Theomachia autexousiastikē

Name: Theomachia autexousiastikē
Author: John Owen

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.

John Owen 1616–1683London: printed by I.L. for Phil. Stephens, 1643

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A DISPLAY OF ARMINIANISM, [Greek or Hebrew]. › Chapter 7A DISPLAY OF ARMINIANISME, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. › Chapter 7

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I shall not show their opposition unto the truth in many more particulars, concerning this Article of Original sin: having been long ago most excellently prevented even in this very method, by the way of Antithesis to the Scripture, and the Orthodox doctrine of our Church, by the famously learned Master Reynolds, in his excellent Treatise Of the sinfulness of sin: where he hath discovered their errors, fully answered their sophistical objections, and invincibly confirmed the truth from the word of God: only as I have showed already, how they make this we call original sin, no sin at all, neither inherent in us, nor imputed unto us, nor no punishment truly so called; so because our Church saith directly, that it meriteth damnation, I will briefly show, what they conceive, to be the desert thereof.

I shall not shew their opposition unto the truth in many more particulars, concerning this Article of Originall sinne: having beene long agoe most excellently prevented even in this very method, by the way of Antithesis to the Scripture, and the Orthodoxe doctrine of our Church, by the famously learned Master Reynolds, in his excellent Treatise Of the sinfulnesse of sinne: where he hath discovered their errours, fully answered their sophisticall objections, and invincibly confirmed the truth from the word of God: onely as I have shewed already, how they make this we call originall sinne, no sinne at all, neither inherent in us, nor imputed unto us, nor no punishment truly so called; so because our Church saith directly, that it meriteth damnation, I will briefly shew, what they conceive, to be the desert thereof.

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First, for Adam himself, they affirm, that the death threatened unto him, if he transgressed the Covenant, and due unto him for it, ^lwas neither death temporal, for that before he was subject unto, by the primary constitution of his nature: nor yet such an eternal death, as is accompanied with damnation, or everlasting punishment: No? Why then let us here learn some new Divinity? Christians have hitherto believed, that whatsoever may be comprised under the name of death: together with its antecedents, consequents, and attendants was threatened to Adam, in this commination: and Divines until this day, can find but these two sorts of death in the Scripture, as penal unto men, and properly so called: and shall we now be persuaded that it was neither of these that was threatened unto Adam? in must be so, if we will believe the Arminians: it was neither the one, nor the other, of the former: but whereas he was created mortal and subject to a temporal death, the sanction of his obedience, was a threatening of the utter dissolution of his soul and body, or a reduction to their primitive nothing: but what if a man will not here take them at their words, but believe according to Saint Paul, that death entered by sin; that if we had never sinned, we had

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Theomachia autexousiastikē

CHAP. VIII.

Of the state of Adam before the fall or of original Righteousness.

Of the state of Adam before the fall or of originall Righteousnesse.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. VIII.

Of the state of Adam before the fall or of original Righteousness.

Of the state of Adam before the fall or of originall Righteousnesse.

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