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The
Dot:
of
the
Sts
Apo{aacy
by
whom
maintained.
8
& vicious converfation,
no
finall
partof
the growing
evils
of
the
daies
where:
in he lived,
did yet
cry
out
againft
the
doétrines
of
others
as
tending
to
Ioof-
nefe
and profaneneffe,upon
whole brealts
&
teachings
was
written
Holineffe
Armin. Anti-
to the
Lord all
their
dates' Afterwards
Arminius
with
his
0.pinquarticulan
Fol-
lowers,
perk
takeing up the
matter, though
they laboured witirall
their
might
to
có
Rem
. !!.
Hag. Artic.5.
anfwer fundry
of
the
Arguments whereby the
truth
of
this
do&rine
is
de-
rñonftrated, yet for
a feafon
were
very faint and dubious
in
their own
affer-
tions:
not
daring
to
breake
in
at
once
upón
fo
great
a
Treafure
of
the Church
of
God:
*
and therefore
in
their
synodalia
ire
forced
to
Apologife
*
Nos cdm mentem nopram
for
their H4itation
nine years before
in
their
Conference
at the
taper
hoc
arguments.
categarl-
ce
dogmaticè in alteram
Hague.
But
now
of
late
,
the
glorious
light
of
Socinianifine
partemdefinivimtu,nulln iure
bath broken forth
from
the
pit, men by their new
fuccours,
are
tevitati
iu
!aer
polte,
pro
f
grown
bold
to
defie this great truth
of
the
Gofpell andgrace
of
pterea
4uòd
novem
ab
hint
n"-a,
eon
non
ita
diJertè
Qg
the Covenant,
as
an abomination for ever
to
be abhorred.
Audax
rotundè
enuecievcrimru,
fed
omniaperpeti
Gens
humana,ruit
per vetitum
nefees,
folummodò
difyuirentium ad-
bue in
morem
profef Pmts.
Declar. fens. Rem.
circa
5.Artic.
f
Socin.
Fuld!.
Theo!.
cap.
6.
art.7.
&c.
r
2.
In particular, the
late
fludious
Endeavours
of
a
Learned
man in his
Treatife
Intituled
Redemption Redeemed,
for'to
difpoyle
the
fpoufe
of
Chrift
ofthis
aloft
Glorious pearl
wherewith
her beloved hath
adorned
her,cals
for
a
particular
Confederation.
And this (difeharging
a
regard
unto
any
other
motives
f
upon (cheifly) thisaccompt,
that
he
hath with great
paines
and
travel! gathered together whatever hath
been formerly given
out,
and dif-
perfed
by the
molt confiderable
Adverfaries
of
this
Truth
(efpecially
not
o-
witting any
thing"
of
moment
in
the
synodall
defence
of
the
fifth
Article, with an
exalt
tran(latiou
of
the
dramaticall
Profopopteias
, with
whatfoever
looks
towards
his defigne in hand
from
their fourth
at-
tempt
about the manner
of
converfion) giving
it
a new
not
only an
elegant
dreffe,
and
varnifh
of
Rhetoricall .expreffions,
but
moreo-
ver
reinforcing
the
declining
caufe
of
his Pelagian
Friends with
not to be
Can.
4.
defpifed fupplyes
of
appearing
Reafon,and
hidden Sophiftry.
So
that
though I
(ball handle
this
doltrine in'
my owne
Method,
(with the
reafon whereof,
I
(hall
inftantly acquaint
the Reader)
&
not
follow
that
Author
mi,Pets;
yet
handling
not
only
the
main
of
the
Doëfrine
it
felfe,but
all
the
concernments
and
confequences
of
it
in
the
feverall branches
of
the Method intended, I
hope not
to leave
any thing confiderable
in
that
whole
Treatife
(
as
to
the
Truth
in
hand)
Undifeuffed
,
no
Argument
Unvindicated, no objeaion
Un-
anfwered, no
Confequenee
Unweighed, with
a fpeciall eye
to the Companion
inftituted
betweene the Do trines
in conteft,
as
to
their
dire&
and eau-
fallinfluence into the
obedience
and Confolation
of
the
Saints.
4 13.
That
we may know then
what
we
f
eake
and
whereof
we
doe
of
rme,
I
(hall breifly State
the Do trine under
confideration,
that the
difference
a-
bout
it
may appeare.Indeed
it
feemes
ftrange
to
me among
other things,that
he
of
whom
mention
was laftly
made,who
hath
liberallydifpended
fo
great
a Treafure,
of
Pairies,
Reading,
and
Eloquence, for
the
fubverting
of
the
Truth,
whofe explanation
and
defence we have
undertaken,
did not
yet
once
attempt
fairely
to
fixe
the
State
of
the
difference
about
it, but
in a
ve-
ry
tumultuary
manner,
fell in
with prejudices
fwelling
over
all bounds
and
Chap. y.
limits
of
ordinary
reafoning, Rhetoricall amplifications upon a do&rine
not
attempted to
be brought forth
and
explayned,
that
it might beweighed
in
the
Ballance, as
in
it
felfe
it
is.
Whereas
there
may
be manyReafons,
of
fuch a
proceeding,
it
may
wellbe
queftioned whether
any
of
them
be
candid
& commendable. Certainly
the
advantages thence
taken
fox
the improve-
ing