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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75616	Armilla catechetica. A chain of principles; or, An orderly concatenation of theological aphorismes and exercitations; wherein, the chief heads of Christian religion are asserted and improved: by John Arrowsmith, D.D. late master both of St Johns and Trinity-Colledge successively, and Regius professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Published since his death according to his own manuscript allowed by himself in his life time under his own hand.	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3772; Thomason E1007_1; ESTC R207935	193,137	525

Coloss 1. 21. tels the Colossians yea the carnal minde or the wisdome of the flesh as he speaks to the Romans is enmity against Roman 8. 7. God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be whence it is that one or other of the great Masters of Reason as they would be accounted although they be not unwilling to yield an independant Sovereignty and Arbitrary working to some men as in the Eastern parts of the world most do to their absolute Monarchs as at this day and the Romane Senate did of old to Augustus Cesar witness Dion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion Cass Roman hist lib. 53. p. 516. in ant edit Graec. Lat. Cassius in his history The Senate saith he freed him from all the necessity of law so as he might do or not do what he list as having both himself and the law at his disposal yet out of their deep enmity and malignity against God deny him the like prerogative and will therefore be always found opposing his Decrees and those most that are most Arbitrary This hath been the root of that notorious piece of opposition in labouring that the decrees of God should be wholly silenced and either not studied or if studied not disputed or if disputed not preached of Some such there were in Austins time against whom he bends his discourse in the 14 15 and 16. Chapters of his book De Bono Perseverantiae And some there are at this day that ranck the points of Predestination among Fruitless and Sapless Speculations Holy Bucer was of a far different judgement He in one of his first Lectures S●●h●●jus Electionis memoria meditatio nobis auferretur Bone Deus quomode resisteremus Diabole Quoties enim Diabolus tentat fidem nostram nunquam autem non tentat tunc sempe● ad Electionem est nobis recurreadum at Cambridge upon the epistle to the Ephesians after published by Tremellius Si hujus electionis c. If the memory and meditation of Gods election were taken from us good Lord how should we resist the Devil For so often as Satan tempts my faith which he is ever tempting of then do I always betake my self to free election c. A little after he asserts the doctrine of election as a principle ground not of solid comfort onely but of solid piety and of true love to God in which regards he would by● all means have it preached in coetu fidelium in the open congregation Verily this famous University is likely to continue famous so long as it continueth orthodox We may expect to share in the Apostles benediction and hope that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of the Spirit will be with us so long as we teach to the praise of the glory of free grace the love of God in electing freely what persons he will the grace of Christ in dying freely and with a special intention for those whom the Father had elected and the communication of the Spirit in freely converting and finally preserving those whom the father had so chosen and the Son so died for Sure I am our blessed Saviour once said to his Disciples In this Luke 10. 20. rejoyce that your names are written in heaven and that nothing doth more inflame a Christians love then a firm belief of his personal election from eternity after he hath been able to evidence the writing of his name in heaven by the experience he hath had of an heavenly calling and an heavenly conversation When the Spirit of God whose proper work it is to assure as it was the Fathers to elect and the Sons to redeem hath written the law of life in a Christians heart and therewith enabled him to know assuredly that his name is written in the book of life he cannot then but melt with flames of holy affection according to that most emphatical speech of Bernard Amat ille non immeritò qui amat●● est sine merito Amat sine ●ine qui sine principio se cognoscit amatum Bern. epist 107. God deserveth love from such as he hath loved long before they could deserve it And his love to God will be without end who knoweth that Gods love to him was without any beginning I confess indeed that the book of life like the tree of life in paradise hath a tree of knowledge growing hard by which cannot with safety be tasted of There are some nice and needless questions started about it that might be spared and should be forborn But these high walls and sons of Anak should by no means prevail with us to play the unworthy spies and bring up a bad report or give way to any brought up by others upon a land that floweth with so much milk and honey as the doctrine of predestination doth Surely for men to silence it were to stop up those wels which the Prophets and Apostles especially Paul Exerc. 4. have digged in their writings for the refreshing of thirsty souls yea to endeavour the cancelling of that first and great charter of our salvation EXERCITATION 4. Creation what Pythagoras and Trismegist Hebr. 6. 3. opened Scripture-Philosophy Ex nihilo nihil fit how true Creature what Gods goodness in works of creation particularly in the framing of Adam The consultation upon which pattern after which parts of which he framed Two histories one of a Priest the other of a Monk The original of body and soul improved § 1. THe word Creation hath divers acceptions It is taken either largely for the production of any thing remarkably good or evil so magistrates in a Common-wealth and Graduates in an Universitie are said to be created God is said to create a clean Psal 51. 52. Eph●● 2. 20. heart and we are called his workmanship oreated in Christ unto good works and for evil Moses in Numbers speaking of the remarkable judgement inflicted on Kora● and his complices useth this expression Si creationem creaverit Deus if God created a creature the radix is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or limitedly with some restraint and that either strictly for the generation of living creatures in a natural way so in Horace Fortes creantur ●ortibus bonis and in Virgil Sulmone creatos quatuor h●c juvenes Whence also procreare or more strictly for the making of a thing out of some praeexistent matter but such as is naturally indisposed and unapt for that production whereas in generation there is always materia habilis disposita as when God created man of the dust of the earth and woman of mans rib or most strictly for the production of a thing without any praeexistent matter at all out of mere nothing we are to speak of it in the two latter senses for so it belongeth to God alone Thus Is● 44. 24. saith the Lord thy Redeemer and he that formed thee from the womb I am the Lord that maketh