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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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Thirdly, they are come at length, to that perfection, in setting out this stain of Christianity, that Bertius on good consideration, denied this proposition, that no man can be saved, that is not ingrafted into Christ, by a true faith: and dVenator to this question, Whether the only means of salvation, be the life, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, answereth, no? thus they lay men in Abraham's bosom, who never believed in the son of Abraham: make them overcome the serpent, who never heard of the seed of the woman, bring goats into heaven, who never were of the flock of Christ, never entered by him the door: make men please God without faith, and obtain the remission of sins,e without the sprinkling of the blood of the Lamb: to be saved without a Saviour, redeemed without a redeemer: to become the sons of God, and never know their elder brother: which prodigious error, might yet be pardoned, and ascribed to humane imbecility, had it casually slipped from their pens asf it did from some others: but seeing it hath foundation, in all the grounds of their new doctrine, and is maintained by them, on mature deliberation, git must be looked on by all Christians, as an heresy to be detested and accursed. For, first deny the contagion and demerit, ⟨p. 118⟩of original sin: then make the Covenant of grace to be universal, and comprehend all and every one of the posterity of Adam, 5thirdly, grant a power in our selves to come unto God, by any such means as he will appoint and affirm, that he doth assign some means unto all, and it will naturally follow, that the knowledge of Christ, is not absolutely necessary to salvation: and so down falls the preeminence of Christianity, its heaven reaching crown, must be laid level with the services of dung-hill gods.
Thirdly, they are come at length, to that perfection, in setting out this staine of Christianitie, that Bertius on good consideration, denied this proposition, that no man can be saved, that is not ingrafted into Christ, by a true faith: and