But what that God afore wote, must needs bee,
After the opinion of certaine clerkis.
Witnesse of him that any clerke is,
That in Schoole is great altercation
In this matter, and great disputation,
And hath been of an hundred thousand men.
But I ne cannot boult it to the bren,
As can the holy doctour S. Austin,
Or Boece, or the Bishop Bradwardin.
Whether that Gods worthy foreweting
Straineth me needly to doe a thing,
(Needly clepe I simple necessite)
Or if the free choice be granted me
To doe the same thing, or do it nought,
Though God forewot it or it was wrought.
Or if his weting straineth neuer a dele
But by necessite conditionele.
I woll not haue to done of such matere.
Thomæ Bradwardini Archiepiscopi olim Cantuariensis, De causa Dei, contra Pelagium, et De virtute causarum, ad suos Mertonenses, libri tres: iussu reverendiss. Georgii Abbot Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi; opera et studio Dr. Henrici Savilii, Colegij Mertonensis in Academia Oxoniensi custodis, ex scriptis codicibus nunc primum editi
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- Thomæ Bradwardini Archiepiscopi olim Cantuariensis, De causa Dei, contra Pelagium, et De virtute causarum, ad suos Mertonenses, libri tres: iussu reverendiss. Georgii Abbot Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi; opera et studio Dr. Henrici Savilii, Colegij Mertonensis in Academia Oxoniensi custodis, ex scriptis codicibus nunc primum editi
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- Bradwardine, Thomas, 1290?-1349.
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- Londini :: Ex officina Nortoniana, apud Ioannem Billium,
- M.DC.XVIII. [1618]
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"Thomæ Bradwardini Archiepiscopi olim Cantuariensis, De causa Dei, contra Pelagium, et De virtute causarum, ad suos Mertonenses, libri tres: iussu reverendiss. Georgii Abbot Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi; opera et studio Dr. Henrici Savilii, Colegij Mertonensis in Academia Oxoniensi custodis, ex scriptis codicibus nunc primum editi." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16626.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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In the Nuns Priests tale.