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glory_n	prepare_v	vessel_n	wrath_n	3,073	5	9.2196	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19657	The confutation of the. xiii. articles, wherunto Nicolas Shaxton, late byshop of Salilburye [sic] subscribed and caused to be set forth in print the yere of our Lorde. M.C.xlvi. [sic] whe[n] he recanted in Smithfielde at London at the burning of mestres Anne Askue, which is liuely set forth in the figure folowynge. In the nexte page shalt thou finde the contentes of thys little boke.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.; Shaxton, Nicholas, 1485?-1556.	1548 (1548)	STC 6083; ESTC S105139	70,962	161

called in theyr tyme and the weake and yonge scholers in Christe made strong and myghty souldiours to fyghte against our aduersaries the world the deuill and our own flesh By the princes and publyke ministers are the lawes ministered to the auauncemente of Gods glorye whether the lawes be wycked or Godly For by the administration of the Godlye lawes the wycked are plaged amd by the wycked lawes the Godly are chastised and scourged that they maie haue the more cause to renne vnto theyr shepherde Christe for succour Thus can not these ordinaunces be vnprofitable yea they can not be but moste profitable redoundynge alwaies to the glorye of God Yea as I said before thei folow of necessitie and can not but be For if Goddes holye predestination and prouidence had not preserued the scriptures to be the lanterne of lyght to the fotesteppes of hys people how should it haue commen vnto vs thorow the handes of so manye tyrantes as haue borne the swerde to scourge the flocke of Christe neglectinge theyr shepherdes pasture How could it haue bene that so great rude multitudes of barbarous nations shoulde haue submitted thê selues to be vnder lawes and rulers had not Gods predestination driuen thê to it Ye that most declareth the diuine prouidêce how might it haue bene that in al times of most cruel persecutiō certaine haue not spared to speake the trueth shede theyr bloude for it if Gods predestinatiō had not bene the cause thereof Thinke you maister Shaxtō that it hadde be●e possible for the womālike weakenes of 〈◊〉 Askue to stād so māfully to the truth whē your fatherlye wysedome forsoke it if Gods predestinatiō had not bene to confound the wysdome and power of this worlde by the foleishnes and weakenes of a womanne And I praye you what caused you to forsake that whych you saied you would sticke to if he that told Peter that he shoulde denye hym had not also determined to declare in you what the greatest of vs can do without his assistence Well here foloweth yet an other inconuenience that is this If al thinges be done of necess●tie why should any mā be blamed for misse doynge Why should any man be dampned sythen all they do is but the ordinaunce of God and that more is they canne not auoyde the necessitie whereby they are cōstrained to do al that they do Wherefore if they should endeuour to refrayne the euyl that they do it were but all in vaine for they are predestinate eyther to do it or els to leue it vndone Iustly therfore can they not be cōdem●ned bycause the euill they do is not of thē selfe but of the ordinaunce of God To this muste we answer in this wise If God were an inferioure to any superioure power to the whiche he ought to rêder an accomptes of his doinges or if anye of vs were not his creatures but of an other creatiō besides his workmanshyp thê might we charg him with tirāny bicause he cōdēneth vs appointeth vs to be punished for the thinges we do by cōpultiō thorow the necessitie of his predestinatiō But for asmuche as he is subiecte to no superioure power we be al his creatures so that to what end so euer he hath framed vs we are his instrumentes to do the worcke that he appointed to be done whye shold we stād vp reasō with him to know his purpose in creating vs or why he made vs to this or that fashion to this or that vse to be preciouse or vile For this one thynge we may be sure of that God hath by his eternal wisdome created nothing nor appointed nothing to be done but the same shal redound to hys glory in the end seme it neuer so cōtrary in the meane time Let vs herkē to the wordes of Paul to the Romayns in this matter What if God saith he wyllyng to Roma .ix. shewe what hys anger can do and to make hys power knowen be very well contented to haue vesselles of wrath prepared to vtter destructiō to the e●tent he myght declare the rychesse of his glory towardes the vesselles of mercye whyche he hathe prepared to glorye et cetera The electe numbre of God therefore do cōmit thē selues wholye to the will of God and desyre rather to be damned as Moyses Exodi .xxxii did then that the glory of God should by any meanes be obscured or darckened These mē do not say let vs geue ouer our selues to do the lustes of the fleshe for either we be certaynly predestinated to be saued or damped And to liue an harde life here wyll not helpe if we be appointed to be damned and to folow the lustes of the fleshe shal not hurte if we be predestinated to be saued But they haue alwaies in their hertes thys hūble cōfessiō Lord we are the worckmanshyppe of thine handes made to do the thinges wherunto thou hast appointed vs by thy serrete wil and purpose Thy will be done in vs. Thou hast reueyled vnto vs the thinges that do please the thou hast shewed vs also the worckes that thou doest hate but onlesse thou pull vs backe by thy grace Lord we folow vpō the worsse though oure cōsciēces alowe the better We confesse Lord that whē we walke in thy wayes thou arte our guide and gouernest our fote steppes But when we go astraye thou leauest vs to our selues that by oure sore falles we maye know what nede we haue of the. Thus for oure profite doeste thou suffer vs to fall yea and doeste caste vs downe headelynge that we maye feare the. And yet mencifull father thou leaueste vs not thus but so sone as we cal thou hearest outcry Thou settest thine holie Angels to go before vs and to lead vs thorow the sea of thys world euē as by drye lande Thou feadest our bodies and geueste vs clothinge and the heares of our head knowest thou by nūbre If we walke in thy pathes thou art our leader though we go astray yet are we thine Do with vs Lord euē what thy wil is as thou hast appointed to mag ●ifie thy name so be it Thus do the electe of God cōfesse theyr owne inhabilitie weakenes Goddes almighty power puttinge thē selues whollye into Gods hande to do with thē what shall please him confessinge also that thoughe he thrust thē into the depe ●yt of hell yet sheweth he greate mercye vnto theym in that he sheweth not hys myghte more vpon them whiche is to adde yet an hundred fold to the paynes of hell As for the other sorte that set vp thē selues against god say that they are in their own hādes as men that woulde not lose the hier of their worckes but loke to be rewarded for the good as they are punished for the euell they are deuided in two The one part iustifie thē selues by theyr workes and wyl be sene to haue chosē Christ rather thē that Christ hath chosē them