The riches of Gods love unto the vessels of mercy, consistent with his absolute…The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute…

When at the first, Motion was made for his surrogation into the place of Junius being deceased, then the suspicions of his Heterodox breaking forth, and they of Amsterdam not well liking to let him go from them, amongst whom at that time, he exercised his Ministry; and that because they observed his luxuriant and novelizing Wit, which was like to breed dangerous effects in an University: at length upon the great instance both of Utenbogard and Arminius himself, way was made for him unto the Chair, upon condition he should confer with Gomarus upon some chief heads of Doctrine, and by a round declaration of his mind thereon, remove all suspicion of Heterodoxy, having formerly by a solemn Protestation given his word, that in case he had any singular opinion of his own, he would not spread it. Hereupon he made open profession, that he condemned the chief Pelagian opinions concerning grace natural, the strength of Free-will, Original sin, the perfection of man in this life, and Predestination, and that he approved all those disputes, which Austin and other Fathers had written against them; and that in his judgement the Pelagian errors were rightly refuted by those Fathers, and withal promised, that he would teach nothing that differed from the received Doctrine of the Churches; and hereupon he was admitted to a Professors place in the University. In the beginning whereof he laboured by all means to quench all suspicion of Heterodoxy in himself, and maintained the doctrine of the Reformed Churches, De satisfactione Christi, de Fide justificante, de justificatione per fidem, de Perseverantiâ verè fidelium, de Certitudine salutis, de Perfectione hominis in hac vitâ &c. all which he afterwards contradicted, as also did his Followers. This I say, he then at the first maintained publicly, contrà sententiam suam (which let every man judge, whether it be not as much as to say, against his own Conscience) and Corvinus is alleged as in a certain Writing of his set forth in Low-Dutch ingeniously professing as much, Praefat, in Synod. Dordracen, Authoritate Ordinum Fol. 2. p. 1. But after he had been a year or two in the place, he begins to unmask ⟨p. 81⟩himself, and by his Public Lectures, and chiefly by his dealing with his Scholars in private, his heterodoxy discovered it self.

When at the first, Motion was made for his surrogation into the place of Iunius beind deceased, then the suspicions of his Heterodox breaking forth, and they of Amsterdam not well likeing to let him goe from them, amongst whom at that time, he exercised his Ministry; and that because they observed his luxuriant and novelizing Wit, which was like to breed dangerous effects in an University: at length upon the great instance both of Utenbogard and Arminius himselfe, way was made for him unto the Chayre, upon condition he should conferre with Gomarus upon some chief heads of Doctrine, and by a round declaration of his mind thereon, remove all suspicion of Heterodoxy, having formerly by a solemne Protestation given his word, that in case he had any singular opinion of his own, he would not spread it. Hereupon he made open profession, that he condemned the chiefe Pelagian opinions concerning grace naturall, the strength of Free-will, Originall sinne, the perfection of man in this life, and Predestination, and that he approved all those disputes, which Austin and other Fathers had written against them; and that in his judgement the Pelagian errours were rightly refuted by those Fathers, and withall promised, that he would teach nothing that differed from the received Doctrine of the Churches; and hereupon he was admitted to a Professors place in the University. In the beginning whereof he laboured by all means to quench all suspicion of Heterodoxy in himselfe, and maintained the doctrine of the Reformed Churches, De satisfactione Christi, de Fide justificante, de justificatione per fidem, de Perseverantiâ verè fidelium, de Certitudine salutis, de Perfectione hominis in hac vitâ &c. all which he afterwards contradicted, as also did his Followers. This I say, he then at the first maintained publiquely, contrà sententiam suam (which let every man judge, whether it be not as much as to say, against his own Conscience) and Corvinus is alleaged as in a certain Writing of his set forth in Low-Dutch ingeniously professing as much, Praefat, in Synod. Dordracen, Authoritate Ordinum Fol. 2. p. 1. But after he had been a yeare or two in the place, he begins to unmaske