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In the life eternall wee shall knowe, why rather they, then the other were the chosen of God.
AT that day it shall bee re∣uealed (which now is con∣cealed) as touching the two in∣fants, whereof the one through the mercie of God, was to bee chosen, the other in his secret iudgement to bee refused (in which iudgement hee that shall bee elected shall vnder∣stand what in iustice was due vn∣to
him vnlesse mercy had hol∣pen him) why he rather then the other was elected, whē the cause was alike to both: Why miracles or strange works were not done amongst some; which if they had beene done, such persons should haue repented: and yet were done amongst those concerning whom God did know that they would not beleeue. For, the Lord doth plainely affirme, Woe to thee Corazin, Wo to thee Beth∣saida: for, if in Tyre and Sidon those great workes had been done, which were do••e amongst you, they had long sithence repented in sacke-cloath and ashes. Neither, therefore would not God vn∣iustly haue them to bee saued, when as they might haue beene saued if they woulde. Then shall that appeare in the clearest light of wisedome, which the godly in this world doe apprehend by faith: That is to say, howe certaine, im∣mutable, and most effectuall
the will of God is: how much he can do and yet will not: and that he willeth not that thing which he cannot performe: as also how truely it is sung in the Psalme, Our God which is in heauen aboue hath done all things in heauen & earth which hee would. Which assertion is not true, if hee would haue had somthings yet did thē not, and (which had been more derogatorie) did not therfore ac∣complish it, by reason the wil of man did hinder the performance of that which the omnipotent would haue done. And therfore there is not any thing acted, vn∣lesse the omnipotent would haue it so, either in suffering it to be done, or effecting it himselfe.