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…

We of the contrary parry must observe, that the creatures in earth, do their works in their degree, which as they shall be done to that or this end, so are they to be taken to be good or evil. In the mean time, God governeth and disposeth all things, and directeth them to a perfect end: he turneth evil into good, or at the least, working after the goodness of his own nature, he enforceth some goodness, out of that which is evil, he so useth the Devil, that he doth not mingle himself with him, whereby he may have any thing common with him, or be entangled as conjoined in the society of evil, or with his justice take away the nature of evil. For as the Sun sending forth his beams into a dead carcass, and engendering certain corruption therein, draweth nothing corrupt or impure to it self: nor causeth by the pureness of it, whereby the carcass is the less corrupt and filthy: so ⟨p. 94⟩God worketh by the wicked in such sort, that the justice which is in him, shall not justify them, nor be defiled with their naughtiness and corruption. The third kind of divine working standeth in the governing of the faithful, in whom he liveth and reigneth by his Spirit. For as much as we are depraved with original sin, we are very like to barren and dry earth, bringing for the no good fruit at all, for corrupt is our judgement, our will disobedient to God, prone and ready unto evil, and finally all our nature is defiled, which seeing it is so, we can not only not enforce our minds to good things, but that which more is, we are not apt to think one good thought, but (as Paul saith) if we are any thing apt, it is of necessity that that come from him. Therefore it is he that worketh in us to will and perform, which lighteneth us, that he may bring us to the knowledge of himself, he draweth us to him, formeth new hearts in us, mollifying our hardness. He himself it is which breatheth into us an affection of praying, imparteth power and strength, to resist all the temptations of Satan, and causeth us to walk in his precepts.

Wée of the contrarie parie muste obserue, that the creatures in earth, doe their workes in theyr degree, whiche as they shalbe done to that or this ende, so are they to be taken to be good or euill. In the meane time, God gouerneth and disposeth all things, and directeth them to a perfect ende: he turneth euill into good, or at the least, working after the goodnesse of hys owne nature, he enforceth some goodnesse, out of that whiche is euill, he so vseth the Diuell, that he dothe not mingle himselfe with him, whereby he may haue any thing common with him, or be intangled as conioyned in the societie of euill, or with his iustice take away the nature of euill. For as the Sunne sendyng forth his beames into a dead carcasse, and ingendryng certayne corruption therein, draweth nothing corrupt or impure to it selfe: nor causeth by the purenesse of it, whereby the carcasse is the lesse corrupt and filthie: so