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The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…
The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the Church of Scotland ... by Samuel Rutherfurd ...
London: printed by E. Griffin for Richard Whittaker and Andrew Crook, 1644
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and to think otherwise of our supernatural actions, is gross Arminianism, for so all who have written against Arminians as the learned Doctor Twice, Amesius, Pareus, Triglandius, have expounded that passage (It is God who worketh in us both to will and to do) so Calvin, Beza, Sibrandus, Pareus, Ursine, Tilenus, Bucan, make all the operations of saving grace in conversion, and after conversion, irresistible. And it is known how the Dominicans, Alvarez, Estius, Bannes Fran. Cumel, Matthew Rspolis, and many of that side hold a predeterminateing operation of grace ad modum causoe Physicoe, which beginneth before free will, so that no operations supernatural, yea nor natural are suspended upon the liberty of freewill, and they hold against Pelagians, and the Jesuits, Suarez, Vasques, Valentia, Becan, Lod. Meratius, ⟨p. 125⟩Hyeron. Fasolus, Did. Ruiz; and if you suspend all voluntary acts upon the influence of freewill, you follow Pelagians, Jesuits, Socinians, and Arminians in that point. 4. It is true the Disciples were afraid to admit Saul to their society, and no wonder, for he had not long since made havoc of the Church; but. 1. They did not inchurch him by an Oath. 2. They received him upon the sole testimony of Barnabas v. 27. which order you keep not, refusing communion to Christians of approved piety, and known so to you, because they cannot swear your Church covenant. 5. Who they be, who think, to be converted to the faith, and to be added to the visible Church, to be all one I know not; our divines never said it. 6. Though all were granted you, they durst not join to the apostolic visible Church; Ergo, there is a Church covenant, it is a great consequent.
and to thinke otherwayes of our supernaturall actions, is grosse Arminianisme, for so all who have written against Arminians as the learned Doctor Twisse, Amesius, Pareus, Triglandius, have expounded that passage (It is God who worketh in us both to will and to doe) so Calvin, Beza, Sibrandus, Pareus, Ursine, Tilenus, Bucan, make all the operations of saving grace in conversion, and after conversion, irresistible. And it is knowen how the Dominicanes, Alvarez, Estius, Bannes Fran. Cumel, Matthew Rspolis, and many of that side hold a predeterminateing operation of grace ad modum causoe Physicoe, which beginneth before free will, so that no operations supernaturall, yea nor naturall are suspended upon the liberty of freewill, and they hold againsti Pelagianes, and the Jesuites, Snarez, Vasques, Valentia, Becan, Lod. Meratius, ⟨p. 125⟩