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A
Preface
to
theReader.
purpofe
of
God.
,;uicunq,
(faith
he)
nonTentator,
hoc
neceffaria
of à
deo,quod
non
tentatur.
Sicht
I I
a
pars
t
3
i
prinni
probat:
&
per zzum primi,
`:D
csu
neseffariò haber
aliquem
atlom
volun-
tatte
circa totem
non
rentationem,
&
non
noliitionem,.quia tune per decimumprim:
non
tentaretur,
ergo
volritione,n,
qua
per idemdecimtïm
ipfiam
:extort
non
fink
,
&c.
'Others
render it
as
a
Gift
fuper
added to faith and love,
of
which Judgment
Aúfin
feems
to
have been, who,is
follow-
ed
by
fundry
of
the Schoolmen, with many
of
the
Divines
of
the reformed Churhes.
Hence
is
that
Conclu1
on
of
Alvarez:
tie
Antil:lib:
ro.
difp:
ro3:
fecundeem fidem
Catholecam afferen-
deem
of
,
pratergratiam
habitnalem
&
virtutesinfolas.efe
neceffarium,
ad
perfeverandum
en
bo-
no
of&
infinem,auxiiium fpeciale,fopernaturalefcilicet
donorn
Perfeverantia.Arid
of
this
propo
tition
he
faies
, in
hat
emus
Catholici Canveniunt.
Of
the
fame
Judgment
was his
Mailer
Tho-
mas:
Lib
s.con: Gen: cap:
155.
Where
alfq he gives this Reafon
of
his
opinion; Mud
quod
na
trait'
foie
of
variabile,
ad
hoc
qáóófigatur
in une ,
Indiget auxilio alicujus
moventis immobilis;
fed
liberum
Arbitrium
,
etiamexiflens in
gratia
habituali,
ed
but
manes
variabile.,
&
flexibile
á`
bono
in
malnm;
ergo
ad
hoc
good
figatur in
bone,& perfeveret invllo
iefg.,
adfinem,tndiget fpeciali
Dei
Auxilio
:
The
fame
Argument
having been
ufed
before
-friar
by Bradwardine, though
to
;another
purpofe ,
viz
a
not to
prove
perfeverance
to
be
a
roper-added
gift
to laying
grace,
which
(
as
before
was
obferved
)
he denyed,but
to
manifeft
that
it
was
immediatly and who-
ly
from
God
:
His
words are,
lib:
z.
cap.
8. Cotol: Sicut
fecundiem
premi doter,
Omne
quad
efl
Natsrale,
&non
eft per
fe tale,fedefl
mutabile in non tale,
fi
manere debut: immutatum,oportet
quid
imitator
continue
alien
per
fe
fixo;quare
&
continue
geeilibit
juflu;
Deo.
The
faine School
-men
alfo( a generationofinen exceeding
ready
to
fpeak
of
any
thing,though
they know
not what
they
fpake,nor
whereof
they
affirme ,
)
go yet
farther
fome
of
them and
will
diftinguih
between
thegiftof
perfeveranse,and
the
gift
confirmation
in
Grace.
He
before mentioned,after
a
long
difpnte
pag.
(
004
)
concludes
,
ex
his
fequitur
differentiam
inter
donum
perfeverantia
,
confirmations
ingratia(he
meanes
that
which
is
granted
in
via )
in hoc confiflere
, grand
do-
nom
perfeverantia nullam
perfellionem
intrinfecam
conflitnt
in
ipfágrog
babituali
,
quam
ta-
men
perfetlionem
intrinfecam
illi
triboit Conf
rmario in
Gratis. What
this intrinfecal
perfeâion
of
habitual
grace given
it
by
confirmation,is he cannot tell
:
for
,
in thofe
who
are fo
con-
firmed in
Grace
,
he afferts
only
ininpeccability
upon
fuppofition
,
and
that not
alone from
their
intrinfecal
principle,
as
it
is
with the
bleffed
in heaven,bnt from help and affrftancealfo
dayly communicated from
without:Dorandru
in
34.
3.g,4,
allignes
the
deliverance from
fin
which thofe who are confirmed in grace doe
obtaine unto the Holy
Ghoft
:
fo
far
well
:but
he
kicks
down
his milke by his
addition, that
he Both
it
only
by
the
removeal
of
all
occafion
of
fin
:
But
ofthefe
perfons, and
their Judgment
in
the point under
debace,more afterwards.
For
the thing
it felfe
Taft
propofed;on what foot
of
account it
is
placed and
on what foun-
dation
afferted
The Treatifeit
(elfe will
difcover.
That
the
thing
aymed
at ,
is
not
to be
f
raightned
or
tefirained to
any
one peculiar
All
of
grace
,
will eafily appear.
-
The
main
foundation
of
that
which we plead
for is, The Eternal
purpofe
of
God
,
which
his
owne na-
ture
requitals to
be
abfolutely immmutable and irrevenible. The Eternal
All of
the
will
of
God
deigning
force
to falvation
by
Chrift
,
infallibly
to
be
obtained
,
for
the
Prayfe of the;
glory
of
his
grace,
is
The Bottome
of
the whole;
Even
that
foundation
which
fiandeth
for
ever,
having this
Peale,
The Lord
knoweth
who
are his.
For the Accomplifhment
of
this eternal pur-
pole
,
and for
the procurement
of
all the good things
;'that
lye
within the compafs
of
it's
in
tendment are,The
Oblation and
Intercellion,
(
the whole Mediatory
undertaking
of
Chili)
taking
away finne, bringing in Life and immortality in:erpofed
,
giving
further
caufal influ-
ence into
the
truth
contended for. In
him and for his
fake,
as
God graciouly,
powerfully;
and
freely gives
his
Holy Spirt faith
,
with
all
the things
that
accompany falvation
unto all
them whom
he
accepts and pardons
by his
being madejinni
for
them
,
and
Righteoufnefs since
them
,
fo
he
rakes them
therby into
an everlafting
Covenant that
f
call
not
be
broken,
and
bath
therein given them innumerable promifes
that
he will
continue to
be
their
God
for
ever ,
and
preferve
them
to
be ,
and
in being his
people :
to
this
end
,
becaufe
the
princi-
ple
of
Grace
,
and living
to
him
,
as
in
them inherent,
is
a
thing
in
i'ts
own
nature
than-
gable and
Dyable
to failing,
he
doth
according
to, his
promife, and
for
the
Acccom-
plifliment
of
his purpofe
,
dayly make
out
to them,
by his Holy
Spirit, from
the great
treafury
and
fl
ore
houfe
thereof
,
the
Lord
JefusChrift,
helps
and
[tip
plies
,
encreafing
of
faith,
Love,
and Holinefs
,
recovering themfrom
falls,
healing their
back,
flidingsdfrengthening
them
with
all
might according
to his
glorious power, onto
all
patience
and
long
feffering
With
joyfolnef
i,
fo
preferving themby his power through faith unto falvation: And
in
thisway
of
delivering
the
dolrine
contended
about, it
is
clearly made
out,that
the
difputes mentioned
areas
needlefs,
Bz;
as