A90293:196
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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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, saith David, Psal. 51. 5.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquitie, and in sinne did my mother conceive me, saith David, Psal. 51. 5.
Where for the praise of Gods goodness towards him, he begins with the confession of his native perverseness, and of the sin wherein he was wrapped before he was born: neither was this peculiar to him alone, he had it not, from the particular iniquity of his next progenitors, but by an ordinary propagation from the common parent of us all: though in some of us, Satan by this Pelagian attempt; by hiding the disease hath made it almost incurable: for even those infants, of whose innocency the Arminians boast, are unclean in the verdict of Saint Paul, 1 Cor. 7. 14. if not sanctified by an interest in the Promise of the Covenant, and no unclean thing shall enter into the kingdom of heaven:d The weakness of the members of infants is innocent, and not their souls: they want nothing, but that the members of their bodies are not as yet ready instruments of sin: they are not sinful only by an external denomination, accounted so, because of the imputation of Adams actual transgression unto them: for they have all an uncleanness in them by nature, Job 14. 4. from which they must be cleansed, by the washing of water and the word, Ephes. 5. 20. their whole nature is overspread with such a pollution, as is proper only to sin inherent, and doth not accompany sin imputed, as we may see in the example of our Saviour, who was pure, immaculate, holy, undefiled, and yet the iniquity of us all was imputed unto him: hence are those phrases of washing away sin,