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…

Therefore I profess, that I cannot see what common sense can show thee, that sufferance can be separated from will, or that God can suffer any thing against his will. Yet I confess, that there is otherwise great odds betwixt God and men, using the help and procuration of men. For that we say nothing of the lewd counsels of men, that, which for the most part men do, being enforced with necessity, ••cause they cannot accomplish their own, nor other mens matters, God doeth it with most free will: seeing otherwise he is of himself Omnipotent, and in himself altogether [Greek or Hebrew] sufficient.¹

Therefore I professe, that I cannot sée what common sense can shewe thée, that sufferaunce can be separated from will, or that God can suffer any thing againste his will. Yet I confesse, that there is otherwise greate oddes betwixte God and men, vsing the helpe and procuration of men. For that we say nothing of the lewd counsells of men, that, which for the moste parte men do, being enforced with necessity, ••cause they cannot accomplishe their owne, nor other mens matters, God doeth it with moste frée will: séeing otherwise he is of hymselfe Omnipotent, and in himselfe altogither 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 sufficient.¹

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Men oft times either by fear or force, or by some other mean constrained rather than provoked, do permit many things, which they would not undone. But God alone decreeing with most free will, permitteth that which ¹he doeth permit. Because Apollo in the Poets sweareth rashly, by the law of an oath, after a sort he is constrained to grant the Chariot to Phaeton perishing. Yet he willing, granteth the Chariot, because the regard