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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 Slanderers fourth argument to the eleventh Slander.
The Slaunderers fourth argument to the eleuenth Slaunder.
James writeth plainly, that no man is tempted of God, but every one of his own lust.
Iames writeth plainly, that no man is tempted of God, but euery one of his owne lust.
THE REFUTATION.
THE REFVTATION.
IT is of necessity, that whether thou wilt or no thou confess that the word of tempting is no [Greek or Hebrew] signifying many things. For it is plainly written in Deuteronomy of the evil Prophet, The Lord trieth your and in the same book, the Lord saith, that he tempted the people forty years in the wilderness: and in another place God tempteth Abraham. Yea men also are said to tempt God: and Paul adviseth that we try our selves. Yet James denieth, that any is tempted of the Lord, but rather of his own lust, that is, of the mean whereby Satan tempteth us, or we are tempted of other men, or of our selves. For the Lord is said after his manner to tempt us, that is, to approve, that laying before us the occasion of manifesting of our mind to be manifested, either our selves may understand what we be, least flattering our selves, we deceive our selves, but that rather when we know our weakness, we may begin to repent, or that our dissembling may be manifest to others. Hence it is that by the name of Temptation is eftsoons understood affliction, because it trieth our faith.