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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 Sycophants fourth Argument to the seventh Slander.
The Sycophantes fourth Argument to the seauenth Sclaunder.
IF it be objected against them, that God hath two wills, and that contrary one against another, that is one manifest in his commandments, and the other secret, they ask who hath manifested that secrete will to Calvin, for if Calvin and his do know it, it is not secrete, but if they know it not, why do they avouch an unknown thing?
IF it be obiected agaynste them, that God hath two willes, and that contrarie one againste another, that is one manifest in his commaundementes, and the other secreate, they aske who hath manifested that secrete will to Caluine, for if Caluine and his doe knowe it, it is not secrete, but if they know it not, why do they auouch an vnknowen thing?
THE REFUTATION.
THE REFVTATION.
THAT God hath two wills, much less contrary, the very Manichees have not said, as those who had rather determine two beginnings, than to vomit out this blasphemy, that God doth daily infinite things willingly, which none might in deed suspect, no man denieth but he that is mad. But in those things which he hath manifested to us, how many things be there, whose reason is so secrete in God, that it passeth the understanding even of Angels?