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A01753	A briefe treatice of election and reprobation with certen ansvvers to the obiections of the aduersaries of thys doctrine: vvritten by Anthonie Gylbie.	Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585.	1575 (1575)	STC 11885; ESTC S103156	25,258	74

to the féelyng of the mighty power of God whiche worketh all in all things to the restoring of all things in our Christ both in Heauen and Earth by whome we are called into this state long before appoynted accordyng to his purposed pleasure by whose power all things are wrought that we may boldly say with the Apostle who dare lay any thing to the charge of the Elect of God It is God that instifieth who is he that can condemne Who can seperate vs which are thys chosen Iacob from the loue of God. Can affliction Can anguish Can persecution Can hunger Can nakednes Can peryll Can the sword For I am perswaded sayth he that neyther death nor life nor Angell nor power nor thyngs present nether things to come nether height nor depth neyther any creature can separate vs from the loue of God in Christ Iesu our lord Lo this is the loue wher with the Lorde loueth his Iacob wherby we say O heauenly father Lord of heauen and earth it hath pleased thée that thou mighte shew thy greate goodnesse moste liberally fréely towards vs before that we were and therefore before we had done eyther good or euil without any our merites or deseruings onely thorough thy frée mercy to elect and choose ordayne and appoynte vs Heyres of euerlasting life and thereby to make all thinges perteining to our saluation so fyrme and sure that they can not stagger wauer nor fayle Where contrarywise if they dydde hang of our worthinesse we should euer be doubtefull bicause euery man is a lyer and all our righteousnesse is like a spotted clothe and nothing but counterfeyte hypocrisie weyed in the balance of thy seuere iustice But the grace of this thy frée Election maketh vs most certaine and sure séeing no creature is able to take oute of thy hande O god Wherefore we doo laude magnifie thy name worlde withoute ende So be it Nowe after thys doctrine of Election and loue of God towarde Iacob the hating and Reprobation of Esau must lykewise be declared though the aduersaries of thys doctrine do séeme to denye that there is anye suche Reprobation of the wicked yet the wordes are so playne in Malachie and Romaines 9. that nothyng can be more euidente For what can be more playnely spoken for thys purpose then that God shoulde say before the children were borne that he hated Esau What was this hatred but the Reprobation Reiection and condemnation by God hys owne mouth of thys wicked Esau like as in the laste verse of the first Psalme wher it is said that the Lord knoweth the wayes of the iuste that is he hath them written in hys booke in the Heauens he loueth them as is sayde of Iacob hée hath suche care ouer them that they can not fall but vnto the glory of God and their owne commoditie and by the course of the contraries compared together in that Psalm it shoulde be added the Lorde knoweth not the wicked like as Christe sayth it shall bée answered vnto them I knowe you not the latter parte of the verse is that the way of the wicked shall perishe so that it appeareth to be all one not to be elected accepted and knowen of God and to perish and to be as a Reprobate condemned And Felinus foorthe of Kymhy doth note that that parte of the laste verse of the. 2. Psalme God beeing angry you shall perishe foorth of the way dothe expounde this of the fyrste Psalme so● that the Election knowledge loue a●●… I fauour of God eternall saluation ●●●… not be separate Like as his anger and hatred reprobation and condemnation consequently do follow in Cain Esau Pharao Iudas the Pharisies and like obdurate persons so manifestly vttering them selues to bée of that sort whome God alwayes hated The children not of Abraham but as Christ answereth vnto them of their father the diuel who was a murtherer frō the beginning like as his children haue bene also euer sithe the beginning of the world and therefore muste of necessitie be hated of the moste mercifull Lorde who is compelled by the order of his workes to vse these wicked roddes and cruel scourges for the chastisement of his children dooing many times the worke straunge from his nature that he maye do his worke of mercy peculiar vnto his nature And than vtterly breake hate reiect and cast away into euerlasting fire and vtter destruction this rodde and scurge like a moste mercifull father fa●oring his children