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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.
Indeed this saying is to be understood of the manifest will of Christ. Yea, I even give thee a further thing than thou mayest desire. For I say, that in the place, Christ speaketh not only of his, but also of the ministry of all the Prophets, which had she wed the word of the Lord in Jerusalem, seeing all the Prophets were Christs instruments, that is, of that alone Prophet which the Lord promised to the Israelites by Moses.1 But it is a matter •f some weight, to know wherefore the Lord should manifest his will by his Ministers. For we here consider Christ as executing the office of a Minister, both by the mouth of his Prophets, and also by himself,2 when he was a Minister of Circumcision. Paul saith, that he showed to the Ephesians, all the counsel of God. Therefore Paul knew all the counsel of God. For neither speaketh he as a distraught man, 3or as thy Sibyls, those things which he understood not, but those things which he knew, even from God, and embraced by faith. But when the same would show forth the word of God in Asia and Bithynia, 4he was forbid by the holy Ghost. Some counsel therefore of Gods. Paul knew not, which, if he had known before, he would not have assayed to go into Bithynia.
Indéede this saying is to be vnderstoode of the manifest will of Christe. Yea, I euen giue thée a further thing than thou maiste desire. For I say, that in ye place, Christe speaketh not only of his, but also of the ministerie of al ye Prophets, which had she wed the word of ye Lord in Ierusalē, séeing all the Prophets were Christes instrumentes, that is, of that alone Prophet which the Lorde promised to the Israelits by Moses.