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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is a true rule; God that hath predestinated the means, hath not left out the end: Uno proposito utrumque: with one and the same purpose he determined them both. Though man lives not by bread only, yet he that will not eat, shall not live.1 There was a son that held his desperate opinion, to the great grief of his parents: one day he came to his father to borrow a horse, saying that he must be at Rome by such an hour. The father replied, if you must be there, you shall be there though you stir never a foot. Whereby he convinced him, that if he could not get to Rome without a horse, how should he get to heaven without motion? There is another story of an Italian, so opinionated of Predestination; If I be elected, I shall be saved; if rejected, I shall not be recovered. He received a dangerous wound, and sent to the Chirurgeon to help him. The Chirurgeon being made acquainted with his impious assertion, told him; It shall be needless for me to use any means for you: for if your time be not come, you shall escape without medicine: if it be come, medicine cannot restore you. The Patient smarting with grief, and seriously pondering the Chirurgeons speech; that God sends no help without means; penitently recanted his error, humbly submitted himself to means, and so was cured of body and soul at once.
It is a true rule; God that hath predestinated the meanes, hath not left out the end: Ʋno proposito utrumque: with one and the same purpose hee determined them both. Though man lives not by bread only, yet he that will not eate, shall not live.1 There was a sonne that held his desperate opinion, to the great griefe of his parents: one day hee came to his father to borrow a horse, saying that hee must be at Rome by such an houre. The father replied, if you must be there, you shall be there though you stirre never a foot. Whereby he convinced him, that if he could not get to Rome without a horse, how should he get to heaven without motion? There is another story of an Italian, so opinionated of Predestination; If I be elected, I shall be saved; if rejected, I shall not be recovered. He received a dangerous wound, and sent to the Chirurgion to help him. The Chirurgion being made acquainted with his impious assertion, told him; It shall be needlesse for me to use any meanes for you: for if your time be not come, you shall escape without medicine: if it bee come, medicine cannot restore you. The Patient smarting with griefe, and seriously pondering the Chirurgions speech; that God sends no helpe without meanes; penitently recanted his error, humbly submitted himselfe to meanes, and so was cured of body and soule at once.