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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 nature of the true God, after the opinion of the Slanderer.
The nature of the true God, after the opinion of the Sclaunderer.
But that God, whom nature, and reason, and Scriptures teach, is flat contrary to him: for he is ready to forgive, and slow to wrath, which created man, from ⟨p. 251⟩whom all men proceeded, to his •wne likeness, like to himself, that he might place him in Paradise, and enrich him with eternal life. This God will, that all men be saved, nor that any perish: therefore he sent his son into the earth, whose righteousness hath superabounded wheresoever sin hath abounded, the brightene••e of whose righteousness doth lighten all men that come into this world, and crieth Come to me all ye that labour and are laden, and I will ease you This ministereth good and honest affections, and delivereth men from the necessity of sin (into the which they had cast themselves headlong by disobedience) and he healeth every grief and disease amongst the people, in so much that he never denied to any man a benefit that asked if. But this God is come to destroy the works of that Caluinian God, and cast him out at the doors. But these two Gods, as they are between themselves by nature contrary, so also they beget children contrary among themselves, that is he, unmerciful, proud, savage, disdainful, bloody, slanderers, counterfeit, bearing one thing in their heart, another in their mind, impatient, malicious, seditious, contentious, ambitious, covetous, lovers of pleasures more than of God, finally, full of all lewd and unhonest affections, which their father doth minister to them. But the other God begetteth merciful men, modest, mild, well willing, doers of good works, loathing cruelty, plain, speaking the truth from the abundance of the heart, patient, loving, quiet, peacemakers, loathing chidings and contentions, despisers of honour liberal, loving God more than pleasures, finally, full of all honest affections, which their Father doth minister to them,