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 he willeth many things, and therefore suffereth not because he doth simply allow them, but [Greek or Hebrew], after a sort. For he alloweth them in that he suffereth them; because that hitherto they be no sins, as we said already: but he disalloweth and revengeth, as he considereth the wicked instruments whose deeds they be. 33 These be Augustine's words, in his Enchiridion to Laurentius, the. 100. chapter. Great are the works of the Lord, sought out into all his wills, as in a wonderful and unspeakable manor, that is not done besides his will, which is done against his will; because it should ⟨p. 116⟩not have been done if he had not suffered it: nor in deed doth he suffer against his will, but willingly. The same in his fifth Book against Julianus the third Chapter, where, of set purpose he hath disputed against them, which determine an idle foreknowledge or sufferance, and at the last breaketh out into these words, truly (sayeth he) if we suffer them over whom we have authority, to commit offences before our eyes, we shall be guilty with them. But how innumerable things doth he suffer to be done before his eyes, which verily if he would not, he would by no means suffer? and yet is he just and good. 34 The whole Scripture, & common reason doth show, that nothing is done without the will of God, no not of those which seem most casual, as Genes. 27.20. it is said, God brought the pray to Jacobs hands by & by. And in Exod. 21.13. So oft as man slaughter is committed at unawares, the Lord (saith Moses) hath brought to pass, that he should fall into thy hands. The like is said of the event of lots, in the Proverb. 16.33. of all the counsels of men, in the. 4. of Daniel. 32. of the falling of Sparrows, in the. 10. of Matthew. 29. and finally of all things without exception, in the first to the Ephesians. 11. 35 But it plainly appeareth almost by every page of Scripture, that in deed the most effectual will of God, doth some betwixt, even then also when he worketh by the wicked. So he is said to have sent Joseph into Egypt, Gen. 45.8. So he stirred up Pharaoh to manifest bys power in him, Exod. 4.21. So he gave the wives of David to his son Absalom,