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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.
WHO is thy God, and the God of thy faction, we shall see hereafter. For first I will resell your Slanders, and then I will set before you in his colours your I doll. We have not said in any place that God is slow to forgive, and swift to wrath, which continually see the contrary, both in our selves, and also in the most bitter enemies of the Church, as we have taught largely in the refutation of the third, and also of the tenth Argument to the first Slander. That God hath created the greatest part of the world to perdition, how it is to be taken, and what is your falsehood in that matter, we have expounded in the suppressing of the same first Slander. Whereas thou addest, that God hath predestinate whom he would, not only to damnation, but to the causes of damnation. We in deed with Paul acknowledge it to he true, which maketh mention of vessels made to destruction, but that he in deed is just, because he ordained by the same decree just causes leading to destruction. Yea also if God should not have created one man to salvation, who art thou that therefore thou shouldest call him cruel, seeing all are borne in Adam the children of wrath? And whereas thou adjoinest, that God by our doctrine, hath decreed from everlasting, both the will and the deed that sin might be committed of necessity, it is a forgery, as almost in every side of lease we have showed, except thou addest, that sins, in that they are sins, proceed not from God, but from Satan, and the lewd will of man, as the very natural causes of sin: and for as much as they are either the punishments of sin, or exercises of the righteous, they are justly and holily ordained of God. It is like that thou addest, that offences are committed by the will and enforcement of God, seeing we testify every where, that iniquity can not please ⟨p. 253⟩