LAMBETH ARTICLES. The Calvinistic doctrine of predestination and free-will, having been brought by the refugees from the continent to England, was favored by prof. Cartwright of Cambridge, but oppose by Barret, a fellow of Cams college. Arch bishop Whitgift directed him not to preach such doctrine again. Dr. Whittaker, the regius professor, supported the doctrines, and he and his party 'drew up nine articles which they submitted to the archbishop, who, Nov. 10, 1595, called at Lambeth an assembly to consider the question, consisting of Fletcher, the elect of London; Vaughan, elect of Bangor; Trindall, dean of Ely; Whittaker, and the Cambridge divines. They drew. up the following nine articles, known as the "Lambeth Articles": "1. God from eternity predestinated certain persons unto life, and reprobated certain persons unto death. 2. The moving cause of predestination to life is not the foresight of faith, or of perseverance, or of good works, or of anything that is in the persons predestinated, but the alone will of God's good pleasure. 3. The predestined are a predetermined and cer tain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased. 4. Such as are not prLdes
tinated 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, doilt not utterly fail, doth not vanish away in the elect, either finally or totally. O. A true believer—that is, one who is endued with justifying faith—is certified by the full assur ance 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 8. No man is able to come to Christ unless it he given him, and unless the Father draw him; and all men are not drawn by the Father, that they may come to his Son. 9. It is not in the will or power of everyman to be saved." The archbishop approved the articles Nov. 20, 1595, and sent them to Cambridge, but the queen ordered them to be recalled; and severely censured the archbishop.