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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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I will not further press upon this prevarication against Christian Religion, only I would desire all the lovers of Jesus Christ seriously to consider, whether these men, do truly aim at his honour, and advancing the dignity of his merit, and not rather, at the crying up of their own endeavours, seeing the sole cause of their denying these glorious effects of the blood of Christ: is to appropriate the praise of them unto themselves, as we shall see in the next Chapter.
I will not further presse upon this prevarication against Christian Religion, only I would desire all the lovers of Iesus Christ seriously to consider, whether these men, doe truly ayme at his honour, and advancing the dignitie of his merit, and not rather, at the crying up of their own indeavours, seeing the sole cause of their denying these glorious effects of the blood of Christ: is to appropriate the praise of them unto themselves, as we shall see in the next Chapter.
These charges are never to be waved, by the vanity of their sophistical distinctions, as of that of impetration and application, which though it may be received, in an Orthodox meaning, yet not in that sense, or rather non-sense, whereunto they abuse it; viz. As though Christ had obtained that for some, which shall never be imparted unto them, that all the blessings procured by his death are proper to none, but pendent in the air for them that can or will catch them: whereupon when we object,g that by this means all the efficacy of the merit of Christ, is in our own power, they readily grant it, and say it cannot otherwise be: let them that can, receive these monsters in Christianity, for my part in these following contradictory assertions, I will choose rather to adhere to the authority of the word of God, then of Arminius and his sectaries.
These charges are never to be waved, by the vanitie of their sophisticall distinctions, as of that of impetration and application, which though it may be received, in an Orthodox meaning, yet not in that sense, or rather non-sense, whereunto they abuse it; viz. As though Christ had obtained that for some, which shall never be imparted unto them, that all the blessings procured by his death are proper to none, but pendent in the aire for them that can or will catch them: whereupon when we object,