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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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Thirdly, All those places of Scripture, which assert the proneness of our nature to all evil, and the utter disability that is in us to do any good, that wretched opposition to the power of godliness, wherewith from the womb we are replenished, confirms the same truth: but of these places, I shall have occasion to speak hereafter.
Thirdly, All those places of Scripture, which assert the pronnesse of our nature to all evill, and the utter disabilitie that is in us to doe any good, that wretched opposition to the power of godlinesse, wherewith from the wombe we are replenished, confirmes the same truth: but of these places, I shall have occasion to speake hereafter.
Fourthly, The flesh, in the Scripture phrase, is a quality (if I may so say) inherent in us: for that, with its concupiscence, is opposed to the spirit and his holiness, which is certainly inherent in us: now the whole man by nature is flesh: for that which is borne of the flesh is flesh, Joh. 3. 6. it is an inhabiting thing, a thing that dwelleth within us, Rom. 7. 17. in brief this vitiosity sinfulness, and corruption of our nature, is laid open: First, by all those places, which cast an aspersion of guilt, or desert of punishment; or of pollution, on nature it self: as Ephes. 2. 1, 2, 3. We are dead in trespasses, and sins, being by nature children of wrath, as well as others, being wholly encompassed by a sin that doth easily beset us. Secondly, by them, which fix this original pravity, in the heart, will, mind, and understanding: Ephes. 4. 18. Rom. 12. 2. Gen. 6. 5. Thirdly, by those which positively decipher this natural depravation.