The riches of Gods love unto the vessels of mercy, consistent with his absolute…The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute…

or of blasphemies in an inferior degree, when God gives a man over unto the power of Satan, as Gaulartius makes mention by his own experience of another desperate man, whom he had heard, who being exhorted to turn from the too vehement apprehension of Gods justice unto his mercy, which was open unto him: He answered very coldly, you say true, God is God, but of his children, not for me, his mercy is certain for his elect, but I am a reprobate, a vessel of wrath and cursing, and I do already feel the torments of Hell: When they did exhort him to call God his Father, and Jesus Christ his Son, My mouth (saith he) doth speak it, but my heart hath horror of it, I believe that he is the Father of others, but not of me: When they did lay before him that he had known God, heard his word, and received his Sacrament; yea but (he added) I was an hypocrite, and guilty of many blasphemies against God; And then he returned to his ordinary discourses; I am a vessel prepared to wrath and damnation, I am damned, I burn. The same Goulartius reports out of the History of the times of a Learned man at Louvain, called Master Gerlach, Who had profited so well in his studies, as he was one of the first amongst the learned of that time. And that being touched with a grievous sickness, he sighed continually; and feeling himself to draw near his end, he began to discover the ground of his sighs, speaking such fearful words, as desperate men are accustomed to utter; crying out and lamenting that he had lived very wickedly, and that he could not endure the judgement of God, for that he knew his sins were so great, as he should never obtain pardon, so as in this distress he dyed, oppressed with grievous and horrible despair. What this wickedness of his was in special it seems he concealed; it might be horrible enough, though done in secret, yet no just cause of despair, unless it were the sin against the holy Ghost. The like is recorded of M. James Latomus one of the chief Doctors of the University of Louvain, being one day out of countenance in a Sermon before the Emperor Charles the Fifth, returning ashamed and confounded from Brussels to Louvain, and did so apprehend the dishonour, that he fell suddenly into despair, whereof he gave many testimonies in public;

or of blasphemies in an inferior degree, when God gives a man over unto the power of Satan, as Gaulartius makes mention by his own experience of another desperate man, whom he had heard, who being exhorted to turne from the too vehement apprehension of Gods justice unto his mercy, which was open unto him: He answered very coldly, you say true, God is God, but of his children, not for me, his mercy is certain for his elect, but I am a reprobate, a vessell of wrath and cursing, and I doe already feele the torments of Hell: When they did exhort him to call God his Father, and Jesus Christ his Sonne, My mouth (saith he) doth speake it, but my heart hath horrour of it, I believe that he is the Father of others, but not of mee: When they did lay before him that he had known God, heard his word, and received his Sacrament; yea but (he added) I was an hypocrite, and guilty of many blasphemies against God; And then he returned to his ordinary discourses; I am a vessell prepared to wrath and damnation, I am damned, I burne. The same Goulartius reports out of the History of the times of a Learned man at Lovaine, called Master Gerlach, Who had profited so well in his studies, as he was one of the first amongst the learned of that time. And that being touched with a grievous sicknesse, he sighed continually; and feeling himselfe to draw neer his end, he began to discover the ground of his sighes, speaking such fearfull words, as desperate men are accustomed to utter; crying out and lamenting that he had lived very wickedly, and that he could not endure the judgement of God, for that he knew his sinnes were so great, as he should never obtain pardon, so as in this distresse he dyed, oppressed with grievous and horrible despaire. What this wickednesse of his was in speciall it seems he concealed; it might be horrible enough, though done in secret, yet no just cause of despaire, unlesse it were the sinne against the holy Ghost. The like is recorded of M. Iames Latomus one of the chiefe Doctors of the University of Lovaine, being one day out of countenance in a Sermon before the Emperour Charles the Fift, returning ashamed and confounded from Brussells to Lovaine, and did so apprehend the dishonour, that he fell suddainly into despaire, whereof he gave many testimonies in publique;