Volume 1
An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook.
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- Date:
- 1845-1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BAR. S27 cation, tacitly admitting that the thirty-nine articles are not calvinistic. ‘The Lambeth articles are the following : ‘““]. God hath from eternity predestinated some persons to hfe, and some he hath reprobated to death. 2. The moving, or efficient cause of predestination to life, is not the foresight of faith, or perseverance, or good works, or of any other quality in the predestinated persons; but the sole will and good pleasure of God. 8. The number of the predestinate is before-limited and certain, and can neither be increased nor lessened. 4. ‘Those who are not predestinated to salvation, shall be necessarily damned for their sins. 5. A true, lively, and justifying faith, and the sanctifying Spirit of God, is not extinguished, doth not fail, nor vanish away in the elect, either totally, or finally. 6. A man who is truly one of the faithful, that is, endued with justifying faith, is certain, with full assurance of faith, of the remission of his sins, and of his everlasting salva- tion by Jesus Christ. 7. Saving grace is not given, is not communicated, is not granted to all men, so as that they may be saved by it if they will. 8. No one can come to Christ unless it is given him, and unless the Father draws him ; but all men are not drawn by the Father that they may come to the Son. 9. It is not in every one’s will or power to be saved.” The archbishop gave great offence to the queen by resorting to this measure in order to conciliate the heads of houses, and in much anxiety he wrote to them, warning them that the Lambeth articles merely contained the pri- vate judgment of those who drew them up; that they had no other authority than that which their learning and sta- tion gave them, and entreating them to use them with dis- eretion. The correspondence, which may be seen in Strype, conveys the impression that the archbishop regretted the step which, for the sake of conciliation, he had adopted, but could not retrace. The archbishop had not perhaps considered the subject very deeply. But his. grace was now committed, and the wary heads of houses immediately communicated the articles to the lady Margaret professor,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33029416_0001_0543.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
