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…

There are some (saith he) who have all things so wishfully, as they live in all delights, who notwithstanding are registered for perdition, whereof Jesus Christ propounds an example in the rich man. Luc. 16. That God doth often propound to mankind an hope of reward to draw them to the right belief of his holy will, and ofttimes withdraws them from impieties, by fearful and prodigious signs. And yet as impiety is natural to men, they make not their profit of such instructions, and think not that it concerns them: but impute it to any other thing, rather then to the wisdom of God, to fear and reverence him: Hereupon he made a bitter invective against a certain Philosopher, whom he had known above twenty years before, for that his Morosoph had been so impudent to deliver in his lessons, yea to write it, and publish it in Print, that all the Miracles that Christ had done upon the earth, might well be done by a man that were skilful in the knowledge of natural things. It were hard to represent the admiration wherewith they were surprised, and with what compassion they were moved, that came to visit him, for the discourses which they heard come from his mouth. Every man laboured to reduce this poor man, to some hope of his salvation. Among others there was one, a Reverend man for his holiness of life, who departed not from the Patients bed, it was the Bishop of Capod' Istria in the Venetians Territory; (This was Vergerius, who afterwards renounced Popery, and became a Protestant:) He ceased not to exhort Spira, and ceased not by many testimonies of the holy Scriptures, to divert him from that apprehension; Adding that he did not think his spirit was altogether void and destitute, of some good and heavenly inspirations, seeing he spake so holily and devoutly of the excellency of Christian Religion.

There are some (saith he) who have all things so wishfully, as they live in all delights, who notwithstanding are registred for perdition, whereof Jesus Christ propounds an example in the rich man. Luc. 16. That God doth often propound to mankind an hope of reward to draw them to the right beliefe of his holy will, and ofttimes withdrawes them from impieties, by fearfull and prodigious signes. And yet as impiety is naturall to men, they make not their profit of such instructions, and think not that it concernes them: but impute it to any other thing, rather then to the wisdome of God, to feare and reverence him: Hereupon he made a bitter invective against a certain Philosopher, whom he had known above twenty years before, for that his Morosoph had been so impudent to deliver in his lessons, yea to write it, and publish it in Print, that all the Miracles that Christ had done upon the earth, might well be done by a man that were skilfull in the knowledge of naturall things. It were hard to represent the admiration wherewith they were surprized, and with what compassion they were moved, that came to visit him, for the discourses which they heard come from his mouth. Every man laboured to reduce this poore man, to some hope of his salvation. Among others there was one, a Reverend man for his holinesse of life, who departed not from the Patients bed, it was the Bishop of Capod' Istria in the Venetians Territory; (This was Vergerius, who afterwards renounced Popery, and became a Protestant:) He ceased not to exhort Spira, and ceased not by many testimonies of the holy Scriptures, to divert him from that apprehension; Adding that he did not think his spirit was altogether voyd and destitute, of some good and heavenly inspirations, seeing he spake so holily and devoutly of the excellency of Christian Religion.