The fifth Aphorism.The fifth Aphorisme.

The fifth Aphorism.

The fifth Aphorisme.

Neither yet did it happen, by any ba•e, and idle permission or suffering, which is severed from his will and decree• for when as he hath ordained the end, it must needs be also, that he hath appointed the causes leading unto that end: unless we will affirm that the same end came to pass either at all adventures or else by ca•ses ordained by some other God, after the opinion of the ⟨image 24⟩Manichees. Moreover, it can not be once so much as ••ought• that any thing •ommeth to pass against the will of God, and whether he will or n•, but that with great ungodly ness, we must deny him to be almighty: the which thing Augustin ¹also lib. De correp et grat. Cap. 104.² hath plainly noted. It doeth therefore remain that this fall did in such sort issue from the willing motion, or stirring of Adam, as that yet it happened not against the will of God, whom after a certain wonderful and unconceivable manner it pleaseth, that even the same thing, which he doth not allow in that it is sin, cometh not to pass with out his will: and that, as we have said before, that the should show the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy: and declare his wrath and power in those vessels which he hath made therefore, that he might set forth his glory by their just damnation.³ For neither is the salvation of the elect or chosen, nor yet the damnation of the reprobates or outcasts, the last end of the counsels