The adversaries vnto this truth.
Adversaries vnto this truth are all such as hold, that natural∣ly there is Free will in vs, and that vnto the best things. So thought the Pharisies, the Sadduceis, the Pelagians , and the Donatists : and the same affirme the Anabaptists , and Pa∣pists. For say the Papists,
Man, by the force & power of nature, may loue God, aboue all things .
Man hath free will to performe euen spirituall and heauenly things .
Men beleeue not but of their owne free will . It is in a mans free will to beleeue, or not to beleeue, to obey, or diso∣bey the Gospell of truth preached .
The Catholike (popish) religion teacheth freewill .
3. Proposition. Man may performe, and doe good workes, when hee is preuented by the grace of Christ, and renued by the holy Ghost.
The proofe from Gods word.
In a man preuented by the grace of Christ, and regenerate by the holy Spirit, both the vnderstanding is enlightened▪ so that he knoweth the secrets and will of God; and the minde and the minde is altogether changed, and bodie enabled to doe good workes.
To this purpose the Sriptures are plentifull.
I will put my lawe in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts .
No man knoweth the Father, but the Son, and he to whome the Sonne will reuiele him.
Blessed art thou, Simon, the sonne of Ionas, for flesh and blood hath not revelled it vnto thee, but my Father, which is in heauen .
No man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy