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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…
An evident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianism Wherein is mightily cleared the sovereign truth of Gods eternal predestination, the staid groundwork of our most assured safety by Christ. Written in Latin by that reverend father, master Theodore Beza, and now lately Englished by VV.H. preacher of the Gospel.An euident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianisme Wherein is mightelie cleared the soueraigne truth of Gods eternall predestination, the stayd groundworke of oure most assured safetie by Christ. Written in Latin by that reuerend father, mayster Theodore Beza, and now lately Englished by VV.H. preacher of the Gospell.
London: printed by Ralph Newberie, 1578
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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LO thou stumblest again at the same stone, and imaginest monsters to thy self, which thou mayest withstand, to the end thou mayst be thought some other Hercules. For because we say, as the truth is, that is, that God neither against his will not idly beholdeth, but willing, and always justly, and wisely decreeing mens matters, doth, what soever he doth, commandeth, whatsoever he commandeth, and suffereth, whatsoever he suffereth, because no outrage of the instruments can prejudice the wisdom & justice of God by any means: thereupon thou straight ways gatherest, that we intend ⟨p. 134⟩that whatsoever God willingly suffereth, that he simply & by it self should allow. But seeing that, that with many others, thou dreamest waking, go too if it please thee, wrestle with thine own dreams, that all men may know that this is not our forgery. For we affirm, that God never willeth iniquity, no not even then, when for secrete causes, albeit yet for most just causes, he letteth loose the reins of the wicked, or giveth them to be Satan's bondslaves.
LOE thou stumblest againe at the same stone, and imaginest monsters to thy selfe, whiche thou mayest withstand, to the ende thou mayst be thought some other Hercules. For bycause we say, as the truth is, that is, that God neyther against his will not idlely beholdeth, but willing, and alwayes iustlye, and wiselye decréeing mens matters, doth, what soeuer he doth, commandeth, whatsoeuer he commaundeth, and suffereth, whatsoeuer he suffereth, bycause no outrage of the instruments can preiudice the wisedome & iustice of God by any meanes: therevpon thou streyght wayes gatherest, that we intēd ⟨p. 134⟩that whatsoeuer God willingly suffereth, that he simply & by it selfe should allow. But seeing that, that withmany others, thou dreamest waking, go too if it please thée, wrastle with thine owne dreames, that all men maye know that this is not oure forgery. For we affirme, that God neuer willeth iniquitie, no not euen then, when for secrete causes, albeit yet for most iuste causes, he letteth loose the raines of the wicked, or giueth them to be Satans bondslaues.