A09918:118
An evident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianism Wherein is mightily cleared the…An euident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianisme Wherein is mightelie cleared the…
An evident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianism Wherein is mightily cleared the sovereign truth of Gods eternal predestination, the staid groundwork of our most assured safety by Christ. Written in Latin by that reverend father, master Theodore Beza, and now lately Englished by VV.H. preacher of the Gospel.An euident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianisme Wherein is mightelie cleared the soueraigne truth of Gods eternall predestination, the stayd groundworke of oure most assured safetie by Christ. Written in Latin by that reuerend father, mayster Theodore Beza, and now lately Englished by VV.H. preacher of the Gospell.
London: printed by Ralph Newberie, 1578
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.
Another Argument of the Slanderers.
Another Argument of the Sclaunderers.
I will not the death of a Sinner.
REFUTATION.
REFVTATION.
SEE how rustical thou art, that is, rude & unlearned, for thou hast utterly forgot of what thing there should be demand. We strive not good man of death, and eternal damnation, (for we know that no man is damned but for his desert) but of the purpose of damning, whose cause, albeit to us it be unknown, yet is it ever just: for whatsoever God will, is just: and so God decreeth that he doth decree, that he ministereth just causes to the execution of his decree. Why therefore doest thou slide, omitting the mean causes from the decree of God, to the execution of it, that is, from the purpose of damning, to damnation, as though in deed the Lord should simply have thus determined from everlasting, I will vow this man to destruction, and not whether I will give over this man to destruction for his own fault, that my justice may appear I will speak yet more plainly. Thou doest foolishly that doest cite the testimony of death, that is by the execution of the counsel, where the counsel it self is in controversy. Yea the Prophet, whose double testimony thou abusest, disputeth against the men of thy faction, who complained that by the absolute power of God (as they call it) they had incurred Gods vengeance, as though God should deal with them tyrannously, that is, should rage against them, whether by right or wrong. But what sayeth the