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 day truly sufficeth me not to recite such testimonies. But if I should have alleged but even one of these testimonies, I think there is none, to whom your great and incredible impudency might not sufficiently appear. But yet I will set down others in their place, and least you complain that I rather obscure a dark matter then make it manifest, I will briefly show what our judgement is of Gods ordinance and action even in those things, which not as they are of God, but in respect of their being done of the instruments, deserve the name of sin: and also what we teach out of the word of God, of the difference of sufferance and will: and then I will answer thine arguments a part. I have thought good to manifest these things with brief and plain distinctions, aphorisms or articles, that thou mightest not complain of darkness. 1 God effectually doth,¹ or bringeth to pass all things according to the determination of his will. 2 God verily executeth this counsel in certain moments of time, but yet the same is eternal, and going before all things, not only in time, seeing it is before all time, but also in order. For otherwayes the will of God should not be the chief rule of the counsel of God: but rather the foreseen, or foreknown qualities of things, enforcing God to take this or that counsel, should prescribe an order ⟨p. 110⟩to the will of God. 3 This Counsel cannot be separate from the will of God, but we shall despoil him of his deity. 4. This counsel is not only set in the moderation and direction of effects, as Pallas with the Poet is feigned to turn away the dart of Pandarus from the breast of Menelaus, to the inferior parts fenced with a studded girdle: but hath a working and effectual force in all things, which Paul hath declared by the word [Greek or Hebrew], to do effectually. 5. This force and power of working is attributed to God working, for it is not said to be of God. Therefore by this word, there is not showed any natural faculty, given to certain things of God the creator, to do this or that: but the very power of God which he hath in himself to do all things. 6. The universal note in the saying of Paul, cannot be restrained with any exception be it never so little, but God in that part shall be taken to be idle, by the assertion of Epicurus.

the day truely sufficeth me not to recite such testimonies. But if I shold haue alleaged but euen one of these testimonies, I thinke there is none, to whome your great and incredible impudencie might not sufficiently appeare. But yet I will set downe others in their place, and least you complayne that I rather obscure a darke matter then make it manifest, I will briefly shewe what our iudgement is of Gods ordinaunce and action euen in those things, which not as they are of God, but in respecte of theyr beyng done of the instruments, deserue the name of sinne: and also what wée teach out of the worde of God, of the difference of sufferance and will: and then I will answere thine arguments a parte. I haue thought good to manifest these things with briefe and playne distinctions, aphorismes or articles, that thou mightest not complayne of darknesse. 1 God effectually doth,