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…

Nor doeth the Gospel abolish righteousness by the law, but that which we find not in our selves, it teacheth to be freely imputed in Christ by ⟨p. 175⟩Faith: Thou seest therefore, that there are not straight two wills, where there appeared two, nor that there is repugnance there, where appeared to be chief. I will proceed. If thou thinkest that thou knowest whatsoever GOD will, nor that there is over and above. any secret will of GOD, say, I pray thee, what shall befall to thee or me to morrow by the will of the Lord. Prophesy how long the Lord will suffer, that thou shalt waste the Church of GOD. Or if thou like not to tell these, foreshow by thy Sibyls, which I hear thou art wont to prefer before the holyest Prophets themselves, as more worthy and evident, which of the two Kings shall conquer, Henry or Phillip. For if thou wilt accomplish this, and thou shalt easily do it, if there be no secret will of God above thy reach, thou shalt deliver many miserable mortal men of great care and heaviness: and that which thou miserably gapedst for long ago in vain, thou shalt by and by get thy self a great name. It rained with us this day in the morning. the rest of the day was fair enough. Let us set of the contrary, that in the same instants it was fair at Paris when it rained here, and that it rained when it was fair here. All these things came to pass by the determination and will of GOD. Are there therefore together in him two wills, and those indeed contrary? But do not you Sycophants acknowledge at the last, how sottish, how foolish, and ridiculous you are? For when we say, that there is a certain will of GOD revealed to us, but says also, there is a secret will, by and by with great laughter, you for such sage and reverent men do ask, whether there be two wills in God, and how we know this ⟨p. 176⟩secrete will. As though in deed when we say so, it be not sufficiently apparent, that we say not any other thing, than that the will of God, that is, his eternal counsels, be partly manifested to us, so much as concerneth our health, as Paul witnesseth Act. 20. that he had showed all the counsel of God to the Ephesians, that he might shut up all the way to false doctrine:

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