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•ut S. Paul addeth yet further, according too the good pleasure […] own will. If he had set down no more but only the word […], it had bin enough: accordingly as we have seen heretofore, & […] declared upon Sunday last, that S. Paul was chosen […] too the will of God. And why so? Because he was neither fit […] to have such a prerogative, but that it pleased god to chose […]. S. Paul therefore braggeth not that he had gotten the […] but with all mildness acknowledgeth it too be the free gift of […]. Thus ye see what the word Will betokeneth, and that not in ⟨image 35⟩any one place only, but throughout all the whole holy scripture. Therefore whensoever Gods will is mentioned, it is to show that men cannot bring ought of their own. Nevertheless S. Paul setteth down here a word of overplus, and sayeth, according too the good pleasure. As if he had said, truly seeing that Gods will is the cause of our salvation, we should not fleet too and fro, and seek other reasons & means thereof: Howbeit forasmuch as men are so unthankful and malicious, that they would always darken Gods glory: & so puffed up with fond overweening, that they continually challenge more too themselves, than belongeth unto them: therefore if they be not sufficiently persuaded of Gods will, let them understand that it cometh of the good pleasure of his will: that is too say, of a free inclined will which dependeth not upon any other thing (than it self,) nor hath any respect one way or other, but vouchsafeth too choose us freely, because it liketh & ly••eth so too d•o. Now then we see that such as search out the cause why God hath chosen us, would (if it lay in them) overthrow his everlasting ordinance: for the one is unseparable from the other. If God have chosen us as it is showed us here: then can nothing hang upon our deserts, nor upon aught that we might have too come, but God wrought it according too his own free inclined will, and found not any other reason (to move him thereto) than his own good pleasure. If any men think this to be strange gear, it is because they would be hail-fellow with God. And herein appeareth their devilish malapertness, that they cannot suffer God to rain freely, as the thing that he liketh might be received as good, just, & rightful, without gainsaying.

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