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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.
THE REFUTATION.
THE REFVTATION.
I say again, that thou art a doltheade, which takest a most sharp upbraiding and rebuke for sufferance. And I send thee again to the Grammar school, that thou mayest learn there what is the force of the figure called Ironia, and how many sorts there be accounted of it. And that which thou ceasest not to trifle of the spirit of error, who can take it in good part?1 If a Prophet being deceived, speak the word, I the Lord have seduced that Prophet, sayeth the Lord in Ezekiel.2 And in an other place what saith the Lord to the lying spirit? Thou shalt persuade (saith he) and overcome: go out therefore and do so. And what witnesseth Paul?3 For that (saith he) that they have not received the love of the trueth, to the end they might be saved, therefore GOD will send them strong delusions, that they may believe lies. I pray thee, good man, advise again and again with thy self diligently, he that sendeth from him the executioner with certain commandments, that he punish with just correction men that ⟨p. 138⟩be convict malefactors and condemned, may he be said only to forsake them, and not himself rather willing and determining to make strong the executioners hand to their just punishment; Al these, if thou knowest not, albeit of their own nature be sins, which God hateth & revengeth, yet for as much as they are decreed of God, they are nothing else but punishments of sin. If thou believest not Augustine,