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A brief declaration of the chief points of Christian religion set forth in a…A briefe declaration of the chiefe points of Christian religion set forth in a…
A brief declaration of the chief points of Christian religion set forth in a table. Made by Theodore Beze.A briefe declaration of the chiefe points of Christian religion set forth in a table. Made by Theodore Beze.
London: printed for Tho, 1613
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II.
Of the eternal counsel of God hid in himself, the which afterwards, is known by the effects thereof.
Of the eternall counsell of God hid in himselfe, the vvhich afterwards, is known by the effects thereof.
God, whose judgements no man can comprehend, 1whose ways cannot be found out, and whose vvill I ought to stop all mens mouths 2, according to the determinate & unchangeable purpose of his will, by the virtue whereof all things are made 3, yea even those things which are evil and execrable (not in that they be wrought by his divine coū sell, but forasmuch as they proceed of the Prince of the a•re, & that spirit, which worketh in the children 4 of ⟨p. 10⟩disobedience) hath determined 5 from before all beginning with himself, to create all things, in their time, for his glory, & 6 namely men: whom he hath made after two sorts, clean contrary one to the other. Whereof he maketh the one sort (which it pleased him to choose by his secret will and purpose) partakers of his glory through his mercy 7, and these we call according to the word of God, the vessels of honour,