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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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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.
IN the last Chapter we discovered the Arminian attempt, of readvancing the corrupted nature of man, into that state of innocency and holiness, wherein it was at first, by God created: in which design, because they cannot but discern that the success is not answerable to their desires, and not being able to deny, but that for so much good as we want, having cast it away, or evil of sin that we are subject unto, more then we were at our first creation, we must be responsible for to the justice of God; they labour to draw down our first parents, even from the instant of their forming, into the same condition wherein we are engaged by reason of corrupted nature: but truly I fear, they will scarce obtain so prosperous an issue of their endeavour, as Mahomet had, when he promised the people, he would call a mountain unto him: which miracle when they assembled to behold, but the mountain would not stir for all his calling, he replied, if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain, and away he packed towards it, but we shall find that our Arminians, can neither themselves, climb the high mountain of innocency, nor yet call it down, into the valley of sin and corruption, wherein they are lodged: we have seen already, how vain and frustrate was their former attempt: let us now take a view of their aspiring insolence, in making the pure creatures of God, holy and undefiled with any sin, to be invested with the same wretchedness and perverseness of nature, with our selves.