The examination of Tilenus before the triers; in order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick preacher in the Common-wealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed the tenents of the remonstrants touching those five articles voted, stated and imposed, but not disputed, at the synod of Dort. Together with a short essay (by way of annotations) upon the fundamental theses of Mr. Thomas Parker.

Proofs out of Holy Scripture.

Not faith or any saving good of himself, &c. Ephes. 5. 8. Ye were sometimes darkness: Rom. 7. 5. When we were in the flesh, the mo∣tions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. Rom. 11. 32. God hath concluded all in unbe∣lief. Ephes. 2. 8. For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of your selves: it is the gift of God. Phil. 1. 8, 9. To you it is given—to believe. 1 Cor. 12. 3. None can say, that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost; (who is therefore called) the spirit of faith. 2 Cor. 4. 13. 2 Cor. 3. 5. Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing, as of our selves: but our sufficiencie is of God. Rom. 5. 6. For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Iohn 15. 5. Without me, ye can do nothing. Iohn 6. 44, 45, 65. No man can come to me, except the Father draw him. Every man there∣fore, that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me.

Must needs be regenerated, &c. John 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inhe∣rit the Kingdome of God: 1 Cor. 15. Iohn 3. 3, 5. Except a man be born of water and of the

spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6. 11. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God: Tit. 3. 4, 5, 6. Not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savi∣our: 1 Pet. 1. 3, 23. The father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath begotten us again, not of cor∣ruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, &c. See Ezek. 36. 26, 27. Renewed in understanding, will, affections, &c. Ephes. 4. 23. Renewed in the spirit of your mindes: Col. 3. 10. In knowledge: See 1 Cor. 1. 4, 5. Tit. 2. 11. Acts 26. 18. To whom I send thee, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God: Acts 15 9. God, through the Holy Ghost, purify∣ing their hearts by faith: Heb. 9. 14. The blood of Christ purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God: 1 Pet. 1. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth, through the spirit, and the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly: 1 Thes. 5. 23.

To do that which is savingly good, &c. Mat. 7. 17, 18. and chap. 12. 33, 34, 35. Make the tree good, and his fruit good: Rom. 6. 22. But now being made free from sin, and

become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life: See verse 18.