A90293:85
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, to some things God hath fitted free and contingent causes: which either apply themselves to operation in particular, according to election: choosing to do this thing, rather then that: as Angels, and men, in their free and deliberate actions, which they so perform, as that they could, have not done them: or else, they produce effects [Greek or Hebrew], merely by accident: and the operation of such things, we say to be casual: as if a hatchet falling out of the hand of a man, cutting down a tree, should kill another, whom he never saw: now nothing in either of these ways comes to pass, but God hath determined it, both for matter, and the manner:i even so, as is agreeable to ⟨p. 17⟩their causes; some necessarily, some freely, some casually, or contingently, yet all so, as having a certain futurition from his decree; he infallibly foreseeth that they shall so come to pass: but yet, that he doth so, in respect of things free, and contingent is much questioned by the Arminians in express terms, and denied by consequence, notwithstandingk Saint Hierome affirmeth, that so to do, is destructive to the very Essence of the Deity.
Secondly, to some things God hath fitted free and contingent causes: which either apply themselves to operation in particular, according to election: chusing to doe this thing, rather then that: as Angels, and men, in their free and deliberate actions, which they so performe, as that they could, have not done them: or else, they produce effects 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, meerely by accident: and the operation of such things, we say to be casuall: as if a hatchet falling out of the hand of a man, cutting downe a tree, should kill another, whom he never saw: now nothing in either of these waies comes to passe, but God hath determined it, both for matter, and the manner:i even so, as is agreeable to ⟨p. 17⟩their causes; some necessarily, some freely, some casually, or contingently, yet all so, as having a certaine futurition from his decree; he infallibly foreseeth that they shall so come to passe: but yet, that he doth so, in respect of things free, and contingent is much questioned by the Arminians in expresse termes, and denied by consequence, notwithstanding