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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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Of the power of Free-will, in preparing us for our conversion unto God.
THE judgement of the Arminians, concerning the power of Free-will about spiritual things, in a man unregenerate, merely in the state of corrupted nature, before and without the help of grace, may be laid open by these following positions.
THE judgement of the Arminians, concerning the power of Free-will about spirituall things, in a man unregenerate, meerely in the state of corrupted nature, before and without the helpe of grace, may be laid open by these following positions.
First, That every man in the world, reprobates and others, have in themselves power and ability of believing in Christ, of repenting, and yielding, due obedience to the new covenant, and that because they lost not this power by the fall of Adam: aAdam after his fall, saith Grevinchovius, retained a power of believing, and so did all reprobates in him: bhe did not loose (as they speak at the Synod) the power of performing that obedience, which is required in the new covenant considered formally, as it is required by the new covenant, he lost not a power of believing, nor a power of forsaking sin by repentance: and those graces that he lost not are still in our power, whence they affirm, thatc faith is called the work of God, only because he requireth us to do it: now having appropriated this power unto themselves, to be sure that the grace of God be quite excluded, which before they had made needless, they teach