A90293:213
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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Secondly, death temporal, with all its antecedents, and attendants, all infirmities, miseries, sicknesses, wasting destroying passions, casualties that are penal, all evil conducing thereunto, or waiting on it, is a punishment of original sin: and this not only, because the first actual sin of Adam, is imputed to us: but most of them, are the proper issues of that native corruption, and pollution of sin, which is stirring and operative within us, for the production of such sad effects, our whole nature being by it throughly defiled: hence are all the distortures, and distemperatures of the soul, by lusts, concupiscence, passions, blindness of mind, perverseness of will; inordinateness of affections, wherewith we are pressed, and turmoiled: even proper issues of that inherent sin, which possesseth our whole souls.
Secondly, death temporall, with all its antecedents, and attendants, all infirmities, miseries, sicknesses, wasting destroying passions, casualties that are poenall, all evill conducing thereunto, or waiting on it, is a punishment of originall sinne: and this not onely, because the first actuall sinne of Adam, is imputed to us: but most of them, are the proper issues of that native corruption, and pollution of sinne, which is stirring and operative within us, for the production of such sad effects, our whole nature being by it throughly defiled: hence are all the distortures, and distemperatures of the soule, by lusts, concupiscence, passions, blindnesse of minde, perversenesse of will; inordinatenesse of affections, wherewith we are pressed, and turmoiled: even proper issues of that inherent sinne, which possesseth our whole soules.
Upon the body also, it hath such an influence, in disposing it to corruption and mortality, as it the original of all those infirmities, sicknesses and diseases, which make us nothing but a shop of such miseries: for death it self, as these and the like degrees, are the steps which lead us on apace, in the road that tends unto it: so they are the direct internal efficient cause thereof, in subordination, to the justice of Almighty God by such means, inflicting ⟨p. 81⟩