triumphs over the Pelagians, that all without exception being dead, either in original or actual fins, infants must be fo; and Chrift dying for all that were dead, muft die for them. So de civit. Dei 1. 20. c. 6. p. 1202. Ed. Bafil. contra Julianum Pelagianum, 1. 6. c. 4. p. 1109. c. 1, 5. p. 1121. P. C. c. 5. p. 1121. P. c. 13. p. 1142. B. See above forty places cited by Dally, from St. Auftin, to the fame effect, from p. 829, to P. 843. thly. As for profper Aquitanus, that he afferted copiously the fame doctrine, Dally proves by teftimonies contained in his works from p. 854 to p 879: And in particular, whereas, fome Gallican divines had objected as matter of reproach to St. Auftin, that he maintained, quod non omnes homines vult Deus falvos fieri, fed certum numerum prædeftinatorum, et quod non pro totius mundi redemptione falvator fit crucifixus, item quod non pro totius mundi falute, et redemptione Dominus nofter Jefus Chriftus fit paffus, that is, that he held the fame doctrine which Dr. Edwards does; as by objecting thefe doctrines as reproaches to him, these divines fufficiently fhew that in their judgments, the doctrine of the church was contrary to thefe fentiments: So profper by declaring fo exprefsly that thefe accufations were unjust reproaches, invented to blaft the memory of St. Auflin, that they were prodigious and blafphemous lies, that they objected to him impious and profane opinions, not one of which ever came into the heart of St. Aufin, fufficiently fhews that neither he nor St. Austin ever held any of thofe doctrines, and that he looked upon them as impious and profane opinions. See Dally, p. 856. Laftly. As for the article of the faints final perfeverance, the doctor had not the confidence to cite one father for it, Vof fius having fo exprefsly told him, that all antiquity impugned the indefectibility of the faints, and that they only could deny the contrary to be the common dodrine of antiquity, qui in anti quitate planè funt Hofpites, who are mere frangers to it, Hift. Pelag. 1. 6. p. 566. Now from what hath been thus eftablished, two things do evidently follow, viz. ft. That all the members of the church of England, are o. bliged, by the exprefs precepts of the church of England not to teach or propound to the people, as an article of faith, any of thofe Doctrines which Dr. Edwards hath fo zealously maintained in his late book upon thefe five articles, they be ing fuch as (o) the Catholic Fathers and Ancient Bishops did of Imprimis vero videbunt (Epifcopi) ne quid unquam doceant pro concione (concionatore:) quid a populo religiofe teneri, et eredi velint, nifi quod confentaneum út Doctrinæ veteris et novi Teftamenti; quodque ex illa ipa Doctrina Catholici Patres, et veteres Epifcopi collegerint. Canones, Edit. A. D. 1571. Cap. Concionatores. never gather from the holy fcriptures; for that the generality of the fathers taught the contrary to thefe doctrines from the holy Scriptures, hath been fully proved. 2dly. Whereas it hath hitherto been thought, and by the divines of the church of England religiously maintained, and to have been the glory of the church of England, that both in her doctrine and difcipline the kept clofe to the fentiments of primitive antiquity; if thefe doctrines, which I have fhewed to have been the common fentiments of the church of Chrift, do contradict her avowed doctrines, it must be owned that in thefe doctrines the hath departed from the common fentiments of the beft anitquity. À TABLE of TEXTS EXPLAINED. GENESIS, Chap. vi. 5. page 244. Geut.7.6~10.16-p.326. PSALMS, Chap. li. 5. page 243; - PROVERBS, Chap. xvi. 4. page 24, 25, 82. ISAIAH, Chap. liv. 10. lix. 21. page 336, 337, 339. JEREMIAH, Chap. xxxii. 39, 40. page 217, 218, 336, 339: MATTHEW, Chap. vii. 18. page 212.xx. 28. page 96, 20:16-22:14,497.- -xxiv. 12, 13.—xxiv. 24. page 304, 321. MARK, Chap, iv. 11, 12. page 29, 30. LUKE, Chap. viii. 9, 10. page 29, 30.-X. 20. page 34. -xviii. 7. page 47. JOHN, Chap. iii. 3, 4, 6 page 207, 245.-iv. 14. vi. 35. page 340.- vi. 33. page 110.-vi. 37. page 53, 57, 44. page 211, -28. page 341. vi. 39, 40. page 323, 325. -xv. 5. page 210. Acrs, Chap. x. 34, 35 page 373.xi. 18. page 213, 214. -xiii. 48. page 57, 58.xiv. 16, 17. page. 374- -xvi. 14. page 214, 215-xvii. 24, 26, 27. page 375. ROMANS, Chap. i. 18. page 377, 378.ii. 6. p. 380.- xi. 5. page 48.-29. page 321.-xiv. 15. page 113. EPHESIANS, Chap. i. 3, 4. page 50, 51.-19, 20. page 206. - ii. 2. page 209.- page 330-333- PHILIP. Chap. i. 6. page 344. THESSA. Chap. v. 23. 24. page 345. : 1 TIMOTHY, Chap. i. 19. page 302, 303.- 100. ii. 1-6, page 2 TIMOTHY, Chap. ii. 19. page 63, 64.ii. 18. page 333. - vi. 4, 5, 6. page 298. page 300. 220, 221. 1 PETER, Chap. i. 5. page 115.ii. 7, 8. page 30, 31. 9. page 45, 46. 2 PETER, Chap. ii. 1. page 115, 116.-18-21. page 301. -111. 9. page 104.. JOHN, Chap. ii. 2. page 109.19. page 333, 334- JUDE, Chap. iv. page 32, 33. 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