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Theomachia autexousiastikē
Theomachia autexousiastikē: or, A display of Arminianism. Being a discovery of the old Pelagian idol free-will, with the new goddess contingency, advancing themselves, into the throne of the God of heaven to the prejudice of his grace, providence, and supreme dominion over the children of men. Wherein the main errors of the Arminians are laid open, by which they are fallen off from the received doctrine of all the reformed churches, with their opposition in divers particulars to the doctrine established in the Church of England. Discovered out of their own writings and confessions, and confuted by the Word of God. / By John Owen, Master of Arts of Queens College in Oxon.Theomachia autexousiastikē: or, A display of Arminianisme. Being a discovery of the old Pelagian idol free-will, with the new goddesse contingency, advancing themselves, into the throne of the God of heaven to the prejudice of his grace, providence, and supreme dominion over the children of men. Wherein the maine errors of the Arminians are laid open, by which they are fallen off from the received doctrine of all the reformed churches, with their opposition in divers particulars to the doctrine established in the Church of England. Discovered out of their owne writings and confessions, and confuted by the Word of God. / By Iohn Owen, Master of Arts of Queens Colledge in Oxon.
London: printed by I.L. for Phil. Stephens, 1643
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and also a restraint of those graces, to them only, that are so predestinate: Now the inference from this, is, not only for the form Logical, but for the matter also, it containeth the very words of Scripture, faith is of Gods elect: Titus 1. 1.
and also a restraint of those graces, to them onely, that are so predestinate: Now the inference from this, is, not onely for the forme Logicall, but for the matter also, it containeth the very words of Scripture, faith is of Gods elect: Titus 1. 1.
For the other part of the proposition, that faith and obedience are the fruits of election, they cannot be more peremptory in its denial, then the Scripture is plentiful in its confirmation: He hath chosen us in Christ, that we should be holy, Ephes. 1. 4. not because we were holy, but that we should be so: holiness whereof ⟨p. 66⟩faith is the root, and obedience the body, is that whereunto, and not for which we are elected: the end, and the meritorious cause, of any one act cannot be the same, they have divers respects, and require repugnant conditions: again we are predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ: vers. 5. adoption is that whereby we are assumed into the family of God, when before we are foreigners, aliens, strangers, a far off, which we see is a fruit of our predestination, though it be the very entrance, into that estate, wherein we begin first to please God in the least measure: of the same nature, are all those places of holy writ which speak of Gods giving some unto Christ, of Christs sheep hearing his voice, and of others not hearing, because they are not of his sheep: all which, and divers other invincible reasons I willingly omit: with sundry other false assertions, and heretical positions, of the Arminians about this fundamental Article, of our Religion, concluding this Chapter with the following scheme.