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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

shall rede or heare these thinges they wyl saye y t we by these disputacions do speake agaynst the Apostle which sayeth that God wylleth all men to be saued and to come to the knowledge of the trueth The which part of the Apostles wordes we so fully and wholly do receiue that we withdrawe nothynge frō it of that that goeth before or commeth after that perteyneth therto For that we maye set asyde other testimonies of the Scriptures of God this place is sufficient to refell that that they falsely obiecte and to defende that that they wickedly denye The Apostle Paule wrytynge on this wyse to Timothie sayeth I exhorte you therfore that there be prayers supplications and thankesgeuynge made for all menne for kynges and for all them that be in aucthoritie that we may leade a peaceable and a quiete lyfe in all godlynesse and purenes for that is good and accepted in the sight of God our Sauiour which wylleth all men to be saued and to come to the knowledge of the trueth For there is one God and one mediatour betwene God and men euen the man Iesus Chryste whiche hath geuen hym selfe a raunsome for all men Of this rule therefore of the Apostles doctrine wherwith the vniuersall Churche is instructed least we shuld wander into a strange vnderstandyng after our owne brayne let vs searche what the vniuersall Churche vnderstandeth in it for there can be nothyng doubtfull in the precept yf that the obedience in the desyre do agree Therefore the Apostle commaunded yea rather the Lorde by the Apostle which spake in the Apostle that prayers supplications thankesgeuyng shoulde be made for all menne for kynges and for all thē that are constitute in aucthoritie The whiche lawe of supplication and praier the deuocion of all priestes and of all faythfull men doth so agreably holde that there is no parte of the worlde wherein suche prayers are not celebrate and made of the Christian people The Churche therefore in euerye place prayeth vnto God not only for the Saintes and them that are alreadye regenerate in Christ but also for al Infidels and ennemies of the Crosse of Christ for all Idolaters for all them that persecute Christe in his membres for the Iewes vnto whose blyndenesse the lyght of the Gospell shyneth not for Heretickes and Scismatickes whiche are without the vnitie of faith and charitie And what doeth the Churche aske for these but that they forsakyng theyr errours maye be conuerted vnto God maye receiue faith maye receiue charitie and being deliuered from the darknesse of ignorance thei myght come to the knowledge of the trueth The which thinges because thei are not able to geue it to them selues being so oppressed wayed downe with the wayght of euyll custome and tayed in the bondes of the deuyll neither are able to ouercome the thynges that deceiue them Wherein they haue stycked so fast that loke how much the trueth ought to be beloued so much do they loue falsehod It is the wyll of the mercifull and iust Lorde to be prayed vnto for all menne that when we see innumerable to be delyuered from suche bottomlesse mischeifes we shuld not doubt but that GOD hath graunted that that he was desyred to graunt And that we geuynge thankes for them that are saued should hope also that they whiche are not yet illumined shalbe delyuered by the same helpe of Goddes grace from the power of darkenesse that they may be trāslated into the kingdome of god or euer thei depart out of this life But if any man fayle of this grace of the Sauioure as we see it doth happen and the prayer of the Churche bee not receyued for them we muste referre it to the secrete iudgementes of Goddes righteousnes and we muste acknowledge that the depenesse of thys misterie cannot appeare to vs in thys life For our knowledge is vnperfect and our propheciyng vnperfect And we see now as it were by a glasse in a darke ryddell neyther are we wyser or haue more knowledge then the blessed Apostle who when he dysputed of the grace of GOD and was entred into the secrete of great misteries he fell downe vnder those thinges that was vnpossible to bee declared For when he had said brethren I would not haue you ignoraunt of this misterie lest ye should be wise in your owne conceypt that blindnes is happened in part of Israell tyl the fulnesse of the gentilles myght enter in and so al Israel might bee saued as it is wrytten He shall come out of Syon which shall tourne away vngodlynes out of Iacob and thys is the testamente that I wyll geue