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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.
The censure of the Sycophant.
SO they say that the second Article is the Devils doctrine, and they require of us Calvin, that we show them where it is written in the divine books.
SO they say that the second Article is the Deuils doctrine, and they require of vs Caluine, that we shewe them where it is written in the diuine bookes.
THE REFUTATION.
THE REFVTATION.
IN patching of this slander, thou hast kept thine inclination, for thy self hast forged that thou brabblest of Adam, predestinate to damnation. and of the Apple that God set before him. These (I say) thou hast impudently feigned, that it ⟨p. 67⟩shall not need to answer any thing to them. And how reverently and religiously Calvin used to think and write of the fall of Adam, may appear by these testimonies, which I have written out word for word, partly of his Institutions of Christian Religion, and partly of his Book of eternal Predestination. So dependeth the destruction of the reprobate (sayeth he) of the Predestination of God, that the cause and matter be found in themselves, for the first man did fall, for that the Lord did so see it expedient. Why he so determined, we know not, yet it is assured that he determined no otherwayes, but because he saw it good that the glory of his own name should be advanced thereby. Where thou hearest mention of the glory of GOD, think there to be justice, for it must be just that deserveth praise, man therefore falleth (Gods providence so ordaining) but he falleth through his own fault.