and hating the rodde th●●e as he sayth by his Prophet Wootion● Assur the rodde of my fury and the staffe of my indignation and after promyseth to breake the staffe and cast awaye the rodde Psalm 10. Suffering in the meane season yet these instrumentes of his wrathe prepared vnto destruction with greate pacience for this ende that he may vtter the riches of his glory towards the vessels of glory which he hath prepared vnto glory Thus was Pharao the manifest scurge and rodde of God to correct to chastice to exercise the Israelites and to spread the power of God through all the world Therefore was Moyses sente vnto him with the rodde of God hys mightie mercy to breake in sunder thys rodde of chasticement And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses I haue appoynted thée to bée the God of Pharao and Aaron thy Brother shall be thy Prophet thou shalte speake vnto him all that I commaunde thée And he shall speake vnto Pharao to let go the children of Israell foorth of his lande But I will harden hys hearte saythe the Lorde and I wyll multiplie my signes and wonders in Egypte and he shall not heare you And I will bring myne armie and people foorth of the lande of Egypte by most greate iudgementes and the Egyptians shal knowe that I am the lord Exod. 12. Agayne the Lorde sayth Nowe shall I stretche my hande to stryke thée and thy people with a plague and thou shalt perishe from the earth for therefore haue I caused thée to stande for so is the Hebrue woorde that I may shewe in thée my strength and that my name may be renowmed through al the earth Exod. 9. Then the Lorde sendeth a great hayle so that feelyng the hande of God the tenth tyme Pharao was compelled to crie The Lorde is iuste and I and my people are sinners as followeth in the same chapter Yet for all this the Lorde hardeneth his heart that hée pursueth the children of Israell to hys owne destruction Exod. 14. So that resisting the power of God he perisheth in thys worlde and in the worlde to come hée is appoynted to the euerlasting fyre prepared for the diuell and hys Aungels by the iuste iudgemente of the almightie Lorde who béeyng refused and so openly resisted iustely dothe giue ouer the wycked to their owne Reprobate myndes wyth gredinesse to fulfyll theyr fleshely desiers and obstinate purpose to prosecute that which the Deuyll and the woorlde willeth them to doo and so causeth them to heape vpon

Peter sayth To the Elect by the foreknowledge of God the father 1. Pet. 1. Then to know what this Election of God is and what in the Scriptures it dothe signifye Wée describe and defyne Election to bée the frée choyce of the good wyll of the Almyghtie GOD appoynting and prescrybyng in the Booke of lyfe before the beginning of the world whom he will haue to be saued and compted amongest the iust Whom he will haue holy and without faulte before hym to bée his children by adoption to set foorth his glory This choyse this choosing this aforeappoynted purpose and ordinaunce of God is aboundauntlye set foorthe in the firste chapter to the Ephesians That this commeth of the frée wyll of God and hys onely grace freely without our deseruing contrary to the vayne opinion of the Papists and Anabaptists the same chapter and the nexte chapter folowing dothe plainely testifie Epe 1. 2. And most euidently the Lord in his maiestie speaking to his seruant Moyses Exod. 33. declared all this to stande of his mercy saying I will haue mercie vpon whom it liketh me and I will shew mercie where it shall be my pleasure for so is the meaning of those wordes I will haue mercy vpon whom I will haue mercy Paul also declaring in this place the woorke of God béetwixte these two children Iacob and Esau Romaynes 9. saythe thus of this frée Election whē Rebecca was with child with one and the same father Isaac before the children were borne when they had neyther done good nor bad that the purpose of God whiche is by Election mighte stande it was sayde to her not for the cause of workes but by the grace of the caller the elder shall serue the younger As it is written saythe hée Iacob I loued but Esau I hated Of the booke of life Moyses speaketh Exod. 32. And Christ himselfe Luk. 10. Saying to his Apostles Ioy you and be glad for your names are written in the boke of life in the heauens And in the 69. Psalme it is spoken against the wicked Let them not be written amongst the Iust and put them foorth of the booke of life And agaynst the false Prophet Ezechiel 13. He shall not be in the counsaile of my people nor written in the booke of the house of Israell There be