A15859:413
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.
6 In the Question How GOD1 doth beblind and indurate: to say that God doth it by sole permission, as though God did nothing in them that are made blind, is Pelagianism, and confuted and condemned by Augustine.
6 In the Question How GOD1 doth beblind and indurate: to say that God doth it by sole permission, as though God did nothing in them that are made blind, is Pelagianisime, and confuted and condemned by Augustine.
7 Neither is it true to say, That God beblindeth by the sole subtraction of his grace, or of his light.
8 Neither also doth it suffice to say, That God maketh blind by a certain external action of his: but indirectly, to wit, by objecting some things to the eyes and ears of the Reprobate, by which, whereas they should be illuminated and mollified,