Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care.

The Papists.

Though they own the Word Prede∣stination sometimes, yet they teach, That the Cause thereof is not the meer good pleasure of God, but that a Man doth make himself Eligible by his own good Works and Merits. Thus they say, The Kingdom of Heaven is prepared for them that are worthy of it, and de∣serve it by their well doing.—* 1.1Although from Gods Eternal Predestination Glo∣ry floweth to the Elect, yet for all that, it springeth not but from their own good Works, Stella on Luke, cap. 10. fol. 35. True Faith and Righteousness may be lost, and the Faithful utterly fall from the Faith, Bellarm. de Just. l. 3. cap. 4. which is the same thing, as if we should say, That the Elect may become Repro∣bates, and Election not to be immuta∣ble.

* 1.2If any shall say, That the Grace of Justification happens not to any but such as are Predestinate, but that all the rest who are call'd, are indeed call'd, but re∣ceive not Grace, as being by Divine

Power Predestinated to Evil, Let him be Accursed.

* 1.3If any one shall say, a Man Regenera∣ted and Justified is bound to believe that he is certainly of the number of the Elect, Let him be Anathema.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Rhem. An∣not. on Mat. 20. 23.
• * 1.2

  Counc. Trent. Sess. 6. can. 17.
• * 1.3

  Ibid. Can. 15.