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…

Observe the admonition subjoined by Henricus Canisius. These subscriptions, saith he, are not in the Manuscript. Hae subscriptiones non sunt in Manuscripto Codice. Consider I pray the fair issue of this Authors learned pretence of Antiquity, he honoureth the grey hairs of Faustus, and those grave assemblies mentioned by him whereof we have no certainty; but how honoureth he the greyer hairs of Austin, & of all the Assemblies against the Pelagians, that you may guess, though he concealeth it. And herein his devotion to this kind of Antiquity, where he thinketh it will serve his turn, he is content you should conceive it doth exceed the devotion of Calvin and Beza, yea and of Austin also; whose answer to Prosper he is content to pass by as not savouring so much of piety in his judgement, but the Massilienses zeal of the Ancients represented by Prosper unto Austin, that is suitable to his humour, he relisheth that well, and so well that he thinks it fit vehemently to mistrust those doctrines which they never approved, but disliked and condemned. Yet of any condemnation other then what is implied by Faustus, a man infamous, and whose ⟨p. 58⟩Writings were condemned by 70 Bishops, he makes no mention. And before Austins days, and the days of Pelagius, the Ancients were not exercised with any controversy hereabouts. And was their non-approbation of his doctrine, concerning absolute predestination, any motive to Austin vehemently to mistrust the truth thereof? I think he will not say it was; and therefore I hope he will give Calvin and Beza leave, never a whit the more for that cause, to mistrust the same doctrine, in granting the Ancients to have conceived predestination to proceed secundum praescientiam according unto foreknowledge, he is content to conform himself to their judgement; but in mistrusting the contrary doctrine, hereupon you must give him leave to follow his own, or any, rather then not Calvins or Beza's, but even Austins also, though never so much magnified by the Church of God, and his writings countenanced especially against the Pelagians, and the contrary condemned, by other manner of Councils then Arelatense 3d, and Lugdunense.

Observe the admonition subjoyned by Henricus Canisius. These subscriptions, saith he, are not in the Manuscript. Hae subscriptiones non sunt in Manuscripto Codice. Consider I pray the fair issue of this Authors learned pretence of Antiquity, he honoureth the gray haires of Faustus, and those grave assemblies mentioned by him whereof we have no certainty; but how honoureth he the grayer haires of Austin, & of all the Assemblies against the Pelagians, that you may guesse, though he concealeth it. And herein his devotion to this kind of Antiquity, where he thinketh it will serve his turne, he is content you should conceive it doth exceed the devotion of Calvin and Beza, yea and of Austin also; whose answer to Prosper he is content to passe by as not savouring so much of piety in his judgement, but the Massilienses zeale of the Ancients represented by Prosper unto Austin, that is suitable to his humour, he relisheth that well, and so well that he thinks it fit vehemently to mistrust those doctrines which they never approved, but disliked and condemned. Yet of any condemnation other then what is implied by Faustus, a man infamous, and whose