An appeale of the orthodox ministers of the Church of England against Richard Mountague late bishop of Chichester, now bishop of Norwich. To the most illustrious, high, and honourable court of Parliament. And to the nobilitie, orthodox clergie, gentry, and communaltie of England. With the proceedings against him in Bow-Church. And an epistle to B. Mountague himselfe. also [sic], A supplication of the ministers of Scotland against the said Mountague. Wherein his dangerous heresies are revealed; and the character of an Arminian or Mountaguists is added.
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An appeale of the orthodox ministers of the Church of England against Richard Mountague late bishop of Chichester, now bishop of Norwich. To the most illustrious, high, and honourable court of Parliament. And to the nobilitie, orthodox clergie, gentry, and communaltie of England. With the proceedings against him in Bow-Church. And an epistle to B. Mountague himselfe. also [sic], A supplication of the ministers of Scotland against the said Mountague. Wherein his dangerous heresies are revealed; and the character of an Arminian or Mountaguists is added.
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Edenburgi [i.e. London :: B. Alsop and T. Fawcet],
M. DC. XXIX. [1629].
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Montagu, Richard, 1577-1641 -- Early works to 1800.
Bishops -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"An appeale of the orthodox ministers of the Church of England against Richard Mountague late bishop of Chichester, now bishop of Norwich. To the most illustrious, high, and honourable court of Parliament. And to the nobilitie, orthodox clergie, gentry, and communaltie of England. With the proceedings against him in Bow-Church. And an epistle to B. Mountague himselfe. also [sic], A supplication of the ministers of Scotland against the said Mountague. Wherein his dangerous heresies are revealed; and the character of an Arminian or Mountaguists is added." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A72911.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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[unspec 6] Whereas in the 17th of the said Articles it is re∣solved;That God hath constantly decreed by his Councell secret to vs to deliver from curse and dam∣nation, Those whom hee hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to ever∣lasting salvation; Wherefore, they which bee in∣dued with so excellent a benefit of God, bee called according to Gods purpose working in due season: They by grace obey the calling, they bee justified freely, walke religiously in good works, and at
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length by Gods mercy attaine to everlasting feli∣citie.
Hee the said Richard Mountague in the booke a∣foresaid called the Appeale,* 1.1 doth maintaine and af∣firme, that men justified may fall away and depart from that state which once they had, they may rise againe and become new men possible, but not certaine nor ne∣cessarie, And the better to countenance this his opi∣nion, hee hath in the said Booke wilfully added fal∣sified and changed divers words of the 16th. of the Articles, afore-mentioned. And divers other words both in the Booke of Homilyes as in the Booke of Common Prayer,* 1.2 And all the same places so mis∣reoyted and changed, hee doth alledge in his said booke called the Appeale, endeauouring thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious scandall upon the Church of England, as if it did herein differ from the Reformed Churches of Ireland, and from the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas, and did consent to those pernicious Errors, which are com∣monly called Arminianisme, and which the late fa∣mous Princesse Queene Elizabeth and King James (of happy memorie) did so piously and diligently labor to suppresse.