A14096:169
The doctrine of the synod of Dort and Arles, reduced to the practise With…
The doctrine of the synod of Dort and Arles, reduced to the practise With a consideration thereof, and representation with what sobriety it proceeds.
Amsterdam : Successors to G. Thorp, 1631?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE TREATISE, Consisting of three parts. › Part 1 › Section 3: The third Section.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, I am of Austins opinion, that the Gospel may be preached to many a reprobate, ut proficiant ad majorem vitae emendationem, quo mitius puniantur. Then again I see no reason why we should conceive that in every congregation where the Gospel is preached, the most part of them should be supposed to be reprobates; Nay I see no cause why we should despair of any in orthodox congregations; albeit the most part of them, to whom the Gospel is preached, are reprobates. For consider, how many various sects there are amongst Christians, some of them, if not most of them, maintaining dangerous, yea damnable heresies.
Agayne, I am of Austins opinion, that the Gospell may be preached to many a reprobate, ut proficiant ad majorem vitae emendationem, quo mitius puniantur. Then agayne I see no reason why we should conceave that in every congregation where the Gospell is preached, the most part of them should be supposed to be reprobates; Nay I see no cause why we should despayre of any in orthodoxe congregations; albeit the most part of them, to whom the Gospell is preached, are reprobates. For consider, how many various sects there are amongst Christians, some of them, if not most of them, maynteyning dangerous, yea damnable heresies.
Christians in Egypt, and in the Empire of the Abyssines, are all of them Coptites, joining circumcision with the Gospel of Christ; And S. Paul hath confessed to the Galatians: If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Then there are Nestorians and Armenians in the East.
Christians in Aegypt, and in the Empire of the Abyssines, are all of them Coptites, joyning circumcision with the Gospell of Christ; And S. Paul hath confessed to the Galathians: If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing. Then there are Nestorians and Armenians in the East.