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…

15 The same, albeit they are causes, forasmuch as they work by the interior and their own moving, yet in an other respect they are called instruments, that is as often & forasmuch as they are moved of an other: as when the hangman ⟨p. 112⟩at the commandment of the Magistrate killeth a man, or as when by the enforcement of Satan some hurteth others, or when in the name or at the commandment of any one we do good or evil to any. 16 In this kind of works, every one seeth one, and the same work to be attributed to two, that is, to one, in deed as enforcing, and working, by another, as by an instrument, and to another, but to the agent himself, for so he is an instrument, as in deed he worketh by his interior and own motion, but not simply, as the hammer or are in the hand of the Carpenter. 17 Yea for this double respect, there seemeth also to be yielded a double work, and in deed so much, as one is commendable, the other vicious: as if the Magistrate deliver the offender to the hangman, every man will worthily con mend that work: but if the hangman, being rather moved with hatred, or covetousness, or any other wicked desire, then with the judges commandment, do put him to death, truly before God he can not escape the fault of murder. 18 Now therefore, let us apply these things to God himself, whose power of working we proved before to come in between, in all things that are made without all exception: and that so that by those things which he hath made, as by instruments, he executeth in his time whatsoever he hath decreed from everlasting. 19 What soever God doth, it is good, sith that no evil can proceed from the sovereign goodness, but he doth all things. All things therefore are good, forasmuch as they be done of God: and that difference of good and evil hath only place in the instruments, & in deed in those of whom we spake in the fourteenth proposition. 20 For if these instruments be good, and respect the manifested will of God, they do well, and God doth well by ⟨p. 113⟩them: whence it is that that work is every way good: as when the good Angels do execute that which God commandeth: and holy men do follow when God calleth. 21 But the evil instruments, (evil I say, not by creation but by corruption) for so much verily as they do, they do always evil, therefore they worthily incur the wrath of God:

15 The same, albeit they are causes, for asmuch as they worke by the interior and their owne mouing, yet in an other respect they are called instruments, yt is as often & for asmuch as they are moued of an other: as whē ye hangmā