A04920:668
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.
ANSWER.
ANSWERE.
In this description of your God (whom you do term the true God) I do wonder of three things. First that in this your description ye dissent from your great angel Castalio. Secondly how it is that ye have forgotten your selves: And last why ye omit these properties, which the scriptures do no less attribute to God, then any that you allege. Your master, and chief champion Castalio (now left for your comfort) in the description of his God thus writeth. But that God whom both nature, and reason, and the scriptures do teach, is ready to mercy, and slow to wrath, who hath created man, of whom all men are borne, to his own image, like to him self, that he should place him in Paradise, and give to him the blessed life. This God will that all men be saved, and that none perish, and therefore he hath sent his Son into the earth, that justice might superabound, where so ever sin hath abounded, the light of whose justice, doth illuminate every man, that cometh in to this world. Wonder it is I say that ye who so•constantly have ⟨p. 382⟩followed your master in all this your work, have dissented from him, or at least omitted his words, in these two points, which in this case be principal. For, first by his description he will that nature, and reason, shall no less teach you and your faction, God, then shall the scriptures. So that he, whose works you be not able to comprehend by nature, and reason, shall not be to you the true God. And secondarily, that except he will all to be saved: and that the light of his sons justice do so illuminate all men coming into this world, that where so ever sin hath abounded, there must justice superabound, that to you likewise he be no God. These be two chief points in this controversy.