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A19076	Tvvoo bookes of Saint Ambrose Bysshoppe of Mylleyne, entytuled: Of the vocation and callying of all nations. Newly translated out of Latin into Englyshe, for the edifiying and comfort of the single mynded and godly vnlearned in Christes Church, against the late sprong secte of the Pelagians ... By Henry Becher minister in the Church of God ...; De vocatione ominum gentium. English.	Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, ca. 390-ca. 463.; Leo I, Pope, d. 461.; Becher, Henry, fl. 1561.	1561 (1561)	STC 549; ESTC S100123	79,647	298

of them that doeth good no not one Of these and suche documentes which may aboūdantly be brought forth and aleaged yf a man wyll seeke for them it is most playnely declared that somtime for a part of the earth all the earth for a parte of the worlde all the worlde and for a part of men al men are named The diuision wherof notwithstandyng the Scripture doeth many times open incontinent that the vnderstandynge of the reader may be transferred from the namyng of the vniuersalitie to that part which is therby vnderstanden As is this saying of the Apostle We preache Iesus Christ crucified a stumbling stone to the Iewes and vnto the Gentiles foolyshnesse But vnto those Iewes and Greekes y t are called we preach Christ the power of god and the wysedome of God Is Chryste power to them to whom he is a stumblynge blocke Or is he wysedome to them to whom he is foolyshnesse No but because some of them shalbe iustified by faith and some obdurate and hardened through theyr owne vngodlynesse he hath deuided one kynd of beleuers and vnbeleuers vnder the name of them that are called that those whō he signified to be without faith he might shew to be none of the numbre of them that are called though they had heard the Gospell By this rule the word of God doeth promise by Esai saying I wyll leade foorth the blind men into a way that they knowe not they shall walke the pathes that they wote not I wyll make darkenesse to bee lyght vnto them and crooked wayes streyght These wordes wyll I doe and I wyll not forsake them But that which foloweth And they are tourned backwarde must be referred to a certeyne part of them not vnto them to whō it is said I wyl not forsake them The Lorde saieth agayne to Iacob Be not afrayde for I am with thee From the East wyl I bring thy seede and gather thee from the Weste I wyll say to the North bryng hyther to the South forbydde thou not Brynge my sonnes frō a farre coūtrie and my doughters frō the worldes end All those in whō my name is called I haue prepared them vnto my glory I haue fascioned made them But that y e foloweth I haue brought forth a blynde people theyr eyes are blynde they haue deafe eares can not by any reason agree to them whom he sayeth he hath prepared vnto his glory In all these wordes which are spoken of one kynde of men the former wordes do agree to some the latter wordes to other some And as the saying of y e Apostle is that thyng that is done in parte of the people is declared vnder the name of all people in the remnaunt is the fulnesse counted For when he disputed of the obsecation blinding of the Iewes shewed that some of them were saued by grace I say therfore saith he hath God repelled his people God forbid For I also am an Israelite of y e seede of Abraham of the tribe of Beniamin GOD hath not cast a waye his people whom he knew before Therfore the people that was foreknowen the people y t is not repelled are thei whiche are iustified in Christe And y t which semeth to be spokē of al Israell is shewed in them only whom the electiō of grace hath made a remnaunt to hym selfe Lyke as the consequens of the Apostles wordes do declare for he doeth adde and say Do ye not know what the scripture saith of Helyas howe he prayeth vnto God agaynste Israell O Lord they haue slaine thy Prophetes they haue dygged downe thine Altares and I am left alone and they seeke my lyfe But what saith the aunswer of God to him I haue reserued vnto my selfe seuen thousand men which haue not bowed the knee to Baall So therfore saith he in this tyme also is there a remnaunt saued by the election of grace And yf it be of grace thē is it not now of workes for then were grace no grace Therfore all Israell is not reprobate neyther is all elected But wyllyng blindnes hath tourned away a part and free illuminaciō hath reserued a parte vnto him selfe And yet are the wordes spoken of them on such sorte that no difference seemeth to be made of all mankynde neyther of them that peryshe nor of them that are saued For when it is read as touching the Gospell they are enemies for your sake but as touchyng theyr election they are beloued for the fathers sake the wordes so sounde as though he called them beloued whom he called enemies But the Apostle hym selfe wypeth awaye this darkenesse saying For blyndnesse is happened vnto parte of Israell that we myght vnderstande one generacion to be deuided into two kyndes and all men all fulnesse all Israell not alway to be referred to the vniuersalitie but many tymes to a part Among these maner of speaches we ought also to note this saying in the Scriptures wherin that which perteyneth to men of diuers times is promised on suche wyse as though it were spoken of one generation of the same tyme. Lyke as is that which the Apostle Peter wrytyng to them of his tyme of the tyme to come sayeth But ye are an elect generacion a kingly priesthod an holye nacion a purchased people that ye myght shewe the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueylous lyght which somtyme were not a people but now are y e people of god which hadde not obteyned mercy but nowe haue obteyned mercye When these thinges were preached whether did those men yet remaine whō God in time past suffred to walke in theyr owne waies And those same mē that were deliuered vp to their own willes were they now called into that marueilous light were not they now dead They were not now in this world neither did their retourne from errour to veritie helpe thē at al which were dead before And yet the custome of speach hath declared that after long time grace was in the posteritie of the wicked that they may appeere nowe to be elected which afore were for sakē These sayinges do not belong to y e same men but to men of the same nacion And the vocation or calling that hath shyned nyghe vnto the ende of the world hath not recourse to the tyme paste So nowe by a certeyne maner it are both they and not they of whom and to whom these thynges are spoken whyle when they are not deuided in any specialitie from a generalitie yet are they deuided in some thinges frō a Communitie A solucion of the contentious obiectior some which say this aucthor by his former wordes gaynsayeth the Apostle who diffineth that GOD wylleth all men to be saued and to come to the knowlege of the truth Also that the depth of Gods misteries and iudgementes are not to be searched of vs. ¶ The fourth Chapter BVt whē they that loue contencious quarrellyng