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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.
To the right reverend father in Christ, John, by the providence of God Bishop of London, VV. H. wisheth increase of that grace which hath promises of this life and the life to come.
To the right reuerende father in Christ, Iohn, by the prouidence of God Bishop of London, VV. H. wisheth increase of that grace which hath promises of this life and the life to come.
AS Satan the old ancient enemy to all truth, hath not, or doth not surcease to be himself, wandering without weariness, seeking by all means, that he may at the least, in some sort, make full the warrantise of that horrible judgement, against himself and his, where the smoke of torment ascendeth for ever, in bruising the heel of that blessed seed, endeavouring to dismember that body of his appointed limbs, which being knit together in the unity of one spirit, through the bond of peace, doth grow up into the fullness of one head Christ Jesus, standing out in his long continued course of rebellion, especially aiming at this mark, to darken or bedim the day light of Gods glory, whose majesty he can not bear, that himself might see advanced in the palpable darkness of our depraved being, whereof no time or age, since the worlds creation, amongst what, or what sort soever, but have been experienced at the full, as is easily seen, if the case be considered, by descent in all the ways of the word of life, by which the most mighty and eternal majesty of our God, hath directed and brought down his beloved people unto this grey headed estate, of these miserable days wherein we be. And as he hath through all ages tofore seriously laboured, to have and hold captive in the bond of intolerable servitude and spiritual slavery, in the palpable darkness of Egypt, the whole multitude of men, holding it the readiest way to win his hoped intent, to bring upon them the great flood of forgetfulness of Gods benefits, and in the countenance of an Angel of light, to steppe in betwixt the surpassing brightness of Gods glory, and the true acknowledgement