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Articles, Lambeth
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
or The Lambeth articles were so called, because drawn up at Lambeth palace, under the eye and with the assistance of archbishop Whitgift, bishop Bancroft, bishop Vaughan, and other eminent dignitaries of the Church. That the reader may judge how Calvinistic the clergy were under the reign of queen Elizabeth, we shall here insert them. "
1. God hath from eternity predestinated certain persons to life, and hath reprobated certain persons unto death.
2. The moving or efficient cause of predestination unto life is not the foresight of faith, or of perseverance, or of good works, or of any thing that is in the persons predestinated; but the alone will of God's good pleasure.
3. The predestinati are pre-determined and certain number which can neither be lessened nor increased.
4. Such as are not predestinated to salvation shall inevitably be condemned on account of their sins.
5. The true, lively, and justifying faith, and the Spirit of God justifying, is not extinguished, doth not utterly fail, doth not vanish away in the elect, either finally or totally.
6. A true believer, that is, one who is endued with justifying faith, is certified by the full assurance of faith that his sins are forgiven, and that he shall be everlastingly saved by Christ.
7. Saving grace is not allowed, is not imparted, is not granted to all men, by which they may be saved, if they will.
8. No man is able to come to Christ, unless it be given him; and unless the Father draw him; and all men are not drawn by the Father, that they may cone to his Son.
9. It is not in the will or power of every man to be saved." What gave occasion to the framing these articles was this:
Some persons had distinguished themselves at the university of Cambridge by opposing predestination. Alarmed at the opinions that were vented, the above-mentioned archbishop, with others, composed these articles, to prevent the belief of a contrary doctrine. These, when completed, were sent down to Cambridge, to which the scholars were strictly enjoined to conform.
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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Articles, Lambeth'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/a/articles-lambeth.html. 1802.
