To the Chriftian Reader. Cher Popif i Authours contend, as once the (even Ci- ties did whofe Homer was) there to be conceived. They will grant aDiviná Prxfcientia, but deny de- cretum Divinum to pars upon all things, leaving the will to it Pelf to produce its own acts, which in- deed is no lets then a degree of Atheifr,i,fetting up the fecondcaufe into theThrone of the firft.Herein,and in divers other things the Arminian do.tread in their feps,as wil appear to thofe who examine Peltzius his book, the Harmony of the Socinian and Arminians Doetrine. I reif b that book were in Englifb ; it wotdd make many blufh now adaies to fee how inco- gitantly (I hope that is the worft inmany) they have run themfelves into the Tents of.Socinians and Arminians, and know not how honourably to re- treat. About' <the year 157o. when .Petrus ,Bara a French man, had infected Cambridg With that dif -'i eafe from France,(youi fee fpirituall as well as bodily evils have come from France) and one Mr.Barret, who acted concurrently with him :. then-God giving the Heads of Colledges with the Vice - chancel- Ior a.prudent7Leal to oppofe it,they fent up Dr. Tin- dall and Dr.Whitaker to complain to Arch-130°p Whitgift,which begot that ufefull Book of Articuli Lambethani.* The Leaven came then into the Netherlands,and (às learned King James faith) Arminius was the firft that infe &ed Leyden with the Pelagian Pelttius his harmony of Socle. and Ar- min. Note. Vide M. Pryns Antiarmin. * Soon after this journey, Dr. Wl,itakers hinted foul re- turned to her eternal refl,ha. ving not long before in an admirable concio ad Clerum, (rightly called his Cygntea Concio) difcovered and confuted the chiefe points of eArmiaianilm therein. Herefie.
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