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A
Preface to the
Readm
illam
attigiffe. Addit
vero in
fundamento hujtu fententie quad
eflgratiamdei
non
pravenire
ab
ul-
lo opere
noflro
fed contra
,
ab
i11â
amnia opera
not
era
preveniri,ua ut
nihil
omnino
bona
,
rod
at-
.
tinet
ad
falutem
fit
in
nobss
quod
non eft
nobs
ex
dee, convenire Catholicos
omnes;
&
ibidemcitat
CyprianumAmbroium,C
7
azian..enum,
Cryfofl
To
the
fame
purpole with Application
to
a
particular
perfon
doth
that great, and holy
dottor
difcourfe,
de
doflrin.
Chriftiauá
lib: 3.cap:3 3:faith he,non
Brat
expertise hanc harefin
Tjchonisu,
qua
noftro tempore
exorta
,
multum
nos
ut gratiam
dei
qua
per dominum
noftrum7efuns
Chriflum
eft.
adverftsearndefenderemtuexereuit
,&fecundumidquodaitApoflolua,
oporter
hare
fesefe,ut
probate manife
fli
find
in nobis,mult'
vigilanttcres,diligentioref, reddidtt,ut
adeerteremua in
Scri-
ptures
Santtis,quod
iflumTychoniumminsta
attentum
mind
fine Mlle
folicitum
fugit. That
alto
of
Hierome
in
his
fecond.Apologie againíl Rufinm
in
reference
to
a
molt weighty Article
of
Chriflian Religion
is
known
to
all:
f
eri
poteft
(
faith he
)
ut
vetfimpliciter
erraverrot,vel
olio
fenfu
lcripferint,vel
d
librariisimperits
eorttm
paulatim
/cripta
corruptsfinti
vol
certe
antequam
in Alexandria
quafi
Damonium
merieEanum
Arius nafceretur ,
innocenter
quadam ,
&
mints
came locuti
font,
&
qua
non
po
ffunt
perverforum
hominum
calumniam declinare.
And what he
fppáke
of
the
writers before Arius
,
in
reference
to the
perfon
of
Chrf;we
may
of
them before
Pelagica
in
refernce
to
his
Grace.Hence
Pereriud in
Rem
:t.8.difput.2.2:tells
us
(
how
truly
ipfe
vident
,I
am
riot
altogether
of
his
mind)that
for
thofe
Authours that
lived
befofe
eAieltsn
s
time,
that
all
the Greek Fathers,
and
a
conlderable part ofthe
Latine , were
of
opinion,
that
the
caufe
of
°Predeflination, was
the forefight
whith God had,
either
of
man's good works, or
of
their faith
,
either
of
which opinions,
he affures
us
is
manifeflly
contrary, both to
the
Au-
thority
of
the
Scriptures ,
and particularly
to
the dottrine
of
Saint
Paul.
I am
not
(as I
laid)
wholy
of
his
mind, partly upon
the
account
of
the
obfervations made
by his
fellow
f
efnite
out
of
Auftin , before mentioned
,
partly upon
other
accounts alto. Upon thefe and
the
like
Confiderations much
I
prefume
to the
buifnefs in
hand,will
not
be
And
produced
on
either
the
from the Fathers
thatwrote
before the
R,jfe
of
the
Pelagian
Herefy.
any
one
parties
at
this day litigant about
the Doctrines
of
the Grace
of God,
fhould
give
that
advife,
that
Sifinnitu and Agelliud
the
Novatians
fomtimes gave,
as
Zozomen
reports
of
them.
(HO.
Eeclef.
lib.7.cap.I z) to
21(etlariuo
by him communicated
to the
Emperor
Theodofitu,
to
have
the
quarrel decided
by
thofe
that wrote
before
the
Rife
of
the Controverfy
,
as
it would
be
unreafonable
in
it
felfe,
foi
perfwade my felfe
neither party would accept
of
the conditions,
neither had
the
of
thofe
Navatian
ohBut their
few
obfervations
bf
premifed,fomething
as
attended
Teflmo
nies,may be
attended unto.
That
we may
proceed in fome
order,not
leaving thofe we have
nothing to
fay
to
,
nor
are
willing
to
examine, whileft
they
are
but
think
and ome
not
in
troupes,
unfaluted
The
fiat
ai
writings
that
are impofed on
us
after the
Conoet
1criptures
,
are the eight
books
of
Clement,
commonly called the
Apoftles conflitutions,
being pretended to be written
by him
at their
ap-
pointment, with the
Canons
afcribed
tothe
fame perfons.
Theft
we
(hall but falote:
for
be-
tides
that
they are faintly defended
by any
of
thePapifts
,
difavowed and difclaimed
as
Apo-
cryphal,
by
the moft
learned
of
them,as
Bellarmine
de
lcript:Ecclef.
in Clem
:who approves
on-
ly
of
So.Canonttof
85
Battoim
An.
Dom.
102.14: who
adaes 3o
more,and
Binius
with
a
lit-
tle inlargement
of
Canons
,
in
Tit.
Can.
T.1.
Con.
pi. 17
:
and
have been
chroughly difproved
and decryed
by all
Proteftant writers,
that
have had any occalion
to
deale
with
them, their
folly
and
falfty,their
impoftures and trifiings,have
of
late
been fo
fully manifefted by Dalletu
de
p(eudepigrapu eA'poftol.that
nothing
need be added
thereunto.
Of
him may
Dottor
H.
H.
learne
the
Truth of that intimation
of
his,
di(fert.
de
Epifiop.dif.
ado
cap
6.
Se1L3.
CA.'
none
aApoflolico
fecundt(
limper intergenuinos
habito:) but
of
the confidence
of
this
Author
in
his
Affections afterwards: This indeed
(
infifted
on
by
Dallei
m
,
and
the
Learned
'When
in
his
notes upon Ignatius )
is
childifhly ridiculous in them
,
that
whereas
it
is
pretended that thefe
conftitutions
were made
at convention
of
the Apoflles,
as
1.
6. c.
14,
they
are
brought
in
difcourfing,P
o'7i
txr
hm
0
u'Ti
41,66r0t,Yt6g0a
'Aeifíu:
'lá
%0t
't,,d,;vç
G'ai
I-
C,détmo&C.
l
hey
they are made
to
informe
ns
lib.
z.
cap. 57.
That
the
Acts written
by Luke
and
read
in
the
Churches are theirs
,
and
the foure books
of
the Gofpel. Whereas the (tory
of
the death
of
lames
(
here laid
to
be together with the
Apoflles)
is
related',AFL.
az
:and john by
the
con
-
fent
ofall,wrote
not
his
Gofpel untill after the diffoluton
of
his
Affociates.
Alto
they make
Stephen
and
Paul
to be
together, at
the
makeing
of
thofe
conftitutions
Canflaib. 8.
cap.
4.
(
whereas the Ivlartyrdome
of
Stephen
,
was
before the
conveninon
of 'Paul
,)
and yet alto
mentions
the
(toning
of
Stephen:lib.8.46,
They tell
us
whom they apointed
Bifhopso
f
Hie,
falern