them that I wyll take awaye their sinnes For as concerning the Gospell they are enemyes for your sake but concernynge election they are beloued for the fathers sake for the giftes and calling of god are without repentaunce For lyke as ye sometyme also dyd not beleue in God and nowe haue obtayned mercy because of theyr vnbeliefe euen so they also haue not nowe beleued in your mercye that they myght obtayne mercy For GOD hath shutte vppe all in vnbeliefe that he myght haue mercy on all Therefore when in a certayne traunce or recesse of his mynde he had powred foorth these misteries of Goddes workes farre passynge the measure of mans vnderstandynge he tourned all the reason of the exposition therof into a wonder and meruayling greatly at the thynges whiche he had spoken he cryed out and sayde Oh the depth of the wisdome and knowledge of GOD how incomprehensible are hys iudgementes and hys wayes paste fyndynge out for who hath knowē the meanyng of the Lorde or who hath bene of his counsayle Or who gaue fyrst vnto hym and he shall rewarde hym For of hym and by him and in him are al thyngs To hym be glory for euermore Amen VVhy all nations in tyme paste vvere suffred to walke theyr own wayes one Israell onely excepted and vnto the knowledge of the trueth elected and why God geueth grace to one man and denieth it to another ¶ The fifth Chapiter THe assertion of hym that teacheth the thynges afore spoken wyll minister occasion of manye questions As it is demaunded what the cause shoulde be that Goddes grace was so variated through oute so many peoples and tymes that is to say why all nations in tyme paste were suffred to walke in their owne wayes one Israel only which was instructed by the woorde excepted and elected to knowe the trueth whose infidelitie at the last ministred occasion and gaue place to the saluation of the gentiles as and if thys one people did abyde in the fayth of his forefathers the mercye of god could not be geuen to other nations Also why they whose diminishing is the saluation of the gentils are not fyrst deliuered from theyr blyndnes before the fulnes of the gētilles shuld come in as though they coulde not be illumined with all men whiche shalbe all saued after that the adoption of the gentils shalbe once finished

Tvvoo bookes of Saint Ambrose Bysshoppe of Mylleyne entytuled Of the vocation and callyng of all Nations Newly translated out of Latin into Englyshe for the edifiyng and comfort of the single mynded and Godly vnlearned in Christes Church agaynst the late sprong secte of the Pelagians the maynteyners of the free wyll of man and denyers of the grace of God By Henry Becher Minister in the Church of God Allowed according to the order set foorth in the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions Anno Christi 1561. VVe knovve that all thinges vvorke for the best vnto them that loue GOD vvhiche are also called of purpose For those vvhom he foreknevve them also he ordeyned before that they shoulde be lyke fasshioned vnto the shape of his sonne c. Moreouer those vvhom he foreappoynted those he also called and those vvhom he called he also iustified and those vvhom he iustified he also glorified ¶ A prologue to the reader HERE hast thou moste deare gentle Reader the two Bookes of that famous Clercke and auncient father S. Ambrose sometime Byshop of Milleyn entituled Of the vocation and callyng of all Nacions A worke surely of no lesse diuine wysedome and learnyng then of antiquitie and therefore a Iewell greatly to be esteemed and had in price of al those that be Godlye in Christes Churche who earnestly desire a right spirite and iudgement purely to discerne betwene trueth and errour in these peryllous dayes Wherin as our Sauiour Iesus Christ affirmeth that yf it were possible the very electe myght be disceyued But chiefly it is to be had in price of all those who not hauyng the Latin tongue are not able to reade the work to theyr edifying in the tongue wherin it was firste wrytten and compyled To whom the sayde auncient Father and famous Clercke in this presente treatise speaketh nowe more familiarly then before The worke it selfe is such as needeth not my praise But seyng I can not sufficiently expresse the woorthynesse thereof I thynke it better to omitt it with scilence confessing my barreynesse then for lacke of conuenient speache to diminishe the glory therof These and suche lyke workes haue not aforetyme ben so freely offered to the vnderstanding of the simple nor so easely come by as God be blessed for it they are in these our dayes