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 indeed it is true, that those Israelites were not forbidden to go into the land of Canaan, but for their own fault: but whence doest thou understand, that the Lord did ever otherwise determine of them? from thence, because they were all baptised in the cloud, as if indeed the Lord had ordained to life all those that are borne of Abraham, after the flesh, and circumcised, or all those which are baptised in the Church of Christ. And that which the Lord sayeth to Moses,¹ ye shall not doubtless come into the land, for which I lifted up my hand, (ye is, I sware) ye I would place you in it: this I say, if thou takest to make for thee, thou art much deceived: & by those which we wrote a little before, thou mayest easily be refelled. For what answereth the L. to Moses, praying for the people's health? I have forgiven this people (saith he) according to ⟨p. 148⟩Yet by and by it followeth, that except two, none above twenty years old, should enter into Canaan. What then? verily, yet the LORD sayeth, he spared the people, to whom he had threatened destruction: nor is this to be taken of every person. The LORD therefore had sworn to the people, that he would place them in Canaan: which also he did, albeit they went not in, which had rebelled: and in deed he partly punished so the Rebels, as yet he showed mercy to their posterity, and abode by his promise: but partly he so showed himself merciful to these, as he justly punished those, and nevertheless cleared his own faithfulness, as is showed in the. 20. Chapter of Ezekiel. In the mean time, there is left no place to the changing of his determination, or for repentance. For whereas it is sometimes said, that the LORD hath repented: If thou understandest not, that it is spoken by figure, in deed thou knowest not the first grounds of Christian religion: if thou impudently deniest it, thou art more worthy for thy blasphemy to be suppressed of a Magistrate, than that thou shouldest be informed of any one.

For indéede it is true, that those Israelites were not forbidden to goe into the lande of Canaan, but for their owne faulte: but whence doest thou vnderstande, that the Lord did euer otherwise determine of them? from thence, bycause they were all baptised in the cloude, as if indéede the Lorde hadde ordained to life all those that are borne of Abraham, after the fleshe, and circumcised, or all those whiche are baptised in the Church of Christe. And that which the Lorde sayeth to Moses,