Besides this, reprobates have some prerogatives of God: kas that he is patient towards them: that before he will destroy them, he useth many means to win them: that they commonly spend all the days of their lives in prosperity: insomuch, ▪that it is said of them in the Psalm: lthat they go in continual prosperity unto their death, and pine not away as the children of God do. mBut after a certain time God in his just judgement hardeneth their harts, blindeth the eyes of their minds, he maketh their heads giddy with a spiritual drunkenness, and by the strength of their inward lusts, as also by the effectual operation of Satan, they fall to open infidelity, and contempt of Gods word, and so run headlong to their own damnation, and perish finally. nJulian the Apostate was first a man learned and eloquent, and professed the Religion of Christ, but afterward he fell and wrote a book against the religion of Christ, answered by Cyril: and on a time, in a battle against the Persians, was thrust into ⟨p. 23⟩•he bowels with a dart, no man then knew •ow, which dart he pulled out with his own •and, and presently blood followed, which •s it gushed out, he took it in his hand, and •loong it into the air, saying, Vicisti Galilaee, •icisti. O thou Galilean (meaning Christ) thou art the conqueror, thou art the conqueror: thus he ended his days in blaspheming Christ whom he had professed.
Besides this, reprobates haue some prerog•atiues of God: kas that he is patiēt towards them: that before he will destroy them, he vseth many meanes to winne them: that they commonly spend all the daies of their liues in prosperitie: insomuch, ▪that it is saide of them in the Psalme: lthat they goe in continuall prosperitie vnto their death, and pine not away as the children of God doe. mBut after a certaine time God in his iust iudgement hardeneth their harts, blindeth the eies of their minds, he maketh their heads giddie with a spirituall drunkennes, and by the strength of their inward lusts, as also by the effectuall operation of Satan, they fall to open infidelitie, and contempt of Gods word, and so runne headlong to their own damnation, and perish finally. nIulian the Apostata was first a man learned and eloquent, and professed the Religion of Christ, but afterward he fell and wrote a booke against the religion of Christ, answered by Cyrill: and on a time, in a battell against the Persians, was thrust into ⟨p. 23⟩•he bowels with a dart, no man then knewe •ow, which dart he pulled out with his own •and, and presently bloud followed, which •s it gushed out, he tooke it in his hand, and •loong it into the aire, saying, Vicisti Galilaee, •icisti. O thou Galilean (meaning Christ) thou art the conquerour, thou art the conquerour: thus he ended his daies in blaspheming Christ whom he had professed.
- kRom. 9. 22. & 2. 4. 5. Gen 6. 3.
- lPsal. 73. 12.
- m2. Pet. 2. 22. 1. Tim. 1. 4. 2. The 2. 6. Esa. 6. 10.
- nTheodor. lib. 3. Hist. cap. 25. Jacob. Bergom. Chron.
