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 our natural affection is an inordinate appetite, and as it were a thirst to do wickedly, When therefore we bless our selves (as he saith in that place) and persuade our selves that we shall have peace, so long as we live loosely & wickedly: that is even so as, as if one vehemently inflamed with thirst, should make himself drunk with wine, least he should any more be moved with any sense, when he ought rather to have bridled and repressed I is thirst with sobriety and abstinence. An excellent place truly for our instruction: that we may understand what poison lurketh under the honey, which these unlucky men deliver unto us. Yet notwithstanding they continually apply themselves to this outscape, that there is utterly nothing done besides the will of God. But I answer, that, for that belongeth to the works that we do, Gods will is to be considered of us in such forte, as himself declareth the same. As, for example, when he commandeth ⟨p. 99⟩every thing to be kept to his proper owner: that loss and injury be not done to any: there bys will is evident. What therefore may please him further ought not to be searched, for we know that if we do that, we shall obey his will: but if not, we shall not be accepted of him. If any therefore should steal, and say then that he hath done nothing besides the will of God, he lieth impudently, seeing he hath transgressed the commandment of God, in the which he was given to understand of it. Some one will ask whether any thing can be done against the will of God: I grant their can not. But we must utterly take heed that we inquire not of his providence, which is unknown to us: sith we know what he requireth of us, what he alloweth, or what be condemneth. Solomon affirmeth not without cause that it will come to pass,¹ that he shall be confounded of the glory that searcheth the majesty. And of truth, it is for ever necessary that it fall out so, and that this way the arrogance of the proud be punished. That we have by experience in these, who when they will clime above the clouds, that they may search out the will of God, when they are not contented with the revelation which is set bowne thereof in the Scriptures, they run headlong into so absurd and beastly dotages, as is horrible both to be spoken and heard.

for our natural affection is an inordinate appetite, and as it were a thirst to do wickedly, When therfore we blesse our selues (as he saith in that place) and persuado our selues that we shall haue peace, so long as we liue loosely & wickedly: that is euen so as, as if one vehemently inflamed with thirste, shoulde make himselfe drunke with wine, least he should any more be moued with any sence, when he ought rather to haue brydled and repressed I is thirste with sobrietie and abstinencie. An excellent place truly for our instruction: that we may vnderstande what poyson lurketh vnder the honie, whiche these vnluckie men deliuer vnto vs. Yet notwithstandyng they continually apply themselues to thys outscape, that there is vtterly nothing done besides the will of God. But I answere, that, for that belongeth to the workes that we doe, Gods will is to be considered of vs in suche forte, as himselfe declareth the same. As, for example, when he commaundeth