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A
Preface
toghe
Reader.
and obtained
by general confent
the Title
of
Dodos profundur
:
Lib.
z:
de
Caufa Dei Cap. 8.
This
Profound
Learned
Do5lour
propofes this Thefts
to
be
confirmed
in
the following Chapter',
quad »ullau
viator
quantâcunq,gratiâ
creato",
fubnixuu,
folius
Arbitrii viribm
,
vel edam
cum
adjutorioGratie,paft
perfeverare frnaliter,ftne alio
'Dei
auxilie(jeciali.In
the long difputa-
tion
following he difputes out
of
the
Scriptures, and Ancient writers
abundantly
cited
to
his
purpok,
that there
is
no
palbility
of the
Perfeverance of
any
Believer in
the
faith
to
the end,upen
fetch
Helper
con
fiderations
,
and
e%ldvantages as
Mr.
Goodwin
propofeth,
as
the
only meant!
thereof That
Perfeverance
it
felfe
is
agife
of
JCod,without
which gifr,and
Grace,
none
can
per-
fevere;the and fpecialty
of
that Grace,
he
expreffeth in
the
Corollary
wherewith he clofeth
the
Chapter:
which
is,guod nullus
viator,foliw
liberi
Arbitrii,
vel
Grade
Yiribnu,aut amborumcon-
juntlim.
fine
alio
Dei
Auxilie
fpeciali,peteft perfeverare per aliquodTemples
omnino.
Further
al
letting the
efficacy
of
fpecial
grace
,
in
and for
every
good workwhatever:
His
Arguments
and Tefiimonies
I
(hall not
need
to
recite ; they are
at hand
to
thofe who dente
to
confute
them.
After the
vindication
of
the
former
The
fs,
Chap.
9.
Io.
Chap.'
t:
he
propofeth
further
this
propofitioo, to a
right undetfianding
of theDothine of
Perfeverance.
2nod
perfeveranria
non
eft
aliquod `Danum Dei
creatum,â
Charitate,& Gratiâ
realiter
differens
:
And
the
Corollary
wherewith he (huts up
that
difputation
is, quad Nomen Terfeverastice nnllam rem abfolutarp
e
f[emialiter fignificat,
fed atcidentaliter,
di
relative
;
Charitatem
videlicet,
five
jufpitiam
cum
re-
fpeílu
future
Permanfionis
ufg
in Finem ,
C'
quod
non
improbabiliter
po
fret dici
Perfeverantiatn
eh
ipfam Relátionem
bajm.
After
this
knowing wellwhatConclufron
would
eauly be inferred from these
principles,
viz
:
That
Terfeverance
i.e
net
really dif
intt
from
Faith
and Leve
,
that
it is
fuck
.e
Grace,
and
gift
of
God
that
who
ever
it's
beftowed
uponJball certainly perfevere;namely,
that
every
one who
bath
received
True
Grace,
Faith and
Love
,
shallcertainly perfevere
:
He objeFrs
that
to
him
-
felfe
,
and plainly
grants
it
to
be
fo
indeed
,
cap. 02.
And
to
make
the matter
more
cleare,
chap.
t
3:
he difputes;
that,e4uxilium
fine
qua
radius perfeverat,&
per quad
quilibet perfeverat,
eft
Spiretm
Sondes,
Divine
bonitas,c5'
voluntas. Every
Caule
of
bringing
sinful
man
to
God,
is called by
them
,
4uxilium
:
in thefe
three
,
Spiritus Sasiftw
,
Diving
Bonitos
,
tr
Voluntaç,
he
corn
prizeth the
cheíf
Caufes
of
Perfeverance ,
as
I
have alto
done
in
the
ensuing
Treatife.
By
[
Diving
Yoltontas
]
he intends
God's eternal
,
and Immutable decree,
as
he manifefis,cap.
8.9:
whither he
fends his
Reader. His,
Diving
Bonims,
is
that
free
Grace,
whereby God
ac-
cepts and justifies us
as
his. Spirtne
Sanûm
, is
Sanilification;
So
that
he affirmes
the
per
/eve-
ranee
of
the
Saints
to
toms'
in
the liability
of
their
Acceptation
with
god
,
and continuance
of
their
SanElificarion
fromhim,upon
the account
of
his
unchangeable
purpofes
and
Decrees,
which
is
the fumme
of
what
we
contend
for.
And this
is
part
of
the DoBrine
,
concerning the
Grace
of
God
, and his
foveraingty over
the
wills
of
men, which Bradwardine in his dayes cryed
out
fo
earnefily for
the
Defence
of
ro
God & man
again(' the
Pelagian
encroachement
,
which
was made
upon it
in
thofe dayes:
Thus
he
turnes himfelfe
in
the conclufion
of
his Book,
to the'Pope,and
Church of
Rome,
with
zealous earnefines for
theirInterpolation,
to the Determination
of
there Controverfyes
:
ut
or
iniquè loguentium(
faith
he)
obftrnatur,
frexie genibus
cordes
nei
imploro
Ecclefiam
,
pracipsse
Rcmanam,
qua fummâ
eflurboritatevigeredignofcitur
,
guaranis
ipfa determinare
dignetur, quid
circa
Pr
emi
f
fas
Catholics
fit tenendum.
Non
cramfine
periculo in
talibm
erratur.
Simon
der-
mis
3
exnrge
(
fpeaking
to
the
Pope)
eximegladium
,
amputa
quaff
finiftra haretica
pravitatis,'
defende, Cr protege
Catholicam
veritatem.
Torrò
etfi
Dominus
ipfe
in
Petri
navicula darmiat, ni-
mietateTempeftatás
compulfm,
ipf
um
gm4,fiducialiterexcitabo,quateneuSpiritua
oris
Jeri
Tempe-
flarefedatâ
tranguillum facial
&
ferenum. Ab
fit
autem,ur qui in prorâ bujui
Navicule
pervigil
laborabat,jam
in poppi
fuper cervicali darmiat, vel dormitet.Lib.
3.
Cap.
g
3.
With
this earnefinels above 300 years
agoe
did this
profoundly
learned man
press
the
Popes
to
a
determination
of
thefe
Controverfyes, againfl the Telagians,and
their
Succeffours in
his
Schooles.
The
fame fuit
bath
ever since
beencontinued
by very
many Learned
men,(in
every
Age,)of the
communion
of
theChurch of
Rome,crying
out
for the 'Papal definitive Sentence
againft the
Pelagian
errours crept
intotheir
Church
;
efpecially
bath
this
out
-cry
withfuppli-
caton
been
renewed by
rheDominican
fryars,ever
lince the
7efuites
have
fo
cunningly guilded
over
thatTelegian Poyfon,&
let
it
ouc,as
the bell,
&
moli wholfome
food
for
the
HolyMo-
ther
,
and her children.
Yea
with
fetch
earnefines bath thisbeen in
the
loft Age
purfued,
by
Agents
in
the
Court
of
Rowe:that
(a
Congregation
de
Auxiliia being purpofely
appointed)rt
was generallyfuppofed one
while,
that
theywould have prevailed
intheir
fuit,
and
have
ob-
F
3
tamed