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…

The foolish complaint of Medea is of the old Poet worthily derided, Utinam ne in nemore pelio &c. She being taken ¹with the furious love of a stranger and unknown man, betrayed her country, when she was in her self guilty of infidelity, and barbarous cruelty, when the scourge of inchastitie doth afflict her: she foolishly turneth her self to causes a far off, when man findeth within himself the cause of evil, what availeth it to wander that he may seek it in heaven? The fault is manifest, in that, that he would sin: why doth he (rushing into the passages of heaven) drown himself in a Labyrinth? Albeit that men wandering by infinite fetches do endeavour to deceive them selves, they shall never so amaze themselves, but they shall receive the sense of sin graven in their hearts: ungodliness therefore laboureth in vain to deliver man, whom his own conscience condemneth. And for that God wittingly, and willingly did suffer man to fall, the cause may be secrete, but unjust it cannot be. This is Calvins sentence of Adams fall, which why it should displease thee thou shouldest rather have showed, then to have so impudently slandered it: but there be two things which you use to pretend, to the which, I will answer apart. First ye complain, as you are men very religious, that by this means God becometh the author of all sins, sith by the fall of Adam all have succeeded, whose offence is to be attributed unto him, if in deed Adam fell by his inevitable decree. Then you require the express word of GOD, whereby that doctrine may be ratified. That which belonggeth ⟨p. 70⟩to the first, thou hast heard already, wherefore this thy consequence is naught worth, God ordained this, therefore he is in the fault. Calvin showeth a reason out of Augustine in these words. This (saith he) without controversy is to be holden, that God hath ever hated sin, for indeed this praise whereby he is glorified of David, is incident to him, that he is a God that will no iniquity, but rather in ordaining the fall of man, he had a most excellent and just end, from which the very name of sin is estranged. Although I so affirm him to have ordained it, as I grant not that he was the proper author thereof, doest thou here (Sycophant) Calvin excellently refuting that very blot of blasphemy, which falsely and maliciously you object against him?

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