An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…

Quest. Do the Arminians or Calvinists come nearest to the Doctrine of the Church of England?

Answ. The profound pious and learned Doctor Samuel Ward, that was the La. Margaret's Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, (whose Determinations are set out by the great pains and care of the Right Reverend Seth Lord Bishop of Salisbury) in a Sermon of his Ad Clerum, and dedicated by himself to the University of Cambridge, testifies, That as the whole Church of God ever since St. Austin, so in particular the National Church of England, and the University of Cambridge from the Reformation, and all the Professors, except only one Baro, were against Arminius his Tenets. And this Baro within two years was forced to leave the Chair, by the Power and Authority of Archbishop Whitgift.

Answ. The profound pious and learned Doctor Samuel Ward, that was the La. Margaret's Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, (whose Determinations are set out by the great pains and care of the Right Reverend Seth Lord Bishop of Sarisbury) in a Sermon of his Ad Clerum, and dedicated by himself to the University of Cambridge, testifies, That as the whole Church of God ever since St. Austine, so in particular the National Church of England, and the University of Cambridge from the Reformation, and all the Professors, except onely one Baro, were against Arminius his Tenets. And this Baro within two years was forced to leave the Chair, by the Power and Authority of Archbishop Whitgift.

Illud etiam verè adjicere possum plus uni Augustino jam veterano & in ista causa versatissimo tribuendum esse quàm centùm Corvinis, Grotiis, Vorstiis, Bertiis, Tilenis & id genus, recentioribus Dogmatistis. ⟨p. 145⟩Accedat & illud coronidis loco, Augustino semper ad baesisse, hac ex-parte, Ecclesiam Universalem ab ejus temporibus Ecclesiam item Anglicanam, ab initio Reformationis, &c.