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A hundred sermons upo[n] the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ revealed in deed by the angel…A hundred sermons vpo[n] the Apocalips of Iesu Christe reueiled in dede by thangell…
A hundred sermons upo[n] the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ revealed in deed by the angel of the Lord: but seen or received and written by the apostle and Eva[n]gelist. S. John: compiled by the famous and godly learned man, Henry Bullinger, chief pastor of the congregation of Zuryk. Newly set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties, iniuntions. The argument, worthiness, commodity, and use of this work, thou shalt find in the preface: after which thou hast a most exact table to lead thee into all the principal matters contained therein.A hundred sermons vpo[n] the Apocalips of Iesu Christe reueiled in dede by thangell of the Lorde: but seen or receyued and written by thapostle and Eua[n]gelist. S. Iohn: compiled by the famous and godly learned man, Henry Bullinger, chief pastor of the congregation of Zuryk. Newly set forth and allowed, according to the order appoynted in the Quenes maiesties, iniuntions. Thargument, wurthines, commoditie, and vse of this worke, thou shalt fynd in the preface: after which thou hast a most exact table to leade thee into all the princypall matters conteyned therin.
printed by John Day, 1561printed by Iohn Day, 1561
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The fourth trumpet declareth an hurtful and a long strife,1 which arose in the church of the doctrine of Pelagius. This Pelagius taught, that the sin of Adam, hurt him alone, and not mankind, and therefore that in the same all men die not. That man hath free will, so that he may do good. Neither that he should be free, if he need the help of God. Which if he hath it, he may the more easily do good:2 if he have it not, that he may yet nevertheless work it by his own virtue, and may deserve everlasting life. Therefore that our victory is not of the help of God, but of free will: and that remission is not given to the penitents after the grace and mercy of God, but after the desert and working of them which through repentance are worthy of God's mercy, and the residue which Saint Austen rehearseth in the hundred and sixth Epistle to Boniface, that Pelagius had renounced: which nevertheless in an other place he showeth that the same had taught, and returned ⟨p. 248⟩to his vomit: As in the register of heresy, the .88. heresy. The same against two epistles of the Pelagians, in the .2. book. 2 chapter to Boniface. The Manichees, sayeth he, deny that a good man had the beginning of evil of free will.3 The Pelagians say also, that an evil man hath free will sufficiently to fulfil a good precept. The catholic doctrine reproveth both these, and to them sayeth, God made man right, &c. And to these sayeth, if the son hath made you free, you ate verily free. And in the .9. chapt. the same Author. Where we say that the will of man unto evil is free, to do good that it must be made free by the grace of God, it maketh against the Pelagians. And where we say that the evil, which was not before, is come of him, it is against the Manichees. Moreover in the .8. chapt. Pelagius sayeth, that the thing which good is, may sooner be accomplished, if grace help thereto. By the which addition, that is in adding, more easily, he signifieth verily that he thinketh thus, that although the help of grace want, he can yet, albeit more hardly, perform that which is good by free will. Again the same in the .47. Epistle to Valent. 4