A90293:286
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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First then, they grant salvation, to the ancient Patriarchs and Jews, before the coming of Christ, without any knowledge of, or faith in him at all: Nay, they deny, that any such faith in Christ, was ever prescribed unto them, or required of them: aIt is certain that there is no place in the Old Testament, from whence it may appear, that faith in Christ (as a Redeemer) was ever enjoined, or found in any of them: say they jointly, in their Apology: the truth of which assertion, we shall see hereafter: only they grant a general faith, involved under types, and shadows, and looking on the promise, as it lay hid in the goodness, and providence of God, which indirectly might be called a faith in Christ: from which kind of faith, I see no reason, why thousands of heathen Infidels should be excluded: agreeable unto ⟨p. 117⟩these assertions, are the Dictates, of their Patriarch Arminius: baffirming, that the whole description of the Faith of Abraham, Rom. 4. makes no mention of Jesus Christ, either expressly or so implicitly as that it may be of any one, easily understood, and to the testimony of Christ himself, to the contrary, Joh. 8. •6. your father Abraham rejoiced to see my days and he saw it, and was glad: he answereth, he rejoiced to see the birth of Isaac, who was a type of me, a goodly gloss corrupting the text.
First then, they grant salvation, to the ancient Patriarches and Iewes, before the coming of Christ, without any knowledge of, or faith in him at all: Nay, they deny, that any such faith in Christ, was ever prescribed unto them, or required of them: aIt is certaine that there is no place in the Old Testament, from whence it may appeare, that faith in Christ (as a Redeemer) was ever enioyned, or found in any of them: say they joyntly, in their Apologie: the truth of which assertion, we shall see hereafter: onely they grant a generall faith, involved under types, and shadowes, and looking on the promise, as it lay hid in the goodnesse, and providence of God, which indirectly might be called a faith in Christ: from which kinde of faith, I see no reason, why thousands of heathen Infidels should be excluded: agreeable unto