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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 Second and third argument to the eleventh Slander.
The Second and third argument to the eleuenth Sclaunder.
If God do prompt in evil & unhonest affections, & yet commandeth us to resist evil affections, he commandeth us to resist himself, & he is contrary to himself. Every good gift is from above & cometh down from the father of lights. But are also evil affections a good gift, or descend darkness (for evil affections are in deed darkness) from the father of all light?
If God do prompte in euil & vnhonest affections, & yet commaundeth vs to resist euill affections, he commaundeth vs to resist himselfe, & he is contrarie to himselfe. Euerie good gifte is from aboue & commeth downe from the father of lights. But are also euil affections a good gift, or descend darkenesse (for euil affections are in deede darkenesse) from the father of al light?
THE REFUTATION.
THE REFVTATION.
WE worthily refer the lewdness of affections not to the first cause which always doth most justly, but to those beginnings whence they proceed, that is, to Satan and the corruption of man. Therefore we say that no affections are ministered, in that they are evil. But thou when thou sayest that they are permitted of GOD, doest indeed attribute to GOD which is most estranged from his nature, albeit we should grant thee, that there is this idle sufferance. For of what sort is Gods justice, if by any means he suffer sins in that they are sins, or affections, in that they are evil? Thou therefore, caitiff, stranglest thy self with thine own sword: and when thou indeed gatherest these things, thou doest in great earnest approve thy self a wicked and blasphemous wretch.