The sermons of M. John Calvin, upon the Epistle of S. Paul too the…The sermons of M. Iohn Caluin, vpon the Epistle of S. Paule too the…

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〈…〉 have wee too passe further: for too the i•tent the better too 〈…〉 respects and woorthynesse which men myght pretend, wee bee inclyned too chalendge alwayes somwhat too our and cannot abyde too bee brought to nothing: he sayeth, before of the world. So then forasmuchas through such wee think our selues too haue that which wee haue not: it was that S. Paule should heere beate downe all such fantasticall . And for that cause he sayeth wee could put our selues when wee were not yet borne. Nay verily, God choze vs before taking of the world: and what could wee then bring vntoo him? In the Papists haue a suttle shift in this behalfe: for they say that God chaze such vntoo saluation, as had not yet deserued it, but yit he such as he foresawe shoulde deserue it. Thus confesse they eseruing at all went before election, eyther in order or in but that God (as too whom all thinges are open) knewe who bee worthie of it. After that maner doo the Papists speake of it they deny not Gods election. And soothly, to shewe that these which nowadayes cannot abyde too haue it spoken of, diuells incarnate, and maynteyne a more outrageous and wickednesse than the Papists do: wee must note that the God to haue chozen and predestinated whom he thought before the making of the world. They stand vntoo that: thing these diuells deny, and would haue Gods maiestie vtterly , by ouerthyowing his ordinaunce after that maner. The leastwyze such of them as haue walked vprightest, & I speake of the very Monks and Freers which are called schoole diuines) yit further, that this election of Gods is free, and that he choze man for any other respect, than for that it pleased himselfe: but and by after, they mingle and turmoyle al: for they say that whē choze whom he listed, he did it too make them deserue it. And doo they ground all their merites, insomuch as they that men may win the kingdome of heauen by their owne They graunt in deede that as touching election, it is a free gift: lwayes they returne too their fantasticall surmyze, that God who should doo good. But how should he foresee that which could