A90293:49
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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Secondly, they question the prescience, or foreknowledge of God: for if known unto God, are all his works, from the beginning, if he certainly foreknow all things, that shall hereafter come to pass, it seems to cast an infallibility of event, upon all their actions, which encroaches upon the large territory, of their new goddess contingency, nay it would quite dethrone the Queen of heaven, and induce a kind of necessity, ⟨p. 3⟩of our doing all, and nothing but, what God foreknows: now that to deny this prescience is destructive to the very essence of the Deity, and plain atheism, shall be declared, Chapter the third.
Secondly, they question the praescience, or foreknowledge of God: for if knowne unto God, are all his workes, from the beginning, if he certainely foreknow all things, that shall hereafter come to passe, it seemes to cast an infallibilitie of event, upon all their actions, which encroaches upon the large territory, of their new goddesse contingencie, nay it would quite dethrone the Queene of heaven, and induce a kinde of necessitie, ⟨p. 3⟩of our doing all, and nothing but, what God foreknows: now that to deny this praescience is destructive to the very essence of the Deitie, and plain atheisme, shall be declared, Chapter the third.
Thirdly, they depose the all-governing providence of this King of Nations, denying its energetical, effectual power, in turning the hearts, ruling the thoughts, determining the wills, and disposing the actions of men, by granting nothing unto it, but a general power, and influence, to be limited, and used, according to the inclination, and will of every particular agent: so making Almighty God a desirer, that many things, were otherwise, then they are, and an idle spectator of most things that are done in the world, the falseness of which assertions shall be proved: Chapter the fourth.
Thirdly, they depose the all-governing providence of this King of Nations, denying its energeticall, effectuall power, in turning the hearts, ruling the thoughts, determining the wils, and disposing the actions of men, by granting nothing unto it, but a generall power, and influence, to be limited, and used, according to the inclination, and will of every particular agent: so making Almighty God a desirer, that many things, were otherwise, then they are, and an idle spectator of most things that are done in the world, the falsenesse of which assertions shall be proved: Chapter the fourth.