totally and finally from faith The Reason 1 Chron. 28. 9. If you forsake him he will cast you off for ever Rev. 3. 11. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown 2 ep John vers 8. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have wrought Gal. 3. 4. Have ye suffered so many things in vain Mat. 16. 19. And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdome of Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt binde on earth shall be bound in heaven Heb. 6. 4 5 6. and chap. 10. 26. c. For it is impossible the Laws of the Church permits it not for those who were once inlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the son of God afresh and put him to an open shame So cha 10. 26. c. Wherefore giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity for if you do these things ye shall never fall For so an entrance shall be ministred to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ See the 2. and 3. affirmative and the 1. and 3. Negatives Note These five last Negatives the Remonstrants do reject with their whole heart and soul as enemies to pietie and goodlife Jacobus Arminius in Articulis perpendendis saith as followeth I. THat opinion which denies that true believers can or ever do fall from faith totally and finally was never accounted for Catholick from the times of the Apostles to these our times nor the contrary esteemed heretical yea the affirmative part had ever more for it II. That a believer can be assured without special revelation that he shall not fall from faith And that a believer is bound to believe that he shall not fall from faith are two points which were never accounted for Catholick in the Church of Christ nor was the denial of them ever judged heresy by the Catholick Church III. That perswasion whereby a believer doth certainly perswade himselfe that he cannot or shall not fall from faith serves not so much for comfort against despair as for to breed security directly contrary to that most wholsome feare wherewith we are commanded to work out our salvation and which is very needful in this place of temptation See Heb. 12. 15. Rom. 11. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 12. 1 Thess 5. 3. Heb. 6. 11. Gal. 6. 1. Phil. 2. 13. 1 Pet 1. 17. Rev. 3. 11. Iob 9. 28. 1 Cor. 9. 27. 1 Cor. 4. 4. IV. He that thinks he may fall from faith and thereupon fears lest he should fall therefrom is neither destitute of needful comfort nor tormented with anxiety of minde He that gives comfort and security upon any other terms doth sow pillows as in Ezek. 13. 18. c. See Ierem. 6. 14. Ezek. 13. 10. It being sufficient for comfort and freedome from anxiety to know that he shall not by any power of Satan sin and the world or any affection and infirmity of his own flesh fall from faith unless himself shall willingly of his own accord yield to temptation and neglect conscionably to work out his salvation See Ioh. 10. 28. Rom. 8. 35. to the end 1 Ioh. 5. 18. Jam. 4. 7. Rom. 6. 16. 2 Pet. 2. 19. This doctrine according to the undeniable consequence thereof will uphold the necessity of an industrious duty and the usefulness of a setled Ministery and the peace of a good Conscience And as many as walk according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Gal. 6. 16. The Postscript to the First part TILENUS Thinks fit to give this further account of his design in the foregoing papers He resolved at first onely to give the true state of the questions and nakedly

over our rebellions and yet God hath been pleased out of his unsearchable wisdome and to shew his own dominion and liberty so to order the matter that although the word cannot really promote our spirituall good which is a work far above the spheare of it's power and activity yet receiving it in vain though it be not in our power confessedly to receive it otherwise it will aggravate our condemnation for this cause I think it prudent to avoid the certain danger with the no-probable-good that according to those principles of the Synod will accrew by it Mr. Narrowgrace If you be of that minde we must leave you to the mercy of God and the use of your own praiers which are the only reserve we can commend to your assistance and benefit Tilenus Carnalis Alas Sir you are as much out of the story now as ever for the grace of praier without which the duty will be a vain oblation if not abominable must be derived from the same supernal fountain and we cannot pump it up our selves it comes freely and when it comes it is so impetuous and overflows the soul with such inundations of the spirit that 't is impossible to resist it And since you see me altogether silent to this office you may conclude that this silence begins in heaven and that God will not have me pray in that he denies me his grace to that effect But Sir you do well to take your leave of me for it is evident that God hath not imploy'd you as intending my amendment by your ministery since I find the confusion of your doctrine more apt to furnish a cushion for the secure and areless or a halter for the doubtfull and depairing then any sacred Amulet against the charmes and poison of impicty And yet because when the wheel is once in motion a little strength will be sufficient to continue it and the fire is easily blown up after 't is once kindled therefore you may please to make your third experiment upon Tilenus Tepidus And I am affraid you can produce no argument to quicken his remisness into a more thorow pace of devotion which the dexterous use of that buckler of the Synods doctrine will not be able to put by Let us heare therefore how you will urge him to a further progresse in Pietie Mr. Efficax Do but reflect upon Peter's redoubled exhortation 2 Pet. 1. 