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…

Furthermore, how are the vassals ordained in Adam, some to mercy and honour, and some to wrath and reproach? truly not without the voluntary fall of Adam coming betwixt, for except by his own will, albeit by the ordinance of God, yet without all fault of God, Adam should have fallen, there had neither place bin left for mercy, nor for judgement, and therefore the counsel of God should have bin to no purpose. Confess therefore by this place of the Apostle, that it is God which hath made the vassals of wrath and mercy, and therefore hath justly ordained the necessary causes to that end, except thou hadst rather accuse God of ignorance and rashness, or imagine the Potter to depend upon the clay, and not the contrary, that the Potter formeth the Clay, so as it pleaseth him, that it may come to the appointed end. Furthermore when Paul saith, that God hath included all under disobedient,¹ that he might have mercy on all, that is to say, which shall believe (as the same Apostle expresseth in another place) and therefore which were elected. Thinkest thou not that he doth ascend even to the very fountain of disobedience, that is, to the fall of Adam, when he shall come to that point that he crieth, Oh the depth of Gods judgements? But these in deed seem not to the sufficiently manifest, for thou wouldest that a place should be set down, wherein God should be said manifestly, and in plain words, to have willed and decreed, that Adam should fall, but I ask ⟨p. 77⟩again, where thou canst find in the Scriptures (so as thou requirest) the drunkenness of Noah and Lot expressly condemned, and also his incest, the lye of Isaac in Gerar, the manslaughter of Simeon and Levi, the malice and whoredom of Judah, the polygamy of Abraham, and many others, the evil and very wicked judgement of David, whereby he punished Myphiboseth, the son of a most loving man, with the loss of half his goods, and enricheth Siba a wicked betrayer of his master, as for a good act, with great rewards, these I say, and innumerable the like, I ask where thou canst find condemned in plain and proper words? surely I fear thou canst find it in no place, and wilt thou therefore think that these are not to be condemned?

Furthermore, how are the vassals ordeyned in Adam, some to mercie and honour, and some to wrath and reproche? truely not withoute the voluntarie fall of Adam comming betwixt, for excepte by his owne will, albeit by the ordinance of God, yet withoute all faulte of God, Adam should haue fallen, there hadde neither place bin left for mercy, nor for iudgement, and therefore the councell of God shoulde haue bin to no purpose. Confesse therefore by thys place of the Apostle, that it is God whiche hathe made the vassals of wrath and mercy, and therefore hathe iustly ordeyned the necessarie causes to that ende, excepte thou hadst rather accuse God of ignorance and rashnesse, or ymagine the Potter to depende vpon the clay, and not the contrarie, that the Potter formeth the Clay, so as it pleaseth him, that it may come to the appoynted end. Furthermore when Paule sayth, that God hath included all vnder disobediente,