Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.

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Title: Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.
Author: Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.
Publication: London :: Printed [by Marmaduke Parsons and others] for Peter Cole, and are to be sold at his shop in Cornhill, at the sign of the Glove and Lyon, neer the Royall Exchange,; M.DC.XL. [1640]
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[Vers. 33] VERS. 33. Either make the Tree good, and his fruit good: or else make the Tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt: for the Tree is knowne by his fruit.

[Object.] The Rhemists object this place for the proofe of free-will thus: It is in a mans owne free-will and election, to be a good Tree, or an evill, to bring forth good fruit or bad: for our Saviour here saith: either make the Tree, and fruit good or bad.

[Answ. 1] First, from this place they might as well prove that a man hath wings, to fly whether hee will, as free will to doe what good he will: for the plaine meaning of our Saviour is no more then this, to wipe away the blasphemy wherewith the Pharisees went about to charge him; and declareth by this phrase, that his miracles (as the fruits) being even by their own judgment unreprovable, himself (as the tree) ought not to be condemned: And therefore they should either justifie him with his miracles, or else condemn him and them together.

Secondly, this verse doth not onely not confirm [Answ. 2] free-wil, but doth also confute it; because it affirm∣eth that by Nature, we are all corrupt and naugh∣ty trees: but this followeth more plainly in the next verse.