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…

For albeit we should not be borne the children of wrath, yet if it should be the will of God, for the declaring ⟨p. 264⟩of his power and wrath sake, to create all to destruction, let us rest silent, as it is right, in that will, as in the sovereign and alone rule of Justice. For what is more just, than, that men judge that to be truly just and good which God doeth, albeit they cannot comprehend his judgements. But if be damn moe than he doeth sane, he doeth not therefore seem to us, more ready to wrath, than to mercy, because the mercy of God by Christ, is so great, that albeit it should appertain to one man only: yet, for that it belongeth to us, this goodness of God shall be greater by many degrees, than his just wrath against the rest. For whereas he is angry with sins, he seemeth after a sort, to do it of necessity: and whereas even for the safeguard of one man, he made himself man, that in very deed seemeth after a sort more infinite, than infiniteness it self. It remaineth, that we consider that most sweet voice of Christ: Come to me all ye that labour. Thou thinkest that it belongeth to all men, as if Christ had invited every one to him. But I except many things. First I say, that Christ speaketh as a Minister. And this is the office of a Minister, that because he knoweth not the secret counsels of God, he teach indifferently those that are committed to his charge, and bid them to the Lord, and so much the more, so much as in him lieth, to will, that they may be saved. But if thou gatherest thereof, that all belong to the Lords flock, or that especial grace to be given in like sort to all, thou art wonderfully deceived. For the Lord will, that the Gospel be preached to many blind, to many deaf, and to many proud people, that they may more and more be blinded, made deaf, & hardened: nor yet is God therefore an Hypocrite, as we have proved in his place. Then if this voice of Christ appertain to every one without exception, to what end ⟨p. 265⟩did Christ collecting that solemn Sermon, which like an eternal Bishop he offered, a little before the sacrifice of his flesh, manifestly show, that he prayeth not for the world, but only for them whom the father had given him. Doth he understand by the name of the world those, which when they can believe, will not?

For albeit we shoulde not be borne the children of wrath, yet if it should be ye wil of God, for the declaring