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A
Preface to
the Reader,
ved
to
an
affurance
of
in
our
Condition, to
the enjoyment
of
the full inheritanceis not
contemtible
in
the Caufe
in
hand,
as
is
further
manifefted
in
the treadle it
(elfe.
And
there inflames may
fuffce
for
the
firlt
period
of
time mentioned before
the
riling
of
the
Pelagian herefy,o
fwhich;& thofe others
of
the
fame kind
that
might be produced,though
they
may
not
teem fo
full
and expreffive
to
the point under ConGderarion,
as
there which
follow
after,
yet concerningthofe Authors and their teftimonies,thefe two things
may be
al:
fated.
r
That though
fume
Exprefflons
may
begathred
from
Tome
of
the
Writers
within the
fpáce
of
Time mentioned
that
teem
to
allow
poffibility
ofdefetlicn, and
Apoflacy
in
Belie,
vers,
occafioned all
of
them
by
the general
ufe
of
that
word, and the taking
in
the
f
veral
ac-
counts
,
"whereon men
both
in
the Gofpel
,
and in
common
ufe
are
fo called
,
yet
there
is
no
one
of
them
that
ever afcribed
the
perfeverance
of
them,who Altually &eventually perfevere,
to
fuch
grounds and principles
as
cMr.
Goodwin
doth
,
and which
the
Reader
shall find
at
large
by him
infifled on
,
in
the
enfuing treatife. The
truth
is,
his
maintaining
of
the
Saints
perfe'verance is
as
bad,if not worfe,then
his
maintaining their
Apoflacy.
That
I
fcarce
know any Head
in
Religion, concerningwhich the
Mind
of
the
Antients
who wrote
before it
received
any
oppofttion,maybe
made
out
more clearly,then
we have
done
in
this, by
the Inflances produced
, and infifted on.
The
Pelagian Herefy began
about the yeare 417. The firíi
oppofers
thereof
are recko-
ned up
by
Proffer,
,Cap
:
a,
de
Ingrat
:
The
BiJhop
of
Rome ,
the
Palefline
Synod in
the
Cafe
of
Telagisu,
Hierome, eltticue
BiJlap
ofConflantinople,the Synod
of
ephcfees,Sicily,and
two in
Africk, he mentions
in
order, concluding
them with
the
fecund African
gathered to that end
and
purpofe;
Anne aliens infinempellet
precedere
[annum
la
cui
Dux
eArarelius Ingeniumgr
Auguftinue erat?
quern
Chrifligratia
corms
Oberiore rigans,
noftro
lamen dedit avo
,
Accenfam
vero
de
Lamine,
nam cibus
ills
Et
vita
O
regaies
Deus
eft omnifgr
volaptae
Vase
amor
Chrifti
eft,antu Cbrifli
eft
Honor
slli:
Et
dam
nulls
fibi
gaarit
bona,
fit
Deus
ills
Omnia
,
&
in Sautto regnatfapientiaTemplo.
Andbecaufe
I (hallnot burden the Reader,
being now
entred upon
the
Place
and Time;
wherin
very many witneffes call
aloud
to be
heard about the
Difference in
hand
,
of
the
frft
oppolers
of
the Pelagian
Herefy ,
I
(hall infift
only on him,who
is
indeed Inflaromnium, and
bath
ever been
fo
accounted in the
controverfies
about the
Grace
sfGod:
And
I
[hall the
ra-
ther
lay this
weight
on
him,
becaufe it's evident
that
he
fpake
the
fenfe
of
the whole
Church,
in thofe
dayes wherin he lived. This
is
..fuftin
,
of
whom faith
the
fame Trofper
I
ve-
rinr illi
non
folam
Ramanam
Ecclef
am
Affricanamg,
,
fed per smuts
Mandi
parses
univerfos
pro
-
rnifionis fzl
iasmom
Dottrinâ
Hopei
Viri,fcutintoed
fide,
itainGratiaconfefonecongruere :Epiff;
ad
Ruth:
Andwhen
his
writings began
to
be carped
at by the
Semi.
Pelagian
of
France Calefline
Bifhop
of
Reme
in his
Epift:
codGallos,gives
him this
Teftimony:.iluguftinum
Santla
Recor-
dati,na
Pirum
pro
vita'
fad (7
moribae,in noftra Communion
femper
habuimas,
nec
unquam bane
finiflra
fafpicionie
rumor
[
altem afperfit
,
quern
tanta
fcientia
olim
fail
a
meminimtu
,
at
inter
maglftros
optima;
etiam
ii mein
Predecefforibue
haberetur.
His writings alto were made
ufe
of
notonly
by Prsfper
Hilary,and
Falgentiuo,bar generally
of
all
that
engaged againft the Pela-
gians.Zom:miLJ(
faith Profperad
Collat:
c:q.1:)citm
effet
:Dofiiimru,adversis
Librestamen Pe-
lagianorambeati Auguflini
refponfa pofcebat.
And,
Leo
Epift: ad
Coned:
Araufic: tranfcribes
out
of
him verbatim
the
things
that
he would have confirmedand eflablifhed. And
in
his
own
dayes
norwithflanding
the
differences between
them,
that
Aged and
learned
Hierome
,
tells
him
Epif:
94:
(...Mob:
decretum e/t
to
amare,
to
fu[picere,colere,
mirari,
tea dilla,quaf
mea,ele-
fendere. Hence was
that
outcry
in
the
Palefline
Synod
upon
the
fleighting
of
his
Authority
by
Pelagian.
'Thais Pelagitu,
Loh
eft
mihi AugaRinses
?
Acclamabant
maresBla[phemantern in
Epifcopum,ex capes
ore
dominus
V
niverfa
Africa
V
nitatin
indul
/exitfanitatem
, non
(clam
is
con
-
ventu ills,
fedab
emni
Ecclefa'
pellendum:
Orof
: Apologet
:
pa?:
62i.
622:
So
alto
Gelan:
bibli-
eth:
Pat:Tcm:}
Colam
:5
5
3.pag:
589.
Fulgentian alto
with
them affembled
with
him
at
Byzacene
,
when they
were
banifhed A-
frickbyThrafirnundtu,in that
Synodical
Epift
:
gives them
this Counfel: pra
omnibus
[Indium
gerite