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…

But no man (in my judgement) hath more plainly she wed this thing, than Calvin, and verily in that very place which thou though-test best to reprehend.

But no manne (in my iudgement) hathe more plainelye she wed this thing, than Caluin, and verily in that very place which thou though-test best to reprehend.

There is not (saith he) any cause, why any man ⟨p. 178⟩should draw God into the society of the fault, so often as betwixt his secrete counsel, and the manifest wicked desires of men there appeareth any likelihood. And by & by, of a trueth, (sayeth he) when Paul crieth out: O the Profundity, he plainly teacheth, that there was some other judgement of God concerning the Jews, than is expressed in Christs words: Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thy children together. And whereas he would not the sons of Hely should obey their father, that will differed from the precept of the Law, wherein he commandeth children to obey their parents. But this is the place, of which thou haste patched thy slander, and indeed with apparent lewdness. For, for to differ from the precept of the law, thou haste placed, to fight against the precept of the Law. But those things which do differ in themselves, do not yet of necessity rebel one against an other? as in this kind: Frowardness doeth not fight against obedience, insomuch indeed, as God willeth it. For God willeth not, that the sons of Hely should be rebels against their father, as beholding and allowing this rebellion in it self, but rather by this means making way to his just judgement. But do these fight between themselves, and not rather especially accord in themselves, to command, that obedience be showed to parents, and to punish those that rebel against that precept, with another rebellion, that they may reap their just punishment at the last? Further, lest I seem to thee to fly to subtleties, let us hear what exposition Calvin giveth of this saying, lest thou mayst complain of darkness or of doubtfulness. For what is more indifferent than that he himself be the interpreter of his own mind?