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

equall in al thinges vpon al generations or vpon all men For after one maner hath he holpen those men whom he taught to know hym by the testimonyes of the heauen and the earth and after another maner those for whom he had prouyded to bee holpen not onely by the seruyce of the Elementes but also by the doctrine of the lawe by the oracles of the Prophetes by myracles and signes by the helpe and succour of aungelles And he much more otherwyse declared his mercy to all men when the sonne of god became the sonne of man y t he myght be found of thē that sought not after him and might apeare to them that asked not for hym And that he might haue y e preeminence not only in one people of y e stocke of Israel but that the multiplied sede of Abraham might springe in euery nation which is vnder heauen Into the which succession of heritage not the Chyldren of the fleshe but the Chyldren of promyse shoulde enter And that there should be nowe as great a scarsenesse of grace among y e pleople of the Iewes as was in tymes paste amonge other nations Neuerthelesse it is promysed that when the fulnesse of the gentiles is come in then their drynesse shal be watred also Who now cā tel what the causes should be of these diuersities vnliknesses being al vnder one and the same grace Or what the reason of it is seynge the scriptures doe not tell it And forasmuch as the knowledge of thapostle Paul in these thinges passeth from disputacion vnto wonder who dare presume so far as to thinke y t these cā be opened by disputing and are not rather to be merueyled at with silence Let this secrete therfore be pacientli gentelly vnknowen that is set so far frō mans vnderstandynge Yet because things y t are close shut vp cannot be knowen the intraūce to things that are opened may not bee ouerpassed and let slip For manye aucthorities of the holy scriptures haue manyfestly declared and the continuall experimentes of all ages haue taught that the iuste mercye of God and hys mercifull iustice hath not ceased at any tyme to norishe the bodyes of men nor to teache them nor yet to helpe their vnderstandings mindes For it hath euer rayned on the good and bad he hath made his sonne euer to aryse vppon both the iuste and vniuste he hath euer geuen the breath of life he hath euer geuen the continuall courses of the day the nyght he hath euer geuen fruitfulnes to the grounde encrease to the seedes and fecunditie or multiplyinge to the generation of men And if he haue at ani time diminished any of these things he hath chastened with gentle correction the backtourninges and slouth of those that abused them to the intente that they shoulde seeke his mercy in theyr aduersitie whose iustice they feared not in theyr prosperitie Furthermore yf we haue recourse to the very beginning of the worlde we shall fynde that the spirite of God was the gouernour of all the saintes that were before the fludde for the whiche cause they were named the sonnes of God For as thapostle sayth whosoeuer are ruled or led by the spirite of God thei are the sonnes of God And when they hadde neglected the obseruations of theyr fathers by mynglynge them selues in the vnlawfull mariages of the reprobates and for that wicked societie and mingling were iudged worthye of destruction the lorde sayde My spirite shal not abide in these men for they are flesh Wherby it appeareth that the same people whose generation are sette in a diuerse order with the number of their yeres was afore that spirituall euen in the same wyl which the holy ghost doth gouerne bestowinge the temperauncye of hys regyment and gouernaunce in such sort that he toke not away the power to declyne to synne the which power if this people had not hadde they coulde neyther haue forsaken God nor yet bee forsaken of God It shoulde bee that same of whom it is spokē Happye is he that was able to offende and hath not offended Duryng the tyme therfore that thys people abode in God they remayned in that wyl that god inspyred and gouerned For the wyll as it is wrytten is prepared of the Lord. But of this preparation there is not alwaye one successe nor yet one measure for the workes and gyftes of grace are disceuered in dyuerse wise and by innumerable differences and in euerye kinde of the said gyftes there are vnlyke degrees and vneuen quantities For lyke as in the comming vp of earbes trees that the earth bringeth forth there is not al one beauti or likenes nor one kynd of thē al but euery one of them cōmeth forth in y e forme of his owne seede in the quantitie of his own kynd neither do thei receiue ful beautie incontinent assone as they come foorth but come forward by certayne orderly encreasing vntyll they come to the perfyte quantitie of theyr state that happened vnto thē by the same increasinge or growinge Euen so the sedes of the gyftes of the holy ghoste and the plantes of vertues do not growe in euery fielde of mans heart hollye the same and attonce that thei shal bee afterwardes And it is an harde thinge to fynde ripenesse in the beginning and perfection in the first entraunce Yet many tymes the mightie and mercyfull God doth poure forth these meruaylous effectes of his workinge and whatsoeuer he wyl geue that same conueyeth he into certaine mindes altogether and at once the tariynge for encrease not wayted for Leui is sanctified in the loynes of Abraham and with hym is also the house of Aaron and priestly order blessed In Isaac conceiued by promise and borne contrarye to the hope of the olde barreyne parentes is the callyng of all the Gentyles and the fourme of Chryst layde vp and hyd Iacob beyng beloued without any helpe of merite is elected before he is born To Iheremye it was sayde Before I fashioned thee in the wombe I knewe thee and or euer thou were borne I sanctified thee Iohn reioyseth being filled with the holy ghost in his mother Elizabethes wombe And that there maye be none greater among the chyldren of women he feeleth the begynnynges of grace before the begynnynges of nature But although there wante not other examples of the lyke doctrine the whiche I ouerpasse because I woulde be briefe yet is that sort of men thicker and more in nombre vnto whom what soeuer the heauenlye liberalitie particulerly geueth doth grow by lyttle and lyttle to thintent that the causes of the gyftes which are to be geuen maye be brought forth of y e giftes which are already geuen Some there be which after they haue receiued faith are not without diffidencie mistrust which doubtlesse he knewe to be in himself whiche sayde Lorde I beleue helpe mine vnbeliefe And the which they perceiued not to be quite out