Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…

The Antinomians would not have one of their believers, if he fall into the grossest sins, to make the least question of his pardon and Justified state for that. And so is it wi•h the ungodly: They will confess, when they swear, or are drunk, that they sin (because they cannot deny it:) but they w•ll not believe that they are graceless and unpardoned: but all are sinners; and the best have their faults, and so have they: and this is the worst they make of their sin.

The Pelagians say that the will of man is so free, that he can turn and become a new creature at any time. And if this were not the Opinion of the ungodly, how could they put off Conversion, and say, Its time enough hereafter? but that it seems they think they can turn at any time, as if they had the Spirit and Grace of God at their command.

And yet they hold the contrary to this. (And this is no wonder: for there is a very Babel of confusion in the soul of the unsanctified.) The Antinomians say, that man can do nothing to his own conversion, but is merely passive: if God have Justified him before he was born, he shall be a Justified person; and if God will give him grace, well and good; if not, he cannot help it. Just so say many of the ungodly: {If we are elected we shall be saved: If not, let us ⟨p. 64⟩do what we can, we cannot be saved: if God will not give us grace, we cannot have it; and if we perish what remedy?] As if God did deny his Grace to any of you, but those that forfeit it by wilful sin? Or as if your wilful resisting of it were no fault or forfeiture: Or as if God did predestinate any besides the sanctified to salvation.

And yet they hold the contrary to this. (And this is no wonder: for there is a very Babel of confusion in the soul of the unsanctified.) The Antinomians say, that man can do nothing to his own conversion, but is meerly passive: if God have Justified him before he was born, he shall be a Justified person; and if God will give him grace, well and good; if not, he cannot help it. Just so say many of the ungodly: {If we are elected we shall be saved: If not, let us