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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27157	An antidote against Arminianisme, or, A plain and brief discourse wherein the state of the question in all the five infamous articles of Arminius is set down, and the orthodox tenets confirmed by cleere scripturall grounds by R.B.K.	R. B. K.	1641 (1641)	Wing B156; ESTC R31267	24,771	136

of sober and watchfull faith will admit the contrary voice of any man Another Scripture Rom. 11.5 Even so also at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace and if of grace it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace Here the Reason is given why among the misbelieving obstinate wicked Jews there was a few remnant who did believe and were saved the grace faith salvation of this Remnant is ascribed to their Election as the Cause this Election is affirmed to come alone of Gods Grace and denied to have proceeded of any of their w●rks yea these things are not simply affirmed that the grace and salvation of the remn●nt came from Election that this Election was of grace that it was not of works but farther works and grace in this matter of Election are declared to be incōpatible so that those who make our Election to depend on works or to be posterior in Gods mind to his foreknowledge of our works say what they will they are enemies of the grace of God This place is so cleer that Arminius so long as hee lived durst never ascribe Election to good works as his followers now do yea the Lutherans to this day dare not doe it but the place refutes even that which they say that Election is of Faith albeit not of works clearly enough especially as Arminius expounded Faith for hee made Election and Justification to depend on Faith not as it is an instrument applying Christ but as it is an Evangelicall work which God hath appointed under the Gospell to be a saving quality of it selfe as perfect obedience should have beene under the Law In this sense Faith is a true worke and who denyes Election to be of works denyes it as well to be of Faith which is a work But take Faith as you will this place removes it from Election for it ascribes Election to Gods grace alone excluding Faith works or what ever is in us The clearnesse of this place changed Augustine his minde and delivered him from that Lutheran errour wherein long he lay believing Election to have beene of Faith albeit not of works e Ad hoc perduxi ratiocinationem ut dicere● non ergo elegit Deus opera cujusquam in praescientia sed fidem in praescientia elegit ut quem sibi crediturum esse praesciret ipsum eligeret sed nondum diligentius quaesieram nec adhuc invenerā qualis sit Electio gratiae de qua Apostolus Our third argument from Rom. 8.28 This was the issue of my argumentation that I said God has not chosen any mans works in his foreknowledge but hee has chosen faith in his foreknowledge but I had not at that time diligently enough enquired neither had I yet found what was that Election of Grace of which the Apostle spake A third Scripture is Rom. 8.28 Whom hee did predestinate them hee also called and whom hee c. Here Election is made prior to calling and Justification as they to glorificatiō much more to faith works perseverance which are all posteriour to calling wee must first bee Justified before we can persevere to the end we must first be called by the Word Spirit before we can believe Faith then and works and perseverance are posterior to effectual vocation much more to Election which in this Scripture is set before vocation it selfe yea before all the consequences and effects of vocation The Arminians cannot get away from the grip of this place but by wresting of it pittifully both at Hage Cōference and in the Synod and all their posteriour writs they with a strange impudence avow that Predestination Vocation Justification in this place is no wayes relative either to grace or glory but only to the crosse and affliction of all the malepert Wresters of Scriptures that live this day the Remonstrants are the chief This present subterfuge is Socinus his Invention a wicked Heretick who denyes the merit the power and the true satisfactions of Christs death bloud and so indeed hee hath reason if his grounds be true For with Arrius he spoyls Christ of his Godhead which if hee did want his bloud and death could not be satisfactory for any one sin yet this most pernitious heretick the Arminians think no shame to follow in wresting the present Scripture but to little purpose for the analogie of the whole Scripture the scope of this Text will not let them expound Predestination Calling and Justification as Socinus would if we admit in this place three of their greatest friends of our greatest foes to be Judges Pelagius Arminius Molina From them all wee have testimonies that this place cannot admit Socinus interpretation but I must haste A fourth Scripture is Our fourth argument from Rom. 9.11 Rom. 9.11 For the Children being not yet born neither yet having done any good or evill that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth c. The purpose of God according to Election is understood here of Gods Eternall Predestination as Pelagius and Arminius both in their Commentaries on the place confesse this Election is ascribed only to God who calls all works are excluded because they were none there could be none the persons not yet being borne our Adversaries run here two divers ways from this text Spalato understands works as existing not as future saying that Jacob was elected not for any works which hee had done but for those which hee was to doe which was before God in his prescience This Pelagian subterfuge Augustine treads downe in the first birth f Vestrae caliginis latebra propter quod profecto d sipitis quia dicente veritate non ex operibus sed ex vocante vos dicitis ex futuris operibus quae Deus illum facturum esse praesciebat Iacobum esse dilectum atque ita contradicitis Apostolo dicenti non ex praesentibus operibus sed ex futuris This is the lurking hole of your darknes wherefore truly you erre for the truth saying not of works but of him that calleth you say Jacob was loved for the works which God foresaw he was to doe and so you contradict the Apostle saying not of works as if he could not have said not of works present but for works to come Arminius flies another way granting that Jacobs Election was not of works yet avowing it was of faith this hole Augustine stopped long agoe when the Semipelagians would have been at it g Namquid dixit non ex operi●s sed ex credente prorsus etiam hoc abstulit homini ut totum daret Deo dicens sed ex vocante non quacunque vocatione sed qua vocatione fit credens Did the Apostle say not of works but of him that believeth even this also did the Apostle take from man that hee might give all to God saying but of him that calleth not with every call but by such a