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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.
Truly thou couldest not cite any place more to the purpose than this of I say, that it may wholly agree with thee and thy faction. For what else is it to call God evil, than to do that you do, that is, to pervert those things which be we! & godly written with most filthy slanders. See therefore how gently and simply I will deal with thee: whatsoever thou collectest by these arguments, ⟨p. 164⟩I consent to thee, that it is true: but it may be, I grant thee more, than in deed thou wouldest, that is, that thou art brainless & stark mad, that thou shouldest hold such a conflict in so hot contention against thine own shadow. I will only in few words answer to yt objection, which y• unworthily layest to our charge. For we do not say that sin against God, is not sin, but when we distinguish between the works of God and of Satan, or the wicked, we use to say this in respect of God working, the works are good & just, which works, if we consider the evil instruments, as they also work, are evil and unjust, & therefore are of God punished with just punishments. This is not our distinction,1 seeing the Lord in Isaiah doth manifestly confirm the same: and Peter also, with the whole Church at Jerusalem, as we have taught a little before. So also Augustine, when he saith the father delivered his son, & the Lords own body, & Judas the Lord: why is God in this action just, & man guilty, except because in one thing which they did, yt cause not one, for which they did it? But if also thou please to read that which the same Augustine hath after his manner devoutly and wittily written of these matters in his Enchiridion to Laurentius, in the. 100. Chapter, thou shalt understand many which ought to have bin understood of thee before thou shouldest reprehend our doings. Therefore this distinction thou must either grant or refute,