A15859:362
Speculum Christianum
Speculum Christianum or, A Christian survey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, grave, and learned divine, master Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseverance of the saints. 3. A summary abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.Speculum Christianum or, A Christian suruey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, graue, and learned diuine, maister Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseuerance of the saints. 3. A summarie abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.
London: printed by George Eld, 1614
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 love, whereby GOD loveth all things, even the wicked, is different from that whereby he hath so loved some from all eternity, as that also he hath predestinated them to life eternal.
THE loue, whereby GOD loueth all things, euen the wicked, is different from that whereby he hath so loued some from all aeternitie, as that also hee hath praedestinated them to life aeternall.
2 Of all men which ever were, are, or shall be, fallen into the pit of sin, some God hath taken up, some left therein, and therefore did decree to deliver some, and other to relinquish there. And this is Election and Reprobation.
2 Of all men which euer were, are, or shall be, fallen into the pit of sinne, some God hath taken vp, some left therein, and therefore did decree to deliuer some, and other to relinquish there. And this is Election and Reprobation.
3 The Prescience of God is taken sometime for that knowledge, whereby God from everlasting in general ⟨p. 307⟩did know as well such things as some admitted that is sin, as also what himself would do, whether in the Elect or in the Reprobate, or in other creatures. Thus both in Fathers and Schoolmen: sometime for that knowledge, whereby specially some, that is, the Elect, he did with affection of love, foreknow as his, that loved them from eternity; as Rom. 8. [Greek or Hebrew]. Rom. 11. God hath not rejected his people (quam [Greek or Hebrew]. which he foreknow; or it is taken for Predestination it self.