two finall causes also of this eternal purpose of the election the which Paule rehearseth in the first chapter to the Ephesians the one toucheth God the other perteineth to man He hath Elected vs béefore the foundations of the worlde sayth the Apostle that wée mighte be holy and without blame And thys answereth the wicked which would abuse the mercies of God to their lust Againe it followeth He hath Predestinate vs that he might choose vs to be hys chyldren that hys name may bée praysed And this stoppeth the mouthes of al our Aduersaries that say that thys doctrine is not to the prayse of God so that they must cease to slaunder this doctrine vnlesse they wil hinder the glory of God and denie the open Scriptures Nowe it is to be noted and marked dyligently that thys woorde Election is taken after two sortes in the Scripture some tymes as it signifieth absolutely the frée choyse will and appointment of God without the respecte of the reuelation of the woorde and message of saluatyon And thus speaketh the holy Apostle Saincte Paule of Election saying of the carnal Iacob They were enimies concernyng the Gospel for your cause but concernyng the Election they are beloued for their parents For the gyftes of God and hys callyng are suche that hée can not repente Euen as you once were mysbeléeuers from God but nowe haue attayned mercie by theyr mysbeléefe that they should attayne mercie also Thys Election expresseth absolutely the secret purpose of God without the respect o●●●uelation of the woorde or any of our workes followyng Vnder thys first kynde of Election were those hundreth and twenty thousande whiche God dyd choose and kéepe vnto hymselfe in Niniue amongst the Idolaters and the seuen thousande which God dyd leaue for hymselfe in Israel in the thirde booke of kings the. 19. chap. Yea those that yet are not are thus elect chosen and amongst al nations both Iewes in thys long blindnes banishment from their countrey amongst the Turkes in theyr Idolatrous wickednesse yea amongst the Edomites the Sabees the Indians and Ethiopians And in the late blyndnesse of the Popishe church wherein we togither wyth our fathers were altogether Idolatrous all Hypocrites and counterfaite Christians thys absolute Election whereby the mercyfull Lorde God did reserue and kéepe hys chosen vnto him in all places all ages all countreys without respect of persons dyd most euidently appeare Howbeit this secresie of election muste onely bée lefte to the Maiestie of God where when how and whom he thereby saueth and sheweth his mercy For to the blynde iudgemente of man all these people rehearsed and suche like séemeth reiect reprobate and caste away as appeareth by Ionas condemning the Niniuites by Elias cōdemning the Israelites and a long while vntil God had by miracle from Heauen deliuered hym from that errour vnto the chiefe Apostle Peter iudgeing all the Gentiles to bée a polluted people farre from the fauour of God. The seconde kynde of Election is set forth and knowen euident and open by the spirit of God working in the harts of the elect and chosen by fayth and trust in God his promises through Christ teaching vs that we are the children of God chosen to him selfe by Iesus Christe from the beginning and therfore preparing vs to an holy and blamelesse lyfe to the laude prayse of the grace of god The which Election besides the dayly experience of our consciences may bée approued by the testimonies of these Scriptures compared togither Esay 59. Rom. 8. Ephe. 1. Coloss 3. and a very briefe and perfecte description of thys Election 2. thess. 2. in these wordes We ought to thanke God that he hath chosen you from the beginning by the sanctifying of the spirite and the beléefe of the truth to the which he hath called you by our Gospell to attayne the glory of our Lorde Iesus Christe By this gratious election was Iacob dearely beloued in his mothers wombe and Ieremy knowne vnto God before he was fashioned in his mothers wombe Ieremie 1. And to be short all other the eleect of God are thus chosen sanctified and beloued from the beginning from before the foundations of the world frō euerlasting to euerlasting For there is no change of tyme with God séeyng that all thinges are present in his sighte For vnto him a thousande yeares are but one day but the course change of times are in vs our déedes our knowledge in mans chaungeable wisedome This Election must of necesitie driue downe the pryde we haue of our owne strength our owne power our owne nature our owne frée wil our owne merits our owne iustification of our owne workes and bryng vs