A90293:214
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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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⟩it as a punishment of our sins in Adam. Man before his fall, though not in regard of the matter whereof he was made, nor yet merely in respect of his quickening form, yet in regard of Gods ordination was immortal, a keeper of his own everlastingness: Death, to which before he was not obnoxious, was threatened as a punishment of his sin: In the day, thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die: the exposition of which words, given by God, at the time of his inflicting this punishment, and pronouncing man subject to mortality, clearly showeth that it comprehendeth temporal death also, dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return: our return to dust, is nothing but the souls leaving the body, whereby before it was preserved from corruption. Further Saint Paul opposeth that death, we had by the sin of Adam, to the resurrection of the body, by the power of Christ: for since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection from the dead, For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive: 1 Cor. 15. 21. 22. the life, which all shall receive by the power of Christ at the last day, is essentially a reunion of soul and body, and therefore their separation is a thing we incurred by the sin of Adam: the same Apostle also, Rom. 5. describeth an universal reign of death over all, by reason of the first transgression: even diseases also in the Scripture are attributed unto sin, as their meritorious cause, John 5. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 30. Revel. 2. 22. and in respect of all these, the mercy of God, doth not so interpose it self, but that all the sons of men are in some sort partakers of them.