Receiue them therefore louyngly and thanckfullye good Christen Reader and vse them godly aud reuerently for they are the good instruments tooles wherby the eternall God buyldeth the spirituall Ierusalem his Churche and by whom the lyuyng stones therof his elect children are dayly wrought shapen full fashioned vnto euerlastyng lyfe Learne also to render vnto God moste heartye thanckes therfore who shewyng more mercye vnto thee then vnto manye generations paste As he hath caused thee to be borne in these peryllous dayes so hath he prepared armure and weapon for thee wherewith thou maist defend thy self against all those enemies that shall aryse vp agaynst thee The occasion that moued Saint Ambrose to wryte this woorke was this There arose in Britayne in those dayes a Monke named Pelagius Byshop of Bangor that became the aucthour of a new sect before that time not heard of This man with the helpe of Celestine Iulian his fautors drew many into his errour He attributed so much vnto the free will of man that he affirmed that a man mought atteine lyfe euerlastyng by merites only without the grace of Christ Wherof he beyng blamed gaue place to thadmonition in suche sorte that he dyd not afterwarde altogether exclude grace but sayd that yf grace were geuen it was the easyer to attayne to saluacion how beit without it it mought be obteyned though with more difficultie He condempned praying in the congregatiō aswell for the faythfull as for the vnfaythfull as a thing vayne and vnprofitable because as he said that which they should aske was already in their power which with their diligence euery one of them myght do perfourme But when he feared least he should be condempned for it by the councell of Antioche he recanted althoughe he ceassed not afterwardes to teach the same in his wrytinges He added furthermore that the sinne of Adam hurted no man but him that committed it Also that all Infantes were borne as innocent cleane from sinne as Adam was when God first created hym Neuerthelesse he permitted them to bee baptized not to the puttyng awaye of sinne whereof he affirmed them to be voyde but that they might be honored with the Sacrament of their adoption And when he was publysshed and proclaymed to be an hereticke he wrote in the defence of his errour He was condempned by Zosimus and twoo C.xl. Byshoppes moe in the councell of Carthage and before that he was condempned bi Innocentius whose errour whē the Affricans with others especially this aucthour S. Ambrose S. Augustine and S. Iherome vtterly detested they tooke in hand by their seuerall wrytynges to put to scilence the remnaunte of that secte Sithens the which time it hath ben reputed and taken of all the godly learned in Chrystes Churche for a cursed prophane Phylosophycall errour I haue shewed thee gentle Reader the cause or reason of the first makyng and compylyng of this worke Nowe it standeth me in steede to shewe thee the cause of this my trauell in reducing it into the Englyshe tongue There arose in Kent in these late dayes namely sithens the preachyng of the Gospel a priuate man altogether vnlearned named Henry Hart that reuiued this errour of Pelagius and added thereto certeyne other errours This man with the helpe of his adherentes newe furbed this olde cancred heresye and put it to sale a fresshe in stede of an infallible veritie who also vnder the pretence of a sober lyfe and conuersation vsyng long heare long bearde long garmētes often reading of psalmes drewe manye into his errour both in Eastkent in Essex Sussex Surrey in the Citie of London This man after that his errour was espyed by the late Tharchbishoppe of Caunterburye Thomas Cranmer was by hym committed to prison with certeyne of his secte of whom some remayne alyue holdynge that errour some thanked be God are become newe men and other some are departed this lyfe and there they remayned vntyll they reuoked theyr errour and colourably subscrybed to the Artycles agreed vpon in the Synode holden at London in the reigne of the late kyng Edwarde the sixte Notwithstanding in hucker mucker he euer taught the same vnto those only which he knewe to be trustye and vnto those that were brought in by them who held the said Harte in such reputacion as yf he had ben an holy Prophete But after the death of kyng Edwarde when Quene Mary began her dominion the Christian Clergie was scattered abrode this Hart and his companions began to shewe them selues in theyr old lykenes of errour agayne with much more errour whiche they in the meane tyme had practised forged and gathered with