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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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Innumerable other reasons there are to prove, that seeing God hath given his elect only, whom only he loved to Christ to be redeemed: and seeing that the Son loveth only those who are given him of his Father, and redeemeth only whom he loveth: seeing also that the holy Spirit, the love of the Father and the Son, sanctifieth all, and only them that are elected, and redeemed▪ it is not our part, with a preposterous liberality against the witness of Christ himself, to assign the salvation attained by him, as due to them, that are with out the Congregation of them whom the Father hath loved, and chosen: without that Church, which the Son loved and gave his life for it, nor none of the members of that sanctified body, whereof Christ is the Head and Saviour: I urge no more, because this is not that part of the Controversy that I desire to lay open.
Innumerable other reasons there are to prove, that seeing God hath given his elect onely, whom onely he loved to Christ to be redeemed: and seeing that the Sonne loveth onely those who are given him of his Father, and redeemeth onely whom he loveth: seeing also that the holy Spirit, the love of the Father and the Sonne, sanctifieth all, and onely them that are elected, and redeemed▪ it is not our part, with a preposterous liberality against the witnesse of Christ himselfe, to assigne the salvation attained by him, as due to them, that are with out the Congregation of them whom the Father hath loved, and chosen: without that Church, which the Sonne loved and gave his life for it, nor none of the members of that sanctified body, whereof Christ is the Head and Saviour: I urge no more, because this is not that part of the Controversie that I desire to lay open.
I come now to consider the main Question of this difference, though sparingly handled by our Divines: concerning what our Saviour merited, and purchased for them for whom he died: and here you shall find the old Idol playing his pranks, and quite devesting the merit of Christ, from the least ability or power, of doing us any good; for though the Arminians pretend very speciously, that Christ died for all men: yet in effect, they make him die for no one man at all: and that by denying the effectual operation