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…

For example, hath one committed whoredom? he is not to be blamed, for there should be enforced blasphemy against God. Hath some one desired his neighbours wife? let him have her if he can, for he knoweth certainly that he doth nothing but the will of God. That appertaineth to riches, he that can get them ⟨p. 86⟩by force, or by any crafty means, let him do it boldly, for he shall undertake nothing which is not allowed of God. He that hath violently taken whatsoever he could, let him not much trouble himself about restoring of them, for it is not besetting that God should be corrected. The some turn these five speculations to their profit, for whatsoever it be, they will neither that themselves be touched, nor that God whom they imagine, do any thing that may be hurt to them. If any one have suffered detriment against himself, or loss of goods, they laugh, and say, that all those be excellent, even that they contend with God, who accuse the authors of mischief, but if their least finger be never so little touched, forgetful of these fine reasons, they break out into choler, and are not more vehemently chafed against any. Here I will set down a pleasant History, whereby I will show what these dotages do them good, when they have most need. There was at Paris a certain Cobbler so forced with the poison of this sect, that he judged nothing to be evil. It came to pass, that when he would on a time visit Stephanus a Fabrica, with whom he had some dealing, and found him sad for his servant, which having run from him, had taken with him certain money, but the chief cause of his heaviness was, that he feared, least he should in some other place abuse his name amongst his Chapmen. The Cobbler asked what was amiss with him, he answered in three words (as he was a man of few words) incontinent the cobbler exalting himself, as if with displayed ⟨p. 87⟩wings, he would fly above the Clouds, he reproved Stephanus as blaspheming God, for that he called his work wickedness, and because GOD did all things, nothing is to be judged evil. Stephanus knowing that he could profit nothing by reasoning with him, in one word he cut of his talk.

For example, hath one committed whoredome? he is not to be blamed, for there shoulde be inforced blasphemie against God. Hath some one desired his neyghbours wife? let him haue hir if he can, for hée knoweth certaynely that he doth nothing but the will of God. That apperteyneth to riches, he that can get them