A14096:26
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?
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5. That they who have once received this grace by faith, can never fall totally or finally, notwithstanding the most enormous sins they can commit.
5. That they who have once receaved this grace by faith, can never fall totally or finally, notwithstanding the most enormous sinns they can committ.
2. That this is the doctrine of the Synods, they who have been, and still are persecuted for refusing to subscribe, have so plainly and sufficiently demonstrated by their public writings, that none of their persecutors durst hitherto undertake to ••fute or answer them; yea, and who are always ready, before impartial judges, to make it good, that the Articles, above mentioned, are to be found in the writings of their chiefest Doctors, even in the self same terms, nay far more scandalous.
2. That this is the doctrine of the Synods, they who have beene, and still are persecuted for ref•sing to subscribe, have so plainly and sufficiently demonstrated by their publique writings, that none of their persecutors durst hitherto undertake to ••fute or answer them; yea, and who are allwayes ready, before impartiall judges, to make it good, that the Articles, above mentioned, are to be found in the writings of their chiefest Doctors, even in the selfe same termes, nay farre more scandalous.
Consid. When the Apostle saith, that Election is not of works, and proveth it by this, that before Esau and Jacob were borne &c. it was said of them, the elder shall serve the younger; Let every sober Reader judge, whether it be not more agreeable to the Apostle, to profess, that election proceeds rather without any regard had to mans faith and obedience, then with any respect thereunto: as also whether by the same reason, which the Apostle useth, it be not apparent, that as election is not of good works, so likewise reprobation is not of evil works.