Chap. VIII. The HIST OR Yofthe PURITANS. . 389 7. " Saving grace is not communicated to all men ; neither have all Queen " men filch a meafure of divine affiftance, that they may be faved if Elizabeth, " they will. 1595. 8. No perfon can come to Chrift unlefs it be given him, andunlefs " the father draws him ; and all men are not drawn by the father that " they may come to Chrift. 9. " It is not in everyones will and power to be faved." Thefe high propofitions were drawn up, and confented to by archbifhop Wbitgif t, Dr. Fletcher bifhop of London, Dr. Vaughan elect of Bangor, and fome others; they were fent to Dr. Hutton archbifhop of Tork, and Dr. Young of Rochefler, who fubfcribed them, only wifhing that the. word [neceffarily] in the fourth article, and thofe words in the feventh ar- ticle [if they will] might be omitted. The archbifhop in his letter which he fent to the univerfity with the'articles, fays they are to look upon them not as new laws and decrees, but only as an explication of certain points which they apprehended to be true, and correfpondent to the doblrine pro- ffed in the church of England, and already e/tabled by the laws of the land. But forafmuch as they had not the queen's fanEtion, he delires they L.-of Whrt- may not become a publick att, but ufed privately and with difcretion. Hegift, p. 463; adds, that her majefty was fully perfuaded of the truth of them ; which is ftrange, when fhe commanded Sir RobertCecil to fignify to the archbifhop by letter, " That the milliked much that any allowance had been given by di /liked bj his grace and his brethren for any fuch points to be difputed, being a thecourt. " matter tender and dangerous, to weak ignorant minds : And thereupon " commanded him to fufpend the urging them publickly, or fuffering them " to be debated in the pulpit." The queen's defign was to Rife the controverfy in its birth ; for if the Dr. Baron was diffatisfied with the archbifhop's private determinations, the wasfulfering,. downright angry with Dr. Baro a frenchman, and oneof the divinity pro- feffors at Cambridge, for continuing the debate. She faid, that being an . alien, and humanely harboured and infranchited both himfelf and family, he ought to have carried himfelf more quietly and peaceably. His cafe was this; in his fermon before the univerfity preached yanuary tzth. he àferted, (i.) That Godcreated all menaccording to his own likenef in Adam, and confequently to eternal life, from which he rejeöts no man but on the ac- count of his fins. (2.) That Chrill diedfor all mankind, andwas a propi- tiation for the fins of the whole world, original and ablual ; the remedy provided by him being as extenfsve as the ruin of the fall. (3.) That the promifes of eternal life made to us in Chrifi, are to be generally and univer- fally taken and under/lood, being made as much to Judas as to Peter. For thofe propofitions hewas fummoned before the vice-chancellor and heads of
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