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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 tenth Slander.
The tenth Slaunder.
Satan is a liar by the power of God.
Sathan is a lyer by the power of God.
THE ANSWER.
THE AVNSVVERE.
These be Calvins words, which after thy manner thou hast cited maimed, that thou mayst persuade, that it pleaseth Calvin that God be the author of lies, and so much the more to command lying. Thus contrariwise saith Calvin, God himself doth now use the wicked, to punish the sins of men, as it were whips, and sometimes, as if he should draw them by the neck, he causeth them to be ministers of his loving kindness.1 These saith Calvin, who after he hath with plain testimonies proved each member, at the last he addeth, the same is to be seen in Satan, the Captain of all the ungodly, and Prince of all wickedness. God sendeth him to deceive Ahab, with this commandment, that he be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets.