A sermon of Gods providence Very godly and profitableA sermon of Gods prouidence Very godly and profitable

Surely there is in God a certain secret ordinance which yet is just, and a certain ordinance open and manifested, which also is righteous; But certain idle companions to draw both Augustine and us into hatred, for this doctrine, object against us, that they cannot perceive in God this double will, which we speak of, to wit, a secret and a revealed will: for they say we all know and you confess, that God is most plain without all show of do• •••nesse, and therefore his will must be also as plain, and •uen so is it, though we cannot comprehend it: but let them first answer to that which ⟨p. 31⟩Augustine and we have proposed, and […]ill they, nill they, they must acknowledge with us, that this difference of […]ill, of which I have spoken, is not […]operly in God, but in us, who according to our reach and capacity, mea••re divine matters: and therefore in […]espect of us and of our capacity, ther• •eemeth to be th•• difference in the will […] God: According to our censure and judgement, we will judge the birth […] monsters, mad men & crooked men, […] be an unperfect work of God, but▪ […] the judgment of God their creation […] most perfect and absolute.

Surely there is in God a certaine secret ordinance which yet is iust, and a certaine ordinance open and manifested, which also is righteous; But certaine idle companions to draw both Augustine and vs into hatre•, for this doctrine, obiect against vs, that they cannot perceiue in God this double wil, which we speake of, to wit, a secret and a reuealed will: for they say wee all know and you confesse, that God is most plaine without all shew of do• •••nesse, and therefore his will must be also as plaine, and •uen so is it, though we cannot comprehend it: but let them first answer to that which ⟨p. 31⟩