An answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by Iohn Knox, minister of Gods worde in Scotland. Wherein the author so discouereth the craft and falshode of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the euident Worde of God
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An answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by Iohn Knox, minister of Gods worde in Scotland. Wherein the author so discouereth the craft and falshode of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the euident Worde of God
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Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.
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[Geneva] :: Printed by Iohn Crespin,
M.D.LX. [1560]
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Election (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
Predestination -- Early works to 1800.
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"An answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by Iohn Knox, minister of Gods worde in Scotland. Wherein the author so discouereth the craft and falshode of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the euident Worde of God." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04920.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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THE ADVERSARIE.
But now to returne to our purpose. if I shall grante that all
thinges of mere necessitie must come to passe according to the pres∣cience
and fore knowledge of God, then had Adam afore the tra••s∣g••••ssion
no fre will, but of mere necessitie did he offend, forasmuch
as God did foresee his fall. Then had Christ no fre will: for God [ 1]
did foresee all that Christ was to do, then is God bound him self ād
hath no libertie to do nor leaue vndone that which he doeth, for∣asmuch [ 2]
as he foreseeth all his own workes. This belike you will
make a goodlie wise God. God saue vs frome such dangerous ād
horrible errors, and giue vs stedfast and perfect faith to beleue [ 3]
not onely that he is but also that he is an omnipotent God. Which
frely after his own good pleasure doeth and may do, or leaue vn∣done
what so euer pleaseth him.