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An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations
An answer to a great number of blasphemous cavillations written by an Anabaptist, and adversary to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by John Knox, minister of Gods word in Scotland. Wherein the author so discovereth the craft and falsehood of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the evident Word of GodAn answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by Iohn Knox, minister of Gods worde in Scotland. Wherein the author so discouereth the craft and falshode of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the euident Worde of God
Geneva: printed by John Crespin, 1560Geneva: printed by Iohn Crespin, 1560
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.
THE ADVERSARY.
THE ADVERSARIE.
God hath given to all his sensible creatures a natural inclination to love their births,1 then doth God also love his birth as he saith, shall I cause other to bear and shall not I also bear? Likewise shall God make other to love their births, and he not love his own birth? Man is the birth and child of God created to his own image and similitude (as the Prophet saith have we not alone father?2 Hath not one God made us? And Paul saith:3 we are the ⟨p. 40⟩generation of God. Wherefore God loveth his own birth, that is man. Then did he not reprobate, and cast away man afore he was. For that were a proof, that he hated and abhorred his own birth above all other. Now there is no wild beast, much less any man which would bring forth their birth to destruction. How much less then becometh it the goodness of God to make and bring forth like to his own image and similitude unto perpetual• confusion?
God hath geuē to all his sensible creatures a naturall inclination to loue their birthes,1 then doth God also loue his birthe as he saith, shall I cause other to beare and shall not I also beare? Lykewise shall God make other to loue their birthes, ād he not loue his own birthe? Man is the birthe and child of God created to his own image ād similitude (as the Prophet saith haue we not alone father?