4. He supposeth that they had escaped the foul corruption that is in the world through lust And besides this saith he giving all diligence add to your faith virtue c. and vers 10. give diligence to make your calling and election sure Tilenus Tepidus If S. Peter had understood our calling and election in the same sense the Synod understands them in his exhortation had been to little purpose For in that sense 't is as sure already as the wisedome trueth and power of God or the blood of Christ or the seales of the divine decrees can make it The foundation of God standeth sure having this seal The Lord knoweth them that are his 2 Tim. 2. 19. It were arrogance to go about to lay any other foundation and a folly to imagine we are able to fortify it by our indeavours Mr. Simulans But Sir we should make a Conscience of the duty though there were no other necessity of it but necessitas praecepti because 't is the will of Almighty God Tilenus Tepidus I perceive Sir you have forgotten your own distinction though 't is so little while since you used it You told us God hath a two-fold will an outward revealed will and an inward secret will His outward will is signified by his commands but saith Piscator they are not properly God's will for sometimes he nills the fulfilling of them As for example Gen. 22. 2. with 12. He commanded Abraham to offer up Isaac yet he nill'd the execution of it but his secret will is the will of his good pleasure which he hath therefore decreed shall ever come to passe Whereupon one of your Divines concludes there is a kind of holy Simulation in God Vnde percipitur esse simulationem quandam sanctam c. Now whereas you urge me to give all diligence that I may grow in grace if this were the will of Gods Beneplaci ure he would move and impell me indeclinably to effect it but if it be onely his outward will and improperly so called Hee having by an irrevocable Decree predetermin'd my not doing of it though it be outwardly commanded then my not doing his outward will is the performance of his secret will and this being his proper will wherein consists his good pleasure my compliance therewith must needs be the more acceptable especially since to this he affords me his providential concurrence which he denies me towards the accomplishment of the other Mr. Knowlittle We are taught that there are degrees of glory One glory of the Sun another of the Moon and another of the starrs and so there shall be in heaven 1 Cor. 15. Now grant that you are secure as you presume as to the estate of glory yet you should be earnest in your endeavours to capacitate your self for the highest degrees of it Tilenus Tepidus There are some have made a question of those different degrees of glory In the parable every one at the end of the day received his penny as much they that wrought but one houre as they that had born the heat and burden of the day And the righteous shall all shine as the Sun in the kingdom of the Father and every one shall enter into the joy of the Lord which is fulnesse of joy But besides this if a sparrow falleth not to the ground without God's Providence and if the hairs of our heads be all numbred as our Saviour saith they are shall we not think as well that every degree of happinesse and every beam of glory and spark of joy are likewise apportioned and predetermined for all the Elect Dr. Absolute 'T is true the state of eternal bliss as to all the degrees of joy and glory in it is firmly and irreversibly decreed to all the Elect but yet through your remisness and especially if that betrayes you to any wasting sin you may damp your hopes and lose the sense and comfortable apprehension of the influences and effects thereof which you know was David's case Psal 6. O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure Have mercy upon me O LORD for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed My soul is also sore vexed but thou O Lord how long Return O Lord deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake and restore to me the joy of thy salvation Psal 51. For in death there is no remembrance of thee From hence you see there is ground enough for the Apostles exhortation Hebr. 6. 11. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to