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Dr. H. Part 2. Pag. 45.
That he doth so in the Gag, I easily grant; where he relateth only to the words of the Article, which speaks only of a possi∣bility of falling, without relation to the measure or continuance of it; (Here, by the way, it is fairly confessed, that the Ar∣ticle speaks not of the possibility of falling totally, or fi∣nally; therefore, not against the Calvinists.) But he must needs be carried with a very strange confidence, which can report so of him in his Appeal, in which he both expresly saith, and pro∣veth the contrary.
Answ. Doth he indeed say so? Where may such a man as I am find him saying so? Page, not 28, but 26, he saith, That there is not from the Church any tie put on him, to resolve in this much disputed Question, as these Novellers would have it; for it there be any, it is for a possibility of total falling, as we shall hear anon. Is this to say expresly, that the Church hath so determined? then farewel the study of Logick. I am sure however, that if he said it, he hath not proved it. Pag. 29, he quotes the words of the Article, After that we have received the Holy Ghost, we may depart away from grace, and fall into sin; and by the grace of God we may rise again, and amend our lives. After quoting of them, as if his heart had misgiven him, he addeth, Haply you will quarrel at the sense of the Articles: but then you must remember, that the plain words sound to the meaning for which I have produced them; and that until the Church it self expound otherwise, it is as free for me to take it according to the letter, as for you to de∣vise a figure. Which done, he goes on most untruly to tell the World, that this Article was challenged for unsound by the Ministers at the Hampton-Court Conference. Of which untruth, and sundry others relating to Dr. Overal, and the Bishop of London, he hath been told by so many, that it is a wonder any man should not be ashamed to plough with his Heifer. The Arguments out of the Liturgy, whether in the form of Baptism, or in the publick Catechism, or Ru∣brick before Confirmation, are quite besides the Contro∣versie; which is by many Calvinists restrained to the grace bestowed on Adult persons, and by none understood of that Sacramental grace given to the Seed of Believers in