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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.
An other of the Slanderers Arguments.
An other of the Slaunderers Argumentes.
TO create to perdition is not of love, but of hatred, therefore he created none to perdition.
TO create to perdition is not of loue, but of hatred, therefore he created none to perdition.
REFUTATION.
REFVTATION.
AS this Argument doth depend of the aforewritten, so it is of necessity that the first being infringed, this also do sail. Thou haste collected evil that all are beloved of God, because that all were created in Adam. ⟨p. 31⟩But we contrariwise approve, that God by his incomprehensible, but yet just decree, hath Predestinate whom soever it pleased him, to his hatred, and therefore to destruction, neither that that is discrepant from the nature of God, which ought not to be measured by the common sense of men. And then we show that, that God is not moved with the hatred of any, that he should vow him to destruction: but that he hath hated him whom he hath Predestinate to destruction: and that truly the cause of this hatred and destruction is manifest to us, that is, voluntary corruption in Adam, which issuing upon all his posterity, yieldeth also like fruits to the tree: and that to satisfy all stayed wits, that albeit they know not the cause of the sacred decree, yet both because it is divine, and also because destruction is so discerned, that together the just causes of perdition be determined abiding in men themselves, & also they confess it to be just. Wherefore also we have proved that, that we use not to speak so, as that we say that any one is simply created of God to destruction, but therefore, that by his due damnation God might show forth his justice. But that the damnation of the Reprobate is just, because their perdition doth so depend upon the Predestination of God, that yet the whole cause & matter of their destruction be found in themselves. These whosoever understandeth, at the least shall see this, that it is most absurd that thou sayest, that it is of hatred to create to perdition. For that I say again, before the Lord would create men (we speak of the order of causes) he neither hateth or loveth: but whom he createth he hath decreed from everlasting, either to love in Christ, or to hate in Adam. Therefore to create to perdition is not of hatred, but of him who hath decreed to hate, to hate (I say) for just cause, which he so annexed to the decree of hatred, that all the fault be in him whom he hateth. Further, if