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world_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	4,002	5	11.2412	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35885	The salvation of Protestants asserted and defended in opposition to the rash and uncharitable sentence of their eternal damnation pronounc'd against them by the Romish Church / by J.H. Dalhusius ... ; newly done into English.	Dalhusius, Johannes H. (Johannes Hermanus)	1689 (1689)	Wing D132; ESTC R1473	51,117	84

and Circumscrib'd 'T is true I acknowledg a certain Sacramental Presence in the Eucharist but different from that which Thomas has invented not Physical and Real but Moral and Significative which is agreeable to the Being and Nature of the Sacrament as also Super-physical and Real through Faith in Vertue and Operation which does not require a Physical and Real Presence in the Substance either of the Person or of the Thing Joh. 8. 56. 1 Cor. 10. 3 4. As we are undeservedly accus'd of Blasphemy against the Omnipotency so are the Accusations that follow meer Calumnies invented to inflame a hatred against us yet the main Pillars to support the most learned Mr. Prior's Damnation of our Souls It is a Capital Crime This and highly deserving to be immediately rank'd next to the former For in the next place you assert Mr. Prior that we teach That God is the Author of Sin whence you infer that the Devil is our God and that the Reformed go about to recal from Orcus the long since buried Heresies of the Florinians and Manichaeans Nay the Calumny was carried so high that Becanus the Jesuite in his Manual Controv. propounds this Question Whether God be the Author of Sin as one of those which are controverted at this day between You and Us. And tho' we deny'd it and complain'd of the Injury done us wishing Anathema's to all that teach That God is the Author of Sin yet the Imputation continues and our Adversaries would fain persuade us that we believe otherwise then really we do As Mercurie in Plautus would have persuaded Sosias that he was not the same Person he took himself to be However do but turn over the Confessions of Faith the Forms of Consent the Public Catechisms of our Church and try whether you can find in them any thing that ●avours in the least of that Impiety Come to our holy Assemblies vouchsafe to hear our Sermons and try whether you can find any such thing there nay whether we do not openly and professedly teach the contrary as often as occasion offers So far are our Churches from this Blasphemy that they expresly and in formal Terms reject this Proposition That God is the Author of Sin Confess Gal. Art. 8. Belg. Art. 13. They who lay this to our Charge acknowledg that it is Affirm'd by none of us only by certain Consequences they would Wire-draw it from some Sentences of our Doctors acknowledging nevertheless that Zuinglius Martyr Calvin and Beza whom you have charged as guilty of this Crime expresly and in formal Terms have condemn'd that impious Axiom in their Writings and whose Testimonies also your Doctors produce as is to be seen in Bellarmin de amiss grat l. 2. c. 2. and in Becanus after him l. 3. Manual Cont. l. 3. c. 5. quaest 6. § 4. Nay Calvin himself against whom nevertheless you have the greatest Peek is acknowledg'd by your Doctors to have most effectually confuted the same Impiety against the Libertines that upheld it Truly since the Romanists at this day will not allow that to be an Axiom of Faith which is not to be found literally in Scripture but is only deduc'd from a certain kind of Consequence That which is not cannot be that they should justly attribute to some of ours this Assertion That God is the Author of Sin because it seems to be consequentially deduc'd from some of their Sayings seeing it is not only any where expresly Extant in any of their Writings but is also expresly in plain words refuted and rejected by the same Authors So that if every one ought to be the Interpreter of his own words we are rather to believe our own Authors as to their Sense then their Adversaries who do not condemn them for what they have said but with envious Eyes industriously search and prie into their Writings to find out Flaws and Pretences of rejecting and condemning them Ours therefore are desirous to maintain that all the Works of God were known to him from Eternity Act. 15. 18. that nothing lyes conceal'd from him and that nothing happens in the World without some secret Dispen sation of his That he is not what Epicurus dream'd him to be a slothful Spectator of those things which are transacted in the World but that his Eternal Providence sits at the Helm and that he steers and governs the Ship as he pleases himself In him we have our Being live and move as St. Paul teaches us Act. 17. 28. Also that our Sins and Transgressions of his Law are subjected to the Government of his most secret Counsels as Poysons may be wholsomly and profitably administred by a prudent Physitian and as the Sun-beams diffuse themselves over Mud and penetrate rotten Carkasses without being defiled That God often punishes Sins by Sins and that not only the Hearts of Kings are in his hands as Solomon tells us Prov. 21. 1. but universally of all Mankind like a stream of Waters so that he may incline them which way he pleases Lastly after a wonderful and most ineffable manner as St. Austin speaks Enchirid. c. 120. That what is done contrary to his Will is not always done without his Will because it could not be done if he did not permit it neither does he permit against his Will but voluntarily As he is Good he would not permit Evils to be done unless as he is Omnipotent he could bring Good out of Evil. Now tho' some of ours desirous to explain themselves concerning these most constant and perpetual Truths have made use of some Expressions somewhat harsh they are not therefore presently to be condemn'd much less are others to fasten upon them whatever may be squeez'd from their Sayings by certain violent and malitious Consequences But what Sayings of our Divines will you Romanists produce to give credit to your Calumnies the like to which I will not shew you in Scripture Joseph Gen 20. 50. said to his Brethren That the same evil which they had contriv'd against him God had contriv'd for the best to the preservation of a mighty People that is to say Divine Providence concurring with their Theft and making use of it to a wholsom end The Lord himself testifies Exod. 10. 1. That he exasperated and harden'd the heart of Pharaoh and his Servants tho' Moses had wrought all his Miracles in the midst of them By Nathan 2 Sam. 12. 11 12. he declar'd to David That he would stir up evil against him out of his own house and that he would cause his Wives to be ravished before his face and deliver them to his Servants who should lye with them in the open Sun adding also these words Thou didst this secretly but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the Sun. Such like Expressions are to be met with Isai 6. 10. and 63. 17. Act. 4. 27. Rom. 1. 24. And would I be prolix I could demonstrate that there has been nothing said by Ours in this Matter but