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death_n	body_n	bring_v	sin_n	8,408	5	4.9824	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of necessitie the sonne of God who onely is good of nature becommeth man and taketh this office to beare the Image of God inuisible Colos 1. And to be the head of that spirituall perfection whiche was to be wrought in mankinde by his aforeappoynted purpose and becommeth the first begotten of all creatures for by him were all things created both in heauen and earth visible and inuisible maiestie Lordeship rule and power by whom and in whom al things are created and he is before all creatures and in him all things haue their béeing And he is the head of the body he is the beginning and first begotten of the head that in all things he might haue preheminence For it pleased the father that in him should dwell all fulnesse and by him to reconcile all things to him selfe And to set at peace by him through the bloud of hys crosse both things in heauen and things in earth for euen you sayth Paule whiche in times past were straungers bicause your mindes were set in euill works hath he nowe reconciled in the body of his flesh throughe deathe to make you holy and blamelesse and without fault in his sight Séeing then that this can not be denied to be the course of God his holy working to driue away this darknesse and to bring man to his light to take away sinne and to bring man to a life blamelesse the state of innocencie and his owne likenesse shal it not be moste uecessarie to haue Preachers and teachers to tel vs this same and to admonishe vs wherevnto we be called séeing of our selues and our owne reasons no suche thing can be perceyued Therefore haue we preachings and exhortations as Paule sayth for when the worlde thorough wisdome knew not God in the wisdome of God it pleased God throughe the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeued 1. Corin. 1. And as he also saythe of hym selfe in another place We do preach this rychesse in Christe the hope of your glory warning all men and teaching all men in all wisdome to make all men perfect in Christ Iesu Thus serueth then exhortations dehortations comminations and publications of the lawes and wyll of our Lorde God that he may be knowen the Lorde and gouernour ouer all the thynges hée hath created and the onely lawe maker amongst hys creatures publishyng vnto all that perfect equitie and Iustice which ought in no case to be resisted Whervnto if they can not attayne they must confesse and knowledge theyr own infirmitie and weaknesse and submit them selues vnder the mighty hande of God and so doyng they shall be receyued as children of the most louing and most mercifull father in suche degrees of perfection as he hath appoynted to the beautifying of the body of his sonne our head So that the Lorde God dothe teache all and lighten all men that come into the worlde bothe chosen and Reprobate with such a knowledge as doth the good Prince which vnto all his Subiects proclaymeth his statutes and publisheth his lawes but like a good and tender father he leadeth his children regenerate and borne a newe neyther of flesh nor bloud nor the will of man ' and guideth them with his fatherly spirite in the pathes of the same lawes writing in their hearts what is his good will and pleasure In the which course of God his wonderfull worke the wicked hathe no cause to complayne for as their father whom they doo followe is named the Prince of thys worlde so they haue the world at will and are riche roysters and welthy worldlings trampling vnder their féete poore Abell and the despised Christians neyther will they change their estate with any such no when they are called from darknesse to be partakers of light of life and the heauenly daynties layde vp in poore Christ they despise that estate excusing their purchases their marchaundise and their earthly lustes and delightes Luke 14. Wherfore in the other worlde they that héere are oppressed shall haue comforte and the other torment Suche is the order then of God his working that by the contrarietie of the Chosen and Reprobate of Iacob and Esau of Pharao and Israell and the wisedome of God and the wisedome of the worlde he wyll set foorth his maiestie his power his diuinitie his Godhead so muche as may be knowen vnto man that is to say in his wisedome iustice mercy and almightinesse For comparing his wysedome to any other wisedome nowe appeareth the contrarie that it is very foolishnesse euen darknesse compared vnto light death vnto lyfe lyes vnto truth as Paule sayth When they accompted them selues wise they were made very fooles and chaunged the truthe wyth lyes the glory of the immortall God to mortall and corruptible creatures They following their owne righteousnesse could not come to the righteousnesse of God in Iesu Christe Wherefore of necessitie God dyd shut all vnder sinne that his mercy myghte flow ouer all And that hys mighty power might appeare he hath created the heauens and earth wherein we do sée lighte and darknesse death and life shame and glory weaknesse and strength lyes and truthe righteousnesse and vnrighteousnesse to serue to the setting foorth of hys glory that man maye be driuen to saye with Paule O the depthe of the riches of the wisdome and knowledge of god How incomprehensible are his wayes Howe vnsearchable are his iudgemēts For who hath knowen the minde of the Lorde or who hath bin his counseller Or who hath giuen him ought aforehand that he might be repayed For by him and throughe him and in him are all things to him be prayse for euer Amen And as this holy Apostle Paule dothe submitte him selfe to the great depthe of the wisedome of God and his wonderfull Regimente and Prouidence and would beate and driue downe all flesh by the consideration of the same So also al our Fathers from the beginning hath layde this the onely foundation of their faythe Wherefore Moyses beginneth to stablish the faith of man at the historie of the creatiō so foorth by the order of God hys present gouernaunce about the things made and created And Dauid for a confession of his faithe pronounceth of this prouidence Psa 95. I do know that thou art a great Lorde and a Lorde aboue all Gods. All thinges whatsouer the Lordes pleasure was he hath made in the heuēs the earth the seas the botomlesse waters Againe by the worde of God al thinges were set in their places by the spirit of his mouth all the powers that be in them And Paul considering most déepely and prououncing moste playnely thys diuine gouernaunce of the creatures and Godly prouidence of the creator in all things for his Elect and chosen sayth thus Roma 8. We knowe that all thinges woorke for the beste vnto them that loue God who also are called of purpose for those which he knewe before he also predestinate that they shoulde be like fashoned to the shape of hys